The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-03 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

COMBINED EFFECTS OP BOUNTY AND OF MONOPOLY.
Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar in Mincing.
lane, and comparing the same against the price of foreign sugars :
London, Nov. 2, 1838.
The Gazette this day quotes the average price of British Per cwt.
Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at 3l s. 7d.
Muscovado ,Sugars raised by free labour in the Manilla have
been sold this week at from 20s. to 235. per cwt., being
about 9s. per cwt. less than the average price of West
India Sugar.
The bounty on refined Sugar having been reduced to 355. Bd.
per cwt., no sales for exportation have been effected this
week in that article.
This reduction still leaves a clear bounty—allowing Is. for
the duty on the poisonous dirt contained in the Mus_
covado or moist Sugar—and which is extracted from it
by the process of refining of
British Treacle is worth 9s. 10s. Bd.
per cwt. in the foreign markets. The
same has been sold this day in London, free of duty, at 295. per cwt.,
being an excess of price paid by the British consumer of 20s. per
cwt., in other words 20s. per cwt. on Treacle contributed by the poor
man towards West India L'ounty, and not, as it is erroneously supposed,
towards revenue.
COFFEE.—The duty on West India Coffee, the price of it ranging
from 90s. to 1408. per cwt, is 565. per cwt., about 50 per cent. ad
valorem.
The duty on St. Domingo Coffee, the average price of it being 426,
per cwt., is 140 s. per cwt., or about 300 per cent, ad valorem. The
protective duty, therefore, on West India Ouree is equivalent to 256
per cent.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR
THE WEEK.

(From the Gardeners' Gazette.)
Auriculas and Carnations must be carefully preserved from
wet and hard frost.
Plant Tulips as soon as you please ; the sooner the better,
especially if the bulbs have started their green spikes. It is
needless to say, that they who want particular sorts to make
up a bed should obtain them immediately, otherwise as the
planting begins there will be less choice.
Let offsets be planted at once, for these need never be kept
out ; and they will lose strength every day they are out of the
ground after the first week in this month.
Kitchen garden operations generally to be continued as be-
fore; earthing Celery as it advances, blanching Endive, &c.;
use, dig, and ridge up vacant spaces ; put out Cabbage-plants ;
weed and thin Turnips not yet hoed for the last time.
Continue planting operations in Shrubbery and Fruit-walls;
lay down turf, and conduct all alterations while the weather
permits; remove shrubs, &c.

The Edinburgh Courant of last Thursday states
that the mail from London to Edinburgh did not arrive in the
latter city on Wednesday till half-past ten o'clock in the fore-
noon, being four hours and a half behind its proper time. The
delay was occasioned, we understand, by an accident occur-
ring to the railway train when 30 miles out of London, being
dragged off the rails.
A poor baby, the child of industrious, pains-taking
re-iple, named Williams, living at Ensdon, near this town,
was destroyed on Sunday evening by fire. The father had
gone to church, and the mother had stepped out for some
water, leaving the boy with his sister, only three years old,
when the little fellow crept to the fire, and somehow setbn_
his
pinafore in a blaze. He ran screaming about, the fire mean-
time -
time rapidly consuming his body and bead, till it exhaust ‘l. it
self, and left him burnt to a coal and death immediately re-
leased him...—.Shrewsbury Chronicle.