195 



Somme, Aisne, and Oiae. The best quality retails at 16 cents 

 the pound, 



I take from a table in the Moniteur the following statement 

 of the number of factories and their location, with the amount of 

 production up to the 31st May, 1851. At that date the season is 

 supposed to end. A separate column gives the total production in 

 the season of 1842, showing an increase in ten years of more than 

 double, viz., of 41,582,113 kilogrammes, or, in our weight, of 

 93,559,754 pounds. 



Number of Kilogrammes Kilogrammes 

 Departments. Factories. Prod. 1850-1. Prod. 1842, 



Aisne 30 5,307,754 3,103,178 



Nord ' 155 44,142,224 15,334,063 



Oise . 8 1,589,939 751,746 



Tas-dc-Calais . 70 16,665,084 5,856,944 



Somme . 23 3,404,776 2,683,421 



Scattered about 18 2,707,190 3,505,602 



304 73,817,607 30,234,954 



This information was given by M. Fould, Minister of Finance, 

 upon the introduction of a bill making an appropriation for the 

 purchase of 455 saccharometers, which had become necessary by 

 reason of the late law ordering that from and after the 1st of Ja- 

 nuary, 1852, the beet sugars were to be taxed according to their 

 saccharine richness. The Minister declared that at that date there 

 would be in active operation in France 334 sugar factories and 

 84 refining establishments. 



The Moniteur Parisien has the following : 



" Notwithstanding the advantages accorded to colonial sugar, and the duties 

 which weigh on beet-root sugar, the latter article has acquired such a regular 

 extension that it has reached the quantity of 60,000 tons that is to say, the half 

 of our consumption. France (deducting the refined sugar exported under favour 

 of the drawback) consumes 120,000 tons, of which 60,000 are home made, 50,000 

 colonial, and 10,000 foreign. The two sugars have been placed on the same con- 

 ditions as to duties, but it is only from the 1st inst. (Jan. 1852), that the beet-root 

 sugar will pay a heavier duty than our colonial sugar. la spite of this difference 

 we are convinced that the manufacture of beet- root sugar, which is every day, im- 

 proved by new processes, will be always very advantageous, and will attain in 

 some years the total quantity of the consumption. In Belgium the produce of 

 the beet- root follows the same progress. The consumption of sugar there was, in 

 1850, 14,000 tons, of which 7,000 was beet-root, made in 22 manufactories. 

 This year there are 18 new ones, and although their organisation does not allow 

 of their manufacturing in the same proportion as the 22 old ones, they will fur- 

 nish at least 3,000 tons. The quantity of foreign sugar in that market does not 

 reckon more than 4,000 tons. This conclusion is the more certain, as in 1848- 

 1849, the beet-root only stood at 4,500 tons in the general account. It may 

 therefore be seen from these figures what progress has been made. The same 

 progressive movement is going on in Germany. In 1848 it produced 26,000 

 tons, and in 1851, 43,000. The following table shows the importance of 

 this improvement. It comprises the Zollvercin, Hanoyer, and the Hansc 

 Towns : 



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