the trade a s such of our readers not without as the have it may possibly be aware from the repeated occasions in which they have their attention called to the various st they in their walks when accompanied by their sweet young olive branches is carried on to a large extent in this city as nearly three hundred houses are engaged in the trade either as or some of the latter however carrying on business on a very limited scale about twelve are occupied exclusively in for the trade though there ai e beside many store who make a considerable proportion of the goods for their own customers of these twelve there are three confined almost solely to the making of what is termed french while the remaining nine deal in general goods connected with the trade they also vary much in the extent of their one house in the busy season giving employment to more than a hundred hands male and female though the same firm at another period of the year will not be able to find occupation for more than thirty or forty the men d � engine drivers where they use steam power and the latter a very under paid and over worked body of men being subject to an intense heat they endeavor to as in the sugar proper by themselves of all superfluous clothing the services of such as these under certain are considered highly with five dollars a week many not getting more than some not so much as sixteen dollars a month the remainder are paid from six to nine dollars a week a medium between the two being an average price throughout the trade girls are employed in arranging ihe in the boxes and similar light work for which they are allowed about fifty cents a day during the busy season there are engaged in this city in the houses about five hundred persons of both sexes though a very much larger number probably some thousands are indirectly sup by it the paper box makers being generally busily the great exhibition employed and many children gaining a by through the streets the city of new york is the head quarters of trade supplying as much as all the rest of the union together the results of its industry to al parts of the states as well as to canada most of the west india islands and many other places to provide the means of meeting such a demand the agency of steam is necessary and a large of money is therefore expended in machinery alone though it is extremely difficult to ascertain the amount invested in this kind of property in the city it is worthy of notice that the used here by those distinguished in the trade as french from their to perfection the foreign articles are all imported not on account of any superiority in the machinery itself but from the impossibility of separately a peculiar stone known as the granite which alone will answer the purpose required and hence it is necessary to introduce at a great expense an article of foreign that but for the stone could be made quite as well and more at home it is estimated that fully worth of is made in this city and hj that term we mean pre of sugar c but many articles which properly come under the such as ice and other which would run up the amount to perhaps double two of the principal houses daily between them four thousand pounds of at fourteen to fifty cents per pound the a e about twenty cents and this is exclusive of three hundred boxes of which are sold weekly by a firm each contain ing ninety six paper such as are sold in stores and each twenty making a total of nearly six hundred thousand what can become of them all in view of this enormous consumption by child parents will be inclined to what is and what it has in a point of view it i unnecessary to mention the endless forms which as whether as drops sticks or other shapes but in any of these it is supposed to consist only of sugar highly refined though by different processes from that used in the sugar house in each case some slight variety of preparation and to the tastes of different customers the effected by some harmless vegetable matter also being to make a greater attraction for the when thus these are evidently quite harmless if taken in moderation though it is otherwise when allowed as is the case in many instances to become almost the article of food for a child as common sense alone ought to indicate but most of the imported from foreign countries and a proportion though a very one of the home made article is not of such innocent materials on the contrary of a nature highly dangerous to life if admitted in large quantities into the system are known to be used indeed to such an extent has this been carried abroad that in france it has been found necessary to pass laws to protect the portion of the public from the effects of the in articles of while in the city of york in england within two years after a public dinner at which n con serves were supplied several of the guests were se w th sickness brought on from of colored or with poisonous it is however pr � in the matter so far as relates to foreign ns thai these are to be found as m age ts are adopted in preference to vegetable with the object thus at f of a brighter and more ng color for which purpose among other is used � an art as our readers are well aware possessed of the most qualities the too are not always less dr an eminent english and who from his position may probably be 