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merce, and colonization. It is to be hoped that 

 Governments will take this into consideration, 

 and relieve the article from the heavy burthens 

 and restrictions under which it now labors al- 

 most in every country. Thus, sources for in- 



dustry and enjoyment might be opened to the 

 enormous mass of people enumerated by me, to 

 an extent exceeding almost the flights of tlie 

 most sanguine imagination. 



ESTIMATED CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN 184.5. 



Countries. 



Population according 

 to best authorities. 



Quantity 

 Quantity of Sugar. per head. 



lbs. lOtlij 



Custom-House Union 29,006,000^^°^°"^"^" 10 500 1 ^"'^'^ *> ^ 



Belgium 4,214.000 



Holland 3,160,000 



Oldenburg 276,000 



Hamburg 166,000 



Bremen 72,000 



Lubec 47,000 



Hanover 1.8OB.O0O 



Mecklenberg 606,000 



10 340 000 5 Colonial .51,000 ( 



i.u,M'j,wu^ Beet 5.0003 



D ■ ^,, -.-^ „„, ( Colonia] 37,000 > 



R"^«a ■'^''^^'^^%Beet 7;000> 



Austria 38,797,000 



Naples and Sicily 8.320.000 



Sardinia 4,882.000 



Tuscany 1,565,000 



Rome 2,977,000 



Pai-ma 495,000 



Lucca 170,000 



San Marino 76,000 



Modena 378,000 



56,000 12 1 



44,000 1 6 



57,o6o,ooo[g^"-i--vv;::::::::::'^i55 68,4oo 2 6 



.89,000) 



)U2 



1.000. 



S 2 



( French colonies 



France 35.400,000 O'oreign 11,000 



( Beet root 28,000 ) 



Portugal 3,412.000 10,000 6 6 



Spain. 13,786,000 (fi-om Cuba, 1844, 36,100) 36,000 5 & 



Sweden 3,111,000 



Denmark 2,248.000 



Norway 1,150,000 



6,509,000 a2.000 4 I 



Great Britain and Ireland 28,323,000 240,000 19 



Ionian Islands 205,000 



Malta and Gibraltar 130,000 



3.35,000 ) 



Cracow 145,000 ]■ * 



Switzerland 2,316,000) 



Turkey 10,000,000 



Greece 770,000 



10.770,000 4,000 



Canada and other colonies 4,544,000 These and shipping stores, est'd.. 15,000 



United States 18,700,000 150,000. 



.18 



Number of people 278,033,000 



845,900 tons. 



* Consumption not to be ascertained, but mostly included in the quantities assumed to be used elsewhere. 



Wf.eds on Gravel Walks. — A sub.scriber 

 says : " Seeing in your columns receipts for 

 eradicating weeds on gravel-walks, and think- 

 ing ' prevention better than cure,' I beg to men- 

 tion a plan which I have always found to an- 

 swer. It is simply, when forming your gravel- 

 walks, and before laying on the gravel, to 

 spread a layer of the dark-colored .'^oap waste, 

 which may be got from any soapery, if in the 

 neighborhood, and then putting the gravel on it 

 and rolling both of them, after spreading, as 

 as firmly as |)ossil)le. This will not only pre- 

 vent ^veods from srowing, but will form a walk 

 as hard and solid as cement. [Eui;li.'<h Paper. 



l^'^ In consequence of the unwholesome 

 state of the potatoes, the guardians of the Tot- 

 nes Union have ordered the sub.stitution of bread 

 and rice in the workhouse for the present, at the 

 rate of six ounces of bread, or four ounces of 

 rice (uncooked,) for one pound of potatoes. 



[English Paper. 



i;;^ A sow. belonging to Mr. John Birchley, 

 of the Red Lion Inn, near Cliorley, has pro- 

 duced 63 pigs in four farrows. The mt-ther of 

 this prolific animal had 113 pigs in seven fan-ows. 

 [ English I'aper. 



