The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-26 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.
Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar,
in Nli: clog Lane, and eiimparing the same against that of
foreign sugars sold in the same market:—
London, August 24, 1839.
The Gazette of last night quotes the average Per Cwt.
price of British Plantation Muscovado Su-
gar, exclusive of duty, at
'The number of hogsheads stated in the market to have
been sold in the week ending the 20th inst. is 2,400 hhds.,
whereas, the returns of sales sworn to by the brokers in
conformity with the Act of Parliament, show that the ac-
tual number sold amounts only to 1,525 hhds. 147 trs.
and 77 barrels, estimated to contain altogether 24,275
cat. ; and it is upon this weight that the average price of
40s. 7d. per cwt. is computed. We readily admit that in
the bustle of a market some inaccuracies may occur in
reporting the quantity of business transacted, the vast dif-
ference however, between the actual sales, and those esti-
mated in the market, for the two weeks just passed, dis-
plays an evtggeration which can hardly be attributed to
mi,telte. In the week ending the 13th inst., that difference
is 714, and in the week under review 728 hhds. and trs.,
so that the estimated sales for a fortnight are made to ap-
p. ar as extensive as the real sales are for three weeks—
these exaggerated reports of sales tend to deceive the
public into a belief that the demand for sugar is brisk—
% hile it is notorious to those who attend the market that
the West India merchants experience difficulty in maintain-
ing the present quotations.
Since the first May last, the decrease in the deliveries of
Sugar from the bonded warehouses of this port, as com-
pared against the deliveries in the same period of 1838, has
been 13 365, hhds. and Ira. Hhds. Trs.
The stock on the 19th August, 1837, was 22 307
18th do. 1838, was 37 803
17th do. 1839, was 32 182
Being less in 1839 than 1838, by 4 121

Andinore in 1839 than 1837, by 9 875
_ _ _

There Vl'lro landed at the above date in 1837. 73 127
in 1838. 90 653
in 1839. 61 814

The deficiency in the stock of West India Sugar is
abundantly compensated by the increase in the stock of
West India and Mauritius Sugars, so that if the ships
which leave the West Indies on the Ist of this month
bring an average quantity of Sugar, which some parties
bolie‘e they will do, we may confidently look to a fall in
idct: before the Ist of October of 10s. per cwt.
The rcfincries working under bond for exportation only,
obtain for their produce, after deducting the charges of
:ririprnt:•nt, the following price, namely :
For Refined Sugar, equal in quality to the Per Cwt.
double lo.tf standard
For Ila.,ord Refilled Sugar
F.,r Treacle
The refineries which work West India bugar and Mo-
Ilses for home consumption, sell their produce after de.
ducting the duty, as follows : Per Cwt.
R, fined Sugar, same quality as the above 593. Od.
Bastard Ditto, ditto
Treacle d•'- 36' Od.

'itto Js. _
The British nation therefore pays for Refined Sugar
26i. per cwt. ; for Bastard Sugar 21s. per curt.; and
225. cwt. for Treacle, more than foreign nations
p^Y•

If foreign Sugars were admitted to home use upon the
same conditions as West India Sugar, the public would be
supplied with Refined Sugar, adding the duty of 245., at
575. p,r Cent. ; Bastard, ditto, 24s at 425. ; and Treacle,
vhich is admitted duty free, at 133. 6d.
The difference be,ween the amount which the nation
actually pays, and that for which it might be supplied,
con,titutes the exact cost, as far as Sugar is concerLed,
of Government favouritism to West India interests.

PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sitt,—l quite agree with your yesterday's correspon-
dent, Mr. Johnson, that a want of rational Christianity
is the basis of infidelity and insubordination, and
gives Owen, and other infidels, an influence they
would not otherwise possess. It is useless for the
Church of England to build so many places of public
worship, as long as she allows such a discrepancy
of doctrine in her own pulpits, and at the same time is,
except in name, so exclusive and intolerant towards
others. The Athanasian Creed stands forward more
prominent,
and is more to be deprecated in the Church
of England than in the Church of Rome. Now, is it
less strange, instead of teaching men how to pass
through things temporal, without losing the things
eternal, to allow or connive at, the continual jingle
about faith and works, and unconditional salvation.
The bewildered congregations are astounded, but any
thing rather than edified. To teach that the genera-
lity of mankind are doomed, or left to be reprobate, and
that their conduct here has no influence for or against
their future salvation, is to do away with responsi-
bility and to unhinge society. Such is not a fair
statement of redeeming love. It is time the Church of
England should look to this, and regulate the hopes and
f ars of her congregations with a little more consistency, and
more attention to the combined letter and spirit of Scrip-
ture, making, at the same time, such alterations in her
Liturgy, Articles, and Discipline, as the lapse of time
seems to require, in order that by common consent she
may continue the leading Church of the blessed Pro-
testant Reformation.

I am, your obedient servant,
London, Aug. 21, 1839. A PROTESTANT.

DEANERY OF EXETER.—The Bishop of Exe-
ter has received a letter from Lord John Russell, protest.
ing against the interference of the Chapter or the Bishop
with the rights of the Crown to nominate a Dean, and
giving his Lordship notice that the Crown will take early
legal proceedings to vindicate its rights and dignity.—
Woolmer's Gazette.

