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

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Sept. 18.
•ria Marseilles Sept. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet . Sept. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Sept. 28.
("Anna, Penang., and Singapore, via Southampton. Sept. 18.
via Marseilles ...Sept. 12.

Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton ..
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 18.
via Marseilles Sept, 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton ..
via Marseilles Sept. 4.
Portugal.... Sept. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. 1,
via Marseilles .. Sept. 4.
Newfoundland

Oporto and Vigo • ..
U. 6. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Sept. 8.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Sept. 9.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, j Sept. , ,
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California. and British Columbia.. . .

WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED.—Ha was a boy
of an extraordinary command of verso, of the most
acute observation, of considerable humour, trained to care-
ful and accurate composition, and endowed with one of
those rare feminine souls which never fail to impress and bo
impressed by every fine mind with which they come in
oontact. 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 ho 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 manner; but with a pen in his hand, whether
writing for a familiar eye 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 in
the expression of all those finer feelings which an English-
man is but too apt to suppress. No creature has a
stronger home-affection than the English schoolboy ; but
there are few who would not rather write Greek lambics
than the lines in which Praed lavisLas his fraternal affec4
bon. 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 written
a volume upon the history of a successful love ; Praed tells
us more of his ideal self in a page than the modern poet is
a hundred.—The _Reader.

A QUEER PLACE.—On the edge of one wall. the
city of Freyburg hangs, a natural fortress prott!cted
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 1834 opened a suspension bridge of wider span
than our Menai Bridge, but so much lighter and legs &lid
in construction, hung with such cobweb wires, that it is
impossible traverse it in a heavy-laden omnibus without
thinking of the consequences of falling 170 feet plump downs
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 times
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 ancient bridge,—From London Society.