al quantity of the consumption. In
Belgium the produce of the beet-root follows the same progress. The
consumption of sugar there was, in 1850, 14,000 tons, of which 7,000
was beet-root, made in 22 manufactories. This year there are 18 new
ones, and although their organisation does not allow of their
manufacturing in the same proportion as the 22 old ones, they will
furnish at least 3,000 tons. The quantity of foreign sugar in that
market does not reckon more than 4,000 tons. This conclusion is the
more certain, as in 1848-1849, the beet-root only stood at 4,500
tons in the general account. It may therefore be seen from these
figures what progress has been made. The same progressive movement
is going on in Germany. In 1848 it produced 26,000 tons, and in
1861, 43,000. The following table shows the importance of this
improvement. It comprises the Zollverein, Hanover, and the Hanse Towns:--

Cane Sugar. Beet-root. Totals.
Tons. Tons. Tons.
1848 60,500 26,000 86,500
1849 54,000 34,000 88,000
1851 45,000 43,000 88,000

Thus we find that in the period of four years cane sugar has lost
15,000 tons and it will lose still more when new manufactories shall
have been established. The consumption of Russia is estimated at
85,000 tons, of which 35,000 is beet-root, and what proves that the
latter every day gains ground is, that the orders to the Havana are
constantly decreasing, and prices are getting lower. In 1848 Austria
consumed 40,000 tons, of which 8,000 were beet-root. Last year
(1851,) she produced 15,000 tons. The production of the continent
rising to 200,000 tons, and the consumption remaining nearly
stationary, it is evident that Brazilian and Cuban sugars will
encumber the English market, independently of the refined sugar of
Java, which Holland sends to Great Britain. When the continental
system was established by the decrees of Milan and Berlin, the
Emperor Napoleon asked the savans to point out the means of
replacing the productions which he proscribed: it is to the active
and useful impulse which his genius impressed on all minds, that
France and Europe owe this fresh manufacture--a creation the more
valuable as its fortunate development required the co-operation of
chemical science and agr