The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

No. 36, OLD BOND-STREET, and No. 1, OLD JEWRY,
CITY.

THE VOICE CONDUCTORS invented by
Mr. E. SOLOMONS are the most powerful instru-
ments for the relief of deafness. From their minute construc-
tion, and convenient form, deaf persons are enabled to wear
them entirely unseen, and they may be inserted and removed
with the greatest facility. By their use the lowest whisper
breathed at a public assembly vibrates on the organs of hear-
ing in such a pleasant manner, as to afford the greatest relief
to those labouring under the distressing ailment of deafness.
Mr. E. SOLuMONS' PATENT SPECTACLES possess
the advantage of modifying bright and strong light transmitted
through the various humours of the eye, so as to render vision
most perfectly distinct by day, or lamps or candles at night,
conveying also a sense of coolness and pleasure to the organ,
with the additional recommendation of being free from the per-
nicious attributes of common glasses. Their superlative ex-
cellence is attested by the following and many other eminent
practitioners, who have examined, used, and recommended
them in preference to all others :
Sir. Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S., Longhorn -place.
Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., F.R.S &c., Saville-row.
Sir James E. Anderson, M D., 11, New Burlington-street.
James John,on, Esq., M.D., Suffolk-place.
Bransby 13. Cooper, Esq., New-street, Spring-gardens.
J. G. Andrews, Esq., Surgeon to the London Hospital, St.
Helen's-place.
C. Aston Key, Esq., St. Helen's-place.
John Scott, Esq.. 10, New Broad-street.
C. J. B. Aldis, Esq., M.D., Old Burlington-street.
J. Copland, M.D., F. 8.5., Bulstrode-street, Manchester

square.
R. Keate, 15, Albemarle-street.
Titus Berry, Chester-terrace.
E. W. Duffin, 14, Langham-place
John Stephenson, 38, Conduit-street.
J. T. Conquest, M.D., 13, Finsbury-square.
William Coulson, Frederick-place, Old Jewry.
Martin Ware, New Bridge-street.
Dr. Blair, Physician to the Sussey County Hospital.
John Lawrence, Esq., Surgeon, ditto.
Richard i liddlemore, Temple-row, Birmingham.
John S. Soden, Bath Infirmary.
Tweedy John Todd, Esq., M.D., Grand Parade, Brighton.
Andrew Plummer, Esq., M.D., Old Steyne, do.
Brewster F. Seabrook, Esq., Surgeon, Eye Infirmary, do.
A. Martin, Esq., M.D., Rochester.
Samuel Newsom, Esq., M. B.C. S., do.
Dr. Chisholm, Physician to the Kent and Canterbui y Hospital.
Henry Denne, Esq., Surgeon, do.
J. Hodgson, F.,q., Oculist, Eye Infirmary, Birmingham.
J. J. Ledsam, Esq., do. do. do.
Professor Hufeland, Physician to the King of Prussia, Berlin.
Professor Kreysig, Physician to the King of Saxony, Dresden.
Professors Clarus and Kuhl, Oculists, Leipsic.
Professor Ponitz, Oculist, Dresden.
Doctor Schmeisser, Hamburgh.
James M`Donnell, 111. D., Belfast, Ireland.
J. Woodroffe, M.D., Cork, do.
B. Bullen, do. do.
T. L. Mackey, M.D., Waterford, Ireland.
M. Poole, M D., do. do.
\V. Gore, M. R. C. S., Limerick. do.
The public are respectfully riutioned against some unprinci-
pled empiries who have as,oa.ed Mr. E. S.'s name and pro-
fession, and are from lus immediate neighbourhood, and,
with the most unblushing effrontery, issuing from the daily
press puffs about " Newly-invented Spectacle Lenses," and
Hearing Instruments, which are fraudulently set forth as pos-
sessing the most wonderful powers. The Glasses are highly
detrimental to the sight. The names of some obscure apothe-
caries and others are used in this absurd quackery, to deceive
the public into a belief that these pernicious glasses possess
some very stroernatural powers. These - common Lenses may
be purchased for one shilling the pair, and for which the most
exorbitant charees are exacted by the parties, against whom
th public air
now respectfully cautioned. Mr. E..S. has re-
ceived for his intention " Royal Letters Patent," and the-pa-
tronage of the Royal Family.
Observe—No. 1, Old Jewry, City; and No. 36, ow Bond
street, Piccadilly • ' -•- .

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PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.
Table showing the duty price of West India sugar in
Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of foreign
sugars. _ _

Lendon, May 21, 1841.
Per Cwt.
The Gazette of thin evening will quote the average
price of British Plantation Muscovado Sugar, ex- s. d.
elusive of duty
The actual quantity of West India sugar Fold on account of
the importers, in the week ending the 18th instant, according
to the returns made upon oath ley the West India sugar bro-
kers, in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and on which
quantity the above price is computed, consisted of 1,729 hhds.
228 trs. and 77 barrels.

