The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-21 00:00:00

THE NEW RIDING SCHOOL.

The new riding school, as it has been before ob-
served, divides the upper or northern quadrangle from
the centre one. This spacious building (so con-
veniently situated for her Majesty and the Prince to
take equestrian exercise in unfavourable weather, as
well as for other purposes connected with the loyal
menage) is 170 feet in length, 52 feet in width, and
nearly 40 feet in height. It is well lighted by means
of its numerous windows during the day, and at
night three splendid gas chandeliers along the centre
of the building diffuse a clear and steady light through-
out the interior.

The riding house is approached from the Home
Park, through a vestibule from the grand entrance,
which leads directly into the vast area. Over the
vestibule are her Majesty's Tillery and retiring room.
which are reached by a spiral staircase through the
northern square tower at the Royal entrance ; a
corresponding tower being on the south side of the
arch way.
Her Majesty's gallery commands, by means of
large sash windows of plate glass a full view of the
whole of the interior of the riding school. The shape
of the room is semi-hexagonal. The furniture (con-
sisting
of four chairs and two arms, covered with rich
crimson velvet, an octagonal-shaped table, splendid
looking glasses, &c.) is of oak, elaborately carved in
the Gothic style. The fawn-coloured tabaret curtains,
with carpet and rugs en suite, give to this apartment
a most pleasing appearance. The eastern window
commands a most picturesque view of part of the
Castle and the Hom© Park. Adjoining her Majesty's
gallery is a retiring room for the Sovereign, similarly
furnished. Beneath the Queen's retiring room, on
the ground floor, under the south tower, is a neatly-
furnished apartment for the equerries in attendance
upon her Majesty.
Over the riding-school are most convenient dormi-
tories for the use of the single men connected with
the stables. These consist of thirty apartments ; and
each is comfortably furnished by the Master of the
Horse with the usual bedding, a chest of drawers,
chairs, table, vvashhand-stand, carpet, &c. Every
man will have his room exclusively to himself.

THE LOWER LODGE,
which was formerly inhabited by several of the Royal
pages (and which is within the walls inclosing the
various buildings connected with the Royal stables),
has been considerably altered, by being cased and
stuccoed to resemble stone, and rendered in keeping
externally with the general character of the new
stables. It has also been much enlarged by the addi-
tion of several rooms. It now contains fifty-four
rooms, and will be converted, under most excellent
arrangements made by Mr. Cocum, the clerk of her
Majesty's stables, to the exclusive use of the married
servants in the department of the Master of the Horse.
It contains also two large eating or mess rooms, with
extensive ranges for cooking, and two other large
sized rooms, with coppers also for the purposes of
cooking, with upwards of thirty separate cupboards
(all the servants in this department having board
wages), each having a lock and key, for.the use of
each domestic.
In the square tower of the lower lodge a large dial,
with four faces, is now being fixed. This will be a
prominent object from every part of the premises.
The official residence of Mr. Cocum, the clerk of
the stables in residence at Windsor, will shortly un-
dergo very extensive alterations and improvements.

