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In 18-10, we imported from Java 75,533 cwt. ; in 1841, 

 87,342 cwfc. ; in 1842, 24,922 cwt. ; in 1843, 35,161 cv/t. ; and in 

 1844, about 72,000 cwt. ; but most of this was only sent to Cowes, 

 for orders, to be transhipped to the Continent. 



Philippines. The exports from Manila into this country in 

 1841, were 133,482 cwt. ; in 1842, 63,464 cwt. ; and in 1843, 

 48,977 cwt. In the fifteen years between 1835 and 1850, the ex- 

 port of sugar from the Philippine Islands more than doubled : 



1835 

 1836 



1837 

 1838 

 1839 

 1840 



Tons. 

 11,542 

 14,875 

 12,293 

 12,375 

 15,631 

 16,563 



1841 

 1842 

 1843 

 1844 

 1845 

 1850 



Tons. 

 15,321 

 18,54.0 

 22,239 

 21,528 

 21,500 

 28,745 



About a third of this- is raw sugar, the rest is clayed or refined. 

 It is singular, that though these islands belong to Spain, the 

 export of this staple product to that country should be limited to 

 about 600 tons ; America taking about one-sixth, and England 

 and her colonies the remainder. There is now an increased demand 

 for the Australian colonies, consequent upon the large influx of 

 population to that quarter. 



Export of sugar from Manila in 1850. 



To Great Britain 

 Continent of Europe 

 Australian Colonies 

 Singapore, Batavia, and Bombay 

 California and the Pacific 

 The United States 



Piculs. 



146,926 

 50,830 



142,359 

 12,749 

 29,144, 

 77,919 



459,927 



The sugar cane occurs in a wild state on many of the islands of 

 the Pacific, but in no part of the American continent, notwith- 

 standing a contrary opinion has been expressed. 



The following are the chief varieties cultivated in the West 

 Indies, Louisiana, the East Indies, and Mauritius : 



1. Common or Creole cane, so called from being introduced from the New 

 World. 



2. Yellow Bourbon. 



3. Yellow Otaheite. 



4. Otaheite with purple bands. 



5. Purple Otaheite. 



6. Ribbon cane. 



^ My friend, Mr. L. "Wray, in his " Practical Sugar Planter," con- 

 siders the Bourbon, and yellow, or straw-coloured Otaheite cane, as 

 identical, but merely altered by change of soil and climate. 

 The yield from these cane-plants seems to be about the same in 

 either Indies, viz., in good land about two-and-a-half tons of dry 

 sugar per acre sometimes three tons. 



A very large species of red cane, grown at (Growhatty, in Assam, 



