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Show BEET SUGAR NEWS. Sugar in London. At tho end of 1803, and In tho earlier part of I8UI, llio tvboleaalo and retail grocors, coufectlonorp, etc., wore tempted tempt-ed by apparently low prlcea for sugar to abandon their long established bj stem of buying from baud to mouth, mid buy sugar for forward delivery many months ahead. Wo pointed out at tho beginning of Mnrch last (pago 181-2) tlin risks, and dangers of tho now departure, especially in connection with tho T,llrat marks" system, ybut wo had nl that time little notion of how rapidly tho warning would provo to lutto been a truoouo At the present moment tho trade throughout the country aro committed to purchase which, Hia n reasonable oitlinatoto any, intolto n Joint Iohs of something like JL'GUO.OOO, nnd In the existing statu tf the market, nnd prospects of Bupply, It is n question of how much more losa will be sull'orod leforo theBO unhappy conimlt-menta conimlt-menta are done with, Aa to the paat, It la beyond recall, for people hato entered Into contracts nnd iiniBt e.trry them out uu beat they can. As to tho future, however, the existing low prices, or tho lower ones that may protootcn moru templing Inter on, may again led to forward commitments, now that thla s) stem of gambling In rendnr-cd rendnr-cd so cany and attractive It ia well, therefore, for tho trculu to bear Htcadlly In mind tho Immcnao rxceaa in tho present pres-ent slock, nnd thoprospcctB,.lf favorable w-calhcr last, of such n crop of beet as baa never before been thought of. In fact, tho Biippllea seem" likely to bo bo b ipcrnbuudant that during tho next crop n Btato of thinfH h generally nnticipatul as haa never been known before, be-fore, ao that what havo formely been thought to havo been exceedingly low prices may bo little guldu to tvhnt may i umo u ion ua. The crop la sown nnd la growing, to thnthort cf long continued unfavorable weather, nothing can elfect It. fl'o havo had three or four bad 6ea,Jn siuceaaion, nnd the chancca are HiMfl in fator of n good crop tbl j car. Tor fleveroj tenra past the laud under bvet hnsdecideilly Increased and tho perccntngo in tbu roota haa na Htradily risen; but theso facta havo not been rellccten to nearly tho same degree In tho yield, owing to tho bad wiallicr. The sowinga hate again Increased this year, white tho prcspecta of supply point JUV'!ilUi',B to a glut of nugar. It- umtL be remembered, on tho other hand7thal tho Ucrmaii Ixntntica have been much dccrcaseil of Into year, nnd that they aro now trilling. Thoro arc also facilities for warehousing Biigar In Qer-iiruny, Qer-iiruny, mid obtaining advance of them, which did not exist n few ycara baik, ami tho present prices already involve an actual loss to tho producer of fno Migar,iu it great many cases where the lootH wero contracted for In advance nudfrdlircrcnt circumstances. U.owcrn nnd inoichantH further know that any oxcchuIvo deprcBdlou In one Bcnuon would bs cine to had to n great relniund in mother, bo that below it certain point people would lutesthcattly In sugar and hold it. Stilt an ixiesa Block and jlcld that imiyninouiit up in tnlue to ten, llftceii or cteu twenty million pound Bterllug, nro not easily dealt with even by thu capitiilistB of all Kuropc. Our linuudiatu object, however, ia to point' out thnt, unfortunate na rcceutoxpericn-cca rcceutoxpericn-cca In forward contracts lime been, a repetition of them just now might 'tery piobubly lend lo utill further mlshapa. It ia quite true, of courHi1, thai even the present threatening outlook may be completely altered by one of those liu-muoua liu-muoua and uufoieseen incidents that ao hiquentlyiiU'ittu grout market, cjptchil ly when prlcea aro so low in they ure now. To ilsk inoiieyoiiBUehitgiimbliug chaucu would, howotvr, bosuii liinl fmui a business olnl of view,. Loudon J'io-duct J'io-duct MarU-ts Keeiew, May J. |