The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-12 00:00:00

P 0 E. T R Y.

And darkest frown the Syrian solitudes,
Where morn's soft steps no balmy fragrance leave,
And parch'd and dewless is the couch of eve;
Thy form, pale City of the Waste, appears
Like some faint vision of departed years.
In mazy cluster still, a giant train,
Thy sculptur'd fabrics whiten on the plain ;
Still stretch thy column'd vistas far away,
The shadowed dimness of their long array.

But where the stirring crowd, the voice of strife
The glow of action, and the thrill of life ?.
Hear ! the loud crash of yon huge fragment's fall,
The pealing answer of each desert hall,
The nightbird shrieking from her secret C,,e11,
And hollow winds the tale of ruin tell.

See fondly ling'ring Mithra's partirg rays
Gild the proud tow'rs, once vocal with his praise ;
But the- cold altars clasping weeds entwine,
And Moslems worship at the godless shrine.
Yet here slow pausing Memory loves to pour
Her magic influence o'er this pensii=e hour ;
And oft as yon recesses deep prolong
The echo'd sweetness of the Arab's song,
Recalls that scene when Wisdom's sceptred
First broke the stillness of the lonely wild.
From air, from ocean, from earth's utmost clime,
The summon'd Genii heard the muttei'd rhyme,
The tasking spell their airy hands obey'd
And Tadmor glitter'd in the palmy shade.
Lo ! to her feet the tide of ages brings
The wealth of nations, and the pomp of kings,
And far her warrior queen from Parthia's plain
To the dark iEthiop spreads her ample reign.
Vain boast ! e'en she who Irnmest field along
Wak'd fiercer frenzy in the patriot throng,
And sternly beauteous, like the meteor's light,
Shot through the tempest of Emesa's fight—
While trembling captives round the victor wait,
Hang on his eye, and catch the word of fate_
Zenobia's self must quail beneath his nod,
A kneeling suppliant to the mimic god.

But one there stood among that abject throng
In truth triumphant and in virtue strong ;
Bearn'd on his brow the soul which undismay'd
Smil'd at the rod, and scorn'd the uplifted blade.
O'er thee, Palmyra, darkest seem'd to low'r
The boding terrors of that fatal hour ;
Far from thy glades indignant freedom fled,
And hope too wither'd as Longinus bled.

• "All these mighty things," says the Arabs, " Solyman
Ebn Dond (Solomon son of David), did by the assistance of
spirits."—(See Wood's Account of the Ruins of Palmyra.)
See Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. xi.

LEGISLATIVE BLUNDERS.—III the new Mar-
riage Act, which has undergone such lengthened and anxious
discussions in both Houses, there are the following passages:—
" And in such cases both parties shall also make oath that the
person or persons whose consent shall be required by law to the
marriage of such parties has been given ;"—i. e. that the per-
son or persons has been given ! The framer, of course, means
the consent of such person or persons, but he gets it enacted
that " the person or persons" shall be given !—But there is
another enactment truly marvellous :—" And be it further
enacted," says the amended Bill, " That such banns shall not
be published until the true christian and surnames of the said
2ersons, and the house or houses of their respective abodes,
shall be affixed on the principal door of the church-or-chapel !
and in some conspicuous place within the said church or
chapel ! Parliament is omnipotent, truly, but how a house
could be stuck on a church door is a problem that remains to
'be solved. The difficulty, we apprehend, is increased, when
two houses are to be stuck on the said door ! But we must
say, with reverence, that their Lordships intend to carry their
omnipotence to the highest pitch, when they enact that the
same house or houses must be stuck on the church door, and
also placed in some conspicuous place within the said church!

CAPTION OF A WARD OF CHANCERY.—ft will
be recollected that some few weeks ago, in our report of the
proceedings of the Court of Chancery, we stated the particulars
of an application for an injunction to restrain Horatio Reeve,
a druggist's assistant at Exeter, from having any communica-
tion with Miss Drusilla Street, of that city, a ward of the Court.
The injunction was granted, and on a subsequent day, upon
a statement that the defendant and his brother had acted in de-
fiance of that injunction, and had eloped with the infant, an
order was issued by the Lord Chancellor for the appearance of
the delinquents before his Lordship. It was then supposed
that they had proceeded, or were about to proceed, to thiern-
sey, to be married, the brother having engaged a passage on
board a packet for that place. It appears, however, that the
pursuit by the friends of the young lady was so hot as to
induce the fugitives to alter their course, and they came by
a circuitous route to London, where all trace of them was
Ilost for a time, and an advertisement was published offering a
reward for the discovery of Miss Street or her companion.
Bishop, orre of the principal officers of Bow-street, yesterday
morning obtained information that the parties were lodging at a
house at Iloxton, whither he immediately repaired ; and as he
was about to knock at the door, a young lady, exactly answer-
ing the description he had received of Miss Street, opened it,
and was about to leave the house. Bishop accosted her, and
politely begged to know if her name was Street ? She
blushed, and seemed agitated, but replied with much quick-
ness in the negative, and added that she was the daughter
of the lady of the house. The officer, however, was con-
' vinced that he was speaking to the object of his search,
and he begged that she would have the goodness to in-
troduce him to her mother, with whom he had some urgent
business. She said she was going out, and was in a great
hurry, and requested that ho would walk in and speak to her
mamma, whom he would find in the parlour. She was walk-
ing hastily away, when Bishop told her the nature of his er-
rand, assured her he knew perfectly well that she was the per-
son he was in quest of; and said he could not suffer her to depart.
He then called the mistress of the house, and'asked her if the
young lady was her daughter ? She replied in the negative, anti
stated that she and a young gentleman had hired lodgings in her
house about three days ago. While this conversation was going
on, the " young gentleman" made his appearance in the person
of Mr. Horatio Reeve, and an explanation took place, the re-
sult of which was, that the officer took the fugitive pair, to-
gether with all their luggage, away in a coach, and convey-
ed them to the public office in Bow-street, where, under the
pretence of awaiting the order of the Magistrate for the resto-
ration of the trunks, he -contrived to detain Mr. Reeve until
notice was given to the solicitors for the plaintiff, who imme-
diately caused the order of the Lord Chancellor to be served
upon him, and he was then suffered to depart with whatever
property belonged to him. 'Miss Street remains under the pro-
tection of the officer, until she can be restored safely to her
friends. She appeared to be by far the most affected at the
separation from her lover, who on his yart seemed resolved to
bear this reverse of fortune with becoming firmness.

On Saturday, his Majesty's prize given to the Royal,Corn.
pany of Archers, was shot for in the East Park of the Meadows,
and, after a smart contest, was gained by Sir Patrick Walker,
Knight. A young Gentleman who -was standing too near one
of the targets was slightly wounded in the arm by an arrow.
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PAL3IYRA.
A Prize Poem, Recited at the Thiatre, o.zfird, 19th June,
1822, by AMBROSE BARBER, of CVadham College.
O'er the hush'd plain where sullen horror broods,