The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-21 00:00:00

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As for the expenditure, best the first otelay, there
would be perpetual annual ex ses, such as
.the pay of
1,781 labourers and of 120 families, the interest
of the
grounds belonging to corporations or to individu2l3, the
cost of seeds, of stables, the burden of the Administra-
tion,
and
which, o f Nl:eh:sin%
17;124
hneywearheaarclgouflactt tilfeer;eat-
consisting of 120 additional ,families, and of the con-
struction of the huts where they should lodge.:
Each labourer shall receive the pay of a soldier, and
each family the pay of three labourers. Riment ould
be far cheaper for labourers than for.soldiaers; woe; will,
however, calculate it at the same- rate, in order not to
change the fixed prices. Each man then would annually
cost, all things included, 318 f.
The umpires shall receive the pay of non-commissioned
officers, the superintendents that of officers, the govereo
that of a colonel. Till the colonies begin to bring L
profit, all the workmen shall be lodged in sheds, made
like those of our military camps. These sheds, large
and healthy, commonly hold twelve men. We would
place in them but ten men, with their umpire, when un-
married. In the contrary case, there would be'a, ramify
to each shed, and the sheds should be construed o
smaller scale.
In several of the departments there
in the neighbourhood of the sugar ma
By the calculations which we have Flood at the end
of this pamphlet, it will be seen that at thri end of
twenty-three years (with an wiginal advance of
311,000,000 franc*) the income and expenditure of the
colonies would be—
Annual receipts
Costs

Rre simdl

... 1,194,694 800 i.
••• 378.622.97°'

Profit
" 1072,522 f.
• 6,
.206,400 families, 153,166 workmen of the
class would be maintained. France would be richperoorer by
twelve millions of new head of cattle; and, finF,fly, the
Government would raise, on the rough revenues, ac-
cording to the actual rate, nearly thirty-seven millions
more offrancs.

• - CHAPTER V.—SUMMARY.
In the abstract just presented of the profits we have
stopped tar short of the truth, for the cultivation of a
fourth of the lands now waste would not only alignient
by one-heath the roni.,h revenue 'of France, Din thia
augmentation would impart to every branch of' national
labour an immense af.'ttvity, more easily understood than
minutely eijilained. Not only would thes:ercelomes; by
the end of twenty years. hinder more than a million of
human beings from pining in wretchedness—not only
would they give life to a host of trades connected with
agricul,ure—but this annual pr,fit of 800,000,000, ex-
changed ter other products Within the country, would in
the same ratio increase consumption and domestic com-
merce. This profit would aff yid to all the fruits of la-
bour an outlay more important than could be procured
by the most advantsgeous commercial treaies, since this
amount-800.000,000—exceeds by 156 000,000 the value
ot an our export-4, which in 1842 reached the sum of
644,000,000. [Various cl,cutnei-i is are here referred to.)
To make this reasoning more striking, and to show all
the importance of domestic traffic, let us suppose that
these commercial colonies were not included within our
territory, but separated from the Continent by an arm of
the sea and a line of custom-houses, and yet that they
were forced to trade with France alone. It is evident
that if their agricultural production brought a profit of
800,000,000, that sum would be exchanged agan.st con-
tinental produce, either manufactured or of the soil, but
different from theirs.
We believe, therefore, that the increase o(tiolnestic
consumption, favoured by this growth of riches and com-
petence, would better than anything relieve the distress
of which certain trades complain, and, above all, that it
would put an end to the afflictions of the vine growers,
while giving bread and meat at the lowest price.
Finally, it may be presumed, from the nature of their
soil, that these colonies would produce grain and cattle,
but not wine. Now, in thus swelling the supply of those
prime necessaries, they would diminish their price,
which would tend to augment their consumption, by en-
abling the poor to eat of them; and, on the other side,
the growth of plenty would multiply the number of
those who can drink wine, and, by consequence, the ge-
neral consumption.
It is easy to expl in, by official figures, the distress of
our tine growers. France produces 36,783,223 hecto-
litres of wine (without counting spirits).
Of these she consumes --

.. 23,578.248
~. 1,351.677