The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-15 00:00:00

POETRY.

" Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
" Yes ! in the morning of the Just,
When springing from her cell of d.ae,
The soul shakes off this mortal clay,
And soars to Heaven's eternal day !
But here, in this sad world, all joy
Is a brief meteor born to die ;
• A moment's light, an instant's bliss ;
Meeting's first glance, or welcome kiss ;
A phantom in mad Fancy's train ;
A hope to lull some cureless pain ;
A distant prospect still m view ;
(Where all things seem, but none are true.)
Youth's self-created, wild belief,.
Unreal, transient, false as brief ;
Manhood's vain search ; and age's scorn,
For truth of pale experience born,
Too late with glance divinely bright,
Puts every magic shape to flight,
And where gay Fancy's palace stood,
Shews the bare waste, or tangled wood,
The yawning guiph, and stormy flood !
Let me then dare with steadfast eye
To read man's wond'rous destiny ;
And with courageous spirit look
On all that's in that fearful book ;
Assured, that when the hand of age
Shall turn the last momentous page,
And death the tedious volume close,
He, from whose love e'en suffering flows,
Will with Almighty power unrol,
On man's astonished, ravished soul,
The record of celestial joy,
The roll of Immortality ! '

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

3IEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.

Sir Richard Puleston's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Twemlowes ;
ancron Friday, at Hampton. Heath.
Sir Edw. Smythe's Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Shawbury
White Gates ; and on Friday, at Pimhill.
The'Holywell'Harriers, on Monday, at Mostyn ; Tuesday,
at Licksom Green ; Wednesday, at Downing ; Thursday, at
Calcot Hall Gate ; and on Friday, at Talacre.
The'Cliester Harriers, on Monday, at Newton Wood ;
Wednesday, at Trafford Bridge ; and on Friday, at Backford.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Bartington Heath ;
Wednesday, at Stapleford ; Thursday, at Tarporley Town
End ; and on Saturday, at Lea Hall.
Sir Jacob Astley's (Norfolk) Hounds, on Monday, at Hin-
dringham Field-house—Buck hounds ; Wednesday, at Guest-
wick—Harriers ; and on Friday, at Pluinstead Wind-mill—
Buck-hounds.

SETTLEMENT OF COLONIES OF JEWS IN CHINA.
—During the first century a Colony of Jews
settled in China, of whom there is an interesting
account in Brotier's Tacitus, on the authority of
letters from Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centu-
ries, who were Missionaries of the Roman Catho-
lic Church to that country. The Jews settled
there, as is stated, during the dynasty of Han,
in the reign of Ming-ti, A.D. 73, or three years
anterior to the destruction of Jerusalem. They
appear to have emigrated from Persia, and to
have consisted of at least seventy families, of
which only seven remained a century ago, in
number about GOO souls. For a long time they
flourished and were eminent in China ; some
were distinguished scholars, others rose to the
rank of Mandarins; But in process of time they
degenerated. Many embraced Mahommedanism ;
and of all the cities where they dwelt, Nimpo,l
Pekin, Cai-fong-fou, &c. &c. the last alone, the
capital of Honan, 150 leagues from Peking, now
contains the remnant of their race. They are
called by the Chinese Hoei-lloeil, name com-
mon also to the followers of Mohammed,) but
they designate themselves Tiao-kin-kiao, i, e. the
law of those who cut out the sinews, because they
cut out these and the veins that they may ab-
stain from blood. Their synagogue is magnificent.
Their most ancient MSS. of the Pentateuch are
held to be about 800 years old. It seems a desi-
deratum to collate our version with these MSS. ;
but the extreme superstition' and peculiar doc-
trines of the sect have hitherto prevented the ac-
complishment of this object.

The Commissioners appointed by Parliament
to inquire into all the Departments connected
with the Revenue in Ireland, have closed their
sittings in that country for the present season,
and have adjourned to their office in Cannon-
row, WeStminster. Mr. IlEaaus, Mr. LUSIIING-
ToN, and Mr. BERENS,. are arrived in London ;
Mr. WALL-10E and Mr. FRANKLAND LEWIS are
expected daily.
The Battalion of the Chatham Division of
Royal Marines was inspected on Friday last, on
Chatham Lines, by Sir G. COCKBURN and Sir G.
CLARKE. The precision with which the exercise
and various field movements were made by this
valuable corps, drew forth the warmest expressions
of approbation from Sir G. COCKBURN.—(Kentish
Ga.zeite, I)ec. 14.)

Mrs. Howell, who wae sentenced to death, at
Berkshire Assizes, for causing her barns at Abor-
field to be set on fire, was sent off last week to
New South Wales.

On Monday last George Mills, a warder at one
of the gates of the Dock Yard, Sheerness, was
apprehended and taken before the Rev. T. POORE,
Magistrate, and convicted in the penalty of three
pounds, for taking up a flag stone from the pave-
ment of the street, with intent to steal it. The
circumstances of the case were as follow :—Ever
since the houses on one side of Blue Town have
been taken down for Government improvement,
&c. the flag stones have been repeatedly stolen,
and the offenders have, till now, escaped justice.
About three weeks since Mr. Robert Ellis,
a constable, was set to watch, and, about a
quarter before ten at night, detected the above
George Mills in the act of taking away a stone
of large dimensions ; being well krown, he was
suffered to go at large till a meeting of the Com-
missioners of the Pavement, &c., when the above
prosecution was ordered ; but as this was the
first of in which the offender was detected,
the Commissioners did not prosecute on the local
act of the town, or the consequence would have
been more severe, hut on the late Act of Parlia-
ment for the preservation of hedges, foot-paths,
&c., in the hope of preventing a recurrence of a
similar o&nce.