16 cents the pound.

I take from a table in the _Moniteur_ the following statement of the
number of factories and their location, with the amount of production
up to the 31st May, 1851. At that date the season is supposed to end.
A separate column gives the total production in the season of 1842,
showing an increase in ten years of more than double, viz., of
41,582,113 kilogrammes, or, in our weight, of 93,559,754 pounds.

Number of Kilogrammes Kilogrammes
Departments. Factories. Prod. 1850-1. Prod. 1843.

Aisne 30 5,307,754 3,103,178
Nord 155 44,142,224 15,334,063
Oise 8 1,589,939 751,746
Pas-de-Calais 70 16,665,084 5,856,944
Somme 23 3,404,776 2,683,421
Scattered about 18 2,707,190 3,505,602
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304 73,817,607 30,234,954

This information was given by M. Fould, Minister of Finance, upon the
introduction of a bill making an appropriation for the purchase of 455
_saccharometers_, which had become necessary by reason of the late law
ordering that from and after the 1st of January, 1852, the beet sugars
were to be taxed according to their saccharine richness. The Minister
declared that at that date there would be in active operation in
France 334 sugar factories and 84 refining establishments.

The _Moniteur Parisien_ has the following:--

"Notwithstanding the advantages accorded to colonial sugar, and the
duties which weigh on beet-root sugar, the latter article has
acquired such a regular extension that it has reached the quantity
of 60,000 tons--that is to say, the half of our consumption. France
(deducting the refined sugar exported under favour of the drawback)
consumes 120,000 tons, of which 60,000 are home made, 50,000
colonial, and 10,000 foreign. The two sugars have been placed on the
same conditions as to duties, but it is only from the 1st inst.
(Jan. 1852), that the beet-root sugar will pay a heavier duty than
our colonial sugar. In spite of this difference we are convinced
that the manufacture of beet-root sugar, which is every day,
improved by new processes, will be always very advantageous, and
will attain in some years the tot