The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

FRAGMENTS OF A CHINESE

ELEGY.

In the fourth moon, at the season called Mang-
tchong. the air is pure, the sun shines in all its splen-
dour. How many ungrateful husbands give them-
selves up to pleasure, and forget her whom they have
lost. The husband and wife are like two birds in one
forest. When the fatal time comes they fly off each
its own way. This so accomplished beauty, this ten-
derness without bounds, they have vanished in a
morning. Why, alas, two spouses so closely united,
why should not they have lived.and grown old .toge-
ther? I am like a man whom an enchanting dream
has cradled in a skeet delusion. When he awakes he
seeks the young immortal who charmed his ears and
his eyes; and he finds around him void, solitude,
silence.

On the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, when the
disk shines in all her splendour, they offer to the gods
melons and cakes, of a form round as the lamp of
night. Men and women go two and two, to walk in
the country, and enjoy the sweet clearness of the
moon. But the round disk would but recal to me
the wife whom I have lost. Sometimes, to dissipate
my grief, I pour into my cup generous wine; some-
times I take my guitar, but it scarcely gives out a
sound under my languishing hand. My relations
and friends come in turn to invite me; but my heart,
filled with bitterness, refuses to partake of their plea-
sures.

In the ninth moon, at the time called Tchong-yang,
the chrysanthemums open their cups of gold, and all
the gardens give out a fragrant odour. I would wish
to cull a nosegay of newly-opened flowers if I had a
wife with whose hair to adorn them. My eyes
moisten with tears; my hands contract with grief,
and strike my fleshless bosom. Igo once more into
the shining chamber which my wife inhabited. My
two children follow me, and come in sorrow to em-
brace my knees. They draw me by the hand, and
call me in a stifled voice. They ask me of their mo-
ther, by their tears, their gestures, and their sobs.—
From an" Elegy on the Death of a Wife," in Capt.
Pidding's Chinese Olio and Tea Talk, No. 21.

If the passage of' wild
geese
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Industrialfom APPROACHING
t A che firei dlr"ltNboeTtEal 14. indication of the approach
ymoriensgthey December.
of cold weather, we Itlma:l'htohuisse,yferaormenxopretcht
toa svoeurytbe.arll:
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November or
ouss.--The Palamede of the present month con-
tains a correspondence between Mr. Staunton and M. St.
Ainan
place
t'b which it appears that a new chess-match is
to take on October 15, at Paris, for the same stake
(100 Z a side) as that played for last year. The condi-
tions wiil be, in the main, the same as those agreed to for
the former match ; there are, however, one or two points
which are at present under consideration, and which may
be modified. One of those is a proposition of Mr.
Staunton's to play the king's pawn two squares by both
players, whether for attack or defence,
at the commence-
ment of each party I another point proposed by the gen-
tleman is to limit the match to thirteen games in place
of twenty-one—the winner of the first seven games
being the conqueror. The object of this latter change is
to lessen the time which the match will cause him to re-
main in Paris. As there is no doubt from the tenour of
the two champions' letters that these matters will be
arranged, the match may be looked on as settled.
WAR STEAMERS.—During the early part of the
week, a naval officer, from the Admiralty, was down
here, inspecting the different steamers belonging to the
port, in reference to their capacity as war steamers, in
the event of hostilities requiring a resort to such means
of defence. Ire found sixty-one steamers fully compe-
tent to carry 148 large guns, several smaller ones, and a
competent number of men, He expressed his admira-
tion of their strength and capacity, and seemed pleased
to think that they could, with wonderful facility, be
made to give a warm reception to the Prince de Join-
ville, should he ever approach our shores in a spirit dif-
ferent from that which now secures his royal father an
hospitable reception. The river steam-boats, tug boats,
&c., he pronounced capable of being converted into gun-
boats of a most formidable description. It is gratifying
to know of our warlike capacity. but we hope to remain
fang strangers to practical knowledge of the fact.—
Liverpool Journal

ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY.—On Thursday last, ar,
rived in Falmouth harbour the Lord Bruce brig, Captain
Poole, with a cargo of Sugar,
from Pernambuco. A few
mornings after the Lord Bruce left Pernambuco, a very
fine Bongo black lad, about eighteen or twenty years of
age, made his appearance on deck, to the no small sur-
prise of the captain and crew of the Lord Bruce. He is
not able to speak a single word of English, but talks the
Portugu"ae language
tolerably well, from which we
learn that he Was a slave, and had been brought to the
Brazils, in a slaver. from a far distant country. It ap-
pears he, with many otter slaves, . had been sent off to
the Lord Bruce with barges of sugar, and again returned
vessel, he stole a cranfitg
on shore, and the of the
called a cantamaran, taking with him a tolerable stock oli
provisions, and some very good clothes, and came on
hptecpurlieavriotuostht:st(h):thsAAiliwngegiemns.
board, and stowed himself away, unobserved, amongst
the cargo, and did not maj,4o his appearance until he knew
the vessel was so far at sea, that there was no chance of
his being sent back again ; thus effecting hi 4 escape from
slavery. The captain treated him with every pozszitole,
kindness, but as the poor fellow seems rather unfit for I
the sea, he will be thrown on the parish of Falmouth,
until some means can be adopted to get him to provide
for himself.—Devonport Independent.
SPEEDY PROMOTION.— Few officers (says the
Courrier ..".".''anfilis) have within the last fifty years had
so rapid a proinehoi: as Marshal Bugeaud. In 1830 Iv,
was a colonel of infantri ; on the :2 of April, 1831, 11,3
was made a major-general ;,on the 2d of Angus., 1836,
created
a lieutenant-general ; in 1840, Governor-General of
ienlB43,tle of isiy* He is also Grand office
Marshal of France;andnow, inr i
of i
theAlBfea
4,ri
Legion; i
of Honour. issated Duke
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