THE DUKE OFWELLINGTON'S VISIT TO THE
GREAT' WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Saturday morning his
Grace the Duke of Wellington, accompanied by his sore,
the Marquis of Douro, and other distinguished individuals,
paid a visit to the Great Western Railway Company's ter-
minus at Paddington, for the purpose of inspecting the
new galvanic telegraph erected by Mr. Cook,: and other
scientific works. The Duke and his party were shown
over the various buildings by Mr. Simms, the chairman,
and other principal gentlemen attached to the Company.
His Grace, after a prolonged stay, expressed himself
highly gratified with what he had seen, and. particularly
admired the precision and rapidity with which the new
galvanic telegraph alluded to conveyed the required signals
by means of a connecting rod, extending through the line
to the most distant stations.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— On Saturday
morning, between: en and eleven o'clock, two men were
dreadfully injured at Garwood's wharf, Horsleydown, in
the following singular manner :—A vessel was lying off,
taking in logs of mahogany, which were lowered by means
of a wheel crane, which is constructed similarly to the
tread-mill, the only difference being that the men working
the crane are in a box, about sixty feet in circumference,
and by treading on brackets the machine goes round. The
men, named Newland and Moore, were at work inside the
machine, lowering the logs into the hold of the ship, and
one of the logs, weighing two tons and a half, suspended
at the end of a chain, being too heavy fur the strength of
the men, it run down with great velocity, hurrying the
crane round like a fly-wheel, with the unfortunate men
inside. All attempts to arrest its progress were for some
moments impossible, and the men must have fallen six or
eight times a distance of seventy feet. On the crane
stopping they were taken out to all appearance lifeless, and
were conveyed to the residence of Mr. Monkhouse, a
medical man in the neighbourhood, where the proper
means for their restoration were resorted to, but with little
indication of success.

THE HARVEST.—We are glad to see reports
• in the great majority of the country Papers to the same
effect as the following account from the Norfolk Chronicle
. of Saturday last :—The drenching rain which fell early on
Saturday morning, with the successive cold showers on
. the Monday and Tuesday last, put a stop to the harvest on
those days; but the weather having since become fine and
' dry, little or no injury has been done either to the wheat or
barley ; and on Thursday and yesterday many acres of
both were carried in goodorder.
ALLEGED ASIATIC CHOLERA.—An inquest
was held on Thursday, at Ratcliff-cross, before Mr. Baker,
on the body of a man named Jolly, a butcher. Mr. Coward,
a surgeon residing in the neighbourhood, said he had no
doubt the cause of death was malignant spasmodic cholera,
such as that which cut off so many persons about six years
ago. SL•veral cases had occurred at the West end of the
town. A woman, who stated that her husband had for.
merly suffered severely from cholera, said that about five
o'clock on Sunday evening she was called in to attend on
the deceased, whom she found in bed, and labouring under
the greatest apparent agony from an internal attack to-
gether with violent cramps in his limbs. His nails were
black, his skin blue and shrivelled up; he retched vio-
lently ; and witness had very little doubt at the time that
the attack was one of cholera. He died about eleven
o'cicck the same evening. Deceased had lately been
of irregular habits, and, it appeared, bad eaten some oysters
while labouring under a violent bowel complaint. At first
the surgeon though he had taken poison. Verdict--
‘. Died by the visitation of God,"
THE LATE SIR JOHN ST. AUBYN.—The
Baronetage of this ancient family becomes extinct by the
death of Sir John ; but the large entailed eistateS descend
to his nephew, the Rev. J. Moleswortle together with the
ancient family seat of Clowance.— West Briton.
DREADFUL EVENT.—At Machytilletli, on
Friday, an incident occurred most afflicting to the pasties
connected with the sufferer. ir. John Lloyd, of Lien-
fyllin, had that day attended the funeral of his mother,
and in the course of the evening, being very much excited,
he became drunk, and was put to bed at the Wynnstay
Arms. Mrs. Ellis, with her usual care, sent two servants
to his room to see if be was safely in bed, when they dis-
covered that he had thrown himself from hiS bed room
window, and was lying on the pavement, three stories
below, bleeding and insensible. Dr. Lloyd, with the inmates
of the inn, rendered the poor sufferer every assistance, but
his condition is almost hopeless.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
DISGUSTING FRoLIC.—Last harvest two men
mowing in a field at Glanogue, Llansilin, Denbighshire,
met with a nest of mice. One mass offered the other 2s.
6d. if he would swallow one—the offer was accepted.
" Bobby" laid hold of the fattest, slapped him in his mouth,
and his disgusting paunch received poor mousy, who, not
liking his new residence, returned. The fellow became
I unwell, and expectorated blood.—Shrewsbury Chronicle,
CHARTIST APPROPRIATION.--The Brighton
(Tsry) Gazette, says—On Monday evening Mr. Bron-
terre O'Brien, one of the Chartist leaders, addressed seve-
ral hundred persons at the Brewers' Arms, on the present
political aspect of the country. In the course of his speech
he contended that the soil of the country was the property
of the nation, who had a right to take it from tse present
holders, and let it out in portions at rents %Ilion sh suldbe
devoted to national purposes.