The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-29 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Aug. 29.—Wind this day at noon—South ;
moderato breeze, and fine weather.

HULL, Aug. 28.—Wind W.—Arrived—San Francisco,
from Quebec.

GRIMSBY, Aug. 28.—Wind W.—Arrived—Satisfaction,
from Quebec.

TORBAY, Aug. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Anna, from
Hamburg for Buenos Ayres.
GLouCETER, Aug:. 28.--Wind W.SW.—Arrived—
Boadicea, from Shedrau.

CARDIFF, Aug. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—One, from
Garrucha.
KINGSTOWN, Aug. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tra-
falgar, from Demerara.

PLYMOUTH, Saturday Morning.
Her Majestl's paddle-wheel steam sloop Geyser 6, Com-
mander Pechell. arrived in the Sound last night.
On the 21st inst. she anchored in the port of Wexford,
and there waited unsuccessfully far intelligence of the posi-
tion of the Confederate war steamship Florida, which has
been burning merchant vessels off the coast of Ireland,
The Admiralty tank, in tow of a steam tug, has been taken
this morning from liamoazi to the Geyser to supply her
with water, and it is supposed that when replenished the
sloop will resume her duty off Ireland.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 28—Adin, from Richibucto ; Salvator,
from Archangel; Rotunda, from Smyrna; Paline, from
Dantzic; Columbine, from Quebec; Expedite, from Pug-
wash.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Norman, for Mauritius; Tartar, for Swansea;
Compagnee, for Bahia ; Georgetown, for Barbadoes ; Mary
Johanna, for Buenos Ayres—all from London.
Anchored—Jane, from Shields, for Venice.
Passed—Ocean Child, schooner, from London; Jessie,
of Southampton, from North—both for West,

Omer Pacha is said to be seriously indisposed.
M. MASINI, the well-known composer of popular
French romances, has recently died in Paris, at the age
of sixty.

EXTRAORDINARY ACTION FOR LIBEL.—At the
Liverpool Assizes yesterday an extraordinary action
for libel, Padley v. Cooper, was tried before Mr. Justice
Mellor. The plaintiff, the E,ev. J. S. Padley, a mini-
ster of the Established Church, residing in Leicester-
shire, sought to recover damages from a Mr. H. R.
Cooper, a surgeon of Ixworth, is Suffolk, for an alleged
libel. In early life the plaintiff was a schoolfellow of
a young gentleman named Baddeley, who died a few years
since, requesting him to act as a son and friend to his
father, Captain Baddeley, an Indian officer. Captain
Baddeley, after his son's death, went to reside with
the Padley's, and when he died he bequeathed all
his property to the plaintiff. On this the de-
fendant, a relative of the Baddeleys, applied
to the coroner to have the body of Captain
Baddeley exhumed, alleging that he:had been poisoned.
The coroner, after making inquiries from the police, refused
to hold an inquest. The deceased then addressed the Secre-
tary of State in several memorials, to the effect that Captain
Baddeley had died from neglect at the hands of the
Padleys. He also addressed communications to the
Bury Post, Stamford Mercury, and other papers reflect-
ing upon the plaintiff. After the case had proceeded some
length, Mr. James, Q.C., who appeared on behalf of the
defendant, said that his client, though he believed at the
time he published the libels they were correct, was now
convinced to the contrary, and was ready to ex-
press his regret for publishing them. His lordship,
after remarking that the apology came very late, said he
was happy to think that Mr. Padley, as a clergyman,
had acted with perfect propriety and consistency, and
the reverend gentleman would leave the court with the
most absolute freedom from any reflections and imputa-
tions. Mr. Temple, for the plaintiff, said that as the
action had not been brought for the sake of
damages, a verdict would be taken for £l5O. A verdict
was therefore entered for this amount.—ln Padley v. Ross,
an action against a newspaper reporter and correspondent
for the publication of the same libel in other newspapers,
the defendant, having expressed his regret, a juror was
withdrawn.

VIRGIL'S FAME.—Its vitality is unsurpassed, says
a Saturday Reviewer, if not unprecedented in the
annals of literature. As long as there was life in the Ro-
man Empire, Virgil's renown lived. He was the mould
and glass in which every later epic poet, with the exception
of Lucan, formed and reflected himself. Throughout the
middle ages he was a burning and a shining light. Dante
hailed him as his master and his great exemplar, and cen-
sured his friend Guido Cavalcanti for not prizing sufficiently
" Arms and the Man." On the revival of literature his
writings were diligently edited and illustrated. Many of
his lines became proverbial, and some of them even now
are intelligible and almost popular in the House of Com-
mons. They lie imbedded in the prose literature of Chris-
tendom at a time when Latin was the language of diplo-
macy, theology, and even of science. In the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries he would have been a hardy critic
who should have awarded the palm to Homer. In the
eighteenth century he was read by men whO otherwise had
little literature to boast of ; and if in the present age Virgil's
reputation has moulted some feathers, we must bear in
mind that since 1800 there has been a general revolution in
literary opinion. Many long-established reputations have
been for a while displaced, without, however, any security
that a later age may not reinstate them. For nearly nine-
teen hundred years of uninterrupted fame sterling merit
can furnish the only explanation—merit, too, of a broad and
diversified character, and not resting on any single basis of
style, narrative power, skill in delineation, or catholicity of
interest in the subject. To have endured so long, Virgil
must have combined most, it not all, of the conditions of
duration.
THE MEXICAN THRONE.---VIENNA, August 25.—
The General Correspondent of to-days says !—" No
positive intelligence has been received relative to the
Mexican throne question, but we believe ourselves able to
state that the views published by the Memorial Diplomalique
may, as far as Austria is concerned, be generally accept6d.
In this respect the matter is reduced to a purely dynastic
question, which can only be solved between the Emperor
Francis Joseph and the Archduke Maximilian. Such at
least is the prevailing opinion in well informed.. circles. It
should also be observed that the two principal conditions.
laid down by the Archduke have not been alluded. to m any
way by the well-informed Memorial Diplomalique."