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to 51 li n 83 to GI 10 , ; new Farnbarn. F, 121 to 131; yoar g Aont-, 3/ to 4i 7s; yearling Sussex, 2/ Si to 31 12E; d 11 ope, 11 to 31 10i per cwt. lI , T 9USE Lo“DS.—CIIIIS DAY.) ' 4 ccutir, u ,d of the L , rl Ch to 11‘r, ih "ire sorry t o say, prty,l,ttd sAcing in d(use of Lids to.d:ty to 11: b.r b i tOLLS' COUR:T.-O'MS DA l i.) Lcrdship tLe Master ef the Roil. Eat to-day in ' T Unirt in the Itoll*'.-pird, Chancery-Jane. e hr h e further argtuntnts in th,3 part-Ile . ard , case (1 Isty Courter.ay occupied his Lordship die whole korriing• ICE-CIIANCERV.-(11-1.1S DAY.) ( 13 .2f0re VICE-CHANCELLoIt ( f ENGLAND.) THE DUKE OF LEEDS V. EARL AMHERST. 111 y fardicr hearing c.f the argurnnts in this - case oe 'l'Pled his Honour the whole day. 13 .( 1- f re th e Vice Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) ls - .2 , ur hertl hinkrupt petitions t i•day , ta , but no o f any interest came before him during the whole (Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAIq.) DOBSON V. LAND. piZhe further arguments this part-heard case oceu he Court the whole day L OW-STREET. —(THIS DAY.) It 4(1 r''sp , et ihl) -rtrt - sse , l young men 1137ted Gregan Fowsel were charged with assaulting and obstruct lasolice-ogicer. e alice•constanight ble F 35 stated that ho was on duty on „ ur day in Russellourt, Drury lace, when a li t o 'l l th complained to him that some drunken men had t; °ke n her door in, and while he was collecting the p4r hp eular e of the outrage the two prisoners came up and t , t tc abusing him. He told them if they did not at ( 11 :lepart on their business, he would take them into h tt ittY; hut instead of heeding this warning, Fowsel, actin himse f in a fighting attitude, wished him to f ti e a set to. He, however, had no wish for anything 1 , u e sort, and seizad the prisoner by the collar, when t v i a - c ?lnpaaion interfered, and a struggle ensuing, he thrown to the ground with great violence. A crowd 1.; new collected, and no sooner ba ,l he recovered hi s e - L B than the mob, at the instigation of the prisoners, bt"' b l cenced hustling him, but a gentleman who happ ened 3.e Passing a t the moment came to his rescue , and stied him in conveying the prisoners to the station. r,,; c prison e rs were fined 20s. etch, or ten days' im• oament. The fines were paid. Young man named Roberts, attired in the dress of t., c f rtetrter, was charged with breaking the windows of a t e ' - house in Red Lion-court, and assaulting the pro ton.+r ItYsttriek Riley, the complainant, an elderly Irishman, ~aced his ease thus :—Yer Planner, me and me son and liFife, and another young man was at tay on Saturday, Oh the b o y there comes in, aad afTher helpin' t , '?!lf without lave to the sugar, he throws the rist on Artalt, sis T, whath are yes about? Divil a s! ue,,: more nor that, says he, a thakin up a cup and 1: 1 :" e ki 2 it at me heal, yer Manner. We thin pushed ri l l .outside the door, when some feller says to him , Yer smash the bowl?" " Not a bit , " sis he , and it ""he agin, he striz,s hould or the sugar bowl, and flings el! ° 4 the fire, and thin he ups filth and fitches me a k : ,, hc , fier the head, yer Hanner, which here is the ~6--`" he lefth behind him. Well, yer Harmer, we gits „ 'ont agin, whin the feller wot reminded himmv the i all to him, " Did yer de it?" " I did," e t :: be, and with that, yor Ilanner, he falls too and tl -3 h's every pain ov glass in the windey, threatenin p I ,: t if he got hould ov me he'd rip me up, if he couldn't a Pistil to shoot me. lIALL asked what was the cause of this strange t i i r i hq uet? Complainant—Yer llanner, lam at a loss to except that it be- that his father lives in the house, ` l ,..he can't agree with him. I t HALL—What is the value of the glass he has *en? Complainant—Between 6 s. and 7 s. I t T he prisoner said the complainant and his son set On him fi rs t, and he was exasperated at their calling *na a thief. er r• ordercd him to pay Bd. for the glass, t - I, 0 pay 20s, for the assault, or be imprisoned four ea days. rtlo tine was not forthcoming. I ARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) ,‘ ' I IARGE CF DCG STEALING,— William Kcdslie, a at ll 'neyinan baker, was placed at the bar charged with A e : i in:-; a valuable terrier dog, the property of Mary n Wilson, No. 12, James street. Hay intake% He was charged with stealing the dog's collar, value 3s. ~_l ssa rry, 334 A, stat e d that on Saturday evening he was " 0 ,'1 duty in James street, Haymarket, when he saw the g Produced come out from a door way in that street. t that time the prisoner came by, and snapping his 14 t ?F e rs, enticed the dog away into Oxendou-street. 'ttless followed him and saw him pick the dog up and dirtl, into the Black Horse public-house with the dog in f , lB arms. Witness went after him and took him into ij st °dy in the tap-room, with the dog in his possession, h taxing the prisoner with the theft, he replied that he done no more than any other man; he saw the dog atoningxt about, and he certainly picked it up. rs. Wilson proved that the dog was her property, ''4,*worth about 51. that -the prisoner, in defence, made the same statement he nude to the constable. Mr. Bishop, of Bond-street, through whose exertions 'e Act for the prevention et dog stealing was passed , Zticaat e d to the magistrate that the prisoner could be 'i l `. 4l arnitted at once for stealing the collar, which rendered 10 1 liable to transportation. Mr. BINGHAM said he should act upon that, and COM 4'ittcd the prisoner for trial for stealing the dog's collar. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEW C A STLE-ON-TYN E RACES, 1850. "andicap for the Northumberland Plate.; to declare on the 25h inat:— Yrs. st. lb. cantieteer a 9 6' b sapz eu 5 9 2 Vateaeher 5 8 8, • c •I• lerdale 6 8 4 1 ""Ila Cosner 5 8 2 (i' e 1 . „ adower 5 7 11 " j• altOn ar,t, li ueritress a 7 10 b 4 anyklik 4 7 10 ; 44 ,i llinafai 6 7 8 t)lvan 5 7 8 ' i thiro 4 7 7 Grl au n Uri el 4 7 7 el 4 7 6 1 alias,., Ann 4 7 5 .nelu s 4 7 4 1 D efaulter 5 7 2 k_, er 1 '°3 7 " 41, gerdemain 4 7 2 1 116 \k a , owstorm 4 7 2, v estow , 4 7 2 ‘,.alagunrd 4 7 0, v,i - Lox L a• ngton 4 6 12 rychLine 4 6 12 W il liz - 'l4 friary 4 6 10 Al p 4 6 16 l't iestess 4 6 10 tilaid Team Valley 4 6 10 i-:ekbiter 411 e Cocktail... at . 