The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-23 00:00:00

SORROWFUL SUMMER STANZAS.

It should be the prime of Summer time,
The Earth should be holding its regal dower;
The grass should breathe and the dog-rose wreathe,
To perfume and illume the noontide hour.
The corn should be brown and the clover down,
The beetle should bask on its ash-leaf bed ;
The blue moth should play in the sun-set ray,
And the Night scarce know that the Day was dead.
Garland and grain should cover the plain,
And the hot steeds pant in the harvest wain.

But mist and chill come over the hill;
The crops on the upland are green and stark;
The newts are about, and the rain puts out
The tender light of the glow-worm's spark.
The moss is dank on the hedge-row bank,
The fox-glove is falling—drenched and weak—
And a wailing tone steals like a moan
Through the wheat that should sing with a rustling creak
Earth's glory has bowed to the wind and the cloud ;
Lying sad and grand, like a Queen in her shroud.

I know a Soul whose golden bowl
Is filled, like the Year, with Life's rich dower;
But Suffering weaves her shadowing leaves,
And blights the prime of its fruit and flower.
Its hope is sear 'neath the blinding tear,
Its strength is sapped by the choking sigh ;
And its bloom that should be, full, fair, and free,
Struggles on through the gloom, though it fain would die.
Like the Spirit of Earth, its flourishing birth
Has but led to a Summer of cheerless dearth.

ELIZA COOK.

VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO PRUSSIA.—We hear
it rumoured (says the Scotsman) that her Majesty, on her
return from the north, will sail from Leith in the Royal

yacht, for Hamburg, on her way to visit the Princess

Frederick William of Prussia.

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The New Prussian Gazette states, in a letter
from Coburg, that the King of the Belgians will arrive
there in September during the visit of her Majesty Queen

Victoria.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary have left Cambridge Cottage,
Kew, for Cadlands, near Southampton, on a visit to Mr.
and Lady Elizabeth Drummond.
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and
Madame Muslims, the Earl and Countess of Arran, the
Countess of Cathcart, Viscount and Viscountess Castle-

rosse, the Countess of Kenmore, and Count J. and Lady

Cecil De-la-feld are passing the season at St. Leonard's•

on-Sea.

The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his annual
dinner to the principal officers of the House of Commons

yesterday (Wednesday) evening Denis Le Marchant,

Mr. Erskine May, Mr. Ley, Lord Charles Russell, Captain
Gosset, Hon. George Waldegrave, Rev. Henry Drury, Mr.
Rickards, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. Frere, Mr.
Arthur Jones, Mr. Vardon, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Gibbons, Mr.
Rowland, Mr. Postlethwaite. Mr. J. B._ Rose, Mr. Pole,

