The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-02 00:00:00

FLOTILLA.

At Southampton—The Pottinger.
En route to Southampton and Gibraltar from Malta—The
Royal Tar and the Achilles.
En route from Southampton and Gibraltar to Malta—The
Oriental.

En route to Constantinople and ports of the Black Sea from
Malta—The Tagus.
En route from Constantinople and the Black Sea to Malta
—The Duke of Cornwall.

En route from Alexandria to Malta—The Iberia.
FOREIGN SHIPS OF WAR AND PACKETS IN PORT.
The French steamer Rhamses ; the Anglo-Maltese
steamer Scotia ; and the Neapolitan Maria Christina.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY I.—The Albatross, 16, Commander
Yorke, sailed last evening for Chatham to be paid off.
The Vixen steam. sloop, Captain Giffard, remains in har-
bour to disembark her specie, after which she will proceed
to the eastward to be paid off. She looks in admirable
condition, and infinitely more like a ship just fitted out than
one from a long distance after five years' commission.
The Nelson, 120, advanced ship, is being masted.
The Java, 50, having been completely prepared for the
pendant, was removed from wider the sheers to moorings in
ordinary this morning.
Mr. Charles Brown, late Assistant-Master•Attendant, is
appointed Master-Attendant of this dockyard, vice Purdo,
retired. Mr. Brown is pre-eminently qualified for the
office, as he has proved on many highly important occasions
of an especial character, as well as by hi; experience during
the time he filled the office of Assistant.

Mr. John Davis, overseer of the ticket department in the
Merchant Seamen's office, is appointed Master-Attendant of
Clarence-yard, vice Town, retired.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Maidstone Journal.)
MAIDSTONE.—The hops appear to be getting the upper
hand of all their enemies, the unusual strength of bine re-
sisting every adverse influence, and giving promise of a
larger crop than could possibly have been imagined a few
weeks back.
EAST FARLEIGH.—The hops in this parish are doing won-
ders ; there are a few lice to be found on a few hills in
some grounds around the outsides ; but, on the whole, they
cannot appear more healthy. A full average crop may be
expected.
WEST FARLEIGIL—The hops here are in a very precarious
state ; some Founds are very full of vermin. The result is
very uncertain.

liAnausG.—The hops in this parish are in a very uncertain
state ; there is a great increase of vermin.
OTHAISI.—Many of our plantations are tolerably clean, and
promise an average crop, while others remain foul; among
such a half crop is very doubtful. The midsummer branches
are unusually forward, fast putting forth the pin ; among
some of the early sorts burr may be found, consequently we
anticipate a very early hopping.
LENILAM.—The hops in this neighbourhood have gone off
very much during the past week. Some grounds are quite
past recovery, and all the rest are so infested with vermin
that anything like a crop is extremely doubtful. •
CRANNROOK.—In the Weal district the plantations are
improving.
SEVENOAYS.—AIbeit the refreshing showers and heavy
thunder, we are sorry to notice but little,
'if any improve-
ment in the " Below-hill ' plantations thebine still is short,
and as full of vermin as ever, in fact, looking worse instead
of better. Several pieces we have noticed in the adjoining
parishes, where the bine has been tut up and the poles pulled
up, above the hill; on the ridge we are, however, happy to
say there is a most decided and great improvement; but as
to laying the duty, as stated by some of your contemporaries,
at 130,0001., we should feel under all circumstances disin-
clined to back 100,0001.
WROTHAM, PLAXTOL, SITEPBOURNE, AND IGHTHAS.--The
hop plantations in the upper part of Wrotham, above the
London-road, continue to suffer very considerably from the
effect of the blight. The plantations round Crouch, Crow-
burst, Clagate-cross, and Plaxtol, present a more healthy
appearance. The plant around Shipbourne, and some parts
of Ightham is very much cut up. Generally, where the
bine is weak, the vermin have stuck, and little hopes can be
entertained of its recovery • but where the bine is strong •
and vigorous, there certainly is not much fly, and some
evident improvement may be seen. The cold nights of the
past week have, however, had a chilling effect upon the plant
generally.
The good-humoured critical correspondent "of the Bruges
Express, on whose musically-attuned ear irregularity of
number appears to sound gratingly, and whose highly re-
fined taste cannot alloy of extravagance of comparison, or
anything approachins to hyperbolic description, poetical or
prosaic, if at all sceptical relative to the state of the planta-
tions in this locality, would probably be gratified in walk
over the Cherry House Field of Mr. R. S. Thompson, of ELL,
tol, and the grounds around generally, particularly those oNN
Mr. T. Knowles, of Roughway, and the Messrs. Goldings, of ..'*"
the Tree and Ashenden Farms, where the bine may be seen
over the 14ft. poles and down again to the ground, blooming,
healthy, vigorous, and gay, we wish we could add, free from
vermin.
TusmaDGE.—Great improvement has taken place this
week in the quality of gardens about us. There is a great
deal of vermin still, but not a tithe of what we had three
weeks back. The thunder-storm a few weeks since seems
to have cleansed them and done great service. Still only
a small crop is expected, as the bine is very weak generally.
SUSSEX.—Our accounts from this district are still as un-
favourable as ever.

