The rapid increase of the demand for British goods in China since rthe close of the war and the opening of the ports, and the prospect that the demand will be increased to a much greater extent as the people in the northern provinces of that populous empire become better acquainted with the cheapness and excellence of British manufactures, render it a matter of great consequence that the number of articles received in return from that country should be increased, and it is, therefore, satisfactory to learn, that there is a prospect of our receiving a considerable quantity of sugar form China under the new scale of duties mentioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his speech on the Budget. We see from Mr. Bernard’s interesting account of the voyages and services of the Nemesis, that there are large sugar manufactories on some of the large Islands in the Canton river, and we learn from our friends who have resided at Bombay and Singapore, that Chinese sugar and sugar candy, of excellent quality and moderate price, and imported in large quantities into India and the Indian Islands. From a statement in one of the Singapore papers, it appears that 5,889 pikuls (133 1/2 lbs. each) of Chinese sugar were imported into that port in 1843, chiefly in Chinese junks, and as the sugar had to be sold in competition with the cheap sugars of Manilla, Java, Siam and Cochin China, the price cannot have been excessive. The belief of the several well-connected persons is that Chinese sugar is to be imported into England to a considerable extent.
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Chinese Sugar (1844)
Source: The Polynesian. Honolulu: Saturday, November 23, 1844.
The rapid increase of the demand for British goods in China since rthe close of the war and the opening of the ports, and the prospect that the demand will be increased to a much greater extent as the people in the northern provinces of that populous empire become better acquainted with the cheapness and excellence of British manufactures, render it a matter of great consequence that the number of articles received in return from that country should be increased, and it is, therefore, satisfactory to learn, that there is a prospect of our receiving a considerable quantity of sugar form China under the new scale of duties mentioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his speech on the Budget. We see from Mr. Bernard’s interesting account of the voyages and services of the Nemesis, that there are large sugar manufactories on some of the large Islands in the Canton river, and we learn from our friends who have resided at Bombay and Singapore, that Chinese sugar and sugar candy, of excellent quality and moderate price, and imported in large quantities into India and the Indian Islands. From a statement in one of the Singapore papers, it appears that 5,889 pikuls (133 1/2 lbs. each) of Chinese sugar were imported into that port in 1843, chiefly in Chinese junks, and as the sugar had to be sold in competition with the cheap sugars of Manilla, Java, Siam and Cochin China, the price cannot have been excessive. The belief of the several well-connected persons is that Chinese sugar is to be imported into England to a considerable extent.
The rapid increase of the demand for British goods in China since rthe close of the war and the opening of the ports, and the prospect that the demand will be increased to a much greater extent as the people in the northern provinces of that populous empire become better acquainted with the cheapness and excellence of British manufactures, render it a matter of great consequence that the number of articles received in return from that country should be increased, and it is, therefore, satisfactory to learn, that there is a prospect of our receiving a considerable quantity of sugar form China under the new scale of duties mentioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his speech on the Budget. We see from Mr. Bernard’s interesting account of the voyages and services of the Nemesis, that there are large sugar manufactories on some of the large Islands in the Canton river, and we learn from our friends who have resided at Bombay and Singapore, that Chinese sugar and sugar candy, of excellent quality and moderate price, and imported in large quantities into India and the Indian Islands. From a statement in one of the Singapore papers, it appears that 5,889 pikuls (133 1/2 lbs. each) of Chinese sugar were imported into that port in 1843, chiefly in Chinese junks, and as the sugar had to be sold in competition with the cheap sugars of Manilla, Java, Siam and Cochin China, the price cannot have been excessive. The belief of the several well-connected persons is that Chinese sugar is to be imported into England to a considerable extent.
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