An account of the quantities of unmanufactured tobacco, manufactured called negro-head, and cigars, imported into the United Kingdom in 1850:—­

    Countries from whence imported.  Unmanufactured Manufactured
  United States of America 30,173,444 1,191,001
  Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador 895,523 527
  Brazil 12,138 56,802
  Peru 8,649 6
  Cuba 589,627 153,819
  British West Indies, including Demerara
    and Honduras 26,169 3,242
  British Territories in the East Indies 14,500 25,332
  Philippine Islands 12,233 51,210
  Hongkong and China 2,706 2,340
  Turkey, Syria, and Egypt 140,361 2,882
  Malta 13,028 7,818
  Italy, Sardinian Territories 431,939 17
  Gibraltar 7 3,063
  Spain 307,641 1,100
  France 29,950 1,521
  Channel Islands 149 1,342
  Belgium 29,922 6,579
  Holland 2,418,732 9,078
  Hanseatic Towns 50,610 36,680
  Other parts 8,930 1,980
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  Total unmanufactured 35,166,358 1,556,321
  Ditto manfactured 1,556,321
                 Snuff 1,197
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  Total 36,723,876

From the tobacco circulars of Messrs. Clagett, Son, and Co., leading brokers of London, dated Feb., 1st, 1850, I take the following extracts:—­

The exhaustion of the stock has resulted from the concurrence of a gradually decreasing supply and increasing consumption, which may be very clearly perceived by a reference, first to the official returns from New Orleans of the yearly receipts of the western crops in each of the last seven years; and secondly, to the consumption of American tobacco in Great Britain and Ireland in the years 1847, 1848, and 1849, as compared with that of 1840, 1841, and 1842.  We have no means of exhibiting with similar accuracy the relative consumption of Continental Europe in the latter as compared with the former part of these last ten years, but it is quite reasonable to assume that the increase,