4 6 8 kt 1 .t., J •le de Bratant 4 6 81 Crlatn . .•,,- pion 4 6 8 estat or 4 6 6 1 41 andieap for the Members' Plate; to deulare as above:— Yrs st lb Yrs st lb I ' 9 -4 Hilda... ...... 6 8 8 Solon I tibaldry ~ V angua r d 'lrychnine ' , laid Team Valley 4 7 G First-rate 3 5 6 I. o .ektail ik‘ehert de Brus Yrs st lb b f by Phoenix — Pose of Cashmere 4 6 6 Castanette The Knout . Robert de Brus 4 6 6 e Arab ... 4 6 6 Jenny Lind 4 6 4 Reality ...5 6 2 Primrose 5 6 2 Roland 4 6 2 Lady-I-am•cff 5 6 0 Impertinence, b h 5 6 0 Clincher Lord Saltoun a 5 10 Burghley 4 5 8 Gulliver Illeicoon !St• Valentina 3 5 6 Sig. of Holderness 3 5 6 ,Sir Philip Mark Tapley Probity litlight of Gwynne 3 5 2 Gicam 3 5 2 Mulgr are 3 5 2 Seneca 3 5 0 First-rate 3 5 0 Equiria 3 4 10 i Timothy IMichael Brunton 3 4 10 tantho Luxury Aegean Wallace .. 3 4 10 .. 3 4 8 ~ 3 4 8 ~ 3 4 6 WARWICK SPRING MEETING, } WARWICK, SUNDAY EVENING. — The following h o rses arrived :—Knight of Gwynne, Warwick, Mark apley, Osbaldeston, Woodsprite, Rose Pompon, Rat lop, Fugitive, Andalusian, Jack of All Trades, D3C:- ;V, Sobriety, Meath, lanthe, Ballinafad, Abi-el-ICader, "tory be Airy, Everton, Laurel Gelding, Venture, Vaut '• 'Jen, Cosachia. A great many others are expeted tc l'?orrow. The race-course is in the best possihls condi tion. Both Warwick and Leamington ara already full of Visitors, and an excellent meeting is anticipated. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Princess lloyal, the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen ')f the Court, and the domestic household, attended bivine service yesterday morning in th-2 private Chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Herald Wellesley officiated. The Royal Family took their accustomed ex' rcise esterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. The Count and Countess de Neuilly visited her Majesty on Saturday at Buckingham Palace. His Roj al Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday, attended by Colonel Bouverie. Thr Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince t)f Wales and the Princess Royal, honoured the Royal Italian Opera House with their presence on Saturday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn ' Lord Dufferin, Lord Alfred Paget , and Colonel Bouverie. The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham Palace on Friday evening, and played the following pieces : Overture, "Calypso" Winter. Selection, " Malek Mel" Itomance, "Guido et Genevra" Halev y . Cavatina, " Schweitzer Famine". Weigl. Polka Jallacic Marech. Her Royal Highness the Duchess cf Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester on S.iturday at Gloucester Rouse. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town on Saturday on a visit to the Duke of Rutland ut BAvoir Castle. The Count and Countess de Neuilly, and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours visit( d her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Saturday :A Clarence House, St. James's. - A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon ut the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of rite, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouie, the Rirl of C.rli'le, the Right Hon. IL Llb.)uchere, the I .`,l•::rquis o C .x.- riearde, and the Right Hon. Fox Myale. The Council sat threc , :.ours. Mr. DuncuUr. M.P., and Mr. Blair, M.P., bad an interview with Sir George Grey oa Saturday at the Home-office. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of blond Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Extin quer on Faday, at his official residence in Downing-stret t. Dispatches for the Governors of the West India Colonies, and also for the Governor of Gibraltar, were sent (If on Saturd , ty evening from the C,lonial-ctlice. Mr. Cowan, M.P., had an interview on Saturday wi h Sir George Grey. The Rev. Dr. Buchan and the Rev. Dr. C...ndlidt had also en interview on Sitar day with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Borne , office. The Poise of Wellington attended the early ser vice yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wellesley otticiated and preached the sermon. The Bishop of Llandaff preached the sermon at the daily service. The prayers were read by the Rev. G. Rewon, and the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore. The Duke of Manchester, the Marquis cif SalAury, Lords St. Germans, Fowls, and Gough, were among the nobility preFent. LITERATURE. ANTONINA ; or the Fall of Rome. 3 Vols. We have already briefly commented upon the prin cipal features of Mr. Collin's historical romance, and the following extracts from its pages will corroborate our expressed opinion as to the tinusaal power evinced by Mr. Collins in painting startling scenes, or pourtraying heroic characters. Many incidents in "Antonina" are so extraordinary, not to say impro • bable, that if described by an ordinary writer, we might be inclined to find fault with them as gro tesque exaggerations. But so vigorous is the delineation, and so perfect the colouring of these scenes of terror in the pages of " Anto nine," that they are positively magnificent in their horrible, heart-thrilling actuality. It is in depicting scenes of this nature, and individuals of almost superhuman character, that the skill of Mr. Collins is most conspicuously displayed. The luxu rious Roman senator Vetranio ' • the gentle, child• like Antonina; the Gothic soldier Hermanic, alternately swayed by the colder influence of his nothern edu cation and the irresistible fascinations of the southron maiden ; Numerian, at first stern to cruelty towards his unhappy daughter, and then bewailing her absence with heart -broken la mentations—these, and many of