The annual Mauritius crops, as exported, for the last ten years, have been as follows.  The shipments frequently extend beyond a year, hence a discrepancy sometimes between the year’s crop and the year’s export:—­

Tons,
1842-43        24,400
1843-44        28,600
1844-45        37,600
1845-46        49,100
1846-47        64,100
1847-48        59,021
1848-49        50,782
1849-50        51,811
1850-51        55,000
1851-52        65,080

Besides its exports to Great Britain, Mauritius ships large quantities of sugar to the Cape of Good Hope and Australia.

Its local consumption is moreover set down at about 2,500 tons.

The progressive increase in its exports is marked by the following return of imports into Great Britain from the island:—­

Cwt.
1826         93,723
1827        186,782
1828        204,344
1829        361,325
1830        297,958
1831        485,710
1832        517,553
1833        521,904
1834        516,077
1835        553,891
1836        558,237
1837        497,302
1838        537,455
1839        604,671
1840        690,294
1841        545,356
1842        716,009
1843        696,652
1844        545,415
1845        716,173
1846        845,197
1847      1,193,571
1848        886,184
1849        893,524
1850      1,003,296
1851        999,337

East Indies.—­Sugar is a very old and extensive cultivation in India.  It would probably be within the mark, to estimate the annual produce of the country at a million of tons.  An official return shows that the quantity of sugar carried on one road of the interior, for provincial consumption, is about equal to the whole quantity shipped from Calcutta—­some 50,000 or 60,000 tons.

India is fast becoming a great sugar producing country, although its produce and processes of manufacture are rude and imperfect.  The Coolies who return from time to time to the Indian ports, bring with them much acquired knowledge and experience from the Mauritius.

In 1825, the import of sugar from the East Indies was but 146,000 cwt., and it fluctuated greatly in succeeding years, being occasionally as low as 76,600 cwt.  In 1837 the quantity imported was just double what it was in 1827.  In 1841, it had reached as high as 1,239,738 cwt., and subsequently kept steady for a few years at 1,100,000 cwt.—­and for the last four years has averaged 1,400,000 cwt.

Java.—­Attention has been withdrawn, in a great measure, from sugar cultivation in Java, owing to coffee being found a more remunerative staple.  The following figures serve to show the extent of its exports of sugar:—­

Cwt.
1826         23,565
1827         38,357
1828         31,301
1829         91,227
1830        129,300
1831        144,077
1832        292,705
1833        151,128
1834        443,911
1835        523,162
1836        607,336
1837        820,063
1838        873,056
1839        999,895
1840      1,231,135
1841      1,252,041