_ _
SINGULAR CAssh—At the Leicestershire Quarter
Sessions, on Tuesday last, Louisa Wykes, a rather
good-looking girl, about 19 years of age, respectably
attired in black, was placed at the bar, harged with
stealing 15 sovereigns, the property of John Taylor,
at. Belgrave; a second indictment charged the prisoner
with stealing a pair of breeches, leggings, and other
male attire, the property of HenrysSmith. Prisoner
pleaded guilty to both indictments, but the Court,
being unacquainted with the circumstances requested
Mr. Taylor to give a relation of them, when it appeared .
that the prisoner entered the service of the prosecutor
about ten months since, during the whole of which
Ntviineeeksshseinccoendluicr.telayhleorsrelhfadwi
occasion propriety. t
o
remain A a
fewt
another of his houses in Leicester, leaving the prisoner
and three men in charge of his house at Belgrave.
During the night the prisoner proceeded to a bureau
in
andwhencewhich
she
ahe hadtnnskeeln6 her master place some gold,
sovereigns
soclose odt ofto resemble
a sumo f
50 ; she then cut her hair of r
that of a man, after which she proceeded as
edto thrmen's
room, and dressed herself in Smith's clothes, when
she left the House. Being overtaken by the carriage
of Mr. Hunter, of Brooksby Hall, his lady ordered
the coachman to stop, as she perceived that the prisoner
had a singular appearance, and was crying very much.
Upon some questions being put to her, she acknow-
ledged that she had committed the robbery, and dis-
guised herself in men's clothes to avoid detection. The
mother of the prisoner having been put into the wit-
ness-box, said she could account in no other way for
her daughter committing the robbery than that she was
pregnant, and stole the money with an intention of
providing herself during her confinement, and thus
avoid the exposure to which she would otherwise have
been subjected. The Chairman, Mr. W. Aleyrick,
said it was one of the most unheard of cases that had
come within his experience ; and had not the prose-
cutor recommended her to mercy, and some alleviat-
ing circumstances appeared in her favour, be should
inevitably have passed a sentence of transportation
upon her. The prisoner was afterwards sentenced to
twelve months' hard labour, three weeks solitary.
CORONER'G INQUEST. -- Yesterday at half-past
three o'clock, Mr. Higgs, the Coroner, for West-
minster, held an inquest in St. James s-workhouse,
Poland-street, upon the body of John Park. It ap-
peared from the evidence of a number of witnesses
that the deceased had left his work on Tuesday about
half-past four, and in passing down Lower
James-
street,felldo wmohenupoa:l3l otubte.lsloaoveymaeridsa the
iforoam state 0
fw o:
lktashn oeo u,
allow 8 insensibility.sliiye.
lie was carried into the first shop, and means
after a short -
t.°, his recovery, but he died almost in
thdeeavfis
used
His relitions having refused to
with
wiesdaboth
by
yost modem
examination of his body, the Ju7D,
sultation, returned a verdict of
coi-
tion of God."-'1 The deceased, who
dumb, married a girl afflicted aitnad-1. the
infirmi-
ties, and who is now an inmate same A
WARLIKE FAMILY. —There of
Bre edlam.
earebrothers, named Keegan, now residing • five
who entered into the a in and about this town,
and served in various army about thirty years since,
larly in the Peninsula, °f
the world, and particu-
engagements. here they
Thesel five were in several
to their flatly veterans have lately re-
turnedare in the en' e comity
.in
perfect health, and
anent enjoyment of good
ex
of them by the Characters, and honourable mention is slskie
Calow severalSentine officers .they :;,erved Pdgirol".

PRICE OP SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.

LONDON, OCT. 21, 1342.
The following average prices of Brown or Musco-
vado British Sugars, exclusive of duty, will be pub-
lished in the Gazette of this evening :

- 3.55. 31-41. per cwt.
West India
East India 36 lif
Mauritius 32 3f
The total average price of the three descriptipni
355. per cwt.
The actual weights of Sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the 18th inst., accord-
ing to the returns made upon oath by the Sugar bro-
kers, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, and
on which weights the above prices are computed, con-
sisted of 28,895 cwt West India, 2,835 cwt. East
India, and 5,342 cwt. Mauritius. _