the minor characters, are excellently well depicted • but it is in the drawing of the ruthless doisvintha and the pertinatious Ulpius that the master hand of the limner is chiefly visible. Ulpius from his child hood had been dedicated to the service of the heathen divinities of pagan Rome, and he had in his man hood been the priest of the idol Serapis. Under the happier influence of Christianity the heathen worship had been abolished, but the pagan priest yearned for its re-establishment with all the ardour of an enthusiastic nature, and toiled for it with all the vigour of an indomitable will. His - passage through a rift in the walls of Rome, in order to join the blockading hosts of Alaric; and betray the city into the hands of the Goths, is de tailed with elaborate skill and holds the reader in breathless attention. It is hardly possible for an isolated extract to do justice to this powerful description. The other individua.l whom we have particularised as affording an impressive evi dence of Mr. Collins's skill in the terrible, is Goisvine the, a Gothic matron, rendered a widow and c hildl ess by Roman swords. All the powers of her heart and mind, all the faculties of her being are concentrated in one feeling, the yearning for revenge. She stands bsfere 113 alternately an impassioned Nemesis, or as cold and lifeless as the statue of Niobe. " Her sor ro.v," it is beautifully said, " took the fatal form which irretrievably destroys in women all the softer and better emotions—it changed to the despair that asks no sympathy, to the gri4 that holds no com munion with tears." Rightly to appreciate the almost fiendlike Goisvintha, it is nee( ssary to contemplate her in the pages of "Aetonina." Toe story occasionally leads us to the camp of the Goths, conspicuous for the stern simplicity of their manners and the severity of their discipline. But the contrast between these hardy soldiers of the north and the effeminate senators of Rome, is hardly so re markable as is the startling contrast exhibited by Rome and the Romans at the commencement and towards the close of " Antonina." In the first volume we contemplate with contemptuous surprise the lux urious banquets and voluptuous atnusemente of the unworthy bearers of the Roman name, but shortly afterwards, when the city is blockaded by the Goths, starvation takes the place of luxury, and desolation and despair reign paramount where all had been magnificence and mirth. Rome, during the famine, is (as might have bee n anticipated) ad mitably depicted by Mr. Collins; and, in the follow ing passage, is emphatically described a reviving gleam of Roman virtue : Of all prophecies none are, perhaps, so frequently mistaken as those on which we are most apt to venture, in endeavouring to foretel the effeet of ()award events on the characters of men. In no form of our anticipa tions are we more fe quently baffled than in such at tempts to estimate bt forehand the influence cf circum stance over conduct, slot only in others, but also even in ourselves. Let the evens but happen, and men, whom we view by the light our previous observation of them, act under it as the living contradictions of their own cha racters. The friend of our daily social intercourse, in the progress of life, and the favourite hero of our his toric studies, in the progress of the lage, as . onish, ex ec° 1, or disappoint our expectations alike. We find it as vain to foresee a cause, as to fix a limit, for the arbitrary inconsistencies in the dispositions of mankind. ‘; But though to speculate upon the future conduct of others under impending circumstances, be hut too oft e n to expose the fallacy of our wisest anticipations, to con template the nature of that conduct after it has been displayed, is an useful subject of curiosity, and may, per haps, be made a fruit ful source of instruction. Simil ar events wbich succeed each other at different periods are relieved from monotony , and derive now importance, fsom the ever - varying ef fects which they produce on the human character. Thus in the great occurrence which terms the foundation of our n narrative, we may find little in the seige of Rome , looking at it as a mere event, to distinguish it remarkably from any former siege of the city— the same desire for glory and vengeance, wealth and domiuion, which brought Alarie to her walls, brought other invaders before him. But if we observe the effect of the Gothic descent upon Italy on the inha bitants of her capital, we shall find ample matter for novel contemplation and unbounded surprise. " We shall perceive, as an astonishing instance of the inconsistencies of the human character, the spectacle of a whole Teeple (already fallen from the highest position of notices) glory to the lowest depths of national degra dation), threatened by an overwhelming invasion at their very doors ; and yet, in spite ot all that ;he wide-spread baseness of their previous characters might have led us to expect,resisting their enemies with inflexible obstinacy for the honour ot the Roman name, which they had dishonoured for ages past. We shall behold men, who lave hitherto laueh(d at the very name of p a triotism, now starving resolutely in their country's cause ; who stopped at no villany to obtain wealth, now hesitating to employ their ill-gotten gains in the purchase of the most important of all gratifications—their own security and p, ace. Instaners of the unimaginable effect produced by the event of the seigo of Rome on the characters of her inhabitants, might be drawn from all classes, from the lowest to the higt est; but to produce them here would be to admit too long an interruption in the pr..