The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-29 00:00:00

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

Light-house of La Garouppe.or of Antibes (Department of

the Var.)
Mariners arc informed that from and after the Ist of July
next a fixed light will be exhibited, during the whole night,
from the tower which has just been constructs d on the penin-
sula of La Garouppe, one mile and a half to the south of An-
tibes. near the chapel of Notre Dame de la Garde (by 43.
33. 51. lat., and 4. 47. 44. cast long. Meridian of Paris.)
The light apparatus will be placed at twenty-five metres
above the ground, and will be one hundred and three metres
above the level of the sea.

This lighthouse will be visible in dear weather at the dis-
tance of seven marine leagues.
Mariners steering for Antibes from the eastward will sae at
the same time, as they approach Villafranche, the fixed light
of the tower at that port (situated by 43. 40. 30. let., and
4. 59. 26. east long.), the intermitting light at the entry of
the port of Antibes (situated by 43. 35. 10. lat., and 4. 47.
31. east long.), and the fixed light of the Qarouppc ; bat this
last-named light-house alone will be seen by mariners ap-
proaching by the south and south west, until they have doubled
the Peninsula.

ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-
HOUSE, MAY 27.

The Charlotte, Daniels, from Calais ; Ann Powlona, Gar-
ling, Ostend ; Velocity, Clark, Hamburgh; Hope, Boxer,
Rotterdain ; Prince of Waterloo, Page, Ostend ; George and
Mary, Rougier, Guernsey ; Waterloo, Cow, Madras.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.

The John Wood, Woodruff, for Havre ; Kent, Tune, Bou-
logne; Union, De Jonge, Ostend; Idris, Foster, Berbice;
Hannah, Underhill, Naples; William Jolliffe, Middleton,
Calais; Ludd, Jackson, Antwerp; Mathias, Stephens, Ham-
burgh; James and Ann, Brown, Quebec; Westminster,
Moor, New York ; Ulysses, Crowford, Leghorn ; New Jane,
Reeves, Teneriffe.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.

The Batavier, Dunlop, for Rotterdam ; William Jolliffe,
Middleton, Calais; John Pink, Nixon, Jamaica; John Wood,
Woodroff, Havre ; Atlas, Light, Caen; Maria Ann, 01:vier,
Guernsey ; Sheroid, Howe, : St. Vincent's ; Langley, Lang-
ley, Elaineur ; Toronto, Griswold, New York ; John Cock,
Williams, St. John's, N.B. ; Prince of Saxe Coburg, Ladd,
Rotterdam; Neptune, Ilaacks, Ostend ; Kent, Tune, Bou-
logne; Julie, Faillant, Calais ; Ocean, Morfee, Antwerp.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST,

The Jenny, Sterling, for St. Petersburgh ; Eleanor, Ran-
gles, Archangel; Ceylon, Hunter, St. Petersburgh ; Alex-
ander, Lavelle, Gravelines; Melanie, Davy, Gravelines;
Hoist, Sweden, Gravelines; Joseph Hume, Richmond, Arch-
angel; Rio Packet, Dench, Cadiz ; Stakesly, Goble, Halifax ;
Sonne, Holsre, Baltic.

On the night of Wednesday last, the inmates of
Grove House, Hornsey, were much alarmed under the follow-
ing singular circumstances :—Shortly after the family had re-
tired to rest, the footman, who slept in the pantry, below stairs,
went up to his master and told him he thought that thieves
were about the premises, as he had heard footsteps on the
gravel walk at the back of the house. His master immedi-
ately arose, and, arming himself with a pair of pistols, he
gently opened a back window and listened. Presently a step
was heard, and an object was indistinctly seen amongst the
foliage of the shrubbery. The gentleman immediately de-
manded who was there ? but no answer being returned, he
threatened to fire, and, after a pause, discharged one of the
pistols. The shot took effect, for the fall of a heavy substance,
accompanied by a loud groan was heard. The gentleman, ex-
claiming " Good God, I hope I have not killed any one !" in-
stantly ran down stairs, accompanied by his servant, and on
reaching the spot, they discovered—not a depredator of the
genus homo—but a large rough donkey, which had broken
from the lane into the shrubbery. The unfortunate " neddy,"
which belonged to a poor woman in the neighbourhood, was
quite dead, and Mr. R. generously gave the poor woman two
sovereigns to purchase another.
If we examine the ways of an infant, we shall cease
to wonder at those of an infant civilization. Long before we
can engage the curiosity of the child in the History of Eng-
land—long before we can induce him to listen with pleasure
to our stories even of Poictiers and Cressy—and (a fortiori)
long before he can be taught an interest in Magna Charta'and
the Bill of Rights, he will, of his own accord, question us of
the phenomena of nature—inquire how he himself came into
the world—delight to learn something of the God we tell him
to adore—and find in the rainbow and the thunder, in the
meteor and the star, a thousand subjects of eager curiosity and
reverent wonder. The why perpetually torments him ;—every
child is born a philosopher I—the child is the analogy of a
people yet in childhood.—Bulwer.

