The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-21 00:00:00

POETRY.

LINES WRITTEN AT A BALL.
WY A YOUNG LADY.

The festive strain invites the dance,
And many an eye is beaming
With hope and joy, that soon, perchance,
In sorrow may he streaming.

Ah ! who, in such an hour as this,
Would dream of pain or sorrow ?
Or think that here, where all is bliss,
Pale care may come to.morrow ?

Yet soon the roseate hue may die
On yonder lovely cheek,
And brilliancy forsake the eye
That now does all but speak.

Yes I care may come—but not tonight
This hour is all for gladness ;
And who would throw o'er smiles so bright
The slightest shade of sadness ?

And if, when years have paged away,
We hear these strains again,
How fondly memory's glance win stray
O'er these bright moments then !

Recall to mind each absent face,
Then wither'd, changid, or dead;
And fur one happy moment trace
Bright joys for ever fled.

THE GLASS EYE.
An Officer had lost an eye
At Waterloo, alas!
And friends persuaded him to buy
A patent eye of glass.

The patent eye each night with can
He took from out the socket ;
And either laid it on a chair,
Or put it in his pocket.

Once at an Inn he took a bed,
Forced fur front home to lie ;
And to the chambermaid he said,
" Here, Sally, take my eye."

My eye ! thought she, what's he about ?
(And quite amazed did stand) •
For then the Captain took it out,
And put it in her hand.

" I wish to write (so go," he cried)
" A letter to my Mother.
What do you wait for ?" she replied,
" I wait, Sir, for Me other."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING-ROOM, Nov:.;
RIDDLE:
_ _

1.-sTATE OF THE ODDS,
'WORTH.

3 to 1 agst Reformer 3
to 1 agst Dun Carlos

C to I agka Prudence
7 to I ilot Quadrille.
It Y.

5 to 1 agst Swiss
V to 1 agst Reformer
12 to 1 agst Agnes
25 to 2 agst Reticule
14 to 1 agst Crossida

14 to 1 agst Don Carlos
20 to 1 agst Cydnus
20 to 1 agst Bess
25 to 1 ugst Banshee.

6 to 1 agst Prudence
5 to 1 agst Ilrnessa

K 3.
21 to 1 apt 31r. Prendergast's
tiny.

DUI,ICASTER
Nothit

ST. LEGER.

ng done.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN TItH ENSUING WERE.
The Surrey Fox Bounds, on 3londay, at the eleventh mile.
stone, Bromley-road ; Thursday, at Westerhant ; and on Sa-
turday, at Pratt's Bottom.
B. Jolliffe, Esq.'s Fox Bounds, on .Monday, at Out Wood ;
Wednesday, at the eighteen mile-stone., Sutton-road; and on
Saturday, at Shilwood.
The Surrey !lathes, on Monday, Wednesday, and Satur-
day, at Kennel.
Lord Anson's !founds, on Monday, at Oilstone.
Sir Jacob Astley's Hounds, on Monday, at Fulmodeston.

Mr. Kirby has purchased of Lord Exeter, Fanatic, by Sooth.
sayer, out of Folly, and Portrait, by Comus, out of Minia-
ture ; of Lord Foley, the filly, by Blucher, out of Oliveta,
two years old ; and of Mr. Newton, Minna, by Woful, out of
Diana (sister to Emily), by Statntbrd.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—The Dublin Freeman's
Journal of Tuesday contains the following me.
lancholy and mysterious account A Mr.****,
of this city, well known in the Corinthian circles,
had resided for the last few weeks at Ticknock,
in the Dublin mountains, having with hirn
young lady, aged about eighteen years, possess-
ing considerable beauty, and passing for his wife, ,
but whom, it is now thought, was his there'
amiel and supposed to have been seduced by
him. A few days since Mr. w. changed his
residence, (as it is said) some feeling of jealousy,
and placed his fair unfortunate in the house of u
person named Cardiff, in the suburbs, on the
south side of the city ; and having occasion
to come to town on Sunday evening, he left
the young lady in the lodgings, who, finding
herself lonesome, requested of Mrs. Cardiff
to permit her daughter, a young woman of
about her own age, to sleep with her that night,
to which Mrs. Cardifftonsented, and yesterday
morning, not seeing her daughter come down for
some time after her usual hour of rising, Mrs.
Cardiff knocked at the door : after some delay,
and not receiving any answer, the door was forced
open, when the wretched mother's eyes were
struck with the appalling sight of—her daughter
and the young lady lying lifeless !! ! A bottle
was found in the room, containing a liquid which
has been ascertained to be poison.—An Inquest
will be held this morning."

About two years ego, a little boy, whilst in
the play-ground of a most respectable school at
Mitcham, Surrey, in apparently good health
and spirits, was suddenly struck speechless!
lie received the best medical attendance,
and was often seen by Dr. Babington and Mr.
Abernethy, who both predicted his recovery,
and recommended him to be kept perfectly
quiet. After remaining several months by the
sea-side, he was taken under the roof and im-
mediate care of Mr. Wingfield, an eminent sur-
geon at Oxford, who caused him to undergo a
regular course of electricity and galvanism, ac-
companied by tonic preparations, for nearly four
months, when he ordered him again to the sea.
From this time
he has been gradually recovering
his speech, and is now returned to London as
well as ever. For eighteen months he never ar-
ticulated a single sound. The boy's name is
Charles Downing.