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

COAST DEFENCES.

DOVER.—Captain Swinton's company of Royal,M.,,
tillery (11th battalion), arrived at Dover Heights
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racks on Thursday, per rail, from Woolwich.
lieutenants (in addition to Captain Swinton), 4 sergealliii
3 corporals, 4 bombardiers, 2 trumpeters, and 'be"
gunners, form the strength of the company to
stationed here. In addition to which, gunners
rived, per same conveyance, to reinforce the '":„
companies already stationed here ; and we heal'
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other company will shortly follow, which will l'as
about 500 of the Royal Artillery in this garrison.
band of the 67th played them to the Heights. Our
teries, breast-works, defences, &c., we understa.nd,
be shortly placed in that state as of old, when Dover";s
one of the first, ports, and one of the strongest garri°,l°
in England. A company of the Royal sappers ""of
Miners is also expected here, their services being !A.
important in the construction of fortifications and
tary works of every kind.
FOLKESTONE.—The surveyors of the Ordnance bs
isik
been making surveys during the week around the -g,
tery, down the face, and along the foot of the
No little cupsternation has been caused thereby, °ribs
the surveyors. are correct, part of the Pavilion, iv
offices recently erected by Mr. Faulkner, the by
perty occupied by Mr. Ashtell (recently purchase
Mr. Hart, Bellevue-house, the house on the per
,ly
steps, and the new hotel, have all been unwittiritP
purchased, or built upon, under the assurance
the land belonged to the Earl of Radnor. Wre,
reason to know that a few years back a gentleo
proposed erecting a villa where that on the 133fts 51
now stands, but after some negociation the age tile
Lord Radnor stayed proceedings, stating th3t,mobt
ground belonged to the Board of Ordnance. Ne tO
Mr. Craxford was well assured the land belong" Jed
the Earl of Radnor, or he would not have elcPell
2,0001. or 3,0001. h
e
RYE.—An ordance survey is being made of t erect'
garden of Rye, with the view we understand of e