About 4,000 cwt. of darkunsound Sugar have been
slid in the same week at from 225. to 255. per cwt. ;
e doing,
pricesofe
course one portion of which being classed ns East India,
o ofse those
reduces two
.
and the other as Mauritius, unfairly depresses the
average
othkeintdostalof
aSvuegaragrse,
priceand by
soof
the three descriptions.
It is hi • w spered in the Sugar market that, amongst
other important matt M Ellis
matters, r. has been sent to
the Brazils, for the
purpose of impressing on the Go-
vernment there the mutual benefit to be derived
by
both countries by a reduction of t• uu les, and of pro-
posing that the duty on British
manufactures
Im-
ported into the Brazils should be ed r uced to 15 per
cent., ad ra/orenz'
and that, in return,the British
Government will
admit Brazilian Sugar to consump-
tion here at a duty of 15 per cent. on, and in addi-
tion to, the duty of 255. per cwt. now imposed on
British Sugars. This will reduce the duty on that
sort of foreign Sugar from 665. per cwt., which now
operates as a prohibition, to 295. per cwt., giving the
West India interest a protection of 4s. per cwt.,
which, on all the British Sugar now imported in a
year, would be equivalent to 800,0001. sterling.
Whether there be any truth in this rumour is difficult
to say, hut it would be more difficult still to assign
any just reasons ',;vhy the Sugar-growers should be
allowed to fleece annually this impoverished nation
out of such a sum of money as 800,0001. sterling.
It has been with much truth stated by an able
writer on the subject (see third edition "On Financial
Reform," page 244), that there are only three ways
that colonies can be of any advantage to a mother
country; first, in furnishing a military force; second,
in supplying a revenue; third, in afibrding commer-
cial advantages. In contemplating these three re-
marks the question naturally suggests itself, do the
British West India Colonies in any of the ways named
requite the mother country for the enormous sacrifices
of life and treasure which she has for years and years
past lavished en them ? • With regibl to furnishing a
military force, have they at any period of their past
history, Or do they now, aid Great Britain in that'
Manner ? 'Certainly not ; for, on the contrary, they
constantly require the presence of many regiments of
British soldiers to enable the colonists to command a
due observance of the barbarous laws which they have
themselves concocted for the purpose of keeping the
black population in a wretched state of degradation
and subjection ; and in time of war a much stronger
force. Taking the period. from the commencement to
the termination of the late war with France, it is re•
corded that Great Britain was frequently compelled
to cripple her own means of defence, by sending
ships and regiments to secure these value.
less possessions from capture, and she has had in return
for this misplaced protection, the misfortune to wit-
ness and mourn, without any beneficial result, the de-
struction of a greater number of brave men
through the pestilential effects of a West India cli-
mate, than were killed, during the same period, in the
numerous battles gloriously fought and won by the
Duke of Wellington. How many battalions, 600
strong when embarked, have been reduced by a few
months' residence in the West Indies to mere alleles.
tons ; and how many thousands of recruits, sent out
to complete the ranks of these regiments thinned by
disease, have also perished, without even hearing a
shot fired in anger ? The geographical -position of
these islands, it has been said, is important in a mili-
tary sense. Such an assertion may be justified when
applied to Gibraltar or Malta; but to the West Indies
it is worse than a waste of words; if they were obli-
terated to-morrow from the snap, they would not, for
their military utility, be missed. So much for the
first. The second observation relates to raising, a
revenue for the benefit of the parent State.
Whe-
ther that be practicable or not is set at rest by an Act
of Parliament, which declares that no taxes or duties
shall be levied in the colonies, PICIIpt for their own use.
The third way in which colonies may be valuable,
is in affording commercial advantages. The trade
with the West Indies consists in their buying about
three millions worth of manufactured articles, the
Production of this country, upon which the manufac-
turers may possibly obtain a profit 'of 5 per cent.
The freight outwards of these manufactured goods is
merely nominal, so that the colonists, apply where
they please, could net obtain similar articles more
cheaply, or more regularly, from any other country
than they get them from Great Britain. If the West
Indies were under the control of the United States
to-morrow, and her merchants could exercise a free
will, their own interest would guide them to our
markets. The Act of Parliament restricting them
to make their purchases here, is consequently a
dead letter ; there is no need of any restriction
of the kind. A West Indian pays our mer-
chants no more than another customer would pay
them—there is no favour conferred ; there are, con-
sequently, no thanks due for the transaction.
Thus much for one side of the book ; now let us turn
our eyes to the other, for this we refer our readers to
the article under the head "Price of Sugar," published
in The Sun on the ith instant. We pay de West
Indians 19s. a cwt. for their Sugar more than they
could obtain for it elsewhere; 325. per cwt. for
Coffee; something considerable for Rum, the proteo-
tion of the latter as against Brandy being 14s. per
gallon ; and in favour of each article of produce im-
ported from these colonies there is imposed on all similar
articles, the production of other countries, a strong pro-
tecting duty ; these protecting duties compel British
consumers to pay in the aggregate 5,000,0001. sterling
a year more for West India produce than they could
buy in other markets similar articles of a better qua-
lity. In a commercial point of view, therefore, Great
Britain loses immensely by the 'West Indies ; it may
suit the purpose of the proprietors of Sugar estates
very well to hide the costly deformities of these worn-
out possessions by mixing them sip in the general
term colonies, and then vaunt about the advantages of
ships, colonies, and commerce ; but somehow or
another the public at large has discovered that there
are two kinds of colonies, namely, good and bad:
Great Britain doubtless possesses many valuable and
important colonies—possessions which handsomely
requite her for the protection she affords them.
She has also, unfortuuately, others of a directly opisoe
site character—colonies, which, for time immemorial,
have been, and now are, a source of frightful expendi-
ture and of heart-sickening vexation to her. In this
list the. West Indies stand prominently in advance.
Common sense dictates that the mother country should
either insist upon an entire alteration in the manage-
ment of these colonies, or abandon them altogether.

