The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-16 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. 51d. per cwt.; 375 tons of Mauritius,
at 345. 80. per cwt.; and 844 tons of East India su-
gars at 355. Bd. 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 Manila sugar at 21s. per
cwt.; the common justice of the case demands that the agri-
culturists should be put in a position to lay in their supplies
of sugar, and other colonial articles, at unprotected prices be-
fore they are compelled to dispose f 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 a 8 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 altera-
tion is made.

RED DEER.—Red deer are uncommonly sagacious,
and seem to employ the whole of their sagacity in in-
v.:silting and adopting plans of self-preservation. Wherever
a red deer is found, if his seat be carefully examined, it
will appear that it possesses a more commanding view than
any other part of the surrounding scenery. If a deer travels
in snow to his form, be gazes at and watches his own track
with the greatest anxiety. If the wind blows from the
direction of his pursuers, he will smell them at several
miles distance. If any of them are perspiring, he will detect
them much further. It must have been frequently observed
that almost every herd of red-deer carries i!young one along
with it. The young one is the sentinel. He is placed on an
eminence to watch, while the others browse beneath, and if
be attempts to quit his post the stags pursue and butt him
with their horns until he resumes his watch. When the
leading stag is perplexed with baffling winds, he works up
the herd to a pitch of terror in a similar manner, Ile
leaps from his form as if in extreme flight—scampers off,
but soon: returns, followed by the others. After a little,
when no danger is apparent, they begin to browse, and the
stag suddenly repeats his ruse. In this manner he convinces
the herd that some danger threatens, and they all become
watchful as so many lynxes. They also adopt this system
in instructing their young. There is a perpendicular rock
above the village of Shieldaig, on the summit of which a stag
selected his form. Ile lay with his flank towards the pre-
cipice, end commanded a view of the surrounding country, and
did not seem in the least degree alarmed at the approach of
the shepherd or his boy, or even the cutterrnen ; but if the
gamekeeper entered the ground he bounded away directly
Inverness Courier.
THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY OT A. CHILD.—
On Friday, at seven o'clock, Mr. William Payne, the Cooxiero rer
earned an inquiry at the Horse Shoe Tavern, Friar-street, Doctofs-
commons, respecting the death of A. newly-born female child, found
in a box in the engine-house of St. Atitt, Diackfriars. Police-con-
stable Banuington said, in answer to the Cotototr, tit he had made
every inquiry, but had not been able to obtain any tartan:; particu-
lars, The Jury returng4 A Yerilct of " Imo deal.,