The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

COAST DEFENCES.

DovEn.—Captain Swinton's company of Royal .0
finery (11th battalion), arrived at Dover Heights bar
racks on Thursday, per rail, from Woolwich. It°
lieutenants (in addition to Captain Swinton), 4 sergeas;4,
3 corporals, 4 bombardiers, 2 trumpeters, and It:
gunners, form the strength of the company to v"
stationed here. In addition to which, gunners fir
rived, per same conveyance, to reinforce the to°
companies already stationed here ; and we hear sn'
other company will shortly follow, which will re,.
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about 500 of the Royal Artillery in this garrison. 3","
band of the 67th played them to the Heights. Our b%
teries, breast-works, defences, &c., we understand, 117
be shortly placed in that state as of old, when Dover Aaa
one of the first ports, and one of the strongest garrisel
in England. A company of the Royal Sappers ono
Miners is also expected here, their services being 13%
important in the construction of fortifications and tau'.
tary works of every kind.
FOLKESTONE.—The surveyors of the Ordnance 11‘'/:,
been making surveys during the week around the 1;.0
tery, down the face, and along the foot of the cum,'
No little consternation has been caused thereby, for, he
the surveyors are correct, part of the Pavilion, th
offices recently erected by Mr. Faulkner, the Pr;
perty occupied by Mr. Ashtell (recently purchased"
Mr. Hart, Bellevue-house, the house on the Para/
steps, and the new hotel, have all been unwittingl
purchased, or built upon, under the assurance tho
the land belonged to the Earl of Radnor. We have
reason to know that a few years back a gentlele
proposed erecting a villa where that on the Para' of
now stands, but after some negotiation the agents
Lord Radnor stayed proceedings, stating that t'
tot
ground belonged to the Board of Ordnance. No d°ll
Mr. Craxford was well assured the land belonged
the Earl of Radnor, or he would not have expended
2,000/. or 3,0001.
RYE.—An ordance survey is being made of the Pr,
garden of Rye, with the view we understand of erect
ing a battery there.
PEMBROKE.—The battery at the west end of the deck;
yard is undergoing alterations, the 24-pounder
have been dismounted, and the embrasures are beiecjiii
adapted for 32-pounders, with eight-inch and tee-i%
guns at the angles. When completed the battery' 'l,
be most formidable, and with skilful and resolute 3„
leryists might bid defiance to almost any force. .J.;id
engineer department at Pembroke, under the contei%e
of Lieut.-Colonel Victor, are being engaged in fortifil;
the port by the erection of Martello towers. It lewd
be hoped, however, their attention will soon be dive
to the construction of adequate barracks, the wooing'
dation there at present being little more than for
handful of men, scarcely sufficient, in fact to mount '—
efficient daily guard for the dockyard. •

