The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-01 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 30.—The Flora transport,
Lieut. Wentworth, Agent, arrived on Monday, from
Bermuda. She left that island on the 26th April,
and has brought home the 12th company of sappers
and miners, and a few invalids of the 74th regi-
ment ; Major Crab and Capt. Kelsall, royal engi-
neers, were passengers. Admiral Sir C. Ogle, with
the Hussar, Rose, and Columbine, were about to
proceed to Halifax. The dock-yard at Bermuda
was proceeding rapidly in its formation. Upwards
of 1500 conv►cts were employed on it, and on the
fortifications mond it.

The Asia (with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir it shall be on the ground of its medicinal effects,
Pulteney Malcolm), Windsor Castle, Spartiate, I which have been avowedly great in many thousand
Wellesley, and Rifleman, sailed from Malta on the instances. The intrutruction-6f this practice is
16th of April, and arrived at Syracuse on the 21st,
which they left on the 28th. On the Ist instant
attributed, as it is well known, to the great Sir
the Spartiate parted for Malta, and the Wellesley Walter Raleigh. This was in the year 1585.
and Windsor Castle for Corfu. The Asia and The Spaniards were acquainted with its use sixty
Rifleman arrived at Naples on the same day, and years before, and named it after Tabaco, a pro-
were lying there at the date of the last accounts vince of Yucatan, where they first found it, and
(140 inst.) The Revenge, 74, was to sail from saw it used. In support of its medical reputa-
Naples on the 20th instant, with the British Am- tion, Dr. Willis in his Treatise on the plague,
bassador, the Right Hon. Robert Gordon, for giving an account of that in London, in 1665
,
Smyrna.
expressly says, " that the virtues of tobacco
The Philomel, 10, Commander Hawes, sailed
were found to be so great, that during the whole
yesterday for Chatham to be paid off.
On Thursday sailed the Proeris, 10, Com- , sickness it was observed that no tobacconist's
mander Charles Paget, for the Cork station; and house was infected ; ror, indeed, were those who
the Plumper, 10, Lieutenant M'Greer, for the coast ' smoked tobacco, especially if:they used it in a morn-
of Mica. ling. In short about this time the virtues of this herb

The Onyx, 10, Lieutenant Boteler, arrived on ' were described as so numerous, and the fashion ol
Tuesday, froni St. Ander°, having landed there se- smoking became so prevalent, even in the best
veral Spaniards, who had given evidence in this society (see the Spectator), that tobacco houses
country, of acts of piracy committed on the Coast
of Africa. became as common in London as wine-taverns."
The Herald yacht, Commander Maxwell, is or-
There are some very high authorities for
dered to be prepared to receive on board the lady smoking, and Dr. Parr, who was a most deter-
of Lord Heytesbury, the British Ambassador at the mined fumigator, and who called a lady, in her
Court of Russia. own house, " a great tobacco-stopper," because
Commander Gill has commissioned the Sparrow- she refused him his favourable indulgence after
hawk, of 18 guns, at Chatham ; the Hon. George
dinner, was wont to surmise that ne
Grey has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, helegereta
p
Zeus, or " cloud-compelling Jove, as he is
and appointed to the Asia,
called by Homer, implied that the father of the
The Rev. Mr. Brice, Chaplain of the Ordinary at Gods
this pert, has been presented by Lord Melville to the had to the divine
occasionally. recourse
weed. Sir Isaac Newton smoked like a vol.
Rectory of Thorneyburn, Northumberland.
Ships at Spithead—Galatea, Briton, Pallas, and Lord Byron loved " a cool cigar."
cano,
Ariadne. In the Harbour—Victory, Melville, In modern times, fashionable authorities might
Athol, Herald, Favourite, Brisk, Onyx. be cited by thousands in defence of this prac-
The Champion, 18 guns, Commander Scott, tice, and whenever it is used in moderation, in
sailed from Madeira for Fernando Po, on the 2d
May. a proper place and at a proper time, not to pro-
voke an inclination for liquors, but to soothe
and compose the spirits, he must be a churl who
forbids the gentle whiff. The learned Doctor
above mentioned was literally nothing in
conversation without his pipe—then, and then
only, lie contrived " ex fumo dare lucem."
Burton recommends it to the hasty and the pas-
sionate, upon the supposition, I imagine, that it
is impossible for a man to "fume and" fret with
a pipe in his mouth. Corporal Trial assumes us
that a pipe gives a man courage—" Give us,"
says he, " but a dram of Geneva and a pipe of
tobacco to drive away the vapours, and. we know
not what it is to fear death."—Bath Herald.

