Dr. Bow-ringput a question respecting the manufacture of Sugar from Beet-root—a process which he understood had lately been brought into this country. He wished to know whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer was acquainted with the fact, and whether he did not think that success in such an experiment would be attended with the most injurious consequences? If it succeeded, it might be necessary, as had been the case with the recent cultivation of tobacco, to pluck up the beetroot by the roots.
§ The Chancellor of the Exchequerreplied, that he had heard of such an experiment, and that the result had been a most signal failure.