The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-24 00:00:00

SUGARS

The New Orleans Price Current, of the ht ultimo, has
the following review of the sugar trade of New Orleans, for
the year ending the 31st ult. :—" The season opened upon
unfavourable prospects for the sugar crop, which, according to
the annual statement of Mr. P. A. Champomier, was found to
be 231,427 hhds, viz., 192,391 hhds brown sugar made by
the old process, 23,265 hhds refined and clarified, and 5,771
Iduls cistern bottoms, the last being an estimate of 3 per cent.
on the product of brown sugar. The hhds are estimated to
average 1,100 lbs; giving a total for the crop of 254,569,000
lbs, or the equivalent of 231,426 hhds, against 346,635 hhds
the preceding year. The amount for this year wes the product
of 1,299 sugar houses, against 1,324 the year before, and of
these 938 use steam and 361 use horses as their motive power.
This further large deficiency in the crop has been productive
of a higher range of prices than we remember to have been
attained since the remarkably short crop of 1835, and thus
the aggregate gross returns have been within about two
millions of dollars of the value of the previous crop, The
first hhd of the new crop was received here on the 10th of
October, being only six days later than the first receipt of the
previous year, but it was not taken as any indication of the

general forwardness of the crop, which was understood to

be unusually backward, rendering the grinding
late and precarious. And this proved to be the fact, for it was
not until the close of October that there were any supplies
and sales sufficient to constitute an opening of the market.
The early receipts, too, were of an unusually low range of
quality, the cane not being well matured, and the unseasonably
warm weather during a considerable portion of the grinding
season, and the subsequent injury by frost, contributed to give
to the entire crop an unusually low average. Under these
circumstances the first receipts of the new crop were disposed of
with difficulty, as they were not generally sufficiently well
drained for shipment, or for grocers' purposes, and at the
beginning of November the range of prices were as follows :
Inferior, 4c to 41c ; common, 5c to 51c; fair to fully fair,
51-c to 6ic ; prime, Gic to 61c ; choice,
7c to 81-c. The course of the market throughout the season
is indicated by the following table, which exhibits the highest
and lowest points in each month for fair to fully fair sugar on
the levee, and also the average pree in each month, for the
caul© will be seen that
sae qualities. It7c to 7f,c ; clarified,
the fluctuations hive
been slight, the general course of the market having been
upward, and the lowest and highest points being, the former in
November and the latter in July.

1855-56
Sept. cents per lb
October
November
December
January
February
March
April .....
May ........ .
June ......
July ......... .
August ......

Highest. Lowest. Average
74t08 61 to 64 71
61 6.. 6? 61 N
67 "7
64- 5.-Z 6 5;
.

.71
.8
.8-1
. 81

91 81 87F
The receipts at the levee since Ist September have been
155,319 hogsheads, against 189,742 hogsheads last year, or a
decrease of 34,423 hogsheads. This shows that an unusually