The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-08 00:00:00

SUNDAY TRAVINS.

6 30 a.m. *9 0 R.lll. II 15 a.m.
930 a.m. 12 0 noon 2 0 p.m.
*5 30 p.m. 7 4.5 p.m.
6 0 p.m. 830 p.m. 10 45 p.m.
PROM SHEFFIELD AND DERBY TO LONDON.
Departure from Departure from Arrival at
Sheffield. Derby. London.
5 30 a.m. *8 0 a.m. 3 30 p.m.
9 15 a.m. 11 45 a.m. 6 30 p.m.
12 0 noon. 2 30 pm. 9 30 p.m.
2 0 p.m. *4 30 p.m. n 30 p.m.
6 0 p.m 8 30 p.m. 5 30 a.m.
?SUNDAY TRAINS.

930 a.m. 12 0 noon. 7 30 p.m.
• 6 0 p.m. 830 p.m. 5 30 a.m.
The Trains of the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway
Company marked thus (*) will stop at Willington, Burton,
Walton, Tamwortb, Kingsbin,ryu,OCmoAlesshii(ll,EaLndLH,
samecip.teotnar;y.all
the other Trains will stop at Burton, Tamworth, and Hamp-
ton only. By order,
Birmingham, May 6th, 1840.
TWENTY PER CENT. SAVED IN SOAP.
AND J. ROBERTS, PRACTICAL
• SOAP-BOILERS, YORK-STREET, BROAD-
WAY, WESTMINSTER, are now sending in, for Cash,
good strong YELLOW SOAP, excellent quality, 4d. per lb.
or 425. per 112 lbs. ; best Pale Yellow only 505., usually sold
at 60s. ; superior old Mottled, 545., usually sold at 64e. ; s,ft
Soap, half firkin, 12s. ; 01d Brown Windsor, Is. 2d, per lb. ;
White Windsor and Palm, Is. per lb. ; Rose, Camphor, and
Almond, Is. 6d. per lb.; Toilet Cakes, 2s. per dozen ; Starch,
7d, per lb. ; Blue, Is, 6d, per lb. ; Soda, 14s. per 112 lbs. ;
&s. &c.
Country Orders promptly attended to.

