The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-23 00:00:00

NAPLES:

" Notice has been given by the Neapolitan Govern-
ment that a lighthouse has been recently erected on the
point of the small fort of Tenaglia which projects from
the Castle of Baia, in Pozzuoli Bay. Its latitude is said
to be 40 deg. 48 min. 40 sec. N., and its longitude 14 deg.
4 min. 50 sec. E. of Greenwich.

"It is a fixed light, and was exhibited on the Ist of
last July at an elevation of 46 feet above the mean level
of the sea. It may he seen at the distanca of biz miles."

NORDKOSTER ON THE COAST OF

SWEDEN.

Notice has been give❑ by the Swedish Government
that two lighthouses have been erected on the highest
part of the North Koster Island, in the Gulf of Bohus, in
latitude 58 deg. 54 min. 12 sec. N., and longitude 11 deg.
4 min. E. of Greenwich. The towers are each twenty
feet in height, and ►taud north and south of each other,
distaut 234 feet; and ai the lights will be 214 feet above
high water, they will be seen at the distance of eighteen
or twenty miles in fine weather. The northern light will
have a blue tinge, and revolve every two minutes. In
the southern tower there will be a fixed light, and both
of them are to be exhibited on the Ist of next September.

CONSUMPTION OF WINE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND
iItKLAND. It appears:by 071611 returns, that the total quan-
tity of foreign wine consumed in the United Kingdom, in the
year 1787, was 4,521,941 gallons. In the following year the
consumption increased to 6,650,644 gallons, and continued to
increase till 1795, when it had risen to 8,2:38,438 gallons. In
1797 the consumption suddenly declined to 3,569,261 gal-
lons, but rallied in the two succeeding years, until in MO it
was 7,294,752. The consumption during the next quarter of
a century, from 1800 to 1824, was steady at an average of
5,000,000 gallons, but in the following year a large increase
took place, the quantity entered for home consumption in
1825 being 8,009,542 gallons. This increase, however, was
not maintained, the consumption having fallen in the follow-
ing year to 6,058,442 gallons. The consumption since 1827
to the present time seems to have remained very steady, at
an average of 6,300,000 gallons per annum. In the year 1843
the consumption was less than it has been since 1822, only
4,815,222 gallons having been cleared from the Custom
House. The consumption during the last four years has been
as follows :-1846, 6,740,316 gallons; 1847, 6,053,837;
1849, 6,136,547 ; and 1849, 6;251,662 gallons. The
imports generally exceed the consumption by about
1,125,000 gallons. In the years 1786 and 1813 all
the Custom House records (calculated to throw light
on the imports and consumption in those periods were
accidentally destroyed by fire. During the last ten years
there has been a total decrease in the amount of duty re-
ceived of 63,1981. The amount collected by the revenue as
duty on foreign wine averages 1,700,0001. per annum.
SPIRITS.—According to a recent return, the num-
ber
been o fpga
isdl 1 ofonrs
consumption
Britishum
pon spiritsin Scotland,
tpl
aronodf:
hason wrhainchg e
d dutyfo r hula:
last ten years from 5,093,698 (1844) to 6,975,091 (1847).
The quantity last year was 6,835,003 gallons. By another
return it appears that the total annual quantity of British
and colonial spirits, on'which duty has been paid for con-
sumption during the same period, has varied from 20,939,637
gallons (1842) to 26,700,398 (1816). The total quantity
last year wa.s 26,002,354.
AN EXAMPLE TO ES FOLLOWED.—Petitions hard
been frequently presented to the French Assembly, com-
plaining that the documents and signatures of public func
tionaries were frequently so ill written as to be illegible. A.
Ministerial circular has just been issued, declaring that tar
tue future functionaries must writs and sign their names
plainly, wider pain of dimiasal.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATER.
FAREWELL NIGHT.
The FAREWELL and CONCLUDLNG NIGHT of the SEASON
will be given

TO-MORROW EVENING
'when will be resented Donizetti's Opera.

LA FIOLIA DEL liEGaIMENTO.

3farle, Madame Sontag; Solpizio Sergente, -ignpr F. Lablache;
Corporate, Signor Ferrari ; Tonio, Signor Gardoni.
To be preceded by the grand Scena from Verdi's Opera,

I DUE FOSCARI.
Lucrezia, Mdlle. PorOdi ; The Doge, Signor Coletti.
After the Opera the National Anthem will be sung by the whole
strength of the Company.
To be followed by the grand Scena tam Weber's Dramatic Opera of
DER FBEISCLUTTZ.
Agatha, Madlle. Fiorentini.
After which the Pas de Cinq from
LA PRIMA BALLERINA; otr, L'Embnscade.
By Madlle. Amalia Ferraris, Mdlles. Julien, LamareuT, Resa.
and 31. Charles.
Alter which a Selection from Cimarosa's admired Opera, entitled