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SUGAR. 



Besides its exports to Great Britain, Mauritius ships large 

 quantities of sugar to the Cape of Good Hope and Australia. 



Its local consumption is moreover set down at about 2,500 tons. 



The progressive increase in its exports is marked by the follow- 

 ing return of imports into Great Britain from the island : 



1826 

 1827 

 1828 

 1829 

 1830 

 1831 

 1832 

 1833 

 1834 

 1835 

 1836 

 1837 

 1838 



Cwt. 



604,071 

 690,294 

 545,356 

 716,009 

 696,652 

 545,415 

 716,173 

 815,197 



1,193,571 

 886,184 

 893,524 



1,003,296 

 999,337 



East Indies. Sugar is a very old and extensive cultivation in 

 India. It would probably be within the mark, to estimate the 

 annual produce of the country at a million of tons. An official 

 return shows that the quantity of sugar carried on one road of 

 the interior, for provincial consumption, is about equal to the 

 whole quantity shipped from Calcutta some 50,000 or 60,000 

 tons. 



India is fast becoming a great sugar producing country, al- 

 though its produce and processes of manufacture are rude and 

 imperfect. The Coolies who return from time to time to the 

 Indian ports, bring with them much acquired knowledge and ex- 

 perience from the Mauritius, 



In 1825, the import of sugar from the East Indies was but 

 146,000 cwt., and it fluctuated greatly in succeeding years, being 

 occasionally as low as 76,600 cwt. In 1837 the quantity imported 

 was just double what it was in 1827. In 1841, it had reached as 

 high as 1,239,738 cwt., and subsequently kept steady for a few 

 years at 1,100,000 cwt. and for the last four years has averaged 

 1,400,000 cwt. 



Java. Attention has been withdrawn, in a great measure, from 

 sugar cultivation in Java, owing to coffee being found a more 

 remunerative staple. The following figures serve to show the ex- 

 tent of its exports of sugar : 



1826 

 1827 

 1828 

 1829 

 1830 

 1831 

 1832 

 1833 

 1834 

 1835 

 1836 

 1837 



Cwt. 

 873,056 

 999,895 

 1,231,135 

 ,252,041 

 ,105,856 

 ,162,211 

 ,200,790 

 ,812,500 

 1,798,612 

 1,797,874 

 1,987,957 

 2,090,845 



