, 1874-09-23

and TO get what they want. we are SO very
~virtuous that we suppose If we cut OFF our
own nose other people would cut OF theirs,
and it Is rather a shock to find that our exam
pie, which is always for the good OF others,
and never for our owns not appreciated.
Our own emigration was stopped, but the
Macao trade 1ourished all the more. 1t is
evident that Peru will never want for labour.
So long as she gets it fairly and treats it fair
Iy, no one need complain. Our own colonies
have tried to get it fairly from China, and
have failed, The Chinese have shared the
common suspicion of good intentions even
when supplemented by honest performance
Our own colonies languish for want OF labour
while Peru can Immediately find a substitute
for Macao in the Chinese ports. There is one
reflection, however, to which this matter gives
rise and which is eminently c%onsoling to a
student of English literature. The treaty
lessons the distance Though of course only in
an abstract or moral point of view, which the
poet evidently thought was very considerable,
between the two countries, when he talked OF
surveying mankind from China to Peru. The
poet little thought that Peru was destined to
take rank among "the most fav0ured nations"
in the regard of China.
In all the great sugar consuming countries,
except perhaps France, there is seen during
the present year a considerable increase OF
consumption. The anticipated result of the
abolition of the duties in England has not yet
been fully realised, but with a good fruit
season there can be no doubt that the years
figures will show an increase that will be the
best justification for that measure. In the
United States the consumption for the seven
months ending July was 397,4S6 tons, against
1881 IS tons in 1873, showing an excess of
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100000 tons a year. In Germany for the
twelve months which ended in June the con-
sumsption was 295,002 tons, against 260,779
ton in 1878, or an excess of $4,000 tons.
In Austria the progress of consumption is equal
Iy great, and with one or two exceptions the
same remark applies to other countries. On
the other hand the production during the pre-
sent year will not show much, if any, advance.
Cuba is still distracted with civil war, and dis
turbed by the prospect of that vast change
which must sooner or later revOluti0niSa the
sugar industry of the island. Brazil is extend
ing the cultivation Ofeoffee rather than of sugar.
The production of Java is limited-that of
Egypt, having been arti6cially b0lstered up by
the Viceroy, is now feeling the effects of His
Highness's want of money, the splendid ma
chinery which was sent out lying just as it ar
rived, and valuable principally as old metal.
vacuum pans Cdu U6 udu d bargain III GSy w dG
the present moment. In Louisiana the keen
antagonism, which has occasionally broken out
into deeds of violence, between the white and
black races is not favourable to sugar Cultiva-
ton. The production of the Antilles, in gen.
eral, is not likely to be greater this year than
it was in 1878, In Mauritius there is o deficit
of IL, 900 tons, and Queensland and Natal can
hardly be said to count seriously at present in
augmenting the sugar production of the world.
1.-THE Journal des Fa6ricants de Sucre can find
comfort IN the above facts in estimating the
immediate future af the beetrOot industry, they
are no less significant as throwing some light
upon the prospects af cane sugar. What those
prospects are, the readers of these remarks in
the West Indies will be best able to judge.
The greater saccharine richness of the cane,
as compared with beetroot, is probably admit
ted by all who are practically acquainted with
the two things. But an admission of this kind
by those who are interested in the cane indus
try is of no possible use, unless it leads to prac-
tical action. The utmost skill and science
have been brought to bear upon the b%eetroot,
with q success patent to all the world And
if the cane is not only to hold its Own, but to
show still further its superiority to all competi-
tors, there is no time TO be lost in invoking the
best chemical and mechanical skill to this end.
Mr.. Bouverie, at the last meeting of the Colo
niaI Comnanv. stated the problem terSely and