The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-17 00:00:00

L.96,.--•--".•

PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.
LONDON, DEC. 17, 1842.
The following average prices of Brown. or Musco-
does British Sugars, exclusive of duty, were pub-
lished in the Gazette of last night :
West India 345. 84d. per cwt
East India 33 9}
Mauritius 35 2f
The average price of three kinds, jointly computed,
exclusive of duty, is 345. 4d. per cwt.
The actual weights of sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the 13th 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 16,590 cwt. West India, 12,922 cwt. East
India, and 2,415 cwt. of Mauritius.
About 800 cwt. of very dark unsound sugars have
been sold in the same week,. these having been classed
in the returns, partly as East India and partly as
Mauritius, unfairly depress the average prices of those
two kinds of sugar, as well as the total average price.
White sugars, equal to double refined manufac-
tured, in London, for exportation, from foreign raw
sugars may be purchased, free of all charges in
them aboard a British ship, for 265. 6d. per 04'
Per cwt.
This excellent sugar is, consequently, Bs. 2d.
cheaper than West India Muscovadoes, which are
about equal in quality to the Foreign Muscovadoes,
from which the said white sugars were made. The
total sales of British sugars for the above-quoted wee':
in Mincing-lane, were 31,927 cwt. Assuming tha'
putting
the sales of sugar by importers out of London, were
to the same extent as the weight sold in that market,
the consumers bought 63,854 cwt. of sugar at 35.
4d. per cwt., amounting in round numbers t°
109,6141. They might have bought 63,854 cwt. 01
foreign sugar at 18s. 6d. per cwt., amounting to
59,065/., exhibiting a difference of 50,5491., that is
.ta
say, the nation, by buying foreign, instead o
iell'
f tir
monopoly sugar, would have saved that amount, wh
added to 325,429/. (see The Sun of Dec. 10), gives,
375,9781., the excess of price paid by the Pubhe
seven consecutive weeks. be.
There have been various rumours
past month relating to an alteration of the sugar
duties. That they will be altered during the ensuing
or
session of Parliament there remains little doubt,f
_notice to that effect would not have been given or-
afloat for t
many to the Legislative Assembly of Jamaica, aisthaPs;
pears to have been the case by the newspapers o
colony; and we further gather from the same source,n
that that alteration will be a reduction of duty 0_
foreign sugars ; here all knowledge approaching lute
certainty ceases. The rumour, however, goes tt.,
detail what amount of duty will be taken off, asar:o
ing that the Government has already determinr:_s:r
reduce the duty on British sugars from 255. 3a per
reduce
cwt. to 165., and on foreign from 665. 2d. to 395• Pro.
cwt. That these figures are correct is eery
im
bable as relates to British sugars. It is not ha 'e'
when the exigencies of the country are such that ILan
L
Ministers are compelled to have recourse
Income- tax to meet them, that they
than
even dream of throwing away more
British
one-third the amount of the present duty on
trifling
sugars--a tax, collected at a comparatively and,
u
cost, on an article too bulky to be cmuggled; yen-
again, he would be a bold man indeed who woulon,
ture to propose a measure to the House of Goof 145.
which would confer a protection, or bonus (7).fl itish
per cwt. (equivalent to 2,800,0000 on the British
sugar producers. This would be a costly and clun'
contrivance to vamp up West India interest ht,
The nation is already taxed 800,0001. alear to pant,
the interest of the 20,000,0001. compensation ofto
given to them, and the notion that we are to sollo4
the tune of 2,800,0001., in addition, through insect
taxation, to sustain the consequences of bad man
ment in the West Indies is preposterous.
report of the reduction of duty
to the extent named must be erroneous, and pro of
owes its origin to the ingenuity and inventionw._‘
some British sugar producers, who devoutly* 1,
their predictions may be verified. Besides' 3 s
investigation would display that one-third the 13r,!,...t
sugars imported on British sib
stated last
in 1842 were grown in
Indies and the Mauritius. These, as we Stateedtheie
week, need no protection. The produce °' sue.
colonies may, from cheapness of wage, s'
like
cessfully cope with any foreign produce
character which may be brought in cora
with it, either in this or any other marketivest
protection, therefore, is to be conferred on not
India sugar the scheme of differential duties wo
answer the purpose, without at the same time ant,
ing a bonus to sugar which does not requir, tears
therefore revert to our suggestion, that eu,s7me
should be admitted to home consumption at I'J% be
rate of duty, and a bounty of 4s. or 6s. per °qt:A 0
c4pe-titioinf
granted on sugar imported from and certifica
v teta
the growth of the West Indies. Under such a ad..:a vs,
the sugar raised by free labour in Cochin China, o
the Philippine Islands, Siam, &c., would have a op-
the
of coming freely into competition against
save labour sugars raised in the Brazils, Cuba,
slave owners of the last-named countries would silted
have the worst of the contest, and, after the expiratin.
ed
a twelvemonth we should have little of slave-raise
sugar,_ Slavery and the slave trade would die a WA,'
death soon afterwards. Let us not be misunderats;
to advocate bounties, because we have sugges.7ol
bounty on West India sugar; we have only Pellire,
out this mode of treating West India sugars as 4I
ferable to the plan of fortifying their price b.dmo,
rential duties, which will also enhance the price
East India and Mauritius sugars,