lohirite,entlyindred Patients
----_
F.R.S., one of the Council ot the
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FRANKS' SPECIFIC SOLUTION ON
COPAITIA.
in, a
yaricty of cases of discharges in the male
p a upwardsc
tor fo
8,
were successfully treated at
,the . red
with
FRAN Ks'ii SPECIFIC SOLUTION of C PAIRA.
I:s(islireeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and
Within a period of Two Moi;ths it
Professor of Surgery in the King's College, London.
I • yit.ofoysaelp
choill
el
gen: royf
Surgeons,Oree tt,
.. I have maoe trial of Mr. Frank's Solution of Copaiba, at St
Thomas's Hospital,
and tamale, and the results wal rant ray stating, that it is an effica-
cious remedy, and ona which does not produce the usual unpleasan
effects of Cepailta.
(Signed) "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN.
-
46, Lincoln's-Inn-lields,April 15,•1835.
fly Bransby Cooper, F.sq., KRA, Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and
Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. &0., and ethers most eminent in the
Medical Profession.;
et Ms. Bransby Cooperprcsent £ his compliments.to Mr. Geo. Franks
and has great pleasure in hearing testimony of the efficacy of his So.
intim! of Copailla :n. Gonerrh in, for which disease Mr. Cooper 'has
prescribed the Si.lation in ten or twelvecases with perfect success.
lgc w-street ,Spring -gardens, Aprill3, 1935."
Tlit! invaluable Medicine is confidently recommended in all eases
0 i6onorrh tea, Gieett:, Urethral Discharges, Spasmodic &rt.:lnm
Irritation of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra, and Prostate Gland;
its purtfyiag effects upon tkc gentralkcalth render it particularly a-
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Prepared only by i;eorge Frarks,. Surgeon, 90, Blackfriars-road
, Lowden, and may be had of all Med:me-vendors in the United King
dm , in Bottles at 25. Dd., 4s. ea., ar.d 11s. cacti.
Cearl lON.—UIIICSS" CeorgC Frangsißisuskfriars road," itesgraved
on the Government Stamp it cannot be genuine.
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THE CUCKOO.—Some of the London papers
are paragraphing, as something remarkable, the hearing the
cuckoo last week near Chesterfield. This welcome harbinger
of spring has been heard in our fields for the last fortnight, and
his "two notes" are now heroine so common as scarcely to
excite a remark. It is thought by most persons in this neigh-
bourhood, that an early visit of this feathered favourite is indi-
cative of an early and plentiful harvest. While on the subject
of the cuckoo, we would remind our agricultural friends of the
impropriety of shooting or driving away this useful creature.
Sparrows are universally considered nuisances, and there is not
a more wholesale destroyer of this little rapacious bird than the
young cuckoo. The manner in which the young cuckoo
destroys the young sparrows, and thus prevents tiiem doing that
mischief they would do if allowed to grow up, is not a little
singular, and as all our readers may not be acquainted with this
remarkable fact in natural history, we beg leave to state it.
The old cuckoo deposits its eggs in the sparrow's nest, about
the same time that the sparrow herself is laying her own eggs,
and it thus happens that the young cuckoo leaves its egg about
the same time as the young sparrows leave theirs. Scarcely
has the young cuckoo issued from its shell ere it begins turning
all the young sparrows out of the nest. With the assistance of
its wings, it contrives to get the bird, or egg, upon its back,
a
and, clambering to the top of the nest, ejects its load
jerk. It is calculated that no less than 3,479,323 young spar-
rows are thus destroyed annually in England aloe. Let n
hereafter, despise the cuckoo as a useless birdi-4ylesburn
News.
SCALE OF POETRY.—There is
• a paper in the
attributed by Mr.
Literary Magazine for January,
Prime to Goldsmith, in which principalou%lt7.se, poets are arranged
standard of perfectit in
according to their respective merli.t
the genius of
being 20. In this "poetical sea
are estimated at 19 ;
''t'orexample,
Shakspeare and his power ofversification
Pope's judgment at 18,
learning at 17.—Note to
No. I. of Kniobt's Enq!ieh Classics.
M.P.. has arrived at T ermyn-
F. B.Beamish, Esq.,
's, from Grenville House, Cork.
street, St. James e,

VENING EDITION. ,
T EAM7
.11 •
A.- •
2-1 ~4/'
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. y
hope you will do me the favour to give
insertion to a few remarks of mine, in reply to a
letter in the Times Newspaper of the 24th inst.,
signed "An Old Volunteer." I should not have
thought such a production worthy a reply, were it
not that the Editor comments on it, as deserving
to be read with attention. In the first place, the
writer deems it necessary to inform us that he
hardly knows whether the bowsprit be at the head
or tail of a vessel. After such an acknowledgment,
and so expressed, one would imagine that the
Times could not be serious in so strongly recom-
mending this letter to its readers.
The Old Volunteer allows there were many fine
ships in the port that were objects of his admira-
tion, and is much dejected "at not finding immense
bustle and stir, as war is so much spoken of ; and
his disappointment was beyond conception in not
finding some men-of-war actually in commission,
with their masts, sails, and ropes in order' What
nonsense for the Old Volunteer writing about what
he knew nothing of ! How could he tell whether
the masts were properly stayed, the ropes in their
proper places, or the sails furled as they should be ?
And these he states to be -the chief object of his
search !

