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lbs. 



Netherlands .... 42,000,000 



Russia . . . . 70,000,000 



Denmark and Sweden . . . 22,000,000 



German Zollverein . . . 101,300,000 



Other parts of Germany . . . 160,000,000 



Austria .... i)0,000,000 



1,428,580,096 



The following figures show the quantities of raw sugar in 

 general, in tons, imported into the British markets for the last five 

 years, compared with consumption : — 



Entire British 

 Years. Importations. Consumption. Surplus. 



1847 415,289 290,281 125,008 



1848 354,834 309,424 45,410 



1849 362,087 299,041 63,046 



1850 332,470 310,391 22,089 



1851 419,083 329,561 89,472 



1852 360,033 358,642 1,391 



Deduced from Parliamentary Paper, No. 461, Session 1853. 



The consumption of sugar then in the whole world may be roughly 

 estimated at two and a half million tons, of which the United King- 

 dom may now be put down for 350,000; the rest of Europe 

 420,000, and the United States 300,000. 



The United States produce about 140,000 tons of cane and 

 maple sugar, which are exclusively used for home consumption, 

 the remainder of their requirements being made up by foreign 

 importation. The American consumption, which in 1851 amounted 

 to 133,000 tons of sugar cane reached last year a total of 321,000 

 tons, almost as much as England consumed — 358,000 — and more 

 than the consumption of 100,000,000 of persons on the continent. 



The whole production of tropical sugar, is about one million 

 and a-half tons, while the consumption is probably two million 

 tons ; but the manufacture of sugar from beet root, maple and 

 other sources, supplies the deficiency. 



The total quantities of sugar, and molasses as sugar, consumed 

 in the United Kingdom in the last six years, were, according to a 

 Parliamentary paper, 'No. 292, of the last session, as follows : — 



Cwt. sugar. Cwt. molasses, 



1847 4,723,232 1,256,421 



1848 5,003,318 865,752 



1849 5,283,729 2,021,065 



1850 5,570,461 752,027 



1851 5,043,872 1,522,405 



1852 7,203,631 799,942 



The returns further specify that the annual average consump- 

 tion of British colonial sugar, in the five years ending 1851, was 

 5,124,922 cwt. ; and in the five years ending 1846, was 4,579,054 

 cwt. ; the average consumption of British colonial sugar, has, 

 therefore, exceeded in the five years since the duties were reduced, 

 in 1846, the average consumption for the five previous years by 

 545,868 cwt. per annum ; or in the aggregate in the five years, the 



