The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-20 00:00:00

POETRY.

On a LADY far advanced in year:, who war a great Card.
player, having married her Gardener.
Trumps ever ruled the charming maid,
Sure all the world must pardon her;
The destinies tumid up--a spade,
She married John the gardener.

WINTER SCENES.
BY JOHN MAYNE, ESQ.
How keen and ruthless is the storm !
Stern Winter in its bitt'rest form !
Long cheerless nights, and murky days !
No sun-beam gladdens Illis'ry's ways !
The frost has stopp'd yon village-mill,
And Labour, ev'ry where, stands still ;
Ev'n birds, from leafless groves withdrawn
Fall, torpid, on the frozen lawn—
No more, in Spring, to greet the morn,
Or build their nests in yonder thorn !

Loud howls the wind along the vale !
Shipwreck and death are in the gale !
Lorn, weary trav'lers, as they go,
Are wilder'd in the trackless snow,
Groping, in fearful dread, between
Deceitful ice, and gulphs unseen ;
Lest, after all the dangers past,
The next sad step should be their last !
To town or city if we turn,
What numbers weep, what numbers mourn !
Unshelter'd sons of Toil and Care,
Cold, shiv'ring, comfortless, and bare !
Poor seamen, erst in battle brave,
Ilalf-famish'd, sinking to the grave !
Sad g►roupes, who never begg►'d before,
Imploring aid from door to door !
While helpless Age, too frail to roam,
Is perishing, for want, at home !

Hard fate, when poverty and years
Assail us, in this vale of tears,
Till Death, the dismal scene to close,
In pity, terminates our woes !

O ! ye, whom PROVIDENCE bath blest,
With wealth to succour the distrest,
0 ! lend your help in time of need !
The naked clothe—the hungry feed,
And great, from 111:AV',X, shall be your tneed !

SPORTING.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. • •
MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN TIIE PHESENT• WEEK.
Mr. Chaworth's Fox-bounds, on Tuesday, at Remand! ;
Thursday, at Cold Abbey ; and on Friday, at Dalling►ton.
The Oakley Hounds, on Tuesday, at Odell Wotxl; Thurs.
day, at Mulsoe Wood ; and on Saturday, at Wilton Mill.
The Earl of Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at
Searcroft ; and on Friday, at North DeightOn.
The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, -at Hemsworth ;
Thursday, at Ilickleton ; and on Saturday, at Brierley Vil-
lage.
Sir It. Sutton's hounds, on Tuesday, at Seotgrove Wood ;
Thursday, at Colehy ; and on Saturday, at Blankney.
The Earl of Darlington's Fox-Mounds, on Tuesday, at
Moulton Lane end ; Thursday, at Headlam Vilage ; and on
Saturday, at West Auckland.
The Hampshire Hounds, on Tuesday, at Brookwood Park;
Thursday, at the Chequers, Ropley ; and pn Saturday, at Ab-
botsdon Down.
Air. Shard's Hounds, on Friday, at Weyhill.
The Ilolywell Harriers, on Tuesday, at Halkin ; Thursday,
at Penny Ball ; and on Saturday, ut Brynford Hall.

WAIMICK RACES.—Tho., produce stakes for colts and
fillies to be foaled in the present year and to be run for in Sep-
tember, 1825, closed with the preceding year. The number
amounts to 26, at 50 guineas each, half forfeit, being the great-
est stake of that class in England, exceeding in number of
horses and value in specie, both Doncaster adNewmarket.

EXTRAORDINARY TITOTTINO-MATCII.—A MATCH FOR
700 GuINEAS.-111T. C. bets Mr. A. 000 guineas to 100 guineas
that Mr. A.'s chesnut horse does not trot eighteen miles in one
hour, in harness, and draw a carriage; to start once in seven
weeks, from the 15th day of January, 1823, giving Mr. C.
•
one week's notice of starting. One hundred and twenty gui.
neas deposit in the hands of Mr. James Knight, the remainder
to be made good on the 13th day of February, 1823, or the
deposit money to be forfeited. Signed S. A.

