The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-08 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECTS OF BOUNT.,
Table showing the ex-duty price ofTHE West India Sugar 1"
lane, and comparing the same against the price of foreign sulgsr-I.og-
London, Sept, 7, her
The Gazette this day quotes the average price of British ;11'
Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at......... `2l)'
Muscovado Sugars raised by free labour in the Manilla—
which are frequently bought by the Dutch to be refined,
and then to be resold in the River Thames—in competi-
tion with British refined Sugars for exportation—rnaYi
b. had at from 18s. to 2'2.5. per cwt., being about 7s. 24.
per cwt. cheaper than West India Sugars.
Refined Sugar, equal in quality to double refined o:nemr nu-
facture of it costing 55. per cwt) has been so:cd this week
(free on board) at...... . ........................ 3.35. 3d.
Deducting shipping charges ...... 2.1. Sis.
hich it It. 1 Id per cwt clearer only I,rui the Muscovado
Sugar from which it Is made, beit4, a loss to the sugar re-
finer of 3s. Id. per cwt., which I:ne bounty on exportation
C
reimburses him.
British treacleis worth 9.5. 6.1. per cwt. in the foreign vercar
same has teen sold this week in London, free ofduty, at '2ss. uJ. ;
being an excess 'of price paid by the British consumer "
_or 'up
cwt., in other words 17s. per cwt. on treacle paid by theturreeen
towards kunty, and not, as it is erroneously supposed, tow', r_ coirce
Br'fitli Plantation Coffee is about 140 per cent. dearer than
of
• tt
• similar quality grown in a foreign colony. IS e
Such is the absurdity of the fiscal law, which confers th iro
value on British Plantation Coffee to British consumers, 03t' it ta,,,Je
Coffee front Cuba into this country for the purpose of shiPP`See to C roo(
Cape of Good Hope, thence to reship it into this country in "r Ptli°
the additional duty, yields the merchant a handsome profits
tej £0 ale
whereof a sale of foreign Coffee which has been "biecen oo e
process of re. shipping is advertised for sale in Mincing"
14th inst.
t°
s,o
ey,
The Queen has been pleased to grant Periris Abb
Lieut.-Colonel and Lady Susan Doyle, of WroW
to take the name of North in lieu of that of Doyle' ttel
lf
The successful architect for the erecti▪
on °oof the
caoi•
,
Town-hall at Epsom, Mr. Wm. Hudson, is one 01 the rcr''-
.m
dates for the district surveyorehip of Bow, vacant by
atlantic trip of Mr. Charles Mathews. :„al5-"' tl
RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT, SEPT- .''"--"Atr ,vii,oo-gnon"
Earl Amherst, the Countess of Plymouth, and and•
Viscountess Hohnesdale, Buckingham Villa; Earl ye; 1100
tess Manvers, and the Ladies Pierrepont, Leven" Non. sou,
Georgiana Herbert, Lady Elleriborough, and thesteP„ll nal
Law, Mrs. Blake, the Misses Watford, Captain -1 1-,"°,lrY
Mr. Estcourt arid family, Mr. Armitage and fare.Yor'o.
Davis, Rev. Mr. Poore, Airs. Edward Mellish,
itincipal too
Law, Hon. Lindsey Burrell. Most of the Pr od the los-
deuces have been taken to the end of October, job!, vols
is filling fast with vis.ters of rank ; Lord and 1,84 at the ore
sell, who have been making a three weeks' sePujrl
belonging to Mr. Knyvett, adjoining Buckingham
bi
about to leave for Sussex-square, Kemptown•
`'which
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theNeVxpuorstsoNto TNI
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York.lN bE
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t. h—e SINGER.—Not or
et a the b
from Bristol on Saturday, is Wilson, admirable
fulfil a al• b°
ger, who quits Covent-garden for the resent, t 0 Joi:roto
of engagements at the American theatres. "F
We le-
arn
eel":
tis likely to receive him in prime condition•
of ias 5 u
Scottish source that in the six working dar,_rent towrfoo,.
the
'Wilson was professionally occupied in eight
.con'at Abe.
Scotland, beginning at Edinburgh and closte.go.b sectil.aidett
and performed in plays, operas, and concerts,.lD_Lieces--rdi,r.
sacred, no fewer than one hundred and seve at*. 'Zip
leve leasts
t.erraflb,;:tbeincobr:i
tnn • /Bac'
travelling. An hour after his last concer
_,,gs sho
he left Aberdeen, by steam for London.
panisi Nr. I,l,"i'ison to America, as prima donna.‘