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IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—The following .ment °b.*
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bery was committed upon a lady named Staniel.' at the
on Sr
Great Western Railway, at Paddington station, On +rain.
turday, while waiting for tickets for the 12.4" ",, or
Mrs. S. was waiting with her "porte morn:Lai°, or
French purse, in her hand, when a thief ~.. .„ up io er,
and snatched it from her in the most impudent uls°,„re
and, notwithstanding all the cries and entreaties, tu- 0
was not a policeman or official who could give th,,,
slightest assistance, and the man was allowed to wal;
off quietly with the purse, containing four Si. notes, on
sovereign, two half-sovereigns, and two half-crowns.
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PATRONAGE OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—Firkar,
lordship has the gift of the Precentorship, Chancellor
ship, ship, Treasurership, and all the 27 Prebendaries in P....
Paul's Cathedral, together with the two archdeaco.
,p°,..
What these dignities are worth, it is impossible to sta_t%
but some idea may be formed from the fact that the one
prebend of Finsbury, which has long been held hipot
Lord Bishop of Carlisle, is worth 3,000/. a year. -ud
coming to the benefices, we find that 101 separate. ;al
distinct livings are in the gift of his lordship, the 100
value of which is not less than 46,0001. a year.
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most valuable is St. Botolph, Bishopsgate-street, vit'''.As
is worth 2,3001. This is the only one which x,,,i7,
2,000/. ; but there are no fewer than 12 between I,yuct.
and 2,000/.—viz., Acton, just vacated (1,5000 ;
George's, Hanover-square, Great Hadham (1,6211.),„,t,
Kensington V., St. Andrew Undershaft, St. Margatt.
Lothbury, Newington St. Mary R. ; Paddington,
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James P.C., ditto Trinity P.C.; Westminster, St. Jewf!,
R., ditto St. Martin's V., Wilton-place, St. Paul's ri.L
All these, taking the lowest estimate, are worth 011_7,
over and above 1,0001. a year. There are three ben;
900/. and 1,0001: ; there is one between 8001. and 90' a
three, between 7001. and 8001. ; six, between 6001. ,an
700/. ; six, between 5001. and 6001. ; eight, hetWle
4001. and 500/. ; ten, between 3001. and 4001. ; an.,c1,6
rest _about 50—are worth 3001. and under, only three
of them being under 100/. a year.
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DETENTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—Noti: ce ,s,
issued yesterday at the General Post-office St. Martino
le-Grand, that the Australian mail screw steam-packet' with the mails for the Cape of Good Hope, Southey
and Western Australia, Victoria, Sydney, New Sou 0
Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, which
should in due
course be dispatched on the 3d inst., from PlyreollAte.
with the mails of to-morrow evening, the 2d inst., 18": g
tained until the 23d inst. Letters and newspapers
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be in time on the evening of the 22d inst. Both 01/,`"a
be pre paid. The Harbinger main screw steam-Pae7l-0
will sail from Southampton on the 10th inst., with
mails of that morning for Port Philip and Sydney. 15
THE WINTERS OF THE LAST EIGHTY YEARS.---re
winters out of the 20, between 1771 and 1791,
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severe ; and only 17 out of 40 winteis, between 1811,7-1,0
1851, had that character, or little more than half.
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prevalence of numerous very cold winters is thus t"- i
to the period between 1771 and 1791. The winter
severe when the mean of the four months, from N°."-;
ber to February, inclusive, is below 36°. Nine sueb,,e76
tarred in 80 years, and five of them between 1`,.,,
and 1795, or more than half in the earliest 20 Yes-it
With regard to the months of December and January,
may be briefly stated, that the former of these is reck°,l3,og
unusually cold when its mean temperature is at or be' '',l
the freezing point ; and there were only five instances
this in the period of 80 years, three of which oce°l:nd
between 1784 and 1796, and the other two in 1840 -e
1846. January is intensely cold when its mean tens
rature is below 30°. There are six instances of slouto
the 80 years, four between 1776 and 1795, and only ills
in the present century—namely, in 1814 and 1838. oe
latter will be well remembered, for under its why:lo I:, plants perished that had withstood all the other extremely cold Januarys, even those of which the mean temP,.e.oh
ture was still lower than that of 1838, the mean of ww,71.,
was 27.79° ; while that of January, 1814, was 26"
and of January, 1795, 26.75°.
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DEATH OF GREAT GRANDCHILDREN OP BUlt,"'•-•-the
find the following melancholy announcement in ea
Dumfries Courier of Tuesday last :-.-." Died, at sea, board the ship Chance, from Liverpool to Port it,: 801
ASerpthtemmbyeri,neßenotb,erttheßuernnsly;
on the 7th Septempber last, Arrabella Ann ; on "'„,-"h r,
W. Hutchinson, surgeon, of the Chance, and ocohnildtrheen
01f3thiveir:.Sceapileeroiffiecerieey
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greatG
grand-childrenverninent di ,
m of -EZLior
Burns. Mrs. Hutchinson is the daughter of Mader
Glencairn Burns, and was educated in Dumfries, I°l '
the care of her grandmother, "Bonnie Jean."
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TUSCAN POLICE. The following i an extract ir-,--,i
letter dated Florence, Jan. 18 :—"Osne of those achi;i.
ciliary visits by the Police, technically called Pell° ort
zione, which have of late years become no uncounnwas
occurrence, though contrary to all existing treaties, oes
perpetrated the other day on the houses of two Perehave
living under British protection. The persons who
and been the objects of this outrage are Mr. Lawley an the
Bertolacci, a Corsican by birth, but who served i°
eipt
British army during the last war, and is still in lece in
of a pension from our Government. They both I,..ALv era
country-houses, in the neighbourhood of the Pon a
station of the Leghorn Railwa Mr. Lawlq, would
appear, large farm, and M. Bertolacci devotesy himself, "4. the
appear, more to horticulture than agriculture ; ."-Ither,
only suspicious article found on the premises of e ket
after a most rigorous search, .
his a
of M. Bertolacci from aM. Bastian°, a friend of t
'fieen
Leghorn, thanking him for his present of a map' ted
quite a furore at Leghorn was a letter in the P°F t
red cabbage, which, as the, writer declared, had
.er:f of,
' even by the Austrians.' This mysterious allusio
na-
turally excited suspicion in the minds of the astute police'of
and was eagerly parta!E
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who can detect the seeds ofievolution even in e caLbage ; and M. Bertolacci narrowly escaped
tion as a cure for his love of vegetables."
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Too CAREFUL.George Stone, the Bristol poet, „,51.
been robbed of his hard-earned savings, amounting to L., .. ,
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He had refused to put the money in the bank, being
ful it would break,—wouoglericarnal, inachareera•