The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-15 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.
Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar
in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of
Foreign Sugars

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London, 13th July, 1839.
The Gazette of last night quotes the average Per cwt.
price of British Plantation Muscovado Sugar,
exclu,ive of duty at .............................. 402. 61d.
The actual quantity sold in the week ending the 9th July,
on account of the importers, on which the above price is
computed—consisted of 1,074 hhds. 43 trs. and 83 brls.—
and not of 1,500 hhds. as estimated in the market.
Muscovado Sugars raised by free labour, East of the
Cape of Good Hope, are worth this week from
183. to 235.
per cwt., being about 19s. per cwt. less than the price of
West India Sugar.
The evils apper aining to this most unjust monopoly do
not terminate with defrauding this nation out of nearly four
millions sterling per annum in the excess of price paid to
the West Indians for Sugar ; they extend far beyond the
perpetration of this robbery. huge as it is, they positively
wither and blight numerous branches of our commerce.
Next week we will point the attention of the puLlic to one
instance out of many, in which the commercial enterprise
of our countrymen is sevcrelylasctriypepalred
Ibtyistnhoewpearptpiiacrioenuts
effects of this favouritism t) West Indian interests.
The returns of the deliveries of Sugar from the various
bonded warehouses for consumption were last week again
very short of what they were ,
to :he West Indians themselves, that the peeple will not
consume Sugar at the present prices, and that if the impor-
tation were really much less than it is—there would be
Sugar enough for the few (the rich) who will have Sugar
at any price.
The market is heavy—Sugars may be quoted 3s. per
cwt. less than the highest prices—the Gazette average
price in this month in 1537, and in 1838, was about 335.
per cwt. ; to purchase Sugar on similar terms, the present
market price must recede fully 7s. per cwr.
The rumour spread throughout the country that the
negroes have followed the example set themby the Jamaica
House of Assembly—is not generally true. Some few
of the blacks certainly did, like their white brethren re-
fuse to work, but they have since resumed their labours:;
whether the whites will be like wise, remains to be seen.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning, in the course of a leading
article, suggested by the education grant, takes the op-
poi tunity of informing the Bishop of Norwich that it will
most certainly smash, and utterly abolish, him, one of these
days, if he do not act as our Contemporary would have
him, as respects the education scheme. We hope this
awful menace will not seriously endanger his Lordship's
health ! Here it is !—" One word to Lord Bishop Stan-
ley. This person will certainly provoke us some of these
days to teach him his proper dimensions, which at present
he seems to be ludicrously ignorant of l" In another
article on the subject of the Slave Trade the Times states,
on the authority of Mr. Fowell Buxton, that this infernal
traffic is now carried on with more activity than ever, and
chiefly at Brazil and the Southern States of America.
The Morning Chronicle thus enumetates the Tory
Peers who went up to the palace on Friday with the sop-
education address By
referring to the Court Cir-
cular, we find a list of seventy Peers, out of which there
are only nine who were not created English Peers, or pro-
moted to their present grade by Tory Administrations
since the accession of George the Third. Of the five
Dukes, there are three old and two new. Of the twenty-
five Earls, six are old, eighteen new, and one representa-
tive. The seven Viscounts are all new. But the Barons
present the most lamentable figure. Even Sir Robert
Peel might, without presumption, take his seat to-morrow
among these novi homines! "
The Morning Post alluding e
scheme, says.:—" We do
to the recent debates in the
Commons, on the penny posta-g
not think that the whole of Mr. Goulburn's resolutions
were suitable to the case. We do not think that it was
the part of the Opposition to
propose an absolute rejection
of
the Post office Reform in the present Session. The
victory in the Post-office case, is that of the Radical party
over the Government."

The Moinzng Herald remarks on the subject of her
Majesty's answer to the Tory anti-education address :
" To throw the responsibility of the uncivil answer to the
Lords personally on the
Queen, is cruel towards the sove-
reign, and insulting towards the country."
The Morning Advertiser observes of the penny postage
scheme, that—" The necessary operation of this measure
must greatly contribute to the social intercourse of all
classes and sects of the community, and to the extension
of the sacred cause of education,"

This morning at half-past ten the half-yearly
inspection of the 2d Battalion of the Fusilier Guards took
place in Hyde Park, by the Commander-in- Chief, the
Duke of Wellington, and a brilliant staff. The battalion,
in open column, marched past in ordinary and quick time,
formed square to receive cavalry, and concluded their last
manceuvre by forming line upon the centre company, ad-
vanced, saluted the Commander-in-Chief, and retired.
His Lordship seemed highly pleased with their steady and
soldier-like appearance. The Duke of Wellington was
loudly cheered as he left the ground.