Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

Inferior

... ............none.

Common to Goo.l Cam non ............ ...... .... .... 8 to 94
Fair to Fully Fair .. .
Pri k, e to Choice
Cutrifiad

The course of the market throughout the season is ind:-
cated by the following table, which exhibits the highest
and lowest points in each month for Fair to Fully Fair
Sugar ou the levee, and also the average price iu each
month, for the same range of qualities. It will ho seen
that the general course of the market from the commence-
ment of September to the close of June was upward, (only
occasional slight fluctuations intervening,) with a gradual
advance within that lime of if cent per lb, but at this
point the reduced consumption consequent upon enhanced
pricas, and the competition of foreign supplies, caused a
slight falling off in the rates, the market closing with a
mere retail demand.

1856-7. Highest. Lowest. Average
September. cents per lb .. 9/ b9l 91 to 91 9}
October. 9.t. to 91 9t to 91 9}

Njvember. • _ _
qto w 9. to 9! 94
D 34 ember. •
January . 94 to 10 94 to 91 9
February
March ••
April
May • .• ..,......11 to 114 lob to 11 104
Juao
July
Act„us,

Only a very small proportion of the crop has been dis
posed of on plantation, the great bulk having been received
in he city and sold on the Levee. 1n February and March.
however, we reported sales of some 4000 hhds at 91 to 10i
cents, and in April above 2,000 hhds at 91 to 11 cents per
lb. According to our calculations the entire crop has
averaged 10 cents per Ib ; giving an aggregate product for
73,976 hhds of 1,100 lbs each (Mr. Chainpoinier's estimate)
of 8,137,360 dols against 231,427 hhds and e 6, 49),890 d ,ls
last year. The receipts at the Levee has been 62,463 hhds
and 3995 tierces and barrels, against 155,319 hhds and 8326
tierces and barrels last year.
The estimated stock on hand at the close of last season
was 5000 hogsheads, and this amount added to the crop
73:976 hogsheads—would make a supply of 78,976 hogs,
heads. The distribution of this supply, as nearly as it
can be ascertained, has been as follows:—Shipments to
places out of the State, as shown by our tables, and
including the exports from Attakapas, 9700 hogsheads;
consumption of the city and neighbourhood 25,000
.hhds ;
taken for refining, in the city and other parts of the
State, including cistern bottoms, 1,500 hogsheads; esti-
mated quantity taken to fill up hogsheads for shipment,
3,000 hogsheads; stock now on hand in the State, esti-
mated at 200 hogsheads ; leaving as the q iantity taken for
the West 39,5'0 hogsheads, against 131,027 hogsheads last
year, or a deciase of 91,451 hogsheads. The quantity
shipped to Atlentio ports is only 1,850 hogsheads, against
39,133 hogsheads last year, and 121,963 hogsheads the
year previous.
the comparative failure of the Louisiana crop has led
to unusually large importations of foreign sugars, but the
high prices have made them slow of sale, the consumption
being greatly curtailed. The imports at this port since
Ist Septemper are 19,059 hhds, 29,367 boxes from Cuba,
2,024 hhds 61 barrels :rem Porto Rico, 8,106 bags from
Pernambuco, and 11,130 hhds 584 barrels Melado from
Cuba.

it,. According to a statement annually made up by the New
York Shipping and Commercial List, the total import of
foreign sugar in o the United States for the year ended
December 31, 1856, was 275,662 tons (equal to 514,569
hhds of 1,200 lbs each) against 205,064 tons, or 382.786
hhds in 1855; and the quantity of this description taken
for consumption in 1856 was 255,292 tons, against 149,052
tons in 1855, or an increase of about 321 per cent. The
total consumption of both foreign and domestic cane sugar
in 1856 was 378,760 tons, against 377,752 tons in 1855, or
an increase in the total consumption of barely per cent.
Besides the above it is estimated that there entered into
the consumption about 11,875 tons of sugar made from
foreign and domestic molasses and about 14,500 tons of
maple sugar, which, with the consumption of California
and Oregon, estimated at about 7,000 tons, would give a
grand total for the consumption of the United States in
the year 1856 of 412 135 tons, against 4104357 tol:s in 1.355.
This amount is equal to 769 318 hhds of 1,209 lbs each.
We have compiled from our records the annexed state-
ment of the sugar product of Louisiana for the past 23
years, she wing the amount of each year's crop in hhds,
with the gross avarage value per hhd and total, and the
proportions taken by Atlantic ports and Western States.
By this statement it will be seen that the total product of
Louisiana from 1834 to 1856, inclusive, a period of 23
years, was 3.972 716 hhds, valued at 204,131,228 dots, and
that ;of this quantity the Atlantic ports took 1,317,583
hhds, and the Western btates 1,974,1(13 hhds. The crops
from 1828 (which is as far back as our estimates extend)
to 1833, summed up 281,00 hhds ; which would make the
total product in a period of 27 years 4,253,716 hhds, or
4,477,668,000 Ibs. We would here remark that up to 1848
the prcduct in hhds is estimated, and 1,000 lbs taken as
the average weight per hhd, bat for the crops since that
date we have taken the figures of Mr. P. A. Champomier,
as we find them in his annual statements.
Prlee per Jail To Atlan- To West.

