to 30s.
But 50 per cent.

profit will not satisfy the British tobacconist when he finds John Bull willing to give him 100 per cent.

He therefore makes the cigars at the prices above-mentioned, puts them into old boxes with some pet brand upon them, and sells them as the genuine article.

John Bull is indebted for this extortionate charge to the supreme wisdom of the Legislature, which has established a 3s.6d.duty on the pound of unmanufactured tobacco, and a 9s.

duty on manufactured; instead of fixing one duty for manufactured and unmanufactured, and making the difference thereof depend upon the quality--lowering the duty upon the tobacco used by the poor to 2s.6d., and establishing on all the better kinds a uniform rate, say 6s.