Extract from the Ten/h Annual .r of Me National School,
for Me County o Leicester.
The Committee, on a Review o their exertion at the close of
the tenth year, feel themselves entitled to congratulate the
friends of this Institution on its success in this county. And
though they regret that any part of it should still withhold its
adoption of so improved a plan of Education, jet they
cannot but rejoice that. so much good has been done.—
During a period in which unusual pains have been taken to
disseminate the principles of Division and Infidelity, this So-
ciety has been actively employed in trainin up the Children
of the poor to understand and to practice the duties of their
station; to fear God and honour the King; to be useful mein.
bent of civil aociety,and conscientious members of our National
Church.

At an epoch so pregnant as the present with danger to the
moral as well as to the political interests of the community, ad-
ditional vigour should characterise the movements of the friends
of our establishment. The Committee cannot but remark,
that institutions of this nature are eminently adapted to coun•
teract the insidious efforts of the enemy, and it is hoped that
such a cause will obtain, as it merits, the zealous support of
those who have power to appreciate the value of the dearest in.
terests of humanity.
Of the efficiency of the Central School, open as it is to the
inspection of every visitor, and particularly to the examination
of this meetings it will very Tittle become the Committee to
express any opinion, but they have for years lamented that
this School has been inadequate to the reception of all
the children, especially of boys who have solicited to be
admitted into it. After various fruitless attempts to obtain
ground to enlarge it, they submit to this Meeting that the re.
maininsportion of the ground granted to them by the Crown,
and originally intended to be the site of a house for the master,
be now appropriated to the enlargementof the school ; which
will be every way practicable, by adding the girls school to that
of the boys ; and building a suitable room at the lower end for
the girls.'

Al estimate of the expence of carrying this plan into execu,
tion, was submitted to the Meeting, the direction and manage
meet of which was referred to the Select Committee.
Total number in the School, . - 3117
Old Pupils attending on Sundays - - 110 •

ROYAL NAVY.

Commissioner WOOLLEY is appointed to Chat•
ham Dock-yard, to succeed Commissioner Sir Robert Barlow,
superannuated.

The Lords of the Admiralty ha've promoted Lieutenant NV.
B. Bowyer to the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy for
his active exertions during the last three years on the coast of
Hampshire and Dorsetshire, as Inspecting Commander of the
Coast Guard. Captain Bowyer is succeed in the command by
Captain Freemantle, R. N.

The Pheasant sloop of war, Captain Clavering, is on her way
to England from
.the West Indies, and her arrival is daily
expected.
His Majesty's sloop Trinculo, 18 guns, was commissioned at
Portsmouth on Monday by Capt. Rodney Shannon. Lieut.
Frederick is appointed to her. She is to be fitted for the Home
Station.
lOn Thursday last a vessel, called the Britannia, of Woy.
mouth, was seized, and sent into Portsmouth, by the Carneleon
sloop, Lieutenant Witham, for having been at Cherbourg
without a licence.
The Owen Glendower, 46 guns, Commodore Sir Robert
Mends, is the only ship of war at Spithead. Sir Robert is
waiting his final orders to' proceed to resume the command of
the squadron on the coast of .Africa.
PORTSAIOUTII.-it is said to be in contemplation to deepen
and widen the entrance into Portsmouth Harbour. A Com-
mittee of Gentlemen, consisting of J. Whitbey, F.R.S. Messrs.
Walker and Rennie, Civil Engineers, and Capt. Foulerton,
one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity Board, arrived
here on Monday, for the purpose of examining the shoals
and making observations, with a view to this important
object, which, in consequence of the gradual decrease of water
in the Channel by the Spit sand, is considered necessary. We
understand that in the year 1765, the smallest depth of water in
this channel was 16 feet 9 inches ' • and that at the present time
it is frequently so low at 13 feet 3 inciles.—(llampthire
Chronic/c.)