The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-03 00:00:00

IRISH TOBACCO.

(From the Dublin Morning Register.)

The following may be considered as the result of
the general evidence before the Committee of the
House of Commons on tobacco cultivation, up to
Wednesday, May 26, the fourth day of sitting:-
1. That in Ireland the average produce per acre is equal
to that of the United States.
2. That the cost of production is the same.

3. That tobacco is a superior preparation for wheit, but,
like hops or potatoes, returns nothing for the renovation of
the soil.

4. That the quality of Irish tobacco is not equal to that
of Virginia, hut is admitted to be capable of great im-
provement.

5. That a difference of duty is requisite for a time to
compensate the difference of quality.
6. That the cheapness of native tobacco will overcome
all obstacles to its use, and compensate the revenue by an
increase of consumption.
7. That the attraction of capital, its diffusion in wages,
the certain employment of the people, their improved com-
forts and habits of industry, will advance general improve-
ment, and further revert through various channels to the
benefit of the revenue.

These premises being established by evidence for
and against the measure, the only difficulty before
the Committee is the revenue. To guard this, two
modes have been canvassed,—first, a pound tax on
the cured article; and secondly, a tax on the super-
ficial extent under cultivation.

The first has been abandoned by reason of the
required supervision of an extensive excise establish-
ment ; and the second has been preferred, as the
duty can with facility be collected by a classification
of the crops, and a graduated icale of duty charge-
able on the grower.
This last preference being conceded, has only been
objected to on the ground that the duty en foreign
tobacco being chargeable by the pound weight, it
cannot compete with an article not precisely deter-
mined by the same standard, as the view and return
of cured tobacco may vary.

W. COOPER, Union-street, begs to inform
the inhabitants of Birmingham and its vicinity, that he
has ordered an extra supply of Bell's Life in London of
Sunday, June 6, containing a Portrait of his MAJESTY,
which will arrive at his house in Union-street, for sale,
early on Sunday morning. Bell's Life in London will
also have the best account of the Fight on Wednesday.
All victuallers' houses frequented by sportsmen should take
in Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, the
price of which is only Sevenpence.

It was expected that before the sessions ter-
minated, some order would have been made relative to the
putting into execution the sentence against BOSSY for per-
jury. We are informed that there has been a new pillory
built upon an improved principle, and that the Secondary
of London, with whom the Judge's order lies, will shortly
name a day, when the convict will have to undergo an
ordeal which he appears to consider a greater punishment
than his term of transportation.— Times.

On Tuesday evening, as a man named LAW-
TON was returning home from his labour at Eltham, in
Kent, just as he entered the town he met a dog foaming
very much at the mouth, and his tongue hanging out ;
he stepped aside to avoid him, but was unable, and the
animal snapped at his leg, but missed it, and proceeded
on towards Lewisham. The man made ass alarm, and
the rabid animal was instantly pursued by many per-
sons ; but none were able to come up close enough
to destroy him. One of the villagers fired at him, but
unfortunately missed him. In his career he ran across a
paddock, and bit three lambs and a very fine ewe that
were grazing therein, the property of Mr. JOHN SMITH,
the farmer. The lambs and ewe are locked up for the
present ; but notwithstanding the exertions of the villagers
the dog, which was of the terrier breed, escaped destruc-
tion ; and it was subsequently ascertained the same dog
had bitten a little boy at Blackheath in the calf of the leg.

On Sunday night last, or early the following,
morning, the residence of the Right Hon. Lord MARY-
BOROUGH, in Saville-steeet, Bond-street, Piccadilly, was
broken into and entered by thieves, and property to a large
amount sto'en. In what manner the robbers obtained an
entrance has not transpired, but it has been rumoured
that they gained admission by getting over the area and
breaking through the kitchen windows. No information
of the burglary was given to any of the police-officers
until yesterday morning, before which time there is n,
doubt the whole of the stolen property was disposed of,
and the gold and silver articles placed in a crucible and
melted. The Government Police Gazette of yesterday
offers a reward of 501. for the recovery of the Stolen
booty, or in proportion for any part thereof. The value
of the property has been estimated at 2,0001., but this
is supposed to be considerably beneath its real value. The
police constable who was on duty at the time of the burg-
lary has, we understand, been suspended.

