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We know that sugar can be most advantageously used
for fattening pork, to which it imparts a finer and more
delicate flavour than the usual mode of feeding; we are
also led to believe that from the known properties of
sugar, it may be turned to good account as a useful and
profitable manure. One great objection to its being tried on
an extensve scale has been the great cost, but we now learn
since the introduction of nitrate of soda, which sells at
201. per ton, and the Gmano manure, which is selling at
16/. per ton, this objection has been removed, inasmuch
as foreign sugar may now be obtained for le.is cost than
nitrate of soda or Guano, say at from 12s. to 15s. per cwt.
or about one penny halfpenny per pound.
That your Lordship may be perfectly satisfied there is
no fiction or exaggeration in these prices, we state we have
now at anchtr, in the port of Falmouth, a cargo of about
300 tons of Brazil sugar to our consignment, of fair quality,
which we have this day sold at 14s. 6d. per cwt. hill of
lading weight, deliverable at any port in the United King-
dom, or on the Continent beeween Hamburgh and Havre.
We state further that we daily expect another cargo of
better quality to arrive at Plymouth, and this we tender
to your Lordship at 15s. per cwt., or 151. per ton. These
facts will, we think, remove all doubts as to price.
We refrain entirely from entering into the merits of.
-the question as regards the policy of admitting foreign
sugar for the consumption of the British people, seeing
her Majesty's Government have postponed the further
consideration of the subject until a future day, and we
trust that, as we can clearly demonstrate the admission
of foreign sugar for agricultural purposes will in no wise
be prejudicial to our colonial interests, you will be pleased
to concede our request, under such regulations as may be
deemed necessary to protect the revenue from fraud or
evasion of the duties,: which might otherwise be levied.
In conclusion, my Lord, we cannot refrain from ex- '
pressing a hope the day is not far distant when foreign
sugars may be admitted for the free use of the British
public (affording at the same time ample protection to
our colonies) instead of our supplicating to have them
brought in for the more ignoble purposes of fattening
cattle, or as tillage to enrich the land.

We have the honour to remain, my Lord, your Lord.
ship's most obedient humble se►vant.
(Signed) JOHN B. MOORE, and CO.
To the Right lion. the Earl of Ripon, &c. &e.
President of the Board of Trade.

Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, 30th June, 1842.
Gentlemen,—ln reply to your application of the 24th
instant, addressed to the Earl of Ripon, suggesting that
foreign sugar should be allowed to be imported for agri-
cultural purposes, and for fattening cattle, under such
regulations as her Majesty's Government may be pleased
to adopt ; I am direct' d by the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council of Trade to acquaint you. that their
Lordships cannot recommend the adoption of any such
partial admission of foreign sugar.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
PD. J. MACGREGOR.
Messrs J. B. Moore and Co., Liverpool.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, SOMERSET-HOUSE:
MATRICULATION PASS EXAMINATION, JULY, 1842.
EXAMINERS.

IN
CtAssics.—Rey. lir. Jerrard ; T. B. BUreham,
Esq., M.A.
IN MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.— G.
B. Jerfard, Esq., B.A. ; Rev. R, Murphy, M.A.
IN CHEMISTRY.—Professor Dnniell, F.R.S.
IN BOTANY.—Rev. Professor Hensiew.
IN ZOOLOGY.—Professor T. Rymer Jones.
Eighty-one candidates presented themselves at this
examination. The following have passed :