The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-30 00:00:00

THIS IJAI'S SHIPPING.

LONDON Sept. 30.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. ;
moderate breeze, and fine. . .
PV lOW I. otrrir, Sept. 29.—Wind E.S.E. to S.E.—
Arriveed—Royal Arthur, from London for the Cape of
Good Hope.
SorntiotrroN, Sept 29.—Wind S.—Arrived—North
Ssuy; from Havre, and left for New York.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 29.—Wind E.—Arrived—Richard
Reynolds, from Quebec.
SWANSEA, Sept. 29.—Wind N.—Sailed—Lady Ogilvy,
for Valparaiso..

CLYDE, Sept. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived—Wallace from
Quebec ; Florida, from ditto. Sailed—Java, for New 'York;
Josephine, for Porto Rico.
OFF BERWICK, Sept. 28.—Arrived—Ann Johnstone,
from Hamburg for Newfoundland.
DROGHEDA, Sept. 28.—Arrived—Margaretta Louise,
from Richibucto.

eisco, for Monte Video; Anna, for Havannah ; Joseph
CARDIFF, Sept. 27.--Wind N.W.—Sailed—San Fran-
Hall, for New York.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.

Wind W.
An ivied--John and Isabella, Union, Matthew Thomp-
son, Woodlands, and Maria Whitfield—all from Sunderland ;
North Star, steamer, from Havre ; Dispatch, steamer, from
Jersey ; Flora, from Llanelly ; Charlotte, from Guernsey;
Acorn, from Havre ; Pomona, from Waterford ; Scylla,
from Youg.hal.
Sailed—North Star, steamer, for New York ; Itienza,
and Ellen, for Newport ; Havre, steamer, for Have ; La
Coq, for Cherbourg; Courier, steamer, for Jersey; Ger-
trude, for Newport ; Ann, for Bridgewater.

LivEßrooL, Thursday Morning.

Wind N.W. .
Arrived, Sept. 29—Corinthian, from New Orleans;
British Queen, screw steamer, from Havre.
Arrived, Sept. 30—Ebro, screw steamer, from Corunna;
Sandbaeh, from Demerara ; Scioto, from New Orleans;
Lady Eyre, from Quebec.
The Dement, for Antigua, has put back with loss of
maibmast, by contact with the Scioto, from New Orleans,
which had her head-gu.r carried away.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH
GRAYESBND, Thursday Morning.
Wind IV. ; tide, half ebb ; weather fresh and cloudy.
Arrived, Sept. 2.—Schiedam, from Rotterdam.
Arrived, Sept. 30.—Love, from St. Malo ; Belgium, from
Ostend ; Ann, from Dieppe ; Woodside, from Boulogne;
Agina, from Brussels.

Sailed—C. F. Leasing, from Geelong.
DEAL, Thursday Deming.

Wind W.S.W., fresh.
Passed—St. Vincent, from Jamaica, for London ;
Cameo, from Odessa, for London.
Sailed—H.M. ships Queen Charlotte and Argus, towing
for Sheerness.

DEATH FROM A STAB IN THE EYE.—Yesterday
morning a man named Jonathan Brompton, a beer-house
keeper, was brought before the Manchester magistrates
charged with causing the death of a man unknown. A wit-
ness named Wm. Cave said about half-past 12 in the morn-
ing, as he was passing along Deansgate, he saw the prisoner
looking at a policeman who was removing a drunken man,
and the deceased was also looking on. The prisoner had a
walking-stick in his right hand, and sliding the other end
through his left, he deliberately forced it info the left eve of
the (lc-me-fel, fell upon the pavement in a state df in-
sensibility in consequence of the injury. The unfortunate
man, who was carried to the infirmary soon afterwards, had
never spoken to the prisoner, and the act appeared to have
been entirely unprovoked. The magistrates remanded the
prisoner for further examination. It appears that the stick
destroyed the eye and penetrated the brain. The unfortu-
nate man survived the injury about 12 hours. He was ap-
parently a man in great poverty, his clothes being in a very
ragged state, but his friends had not come forward to iden-
tify him, and his name was unknown to the police.
LILT.—In old Scotch sons and ballads there is
always something which is familiar to every Scotchmar,
and which he calls the lilt. We never find it in old English
songs and ballads. This may be partly accounted for by the
greater sensibility of the Scotch ear to music. But there is
a deeper reason. The Scotch are a nation of dancers ; the
English are not. To those who dwell in plains dancing is
an amusement; with mountaineers it is a passion. The
Frenchman dances from the exuberance of his gaiety, the
Spaniard because he is drunk with the mountain air. The
American Indian, who is neither drunk nor a mountaineer,
dances in order to recall those horrible deeds of blood in
which he revels. It may not be too fanciful to suppose that
the spring and the swing of the mountaineer are largely
reproduced in his dancing movements, which at first
were no doubt simply a- musical mode of ex-
pending his superabundant energy. In Scotch ballads
and songs the lilt is an echo to the dance. Hence, the songs
should never be sung or the ballads recited without a har-
monious motion of the whole body, and as if they were
danced by every throbbing, thrilling- vein rather than
breathed by the lips. There are snatches of ballad and of
song in which the mere lilt enchants me more than the
richest or the sweetest tune. The lilt is a kind of melodious
accentuation ; it is the successive angles of sound so
crowned with flowers that they cease to be angles If pt.
culiar to Scotland, we should see therein the sudden and
rapid outbursts of fervour in a most earnest people subdued
one after one, into softness by mystic voices from mountain
caves and from the caverns of the imaginativp soul. Ap-
proach the Seotchman, and you find a harsh battler ; but
drop into his heart the magic of the lilt, not gorgeous phan-
tasies or melting tones, but something which has power and a
meaning for no heart except his, and the blast of the north
changes into the zephyr, without the incense of which
the mighty Panto the choral march often thousand spheres
would not be complete.— Tile Critic.