The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-13 00:00:00

Oil ! great mystery of grief ! A tree which only gives
forth its balsam through its wound.
Furthermore—May you be blessed, my great, and
well-beloved Victor ; for behold what you have done :
Last night a poor mother, of 20 years of age, who had
just lost her child, came to my hou3e. Throughout the
day she bad cried to Heaven for mercy ; but she could
not weep, although she saw the father weep. She
doubted not, she recriminated not, she blasphemed not
—only, the tears which she could not shed, returned to
her heart and choked her.

I, who was no more to her than a friend, lifted my
hands to Heaven, and prayed that she might be coin-
forted.

Paul Meurice enteral with your two volumes. I saw
,hat she was saved.

I took them from his hands. I ran to her. I fell
upon my knees, and exclaimed :
" Mother ! I bring you the only consolation for
mothers who have lost their children. I bring you
tears."
I opened by chance—l ought to say providentially—
at Le Revenant, and I read.
At the tenth verse she wept.
You knew that mother, my dear Victor. She bade
you adieu at Brussels, and you loved her as you love all
that is young, and beautiful, and good.
For two days, my friend, you were with us—the great
physician of our souls. When she could weep no more
—when the burning eye dried up the tear which mounted
to it—when she threw herself back and clasped her hands
upon her bosom—l took your book and I read ; and she
wept, my friend, the tears which you have wept—more
gentle and more full of love than yours, perhaps ; for she
was a woman, and you were a man. You were strong,
you were a poet ; while she, poor child, was only a
mother.

Then she loved, now she adores you ; then she ad-
mired, now she worships you.

Be proud, my friend, that neither physician, nor priest,
nor king could have done what you have accomplished.
The chalice which Heaven presented you full of gall you
have drunk to the dregs, and you have passed it to this
poor mother, filled with your tears.
I sent you Lamartine's letter, my dear friend. I see
him often, and whenever we meet we speak of you. He
knew you as one knows his rival—as one knows a war-
rior armed for the fight. He said to me—" He is an
Enceladus. He is a Prometheus. He is a Titan." I
said to him—" He is more than all that ; be is a Heart."
I know you better than any one, my friend, for I have
seen you suffer ; I have seen you weep.
Your new book adds nothing to my tenderness and
my devotion for you ; but it raises my admiration to the
height of your genius. Do you remember the Hercules
Telephua ? —he holds an infant in his arms, and, in lift-
ing it, he makes it as great as himself.
I salute you as a majesty, I embrace you as a brother,
and I thank you for being so great where you are, while
we are so little here.

As you say to me, so say I to you, Ex into corde,
ALES. DUMAS.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, May lg.—Wind this ,ta y at noon, W., light
breeze and dull hazy weather.
FALMOUTH, May 12.—Wind N., fresk. —Arrived—
Miles, from Buenos Ayres. Off the port—Argo, from
Bahia, and sailed for Amsterdam ; Tell, Laguna, for Bre-
men. _ _

MARGATE, May 12.—A head-board, marked "Kin-
drackel" a brig's lower-mast, and a cargo-book of the
Charlotte Maria, of Fowey, Glanville, master, have been
picked up here.
COWES, May 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Crispin, from
Melbourne ; Alwina, Africa, for Hamburg.
NEWHAVEN, May 12.—The Augusta, from Constanti-
nople to Stavanger, put in yesterday with cargo mach
heated, and will discharge.

ORB ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived- Hope and John Glaiseer, from Newport ; Na-
tive, Llanelly ; John Daniel, Cardiff; Le Poulo and Le
Coq, Cherbourg; Samuel, Swansea.
Sailed—Mary Pope and Ann, fo: Newport.
LivEurooL, Tuesday Morning.
Wind N.
Exodus, Callao
Arrived —Maria, from Antigua; ; Gene-
ral Wiltshire, Charlestown.
Sailed—Margaret (s.), for llavre ; Lord Althorp, Val-
paraiso; Meander, Alexandria • Callan, Lima; Lady Mil-
ton, Point de Gallo; Emma, Alexandria;
QUEENSTOWN, May 11.
Wind N.N.E.
Arrived—Earl of Elgin, from Callao.
Off —Brisies, for Akyab.
KINGSTOWN, May 12.
Wind N.W.
Arrived—Agenora, from Barbadoes.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.10 a.m.
Wind westerly; tide, 2 hours' ebb ; cloudy.
Arrived—Alma, from Thistcd ; Prosperity, Brussels ;
Hurricane, Calcutta ; Ernst, Odense; Commerce, Ham-
burg; Merida, St. Vincent.
Sailcci—Alipore, for the Cape of Good Hope,
DEAL, Tuesday, 9.42 a.m.
Wind S.S.S.,
Passed by---Tasmania, Sappho, Antipodes, Statesman,
and Dolphin, with the whole of the homeward-bound ves-
sels supposed to leeward yesterday.
Passed—Wooloomooloo, from Sydney; Swanley, Ja-
maica; Alpha, Alexandria; Orwell, Bombay; Sorata,
Callao ; Wilberforce, Mauritius; Palm, Antigua—all for
Loudon.