PRODUCE OF THE FRENCH
VINEYARDS.
The Jmirnal des Debats contains some interest-
ing statistical data concerning the production of
wine in France between 1791 and 1842. During
that interval the cultivation of the vine, which occu-
pied(ll4 at the former period 1,573,000 hectares, extended
by degrees to upwards of 2,000,000. The export of
wine in those fifty years, however, remained nearly
stationary. During the first 30 yeetarstz(b)ricitsppteoreritaxa.st,eylf
centurysinee 18i3t0 aiintouinnteedreatsoedl,otos3,loo,3ooo,hcoecot,olitirnell
about 1'25,000 exported to Algeria. The whole pro-
duce of the country is now calculated at 48,000 000
mho?: Faris, for
thie .
hectolitres,tion.
Tl‘olc6a,oouseo3,ooomiloi
militate
whichte a ainars
the wine trade in the interior of Freostof t
h_e_
_yr
i_
n_e .
of the tolls or entrance duty, and ad thee—fie
ele"ti"
ulterstios of
give an idea of the extent
enamountsdtlt
iceisti st
oa.
is 20 1-3 cents. per litre on wine ' casks, w'hieehtaniyk
to which it is now earried
its falsification is necessarily e
neOUraged b-
nd to-.T the enor-
MstoillinetyeVici)fialeSethsi
that the receipts of the tollsit will suffice to obserge
iswhexe, are inferior to on
wine, in Paris and
ago. "From 1809 t what they were thirty years
Debats, " the ° 1841," says the Journal deg
600,000 to 90,000,Parisian population increased from
about 25,000 "fere' exclusive of the garrison, and of
igners, or 52 per cent. Neverthe-
less, however, in
sumption or
wines,
the fact may appear, the con-
creased in equalin", instead of augmenting, has de.
of Paris consumed
proportion. In 1809, each inhabitant
166 litres of wine ; in 1840 the
consumption
insult. was reduced to 93. This is not the effect
ochanee—it is a permanent insult. From 1806 to
t
1811 the Parisian consumption was 162 litres perhead.
Prom 1830 to 1835 it fell to 103. We may safely as-
sert that the apparent falling otf in the consumption of
59 litres per head is principally owing to the falsifica-
tion of the wine." The Debats then calls on the Le-
gislature to enact severe penalties against that frau-
dulent practice, se detrimental to publichealth. "The
question," it says, " is well worthy the attention
have
s f
on of
' ) the Chambers. The culture of the vine, as w
already stated, occupies upward of 2,000,000' have
already hectares
out ot the 52,000,000 hectares under cultivadon
tivoughout the kingdom ; the nu
of vines exceeds 2,000,000, and
the produce amounts to
between 500,000,000 f. 00 and 6
. _
i ,000,000 f. per annum.
There is more capital
vested n that branch of industri
than in an other, and none affords more l &bow to the
_ ,___
people. The men devoted tn the cultivation of 141'
vine are moreover healthyy, vigorous, active, liborwus,
intelligent, and friends of order peace, and in ever,"
o order and
other respect •
entitled to the solicitude of the po
wers of
. tlw State

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THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 21,
Will be presented Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH.
Macbeth, Mr. Vandenhoff; Macdnff, Mr. Charles Pitt ;
Banque" Mr. Cooper; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Salzberg ; Hecate,
Mr. Leffler ;. First Witch, Mr. Bartley ; Second Witch, Mr.
Meadows; Third Witch,Mr. Harley.
After which Gretry's Opera of RICHARD CLEUR-
DE-LION. Richard, Mr. Travers; Sir Owen, Mr.
Leffler; Blonde!, Mr. W. Harrison; Florestan, Mr. Horn.
castle; flautist, .Mr. Binge; Antonio, Miss Poole; Wilhelm
and Collette, Master and Miss Marshall; Matilda, Mrs. Vidal;
Laurette, Miss Rainfbrth.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. Jd. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit as;
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THIS EVENING, OCT. 21,
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Giubilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs.

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