The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-28 00:00:00

CROXTON PARK RACES, APRIL 2.

Acceptances for the Billesden Coplow Stakes.
Sister to Whitefoot, 6 yrs—filly, by Bolero, out of the
Queen—Niobe, 4 yrs—Wotton, 4 yrs.
Acceptances for the Granby Handicap.
William-le-Gros, 6 yrs, 12st 21b—Napier, 5 yrs, 12st
—Discord, aged, 1 Ist 101b—What, 5 yrs, 1 I st—nworth,
aged, 1 lst—Portobello, 5 yrs, 10st 121b—Veluti, 6 yrs,
lOst 121b—Hyrcauian, 5 yrs, 10st 1 Ilb—Lyeurgus,
aged, lOst 121b—The Poor Soldier, 5 yrs, lOst 71b—The
Bat (late Nonsuit), 6 yrs, lOst 71b—Teetotaller, 6 yrs,
lOst 71b—Beaumont, 4 yrs, lOst 71b—Warp, 4 yrs,
lOst 61b—filly, by Redshank, dam by Tramp, 4 yrs,
lOst 41b—filly, by Bubastes, out of Zelinda, 4 yrs, 9st.
Acceptances for the Gold Cup.
William-le-Gros, 6 yrs, 1 Ist 121b—Napier, 5 yrs,
list 101b—Sorella, 4 yrs, list 91b—Discord, aged,
list 41b—Hyreanian, 5 yrs, lOst 1 11b—Naworth, aged,
10st 101b—Portobello, 5 yrs, lOst Eilb—The Poor Sol-
dier, 5 yrs, lOst 81b—Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs, lOst 31b—The
Bat, 4 yrs, lOst 31b.
Nominations for the Farmers' Plate.
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Diana, 6 yrs—Perseverance, 6 yrs—Sister to Unfor-
tunate, 5 yrs—Nimble Harry, 5 yrs—Snowdrop, 5 yrs—
Araby Maid, 5 yrs—The Squire, 5 yrs—Kitty Careless,
5 yrs—B m, by Shamrock, dam by Holme—Ch g, by
Birdcatcher, 5 yrs—Gay Lass, 5 yrs—Goosegreen, b yrs
—Father Mathew, 5 yrs—Little Thought-of, 5 yrs—
Ch m, byßirdcatcher, 5 yrs—Emily, 4 yrs—Ch g, by Sir
Gilbert, 4 yrs—Singleton, 4 yrs—Jane M`Kay, 4 yrs—
Skylark, 4 yrs—Young England, 4 yrs.

