The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-20 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:—
London, September 20, 1839.
The Gazette of this evening will quote the Per Cwt.
average price of British Plantation Muscovado
Sugar, exclusive of duty, at
The actual quantity of Sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the 17th instant, according
to the returns made by the West India sugar brokers,
in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and on which
quantity the above price is computed, consisted of 977 hhds.
121 trs. and 58 barrels, and not of 1,200 bhds. as estimated
in the market.

As we stated some months since, the crops of Sugar are
late, but they are not unusually short. Several ships which
sailed from the West Indies before the Ist August, have ar-
rived, and are full. On the 16th September, 1837, the
landings were 88,668 hhds. and trs., and on the 14th
September, 1839, 76,551 hhds. and trs.
The Stock on the 16th September, 1837, consisted of
26,036 hhds. and trs. ; on the 15th, 1838, of 36,513 do. ;
and on the 14th, 1839, of 38,085 do.

The deliveries on the 16th Sept. 1837, were 93,275
hhds. and trs. ; on the 15th, 1838, 82,928 do. ; and on the
14th, 1839, 66,696 do.
The falling off in the delivery since the Ist May last to
the present date, as compared against the like period in
1838, is 16,232 hhds and trcs.
The market is already lower, and if:the public abstain
from the use of sugar to the extent they have done in the
period named above, the decrease in the deliveries will
insure a larger stock at Christmas, 1839, than was on hand
at Christmas, 1838.
A fall in price of at least 7s. per cwt. may be safely an-
ticipated.
Foreign Sugars raised by free labour have, since our
last report, been sold 17s. per cwt., quality for quality,
less than West India Sugars.

DINNER TO MR. WYSE BY HIS
CONSTITUENTS.

TO THE RIGHT HON. T. WYSE, M.P.
SlR—With feelings of mingled pride and pleasure, we
embrace the present opportunity to express our
high satisfaction at your having been called upon to
fill an important office in the Government of the
country. In availing themselves of your great talents
and statesmanlike qualities, her Majesty's Ministers
have only confirmed the choice of all who have watched
your useful and brilliant career as a legislator. In
common with the people of the empire at. large, we be-
hold in your elevation to the Treasury Bench an addi-
tional assurance of the determination of Ministers to
remove all abuses, whether in Church or State, to
proceed fearlessly in the onward path of reform, and
to grapple boldly with the Tory oligarchy, which still
withhold from Ireland those rights and privileges to
which, as an integral portion of the empire, she is justly
entitled. Whilst we acknowledge the valuable support
which you have given to every measure of practical
improvement, yet with peculiar gratification have we
marked your efforts in the great cause of National Edo-
canon. With that cause—the noblest which can
occupy the attention of the philosophic statesman—
your name is indissolubly linked ; •and proud indeed must
be the recollection that, instead of wasting the efforts of
your genius on iubjects of ephemeral importance, it was
your nobler aim to dispel the dark clouds of ignorance, and,
in the spirit of enlightened legislation, to prepare the hu-
man mind for still greater triumphs than any it has yet
achieved. We appeal with confidence to your late unop-
posed return (a circumstance for many years unexampled
in Waterford), as a satisfactory proof that your private
virtues and amiable qualities are duly appreciated by all
parties in your native city, and we entertain no doubt that,
as your accession to office has been unanimously hailed, so
each succeeding year will add fresh claims to the respect
and admiration of your fellow-citizens.,
Actuated by these feelings, we request the honour of
your company at a Public Dinner, as a slight but sincere
mark of our esteem and regard.
Signed on behalf of a Meeting of the Citizens
of Waterford.
BENJAMIN MORRIS, D. L., Chairman.