- gress of the present narrative. It' we are to ent , ,r at all into detail on such a subject, it mutt he only in case el, any connected with the actual requirements of our story; and such a case may be found, et this juncture, in the conduct of the senator Vetranie, trader the influ ence ( f tho worst calamities attending the blockade of Rome by the Goths." The " Banquet of Innine"—a banquet given" by Vetranio to his starving fellow-Sybarites—a banquet at which wine alone was provided for the entertain ment of the guests—the only article of food procurable in the besieged city, boiled bran and salt horse flesh being set aside es unworthy of the occasion. As the powerful drink affects the weak frames of the starved and already dying feasters, one by one they fall back on their sumptuous couches., and thus dis play in their last hour a remnant of the spirit of ancient Rome in the midst o . f the luxury of its de generate days. The following extracts will giv e some idea of the many beautiful passages tb be met with in " Antonina:"— THE GOTHS BEFORE ROME. it was no false rumour that had driven the populace of the suburbs to fly to the security rf the city walls, it was no ill-founded cry of terror that struck the ear of Ulpius, as he stood at Numerian's window. The name of Rome hal really lost it'. pristine terrors; the walls of Rome, those walls which had morally gaardcd the empire by their renown, as they had ac tually guaided its capital by their strength, were de• prived at length of their ancient inviolability. Anarmy oi barbarians had indeed penetrated for conquest and for vengeance to the City of the World! The achievement which the invasions of six hundred years had hitherto attorolted in vain, was now accomplished, and accom plished by the men whose forefathers had once fled like hunted beasts to their native fastuesses, before the le gions of tl.e Caesars—` The Goths were at the gates of Rome!' "And now, as his warriors encamped around hia, ftz, he saw the arra} od hosts whom his summons had gathered together, and his energy led on, threatening at • their doors the corrupt Senate who had deceived, snd the boastful populace who had despised him, what emo tions stirred within the heart of Alarie? As the words of martial command fell from his lips, and his eyes watched the movements of the multitudes around him, what exulted m3pirations, what daring resolves, grew and strengthened M i the mind.of the man who,wns the piot.c•.r of th,t mighty revolution which swept from one quarter of the world the sv a)', the civilisation, the very hie and spirit of centuries of ancient rule? High thoughts gathered fist in his mind; a daring ambition expanded within him—the ambition, not of the barbarian plunderer hut of the avenger who had come to punish; not of the warrior who combatted for combat's sake, but of the hero who was rowed to conquer and to sway. From the far- diita• t days when Odin was thiven from his territories by the Roman ,- , to the iii Cat polluie t by the massacre of tile hoLtri. , . ; es in A quilcia, the hour of just and terribl:!. mini - intim for CloiWe vtrongs had ben d , layrd through the weary lapse of yuLrt;, Lid tie WATnir,geonvulsieLs O f hi t..ir strife F, to ::pproaeli at la,t unchr him. He looked on the towering wails tefore bin-, the oily inNachar since Eftrinb d i,y whoin tl ey had be..;: an l he fe% as he looked, that his new rispirKtious did not deceive bitn, that his drEams of dominion wire brigtenifig proud reality, thi.t hi; destiny was gloriously linked with the overthrow of Imperial Rem'." ANTONIN.CS LONELINESS. • "I neve looked at the sun-light, or woke from my seep to look oa and to thi, k of the distant stare, but I lunged to love some thiray,. that might listen to my joy. But my father forbade me to be happy! He frowned even when he gave me my flower-garden—though God made dossers. lie destroyed my lute—though God made music. My life has bet n a longing in loneliness for the voices of friends! My heart has swelled and trembled within me, because when I walked in the garden and laokfd on the plains and woods and high bright mountains that were round me, I knew that I loved them alone ! Do you know now why I dare not die? It is bet aase I must find first the happiness which I feel God has made for me. It is because I must live to praise this wonderful, beautiful world with others who enjoy it as I could! It is because my home has been among those who sigh, and aever among those who smile! It is for this that I fear to die! I must find companions whose prayers are in singing and in happi nsss la fore I go to the terrible hereafter that all dread. I dare not die! I dare not die!"' A PEN-AND INK-PICTURE. " Signing t 3 Ilermanric to kindle the extinguished torch at a neighbouring watch-fire, Goisvintha carried the still insensible girl into the tent. As the Goth si leetly proceeded to obey her, a vague, horrible suspi cion, that he shrunk from embodying, passed across his mind. His hand shook so that ho could hardly light the torch, and bold and vigorous as he was, his limbs trembled beneath him as he slowly returned to the tent. " When he had gained the interior cf his temporary abode, the light of his torch illuminated a strange and impressive none. Goisvintha was seated on a rude oaken chest, sup porting on her knees the form of the young girl, and pa:rig with an expression c•f the most intense and en thralling interest upon her pale, wasted countenance. The tattered robe that had hitherto enveloped the fugi tive had fallen back, and disclosed the whitedress which was the only other garment she wore. Her face, throat, and arms, had been turned, by exposure to the cold, to the pure whiteness of marble. Her eyes were closed, and her small, delicate features were locked in a rigid repose. But for her deep black Lair, which heightened the ghastly aepect of her face, she might have baen mis taken, as she lay in the woman's arms, for an exquisitely chiselled statue of youth in death! " When the figure of the young warrior, arrayed in his martial habiliments, and standing near the insensible girl with evident emotions of wonder and anxiety, was added to the group thus produced—when Goisvietha's tall, powerful frame, clothed in dark garments, and bent over the fragile form and white dress cf the fugitive, was illuminated by the wild, fitful glare of the torch, — when the heightened colour, worn features, and eager