MORTALITY in the METROPO

alit/ ill
The following are the results of " A Table of Mort
~..s
_,
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from 11j),,,u%
Registered in the week ending Dec. 10, 3842." The 1 u''
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General'` weekly
Averagel
1838-9-#
Total. r rour
our .e
_.
Autumns YS;
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 130 198, 149
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 130
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 268
Respiration
iseases of the Heat and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other ~.3 61
"
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c
9 15 8
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, etc 6 1
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &e 0 106 104
Diseases of Uncertain Seat B9 69
O'Al Age, or Natural Decay . 65 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern- 24 25
penance
3 8
Causes not specified
815
Deaths from all causes. -- 912
912
Average Weekly Deaths ...... Destil
Population Averse in
week', the
merated i
CHII-
Deaths . woo,
'oil. 183,.....-.
West—Kensington, St. George
Foul Ft,'" 00.
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Ye.,rs.Au,
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, 181 103
St. James
North—St. Mary-le•bone, St 161 "6
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
n
n aWest
ieLt
ec
nob;
wd
so
hnt
.i, t
eGCe
hei toayrpgeoe , f
206
20
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon.
Bd oet London
185
151
-373,806 188
in the East, Stepney. Poplar 392;485 202
South—St Saviour, Si.. ()lave,
St. George( Southwark),Ber-
mondsey, Newington, Lam- 903
beth, Camberwell, Rother-
hithe, Greenwich .... ... ....438,060 221
......__.°9 ------
.. -----. ---- 912 815
Total 1,870,727 912 comprised the
It is stated that under the term Metropolis ere
City of Low
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the,-/Litertios id
don with and without the walls, the Citynar
of Mortality--•
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bi
as, Kewington,
aFnudi
Fulham,
, fa parishes
m n
l eor
sf 1
nSitth. It
cl a rh
aypl ee bi
royn)e,,
0! .
Toltec( (Chelsea) Pad"
N Q. ....___ 'OW
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington)) 11, St. l‘icu s
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwic
_woo, s
St. L. eonarBP/..iss
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The PePtlali, Ws!
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in Jun J. 740, aas
1,370,727. The weekly aversge for 1838, 1839, 1°404 'if
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four /
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERATUItE IN THE WEEKS ENDING 10.
I Dec. 3. Dec'
56° 55°
36
40
48 43
14, 1842. -.Nee

CAUSES OF DEATH.

DIST It 'CT&

Highest

Lo—west

Daily Mean . ... ......... ...
General Register Office, Dec.

B IR TH S. nash'
On the 1 lth inst., at Tei6nmouth, the lady of C. 11.
I.
.wood, Esq., of a son. cif •
On the 12th inst., near Hammersmith gate, the wife E
W. Horton, surgeon, of a daughter. ,
On the 15th inst., at Streatham, the lady of B. Drew,
f a son, :till-born.
On the 15th inst., the Hon. Mrs. Fitzroy, in Bert
square, of a son. f s
On the 16th inst., the lady of Samuel Newington,Esq'' 9
daughter.

R R IE D.
On the 21st of June,M
atA Scone, New South Wales, George
Foster Wise, Esq., eldest son of Edward Wise, Esq., of BCE'
bridge, I,lc of Wight, to Frances Lucy, daughter of the
,8
Alilbourne Marsh, Esq., of Jamaica, and niece of the late
Sit
Francis Forbes, Chief-Justice of New South

DIED.
On the 29th of August, at Lima, George T. Sealy, Esq., her
Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at that place.
On the 9th inst., at Chingford, Essex, Mr. Thome' Houser
of Brown's-lane, Spite Melds, dyer, aged 51.
On the 14th inst., Mr. John Stanbury, of the George 4W
yard, Aldeznanbury, aged 64.
On the 14th inst., in Newgate-street, Joseph Daw,
many years a member of the Corporation of the City of London
On the 14th inst., at Regency-square, Brighton, Mary AO'
second daughter of the late K. Warner, Esq., of Camberwell"
green, Surrey. th•
On the 14th snot., R. Francis, Esq., of Pulteneyet,Eit
_ --- •
Esq., for

London; Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN(4, .1:
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the County of M ddlesex, Saturday, December 17, 1842