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

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for the expenditure, , ides the first witty, there
would be perpetual aiinua expenses, such as the pay of
1,781 labourers and of 120 families, the interest of the
grounds belonging to corporations or to individusls, the
cost of seeds, or stables, the burden of the Administra-
tion, and of purchasing 7,124 new head of cattle ; be-
sides which, there would be each year a regular increase
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. Raiment should
be far cheaper for labourers than for soldiers; we 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 cisionnon-
officers, the superintendents that of officers, the governor
that of a colonel. Till the colonies begin to bring C
profit, all the workmen shall be lodged in sheds, /nada
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 ease, there would be a family
to each shed, and the sheds should be constructed on a
smaller scale.
In &veral of the departments there are similar sheds
in the neighbourhood of the sugar manufactories.
. By the calculations which we have placed at the end
of this pamphlet, it will be seen that at the end of
twenty-three years (with an original advance of
311,000,000 francs) the income and expenditure of the
colonies would be--
Annual receipts
Costs

•.. 1,194,694,800 i.
..• 373,622,27 R;

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Profit
• 16 7the22f
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..• ... 2,5.
206,400 families, 153,166 workmen
of poorer
class would be maintained. France would be richer by
twelve millions of new head of cattle; and, finally. the
Government would raise, on the rough revenues, ac_
cording to the actual rate, nearly thirty-seven millions
more of francs.

CHAPTER V.—SUMMARY.
In the abstract just presented of the profits we have
stopped far short of the truth, for the cultivation of it
fourth of the lands now waste would not only augment; by one-fourth the rough revenue of France, but this
augmentation would impart to every brAnch of national
labour an immense activity, more easily understood than
minutely explained. Not only would these colonies, by
the end of twenty years, hinder more than a million of
human beings iron] pining in wretchedness—not only
would they give life to a host of trades connected with
agriculture—but this annual pr.,fit of 300,000,000, ex-
changed tOr nibs r products within the country, would in
the same ratio iriereuse c.nmitrintion and domestic cum-
tnrce. Tun, pr, fit, id to all the truitd of la-
bour an outlay mire imp.irtarit ti,un could be procured
tke inost ()us con-tater:4Q tr,sa j.,, since this
smoui•t-800 000,000—exc.( eds by 156 uOO,OOO the value
ii).l our eicoi uhieh in 1842 z. ached he sum of
644,000 000 EVA-ions d• cua, e.. ts ar. hi re rite, eit to.)
make thla asouing mote forik.r:• • aid t,,sho,. all
the imporiane, of d-tnestic traffic, let us suppos.o that
these comm. tend c,d inters were not included within our
territory, but septirstrd fr,,ru the Continent b
the sea ai.d a line ..f cus.oin-eiouses 3
and et arm of
t ahat they
A" • m y
forced to trade with France aline.
It is evident
that if th, ir agricultural pr.duction brought a profit of
800,000,000, that sum would be exchanged against con-
tinental produce., either manufactured of the soil, but
different from theirs.
We believe, therefore, that the increase of domestic
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 rut 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
nerd consumptionse who can drink wine, and, by consequence, the ge-
.
It is easy to explain, by official figures, the distress of
our vine growers. France produces 36,783,223 hecto-
litres of wine (without counting spirits).
Of these she consumes ...
~ „ exports

.• 23,578,248
... 1,351,677