The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-29 00:00:00

POETRY.

DAY-BREAK IN THE COUNTRY.
Awake ! awake ! the flowers unfold,
And tremble bright in the sun,
And the river shines a lake of gold—
For the young day has begun.
The air is blythe, the sky is blue,
And the lark on lightsome wings,
From bushes that sparkle rich with dew,
To Heaven her mstin sings.
Then awake, awake, while music's note
Now bids thee sleep to shun,
Like zephyrs of fragrance round thee float—
For the young day his begun.
I've wandei'd o'er yen field of light,
Where daisies wildly spring,
And traced the spot where fays of night
Flew round on elfin wing :

And I've watched the sudden darting beam
Make gold the field of grain,
Until clouds obscur'd the passing gleam,
And all frown'el dark again.
Then awake, awake, each warbling bird,
Now hails the dawning sun;
Labour's enlivening song is heard—
For the young day has begun.
Is there to contemplation given
An hour like this one,
When twilight's starleas"mantle's riven
By the uprising sun ?
When feather'd warblers fleet awake,
His breaking beams to see,
And hill and grove, 'and bush and brake.
Are fill'd with melody.
Then awake, awake, all seem to chide
Thy sleep as round they run,
The glories of Heaven lie far and wide—
For the young day has begun.

SUMMARY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Forty counties in England send - - BO Knights.
Twenty-seven cities (Ely none—London 4) 50 Citizens.
One hundred and sixty-seven boroughs, two each 334 Burgesses.
Five boroughs, one each - - - 5 Burgesses.
Two universities, two each - - 4 Burgesses.

Five Cinque Ports and their three branches, two
each - - • - 16 Barons.

Twelve counties in Wales

- - - 12 Knights.

Twelve boroughs in Wales - - - 12 Burgesses.
Shires of Scotland - 30 Knights.

Burghs of Scotland - - - 15 Burgesses,
Counties of Ireland - tit Knights.

Boroughs of Ireland - - - -

86 Burgesses.

Sum total

658 Members.

The. Scotch Peers elect sixteen Representative Peers for every
Parliament. The Irish Peer' elect 28 Representative Peers on
the Union, each of whom is elected for life.

BALLOON.

Yesterday evening a balloon ascended from the gardens of
White Conduit-house, Pentonville : the event was rendered more
interesting than usual from the circumstance that two females
were the only persons who were to ascend in it—one (Mrs. Gra-
ham (wife of the aeronaut of that name) to whose management it
was intrusted—the other, Miss Stocks, who our readers may re-
collect was the companion of Mr. Harris at the time of the la-
mentable excursion in which he lost his life. The ascension was
announced to take place at half.past five, but. owing, to the violent
storm which took place at three, the preparations for inflating it
were necessarily postponed. About 1 o'clock, however, the return
of fine weather decided the point, and orders were given to pro-
ceed with the inflation, the aeronauts being .at this timme• in
high spirits, and only eager for the moment to arrive when they
could take their-departure. Mr. Graham having arranged the
&c. • informed the company that he wished to have
ten minutes start, on horseback, in the direction which he sup-
posed the balloon would take, and left the garden for that pur-
pose. It was shortly afterwards ascertained that the balloon was
not sufficiently inflated to carry up both the ladies, and Miss
' Stocks was compelled to relinquish her seat. Mrs. Graham then
awaited the signal to ascend, but we heard her say, " Not yet,"
wishing, we suppose, to give her husband time to get farther off.
At length the signal was given, and Mrs. Graham standing up,
waved her flag, scarcely clearing the trees which surrounded the
'garden, and appeared to be descending itt the field outside; in fact
the balloon had fallen so low as to be obscured by the walls, so
that w'e were obliged to quit the garden to obtain another view of
it, which we did in the direction of Hackney, and not then appa-
rently above 150 feet from the earth. Mrs. Graham had de-
scended near the Green, at Stoke Newington, perfectly safe ; but
tranquillity could not be restored until the arrival of Mr. Graham
himself, at nearly 10 o'clock, when be publicly assured the com-
pany of Mr*. Graham's safety.