The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-31 00:00:00

to join the circle at Eaton Hall this season ; they are
still at Melton Mowbray.
The Earl and Countess of Beverley have returned
to the Palace at Richmond, from Portman-square.
They intend to remain there until the meeting of
Parliament.
Lord Lovaine has joined the party assembled at
Teddesley Park.
The Countess of Kerry is staying at Bowood, the
seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne.
Lady and Miss Trotter left Grosvenor-square last
Week for Paris. They are expected to return to Eng.
land early in February.
Sir Charles and Lady Cecilia Des Vceux (daughter
of the Marquis of Winchester), have arrived at their
residence in Belgrave-square, from passing the honey-
moon at the Baronet's seat, near Tunbridge.
The Marquis of Winchester received a few friends
to dinner on Christmas•day, at his house in Caven-
dish-square. The Noble Marquis's eldest son, the
Earl of Wiltshire, is at the family seat in Hampshire.
Mrs. L. Fox passed through London last week,
from Hainpshire.
.Lord Frederick Paulet has alilved at 'the Marquis
of Winchester's in Cavendish-square, from Quebec.
Mr. Courtnay has left town for Grimsthorpe Castle.
Lord and Lady Prudhoe still remain at Stanwick
Park. Early in the next month they go to Alnwick
Castle.

Lady Louisa Percy had returned to Welbeck
Priory, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Portland.
Lady Charlotte Dennison Is entertaining a select
party at Ossington, Nottinghamshire.
MIS CELI. ANEOUS.
At the meeting of the Birmingham Suffrage Con-
ference, held in that town on Thursday, a series of

resolutions was proposed, in which a gill, prepared
under the auspices of the National Complete Suffrage
Council, was set forth as the basis of discussion. An
amendment was proposed by Mr. William Lovett,
that "the Charter" should be substituted, which was
seconded by Mr.' Feargus O'Connor, and carried by a
majority (4'99. The consequence is a division of the
party.
'`l'• The weeping willow on the grass plot of the garden
at Walmer Castle has been grown from a slip pre-
sented to the Duke of Wellington by a gentleman,
Who cut it from that overhanging Napoleon's grave
at St: Helena.

COURT CIRCULAR.
s.,
DSOit, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al-
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bort enjoyed their accustomed early walk in the
Morning for some time, and her Majesty and her
,
august Consort again promenaded in the afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal have been taken an airing to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback about twelve o'clock into the Green Park,
attended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr.
Newenham by sitting to him for a full-length
I. Portrait in the uniform of the Scots Fusilier Guards.
,„ Covers were laid this evening for twelve. The
Royal dinner party at the Castle is expected to in-
chide the Lady in 'Waiting, the Hon. Misses Lister
and Liddell, Marquis of Ormonde, Hon. C. A. Mur-
ray, Captain Meynell, Captain Francis Seymour,
Ron. Colonel Grey, and Sir Edward BoWater.

Royal Highness' the Duke of Sussex is staying
on a visit to the Earl of Carlisle, at his seat, Castle
coward, Yorkshire.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge
has left town to rejoin his regiment at Leeds.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his
official residence in Downing-street, yesterday, from
Cambridge.
The Earl of Haddington has left town on a visit to
Lord Montague, at his seat, Ditton• park, near
Windsor.
Dispatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of
Canada, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were also received from the Governors of
J, the other North American Colonies.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
. EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.
?/;,, ' LONDON, DEC. 31, 1842.
The following average prices of Brown or Musco-
.v4tloes British Sugars, exclusive of duty, were pub-
lished in the Gazette of last night
t. West India 345. • 9d. per cwt
East India 37 24
Mauritius. -`-'171,14, 9.
The average price of the threez-jointly corn
iuted, exclusive of day, is 355. per cwt.
The actual weights of sugar sold-on account of the
ttr importers, in the week ending the 27th inst., accord-
)s; ing to the returns made upon oath by the sugar bro-
.-O, kers, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, and
Id: on which weights the above! priceS are computed, con
tested of 9,950 cwt. West India, 8,568 cwt. East India.
2.nd 534 cwt. Mauritius.

