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THE CONSUMPTION AND CULTL.

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 Iforroeks, 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, Esq., banker and
hatter, Cockermouth, employ's about 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 Kingdom 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 11d. per lb. duty (14s. per cwt. or 141.
per ton( gives a revenue of 10,500,0001., 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 persou 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-
ious 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 revolution 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 stems to me to be proved by all
experience that, so long as a hope is held out to the West
Indians, their sugars shall be admittted into the markets of
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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 seientific
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-
4ustice of the present measure as regards suar, 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 bad.
been placed en the same footing as Bengal, 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
all in their poser to ;make it plenty and cheap.
Oh is the echo; the Straits of Malacca and Burman set-
tlements are too weak to make any noise in Parliament
that will be listened to or attended to, so we may crush
them without fear of consequences (I have nothing at
stake there now, (neither for myself nor any of my fa-
mily, our field in Hong-Kong, Shanghai, and Manilla,
so I write disinterestedly). The present would appear
to be a period the most inviting to the enterprising, for
the profitable employment of means and science in the
soil of British India for the produce of sugar, from the
rivers Berhampootia to the Indus, to the latter of which
rivers suitable steamers and flat-bottomed boats have at
last been sent and established for the purposes of com-
merce and for the quick transport of troops, instead of,
as heretofore, transporting them by land through the
swamps on the banks of the Indus by long and harassing
marches, by which fearful losses of life have occurred
from such exposure. The 78th Highlanders (if they be
now what they were in 1811 when at the capture of
Java) are the most unfit men of the United Kingdom for
such exposure from being hill men, as was found to the
grief of all who knew it, for they died by dozens when
exposed to the swamps of Java and its low lauds, whilst
the 89th, a purely as wild an Irish regiment as the 78th
was Highland, suffered comparatively little by deaths.
Give honest Donrld his hills, snow capped, and pure air,
and he will do all that man can do. No man will feel
more severely the losses in the 78th than Sir C. Napier;
still the experience, though acquired, is indeed too dearly
bought! But still the Indus and its banks are our strong'
holds on the south-weitern frontier, and the sooner they
are so on the north-west frontier the better. The soil
and position are both favourable to sugar production,
transit will be hereafter be quick and good, and the cli-
mate not inferior to many other of our tropical posses-
sions, if prudence be duly exerci,ed in biding away from
unhealthy spots at certamperiods, as is the practice La
other low tropical climates. It appears to me, that he
who stimulates the enteprising to embark in East Indio
sugar production, conduces more substantially to oft
comfort and benefit of both the labourers and Govern.
ment of this country, than all the so-called farmers'
friends put together ; the middle and upper claws
will get their share of the benefit by lightened taxation
arising from more contributors, and slavery abolition
will be hastened thereby by free beating slave labour.
Would that the rage was as great at present for producing
sugar as for railroads, good indeed though the latter be.
It appears to me, considering the teeming millions of
India, and the suitableness of the soil, together with the
prospect of an almost limitless market for absorption,
that the prospects of large returns from means invested
in East India sugar cultivation, as inferior to no other
description of investment.
The tiny Sinde became
British, that moment all France's hopes vanished of
making the Panjaub a thorn in our side, when the time
arrived ; and hence, away went all the French officers,
clean off, and away, from the dominions of the Old Lion
of Lahore, the Sinde policy, and in fact its justice and
humanity, the East India Company either cannot see,
or from policy or infatuation will not acknowledge.
When we have only the two'high roads from the West
into India to guard,
the Kyber Pass and the Bolan, thee,
peace will reign in India, but never before ; every day's
experience shows this more clearly—even though we
now hold the key to the Panjaub and into Western India,
by-Siude and the Indus.
It seems to me that that the Southern United States
will enjoy an advantage over all other sugar-producing
countries, to some considerable extent at least, for at
present many of their cotton-loaded ships, ballast with
copper-dross or stones, wherets, in future, sugar can be
taken for ballast, which can afferd to be carried at a no.
urinal rate of freight ; and although it be a small iten.
still a saving of about two shillings per cwt. Is a r-
of itself of ten shillings on the first 4'04 .o +'
sus'.
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