The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-14 00:00:00

SUGAR DUTIES.

Transactions in sugar, in the London market, have been,
during the last and present weeks, very limited; the quo-
tation given in last night's Gazette, upon the following
sales to the 10th instant, were only 766 tons of West
India, at 355. bid. per cwt.; 375 tons of Mauritius,
at 345. 80. per cwt.; and 844 tons of East India su-
gars at 355. Sid. per cwt., giving a total average of
355. sd. per cwt. It really will be most unfair to the
agriculturists to make them pay this price for sugar
when their protection is reduced to 4s. a quarter for wheat,
when they could buy uncertificated Manilla sugar at 21s. per
cwt. ; the common justice of the case demands that the agri-
culturists should be Rut in a position to lay in their supplies
of sugar, and other colonial articles, at unprotected prices be-
fore they are compelled to dispose of their produce upon simi-
lar terms. As it is, the farmers and others dependent on the
land for subsistence will be unfairly treated. It
is rumoured in Mincing-lane that when Sir Robert
Peel brings on the sugar question, and insists
on keeping up the distinction on the duties on the
produce of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Brazils, in favour
of the sugars from Java and the Philippine Islands, he will
be in a fearful minority. In fact, we want more sugar
with abundance as much revenue would be obtained on it
at the reduced duty of 14s. as was heretofore received when
the duty was 245. per cwt. This being the general opinion,
much life cannot be expected in the market until an alters -
tion is made.

MR. W. BATTY.—The admirers of equestrian per-
formances will be gratified to learn that this gentleman, so well
known as the proprietor of Astley's Royal Amphitheatre, who has
sacred so severely of late from asthma, is now, under the able treat-
ment of Dr. Cronin, almost recovered from that complaint. We
were favoured with an interview with Mr. Batty, who in-
formed us that he had been confined to his bed, and come-
quently incapacitated from attending to the routine of his
arduous duties, but that " since he had placed himself under
Dr. Cronin, who had done more by his treatment, (which
is called anaspasia) towards effecting a cure than all his
previous medical attendants, (these were his words) he was enabled
to resume the onerous duties of his, establishment, and in fact is
almost well." Such cures as this caanot be too widely circulated in
the public journals, for we have no doubt there are many suffering
from asthma and other pulmonary disorders, who erronet.usly believe
themselves incurable. —United Service Gazette.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPER—NAVY ESTIMATES AND
EXPENSES.—A return has Just been printed, by order of the House
of Commons, containing an account of the naval receipts and expen-
diture for the year ending 31st March, 1845. This document gives
the details of the expenditure of 6,466,019/. for the several branches
of naval service ; which sum exceeds by 44,4291. the aggregate
a:r.ount of grants voted by the House for that department. The
principal excess is in the item for naval stores, building and repair of
ship docks, &c., in which the amount expended is larger by 68,6191.
than the sum granted. The cause of this excess is explained to be
the dispatch in providing steam machinery and iron steamers, and
the necessity of obtaining supplies of timlier for steam-vessels at
which had been. established during the year as a build-
Deptford yard,
THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY OF A CHILD.—
the death of a newly-born female child, found
Last evening, at seven o'clock, Mr. William Payne, the Coroner, re-
sumed an inquiry at the Horse Shoe Tavern, Friar-street, Doctors'-
.house• of St. Ann, Blackfriars. Police-cot:-
in answer to the Coroner, that he had made
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every inquiry, but had not been able to obtain any further particu-
lars. The Jury returned a verdict of Found dead."
THE EARL Of DERBY AND FREE TRADE.—WC are
enabled positively to announce that the venerable head of
the house of Derby has no sympathy with the protectionist
predilections of Lord Stanley, and may be classed among the
warmed admirersof free trade,—Lancaster Guardian.