The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Sept. 18.
via Marseilles ... Sept. 12.
israzil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Sept. 4.
Cape of Good hope, Ascension, and St. llelena Sept. 28.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southamptun Sept. 18.
via Marseilles Sept. 12.

Falkland Island5.....
Gibraltar, via Southampton ..
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. [B.

via Marseilles Sept, 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Sept. 10.
via Marseilles Sept. 4.
Portugal.... ....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. 1.
via Marseilles Sept, 4.
Newfoundland . . Sept. 14.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Sept. S.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Sept. 9.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, } Sept. 12.
California. and British Columbia..

WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED.—He was a bop
of on extraordinary command of verse, of the mos t
acute observation, of considerable humour, trained to car( i-
ful and accurate composition, and endowed with one of
those rare feminine souls which never fail to impress and be
impressed by every fine mind with whioh they come in
contact. Such belong to the men who are defended, ad-
mired, and gloried in by their friends—who seem to depend
for their warmth upon the vivid sympathy of others, while
they furnish themselves the light of the surrounding circle,
Without this he would have been a formidable satirist;
indeed his powers that way were occasionally tested,
though rarely exercised in earnest. With it he was the cen-
tral figure of a group of friends—comprising stronger cha-
racters, perhaps, and men of greater genius than himself.
In society he was sometimes thought reserved, even dis-
tant in wanner; but with a pen in his hand, whether•
writing for a familiar aye or for the world, he not merely
wrote according to his inmost thoughts, fancies, or emo-.
tions—he wrote them out. He seems to have revelled if t
the expression of all those finer feelings which an English -
man is but too apt to suppress. I:o creature has
stronger home-affection than the English schoolboy; bu.t
there are few who would not rather write Greek lambi,
than the lines in which Praed lavishes his fraternal affe c.
hon. The love-poetry of the present day, like that of the
Elizabethan era, seems to prefer to occupy itself with cir-
cumstances or description; Praed's love-poems are purely
psychological and reflective. Coventry Patmoro has writte
a volume upon the history of a successful love ; Praed tells
us more of his ideal self in a page than the modern poet in
a hundred.— The _Reader.

A QUEER PLACE.—On the edge of one wall the
city of Freyburg hangs, a natural fortress protected
by such a ditch and rampart as were never yet made by
human hands. At the bottom of the chasm, the Sarine is
overarched by an old stone bridge which satisfied our an-
cestors ; but 134 opened a suspension bridge of wider .span
than our Menai Bridge, but so much lighter and less a3licl
in construction, hung with such cobweb wires, that it is
impossible to traverse it in a heavy-laden omnibus without
thinking of the consequences of falling 170 feet plump down,
and being thankful on touching terra firma. Engineers
may be assured of its stability, but unlearned passengers
dread its giving way one of these days. If ever I cross it
again, it shall be on foot, and when not laden with carriages
either. The bridge, however, is a great saving of time,
even if it threaten to shorten your days, You can now
cross in two minutes, and at a level, the profound hollow
which took an hour to descend and mount again by passing
over the anoient bridge,—From London Society.