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

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Baturday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 28—Adin, from Richibucto; Salvator,
front Archangel ; Rotunda, from Smyrna; Paline, from
waDantzic; Columbine, from Quebec; Expedite, from Pug-
sh.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Norman, for Mauritius ; Tartar, for Swansea;
C°llVagnee, 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 Rev. 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, in 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 snaking 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 bands of the
Padleys. He also addressed communications to the
Bury Post, Stamford lferourY, 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. Re 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 ho 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 boact of ; and if in the present age Virgil's
reputation has moulted some feathers, we must bear in
mind that since 1800 there has beet a general revolution in
long-established reputations have
literary opinion. Many
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 I arne 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, if 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 viows published by thellionorial Diplomatique
may, as far as Austria is concerned, be generally accepted.
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 th,e two principal conditions
laid down by the Archduke have not been alluded to in any
way by the well-informed Armorial DiiNmatique."