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PROPERTIES OF SUGAR.--Dutrone calls sugar the most perfect aIimentary sub- stance in nature, and the testimony of ma- ny physicians establishes the fact.* Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, says, in common with all who have analysed it, that "susar affords the greatest quantity of nourish- ment in gwen quantity of matter, of any subject in nature.' Used alone, it has fat- tened horses and cattle in St. Domingo, for a period of several months, during the time when the exportation of sugar and the importation of grain were suspended from the want of ships.

 The plentiful use of sugar in diet, is one Of the best preventives that ever has been discovered of the diseases which are pro- duced by worms. Nature seems to have implanted love for this aliment in all children, as if 1t were on purpose to defend them from those diseases.

 Sir John Pringle tells us that the plague was never known to visit any country where sugar composes material part of the diet of the inhabitants.

 Dr. Rush, Dr. Cullen, and many other physicians are of opinion that the frequen- cy ofmalignant levers of all kinds has been lessened by the use of sugar. Dr. Rush observes, that, in disorders of the breast, sugar is the basis of many agreeable reme- dies, and 1t is useful in weakness, and acrid defuxious in other parts of the body.f

 The celebrated Trouchin, recommended "Eau Sucre" for almost every malady.- Dr. Fothergill was very anxious that the price of sugar should be sufficiently mod crate to render 1t accessible to the mass of the people. From experiments made by some eminent French surgeons, it appears

 xHe that undertakes, says Dr. Slare, to argue against sweets in general, takes upon him very difficult task for nature seems to have recommended this taste to all sorts of creatures the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, many reptiles and flies, seem to be pleased and delighted with the specific relish of all sweets, and to dis taste it's contrary. Now, the sugar cane or sugar, l hold for the top and higest standard of vegetable swects.-Ecward's s West Indles.

 fThe celebrated pr. Franklin had taken large quantities of blackberry jam for the pain in the stone, and found benefit from it; but discovered at length that the medi- cinal part of the jam resided wholly in the sugar. From half pint of syrup pre- pared by boiling down sugar in water, and taken just before he went to he'd, he de- clared that he often found the same relief that lie did from dose of opium.

 It has been said that sugar injures the teeth, but the opinion does not deserve serious reheciton.--Amer. Phil. Trans, vol. iii.