The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-31 00:00:00

SUGAR REFINING BILL.

Whereas it is expedient to admit sugar without payment
of duty, to be refined fur exportation under the lock of the
Crown ; Be it therefore enacted, by the King's Most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, that upon the application to the Commissioners of
his Majesty's Customs of any person actually carrying on
the business of a sugar refiner in the ports of London,
Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Greenock, or Glasgow, or any
other port, to be approved of by any three of the Lords
Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and having two
pans at least for work upon the same premises, it shall be
lawful for the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs, by
their order, to approve of such premises as bonded sugar
houses for the refining of sugar for exportation only, on it
being made appear, to the satisfaction of the said Com-
missioners, that the said premises are fit in every respect
for receiving such sugars, and wherein the same may be
safely deposited.
And be it further enacted, that on the approval of any
premises as bonded sugar houses as aforesaid, it shall be
lawful for the officers of the customs at the ports re-
spectively where such premises are situated, to deliver,
without payment of duty, to the party or parties so apply-
ing as aforesaid, on entry with the proper officer of
customs, any quantity of foreign sugar, or of sugar the
produce of any British possession, for the purpose of being
there refined, under the locks of the Crown, for exportation
only; and that all sugars so delivered shall he lodged and
secured in such premises, under such condition., regulations,
and rerrictions, as the said Commissioners shall from
time to time direct : provided always, that it shall be
lawful for the stid Commissioners, by their order, to revoke
or alter any former order of approval of any such premises.
And be it further enacted, that upon the entry of snir
to be refined in any premises approved of under the au-
thority of this Act, the refiner on whose pemises the same
is to be refined, shall give bond to the satisfaction of the
officers of the customs in the penalty of double the amount
of the duty upon the sugar so delivered with a condition
that the whole of such sugar shall be actually subjected to
the process of refinement upon the said premises, and that
within three months from the date of such bond the whole
of the refined sugar and treacle produced by such process
shall be either duly exported from the said premises, or
delivered into an approved bonded warehouse, under the
locks of the crown, for the purpose of being eventually
exported to foreign parts.

Note.—The words printed in italics are proposed to be
inserted in the Committee.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET.—MOSI of the
sugars brought forward this week have been sold at ad-
vanced rates, and scarcely any remain on show at any
price. Brown 535. per cwt. (nominally.)—Bristol Jour.
The Superb, which has arrived at Liverpool,
from Jamaica, brings advices to the 17th ult. At that
time the general outline of the plan first proposed by Mi-
nisters for effecting the emancipation of the negroes had
reached the island. It will be recollected that this plan
contemplated, as the sole means of indemnification to the
planter, a loan of 15,000,0001. for 12 years, to be repaid
by a fund to be created out of wages to be allowed to the
slaves by their owners. To this proposition the colonists
of Jamaica refuse to listen for a moment, asserting that
this country has no authority to deprive them of their
property by legislative enactments, without, in the first
instance, providing an adequate compensation-fund to re
pay them the value of that of which they shall be dispos•
sensed, and they expresS their fixed det?.rntination to resist
to the utmost of their power any attempt at the exercise
of such arbitrary control as is assumed in the measure first
propounded by Ministers. The proprietors throughout the
island were in the highest state of excitement, but the
slave population was tranquil. The Nightingale packet
sailed from Jamaica for Falmouth on the 11th ul►., bue
has not yet arrived. The next intelligence from Jamaica
is looked for with much anxiety.

OLD Q****.—The name and exploits of
the late Duke of QUEENSBERRY (" Old Q.") will never
be forgotten by the sporting world ; for whether we con-
sider his judgment, his ingenuity, his invention, or his
success, he was one of the most distinguished characters
on the English turf. His horse Dash, by Florizet, bred
by Mr. VERNON, beat Sir Peter Teazle over the six mils
course at Newmarket for one thousand guineas, having
refused five hundred forfeit; also his late MAJESTY'S Don
QUIXOTE, the same distance and for the same sum: and
during the year (1789), he won two other thousand gui-
nea matches, the last against Lord BARRYMORE's High-
lander, eight stone seven pounds each, three times round
the "round course," or very nearly 12 miles ! His car-
riage match, 19 miles in one hour, with the same horses,
and those four of the highest bred ones of the day, was
undoubtedly a great undertaking, nor do we believe it
has ever been exceeded. His singular bet of conveying a
letter fifty files within an hour, was a trait of genius
in its line. The Ili. S. being enclosed in a cricket ball,
and handed from one to the other of 24 expert cricketers,
was delivered safe within the time. The Duke's Stud
was not so numerous as some of those of his contemporaries
on the turf, but be prided himself on the excellence of it.
His principal rider was the l'lnousDlcEGoonzsos,father of
the present juckey,in whose judgment he had much reliance.
But in the language of the turf his grace was "wide awake,"
and at times would rely on no one. Having on one occasion,
reason to know—the jockey, indeed, had honestly in-
formed him of it—that a large turn of money was offered
his man if be would lose—" Take it," said the Duke, "I
will bear you harmless." When the horse came to the
post, his Grace coolly observed, " This is a nice horse
to ride; I think I'll ride him myself;" when, throwing
open his great coat, he was found to be in racing attire,
and mounting, won without a sttuggle.—Quarter/y
Review.