The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Hereditary
Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, arrived at
Buckingham Palace in an open carriage and four,
escorted by a party of Hussars, at ten minutes before
two o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the terminus of the
Great Western Railway, at Paddington. The Royal
Suite followed in two carriages and four, and consisted
of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting, Hon.
Miss Murray, and Hon. Miss Paget, Maids of Honour in
Waiting; Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting; Captain Hood,
Groom in Waiting; Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Wait-
ing; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert.
Her Majesty and the Prince were received at the Pa-
lace by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse,
and the Vice-Chamberlain.

The Queen held A Privy Council at half past three
o'clock. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the
Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Duke of Wellington, the Secretaries of State for the
Home and Foreign Departments, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the President of the Board of Trade, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board
of Control, the Secretary at War, the Paymaster of the
Forces, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and
the ➢faster of the Horse.

Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint Sir John
Walsh, Bart., to be Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Radnor, Sir John took the oaths appointed to be taken
thereupon.
The Queen's Speech on closing the Session of Parlia-
ment this day was arranged and agreed upon. Mr. C.
Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audience to Sir Robert Peel, the
Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, and the Earl of
Haddingtoa.
The Court was attended by the Treasurer of the
Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of
the Household, Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in
Waiting ; Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting ; and
Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert.
Lord Byron and Captain Hood were the Lord and
Groom in Waiting.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town yesterday from his residence at Kew.
The Duke of Wellington had a dinner party yesterday
evening, at Apsley House.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.

London, Aug. 12, 1842.
The Gazette of this evening will announce the following
as the average prices of British Brown and Muscovado
sugars:— s. d.
West India
East India 3B 6
Mauritius
Total average 375. 3id. per cwt.
The actual quantities sold on amount of the importers
in the week ending the 9th inst., according to the returns
made upon oath by the sugar brokers, in conformity with
the Act of Parliament, and on which quantities the above
prices are computed, consisted of :-
25,240 cwt. of West India Sugar.
15,589 cwt. of East India Sugar.
1,677 cwt. of Mauritius Sugar.
The same Sugars, if sold in foreign markets, would,
from their qualities, fetch only 16s. per cwt. for the
West India, 18s. per cwt. for the East India, and
16s. 6d. per cwt. for the Mauritius, because they would
be sold side by side with foreign Sugars, which, taking
quality for quality, may be purchased at the like rates.
The British consumers are, consequently, paying the
monopolists 20s. per cwt. more for all the Sugar they
use, than the real value of it. The consumption per
annum being, iu round numbers, four million cvvts.,
shows that the sacrifice on one article to class interests,
amounts to about 4,000,0001. If this enormous sum had
gone to fortify the revenue instead of going into the
pockets of Sugar plantation proprietors, the community
at large would not now experience the annoyance of fill-
ing up the papers relating to the obnoxious Income-tax,
anti ot, by and by, having the collectors rapping at their
doors for the hard cash. Let each individual bear in
mind, as he hands over his money, that it is so much
paid for the maintenance of the Sugar monopoly, for it
is quite clear, that had the above-mentioned 4,000,000/.
been added to the general revenue, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would not have needed the proceeds of an In-
come-tax for the legitimate disbursements of the State.
A short time since an application was made on behalf
of the people to the Legislature, for a Committee to in-
quire into the causes of their alarming distress ; the in-
tensity of misery occasioned by this distress was acknow-
ledged, but the inquiry was denied. The appeal was
stifled, it is fair to conclude, because the landed interest
feared the development of truths which would point out
that a further alteration of the Corn-laws was the only
remedy which could alleviate the existing suffering ; ui
fact, that bread was the most fitting cure for star-
vation. We now change the character of the appli-
cants. Another class of landed proprietors, the West
India body, ask for a Committee to investigate the causes
of their ditticulties—diffleulties entirely arising from their
own mismanagement--;this favoured party no sooner
signify their wishes than tt Committee is forthwith nomi •
limed, with powers to examine into the causes of diftix-
c rice between employers and labourers in the 'West Indies.
This Committee, after a laborious investigation, has just
published a report ; whether their views are correct or
incorrect is not now the question, we merely point to the
fact that an inquiry into the causes of distress was denied
to the many, w bile it was readily gamed to a petted
few. Is this justice ?

The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch went to the
General Steam Navigation Company's wharf at Poplar,
on Wednesday evening, to witness the departure of the
younger branches of their family in the Company's
splendid new ship Princess Royal, Captain T. W.
Morris, for Edinburgh. The Duke and Duchess ex.
pressed their unqualified approbation of the rawacent
ve;if.)l, and also of the entire arrangements on boArd.
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