The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-26 00:00:00

P 0 T R Y.

STANZAS,
Mitten by an Officer, lung Resident in India, on his Return
to England.
I came, but they had passed away—
The fair in form, the pure in need—
And like a stricken deer I stray,
Where all are strange, and none are kind;
Kind to the worn, the wearied soul,
That pants, that struggles for repose t
0 ! that my steps had reached the goal
Where earthly sighs and sorrows doss.
Years have passed o'er me, like a dream,
That leaves no trace an memory's page ;
I look around me, and I seem
Some relict of a former age.
Alone, as in a stranger clime,
Where stranger voices mock my ear ;
I mark the lagging course of time,
Without a wish—a hope—a fear !
Yet I had hopes—and they are fled ;
And I had fears were all too true ;
Aly wishes too ;--hut they are dead,
And what have I with life to do 1
"fis but to bear a weary load,
I may not, dare not east away;
To sigh for one small, still, abode,
Where I may sleep as sweet as they—,
As they, the loveliest of their race,
Whose grassy tombs my sorrows steep ;
Whose worth my soul delights to trace
Whose very loss 'tis sweet to weep;
To weep beneath the anent moon,
With none to chide, to hear, to see,
Life can bestow no dearer boon
On one whom death disdains to free.
I leave a world, that knows me not,
To hold communion with the dead ;
And fancy consecrates the spot,
When fancy's softest dreams are shed,
I see each shade, all silvery white--
I hear each spirit's melting sigh ;
I turn to clasp those forms of light,
Anil the pale morning chills my eye.
But soon the last dim morn shall rise,
The lamp of life burns feebly now_
When stranger hands shall close my eyes,
And smooth my cold and dewy broil,
Unknown I lived—so let use die;
Nor stone, nor monumental cross,
Tell where Isis nameless ashes.lie,
Who sighed for gold, and found it dross.

The Penitentiary at Milbank, after being
thoroughly cleansed and whitewashed, is again to
be appropriated to the reception of prisoners.
It is expected that in a few weeks the necessary
preparations for this purpose will be completed.
It is understood, however, thnt none of the pri-
soners who were recently removed from the Pe-
nitentiary will he retur:►ed to it ; but that its fu-
ture inmates will consist entirely of new commit-
ments. We believe that the officers of the prison►
and the authorities under whom it is placed, as
well as the Home Department, are satisfied
that the late distressing mortality amongst the
prisoners was not owing to the alleged unhealthi-
ness of the site Of the prison, but that it rather
originated in the unfortunate though well-meant
alteration of the diet of the prisoners. Previous
to that alteration, the Penitentiary had been as
healthy us any other prison in which an equally
rigorous discipline is observed ; and it is con-
fidently hoped that under another and more
judicious system► of treatment, it may still be ap-
propriated to the melancholy but important
purposes for which it was erected at so great au
expence to the country.

Shortly after Lord ELGIN (Scotch Judge) as.
mimed his seat on the bench as a Judge, a Gentle-
man remarked to him (hat his title would be very
apt to he confounded with that of the Loan
CHANCELLOR. To this observation Lord 141141)m
answered, " The difference betweett his Lord-
ship and me is 411 my cp."