The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-14 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and his Royal
ll;ghness Prince Albert :ode out in a pony phzton to-day
in the Great Park.
The Countess of Sandwich, the Ladies Eleanora and
Constance Paget, Hon. Miss Cocks and the Hon. Miss
Paget drove out from the Castle, at the same time as her
Majesty. in carriages.
His Serene Highness the Reigning •Duke of Saxe
Cobourg and Gotha drove out the Duchess of Sutherland
this morning.
Lord Kinnairl arrived on a visit to her Majesty, an 3,
with Col. Greenwood and Col. Brown, will form the
only addition to the Royal dinner party at the Castle this
evening.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager went to Kensington
yesterday to visit the Princess Sophia. Her Majesty re-
ceived a visit in the afternoon, at Marlborough House, from
the Duchess of Cambridge.
Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Colonel
Cornwall, left town yesterday, at half-past twelve o'clock,
fur Brighton, to do duty with his regiment, the 12th Lan-
cers.

The Doke and Duchess of Cambridge had a Dinner
Party, on Wednesday, at Cambridge House. The com-
pany included the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Coun-
tess of Jersey, Lady Sarah Villiers, Lady Augusta So-
merset, Viscount Cantelupe, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord dQ
L'lsle, Lord Claude Hamilton, Lord Ossulston, SrAndrew
Barnard, Mademoiselle D'Este, and Caotain Jones.

The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir William Newton
yesterday with a sitting, in Argyll-street, for a Coronation
Picture upon a very large surface of ivory, wherein the
Duke of Sussex Is represented as in the act of doing ho-
mage. The picture will contain about twelve of tho prin-
cipal Peers and Peeresses who officiated at the above cere-
mony.

A deputation of the Flour Millers of Ireland, consisting
of Sohn Alexander, jun., Eeq., of Carlow; Robert
Macauley, Esq., of Crumlin ; and Samuel Parsons, Esq.,
of Newry, had an interview with the President of the
Board of Trade yesterday, on the subject of the Importa-
tion of Foreigh Flour into Ireland. The deputation was
accompanied by the following Gentlemen and Members of
Parliament :—Mr. Emerson Tcnnent, M.P., Colonel
Conolly, M. P., Hon. Colonel Butler, M. P., Sergeant
Jackson, M P., Mr. Martin Blake, M.P., Mr. Quentin
Dick, M.P., Mr. Ormesby Gore, M.P., Mr. William
Roche, M. P., Colonel Perceval, M. P., Mr. Bury. M. P.,
the Right Hon. F. Shaw, M. P., Mr. French, M. P., Mr.
Litton, M. P., Mr. Dunbar, M. P., Colonel Verner, M. P.,
Sir Frederick Trench, M.P., Mr. Ellis, M.P., and Mr.
Brvlen.
The Duke of Leeds and Lord Wharncliffe had in.
terviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the
Home Office.

The French Charge d'Affaires transacted business
yesterday, at the Foreign Office.

The *judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yeg-
terday. The Lards present were the Lard President, Mr.
Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, and Mr. Justice
Erskine Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Coun-
cil in waiting.

Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Cooper, Quem's Counsel,
were hrard for the Appellant, on an appeal from the Pre-
rogative Court of Canterbury, Frederick Dufaur v. William
Croft, William Underwood, and Pinder Simpson, relative
to the validity of a codicil of the late Mr. Day, the cele-
brattcl blacking manufacturer.
At the ccnclusion of Mr. Cooper's address their Lord-
ships adjourned the ease for further bearing.

QUARTETT CONCERTS, HANG

VER-SQUARE ROOMS.

Messrs. Blagrove, Gattie, Dando, and Lucas last night com-
menced the Filth Season of these delightful Concerts. The
following is the Programing, :
PART I.

124 01'. 6UtiAtt.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.

Tablo showing the ex-duty price of West India Saga"
in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of
foreign Sugars:—

London, Feb. 14, 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 West India Sugar sold on ac-
count of the importers, in the week ending the 11th in-
stant, according to the returns made upon oath by lb/
West India sugar brokers, in conformity with the Act of
Parliament, and on which quantity the above price is com-
puted, consisted of 1,552 bhds. 55 trs. and 23 barrels.
Foreign Sugar of excellent quality produced by free la-
b)ur may be purchased in the London Market at about
17s. per cwt. cheaper than \Vest India Sugar. Refined
sugars equal in quality to the double loaf standard are
supplied to foreign purchasers by those refiners in London
who work foreign Muscovadoes for exportation only—de•
ducting shipping charges at 325. 6d. per cwt. which it
the price which the sugar monopoly compels the poor man
in this country to pay for duty free treacle.
Last week, under our City Article, headed the Price of
,Sugar, we clearly demonstrated that a duty on Foreign
Muscovado Sugar of only one shilling per cwt. would be
equivalent, when imposed with a view to protect British
Plantation Sugar, to a tax of 200,0001. per annum, that is
to say, if a duty of 255. per cwt. were to be imposed on
Foreign Sugar admitted to home consumption, and the
duty on West India Sugar to remain as at present, at 245.
per cwt., then the effect would be to raise the price of all
the British Plantation Sugar used in the country one shil-
ling per cwt. above its foreign market value, and this one
shilling per cwt. on the aggregate consumption of the
country for a year would amount to 200,0001.

About three years since a petition, signed by wholesale
Grocers and Sugar Refiners, was forwarded to the Lords
of the Treasury, pointing out how inadequate the supply
of Sugar from our colonies was to satisfy the consuming
powers of the nation,: and that the scarcity raised prices so
high as to stint and cripple the consumption of Sugar to
the great detriment of the revenue. The petition con-
cluded by praying that particular classes of Foreign Mus.
covado Sugar might be delivered from the bonded
warehouses on payment of a duty which would cal..
fer a protection of 53. per cwt. upon West India
Sugar, although 53. per cwt. would have been equi-
valent to a distribution of one million sterling
amongst the Sugar planters, and would to the nation have
been precisely the same thing as though an annual sum to
that amount had been granted by Parliament to the West
India body ; yet the prayer of the petition was refused.
We very much do►xbt, whether the parties who subscribed
that petition, would at the present day again ask that such
an enormous national sacrifice should be made to propi-
tiate 'West India cupidity.
The public mind appears to bo resolved on extinguish-
ing the bread tax, by repealing the Corn-laws. Next
in amount end importance to that giant monopoly
stands the monopoly enjoyed by the West Indian 4
on nearly the whole of their produce; and there
can be no question, that after the grand struggle to liberate
the industrious classes from the filching grasp of the land.
lords, has passed, public attention will be fully directed to
the best means of annihilating the discriminating duties on
foreign and colonial produce.
The immense concourse of foreigners attracted to this
country by her Majesty's marriage has very conelderably
increased the consumption of sugar during the last month.
which will account for the large comparative deliveries ;
these parties will now return home, and the economy is
the use of sugar practised throughout the empire will be
immediately felt by the small amount of duty collected on
it by the Customs.

TICAL SUMMARY OF THE
MORNING JOURNALS.