The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-15 00:00:00

THE NEW SUGAR BILL.

The Act of last session, admitting foreign sugar,
the produce of free labour, into this country at a duty
of 345. per cwt., came into operation on Monday, but
there is scarcely any sugar, either in this port or in
London, which is entitled to be entered under its pro-
visions, and very little is likely to arrive before the
spring of next year. It will be remembered the Act
requires that all foreign sugars introduced shall be
accompanied with a certificate of origin, signed by
the Britiih Consul resident at the place where they
are shipped. Now there are no such Consuls in any
of the sugar growing countries to the east of the
Cape, unless it is in China, and there is, therefore, no
sugar of any consequence that can be admitted at
present from that part of the world. A Consul has
been sent out to Manilla, but no intelligence has yet
been received in this country of his arrival, so that the
sugar of the Philippine Islands, of which several
cargoes have recently arrived in the Channel for
orders, is not admissible. For the same reason, the
Java sugar is inadmissible, and will remain so until
the English Government has either arranged with the
Dutch Government for the appointment of a regular
Consul, which it is understood that it has not yet been
able to do, until it has given some one authority to act
as Consul at Batavia for this particular purpose.
When this matter of Consuls is arranged, there is no
doubt that the arrivals of sugar from beyond the
Cape will be very considerable. The only lot of
foreign free-grown sugar in Liverpool, entitled to ad-
mission, of which we have heard, is a small quantity
of Venezuela sugar shipped at Laguayra. There is
very little of it, and no more can be got at present,
owing to the demand on the spot for refining. A friend
of ours has given us a sample which shows it to be a
most beautiful sugar, full of saccharine matter, and
of an excellent colour and quality. If a sufficient
quantity of sugar of this kind can be obtained either
from America or Asia, or both, it will-be a most
valuable addition to the existing supply, and will have
a great effect on prices.—Liverpool Times.

FEMALE PEASANTRY IN TILE SOUTH.—IR the re-
moter extremities of the county of Limerick, I saw, for
the first time, young females and grown-up women
carrying large wooden pails full of milk on their heads.
This was to me a wonderful as well as novel sight. They

walked at as rapid a pace with these wooden pails'on
their head, without a hand touching them, as if they had
been so strapped to their head as to render it impossible
for them to fall, or the milk in any way to spill. Neither
men nor women in this country could perform this ex-
ploit, though so easy of performance to the female
peasantry in the south of Ireland. The further south
you go, the more frequently do you see women carrying
pails of milk or of water and other heavy burdens in
this way. Not only can they walk at full speed with
these utensils full of milk or water on their head without
the aid of their hands, but some of them can leap over
short hedges or small dykes, without the pails being dis-
placed, or even a single drop of their contents being spilt.
The female peasantry in the south of Ireland are allowed
on all hands to possess finer figures than the women in
the rural districts of any other part of that country ;
and the reason is supposed to be the erect manner in
which they are obliged to walk when carrying burdens
on their heads which require a certain stateliness as well
as steadiness of carriage,---Impressions of Ireland and

the Irish.
The Earl of Eldon, it seems, has acted most libe-
rally towards the biographer of his grandfather, having
presented Mr. Horace Twiss not only with the copyright
of all the Eldon papers, but with a cheque for LOOOL
into the bargain.—Wiltshire Independent.
REWARDS FOR HUMANITY AND COURAGE, BY TUB
FRENCH GOVERNMENT.—The Moniteur publishes a list
of the names of 230 persons who have just received me-
dals, as honorary rewards, for humane and courageous
acts, reported to the Minister of the Interior between
the 31st of January last and the 9th of the present month.
These acts consisted chiefly of rescues from drowning,
fire, and other perils attended with personal risk to the
parties performing them, and of devotedness and zeal on
the part of the public functionaries in the discharge of
their duty. The medals awarded are all of silver, with
the exception of one of gold granted to M. Carlus, the
deputy-mayor of Salvagnac, in the Tarn, for the extra-
ordinary courage and intrepedity manifested by him in
rushing upon a ruffian, who, after having shot a female,
and snapped another loaded pistol, which fortunately did
not go off, at a priest, was making his escape, threatening
to fire upon any person -who touched him, when he was
was overtaken by M. Carlus, who boldly, although at
that time quite alone, called upon him to surrender. The
assassin, awed by the energy of the magistrate, instead
of fixing upon him, put the pistol into his own mouth,
and blew out his brains.
TIIE SURREY TOLLS.—Yesterday the tolls arising
at the several toll-gates, namely, Newington-gate, Ken-
nington-common-gate, ac., to East Grinstead-gate, in
the county of Sussex, which were let lastyear for 28,5001.,
were let to Mr. Lovy for 26,500/
It is reported that a legacy of 6,0001. has been.
bequeathed by a deceased member to the Cambridge
Camden Society.—Cambridge Advertiser.
RUNNING MATCH FOR 101.—Yesterday a •200
yards race came off near the Brecknock Arms, Camden-
town, between Stevens and Williams. At the start the
men got off well together, and at the nearing the win-
ning goal Stevens went away, and won cleverly by five
yards. The distance was run in thirty-seven seconds.
FOOT-RACE AT DERBY.—On 'Monday last, a well
contested race of 140 yards, for 25 sous., took place on
the London-road, between John Shaw, of Doncaster, and
S. Aston, of Handsworth, near Birmingham, which was
won by the latter by about half a yard. A second race
took place between R. Hand and G. Day, both of
Derby, for 5/. and after a desperate 15truggle,, it' Wtuli
given is a dead heat.