expression of the woman were beheld, here shadowed, there brightened, in close opposition to the pale, youth ful, reposing countenance of the girl, such an assemblage of violent lights and deep shades was produced, as gave the whole scene a character at once mysterious and sub lime. It presented an harmonious variety of solemn colours united by the exquisite artifice of Nature to a grand, yet simple disposition of fora'. It was a picture executed by the hand of Rembrandt, and imagined by the mind of Raphael." ANTONINA AND lIEB.MANIC. " Thus, false to his nation, yet true to the new Egeria of his thoughts and actions—traitor to the requirements of vengeance and war, yt t faithful to the interests of tranquillity and love—did he seek, night after night, Antonina's presence. his passion, though it denied him to his warrior duties, wrought co deteriorating change in his disposition. All that it a:tered in him, it altered nobly. It varied and exalted his rude emotions; for it wss inspired, nut alone by the beauty and youth that he saw, but by the pure thought?, the artless elcque%ee that he heard. And she—the forsaken daughter, the source whence the northern werior derived those new and higher sensations that tai never animated him until now—regarded her protector, her first friend and com panio❑ as her first love, wish a devotion which, in its mingle 1 and exalted nature may be ima;ined by the mind, but can be but imperfectly depicted by the per. It was a devotion created of innocence and gratitude, of joy and sorrow, of app; chension and hope. It was ko fresh, too unworldly, to own any upbraidings of artificial shame, any self reproaches of artificial propriety. It resembled in its eseace, though not in its application, the devotion of the first daughters of the Fall to their brother-lord:." FIRST PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE. By Archibald Billing, M.D., F.R.S., 6-c., 6-c. Fifth Edition. To Dr. Billing is due the credit of having been the first medical philosopher which this country has produced. Of " Practices of Physic" we have had more than sufficient—Cullen, Thomas, Mason Good, and Gregory have all published ponderous tomes de scribing the symptoms of various diseases, and enume rating ex cathedra the remedies to be applied for the cure, but none of these great authorities have conde scended to reason on the subject, and to state why such and such remedies should be applied in certain cases, and such and such other remedies in certain other cases ; and as the directions propounded by one of the great authorities were frequently in direct op position to those propounded by another, the puzzled student was called upon to exercise his faith rather than his judgment,: and could frequently give no better reason for the course of practice that he adopted than that he found it so laid down in Thomas. Dr. Billing, at the commencement of his career, had met with all these difficulties—he found the study of medicine and surgery a complete chaos, and for his own satisfaction, instruction, and guidance, he drew up a code of general principles of medicine, which principles be had logically deduced from his own cli nical observations. After having been for 20 years engaged in this work, he published the result of his labours in a small volume of 130 pages, and this was the first work that had ever been published in which medicine had been raised to the dignity of a science. This work has now expanded in this the fifth edition to the size of a goodly octavo, which we commend to the attentive study of every medical practitioner, and of every medical student. No medical man can be considered as having competed his education or properly studied his profession, who has not made himself perfectly master of the great principles of medicine as laid down by Dr. Billing in this most scientific, most philosophic, and most logical work. THE BANKERS' 111AGAZ1N h', Journal of the Money Market, and Railway Digest. This is decidedly cne of the cheapest and most ustful publications we know. The number for the present month is remarkable for the great variety of able papers on subjects of great public importance. The subject of the first article is one deeply interest ing to the public, " Audit of B ink Accounts." The other papers are " Progressive Increase of the Na tional Debt," " On Joint-stock Bank Management," " Anticipations of California—Effect of the Fixed Price of Gold," "The Public Income and Expenditure in 1848 and 1849," "Exports and Imports during 1849," "Di vidends paid by the principal failed London Houses at the Crisis in 1847 and 1848," " Annual Average Price of Wheat from 1792 to 1814,", " Imports of Wheat and Flour from 1814 to 1848," " Banking and Commercial Law," " Legal Miscellany," " Sav ings Batilu," ." Railway Digest," and several other matters equally interesting and instructive. HEIL MAJESTY'S THEATIM.--The Qaeen's box a' Her Alijesty's Theatre was on Saturday evening orcu pied by the Earl and Countess of Listowel, and Lady Augusta Hare, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Lady Alfred Paget, Mr. Bentinek and party. There were also present—The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aileshury, the Marquis of Clauricarde, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Madlle. Olga de Lechner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rebmann, M. de Berg, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl and Countess of Jeney and Lady Clementina Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Countess of Har rington and Lady Jane Stanhope, the Earl of Carding ton; the Earl of Mahnesbury, the Marquis de Sorgueil, the Cousta de Corbenil, Count de Barke, the Comte D:vry, M. de Sivern, Comte Perpoecher, the Viscount and Viscountess Ehrington, Viscount Cantilupe, the Viscountess Torrington, the Viscountess Mahon, Vis count Clifden, the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, the Baron and Bareness Lionel de Rothschild, Viscount Cran