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London, England, 1831-05-26 00:00:00

Net proceeds ...
Deduct cost of production ...

Leaves ... 2 1.16
Two pence and one.aixteenth part of a penny being all the Demerara
r.ntl Easequebo Sugar Planter gets for a gallon of Rum when the inkr
is is tid per gallon. This ruinous price being occasioned by the une-
qual footing on which British plantation Spirits have been placed wi 4
those of home production ! !
The above-mentioned Estate cost its proprietor 120,0001. sterling,
and was considered a good bargain some years ago ; it now does not
yield more than 21 per cent. on the capital invested. The prices of
produce are calculated at the highest rates, as can be shewn by actual
aceoont sales. An Estate, making a similar crop, in the same part of
the Colony, taking the sales, for the last two years, has not averaged 91.
per hhd. and the sales amount to 1600 hhda.
The foregoing *hews the condition of an unencumbered estate . • but
reverse the case and see what it is when the Proprietor owes his 31e.r.
chant, or the original seller of the estate, 60,0001. or half the cost of
the properly on mortgage, paying the legal interest of 6 per cent.
per annum.

641,000 L tine on mortgage, interest annually.... £3BOO
Revenue, after deducing current annual ex-

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pease" 2705 81.

Leaves.... . ..... 12s.
Leaving the Proprietor in debt this sum annually, without receiving
a farthing of interest on the 60,0001. of his own sunk on the estate.
No. 2..—An E'tatc with 200 Negroes in an average part of tine
Colony, as to &oil and local advantages, produces, on an average, 260
hhds. Sugar.
As in Schedule No. 1, at 101. 17s. per hbd.
equal to
20,000 gallons Rum (old measure), 16,667
Imperial, nett proceeds lid. per gallon .......

b lii.

Gross Revenue........ £3376 Ils.
The expenses of this Estate are moderate, be.
ing on an average 2,5001. The building's:,
principally of brick (having the advantages of
3 good foundation) the annual deterioration
is. therefore, not calculated at more than two
per Cent. on the average. The present value
put on them is 10,0001. but they originally
cost much more-2001 2.7G0 (1

Balance .. f 46 11
This &tate was valued a few years at 40,0001. when its sugars net.
tad the proprietor as much pet cut as the amount of duty now
charged by Government, 245. and Rum bore a remunerati. g price.
He had then a very fair return for his capital. He still owes ten
thousand pounds on the property to his merchant, so the. after pay-
ment of the interest,6ool he has only 76111 s left to support himself and
large fetidly, and to meet contingencies inseparable from the nature of
West India property.
Coffee erd Cotton Estates, whet e the plantain loath are t shammed,
arc setually giving no return to the proprietors: &eel, :mitae some is.
duction of the duty on the coffee takes place soon, ti ei cultivation sill
be entirely abandoned.
The effect produced on trade by this impoverished state of the plan.
teas, Is cony day liccontim; more apparent. The Exchange has Hort
to a hcigh. above what it has been herctofort, since the colony becaiiie
British ; law suits, to a frightful extent. are accumulating ; and the
home supplies imported by the int rehnnts for sale, are perishing in the
warehouses for want of customers. The trade of Demerara and EL.!.
quebo with Britain and her North American Colonies, has hitherto em.
ploytd 86,000 tons shipping ; upwards of 5,000 seamen ; and the
actual value of article' of British In:inutile arc and production imported
annually, is little short of a million sterling. These imports will na-
turally diminish, if the agtitultural burtht ns arc not speedily and eiFec.
tually relieved. It is in vain for the enemies of the colonies to raise
the argument that the planters have hitherto placed too high a value
on their property, for it is evident it could never have bees contem.
plated that the duties would have been suffered to remain so high, in
the face of so great a fall, as to make the remunerating price to the
colonial agticulturist actually less than the charge for freight of the ar.
tides of Sugar and Rum to the home market.
It is thus manifest, that if the present system continues, certain ruin
awaits the Colonists. It is enough for them to show (whatever may
have been their situation formerly) that at present they are sinking fast
into decay ; that their burdens are pressing on them in a manner which
can only be alleviated by a large reduction of duty on their maple com-
modities ; that such duty should be proportioned to the quality of
their produce ; and, as the colonists are not only British subjects, but
most of them nati% es of the Mother Country. they are equally entitled,
with the old Colonies, to British protection and Colonial rights. The
advantages which the islands enjoy, of having legislature% granted to
them by Royal Chatter, ought, in no way, to entitle them to a pre-
ference over the ceded Colonies in the home markets ; but should, on
the contrary, give the latter a greater claim to protection,—particularly
as all the measures recommended by Government, in pursuance of their
plan of amelioration, are now In full operation here, and attended with
very heavy expenses to the Colonists.
Demerara, 20th January. 1031.
John Croal, Thomas Frankland, George Rainy, Peter Rose, George
Warren, Gavin Fullerton, James Douglas. William Arrindell,
Andrew Jackson, Alexander Macrae, John sPLean.

CHOLERA MoRBUS IN RUSSIA.—The Russian Govern-
ment are of opinion that the cholera entered the province of the then.
burg during the year 1829, with the caravans trading between Oren.
burg and Bonkliars, the commercial entrepot of central Asia. During
the summer of 1830, the atmosphere was filled with dense masses et-
ernall green files, which in Asia are the forerunners of pestilence, and are
called the plague files. The streets swarmed with these insects. and
as soon as the inhabitants quitted their houses, they were covered
from head to foot with them. No ',tendon was, however, paid to
this phenomenon, nor any measures of precaution adopted, until mid.
ll'ence had been received that this formidable disease had appeared
in Nischni-Novgorod : quarantine reguLtions were immediatelt en.
forced, but It was too late. The fugitives from the infected places
brought the disease itself with the tidings of its progresa; consternation
prevailed among all ranks--every one who permed the means fled from
the city, and even the medical men were incapacitated by terror from
paying attention to the sick. The number of persons attacked did not
exead 6,000, and it was observed that the least timid, and those
who pursued their out-door occupations as usual, generally
with rare exceptions; the nurses and physicians, and the =714
who conveyed the dead to the place of interment, continued in
perfect health. The symptoms of the disease were precisely the rime
as those of the spasmodic cholera of India. The attack is usually
most insidious and sudden. In the Mutely of the epidemic, in.
stances are numerous of soldiers falling in the line of march, and
dying instantly, as if seared by lightning, without having uttered
a previous complaint. Mechanics have perished with their working
implements in their hands—the Brahmin at his beads, and the Ryot at
his plough. The remedies which had been applied in Southern Asia
were, however, found to be fatally injurious at Miaow. M'hUe bleed-
ing was resorted to, as in Asia, the majority of the mess proved fatal ;
but an uneducated dtisen of &nolesako, hiving tried feesentstfons to
prevent perspiration, with memos, the physicians adopsi the setgett-
don, and the recoveries afterwards were muck more a than the
desks. The disease was, however, as And is Romig ss
comparing the Dumber of deaths with the diseased, bat it is reessolkebie
that fewer were attacked there than to the southern countries. Were
the diseases to continue its ravages in the same rlace. it would depopo-
late the world ; but, few localities have suffered longer than four or six
weeks at a time under the worst form otthe distemper, and to this suc-
ceed intervals of safety more or less complete.