Yesterday forenoon, a fine young woman,
about 19 years of age, named MARX ANN PHILLIPS,
servant to Mr. PuNsuoN, plumber and glazier, in St.
Thomas's street, in the Borough, was brought to Guy's
Hospital, enduring great pain, produced by the bite of a
cat supposed to be in a rabid state. It appeared that on
Monday la,t the cat was observed by Mrs. PUNSHON to
look very wild about the eyes, and to exhibit very un-
usual appearances; she sometimes would run up stairs and
down several times, and fearing it was mad, and dreading
the consequences that might befall any of her family, she
determined upon drowning the animal. The maid servant
undertook the office, and went in search of the cat, whom
she found up stairs in the closet; she attempted to catch
hold of it, when the animal flew at her and fastened on her
right hand with her teeth—the girl still kept her hold,
and ultimately destroyed it. She subsequently felt great
pain in the part that hal been bitten, and Mr. WALKER,
the surgeon, was sent for, who advised her going to the
hospital to have the piece cut out; she, however delayed
going, till finding the pain increase, she yesterday went,
and the part that was bitten was cut out, and the patient
placed in bed in Chapel-ward, where she still remains in
much agony.

SIEGE OF HAARLEM.—ThiS event took
place in the year 1672. After resisting for more than
seven months the effects of the Spanish army, and exhaust-
ing every kind of food, even of the most offensive descrip-
tion, by which nature could be supported, the garrison de-
termined to cut a passage through the enemy's camp. The
women and old men, whom it was intended to leave behind,
on hearing of their resolution, flung themselves at the feet
of the Governor, and entreated not to be deserted ; they
were prepared, they said, to share all dangers with their
husbands, their brothers, and their kinsmen, rather than
be exposed to insults and death in a more horrid shape
from the sanguinary ferocity of the Spaniards. Their
plea was irresistible ; and the troops, marshalling them-
selves in a hol'ow square, of which their bravest soldiers
formed the front and rear, placed the women and aged
men in the centre, and thus prepared to execute their
purpose.—. Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia.
MUTABILITY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS.—
BONAPARTE visited Lyons soon after his assumption of the
imperial diadem. The Place Belle-Cour was still a ruin ;
and one of his first cares was to order and provide for its
reconstruction. The Lyonnese, in return, were going to
erect a statue to him in its centre ; but he would not, a.•
he is reported to have declared, " stand in the midst of
ruins ;" and the monument was postponed until the place
appeared in more than its former splendour. The statue
was erected, and an imperial palace built contiguous, as a
monument of the gratitude of Lyons. The restoration
came, and with it Lyonnese gratitude took another direc-
tion ; the statue of BONAPARTE made way fur a new
equestrian statue of Lours XIV. the imperial palace was
changed into the prefecture of police, and the Place Belle-
Cour into the Place Louis le Grand.—Dr. Lardner's
Cabinet Cyclopedia.

INTERESTING SCENE.—JOSEPHINE, whose
susceptibility appears to me, even now, excusable, knew
well my sentiments on the subject of BONAPARTE'S found
ing a dynasty, and she had not forgotten my conduct
when, two years befere, the question had been agitated on
the occasion of Louts XVIII.'s letters to the First Consul.
I remember that, one day, after the publication of the
parrallel Of CAESAR, and CROMWELL, and BONAPARTE,
JOSEPHINE, having entered our Cabinet without being an-
nounced, which she sometimes did, when, from the good
humour exhibited at breakfast, she reckoned upon its con-
tinuance, approached BONAPARTE softly, seated herself on
his knee, passed her hand gently through his hair and over
his face, and, thinking the moment favourable, said to him
in a burst of tenderness, " I entreat of you, BONAPARTE,
do not make yourself King ! It is that LucIEN who
urges you to it. Do not listen to him." BONAPARTe
replied, without anger, and even smiling as he pronounced
the last words, " You are mad, my poor JOSEPHINE.
is your old dowagers of the Faubourg Saint Germain,
your RocHEFoucAutns, who tell you all these fables
Come, now, you interrupt me: leave me alone."—Bour-
rienne's Memoirs of Bonaparte.