The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.—(YESTERDAY.)
THE GOODWOOD STASES.
8 to 1 agst Miss Eliza—taken
10 to 1 agst Lord Mayor—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Rad,liffe's Wee Willie—taken
12 to 1 agst Albemarle—taken
20 to 1 agst St. Martin
20 to 1 agst Barnacles—taken
20 to 1 ag.t Lord Exeter's Adrian
20 to 1 agst Lord Eglintoun's St. Andrew
20 to 1 agat Lord Jersey's Joannina
20 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac's I-am-not-aware
20 to 1 agstMorella—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Stanhope's Caroline Elvina
20 to 1 apt f. by Merchant, out of Turquoise—takai
20 to 1 agst Confusionee—taken
25 to I agst Chit Chat—taken
THE GOODWOOD CrP.
5 to 1 asst Mr. R. Garrard na. Galewood—taken
6 to 1 agst Deception
6 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Richard Roe—taken
10 to I agst Epirus—taken
10 to 1 agst Duke of Beaufort na. Caravan
12 to 1 agst Mr. Turnhill's Euclid—taken
JULY STAKES.
5 to 1 ant Stamboul—taken
5 to 2 agst Crucifix —taken
5 to 1 agst Margaret—taken
THE. ST. LEGER.
3 to 1 agst Mr. Ridslale's Bloomsbury
12 to 1 agst The Provost—taken
15 to 1 aust Charles the Twelfth—offered
15 to I agst The Commodore—taken
20 to 1 ag-t Hetman Platoff
50 to 1 agst The Dolphin—taken.
25 to 1 agst Marquis of Westminster's Lord Mayor—taken
CHELTENHAM RACES—GLOUCESTER STAKES.
3 to 1 agst S"kater--taken
5 to 2 agst Heron—taken
The room rather ',hinly attended, and not much betting.

PRICE OF SUGA

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:—

London, 29:h June, 18,39.
The Gazette of last night quotes the average Per cwt.
price of British Plantation Muscovado Sugar
exclusive of duty at
The actual quantity sold on account of the imparters in
the week ending the 25,h instant, on which the above price
is computed—consisted of 1,303 hhds. i trs. and 134 brls.
Muscovado Sugars raised by free labour in the Manilla
have been sold this week at from 21s. tid. to 235. per cwt.,
being about 18s. per cwt. less than the average price of
West India Sugar.

The produce of f the refineries working Foreign Sugars ;
and of the refineries working British Plantation Sugar and
Molasses remains at the prices we quoted last week. Since
our last the importation of Sugar of all kinds has been un-
usually heavy—the market is exceedingly dull—and the
delivery from the docks this week will be very short of the
weight delivered in the corresponding week of last year.
The Ministers have successfully opposed Mr. Ewart's
amendment for the admission of other Sugars than British
plantation to home use, and the \Vest Indians arc to enjoy
at the nation's cost, the fruits of their baneful monopoly
for another year at least.
A rigid economy in the use of sugar may task our
powers of forbearance, but we are convinced that a strict
adherence to that pr,nciple in our present dilemma offers
the best, if not tl.e only means we possess of securing
ourselves against the pillage to which the Government has
unjustly devoted us ; in furtherance of promoting our view
of economy, it will be cheering to the public to learn
hat their efforts to limit the consumption of sugar, have
in this port alone, already had the effect of reducing the
quantity used in the last eight weeks, that is from the Ist
of May to the present date, as compared against the sr.me
period in the preceeding }car, 7,500 hhds., 5.000 ;nets of
Mauritius, and 6,000 bags of East India sugarst equivalent
in amount of duty to 160,0001. Should we continue to
limit our consumption in a like ratio till Christmas, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer will, at that period, have a
dificit in the gross amount of sugar duties of 650,0001. The
nation must not, however, be satisfied with any such mo-
derate degree of economy as this. To pluck the sting ef-
fectually out of this West Indian monopoly, the public at
large should abstain as much as practicable from the use of
sugar altogether. An alarming defalcation in the sugar
duties, and also in those duties imposed on articles con-
sumed with sugar, such as coffee, tea, cocoa, &c., would
presently bring 111inisters to their senses and make them
repent their opposition to Mr. Ewart's amendment, and,
what is more to the purpose, compel them to display their
penitence by an Order in Council to allow the consumption
of foreign sugar in the country upon the same terms as
those imposed on West Indian sugar. Strict abst!nenee
from sugar for three months will surely defeat the raw-
polists.