The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert took their accustomed early morning walk.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice took
walking and pony exercise to-day, on the eastern
terrace of the Castle and the Slopes. Her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena was also taken an airing.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
Count Alexander Mensdorf, Earl Fortescue, Lord
Camoys, and Colonel Seymour, enjoyed the sport of
shooting this morning.
Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner are expected to arrive
at the Castle to day, on a visit to the Queen.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening is
expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, Count Alexander Mensdorf, Lady Fanny
Howard, the Baroness de Speth, Earl Fortescue, Earl
of Aberdeen, Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, and Mr.
G. E. Anson.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attend
during dinner ; her Majesty's private band afterwards
attend in the Castle.

A deputation consisting of the Earl of Lune, Lord
Doneraile, Lord Bernard, Mr. French, Mr. George A.
Hamilton, Mr. W. S. O'Brien, Mr. Gregory, Mr.
Grattan, Mr. Tuite, Colonel Conolly, and Mr. Lefruy,
had an interview with Lord John Russell, Sir George
Grey, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday,
at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street.
Lord Acheson had an interview with Sir George-Grey,
yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Ross had also an
interview with the Right Hon. Baronet, yesterday.
A deputation from the Mauritius Association, consist-
ing of Mr. D. Barclay, M.P., Chairman; Mr. A. L.
Gower, Mr. Milligar., Mr. A. Stale, Mr. Rowland-
son, Mr. S. Baker, and Mr. Guthrey, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his
official residence, in Downing-street.
Mr. Hawkins had an interview with the Right Hon.
E. Strutt, yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners
of Railways, in Great George-street.
Viscount Morpeth gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers, yesterday evening, at his residence in Grosve-
nor-place.
Mr. Kingscote had an interview with Sir George Grey,
yesterday. Mr. Lloyd had also an interview with the
Right Hon. Baronet, at the Home office.

The Lord Advocate had an interview, yesterday, with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

MONOPOLY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—The readers of your valutble journal of Monday last
read with great delight a paragraph congratulating the
public on the fall of the price of bread in almost all the metro-
politan districts. _ _

But, Sir, I am not at a loss to know what conclusion your
intelligent readers Mill arrive at when I inform you the
daring, unjust, and monopolizing bakers of Pimlico and Chet-
sea, instead of following the laudable example of honest
bakers of other metropolitan districts, of reducing the price of
bread to a fair remunerating profit, actually combined and
advanced the price of bread one halfpenny the 41b. loaf.
You, Sir, cannot but think this advance in the price of
bread in this district a gross act of cruelty and injustice, and
altogether uncalled for, more particularly as the day has ar-
rived that triumph and justice are treading upon the neck of
the most unjust and fallen corn-laws.
It is reported that a meeting will shortly be convened by
the mechanics and others of this district to adopt measures
with a determination to deal only with those bakers who sell
bread at a fair remunerating price.
I remain, Sir, &c.,
Pimlico, January 27. GULIELMUS.
[The sooner the people meet the better. Promptitude is
half the battle.—ED. Sun.]

SOME REMARKS ON THE PRO-
POSED ADMISSION OF SUGAR INTO THE
BREWERIES AND DISTILLERIES.
(FROISI A CORRESPONDENT.)
We take for granted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
has arranged his accounts in such a manner that he can
afford to sacrifice two-thirds of the revenue he at present
derives from the tax on malt, before he consented to
the measure he has expounded for the admission
of sugar into the breweries, if he has not so
made up his mind, we are free to tell him that
will be the effect of his plan : thus, barley when malted
yields a given quantity of saccharine matter, equal, perhaps,
to about seven pounds of sugar. The process is carried on for
this object, and for rendering the grains of cern friable. Now,
these advantages a brewer can derive from a bushel of
malt can be obtained by adding seven pounds of sugar to a
bushel of kiln-dried barley. The revenue, consequently, will
lose the difference of money betwixt the duty on a bushel of
malt, 2s. Bd., and the duty on seven pounds of sugar, 100.,
occasioning a loss to the Crown on the small quantity
here taken of one shilling and tenpence ; for this sacrifice
we suppose the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has
the national income to manage, is prepared. The
admission of sugar into the breweries, however, dwindles
into insignificance, when compared with the evils likely to
arise from the other part of his,plan, namely, the terms of
the admission of sugar into the distilleries. Here we have a
system of bounty originated, and ingeniously mixed up with
It—a scheme, against which even the Chancellor of the Ex-
I chequer himself, ought to be the first to hold up his hands.
No one can foretel the extent of mischief to which this
measure may lead. The plan proposes that the distiller
shall clear his sugar from the bonded warehouses, and pay
duty on it at the same rate as Other folk, and when he is
called upon to pay the spirit duty he is to be allowed at the
rate of 12s. 10d.—in fact, keeping up the expensive
machinery, now in existence to collect fourteen shillings, to
collect fourteen pence ! and this extravagant scheme is based
upon the supposition that all descriptions of sugar
will yield the like quantity of spirits—namely, eleven
gallons and a half. Now, it is thoroughly known that few
articles vary so much in their yield as sugar; some sugar
not giving more than five gallons of spirits, while others
will yield twenty ; and yet, according to the scheme in-
tended to become a permanent law, before us, the distiller
is to receive 12s. 6d., for each quantity of eleven and a half
gallons of spirits, a fixed amount of drawback upon an
uncommonly fluctuating extract. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer may fancy he is perfectly safe, looking
to the results of the experiments laid before him, but
we will tell him if he is safe to-day, he may not be so to-
morrow. Is he or any one else prepared to say that the art
of distillation has reached perfection? Is he or any one else
prepared to say that the distiller will not and cannot dis-
cover some new mode of carrying on his process, or some
new implements by which he will be enabled to obtain more
than eleven gallons and a half from each cwt. of sugar?
The Right Honourable Gentleman seems to have pinned his
faith on what has been told him by the West Indians.
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PRESENT STATE OF rORTUGAL.-0 new work on
Portugal, entitled "An Overland Journey to Lisbon, with a
Picture of the Present State of Spain and Portugal," is an-
nounced for immediate publication by the author of "Re-
velations of Spain." At a time when the attention of Europe,
and, indeed, the whole civilized world is turned to the insur-
rectionary movements now going on in Portugal, and to the
transactions connected with the marriage of the Queen of
Spain, these volumes, from the pen of a gentleman, now re-
sident amid the scenes he describes, and enjoying pec iliar
facilities for correct observation, will doubtless be cordially
welcomed by the public.
SUN EXPRESS EDITIONS —The Leicester Chronicle,
in its Second Edition, published on Saturday morning, ay s—
"We learn, from the Third Edition of The Kvening Sun of
yesterday, that the Corn Bill was forwarded through its
remaining stages, and the Navigation Bill read a second time
Ist evening.