The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady
in Waiting, and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, visited
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough
House. Her Majesty also paid a visit to the Princess Au-
gusta, at Clarence House, St. James's.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of Her Ma-
jesty. The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palace, last
evening, included the Earl of tabr;dge, Viscount Melbourne,
Lord Edward Howard, and Lord George Paget.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Pri❑cesses
Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Fo-
reign Office. It was attended by all the Ministers except
Lord Holland, who is indisposed. The Council sat two hours.
Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Manta had an interview with the
Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home Office.
The Agent for Jamaica had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday at the Colonial Office.
The French Ambassador and the Grecian Minister trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign Office.
The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Com-
mander of the Forces, Lord Henniker, Mr. Clive, M.P.,
Mr. Stansfield, M.P., and Mr. Warburton, had interviews
with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office.

SPORTING INTELLIGENUr.

TATTERSAWS-YENTERDAY.

To report all that was done at " the corner" yesterday will
be a short and easy task, for truly the business transacted was
small enough ; its importance, however, in one material item
was teo striking to be passed over. We allude to the Con-
federate movement, which, slow at first, was so marked
throughout the afternoon, and so decisive at the finish, that
after a bet of 15 to 1 in fifteens agst them, his friend (we speak
in the singular person) had the satisfaction of seeing him une-
quivocally first favourite, a rise which no one could possibly
have anticipated a fortnight ago. Angelica, backed for a trifle
at 16 to 1, was head and head with Launcelot, who was not
without supporters; Theon was, nominally, at the same price,
but his partisans were non est. No direct odds were offered
agst Bokhara, but as he was backed for an even five hundred
agst Confederate, and the same agst Angelica, we are entitled
to infer that he can scarcely be a worse favourite than the
latter. Ottoman, at 24 to 1, was friendless, and an offer to
back Gambia (agst whom 25 to 1 was laid) agst him for 500
eves, met with no response. Grey Milton dropt several
points, and a considerable increase on the last quotation was
betted against Chameau. No other changes, and nothing done
on the Oaks.

DERBY.
lb to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Confederate—takes.
16 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Angelica colt—taken
16 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Launcelot—taken
16 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Theon
18 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Muley Ishmael
24 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Ottoman
25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Gambia—taken
27 to 1 aget Mr. Wreford's Wardan—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Milten—taken
40 to 1 agst Capt. Gardnor's Monops—taken and offered
50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Chameau—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maroon—taken
500 even Bokhara agst Angelica colt—taken
500 even Bokhara aget Confederate—taken

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.

Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar
in' Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of
foreign sugars:—
London, Jan. 31, 1840.
The Gazette of this evening will quote the
average price of British Plantation Muscovado Per Cwt.
Sugar, exclusive of duty, at
_ _ .

The actual quantity of Sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the 28th instant, according
to the returns made upon oath by the West India sugar
brokers, in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and
ou which quantity the above price is computed, consisted of
2,571 hhds. 180% trs. and 257 barrels.
Manilla Sugar raised by free labour remains as last week,
about 163. per cwt., quality for quality, than West India
Sugar. Havannah Sugar of good quality may be bought
at I9s. 6d. per cwt. ; and the London refineries supply the
continental markets with refined Sugar, equal in quality to
the double refined standard loaf, made from foreign Mus-
covadoes for exportation only, deducting the shipping
cha:ges at 325. per cwt., being ss. 10d. per cwt. cheaper
than the unwholesome raw Sugar imported from our West
India colonies, and being a fraction cheaper than the price
the poor man is compelled to pay for duty-free treacle.
The public may rely on what we advance, when we state
that the alarming defalcation in the Sugar duties of
582,0001. in 1839, will work well for the early destruction
of the sugar monopoly, a fraud practised on the commu-
nity at large, which we hare repeatedly exposed and
earnestly denounced ; it is next to impossible that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, pressed as he is by the
exigencies of the public service, should omit to turn his
serious attention—and that eagerly too—to any feasible
plan for the admission of foreign Sugars to home use, he
will never venture to risk the loss of another half-
million of money, for the sake of petting the West
Indians, the exertions he will have to make
to overturn this profligate monopoly will, doubt-
less, be considerable ; ha will have the landowner sad
the West Indian to contend against ; their interests to
maintaining all kinds of monopoly are blended. The
West Indian at all times endeavours to impress upon the
landowners of this country, that Jamaica is a part and par-
cel of British land, and that consequently the produce of
the West Indies ought to be protected as much as the
produce of the land of the mother country. Without
bread we cannot exist; but we emphatically tell the West
Indian, that we can and will economize our consumption of
his sugar until half the weight he now imports will suffice
our demand. Last year the effect of our economy was that
500,000 cwt. of sugar less were delivered from the bonded
warehouses than in 1838. We strenuously exhort the
people to continue to abstain as much as practicable from
the use of sugar. Let it be shown in 1840 that we can
manage with a million cwts. less than in 1838, and the
Government will soon perceive, from the gradual defi-
ciency in the duties, the paramount necessity of annihilat-
ing the baneful monopoly in sugar which has for ages pilot
robbed the nation to enrich the West Indians.