The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-15 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

COMBINED EFFECTS OF BOUNTY AND OF MONOPOLY.
Table showing the ex.duty price of West India Sugar in Mincing.
lane, and comparing the same against foreign sugars :
London, Dec. 14, 1838.
The Gazette this day quotes the average price of British Per cwt.
Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at 34s. Sid.
M.iscovado Sugars raised by free labour in the Manilla have
brought this week from 225. to 235. 6d. per cwt., being
about Its. per cwt. less than the average-price of West
India Sugar.
The bounty on refined Sugar having been reduced to 355. Pd.
per cwt., no sales for exportation have been effected this
week in that article.
This reduction still leaves a clear bounty—allowing Is.'per
cwt. forthe duty on tho poisonous dirt contained in the
Muscovado or moist Sugar—and which is extracted from
it by the process of refining of
British Treacle is worth Os. per cwt. in the foreign markets. The
same has been sold this week at 30s. 6d. per cwt., being an excess of price
paid by the British consumer of 21s. 6d. per cwt., in other words 21s. 6d.
per cwt. on Treacle contributed by the poor man towards West India
Bounty, and not, as it is erroneously supposed, towards revenue.
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COFFEE.—The duty on West India Coffee, the price of it ranging from
965. to I 355. per cwt , is 565, per cwt., about 50 per cent. ad valorem.
The duty on St. Domingo Coffee, the average price of it being 425. per
cwt., is 140 s. per cwt., or about 300 per cent. ad valorem. The protec..
tive duty, therefore, on West India Coffee is equivalent to 250 per cent.
It will be remarked that the price of British Plantation Sugars now
exceeds that of Foreign by 12s. per cwt. This state of markets has
been in part brought about by the reports circulated by the West
Indians that the emancipated negroes will not work readily on the
plantations; and in part by the speculation of persons who suppose
that the Government will restrain the distillers from the use of Grain,
and thereby compel them to use Sugar. The reported objection of the
black to work, does not arise from a dislike on his part to labour, but
from a disinclination on the part of the employer to requite hie
labour with adequate wages. A few weeks must adjust this matter,
because the planters will find it to be their interest to give the black
a fair compensation for his labour rather than allow their grounds to
go out of sultiva!ion. The second report takes its rise from a strong
memorial from parties in Scotland, praying for a restraint on the use of
grain in distilleries, and for the use of Sugar. We have no correct in-
formation ourselves on the subject, but the power of the Government
so to interfere with trade, which is one consequence of Its own restiic-
tions, strikes us as very likely to be extremely injurious both to the
dealers in Sugar and Corn.

Comparative circulation of the London Evening
Pacers as extracted from the official returns published by
the Stamp Office for the six months from April 1 to Sep-
tember 30, 1838, inclusive :
Total, Six Months. Daily Average.
SUN ..... 750,000
Standard 523,000 ... 3,354
Globe ...... 450,000
Courier

CHARLES DUKE DONNE, Registrar.
Register of Warrants Office, Stamps, and Taxes, Oct, 9.0, 1838.
TIIE NEWCASTLE MURDER.-The Coroner's in-
quest has been adjourned several times, and the leading
facts connected with the perpetration of this horrid deed
have been confirmed. There seems to be but one opinion
as to the perpetrator. On Monday we shall no doubt be
in possesssion of the verdict.
CAUTION TO HOTEL KEEPERS.—Numerous de-
predations have recently been committed at several hotels
at the West-end. Proprietors of those establishments
should keep a vigilant look out ; there is a gang of decently
dressed fellows living entirely by plundering those descrip-
tion of houses. On Friday evening they visited the Golden-
cross, and stole from thence two Russian leather dressing
cases and a great coat, fortunately but of trifling value. We
perceive by the Huc and Cry that the Proprietor, Mr.
Edwards, has offered a large reward for their apprehension.
BILL SWINDLING.—Yesterday concluded a series
of examinations at the Mansion-house into the particulars
of a case which has excited' no small degree of interest
amongst those who are in the habit of negotiating bills,
those who get bilis negotiated, and those who steal bills
under pretence of getting them negotiated. The Lord
Mayor remanded one fellow ; another he held to bail.
Several persons have been robbed of their acceptances.
[How any man can be foolish enough to part with a blank
acceptance, or any acceptance at all, and to an advertising
money lender, too, is truly astonishing.]
On Tuesday evening, W. D. Gillon, Esq., the ex-
cellent Representative for the Falkirk District of Burghs,
according to his usual custom, held a meeting with his con-
stituents at Hamilton, to explain his conduct during the
last Session of Parliament.