The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-16 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF SICK .IND WOUNDED.

An express down train from London arrived at the
Strood station of the North Kent Railway shortly after
3 p.m. yesterday, containing 25 detachments of regi-
ments serving in the Crimea. The whole of the de-
tachments are invalids, and owing to the number of dis-
abled soldiers—about 60 of them having lost their legs
in the late engagements with the Russians at Alma and
Inkerman, and others being unable to walk the Com•
mandaet of Chatham Garrison, Colonel Eden, had in
readiness a fatigue party of 50 men, with two serjeants,
under command of the Serjeant-Major of the garrison,
with 15 stretchers from the medical department of the
garrison ; and to see that every 'attention was given to
them the Brigade-Major of the garrison, with Adjutant
Rand, of the Invalid Depot, and Staff-Surgeon Telfer,
from Fort Pitt, superintended the removal of the in-
valids from the railway carriages to the conveyances
which had been provided to take them to Fort Pitt for
medical inspection. A large concourse of persons as-
sembled round the railway station to witness the removal
of these brave invalids. There was one man carried ;
he had lost both his legs, and there was another a mere
skeleton. There were several others in a very bad state.
The accommodation and arrangements were exceedingly
good. There was no time lost in removing the invalids
from the station to Fort Pitt, and on their arrival at the
hospital there was a strong medical corps waiting to at-
tend,-with Dr. Taylor, the chief medical officer. Upon
medical inspection only 39 men were found in a fit state
to be sent to the Invalid Depot. St. Mary's-barracks,
Brompton, and 104 were taken into the hospital—the
whole requiring immediate medical attendance. The
invalids belonged to the following corps :-Ist
Dragoons, and sth Dragoons, 11th Hussars, 13th
Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers, let R oyals, 4th,
7th Fusileers, 9th, 10th, 23,1, 30th, 33d, 41st, 42.1,
47th, *r.,rith, 63d, 77th, 93d Highlanders, and 95th Re-
giments. Tile only officer in charge of the invalids
was Assistant-Surgeon A. G. M. Tyde, 58th Regiment.
The invalid Grenadier, Coldstream, and Sects Fu-ileer
Guards proceeded to London to join their respective
head-quarters, and the Royal Artillery proceeded to
Woolwich. The detachments left Portsmouth at S a.m.
on Monday, by the up train, they having disembarked
from the steam-ship Avon. Among the invalids was
Sergeant Major Silver, 11th Hussars, who excited some
curiosity, owing ;to his dress he wore a Russian coat
and cap, which he took two days after the battle of Alma
from a baggage waggon which they fell in with belong-
ing to the Cossacks. A number of men have brought
home Russian trophies, such as musket-barrels, swords,
&c., which they seem to prize highly.
Al 11 a.m. yesterday 14 detachments of invalids
arrived at the Invalid Depot Hospital, Fort Pitt, from
Gravesend, at which place they disembarked, from the
Cork steamer, from Plymouth. With them were two

men of the Royal Sappers and Miners, belonging to the
3d company. Lieutenant Charles Pringle, 71st High-
landers, and Assistant•Surgoon Thomas Atkinson, 31st
Regiment, were in charge of them. The whole of the
men were in a very sickly state ; they were very cold,
complained that they had nothing to eat since Sunday
evening, and that they had to stand on deck during the
passage from Plymouth to Gravesend. Several bad
cases were left behind at Plymouth. Ten men were ad-
mitted into the hospital, and G 8 were sent to the Invalid
Depot for further examination.
Tho bulk of the Avon's freight of sick were carefully
landed at Portsmouth dockyard yesterday morning, and
conveyed to the railway station at Landport. whence
they proceeded to Chatham by the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway, the servants of which were
most attentive to their reception and comfortable ac-
commodation. Four cases of extreme weakness were
removed on Sunday to the garrison hospital at Portsea,
which is now fully tenanted. The Avon arrived at

Southampton, fron; Malta, last Thursday evening about
7 o'clock, this three whole days and a half were con-
sumed before her sickly cargo could bs released from
her decks.