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BRUSSELS, MAY 24.—A letter from Blankenbercr
of the 20th of May, says :—" Yesterday morning►, while the
tide was coming in, there was driven on the coast, opposite the
village of Knocke, the whole right side of a man-of-war, of 20
guns, which is 120 feet long, and 20 feet deep. The stern is
marked with the letters D. C. H.' It seems that this por-
tion of a vessel, shipwrecked long since, was at the bottom of
the sea, and has been sent up by the continual agitation of the
waves. No other writing or mark has been found in the tim-
ber, but a piece of iron has the letters 13. C.' It is not
known whence this fragment comes. Others wish it might
be possible to get up other parts of the ship."

On Thursday a melancholy accident occurred on
the Southampton Railway. Some men employed on the
works near Goldworth Woking, suspending their work during
a shower, had taken shelter under the projecting piece of the
earth they were excavating, when it suddenly gave way, and
killed one man on the spot; another was dreadfully maimed,
and survived only a few hours. The name of the latter is
George Paine, who had not been employed more than a week
previous to the catastrophe. The former, a native of King-
ston, has left a wife and three children.
A sporting schoolmaster, a few days since, bought
a dog of the pointer breed, but the animal, or, a fair trial, not
possessing the necessary qualifications, was returned by the
purchaser, accompanied by a note, quaintly stating that " the
dog knew nothing of punctuation !"
We are sorry to state that intelligence has just
reached Devizes, by express, of a fire at Haxton, near Nether-
avon. When the messenger left twelve cottages were burning,
with no prospect of stopping the progress of the flames. The
greatest apprehension is entertained for the fate of the village.
How the fire was occasioned we could not ascertain : but un-
derstand that it commenced near the pound, and had extended
to the public house.—Devizes Gazette.
A dreadful accident occurred near South Petherton
to a poor man who was riding in his coal-cart, which was
heavily laden. He was supposed to have been sleeping, when
the cart, passing over a stone, caused him to lose his balance;
he was precipitated under the wheel, and in a moment his
bowels and head were crushed in pieces. He has left six
small children to deplore his untimely end.—Bath Herald.
A specimen of the extremely rare British visitant
the Hoopoe (Epupa epops) was killed on the 13th instant in
the neighbourhood of Ponirhdyrun, Monmouthshire. The
bird was a male in fine plumage, and was seeking food in a
moist meadow on the Avon Llwyd.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
On its being known at Inverness and its neighbour-
hood that Mr. Ellice was returned Member fur Huddersfield,
every one, young and old, assembled, and soon collected a
splendid bonfire upon an eminence, from which it was seen by
the most of the country. It was delightful to sec with what
cheerfulness and spirit old men and infirm women carried bur-
dens of wood to the place of mirth, where there was no want
of mountain dew.—lnverness Courier.

Within the last few days, several of the labouring
population from the villages in the neighbourhood of Lynn
have come to Ipswich for the purpose of emigrating to Canada.

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Last week, as two gentlemen were exercising some
Spaniels near Prestwick Carr, they made a dead stand at a
spot from which they would not attend to their master's call.
On examination they found them engaged with two fox cubs
amongst a tuft of furze, which had been isolated during the
long continuance of wet weather, where they had reposed
secure during the hunting season. The following is a list of
viands provided by their dam :—Thirty goslings, three leverets.,
three rabbits, two bald coots, one large eel, and the remains of
a hen pheasant.
Since the death of a thatcher named John Long,
who died, at Bury, Suffolk, about a fortnight since, upwards
of 2001. have been found secreted in the roof, the wall, the
floor, and other parts of the house; since which .151. has been
found in the bed-tick, and several sovereigns in the chair-seats,
&c.—Su folk Chronicle.
On Friday last, the workmen employed in digging
the foundations of the new wing of the Kent and Canterbury
Hospital, on the site of the ancient monastery of St. Augus-
tine, struck a pickaxe into a leaden substance. On closer
examination it appeared to be of considerable size, and great
care was taken to remove the earth so as to lift the whole
mass. It proved to be a coffin of lead, in a good state of pre-
servation. It was conveyed into the Hospital, to be disposed
of according to the directions of the ,Managing Committee.
The coffin is about six feet two inches in length, and little
more than eighteen inches in breadth at the widest part—the
head projecting in a straight line from the trunk, as in the
human body. It does not appear to have been inclosed in
wood. A stone, which on being touched crumbled to dust,
lay on the breast, and probably bore the name and date of the
death of its possessor. The weight of the superincumbent
earth bad pressed the leaden covering on the corpse, and the
situation of the knee bones, one of the feet, and the bone cf
nose were plainly visible. Through a small apertnro near the
mouth the teeth were seen; and the sligil, whioh is of a deep
brown, was exposed. Tile Partin l 9 of very rude manufac:ur • ;
tltp suldeninif haz not been cleared away when the corpse was
inclosed, and neither ornament nor mark is pereeptiNe by
which to distinguish its age. It is eelleetkirol 4 acme to he
the remains of a prior, from the pecOlar.fovelation of the coal.
The coffin will l e qler, for the inspection of the antiquary and
it'was foundarine feet below the surface of the
earth, and lying amidst a_ profusion of humatl I)o,Rea eve 7
description,--Kent Itera4