I Manilla free labour sugar is worth, this week, 21s. per cwt.,
being 17s. less per cwt. than the average price of West India
sugar ; very naturally, the West India planters prefer 17s. per
cwt protection, which the monopoly gives them, to the 12s.
which the Government recently proposed. But how will the
industrious classes of this country like to pay them ? About
55., however, out of these 17s. never reach the West Im'ia
planters, for the following reasons—many of the West India
merchants are shipowners likewise; in their latter capacity
they have the power of deciding what shall be the charge for
freight from Jamaica to London ; this, for years past, was ss.
per cwt., it is now 4s. 6d. The Mauritius sugars are brought
double the distance at less, frequently, than half that
charge ; and sugars from the Phillippine Islands,
trebly the distance, are sometimes brought for 2s. 3d. per
cwt. Here, then, are 2s. per cwt. which the Jamaica planters
are compelled to pay over and above the freight paid by their
free labour competitors, nor ran they relieve themselves from
the extortion, because those merchant shipowners have a lien
on the produce of the island. If a ship were to run into Ja-
maica, and the captain of her announced his willingness to
take sugar to London at 2s. 6d. per cwt., he would not be
able to obtain lading for her, independent of the advances of
money made by the merchants, to the props ietors, who reside
in this country, to satisfy their lavish expenditure. The prac-
tice of the Sngar Market will, without advances of that cha-
racter, convert the proprietors into debtors to the merchants. In
order to enlighten the public on the subject, we will suppose
a cave, and thereby expose the real transaction ; we will
suppose that C. and A. are proprietors, and that they consign
their produce to B. and D., West India merchants, in London
or Liverpool, these agents forthwith employ another, a broker,
to sell the sugar in the market at the duty paid price. The broker,
so instructed, does sell to F. and G., grocers or refiners, 50 hhds.
giving the sellers B and D, and the buyers F and E copies of
the entry of sale in his book ; this copy, in the language of the
market, is called a contract-note, this note which recites the
duty paid price forms the voucher upon which many per cent-
age charges are computed. F. and E. the buyers, then send to
the selling merchants, B. and D., for the dock delivery order,
and request them to pay the duty on the sugar, so that the
first operation in the market, turns the unfortunate proprietors
C. and A. into debtors to B. and D., and their account is opened
with the following item on the Dr. side :
To duty paid on your 50 hhds. of sugar... £l,ooo
To interest thereon, two months, (the sugar credit) 10
From this species of thraldom, the proprietors rarely escape, the
merchants have them completely under their controul, for,
should any dispute arise between the parties, the merchants
turn round and say, " Oh, very well, clear your account, and
consign your produce elsewhere. The extra charge which this
adroit management of sales takes from the proprietors and puts
into the managers' pockets, is equivalent to another 2s. rer
cent. ; nor is this all, for the proprietors are made to trust the
buyers, so that if ehe latter become insolvent the proprietors
lose not only the value of the sugar, but the amount paid for
duty into the bargain. For instance, within the last three
months, there have been a half-a-dozen heavy failures, wherein
the proprietors have been ereditors upon tee respective insolvent
estates to the tune of 250 hhds., the duty on which wouldmo
that the commissions on management
and sales may be computed on the duty paid price.
sacrificedat to about
in order that
0
un 01. , being just so much money needlessly
This chance—this risk—cannot be taken at less than
9d. per cwt. The proprietors, therefore, absolutely lose,
by a combination of stratagem, 4s. 9d. per cwt. on
most of the sugar they consign to England. Let any
proprietor who reads this statement refer to his last
year's account of sales, and the truth contained in the state-
ment will be at once apparent. There are sufficient reasons why
latterako the produce of the former
free labour in our West India islands cannot compete with
slave labour in the Brazils. If free labour were fairly brought
operationwinotould expel that
say, if the sugars raised east of the Cape of Good hiope, were
admitted to the British markets, they could be refined here,
against of the slave
ibo u
m the market ,• that is to
and they would then surpass in quality all the slave labour
sugar produced, and could be sold at a less price.
On another occasion we shall advert freely to the exorbi -
tent charges made against the West India proprietors feT
supplies shipped to the plantations.

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FEMALE LECTURERS• —Last week two strati:.
rilNevasws tilii,os,riklejtolirtnhfistia.ndieg the suspensio
ger ladles dglivered lectures on Tee-totalisrn in the South St ces-
sion meeting-house,
making converts, that at the conclusion of one of the lectures
no less lass than 200 females enrolled themselves under the b‘n-
ner of total abstinence by %igning the plerlge. During the
lectures the Church was crowded to excess,..:_peith Ai .•
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