When I read thus far I was in hopes he would
have gone ashore fully satisfied that the Board of
Admiralty were highly culpable, instead of whieh
he perseveres and actually discovers some ships in
ordinary, others in dock repairing, and a number of
receiving ships and hulks. I should like to have
seen his countenance on beholding such extraordi-
nary objects in Portsmouth harbour ; had he have
gone to Plymouth, I should have despaired of his
ever returning alive, as he would there have seen
also ships in dock repairing, hulks and receiving
ships in abundance. The conversation he had with
the patriotic boatman must have been interesting and
very affecting, particularly in speaking of the good
old times when the ships at Spithead were like a
moving forest, and the price then paid to a boatman
to go there-was ten shillings ; now you may go foss.
two. ,He must have shed tears at the recital.
I find the -boatman speaks of Admiral Fleming
~by Ilan which, lAm happy to •find • be
was usually'styled Charley, he always. ma tril-
self familiar and friendly with his officers and men,
and was no tyrant.
It would appear that the old boatman had for-
merly belonged to a man-dr-war, and when he said
the Americans had got all our best seamen, he
was not very complimentary to himself.
1 am free to confess, that at the close of the late
war, and for some five or six years after, very many
of our best seamen went to America, and I ant
not surprised at it. I could give many reasons for
their clomp so ; but that is twenty years ago, and
most of those brave and neglected tars have paid
the debt of nature, or become too old to be of any
real service in the United States, or have returned
to their native country, which, experience has
taught them, is the best in the world. I have
availed myself of opportunities, within these few
years, of ascertaining their real sentiments, and they
one and all allow that an English man-of-war is
the best ship for a sailor.; their treatment is good,
their provisions good, their comforts studied ; and,
only give them a trifle more advance in pay, and
leave now and then to go ashore, where time and
circumstances would admit of it; and you might
man the whole Navy of England in twelve months.
This subject brings me to some remarks on the
same Paper on a Pamphlet, which the Times highly
approves of, written by Sir Thomas Cochrane.
Some of his remarks are well enough, but where
he states that a ship, when the prospect of being
paid off comes in view, their discipline, gun-
exercise, &c., began to relax, this surprises me
very much, to come from such authority ; and,
with all due submission to Sir Thomas, I must
confess my doubts ; and, if such want of discipline
and neglect did occur, allow me to ask why was it
permitted, particularly the want of discipline ?
I agree with Sir Thomas that a peace establish-
ment should be considered as much a preliminary
preparation for war as for any other service, and also
that the ships employed should he manned with picked
men; but I disapprove of breakins, up a ship's com-
pany where it can be avoided. I think I could
suggest something better, and effect a great saving
to the country under the head of wear and tear,
which, if my calculations be right, amount to one-
third of the actual expense of the aggregate. I
should recommend that every ship now in com-
mission be not only completed to her lull war com-
plement of men, but an increase, say from 160 to
180 men in a first-rate, and decreasing the number
down to the smallest ship in the service,
about one man and a half to a gun. Steamers
in proportion to power and armament, with a pro-
portion of Lieutenants and Midshipmen, by which
means this disposable force, all able-bodied seamen,
are kept in actual service without the enormous ex-
pense that would attend the wear and tear of so
many more ships, as would be required for them,
according to the present system of manning the
Navy, as there are at all times a certain uumber of
ships of war at the different ports in perfect readi-
ness to be commissioned, should a case of emer-
gency arise. The overplus of seamen being all able-
bodied men, having among them a certain number
of petty officers, such as quartermasters, captains
,of the forecastle and tops, boatswain, gunner, and
carpenter's mates, &c., &c., &c., would be good
materials to lay the foundation for the crews of
twelve or sixteen sail-of-the-line, or for the imme-
diate equipment of eight.
These men so distributed in Europe and the
West Indies, might be brought to this country in
three or four weeks, in consequence of the facilities
of steam navigation.
The ships of the present day are so much larger
than formerly, that any officer who remembers the
Victory, Blenheim, Natnur, Bellona, Warrior, and
compare them in tonnage, length, and breadth, with
the ships of the same rate now afloat will be satisfied
that the increase over the full complement can be
better accommodated than the complement only at
the time I allude to.

In conclusion, I cannot agree with Sir Thomas
that a sailor ever thought of the drudgery and an•
noyance of fitting out, or even the exercise in all
its various blanches, as a reason for remaining in or
leaving the service. It is true that a Captain may
carry the latter to extremes, but at present officers
consult the comforts that mer. are entitled to with
a proper adherence to discipline.
AN OLD OFFICER.
April 25,1840.