The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-06 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFPCT OF MONOPOLY.
Table ahoy; ing the ex-duty price •f West India SuLar in Mina.
ng-lane, and comparing the same against that of foreign sugars :
Landon, May 4th, Is3ll.
Per cwt.

The Gaeetts of Friday bight quotes the average priers sif
British Plantation Must:ureic, Sugar, exclusive of
duty, at
...
The actual quantity sold for the account of importers in the week
ending the 30th of April, consisted of 1241 lilids. and 44 tierces.
On these the above price is computed. The public sales
as .
esof tine
Barbadoes Sugar, averaging 425„ per cwt. in this,
t j,eas well
price quotle'dthine
previous week, have had the efrectof
sswarelsling that price would have
been considerably less.
the Gazette—in the absence
of
thesel ie should bear in mind that the
weight of Sugar Purchased
is not"irbtlie market, or delivered from the
docks,
the weight absolutely confirmed, because one_third,
say 500 hilds., have been bought by the refiners, who, tillable to
export their produce, must and wall in a short time return the
Sugar altered in name by their process upon the market.
Those refiners who keep their houses at work on Foreign Sugars,
sell for exportation Sugar equal in quality to that which suits theßri.
fish public, 555. per cwt. ex duty, for 3f15. per cwt. free on board, a dif,
ference of 12s. per cwt., their Bastard Sugar at 245, per cut., being
Iss. per ewt. less than the ex duty price of Sugar of a similar quality
manufactured for home use from British Plantation Sugar—and
being ISs. less than the ex duty prise of British trade. The aver.
age price of Sugar raised by free labour in the Manilla is 15s. per
cwt. less than the average price of West India.
The prevalence of adverse winds still prevents the West India_
men from entering the Channel; the stock therefore in this Port
will be reduced by whatever number of lilids. may have been deli_
vered from the Docks this week—this delivery, however, will fall
short of the delivery in the corresponding
i week of last year by
SOO
lilids. at least—a diminution wine 1 palpably displays the laudable
exertionsmaking by the people at large
to throw off
Pound serve the pur-
the costly yoke of the West Indian Monopoly.—Let us
er, and
but persevere in the practise of making half a
we shall as.
poses of a pound for a couple of,,lntlis long
suredly defeat the working of tli
11 vile system by which
the inordi.
nate appetite of the West Indians
iof
an
article
money i
.e this desirable okject,
" fed, and thereby
secure to ourselves a full supply
not ""ntial
to our comfort
sugar in that time as
at equitable prices.
selling, through such an accumjufla"t'eion oof ASn'ecst lireittia
g, we shall
will dictate to the importers adinisesieossity for
use of cheaper
surely attain it through the a
hands
to home
and better sugars raised byfree a son foreign plantations
cast of the Cape of Good Hope— an
e, importation which must occur
for the sake of the revenue icn
l‘tiiniesvt It of a real scarcity of sugar
from the West Indies. 'flu - ersd Would gladly relieve the
but what hope is there for us
nation from an indirect taxation, whichb rains awa.,
, the fruits of its
industry, if they had the opportunity ;
of the abolition of the pernicious. West India monopoly, with what
chance of success would the Ministers at the present time propound
to the House a measure for an alteration in the duty on Sugar cilia.
vate4 and made by free labourers, svitli a view to its admission for
home use, when every attempt on their part at doing bare justice is
, and furnish them with
made a party question. Unless therefore a dire necessity' arise
through a defa'cation in the Sdugar uties
imperative
bind reasanodns
co fonfidnr eemanthe mg a relofaxation of the ligaments
which people
this "untrY to the
consumption of West India produce, we
shall and must
continue to purchase
bad and dear Suga
in Cuba and in the Brazils are late—the crops fr r.
The crops
om our own West
experienced lndian Possessions may be later than these—through the ill-treat.
silnt the ourers have from, and through the un-
skielful management of the Cane juice, by the
houses, but Planters in the boiling
the Sugar must and will arrive in England.
COFFEE—The Coffee Market continues much the same as
stated in our last reports—good samples are scarce—and the unclean
are dull of sale. The duty protecting West India against the com_
petition of free labour Coffee from St. Domingo i" .
equivalent to 300
per cent. ad valorem.
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Miss Clara Novello arrived at Berlin from St.
Pctersburgh in the early part of the present month, She
was to give a concert in the Prussian capital before her de-
parture for England.