FARNHAM—There is a general improvement here, which
also partially extends to the country around. By some the
duty is rated at 200,000/.

OF CATTLE IN LONDON AND PARIS.
COMPARATIVE CONSUMPTION
Previous to the proposed re-construction on more
convenient and extended plans of the public markets of
Paris,
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upon the manner in which market accommodation was
elsewhere provided. The market-places of Liverpool,
Birkenhead, and Newcastle-on-Tyne attracted particu-
larly the attention of the members of this commission.
Those of London appear to have surprised them by the
inferior, inappropriate scale on which they are con-
structed for the greatest metropolis in Europe. The
cattle market of Smithfield, in the very centre of a large
city, provoked on the part of the commissioners certain
remarks, which, courteously couched as they are, do
not redound to the credit of the corporation, whose
"feudal prerogatives" these inquiring foreigners soon
found were the principal obstacle to the transference of
the market to a more commodious locality. " Smith-
field," they observe, "is the beau ideal of disorder. The
driving off
the oxen fluid, the departure of troops of
sheep, the frightened animals which escape, the barking
of the dogs, the shouts of the drivers, all produce a
racket and confusion the most frightful to hear, and the
most tumultuous commotion that can be seen. We may
acid that the streets in the vicinity, which are on the way
to the slaughter-houses of Newgate-market, and the
stalls where the unsold beasts are kept, are encumbered
with animals, and rendered filthy with ordure, which the
foot of the citizen cannot escape." The following is the
comparative statement of the number of cattle brought
to Smithfield, and to the markets for supplying Paris,
in the year 1842, but doubtless a misprint for 1844, as
given by the commissioners:—
Bullocks, Sheep. Calves. Swine.
Smithfield 169,995 1,707,196 30,489 30,000
Poissy
Sceaux 54,621 381,354 13,068
Paris 9,490 ]4 4.9,012
The excess of cattle brought to Smithfield over the
three Paris markets was, therefore, 28,037 bullocks,
1,024,372 sheep, and 30,000 swine ; the Paris markets,
on the other hand, show an excess of 63,876 calves.
The pork consumed in Paris is probably killed and pre-
pared in the provinces, for the consumption of ham,
alone, which is a favourite food of the Parisians, must
be very considerable. Assuming that all London was
supplied from Smithfield, the disparity of animal food.
absorbed in the two capitals would disappear at once,
considering that the population of Paris at one million,
is half that of London only. The different gastronomic
preferences of the two peoples are sufficiently indicated
by the animal races on which respectively they feed,
and will be readily appreciated by those conversant with
the nature of the living and culinary preparations of each..

The ship Carolina has arrived East India
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in
the
It:liellPratt i),llisißx feoanthbero,arld3ss,boaolOess,lates, 70 boxes of
cases general merchandise, 100 kegs of patnt,.and 149 bottles.
of oil, saved from the vessel Elizabeth, which was wreckedt
off Brest, on the coast of France, during her outward—
bound voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, with a cargo of
18 casks and 186
Iritish merchandise.

Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND
THURSDAY.

VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC-
TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This
magnificent spectacle is revived in an unprecedented scale of
grandeur, the picture being more than twice the size of the former,
and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great
Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction of Her-
culaneum and Pompeii took place : produced under the direction
of Mr. Danson.
A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been
constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night.
The PROMENADE CONCERTS are again confided to Mr. God-
frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes
many eminent native and foreign musicians.
In addition to the other attractions of the Gardens. will be exhi-
bited CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, approached by the Illumi-
nated Gothic Bridge, representing in the Interior Telemachus
resting his adventures to Calypso.
The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the
mast complete and effective scale.
Pree.ading the Volcanic Display, a novel exhibition will be intro-
duced, representing the Descent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sun.
Mons. Farinelli will descend froin a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in
height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to
receive him, and bear him to his chrystal home.
The Glass Conservatory is spfendhily ornamented with festoons
of imps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of
Carnivore by gas-light.
Feeding of the Carnivora at half-past five; the Pelicans, Sec., at
six ; Concert at half-p
Aastdmission six and the
Shilling. Eruption at dusk.
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Warning 11 minutes after 7. I Evening .. 3G minutes after 7.