Tot. Crop. Hhd. 'Value. tic ports. ports.
Year. llti s Dols. D is. H,cls. Htids.
1834 .... 100,100..... 60 00 ... 6,, 00,000 ... 45 5 0.... 44,503
1835 .... 31.000.... 90 2,701,000..... 1.50 ... 23 530
1836 70,000.... 60 00.... 4,200 003.... 26,300 ... 35,001
1837 .... C 5,000.... 62 0 .... 4,032,50.... 21,500.... 32,5)
1638 70,000.... 62 52.... 4,375,000.... 26 5 03 ... 32,500
1839 ....I • 5 000.... bo W.... 5 750,000 ... 42 600.... 50,000
1840 .... 87,010.... 55 03.... 4 785 000.... 38 5'0.... 46,501
1841 .... 90 000.— 40 00.... 3,600 000.... 28 000.... 50,000
1812 —.14 0.... 42 00.... 4 750,000 ... 63,000.... 60,000
1843 —.100100.... r 0 00 ... 6,000,' 03 ... 34 000.— 52,000
1.44 ....200,000.... 45 00.... 9,000 00)....101,00070,000
1845 ~..186 650 • - 55 00 ...10 2 5 750.... 79 000.... _ 75,000
1841 70 00.... 9,600,000.... 45,500.... 70,000
1847 ....240,000.... 40 0.... 9 600 000.... 84,030.-115,00)
1843 ....220,000.... 40 00 ... 8,800 004.... 90,000—.108,000
1849 —.247 923 50 00—.12 396,14.... 90
.000....125,003
1850 ....211,313.... 60 03.-12 678,180.... 45 000 .... 123 000
1851 .... 236,547. 50 00....11 8..73'0.... 42,000 ...149,0:0
1852 ....321,931.... 48 00—.15,452 688.... 82 000.— 216,000
1853 —.443,324.... 35 00—.15,726,340—.166 030—.185,00
1854 ....44 ..t 35.... 52 0)....18,025 020....122,000....143 000
18.55 —.231,427.... 70 00.-16 199,890.... 39.133....131.027
1856 .... 73 976 —.llO 00.... 8 137,360.... 1,850.... 39,576

3,972,719

204,131,2:8 1,317,883 1,914,1 3

With respect to the coming crop, we may remark that
it is understood to give very fair promise. The plant
generally came up well, under the genial we,ther of the
early spring, but its progress was checked by the subse-
quent unseasoaable frosts, and the general low tempera-
ture of the later spring months, together with a lack of
sufficient moisture, so retarded its growth, that up to a
late period of the season the crops presented a compa-
ratively stunted appearance. The refreshing rains of
July and August, however, had a favourable influence,
and the promise is now said to be flattering, fur such a
crop as will effectually refute the assertion that the cane
has " died out" in Louisiana ; and this witbout any aid
from the foreign seed imported at the national expen,e,
which, so far as we have been able to learn, proved an
entire failure, as dial also some private enterprises of a
similar character. We are not accustomed to put forth
estimates of the probable extent of crop, but the season is
a peculiar one in the circumstances connected with the
sugar trade, and we think it well for all concerned—
producers, dealers, and consumers—to be advised that,
with a favourable season for maturing and gathering the
crop, our State will be likely to furnish in the neighbour-
hood of 300,000 hhds..of the quantity which will be
required for the consumption of the United States in the
coming year.
Touching the market prospects for the crop. we
conceive that they are of an encouraging character for the
planter. True, with the immense difference in the amount
of production, ts compared with last year, the unusually
large stocks of foreign sugar to cowl:fete with, and a
greatly increased product from the maple tree, it can
hardly be expected that the high average of the
past year van be rcaliGed ;I".still we loolc:Jor

such prices as will yield an aggregate much above that
obtained for any previous crop r shed in Louisiana.
The maple tree crop (now partly consumed) we have
seen estimated at 75,000,000 to 100,000.000 lts, and the
stocks of foreign sugars in the ports of Baltimore, Phila-
delphia, New York and Boston, on the Ist- August, 1856
and 1857, were respectively as follows :

StoAR. kteLsoo
Bo (eq. }ars. Mids.
1Q57 ....121,562 . .52,320 36,546 .24,354
1856 .... 84 923 20 743 3,000.... ...None.

lacrease. . 36 63) 31,577 33,546 24,354
This large excess of stocks in the Atlantic markets is
likely to confice operations here, at the opening of the
season and for a considerable period subsequently, almost
entirely to the, demand for the West and the South, but'
the stocks throughout the interior are known to be of the
most limited character, and the new crop of their favourite
Louisiana product will be sought with avidity.