The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-28 00:00:00

ST. LEGER.

2 to 1 agst Coronation
Offers to take 10 to 1 about Van Amburgb, and 30 to 1 each
about Tearaway rnd Osberton.

- THE DERBY, 1842.
Offers to takl2o to 1 about the Cobweb colt.

LATEST BETTING AT THE GRAND HOTEL,
COVENT-GARDEN.
OA Ks-3 to 1 agst Lampoon (taken)-4 to 1 agst Ghuznee
aken)-8 to 1 agst Potentia (taken)-9 to 1 age. Una (taken)
-10 to 1 agst Mystery (taken)-15 to 1 agst Concordia (taken,
.15 to 1 agst Ermengardis (offered).
ST. LEGER.
600 to 500 on Scott's lot agst Coronation
35 to 1 agst Morning Star
INTELLIGEN

CE EXTRA.—MANCHESTER, 1841.
Acceptances for the Trades Cup :—Humphry, 6 yrs. Bst
lb ; Wee Willie, 6 yrs, Bst llb ; Bolus, 5 yrs, Bst ; Rodanthe,
4 yrs, Bst; Kingston Robin, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b; Cornuto, 4 yrs,
7st 81b ; Margaret, 5 yrs, ist 71b ; Hautboy, 4 yrs, 7st 61b •
Clinker, 5 yrs, 7st 41b ; Northendon, 6 yrs, 7st 41b ; The Maid,
4 yrs, 7st 41b; Aimwell, 6 yrs, 7st lib; La Femme Sage, 4
yrs, 7st llb ; Galaor, 3 yrs, 7st.

NEWTON, 1841.
Acceptances for the Shrigley Cup :._Caravan, ard, 9st ;
Clarion, 5 yrs, Bst 91b ; Humphrey, 6 yrs, Bst 81b fhe Lord
Mayor, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ; Bellona, 6 yrs, Bst 61b ; Roscius, 5 yrs,
Bst 61b ; Maid of Mouton, aged, Bst 31b ; Modesty, aged, Bat
21b ; La Femmo Sage, 5 yrs, Bst ; 13olus, 5 yrs, 7st 91b ; In-
terlude, 4 yrs, 7st Etlb ; Rodanthe, 4 yrs, 7st 91b; Trustee,
4 yrs, 7st 71b ; Broadwath, 4 vrs, 7st 71b ; Margaret, 5 yrs,
7st 71b ; Prince Albert, 4 yrs. Ist 41b ; Kingston Robin, 4 yrs,
7st 41b ; Cornuto, 4 yrs, 7st 41b ; Lady Grove, 4 yrs, ist Ilb ;
Martha Lynn, 4 yrs, Gst 121 b; La Femmo Sage, 4 yrs, Est
121 b ; Wirrestrew, 5 yrs, Est 41b ; Myrtle, 3 yrs, sst 101 b ;
Miss Fit; 4 yrs, sst 101 b.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECT 01: MONOPOLY.
A TaVe allowing, the ex duty price of West India sugar in
Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of foreign
sugars : London, May 28, 1831.
Per Cwt.
The Gazette of this evening will quote the average s. d.
price of West India Sugar, at
Ile actual quantity of West India sugar sold by the im-
porters, in the week ending the 25th instant, according
to the returns made upon oath by the West Lelia sugar bro-
kers, in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and on which
quantity the above price is computed, consisted of 1,264
106 trs. and 210 barrels.
Manilla sugar of good quality is actually unsaleable at 20s.
per cwt., and yet that price is now quoted in the absence of
sales as the nearest to its value ; the public will therefore ob-
serve that it is 20s. per cWt. cheaper than the average of West
India sugar. For this enormous differential price thO people
have to thank the majority of 36, and they will not fail to do
so when they meet the Members who formed a part of that
factious majority, face to face,.upon the hustings. The ac-
count is very short. One year with another a duty of 245. per
cwt. yields a revenue of about tour and a half millions
sterling ; 20s. per cwt. on the like quantity amounts, therefore,
to 3,600,0001. Now; this tremendous sum, more than equi-
valent to meet the deficiency in the annual revenue, is ab-
stracted from the pockets of the indhstrieus classes, and trans-.
ferred to the pockets of a small, though influential, knot of in-
dolent monopolists, under the pretence that such a legal rob..
berg is necessary for carrying out the great measure of emanci-
pation. If by that expression the monopolists mean the pro-.
motion of the welfare of the black population in our West
India plantations, we denounce their plea as downright
knavish cheatery, for the stimulus given by this excessive power
of money to hard labour is abundantly testified by the declara-
tion made in the House of Commons by the West Indians,
that they would export to the United Kingdom this year
120,000 tons of sugar, which is equal to the weight they used
to export in, to them, the palmy days of slavery. Now,
it must be evident to the apprehension of all' the world,
that to raise and make 120,000 tons of sugar would
require precisely the same quantum of labour in
one year as in another; and that therefore the-negroes
are made, by hook or by crook, to, toil just •as
laboriously now that they are emancipated as they did when
they-were in a state of slavery; it follows, consequently, that
if the British people are anxious to increase the comforts and
promote the civilization of the negroes—they ought rather to
discourage the cultivation of the sugar-cane, and not stimulate
it by a lavish premium of 20s. per cwt.
There are very few estates in the West Indies, which, if
offered for sale, would fetch ten years' purchase. Now
computing the whole annual produce of our West India pos-
sessions, by the foreign value of the different articles, that is
to say by the price at which we could buy them from foreign
countries, and that too without importing an ounce of sugar
raised by slave-labour, we arrive at .the amount, in round
numbers, of five millions sterling; granting all the West
India estates to be worth ten years' purchase (which
they certainly are net), the parchase money, would
be fifty millions sterling. Fifty millions would there-
fore amply suffice to compensate.- the whole body of
proprietors, supposing they were to be violently de-
prived of their West-India property. Fifty millions and more
have, within these last ten years, been paid to them by the Bri-
tish nation. First, there is the donation of twenty millions—
then the proceeds of their monopoly, which, taken' at'the low
rate of four millions, gives forty millions—together sixty mil-
lions. If, therefore, the West India proprietors were to be
dispossessed to-morrow, they would have received from the na-
tion ten millions sterling more than their whole West India
roper ty is worth.

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