The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-02 00:00:00

GREECE.

Blest be the memory of those,

Who, fighting for their country's right,
Fall while the combat hotly glows, •
And seal their eyes with death's dark night.

Blest be their memory ! though past •
This varied scene of joy and woe,
Their fame, their deathless fame, shall last
Till Honour's current cease to flow.

Ye Patriots who so nobly wage
The war with Turkey's fated pest,
Oh I may your just, your virtuous rage,
As brilliant blaze in every breast.

May every fetter'd Nation now
In Europe's ample, blood-stain'd chart,
Feel your contagious influence glow,
And rouse each manly free-born heart.

It is not mad ambition's call
That ye thus eagerly obey,
Not love of wealth that bids ye fall
To Death's unsparing arm a prey.
The sordid stimulus of gain
Ye leave the slaves of Turkey's Lord ;
Asking for every toil anti pain,
Your Liberty the sole reward.

And oh ! 'tis sure, if aught avail
The groaning world's most fervent pray'r ;
Ye will not, must not, cannot fail,

Its every wish with you ye bear.
Oh ! may success your efforts crown !
Rouse from its lethargy the world !
'Till from his blood-erected throne
Thy Tyrant to the Earth be hurl'd.

DRURY-LANE TILEATILE.—We are sorry to
state that on account of indisposition Mr. Emus-
TON was last night unable to perform the part of
Baru Dornion in The Road to Ruin. It was
taken at so short a notice by Mr. COOPER, as to
excite much surprise at the promptitude and abi-
lity with which he supported the character. But
he has justly acquired hi the public mind a very
favourable estimation of his professional merits.

TVIEATAICALS AT POPLAII.—For some time
past a Theatre has been opened for the amuse-
ment of the inhabitants of this place, and which
which we are informed has been licensed by the
Magistracy of that district. The performances
on Monday were George Barnwell, Bombastes
Furioso, and Don Juan; and on Tuesday Mac-
beth, Sze. The performers consist of some itine-
rants from the country, and stage-struck youths
from London.
WALKING STEWART.—A bust of this ex-
traordinary man has just been modelled by Mr.J.
KENDRICK, whose talents as a sculptor are justly
admired. Mr. STEWART possessed an original,
acute, and benevolent mind. his doctrines all
tended to the promotion of happiness among man-
kind, and to inculcate what he deemed the prin-
ciples of eternal truth. Unhappily his style was
too gigantic in its nature, though suitable to the
comprehensiveness of his conceptions, to be
understood by people of an inferior intellectual
grasp, who, therefore, considered him as wild,
if not insane ; but if his notions were to be
conveyed in simple language
.they would
.have
a powerful effect in controuling the passions of
mankind, harmonizing their tempers, and recon-
ciling them to the. course of nature. The model is
very like the amiable original and represents him
with the expressive animation, which generally
marked his countenance when he was delivering
those principles which he conceived to be of the
utmost importance to the interests of all sensitive
beings, as well as of human nature.
THE BAMBOO.--The various uses to which that
elegant species of reed, called the bamboo is applied by the
Chinese, would excite astonishment in an English mechanic.
Their Chairs, their tables, screens, bedsteads, and bedding,
with many other household moveables, are entirely constructed
of this hollow reed. It is used on board ship, for poles, tin-
sails, for cables, fir rigging, and for caulking. In husbandry, it
serves as a material for carts, wheelbarrows, for wheels to raise
water, fur fences, for sacks to hold grain, and a variety of other
purposes. The young shoots furnish an article of food, and
the wicks of candles are made of its fibres. It serves to embel.
dish the garden of the Prince, and to cover the cottage of the
peasant. Indeed, there are few uses to which the ingenuity of
the Chinese has not applied the bamboo, either entire, or split
into thin laths, or divided into fibres.

The fir“ couple of Cols which were carried to
Cuyaba, sold for a pound of gold. There was a
plague of rats in the settlement, and they were
purchased as a speculation, which proved an ex-
cellent one. The first kittens produced 30
oitavas each ; the next generation were worth
20; the price gradually fell as the inhabitants
became stocked with these beautiful and useful
creatures. Montenegro presented to the elder
Almagro the first cat which was brought to
South America, and was rewarded for it with
600 pesos.

Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in
the attic story of Mrs. Gould's oyster-shop, Bow.
street, Covent-Garden. The room was occu-
pied by an old lady, who had broken her leg a
few days previously, and was unable to get out,
until by assistance she was rescued from her
danger, and the fire was got under without
doing much damage beyond destroying the fur-
niture.—Another fire broke out yesterday morn-
ing, about six o'clock, in the first floor of No. 6,
Little Earl•street, Seven Dials. It was fortu-
nately got under without communicating to any
other part of the building.
lio►zniu ATTEMPT AT SUICIDL.-00 Tuesday
night, about eight o'clock, a naval Captain, resid-
ing in George-street, Commercial-road, whose
house but a short time ago was on fire, attempted
to put a period to his existence by cutting his
throat with a razor that he had secreted about
his person for the express purpose. About
eight o'clock he was sitting comfortably with his
wife,and family in the parlour on the ground
floor, when his wife perceived a degree of
stupor or melancholy apparently come over
him, but did not make any observation. Some
time after this she retired up stairs, we believe
.to put to rest the younger branches of the fa-
mily, when in the interval, the unfortunate man,
bent on self-destruction, inflicted a deep wound
in his neck, which leaves him with little hope of
a recovery ; on his wife's return she observed him
weltering in his blood. Surgical assistance was
instantly called, and he was conveyed to the Lon-
don Hospital, whore he lies in a very dangerous
state. Ills distressed wife is inconsolable, and
bereft of every hope of his recovery.