The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-16 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST.—Loxporr, 1830.
The embellishments to this elegant and intelli-
gent little volume, appropriately illustrate its text,
which conveys a considerable quantum of infor-
mation in a condensed and vigorous manner.
The work, of course, is chiefly one of compila-
tion, as is necessarily the case with all works of a
similar nature, but the compilation has been well
made; all superfluous matter has been retrenched,
and out of a vast variety of works which have
been diligently studied for the occasion, nothing
has been retained but what was strictly and in-
dispensably requisite.

HOPS.

TO THE EDITOR OF' THE SUN.

have often seen in your Paper a report of
the hop plantation at this season of the year, and having
been a planter, and inspector of the grounds in Kent and
Sussex, for the last thirty years, beg to offer for your
insertion, if you think them worth your notice,
_toy
remarks of the last two or three days, after having seen
the major plantatons in Mid-Kent, which are as follows:
Jinx 13, 1830.—(Flusr DAY.)
Kingsdown very fatvell, except one piece on the right,
leading to %ahem, an extensive plantation in the
neighbourhood of Wrotham, plenty of bine, and covered
with vermin, black, and not worth more than one bag per
acre, seal chart, alicrt of bine, and fowell, under-river,
many pieces of bine good, and clear from vermin, say
worth four bags per acre—others short and towel!, Ton.
bridge town, and from thence to Meyworth-gate, Had-
low, and part of Peckham,shortof bine, and very fowell,
not worth snore than 2 cwt. per acre.
Jove 14.—Found the plantation of Mr. M. of new-hill,
Watringbury, good and little mould; Yaltling not so good ;
Farleigh, Raton, Barming, Dean-street, Irvil, and Maid.
stone plenty of bine, some with vermin, or much remains
of vermin, but very mouldy, or getting so. East and
West Malting and its neighbourhood not much vermin, ,
but all mouldy, little or much. Mr. L., of Town Mal-
ling, much 'the worst, with the exception of the mould. 1 •
think the grounds about Yariding, Teston, Berating, To.
vill, Loose, Maidstone, and Melling would have been
worth four bags per acre; but at present, from the effects
of the mould, do not think them worth two bags, and
many not one.

P.S. Should you have any reply to this, or ;It any time
wish any information which I may not furnish You with,
please to direct, post paid, G. C. Gloucester-build-
ings, Wa!worth, to which place you may dirt
your Paper of to-night, if the information is worth oar'
to your Paper, which is the only one I have favoured of
troubled with the information.

I am, Sir, your's, &c.
ho. 4, Gloucester-buildings, July 16, 1830.

3. U.

A new species of gambling has lately been in-
troduced among the lower orders, called puff and dart :",
it consists in blowing a sort of dart through a narrow tube.
at a target, on which certain numbers are affixed, any of
which if the puffer happens to hit he wins.
EXTRAORDINARY PIGEON MATCH.--Tv/0
persons arrived in London on Saturday from Antwerp,
with 110 pigeons, which are to be thrown off here, for the
purpose of ascertaining whether they will find their
way back, and if so, in whet time they will per-
form the journey. The pigeons have been given
in charge to the landlord of tho Duke of Graf-
ton's -Head, Losnond's-pond, and were to have
been started on Sunday morning but for the hazi-
ness of the atmosphere. By stipulation, however, they
must fly this day at the latest; the hour fixed was seven
o'clock in the morning, before the smoke thickened over
the city. The birds belong to the Causdel Tavern
Club, on the quay of Antwerp; and there are eighteen
prizes to be competed for in this flight; the first a gold
medal, of considerable value, and the others are sums of
money. The pigeons are all marked on a number of
,leathers in each wing with the stamps of the secretaries :1
and office bearers of the Club, and with the owner's name. •
The persons who brought over the pigeons think that
some of them will reach Antwerp in gee hours,— Yorh
Chronicle.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.),

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, Jutx 15.—Wind W.S.W.--Arrived from
London, and sailed, the Integrity, Ord, for the Cape of
Good Hope; and Hudson, Champlin, for New York.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 14.--Wind S..—Arrived from
London, the Burrell, Metcalf, for New South Wales.
FALMOUTH, JULY 14.—Wind S.--Arrived the Emu-
lous packet, from the Leeward Islands, lulled from St.
Thomas's the l Sth ult. ; and Duke of Marlborough packet,
from Lisbon, sailed the 7th inst.

WEYMOUTH, JULY 15.—Off port, the nythe, Arbul
not, from China.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 14.—Arrived the Amelia, Cook
from Jamaica; Mary and Harriet, Burstow, and Ala.
hama, Prince, from New York.
CLYDK, JULY 13.--Arrived the John and Elitabeth,
Mansfield, from New Orkin.;

DUNDEE, JULY 13.—Arrived the Gratitude, Naton;
Davie, Bartleman; Ruby, 'l'hieles; Brutus, Kegler;
Astria, Barrie; and Hannah, Thickaldy, from Riga :
Caledonia, Phillips, from Pernau; Euphemia, Gnwing,
from Memel ; and Hannibal, Carswell, from Jamaica.

, . ...-.—.
LEITH, JULY 13.—Arrived the Prescott,—Dick, hew
St.Petershurgh.

HULL, JULY 14.—Arrived the Danube, Allen, and
Broderick, Peart, from St. Peteraburgb ; and Olive, Gear-
lay, from Stettin.

AITIGUA, JUNE 9.—The Earl of Liverpool, Bailey,
from London and Barbadoes, touched here on the 7th inst.
to land passengers, and proceeded to St. Kitt's ; on the
6th saw a suspicious schooner in chace of a brig about
twenty-six miles to windward of Guadaloupc, which
sheered off on the Earl of Liverpool appearing in sight.—
The master of a mail boat, at rived here yesterday, re
ports having seen on the preceding day, under Guadeloupe,
a brigantine, apparently British, with her mainmast
sprung, loss of bulwarks and foretop gallant mast, and
only a try-sail set in the mainmast.