bourn, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Sandye, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Lord Wm. Lennox, Lard Cecil, Lord Gardner, Lord Francis Gordon, Lord and Lady Southampton, Lord 11. Vrine, Lord G. Paget, Mr. Repton, M.P., and Lady Jane Repton, Lady Charles Somerset, Lady Louisa Primrose, the Hon. Mr. Dud Gordon and the Hon. Misses Duff Gordon, Mr. Cubitt, M.P., Lady Augusta Paulett, Hon. Mrs. Repton, Colonel the Hon. G. Anson. M.P., and Mrs. Anson, Sir Thomas B. Leonard, M.P., Major-General Sir Alexander Wood ford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Woodford, Lady Flower, Sir James and Lady Ross, Sir Thomas Retford, Bart., General Sir Edward Kerrnion, Bart., M P., and Lady Kerrisun, General the lion. H. Cavendish, Lady Dufferin, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Sir W. the ii (1f Fro nr: Cecil Forrester,tanlp ioe llr . Miss l Lowther,ltalontag Montague Gore, r Go . i r i e, Ccl. 01 rord Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., Mr. Sandford, Mr. Nor rmiti Macdonald, Mr. ttoe, Miss Be‘..uclerk, Mr. C. Barry, Baldwin, M.P., Mr. 11. Sin..le',on and Miss Sin gleton, Colonel Williams, Mr. Thornton, Major Buck ley, Mr. and Mrs. C J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Brereton Trelawney, Mr. C. W. Broke, M.P., and Mrs. Parke Reading, Mr. and Miss Spencer de Horsily, Mr. Her hart de Burg, Mr. Langdon, Mr. W. Delaiield, Mr. Va lentine Browne, Mr. Greville, Mr. Denistoun, Mr. and ikliss Delaware, Mr. Start, M.P., Mr. Ford, Mr. Cutler. Mr. P.ogere, Mr. F. Pei kips, Mr. Bowley, Mr. G, Ricardo, M P., &c. CAMPBELL'S POEMS.—" A new edition, edited by his nephew, Mr. Alexander Campbell, is announced to be in preparation ; and the editor states that he Las in his possession many of the earliest unpublished efforts c f his uncle, as well as the originals of his more cele brated m pees, which show in a remarkable manner, how thatm most fastidious of poets polished and refined his verse."—Literary Gazette. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Medea was repeWed here on Saturday even ing, and P.trodi produced even a more striking effect by her ddineAtion (1 the character of the Ale3ca, ni.d by her faultless execution of Meyer's music, than she did on her first anyarance. She is, par excellozce, the queen of lyric tragedy. The new ballet of the illetarnorphovs, whh its splendid scenery, magnificent costume::, and perfect (lancing excited a pet feet furore. In addition to the delightful espiegle versatile Carlotta Grisi as the sprite, we bad on Saturday Marie Taglioni, who made her first ap pearance for the season, and who returns to us having made great and decided progress in her a: - t since last year. She looked exceedingly well, and danced with the most perfect and exquisite finish, and was much and deservedly applauded. We observe that Signer Lorenzo, the new barytone, makes his first appearance to-morrow in the character of Nino, and that Mr. Sims Reeves makes his &but on Thursday as Ernani. The house was crowded in every part. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. The linpl Italian Opera opened for the season on Saturday evening, on which occasion her Majesty, Prince Albert, and their Royal llighnesses the Prince of Waks and the Princess Royal honoured the theatre with their presence. Th e principal members of the company are the lessees of the theatre, and they have appointed Mr. Frederick Gye as their manager. The opera chosen for the opening was the , Der Frischutz of, Weber, an op e ra admirably adapted to the peculiar resources of this theatre, as it brings into full play the orchestra and the magnificent chorus. Costa, on taking his seat in the orchestra, was loudly applauded, and the overture, which was splendidly performed, was enthusiastically encored. The followit,g was the cast :—Ugo (Ottcar), Signor Luigi Mei ; Marzio (Kuno), Signor Rommi ; Giulio (the Rodolph of the English version, the Max of the original).Signor Enrico Maralti; Gasparo (Cas par), Herr Formes, Chiliano (Killian), M. A- 652 °1 , Samiele (Zuniel), M. Doering; the Hermit, Signor Gregorio ; Agata (Agnes), Madame Castellan ; Annetta (Ann), Mille. Vera. The opening chorus was magnificently given, and followed as it was im mediately by the admirable acting and singing of Massol as Killian, it excited an enthusiasm which was increased by the magnificent man ner in which Formes gave the drinking song, and the splendid finale to the first act. In the incantation scene Formes was sublime, indeed it may be said that his was the great part of the opera. Never has the wild reckless character of ate doomed Caspar been more powerfully delineated, never has the music of Weber be more effectively sung. Signor Enrico Msralti is a new candidate for public favour, his voice is a tenor of much sweetness and consider able compass, and he sung the music of the part with great care. His solo " Piu 130 chi oiu i prat" ("Through the forest, through the meadows"), was beautifully given, and was much applauded. Madame Castellan would have made an almost perfect Agnes had she been content to sing 1 . Veber's music as Weber composed it, but she introduced sundry ornaments of her own imagining into the grand scene, which, ho wever beautiful in themselves, were not altogether in keeping with Weber's music. Madlle. Vera, who was the Ann, has made immense progress since she was last amongst us. Her manner of singing "Vien un giovern" ("If a youth sh:uld meet a maiden"), was full of archness, while at the same time the music was accurately and most gracefully rendered. She was deservedly rewarded with a unanimous encore. Madile. Cotti, who was recently at the French Theatre, was the first Bridesmaid, and she sang the solo verses cf the Bridesmaid's chorus with exquisite taste and effect. The choruss were all perfectly rendered, and full justice WAS done bath by chorus and orchestra to this the chef d'oeuvre of the most dramatic of mo dern composers. The Huntsman's chorus was, as a matter cf course, encored. Tie scenery by Messrs. Grieve and Teibin %vas M a goiticent ; the Wolf's glen has lost none of its traditiennl horrors in their hands. Her Majesty remained until the conclusion of the opera, immediately after which the National Anthem was sung. The theatre was crowded. GREAT FIRE AT WESTMINSTER. On Saturday night, at a few minutes before eight o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises belonelne . to Messrs. J. and C. Rigby, 23, ii.olywell-street, West minster. The first discovery was made by the private watchman of the premises. An engine was taken to the place and instantly set to work, but the contents of the several buildings were of such an ignitable nature that the flames spread furiously, enveloping the steam-boiler house, the saw-mills, and about two thirds of the joiners' workshops, with the stores over, and the drying-houses. In less than a quarter of an hour from the time the fire was discovered the roof of the joiners' shop fell in, and the flames rose high into the air. The Abbey, the new Houses of Parliament, and other buildings in the distance were brought out in bold relief. The lurid glare of the atmosphere caused the intelligence to be speedily carried to the engine stations, and nine engines of the London brigade, with those of the brewhouso belonging to Messrs. Thorne, the parish, and West of England Company, arrived at the scene. Fortunately there was an abundant supply of water, but notwith standing the exertions of all present, the devastation continued, and hour after hour passed away before the flames could be subdued. The following is the official report of the mischief done : About two-thirds of premises, 130 feet long and 51 feet wide, used as joiners' workshops on first floor, and store-houses on ground floor, burned down. The engine-house adjoining, together with machinery, severely injured by fire and water; the stock of deals in open yard seriously damaged by fire. No. 10, Earl-street, Mr. John Mann, blaeksmith—Contents and buildings not insured; the skylights and roof of workshops damaged by breakage; furniture and dwelling house injured by breakage, water, and re moval ; not insured. No. 36, Wilton-street, let out in small tenements—Premises and contents damaged; insurance unknown. No. 37, IVilton-street, occupied by sundry persons—The contents broken by hasty removal, and building much damaged. No. 38 in the same street, belonging to Mr. William Johnson, of Grosvenor- wharf—Roof of premises severely damaged and furniture broken by removal ; contents not in sured. No. 39, ditto—Similar damage. No. 40, ditto —Great damage to furniture by hasty removal, and premises damaged. No. 41, ditto— Similar damage to furniture and building. No. 42, ditto—Premises damaged by breakage and furniture by hasty removal. The occupants of the four latter houses were unin sured, and the owner of them was understood to be also uninsured. MET. THE EXPEcTES GREAT CO TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Your astronomical readers will be aware that the great comet which astonished the world in 1264, and is supposed to have returned in 1556, has been expected to re-appear about 1848, the period of revo lution round the sun averag i ng 2 92 years, or there abouts. It is highly improbable that two successive revolutions of a comet w i t h so l ong a period should be accomplished in exact l y th e same time ; and though the addition o f 29 1 4 years --the interval be tween July, 1264, and April, 1556 — to the latter epoch would bring us t o F e b ruary , 1848, as the time of the comet's retur n , we are t o lerably sure the effects cf planetary perturbations must either expe dite or retard it, perhaps several tears; S 9 that - the comet may not yet have arrived in these parts of space. Several astronomers, provided with powerful telescopes, have, t o m y knowledge, kept a close look-out upon its track for the last two years or more, and it is not likely it can have passed its perihelion, and escaped detection altogether. This, in fact, could only happen when it arrives at its least distance from the sun, between December and Feb ruary, far, under all other conditions, it must ap proach pretty near the earth, and become, doubtless, a very conspicuous object in the heavens. The exact calculation of the perturbations produced by the great planets Jupiter and Saturn, between 1264 and the present time is hardly practicable with our present limited knot; ledge ; it would involve an almost incon ceivable mass of computations such as no one person could be expected to perform. Any rough approxi mation, therefore, to the effects of these planets may prove acceptable to the astronomical public, who have much interested in this comet's expected re turn ; and my object in writing this is to announce one important conclusion, which has just been ob tained by Mr. J. Barber, of Elwell, near Uttoxe ter, relative to the disturbances due chiefly to Jupiter's attraction during the last revolution. At the expense( fan amount of time and labour which. those only who are conversent v,ith th ese i n t r i ca t e matters can properly appreciate , Mr. Barber finds that between the years 1556 and 1592 the united at traction of Jupiter and Saturn would dirnini4l the period 263 days, but that between 1592 and 1806 it would be increased by the action of Jupiter alone no , less than 751 days, so that a retardation of 488 days: take place. flow much longer Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune may detain it beyond this time we do not at present know, but the perturbations prcaucedi by the former planet up to 1806 are now in course of calculation by Mr. Barber, and, on their comple tion, we shall probably he further enlightened in re spect to the delay which has occurred in the cornet's return. In these computations the elements which I deduced from the observations of Fabricius in 1556 have if the ujor axis of the orbit year—on (vwhich n the period depends-- been inthat enpl oy d . N" exactly corresponded to the interval between 1264 and 1556, the addition of 488 days to that