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believe that when tranquillity has been reestablished, 

 the mean annual export of sugar will reach 192,000 

 boxes. 1 



Equinoctial America and Louisiana yield annually 

 (in 1825), to the commerce of Europe and America, 

 as appears by a minute comparison of all the partial 

 statistics, 460,000,000 kilogrammes of sugar, as fol- 

 lows : — 



Antilles, 1,147,500 slaves, 287, or 62 per cent. 



Brazil, 2,060.000 ' " 125, " 27 " " 



Guiana, 206,000 " 40, " 9 " " 



Great Britain alone, with a population of 14,400,000, 

 consumes more than one-third part of the 460,000,000 

 kilogrammes supplied by those countries of the new 

 continent, where the slave-trade has gathered 3,314,000 

 unfortunate slaves. 



The cultivation of the sugar cane is now so widely 

 extended in different parts of the world, that any 

 physical or political causes which might suspend, or 

 destroy industrial labor in one of the great Antilles, 

 would not affect the price of sugar, nor exercise that 

 influence in the general trade of Europe and America 

 they would have exercised when the great cultiva- 

 tion was concentrated in a smaller space. Spanish 



1 The product of sugar in Brazil, in 1851, amounted to 117,000 tons 

 of 2,000 lbs. each. — Hunt's Merchant's Magazine. 