ing a battery 'there.
PEMBROKE.—The battery at the west end of the -,„0
yard is undergoing alterations, the 24-pounder „sbiog
have been dismounted, and the embrasures are l';nech
adapted for 32-pounders, with eight-inch and
guns at the angles. When completed the batterY,lo'
be most formidable, and with skilful and resolute `"Tio
leryists might bid defiance to almost any force. 461
engineer department at Pembroke, under the maul
of Lieut.-Colonel Victor, are being engaged in fortifYit'o
the port by the erection of Martello towers. 1„e igloo
be hoped, however, their attention will soon be dire 0o•
to the construction of adequate barracks, the aocote—
dation there at present being little more than f°,1.0
handful of men, scarcely sufficient, in fact to mono
efficient daily guard for the dockyard.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—The followingimpudentrtlii);
bery was committed upon a lady named Stanley, at e sy
Great Western Railway, at Paddington station
turday, while waiting for tickets for the 12.40iee 01'
Mrs. S. was waiting with her "porte /tonna
ther
French purse, in her hand, when a thief came up „per,
and snatched it from her in the most impudent inatliere
and, notwithstanding all the cries and entreaties, the
was not a policeman or official who could g,Tivall‘
slightest assistance, and the man was allowed
off quietly with the purse, containing four 57. now-)
sovereign, two half-sovereigns, and two half-eroWn-4' big
PATRONAGE OF THE BISHOP OF Lorfr,o-rr:-----rirstlior,
lordship has the gift of the Precentorship, Chance
ship. Treasurership, and all the 27 Prebendaries ino,
Paul's Cathedral, together with the two archdeaconf te ;
What these dignities are worth, it is impossible to st3ooe
but some idea may be formed from the fact that the 00
prebend of Finsbury, which has long been held blost
Lord Bishop of Carlisle, is worth 3,000/. a Year-to andcoming to the benefices, we find that 101 sePar,ao tet3l
distinct livings are in the gift of his lordship, tn
The
value of which is not less than 46,0001. a year' rich
most valuable is St. Botolph, Bishopsgate-street;eed
is worth 2,300/. This is the only one which e.,,0001'
2,000/. ; but there are no fewer than 12 between 1
and 2,0001.—viz., Acton, just vacated (1,500060,
George's, Hanover-square, Great Hadhain
Kensington V., St. Andrew Undershalt, St. -01-17 St'
Lothbury, Newington St, Mary R. ; Padding-t°;.000
James P.C., ditto Trinity P.C.; Westminster, St.,
R., ditto St. Martin's V., 'Wilton-place, St. Fa
All these, taking the lowest estimate, are yronntwee'
over and above 1,0001. a year. There are three ":9001.j
9001. and 1,0001. ; there is one between 8001. and air
three, between 7001. and 8001. ; six, between 6° oee'
700/. ; six, between 5001. and 600/. ; eight, beta Ole
4001. and 500/. ; ten, between 3001. and 400/. ; nye'
rest—about 50—are worth 3001. and under, mill
of them being under 1001. a year.
ic° Os
DETENTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.--N°i rid"
issued yesterday at the General Post-office, St. 1113 clot,
le-Grand, that the Australian mail screw steam-P3O6T
with the mails for the Cape of Good Hope!, S°%olit:
and Western Australia, Victoria, Sydney, IN
Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, which should in
oath,
course be dispatched on the 3d inst., from Plirra°sdj
with the mails of to-morrow evening, the 2d ins" i
orit
tained until the 23d inst. Letters and newspaPt
be in time on the evening of the 22d inst. But 3 icicfr
be pre paid. The Harbinger mail screw steara-4
will sail from Southampton on the 10th inst., 17
mails of that morning for Port Philip and 5Yd11%.."1;
THE WINTERS OF THE LAST EIGHTY
winters out of the 20, between 1771 and 11,7.11_!3„--
severe ; and only 17 out of 40 winters between "-.,`"r"
1851, had that character, or little more than hau.'0.074
prevalence of numerous very cold winters is thluji te,r'"
to the period between 1771 and 1791. The " --Nll3 ores- severe when the mean of the four months from cb oc;
ber to February, inclusive, is below 36°. Niue °Till 17.41 ii
curred in 80 years, and five of them between
eat
and 1795, or more than half in the earliest '"
With regard to the months of December and Januloo7,
may be briefly stated, that the former of these is re-ben
unusually cold when its mean temperature is at or re-ben
the 'freezing point; and there were only five ins° :o'4
this in the period of 80 years, three of which 140 s 0
between 1784 and 1796, and the other two in I'oolll'
1846. January is intensely cold when its menu 11,-°
rature is below 30°. There are six instances 01
the 80 years, four between 1776 and 1795, and cui
in the present century—namely, in 1814 and 118tieercepi'
latter will be well remembered, for under its u3treele''
plants perished that had withstood all the other ettaper:l;
cold Januarys, even those of which the mean tofighle,
ture was still lower than that of 1838, the ,
was 27.79° ; while that of January, 1814, was
and of January, 1795, 26.75°.
Bu O the
DEATH OF GREAT GRANDCHILDREN OF
find the following melancholy announeenienut sea,i in ft,
Dumfries Courier of Tuesday last :—" Died' 3t
board the ship Chance, from Liverpool to Port the
gth
on the 7th Septempber last, Arrabella Ann ;,"n oral,'
September, Robert Burns ; on the 13th ci:' orice
Arthur Vincent, the only children of Mr; 0°,4
W. Hutchinson, surgeon, Government mean' jzobor
of the Chance, and great grand-children eoolal
Burns. Mrs. Hutchinson is the daughter.es_ under
Glencairn Burns, and was educated in DunifT,l '
the care of her grandmother, " Bonnie Jean.
et froul
TUSCAN POLICE. —The following is an extra s d01?y,
letter dated Florence, Jan. 18: One of the eergioso
ciliary visits by the police, technically ealledPont°lo
zione, which have of late years become n° a ties,
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occurrence, though contrary to all existing tie of perOce
perpetrated the other day on the houses of "'who ills,
living under British protection. The persons and
b
been the objects of this outrage are Mr. LawleY'd twet
Bertolacci, a Corsican by birth, but who serve a reelp
Britisli army during the last war, and is still", blob ro
of a pension from our Government. They llontiwe
country-houses in the neighbourhood of the y has
station of the Leghorn Railway. Mr. r-'3'w °it %%lie
large farm, and M. Bertolacci devotes himself, for t
e
appear, more to horticulture than agriculture of
only suspicious article found on the premises
pocket
• th
after a most rigorous search, was a letter in of his
t
of M. Bertolacci from a M. Bastian°, a frien—aanigerd
Leghorn, thanking him for his present of 3,lritCres3'of,
red cabbage, which, as the writer declared, ii..3rtajon
quite a furore at Leghorn, and was eagerly fni,hision%
even by the Austrians.' This mysterious all pollcof
turally excited suspicion in the minds of the head,a.
who can detect the seeds of revolution even Tinoarce'
cabbage •; and M. Bertolacci narrowly,e?P'
hag
tion as a cure for his love of vegetables. , 51,
Too CAREFUL.—George Stone, the Bristol to
been robbed of his hard-earned savings, amotintiZog
He had refused to put the money in the bank)
IUI it would ak &WSW JOwrnat