CLERGY ORPHAN SOCIETY.—The annual
public examination of this Institution took place on Friday
last in the presence of the Archbishops of CANTERBURY
and Your, the Bishops of WINCHESTER, CARLISLE, ST.
ASAPH, CHICHESTER, CHESTER, LICHFIELD and Co-
VENTRY, ELY, GLOUCESTER, and BRISTOL, the Dean of
PETERBOROUGH, and a large and distinguished meeting of
the friends and benefactors of this dimity. The girls were
examined in the Scriptures, and in Ancient and Modern
History, and some of them in the French language. The
boys were examined in Virgil, Horace, the Greek Testa-
ment, and in many parts of general knowledge, and a few
of them in the two first books of Homer. It would be
impossible to speak too highly of the result of this examina-
tion. Many unexpected and difficult questions were an-
swered promptly and prech.e!y, and there was a composure
and cheerfulness in the countenances of the children, indi-
cative of their feeling thoroughly well prepared for what
they were going through. When the examination was over,
the Archbishop of CANTERBURY addressed the Rev. T.
WHARTosr, Master, and Mrs. JONES, Mistress, in terms of
the highest and most deserved approbation, for having dis-
charged their arduous at.d anxious duties, through another
year so conscientiously and successfully. Tile new exa-
mination room (spacious and commodious as it is) was
quite filled, and it was delightful to observe the universal
and deep interest which prevailed among all present, an in-
terest doubtless arising not more from the examination
itself, than from the thought uppermost in their minds, that
the children before them were fatherless, anal their mothers,
for the most part, in aggravated affliction, and totally unable
to give them such an education as they claim from the sta-
tion of a deceased father, and such as they receive from the
voluntary Contributions of a generous public.
THE CUCKOO.—The cuckoo begins early in
the season with the interval of a minor third ; the bird
then proceds to a major third, next to a fourth, then to a
fifth ; alter which his voice breaks, without a minor sixth.
This defalcation of voice is alluded to in un epigram of
JOHN Hprwoon, as far back as 1587:
" In April, the koo-koo can sing her song by rote,
In June, of tune she cannot sing a note ;
At first, koo-koo, koo-koo, sing still can she do;
At last, kooke, kooke, kooke; six kookes to one koo."
Some authors have supposed that no other bird loses or
changes its note; but this is an erroneous idea, for the
voice of the nightingale undergoes a woful change, re-
sembling in the autumn the hoarse croaking of the frog, a
reptile which has been called facetiously, and not quite in.
aptly it would seem, the Dutch nightingale.

The LORD CHANCELLOR left town on Sa-
turday evening for h's seat at Wimbledon, and returned to
London last evening.

It is said that the large mansion, newly erect-
ed on the site where the late Mr. PERRY'S house stood,
near Tavistock-square, has been taken by a number of
Noblemen and Gentlemen, to he converted into a society,
called " The London University Club." The vast capa-
city of the rooms are exactly suited to such an Instit.ition,
and the flourishing and improved state of the neighbour-
hood, renders the E.tabliAment indispensable.

It was circulated through town on Saturday,
that a beautiful lady, not long ago as amiable and respected
as she must now be reprobated, though she must be always
p;tied, had withdrawn herself from her husband's house,
if not from his protection, and that her companion was a
certain foreign Prince, whose father had honourably
sought and achieved a better species of celebrity. The
noble Lord, whom it is usual to speak of as '• the injured
party" on such occasions, is said to be a Cabinet Mioi-ter,
and the only person who either is, or affects to be, sur•
prised at this untoward occurrence._Morning Paper.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 30. We have had a less
animated demand for Cotton to-day, and the sa'es do not
exceed 2,000 bags, but without any change on the prices
obtained yesterday.
It appears by the last accounts from Murcia
that the shock of earthquake which was felt there on the
18th ult. lasted more than thirteen minutes, and that dur-
ing its continuance several columns of fire were seen to
fall on the mountains. The earth in some places opened,
and sent forth volcanic eruptions, some of which are said
to have been of considerable extent.

FRENCH PAPERS. •
(From the Journal des Defiats of Friday.)
PARIS, MAY 29.—The Repoira Commission
of the Law concerning liquors the the determina-
tion which the Chamber has formed of dismissing
the discussion of that law after that of the Budget,
leaves no hope that the situation of the proprietors
of vines will be ameliorated this year; they have no
other resource, none but in the goodwill of the
municipal councili of the cities, if they will diminish
the tolls on wine; and the kindness of the Govern-
ment, if it will reduce, by Ordinance, as it can, ac-
cording to the commission, those small tolls, when,
contrary to the law of finance of 1816, they exceed
the amount of taxes received by the Treasury. 1u
that alone does their chance of safety this year con,
sist. The question concerning the wine-dressers re-
mains the same as it was represented by the numer-
ous petitions which have come from all parts.
FILENCH FUNDS.-Five per Cents. 10Sf. 1071. 9.5 e. ;
Three per Cents. 791. 90c. 95c. ; Bank Actions, 18721.
50e.

FOREIGN FUNES.-Neapolitan Ilento, Cert. Fal. 871.
50c. 40c. ; Spanish Rentes, 6i; Royal Spanish I owl,
78 b ; Royal Redeemable, 99p.. ; Interminable Spanish
Annuities, 53 52i ; Haytian Loan, 375 f. 4001.