THE CONSUMPTION AND CULTI
VATION OF SUGAR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In overhauling my household expenses I find
we use in my family, servants included, at the rate of
five pounds of sugar per week for three persons; this is
more than I calculated upon before actual investigation;
and to satisfy your mind that waste is not allowed, I just
mention that my present wife had been for above twenty
years in the young ladies seminary at the Moravian es-
tablishmen, Fairfield, in Manchester, and for a consi-
derable period of the latter part of that time, she was
director of that establishment, which is a public one,
and had to account half-yearly to the heads of depart-
ments of that body for the income and outlay, the
balance in favour of which went to the general fund of
that missionary body for their support; that young ladies
seminary has now existed for fifty years, and at which
the daughter's of several of the leading men in that
quarter and elsewhere received their education, say Mr.
Brotherton's, M.P.; Thomas Ashton's, hyde manufac-
turer; James Ashton's wife, of Ilorrocks, Jackson, and
Co.; Mr. Moffett's (the Cape missionaries) wife, &c.
In this village (Allonby) and neighbourhood, I find
many of the labouring people use either tea or coffee to,
or with, their dinner, besides the same to breakfast and
supper when they can afford it. My friend (an out and
out free-trader), Thomas Wilson, E-q., banker and
hatter, Cockermouth, employ s abjut four hundred hands
in his business, and he tells me that either tea or coffee
is used three times a day by his workpeople, which are
comparatively well off, for he superintends personally
his business himself from first in the morning to the last
at night ; he is a thorough man of business, kind and
considerate to his workmen. The colliers in this county,
who work under-ground, and as you aware, I dare say,
receive good wages, and are a numerous body, they also
use coffee and tea three times a day in a general way ;
indeed, I may say in conclusion on this part of the sub-
ject, that it is a general practice in this county with the
labourers, when they can afford it. Now, I take for
granted (or for example), that the population of the
united Kinerclom will in 1845, or 1846, amount to thirty
millions of inhabitants; at one pound of sugar each
'person per week, and four pounds each annually for pre-
serving fruit, and at Christmas, we have fifty-six pounds
each consumption, which on thirty millions gives 1,680
million pounds, or seven hundred and fifty thousand tons
of sugar as the annual consumption of the United
Kingdom; this at lid. per lb. duty (14s. per cwt. or 141.
per ton( gives a revenue of 10,500,000/., each person thus
contributing seven shillings annually to the revenue, and
adding, by so doing, to the comfoat and happiness of
their fire• sides, as well as largely contributing to in-
crease the revenue. This seven hundred and fifty thou-
, sand tons of sugar would load 1,875 ships of four hun-
dred tons each, which at twenty men per ship, would
give employment to 37,500 seamen. The quantity which
I have assumed, 11b. per person per week, and 41bs. over,
is considerably, it seems to me, below the actual expen-
diture of persons like myself, in the middle rank of life;
true, many of the poor, and many of the Irish popula-
tion, are at present unable to use sugar, from want of
means to purchase that most desirable and most nutri-
ions aliment. But the fault lies with the ruling powers
of the day, at present, as it has always hitherto done,
and not with the ruled. The transition of the Africans
in the West Indies has no doubt caused a revolutioa in
the state of affairs, as regards the labourers at the sugar
cultivation in the West; no doubt the number of field
labourers have been reduced there since slavery was
abolished, and very properly so, by the with-
drawal from field labour of the females, and,
perhaps, by an equal number to the avoca-
tions of shop-keepers, trades, &c. ; but then the
sugar estates have not been made the most of by a resi-
dent proprietary, superintending personally the cultiva-
tion of their estates, in the same manner as my friend,
Mr. Wilson, in Cockermouth, who would just be as much
entitled to compensation from the community at large,
for the loss he might annually sustain in his business,
if he took it into his head to go and live at Rome, and
drive his coach and six daily, and persuade himself he
could manage his business in Cockermouth by a limb of
the law who resided in London. My Cockermouth friend
would, under the above circumstances, just be as much
entitled to the same protection or monopoly in the pro-
duction of sugar, and it seems to me to be proved by all
so long as a hope is held out to the West
Indians,
sugarstheir shall be admittted into the markets of
experience
that,
the United Kingdom for consumption on more favour-
able terms than foreign sugars, that no sufficient efforts
will be made to superintend the cultivation of their
estates personally, on the most improved and scientific
principle ; nothing but subjecting them to a severe com-
petition will, it seems to me, effect the object, an object
which justice to the other branches of the community in
the United Kingdom imperiously and most justly de-
mand, without delay. The competition between the East
and West Indies will, it is devoutly to be hoped tend to
arouse the West Indians from their lethergy and delu-
sive dreams of continued protection, as they call mono-
poly, to the cupidity of which such unheard of hard-
ships ar clearly ascribable among the labouring part of
our population. Only observe the meanness and the in-
justice of the present measure as regards sugar, in sub-
jecting the sugars of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, to
a higher duty than the rest of the British sugar colonies;
and, not only this, but within the last week I observe an
order in Council, again subjecting sugar, the produce of
Arracan and the conquered Burman provinces on the
East side of the Bay of Bengal, to the same differential
duties as the Malacca Straits settlements, after they had
been placed en the same footing as Renal, of which pre-
sidency they form a part, and are under its Government.
This is retrogade ; but the settlements are comparatively
new and weak in power, and the ruling powers of the
day, instead of fostering their weak children, actually do
all they can to crush them—and for what ? Why, to
make sugar scarce and dear, which they profess to do