The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-01 00:00:00

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the French had 793 suglr estat

, 3,117 coffee plantations,
laneous plantations. In
volution, she exported
lbs of coffee, 6,000;000
Aton, and aboitt 1,000,000 of indigo—of the total
mual value of about 25,000,000 dollars.
In 1836-37 the exports of Hayti had dwindled, down to
of coffee, 1,000,000 lbs
none. These reduced exports,
with some mahogany and tobacco, are the results of
abolitionism on that island, in about forty or fifty-four
years after the massacre and ruin of the whites of that
once flourishing and beautiful island.
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6,199 lbs of suer, 30,845,000

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documents that aliolitionism has, in the same manner,
worked the ruin and desolation of the British West India
Islands: But fanaticism hearkens to no reason. It ignores
the commerce, the comm'm sense, and the life, liberty,
happiness, and comfort of the whites, for the one black
idea of sinking all for the less than doubtful benefit, or we
might say for the ultimate ruin, of the negroes themselves,
and with them the common ruin of the whites, to accom-
plish the work of their insane crusades
From small beginnings of the culture of sugar in
Louisiana by refugees from Hayti, Are find by the census
of 1850, the whole prodnction of sugar in the trnited
States, including 34,253,436 lbs of maple sugar, to have
been 155,100,800 lbs. The value of cane sugar was
12,878,186 dols., and of maple sugar 1,752,671 dols., and
the value of molasses was 2,540,179 dols. There were
2,681 sugar plantations, embracing 400,000 acres devoted
to its culture.

Since the late census. the supply of maple sugar has
greatly diminished, while the culture of the cane in
Louisiana and Texas, has been greatly extended.
Although the crop grown last year, or in 1855,
was only 379,197 tons against 385,298 tons in
1854, showing a decrease of 6,107 tons. The present
season has been backward for planting, with some
scarcity of seed cane, and hence fears are entertained
that the present year's yield may again be short. Texas
last year supplied 8,977 hhds.

From the annual statement of Mr. P. A. Champomier,
of New Orleans, we learn that the number of hhds pro-
duced in Louisiana last year, were 231,427 ; number of
horse power sugar mills, 361; number of steam mills, 938;
number of sugar houses, 1,299.

THE EAGLE LINE OF AUSTRALIAN

PACKETS

THE SHIP EAGLE.—Amongst the celebrated clipper ships
beloning to our port, there is one which it is a pleasure to
notice, and for this reason—we have had the satisfaction of
doing so heretofore, and now we can pronounce her one of
the most fortunate and favourite vessels belonging to the
well known house of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright & Co., the
owners of the above celebrated line of Australian packets.
The Eagle was the precursor of the Antipodean vessels, and
her uniformly rapid and successful voyages to the gold
colony have not only rendered her a deserved favourite, but
prove what science, ship building, and practical knowledge
in navigation are capable of accomplishing. On her three
former voyages the Eagle made steady and rapid passages,
and her last outward voyage, from land to land, was made
in seventy-three days, and home in eighty-one. So much
for her sailing qualities.* As the experience of her com
mander (Captain Murphy) enables him to sug

Best improve-

meats from time to time, as regards the alterations necessary
for the comforts of passengers, we have now to notice
considerable changes for the better, even when we compare
these with her former superior fitting up. We have a
peculiar wish to see second and third class passengers well
and comfortably provided for on board emigrant ships;
and, as we have previous to this remarked, Messrs. Gibbs,
Bright & Co. pay unremi tiny attention to this point in all
their favourite ships. The third cabin of the Eagle has been
overhauled and constructed so as to afford the largest
amount of air and light into the sleeping apartments —two
essentials, the value of which is at once understood. The
height between the decks,
saloon is comfortable and convenient

too, is ample, and

In this, as