Note 19 — THIRTY YEARS OF LIBERAL LEGISLATION.
Reading edition
The following table of the prodigious advance in the importation of two articles alone, tea and sugar, will show how rapidly they have increased in the three last years, at the very time that our exports were diminishing:—
1845.1846.1847.
Sugar, cwt.4,413,9694,469,7726,510,693
Tea, lb.36,825,46141,432,79444,912,880
1846 to 1845. 1847 to 1845.
Sugar, cwt.55.803 incr. 2,096,724 incr. £4,193,448
Tea, lb.4,607,278 incr.8,087,419 incr.803,741
£4,997,189