Mr. Gray, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. Howard.
The annual Ministerial whitebait dinner took
place last evening at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich.
Viscount Palmerston and a large party of his colleagues
came by water from Westminster, a Citizen steamer being
engaged for the purpose. Covers were laid for 30, the com-
pany including the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Somerset,
the Duke of Argyll, Lord Wodehouse, Viscount Palmer-
ston, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon.
Charles P. Villiers, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Clarence Paget, Rear-
Admiral the Hon. F. T. Pelham, the Right Hon.W. Hutt,
the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Hon. H. B. W. Brand, Mr.
Laing, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon.
W. F. Cowper, Mr. C. Fortescue, the Attorney-General,
the Solicitor-General, Mr. Hugessen, Mr. J. Bagwell, &c.
Letters this morning from Point de Galle an•
nounce that the whole of the specie of the Malabar—abou
£2o,ooo—has been recovered. The diving apparatus used
was Heinke's patent.
A telegram from Lisbon states that the works of
the South-Eastern Railway of Portugal were commenced
yesterday.
"Prince de Metternich, the Austrian ambassa-
dor at Paris," says the Sport, "is expected at his seat in
Bohemia, where he will remain during the Emperor Napo-
leon's tour in the provinces."
The directors of the Chartered Mercantile Bank
of India, London, and China, at a meeting held yesterday,
declared a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year ending
30th June last.
HOMICIDAL MONOMANlA.—Consciousness or un-
consciousness of the act is the true test of criminality, not
the degree or intensity of the homicidal impulse. The old
course is the proper one, which is simply to ask the jury if
the prisoner has—or rather had at the time when the crime
was committed—a sufficient degree of reason to know right
from wrong. We might well tremble at the consequences
if it was once established that a man's mind might be right in
all points save a tendency to commit murder. It is idle in
cases of insanity—as far as the administration of criminal
law is concerned—to lose ourselves in fine-drawn distinc-
tions. If a man knows what he is about when he commits
a crime, he is amenable to justice, no matter how 'strong his
linclination may be to violate the law.—Once a- IVeck.
AN IMPERIAL AUTHOR.—A Paris letter in the
Salut Public of Lyons says :—" It is known that the Em-
peror is engaged in writing a history of Julius Csesar, and
that several gentlemen are employed under his Majesty's
direction in collecting materials for it. M. Leon Renier,
for example, has been sent on a mission into Italy to ex-
amine all that refers to the history of the Roman constitu-
tion, and others are making researches and translations in
France. Some officers of engineers, under the orders of
Colonel Faye, are likewise engaged in experiments for the
purpose of reconstructing the war engines employed by the
Romans. When all the details required shall have been
collected the Emperor will complete the work, and it is
said that it will throw new light on the grandeur of the
Cmsarian period and on the art of war of the Romans."
PLYMOUTH, Wednesday.—The fine ship Lady
Macdonald, Captain Brumell, belonginc, to Mr. Duncan
Dunbar, of London, left the Sound yesterday' (Tuesday) for
Sydney. Sbe took passengers 262 souls, equal to 248 statute
adults. The cost of the conveyance of about two-thirds of
them, chiefly Irish, is defrayed by remittances from their
relatives in New South Wales. The Schah Jehan, Capt.
Cox, is appointed to sail to-day for Adelaide ; she has about
2681 statute adults, chiefly English, but including a few
Scotch, Dutch, and German. This afternoon the barque
Victoria, bound from London in ballast for Cardiff, put
back to the Sound with loss of bowsprit,,cutwater, &c.,
having been in contact off the Lizard with the Tuscan brig
Nettaro, Captain Carlo, from Ibral, with seed for Falmouth
and for orders. The brig is supposed to have gone down;
her crew are saved.
THE YOUNGEST TAR IN THE BRITISH NAVY.—
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While the fleet was anchored at St. Margaret's Hope, a
fine healthy male child, about 19 months old, was left,
either by design or accident, in the engine room of the
Royal Albert, flagship of Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle.
After remaining on board without any clue being obtained
as to its parentage, the little foundling was christened by
the euphonious cognomen of Albert Fremantle, the ship
in which he was left supplying the Christian, and the
Admiral the surname. The little fellow is a prodigious
favourite with all on board. His name has been entered
on the ship's books, and the Admiral, it is said, declares
he is now the property of the Queen, and that he will give
him up to no one.— Toronto Leader.
KENSINGTON-PARK CHURCH.—We are much gra-
tified to learn that the beautiful church founded by the Rev.
Dr. Walker, standing out in the fields of the new district of
Kensington-park, Notting-hill, and on the confines of the
Great-Western line of railway, is to be forthwith com-
pleted. For seven years this splendid fabric has remained
in its present unfinished condition. The Rev. John Light,
of Ashton-under Lyne, has been appointed the first incum-
bent. A daily cathedral service will be performed morning
and evening by a very efficient staff of singing men and
boys. Dr. James Peck, of New College, Oxford, and Mr.
William Sudlow are the organists and choir masters.
STEAM TO NEW YORK.--SOUTFIAMFTON, Aug.
22.—The United States' mail steamship Fulton, Capt. J.
A. Wotton, embarked mails and passengers from this port
to-day for New York. She takes out French and English
mails, a full complement of passengers, and a large cargo.
The next steamship due here from New York is the Illinos,
Capt. Griffin, which is expected on Thursday, with mails
for England and France of the 11th inst.
1 TRADE CATALOGUES.—One cannot but be struck
with astonishment at the innumerable ways in which an
enterprising tradesman ap
peals to the public with a view to
increase his trade. Printing in all its branches, assisted by
the skill of the wood engraver, seems in the present day to
be one of the media most generally employed in spreading
the knowledge of various manufactures. These arts have
ably been brought into use by Mr. Benson, the eminent
watchmaker of Ludgate-hill, who his sought by means
of
an " illustrated pamphlet " (consisting of nearly 60 pp.,
and containing upwards of 250 beautiful designs for
watches, clocks, &c, with an elaborate description of every
construction of watch now made), to enable persons living
in any part of the world to select the watch best adapted
for their use, and have it forwarded free by post.
BRUTALITY IIY A MILITIAMAN.—Yesterday
man named Thomas Fox, said to be a private in the
Artillery Militia, was brought up at the Liverpool police-
court on the charge of having on the previous evening,
without the slightest provocation, assaulted in the most
brutal manner a woman named Elizabeth Matthews. It
appeared from the evidence that Mrs. Matthews had gone
to the prisoner's house to make soma inquiry, when she was
knocked down a flight of steps, and severely kicked in the
abdomen by the prisoner. An old woman who was in the
house was then seized by Fox, and would have been thrown
out of the window had she not been rescued. The prisoner
could offer not the slightest excuse. As Mrs. Matthews'
injuries are likely to terminate in death, Fox was remanded
in order that the result of his violence may be. ascertained.