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produced, but this does not include that raised and 
consumed in India, China, and other countries. The 
cane and beet produce 2,500,000 tons each. This quan- 
tity of cane sugar with the exception of 200,000 tons, is 
produced without subsidy or assistance from Govern- 
ment, while not a pound of beet sugar is raised without 
such artificial aid. 
The largest consumers of sugar, as far as can be as- 
certained, are the United States of America and the 
United Kingdom, 1,200,000 tons being consumed by the 
former, and 100,000 tons more by the latter. 
The sugar produced by British possessions, including 
50,000 tons exported from India, is 500,000 tons. 
Mr. LUBBOCK is of opinion that the Indian samples 
were of a high class, but unsuited to the English market, 
being wanting in brilliancy, and inferior in appearance 
to the loaf. It will be remembered, however, that 
Mr. HOWELL JONES considered some samples from 
the N.W. Provinces of India the finest in the whole 
Exhibition. 
The Australian Colonies were represented by New 
South Wales and Queensland which produced 17,500 
tons and 55,900 tons respectively. Fiji and Mauritius 
whose production is estimated at 12,000 and 120,000 
tons, supply a large quantity to Australia. 
The few lines in which the sugars of the West 
Indies and British Guiana are treated, tell us that 
these are all eminently suitable for the English market, 
except the white crystals, which are wanting in a spark- 
ling appearance produced by the home refiners at a 
trifling cost, but not attainable by those working on a 
smaller scale, except at an unremunerative outlay. 
