the common and low brown sorts." With respect, then, to that portion of the supply of sugar derived from the West Indies, the only question which can arise is--Can the grower have succeeded during the past year in reducing the cost of production so far as to have allowed the _Gazette_ _average_ of British plantation to fall from 29s. 2d. nett in February of last year, to 20s. 2d. in the February of this year? We know that during this period no economising of labour has been achieved to warrant a decline of 9s. per cwt.--nearly thirty per cent; and the conclusion is obvious, that the bulk of this saying to the British consumer has come out of the pockets of the colonial proprietor and the British colonial merchant. The price at the commencement of the year, it is admitted, was a barely remunerative one; and every shilling of reduction since has been positive loss. With respect to East India sugar, which is actually purchased in the country of its growth, the loss has fallen directly upon the importer--the fact being notorious, that prices throughout the year have ruled higher in the colonial markets, and in China, Java, &c., by from 4s. to 5s. per cwt. than it could be sold for on its arrival here. Messrs Littledale & Co. quote the prices of Bengal, Madras, and Mauritius, best and good descriptions, in bond, from 6s. to 6s. 6d. lower in January this year than in January last year, and common and inferior descriptions as much as 8s. to 9s. lower. Upon China and Manilla the fall has been from 3s. to 4s. 6d. The same authority to which I have before referred--the _New London Price Current_--remarks of Mauritius sugar, that the "rates are 5s. _to_ 8s. _per cwt. lower_, the difference being most apparent on brown and inferior qualities;" and of East India, "Stock is 6950, (in London,) and in 1850 it was 5500 tons. _Prices range_ 4s. _to_ 8s. _per cwt. under that period_, the difference being more apparent on brown and inferior qualities, of which there is a loss upon importation."