The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-22 00:00:00

SUGAR DUTIES.

On Tuesday, the 18th, an article from a morning
paper was copied into The Sun. The article, after
stating that there were good reasons for believing that
the reductions proposed by. Sir R. Peel were only the
steps to a more comprehensive plan now under con-
templation, originally
designed goes on to state, that a document,
designed for the peeuliar direction of those in the Minis-
terial confidence, had by some means become public. The
document is, states the paragraph, an essay on " Commer-
cial and Financial Legislation," which, though in perfect
keeping(?) with the "Financial Statement," is a very bold
and ample development. With the assurance that there
was the most absolute agreement on those questions be-
tween Sir Robert Peel and the late President of the
Board of Trade, and without the least hint of any dis-
cordant voice in the Cabinet (again ?) we have, adds the
paper, no alternative but to read in this document the
ultimate intentions of the present Ministry as far as
they have been reduced to tangible form, and as far as
circumstances seem likely to admit of their execution.'-We
have only space this day to give to our readers the two
first introductory papers. Their style is compendious and
suggestive, but there can be no mistake as to their
drift. The frevat possible exchange of commodities, and
the imposition of taxes only for revenue, are made the
basis of a scheme which we think it due to the financial
acts of the Ministry to publish even in its present im-
perfect shape."
The foregoing euleeium on the financial statement of
Friday appears at rather an unhappy moment, consider
ing how much the proposition of Sir R. Peel about the
sugar duties is at variance with the recommendation of
the before-mentioned essay to impose taxes only for revenue.
The remarks in The Sun of Wednesday evening clearly
demonstrate that the proposed duties on sugar are to be
Imposed principally for the benefit of one class, regard-
less altogether of the revenue, for while they will ab-
stract from the consumers of sugar 2,625,0001. for the
enrichment of a few planters, they will deprive the re-
venue of 1,300,0001., which deficiency the said con-
sumers will have to make good by submitting to the
yoke of an abominable income-tax. These results are
as much in keeping with the principle conveyed in the
essay on commercial and financial legislation as were
the results of the Ministerial efforts to exclude slave-
labour sugars from the British markets by an Act of
Parliament. The Minister and his party bring all the
energies of their mind to concoct an Act which shall '
admit only free-labour sugar to home consumption,
when 10, and behold ! the very first transaction which
occurs, upon the Act coming into operation, is the ad-
mission of a cargo of slave-labour sugar, certificated,l cer-
tainly, as the produce of Venezuela (a slave-holding
State), but suspected to be, by judges of sugar, who
saw the samples of it, to be the produce of
Porto Rico. One cargo having found its way safely to
British markets, will, doubtless, be followed by others,
AS the enterprise paid the importers handsomely. The
scheme for excluding slave-labour sugar from Great
Britain is, consequently, illusory, and has the bad effect
of raising the prices of sugar to the British consumer,
without discouraging the cultivation of the cane by slaves.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that the House will support
Lord John Russell's amendment whenever it may come
tinder discussion, so that an Act calculated only to raise
prices to British consumers and enrich British sugar pro
lucers, may be placed, with all others of the same cha-
racter, in the tomb of the Capulets.

COURSE OF EXCLIAI
Amsterdam CF. 12 7}
Ditto, at sight l2
Rotterdam 2U. 12 8
Antwerp 26 10
Hamburgii M.B. 13 15
Altona l3 15
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 85
Ditto, 3 sionths 26 0
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 15
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 9 59
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36*
Cadiz
ltilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Seville

IGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibra1tar....•.........
Leghorn ..... 91
Genoa ..... ...... 26 10

Milan
Venice
Naples .. .. 39i
Palermo, I,fir oz llB#
Lisbon .........
Oporto .. . .
Rio Janeiro--
Bahia 24
Buenos Apes
New Yot k dyssight
Philathiphia •
PRICY:4 BULLION, I'ER Z.
Foreign bars.±.3 17 9
Tortuga! 41:iold Coin 3 17 5
New Do.; .00n5..... u 0 0
New D:Pais 0 4 91
Silve: n 6,trs 0 4 11;

.• MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
COAT. razimx.-Er.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Adair's Main,
16s 6d; Buddha's West Hartley, 163 641; Carr's West Hart-
ley, 16s Gd ; llasting's Hartley, 16s; Holvwell Main, 173 6d ;
ew Tantield, 16s 3d ; Old Puntop, 15s 6-d; Ord's Redheugh,
15s ; Old Tanfield, 16s ; Tanfield Moor, 19s 6d ; West Hart-
ley, 17s ; West Wylana, 16s 6d ; W.E., Clark and Co., 163 ;
Ciennell, 16s ; Elm Park, 17s; Heaton, 18s; Hihla, 17s 6d;
Eden Main, 18s 6d ; Braddyll's Hetton, 20s 3d ; Hylton,
17s 6d ; Lambton, 20s ; Lumley, 18s ; Morrison, 17s 3d ; Rus-
sell's Hetton, 193 6d ; Stewart's, 20s 6d ; Caradoc, 20s ;
Heughall, 18s 3d ; Kelloe, 19s ; Leasingthome, 19s ; Adelaide,
19s 6d ; Brown's Deane; y, 183 6d ; Evenwood, 15s 6d ; Tees,
19s 6d ; Anthracite, 20s ; Cowpen Hartley, 17s ; Lewiss
Merthyr, 21s ; Morgan's Stone, 21s 94 ; SnapethQrpe, 17s 6d.
Ships arrived, 4.

(From the London New Price Current of Feb. 21.)
SucArt.—To-day the quantity
of Nest India Sugar sold in
private was only 120
hhds, -which is to be attributed to the
high rates asked by importers. The advance in price is 26 to
3s per cwt.
REETNED.—To-day the Refiners appeared very desirous
make sales, in consequence of the measures Governmentp troo.
pose, which appearLto press hard on them. Foreign refined
in bond prices remain much the same, with a partial business
doing, and very little of Crushed or Loaves could be purchased
for present delivery.
111AcEi1•tus.—This afternoon there was a large public sale
of 11,228 bags 76 casks of Mauritius Sugar; the trade at-
tended in large numbers, but the high ratesinsisted u
w pon
operated against the demand ; still the principal part as
disposed of at an advance on the last public auction rood s to
is ,6d per cwt ; fine yellow fetched 63s to 64s 6d, 6ls
to 62s 6d, good middling 60s to 60s 6d, middling 37s to
59s 6d, low 54s to 56s 6d, fine brown 53s to 53s 6d, middling
50s, and low 47s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the market was well supplied