The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-08 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Cherub, St. Michael's to Bristol, the 24th ult. lat. 47.
long. 12. by the Water-witch, arrived off Falmouth ; Dis-
patch, Davison, Liverpool to Constantinople, the sth, in the
Gut of Gibraltar, by the Trident, arrived off Falmouth ; Mor-
giana, Rickets, China to Liverpool, the 23d of March, lat. 12.
N. long. 29. W. ; Ranger, Guayquill to Cadiz, the Ist ult.
lat. 22. long, 37. by the Dryade, Heard, arrived off Falmouth ;
Toward Castle (whaler,) for London, long. 24. by the Mada-
gascar, arrived at Cowes ; Alexander, of Maryport, the 20th
ult, lat. 50. long. 15., Ann, M'Kenzie, Liverpool to Jamaica,
the 22d lat. 50. long, 9. ; Alexander, Robertson, Liverpool
to Constantinople, the 13th off Malaga; the Nonpareil, Lon-
don to Malta, the 13th, in the Straits of Gibraltar ; the Ber-
bice, 25th, lat. 49. long. 13. ; Calypso, Charente to Liver-
pool, the 26th, lat. 50. long. 9. by the Lapwing, aiTieed at
Liverpool. The Carclew, of and for Falmouth, from Pa-
lermo, the 26th of March, lat. 38. 8. long. 6. 48. E. ; Mar-
mion, of London, coast of Guinea for Marseilles, the 3d ult.,
20 miles east of Gibraltar ; Francia, Amsterdam, for New
York, 2d inst. lat. 49. long. 7. 48. by the Tantivy, arrived at
Plymouth.

THE NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " WILD
SPORTS OF THE WEST."—" Commend us," says the Edin-
burgh Evening Post, in reviewing the spirited new Novel en.
titled " My Life," from the pen of the author of " Stories of
Waterloo"—" commend us to a regular rattling story, told by
an Irishman. The expression, grotesque phraseology, the
rich inimitable brogue, and the invulnerable sang froid of the
narrator, form a body of attractions altogether irresistible.
The writer of My Life' is a genuine specimen of the Mile-
sian tribe of story-tellers. There is a dashing, quaint, bold
air about his narrative, which adds life to the most ordinary
adventure, though, in truth, he has contrived to involve his
hero in a series of troubles not quite common to vulgar mortals.
He never flags in his flow of animal spirits, and pours out in-
cessantly a series of fanciful illustrations which render his book
extremely amusing."

THE WEATHER IN AMERICA.—The memory
of the oldest person living bears no record of such a cold, wet,
blustering, disagreeable months as this of March 1635, which
leaves us to-day. It came in with the mercury three or four
degrees below zero, and is likely to bid us a good-by in a snow
storm----wind east. Charle river has been frozen over more
than one-third of the month. There is ice in the streets of
our city, which first covered the pavements in November.
Last week we heard one of our neighbours threatening to
plant peas on the Ist day of April. We should like to wit-
ness the operation. He may make holes for the seed with a
crow-bar, but how he can contrive to cover it with earth
is more than we can conjecture.—Boston (American) Courier.

CARROT SOUP.--Very few, even of our Udes,
know how to prepare carrot soup—the modus operandi is a
mystery. Mr. Brande, by the aid of chemistry, has however
been able to discover the secret, which consists simply in
adding a little alkali—common pearl-ash will answer—to the
soup when boiling. The vegetable matter enters into a che-
mical compound with the alkali, which is soluble in water ;
hence the rich and nutricious character of well prepared carrot-
aoup.

There has lately been discovered at Cuxhac, a vil-
lage about a league from Narbonne, a bronze statue of Venus,
resembling the Venus de Medicis, in so far that the body in-
clines forward, resting upon the left leg ; the head is grace-
fully and slightly turned towards the left, and the arms are so
placed as to conceea with modesty the charms of her person.
There is, however, this difference, that the head is orna-
mented with n diadem, and the hair, though partly tressed
up, falls in part in elegant ringlets on the shoulders. A large
vase of terra cota, four feet in diameter, containing ashes and
burnt ljnes, a statue of the Bona Dea, a small serpentine
stone. and a great quantity of Roman bricks have also been
founcl. It is believed that the spot at which these relics have
trcen picked up, was formerly the site of an ancient villa, on
the banks of the lake called Rubresus.