From the. 26th of October to the 20th of December
:.;we have. from week to week published the weight oil
.•, sugar sold, and the price, • exclusive of duty, paid for
it—stating at the same time what the amount would'
lutve been "tad the consumers bought in, the' cheapest.'
• market—carryipg forward from date to date the ex-
tess of price, in order that the consumers may be
exactly acquainted. with the pecuniary effect the
sugar . monopoly has upon their pockets. With a
view to render this account complete for the current
quarter, we have referred, and find that the sales of
British sugars in the London Market were—from
the 10th to. the 25th of October, 48,566 cwt.—esti-
! mating the sales. at the outports during the same
period to be 30,000 cwt., the consumers bought in
.• those fourteen days, 78,566 cwt. of the monopoly
sugar at 345.. 6d, per cwt , 'paying consequently
141,4181. .They,might have obtained at that time
78,566 cwt. of foreign sugar, equally good, at 16s. 6d.
per cwt., amounting to 64,8161, and kept in their
purses 76,6021.
The weights of British Sugars sold from the 25th
October to the 20th inst., already published weekly in
The Sun, are together 499,974 cwt. These added to
78,566 Cwt. shown abovd as sold from the 10th to the
25th October, give 578,540 cwt., being the total
weight for the current quarter. The excess of price
paid over and above the value of foreign sugar of
equal quality, and brought forward in The Sun each
Saturday from the sth November to the 24th Decem-
ber, amounts to 420,742/., which, being added to the
excess of price paid from the 10th to the 25th Octo-
ber, namely, 76,602/., gives a total excess of price of
4D7,344/. In ten weeks, therefore—from the 9th
October to the 20th December—the consumers bought
578,540 cwt. of British sugars, and paid for them a
Trice beyond their value in any European market the
• enormous sum of 497,344/.
We now proceed, as heretofore, to publish the
weights of British sugars sold by the importers in
the week ending the 27th instant. The sales in
Mincing-lane were 19,052 cwt.; assuming that the
weight of British sugars sold out of London was to
the same extent as that sold in it, the consumers
• bought in that period 38,104 cwt. of sugar, at
•355. lop. per cwt., amounting, in round numbers, to
/8,332/. ; they might have bought, but for the mono-
. ;poly law, 38,104 cwt. of foreign sugar, of a like
equality, at 18s. per cwt., amounting to 34,291/., ex-
iiiloiting a difference of 34,041/.—that is to say, the
.nation, by buying foreign instead of the monopoly
51...13.1r, would have saved that amount in the week
un.ler consideration, which, being added to 497,3441.,
the amount before stated, eves 531,3851., the precise
value of the sugar monorg ly on the sale of 616,644
cwt. of British sugars to the monopolists, and the
needl€ ss cost thereof to the country, in eleven con-
' secuth e
Whe,iever the consumers have .complained of this
excessivti extortion, and sought as a fitting remedy
ti;,, against it a relaxation of the sugar monopoly, the
.Government of the day has ,invariably pleaded its in-
`hi: ability. to . make any alterations, in 'consequence of
some particular conditions contained in the Brazil
i, treaty.... Did the conditions in this Brazilian treaty
require that, when the duty on sugar from the East
Indies was lowered to the rate imposed on that from
the West Indies, limits should be drawn around the
three Presidencies with such a niggard hand, that
ugar gre wn in India beyond them should be excluded
the British markets? Did they require that these
Presidencies should cease to import sugar for their
*own -consumption (a privilege they had enjoyed from
the -.moment of their belonging to the British Crown
that on which the reduction of duty was deter-
/nir ed upon) as a condition that the sugar raised in
the at might be shipped for the mother country, and
be received on the same terms as sugar from Ja-
na ? Not a bit of it, there is absolutely nothing
in the Brazilian treaty, which can be twisted by the
ut most ingenuity, to such a meaning. Why, then,
-w., -ire these restrictions on the East India sugar trade
juri iosed ? The answer to the question is plain
grid, 'igh. They were knowingly imposed, in order to
malt 'taro, in all its costly vigour, the vicious sugar
Ilion( poly, coderred, time out of mind, upon those
-vet-,, "West 'lndians who had just before received
twknity millions sterling from. the country. Let
ths res trictions on East India commerce be with-
dr awn. fot thwith, and we shall import from Bengal,
it , 1843, 5C..000 additional tons of sugar, and thereby
acify the watery about slave-raised sugar, for we
.hould then net:(l none ofit.
In the quarter ending 9th October, 1842, the duty
on sugar fell off, as compared against the correspond-
ing quarter in 1841, 200,0001. When the current
quarter's account is made up on the sth of January
next, it will be seen that the loss on sugar duties is
• -considerably greater.

, From many quarters the cheering intelligence
' )ches us that Sir Robert Peel's Government has
4tit le to a resolution to take a decided step with refe-
rme,, to,Church extension during the ensuing session
,r,i, of pa rliament. It would have been next to impossible
further to have postponed coming to some decision on
a matte,- of such importance ; but how the aid will be
supplied,, or to what. extept,„ yet unknown.—
Church and Stale Gazette.