The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-23 00:00:00

STANZAS
O*".k.iILiOVEAT EVENING, JAN. 22, 1927, AT THE ROYAL

COlilLißg THEATRE, ON OCCASION OF THE DFATH OF HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK.

Heu quanto minus est cum reliquis versari, quam tui memintsse.

The knell of death is hushed, the pomp is o'er,
The deep slow dirge, the cannon's awful roar,
The mournful music of the muffled drum,
The hist.sad requiem,—all at length are dumb.
A Ptince bath fallen—a native Chief bath died
His foiman's scourge, his widow'd country's pride ;
That. Royal soul where stainless honor shone,
Blesidng; like- heaven, the land it beamed upon ;
That-mind whose patriot intellect conceived
Each act a kindred Wellington achieved ;
tied at-hiiroei in pregnant stern repose,
Yet-Nu-tied oar 13ritain's thunder' on its foes ;
That heart which wept to see the soldier weep,
Whitditirieied the'-visforts of his tented sleep;
SunmitThris 6;11 ihonglits, ivhen;destined far to roam
He bade farewell to happiness and home ;
Thattbeirt so noble once, is gone at last
the mighty dead of ages past. '•
It thete a mother here who.frantic, wild,

Rath hung in battle o'er a dying child ?
Is thiri a vilfe—poOr sorrOw-stricken slave—
hopes lie rnoultering in a husband's grave'
Is there a elrild; whose inmost soul bath bled
As niglttly dreanis gave back her father dead
If sack' Be:here—oh, think how oft arose
Thar bust:inns, father's prayer at life's last close,
Fbr lim, -o'er whom henceforth the passing hours
Unmarked must roll in WincLor's Royal Towers.
His funeral pomp, majestically proud,
Hath vanished now, like April's shifting cloud,
But when, ye Britons, shall his memory die ?
N/Mila bilittirth.;ight ETPINITY
liVk to yon crash the trumpet's brazen throat,
Roars in.hoarse chorus to the war-drum's note ;
Loud peals the cannon's thinader, as on high
When rolli the artillery of the embattled sky :
The field is won : but Britain' yet must mourn
fee; myriad warriors dead, their homes forlorn
Here dank a parent, never more to rise,
Therea rand husband closed_ his dying eyes ;
Yet o'er their last sad hours hope deigned to smile—
The guardian spirit of their native isle,
The princely York hail heard each patriot's sigh,
And blessed his poor deserted family.
How oft when twilight's tears the landscape steep,
When day's last breeze bath sung itself to sleep,
The March-worn veteran freed from battle's strife,
And bivouacked in some sheltered cot for life,
(While the soft music of the village chimes
Calls home hie happy family betimes),
Shall bless the hand that bade his cottage smile,
Hie garden bloom, life's autumn cease from toil,
Teach his young flock to lisp their patron's praise,
And evening hymns of thankfulness to raise,
Then grieve while memory wakes a vain regret,
To think so soon the sun of York has set.
We mourn no Prince, such wee finds speedy end ;
We Weep the patriot's boast, the soldier's friend ;
We-weep thatsoul which, through its life's brief span,
Fels every throb that links us man to man ;
Which, bortimf Kings, was lowly, frank, and free,
Fawned ARI from youth, yet prised sincerity,
Which never-lost a friend,. nor caused a tear,
Save new, when nation's weep above its bier,
Which, born on. Britain's soil, ne'er sighed to roam,
Bat thanked its God that ENGLAND WAS ITS HOME !

The King's letter to the Archbishops of Canterbury
and York, on behalf of the distressed manufaeturers, was read last
Sunday in several. Churches in and round the metropolis, and
appropriate sermons were preached.
MEETING Or SHIP-OWNERS.—OII Wednesday
last, a meeting of the Ship-owners in Aberdeen was held, to take
into consideration the present depressed state of the shipping inte-
rest. The meeting was numerously attended—and after fully
&mussing the subjest, was unanimously of opinion, that the en-
.couragement given to foreign vessels, and the advantages they
enjoy over the British shipping, by the existing Navigation Laws,
from the comparative low rate of wages, provisions and other
chsxges, such as tuput all competition in most cases at defiance,
was, if not the sole cause, yet a principal source of the present
suns, and that a repeal or modification of these laws could alone
rester* our saw:twee to prosperity. Resolutions, expressive of
these sentiments, Ohre immediately entered into, embracing, at
the same tine;- :state of the foreign timber trade, and the
baneful -effects Irbil& hen been
produced, in particular by the
ißmrrtisliktiecaodatnyief, iatenwhatitittgaper load on that imported from the
--- such a large proportion of our shipping
faun,' employment. Upon a suggestion from the Trip ity- I Louse,
London, the gentlemen
Preem,„t aged of one or two lights being
placed in-tit. Swiar " a guwe'an 41PPinenavigating in the night
time in thatiangerouV passage, and-resolved that they would sup-
port such an improeinrent- by a reasonable toll or assessment.
In coueltuden, the 4neeting, brought-into ei.„l,L,.be
proposed
appli.
cation to Parliament for leave to bring in
nur to alter the Peter-
heed
Harbour Act, and allow the Trustees for
he same
into effect to have powers for extending and mu
thet existing
rates and duties on vemelcand, merchandise, to all the shipping'
entering or taking shelter in the Bays of Peterhead. Thesip-
owners present Were unanimously of opinion, that a measure
fraught with more serious conemnences, of a snore oppressive na-
ture, or portentous character,'had never before been attempted, and
that they amid not in terms too strong express their reprobation of
the proposed measure, which they unanimously resilved, if per-
sisted in, to oppose in every stage of its progress in Parliament.
A Petition;in support "of the above Resolutions, is in the course of
signature, aad, we understand, is now placed in the Athenwum
(or that Purpose.—.. Aberdeen Journal. •