6f. Report of the Agricultural Committee. 



from which if we exclude Bengal and Madras, which 

 comprise probably the quotations for Khaur sugar. Mauri- 

 tius will figure at the bottom of the list, nearly 2 d" per 

 cwt. on the average below Havana, which is quoted as high 

 as 53/. It is true that only a general estimate can be form- 

 ed from this statement of the relative value of the produce 

 of these different countries, but they leave little doubt as to 

 the comparative inferiority of some of the sugars from this 

 Colony. It may be observed here in addition to the fore- 

 going, that the Sydney Price Current quotes Colonial refined 

 at k d. per lb. or about 8 d" per 100 lbs. french, with the 

 remark that, as there are now 3 refineries in full operation 

 « it is scarcely possible toexpect an improvement in prices.)) 



It would now result that whilst the merits of certain 

 principles, long since admitted in Europe amongst scienti- 

 lic men, have been undergoing discussion in the Colony 

 these principles have been accepted and acted upon in other 

 parts of the world, and according to a recent aimoun- 

 eement, « apparatus constructed in conformity therewith 

 » have been successively introduced into Bourbon, Java, 

 » Cuba, Louisiana, Guadalou[>e, Martinique, Surinam, Me- 

 )) xico, Egypt and Spain,)) within the last ten years. 



This announcement likewise sets forth « That these im- 

 )) proved apparatus, unknown in England, have not yot 

 )) penetrated the British Colonies, » a circumstance which 

 is thus alluded to in a pamphlet published two or three years 

 a^o in Paris ; 



« Quant aux cultivateurs des colonies Brilanniques, qui 

 » ne sont pas excites par le meme aigiiillon, ils u'ont rien, 

 » ou presque rien fait encore : et si rcmancipaliun ne leur 

 » a pas cr-ee de nouvelles charges, en faisant do leurs an- 

 » ciens esicla,yes des travailleurs salaries; si les dilFicuItes et 



