...derived a revenue from it. A Parliamentary Committee of investigation afterward " concluded it was not advisable to abandon so important a source of revenue...duty upon Opium being a tax which falls principally on the foreign consumers," and made recommendations founded upon the ordinary commercial principle...

...report, which was accepted, as. follows : — " In the present state of the, revenue of India, it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source...foreign consumer, and which appears, upon the/ whole, less liable to objection than any other which could be substituted." At the time of the war, the East...

...report, which was accepted, as follows : — "In the present state of the revenue of India, it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source...foreign consumer, and which appears upon the whole less liable to objection, than any other which could be substituted." Thus we see that England was...

...was accepted, as follows : — " In the present state of the revenue of India, it docs not a] pear advisable to abandon so important a source of revenue...duty upon opium being a tax which falls principally u| on the foreign consumer, and which appears, upon the whole, less liable to objection than any other...

...amounts to 301 J per cent, on the cost of the article. In the present state of revenue in India, it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source...principally upon the foreign consumer, and which appears, on the whole, less liable to objection than any other which could be substituted." — " Another source...

...to 301J per cent, on the cost of the article. In the present state of the revenue of India, it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source of revenue ; a duty on opium being a tax which falls principally upon the foreign consumer, and which appears upon the...

...does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source of revenue ; a duty on opium beiug a taа which falls principally upon the foreign consumer, and which appears upon the whole less liable to objection than any other which could be substituted." And again : — "Unless it should...

...the contraband trade, a committee reported : " In the present state of the revenue of India it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source...foreign consumer, and which appears upon the whole less liable to objection than any other that could be substituted." The Emperor refused to legalize...

...Company, 1831, pp. 134— 136. cost of the article. In the present state of the revenue of India, it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source...foreign consumer, and which appears upon the whole less liable to objection than any other which could be substituted." 2 From this time forth the British...

...India. This part of its report ran as follows: "In the present state of the revenue of India it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source...foreign consumer, and which appears upon the whole less liable to objection than any other which could be substituted." * In order to appreciate this...