The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-08-01

Ii is estimated by accomplished and experienced
statisticians, that the consumption of Il popula-
tion is % lbs. per capita per annum, p lbs. per
month, or an ounce per day. The markets sup
piled by San Francisco we assume to have a
population of GOO 900. This would give a con-
sumption of Is 900 600 lbs. per annum, or Il
little more than the anticipated amount Of i'm
ports for the first seven months into that port;
but to be more accurate, we will state that the
annual figures prepared for the San Francisco
Mercantile Gazette, in 1859, gave the monthly
consumption as 2,30S ,jS1 lbs, and for 1850,
2.lSS. O3S, the stock on hand january |. being
of all kinds, 6,729. $40 lbs. Should the increased
duty of DC. per 10. 20 into operation. which we
have every reason To suppose will be the case, we
shall look for an increased shipment to Victoria.
which place offers a good entrep6t from which
smuggling can be carried on into Oregon and
Washington Territories. In regard to sugar and
the increase of duty, the commercial writer of
the Mercantile Ga-cnc and PrioeS Current of San
Francisco, uses the following language
Another article Of Injury which deserves a place
In this list Is Sugar; FOR the quantity Of il which,
under any circumstances, may be regarded as a ne
cessity. hears but a very small proportion to the total
amount consumed. The imports of Foreign
Sugar FER annum are about. 100000 Tbs
To which add the crop Of Louisiana. q .2~bSOOOOOO rs
And We have a total supply Of .......9ls.0OOO lbs
Iehuct for Export say.--------..--- S.OOvOoO rs
And We have the total consumption.
Of the United siates--..-..-.---sS5,OOo,O0O rs
About - rs PEI capita
Ii i difficult 90 perceive upon what sound princi-
pie Of political economy the duty on this article was
reduced from "a per cent. ad valorem 20 ihree-fOurths
of n cent = iS-snd IN truth il sayOrs more Of politi-
cal snimosity. \ duty Of . cents ? u would Ger
tainly not diminish consumption, and the revenue
derived from foreign Sugars would then be S13. 100.-
600. instead Of about 81 800, 200. under the tariff If
1857; being an increase Of 81. 800. 900. In England,
Sugars pay a duty Of about 3 cents = p; the con-
sumption per capita i one-third greater than in our
own country. and the middle and labOring classes use
seyeuty-seyen per cent Of the whole.
In this frequent reference 20 the English customs,
1t should be borne IL mind that the wages Of labor in
the United States are far higher than there, and our
labOring classes are better able 70 provide themselves
with Injuries
In regard TO another Hawaiian product, Coffee,
the same writer observes
The imports of Coffee into the United States in
1859 were about 2Ji, y J,DOO b, and the cousump-
ton was something les :hau nine rs ger capita.
\ duty of = cents = = would yield 4 revenue Of
SO. 2UO. 900. and - III the case Of the proposed duty
on Tel. would probably not diminish the cousGmp-
tion a single pound, nor be found burdensome to the
humblest consumer. 10 England, the duty Is 8 cents
y n" Approximations have been expressed that
tine supply Of Coffee was declining-that some Of the
countries where IL Is raised are becoming less pro-
ductive-ani that hence. prices are likely to attain
an altitude that will exclude it 10 some extent from
the families Of the poor, and seriously diminish con-
sumption. These views require TO he confirmed. For
ourselves, we have no fears that remuneratIve prices
will not bring 10 market all that Is needed: but
should It b. -therwi>e. aud coffee become q luxury