ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Papers.}

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 54, 18 October 1845, Page 4

ENGLISH NEWS. [From the Sydney Papers.}

Tallow, &c. — An account of the quantities of foreign and colonial tallow, of blubber, train, and spermaceti oil, of cocoa-nut oil, and palm oil, retained for home consumption in each of the last ten years, the rate of duty levied thereon, and the average piice, exclusive of duty, as far as the same can be ascertained, has been obtained and printed by order of the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. E Buller, the member for Stafford. Taking the articles seriatim, it appears that the gross total qualities of tallow returned for home consumption in the United Kingdom amounted in 1835 to 1,005,276 cwts. ; in 1836, to 1,314, 085 cwts; in 1837, to 1,289,514 cwts; in 1838, to 1,160,167 cwts; in 1839 to 1,148, 192 cwts; in 1840 to 1,131,513 cwts; in 1841 to 1,241,278 cwts; in 1842 to 1,030, 960 cwts; in 1843, to 1,174,945 cwts; and in 1844, to 1,081,206 cwts. Almost all this tallow was imported from other than British possessions in Asia, Africa, or America, it appearing that our colonies provide us with an exceedingly small quantity of tallow, in comparison with foreign countries. The rate of duty on the foreigu tallow is vow 3s. 3 9-10 d. per cwt, and on British colonial tallow, Is. 0 3-sd. per cwt. The average prices of foreign tallow, so far as they have been ascertained, were, in October, 1844, £1, 17s ; and in 1840, £2 6s per cwt, exclusive of duty, whilst the colonial tallow bore a price at the former period of £2 per cwt against £2 4s in 1840. The total quantity of blubber and train and spermaceti oils entered for home consumption amounted respectively, in each of the above |

years, 1836 to 1844, to 16,114, 18,722,20, 878, 26,806; 21,433, 18,955, 21,950-, 16, 395, 22,994, and 20,659 tuns nearly the entire quantity having been the produce of British fishing. The quantities of British colonial cocoa-nut oil entered since the 9th July, 1842, amounted in 1842, to 17,442 cwts, in 1843, to 27,544 cwts, and in 1844, to 39,096 cwts. whilst the quantities otherwise imported amounted to 8,783, 2,391, and 3,384 cwts, respectively. The quantities of palm oil amounted in 1842, to 353,672 cwts. in 1848, to 377,765 cwts, and in 1844, to 363,335 cwts. The average prices in October last were, of blubber and train oil of British fishing, £31 18s per tun ; of spermaceti oil of British fishing £88 per tun; of cocoa-nut oil, £1 8s 4d per cwt ; and of palm oil, £1 5s 8d per cwt. — Times.