Vessels are not put in quarantine at the present time
at any of the Peninsular ports. Such a circumstance
has not been known for years.
PARIS BOURSE.—The last accounts from the Paris
Bourse yesterday show a fresh advance of a-half or:three
quarters per cent. At Vienna the unfavourable reaction
from the improvement recently caused by the com-
mencement of the peace negotiations still continues.
ThE POET.—The ancients were quite right in pro-
claiming that a poet must be born, not made. To be
sure, fitting culture and art education will make the
best born poet better, since they supply the fine-tem-
pered implements of workmanship to the hands of genius.
Yet, without a certain given material, all the education
in the world will never produce a poet. A due consi-
deration of what is essential to constitute the poet is
suited to deter many versifiers from wasting precious
time in an unprofitable pursuit. Let us for a moment
glance at some of the requisite qualities. The poet
must have large perceptive powers, for they are the
windows, as it were, through which he leeks, and in a
great measure determine his range of vision. He must
possess the faculty which we call imagination, and which
is very compound in its constitution, and a very Pro-
tens in its manifestations. At one time it is a worship
of beauty, at another it is a suffering or rejoicing sym-
pathy. Now it will see a deeper meaning in the heart
of common things, and again it will light up the dull
face of things with magical beauty. He must possess
logical and analytical power, for the poet is the greatest
logician, and leaps to his results by no mere guess. He
must be the greatest master of common sense, for a
poet was never yet an inspired fool. He must possess
intense passions, for these, properly reined and guided,
draw the car of genius up the immortal mount. His
eye must be tremblingly alive to beauty, his ear hunger-
ing for the melody ; indeed, he must have that vehe-
ment passion for melody that buoys his speech into
song, his footsteps into tune, and makes his life
move in a melodious rhythm. But, above all, he
must possess a warm, kindling, electrical tempera-
ment. This attribute of the poet we should set
above all others. Large heart and brain, clear
sight, and general breadth of nature, are indispen-
sable. There never has been a poet but in the pro-
portion that he has possessed these characteristics. Such
have been the world's great singers. They were all thus
gloriously endowed, who have had the magic to unlock
the sources of human smiles and tears, and send the
thrill of sympathy through the heart of universal human-
ity. In this sense Homer, Milton, Shakspeare, Dante,
and Burns are poets. They are creators, seers, pro-
phets, and singers.—Eclectic Review, January, 1855.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMENDMENT OF THE

Lew.—Last night tl-e usual monthly meeting of the
members of this society was held at their rooms, Lower
Regent street. Mr. Carr, V.P., occupied the chair.
After the usual preliminaries had been disposed of, Mr.
Woolrych read a paper on summary convictions, in which
he insisted on the propriety of giving the magistrates a
summary power in cases of petty larceny, as the present
system of sending them to quarter sessions for trial by
jury was expensive to the prosecutor, injurious to the
prisoner, and both expensive and injurious to the public,
and its inconvenience often amounted to a denial of
justice. Mr. Pulling agreed with most of the views
propounded by Mr. Woolrych, and thought that a pub-
lic prosecutor, who should have the supervision of all
these cases from beginning to end, ought to be appointed.
-If that were to be the case, there could be no objec-
tion to giving the prisoner the choice of tribunal.
With these observations, he would move that the paper
they had just heard read should be referred fo the com-
mittee on criminal laws. Mr. Elliott did not think
that a mere transfer' of jurisdiction could cure the
ovil—the origin of which lay in the morbid and diseased
state of public feeling with regard to criminals. A
man who thieved was actuated by vengeance, and the
state of public feeling, which ignored vengeance, pre-
vented one of the most healthy priaciples of criminal
repression. Mr. Edgar said that they were not discuss-
ing the origin of crime, but the best means of dealing
with it when committed. It was, he thought, for the
interest of all parties that there should be a public prose-
cutor, and even a public defender. Mr. Anstey advo-
cated not only the appointment of a public prosecutor,
but also cheap procedure, good prison discipline, an in-
telligible criminal code, and a Minister of Justice. He
had little confidence in the present magistracy. Mr.
Symonds suggested that the paper should be referred to
the committee on judicial tribunals. He thought that
publicity was the great guard against carelessness. This
suggestion was adopted ; and the consideration of the
question of limited liability in partnership, which was on
the paper of the evening, was, on account of the time
occupied by the above discussion, postponed until the
next meeting. The proceedings then terminated.

AST LEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lesice and Mainfrer, Mr. Win. Cooks.
THIS EVEN I NG,
the BATTLEoI the ALMA,
To commence with (thirteenth week)
With its complete meteriel of war.
After which, the amusing SCENES iu the CIRCLE.
To conclude with the new successful Comic Pantomime called
GULLIVER and the LILLIPUTIAN'S TIAN'S ; or, Harlequin and Isritannla.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West. Acting Manger, Mr. W. IL Cooke, Equegtriau Director,
liEr. W. Cooke, jun.