interval would give the Ist of July, 1849, for the next arrival at perihelion ; but as this is not likely to have been the cete, and since, in our present ignorance of the exact length cf the major axis in 1556, we may as fairly suppose it to have been longer as shorter than that deduced as above, it appears very possible that the comet may yet be sEveral months, if not one or two years, befire it makes its appearance, particularly if the effects of- S turn, Uranus, and N , ptune, in the aphelion partion cf the orbit, tend to retard it, as I believe they must dr. Those of your readers, there fore, who are provided with suitable telescopes, would render great service by immediately commencing a systematic search fur the comet, continuing it at con venient intervals at least until the close of 1851. If no comet have then appeared we shall, perhaps, have good reason to doubt the identity of the famous bodies of 1264 and 1556; but it is a matter of. great importance in this department of astronomy that the cornet should be recognised, if really periodi cal ; and I still adhere to the opinion I have Ex pressed in various English and continental publica tions, that it will appear shortly. It is more impor tant that it should not be missed, because we have not yet re-observed any one of these bodies certainly known to be revolving in a longer orbit than Halley's comet, the average period of which is about seventy six years. The revolution assigned to the grand comet of 1680 by Halley (575 years), and copied into nearly all our popular works on astronomy, can hardly be correct . , as the testimony of many his torians, unknown to that astronomer, has more re cently shown. In fact, after a strict search through the history of comets in past times, there does not ap pear to be any one which affords decisive indications of identity with that rendered celebrated by our countrymen Newton and Halley. It is tolerably certain, that had Halley been acquainted with the particulars brought to light within the last century, he would not have supposed the cornet,of 1680 to re volve round the sun in 575 years. The expected comet is dis - tant from the sun, at its aphelion, more than 8,500,000,000 miles, or upwards cf three times the mean distance of the newly-disco vered planet Neptune, while in perihelion it ap proaches that luminary within the orbit of Venus. The region of the heavens about the constellation Hydra, where it should now be sought, on the sup position of its being four or five months from peri helion, is very well placed for examination in March and April. To give some idea of the enormous mag nitude of this body, it may be stated that in 1264 both European and Chinese authorities assure us, when the head, or bright nucleus, was just seen above the eastern horiz)n the tail stretched past the zenith towards the west, or covered an arc of the heavens of more than 90 degrees. The great comet of March, 1843, which excited so much attention, was pro bably very far inferior in splendour to that of 1264. I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, March 7. J. R. HIND. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —Having been for many years past your con stant reader and admirer on almost all subjects, I now address you upon this much-agitated question. The point I wish to direct your attention to is the ab surdity of Mr. Shei?s speech, wherein he states that should the Bill, which passed the Commons on Wednesday week, become the law of the land, the wife's sister will have a contingent, or rather vested, re mainder in the pillow in which her sister's cheek may soon be coldly and lifelessly laid, if she shall be taught to associate her wedding garment with her sister's shroud. Mr. Shell adds, he is afraid the spirit of con jugal enterprise will be awakened. Now, Sir,' this may or may not be true, but observe what this argu ment leads to. It will be the means of preventing any married woman from not merely having her sister with her during illness, or indeed at any other time, but any other unmarried woman who. might supply her place after death. Pray, has Mr.. Shell never beard of married women having other female friends with them besides their own unmarried sister or sisters, as the case may be ? We all know very well that many married women, especially those women who are the wives of pro fessional mer, whose husbands are during the whole day engaged in.their respective callings or vocations, and consequently unable to give their attention to their wives that a more idle man is well able to do, have female friends continually with them upon terms of close intimacy who are no relation to them whatever. I think, indeed, society must have come to a sad low ebb for the morality of the land to be influenced by an Act of Parliament ; whereas, if people are desirous of contracting the marriages which, should the Bill which has passed the second reading of the House of Com mons, pass the Upper House, it is hard that an Act of Parliament should come in the way to prevent them so doing. Mankind must indeed be bigamists if they could form any attachment to other women, whether those women be their wives sisters or not, during the lifetime of their wives; and according to the argument laid down by Mr. Shell, it is a dangerous and hazardous thing for married women to have (in intimacy at any rate) any young unmar ried female into their houses for fear their fancies should be stained with images of sin, and in those hours of ailment to which almost every woman is condemned, they should be pursued and haunted by many a dark and distracting surmise. I have not such a low estimate of the morality of my countrymen •as Mr.. Shell and other people on that side the question appear to have. I do not believe that any man who has really tasted the bliss of married life, and who is united to a woman he is fond o; would ever think or care of any other woman, in a matrimonial point of view, until he found himself in that position which would entitle him to do so ac cording to our ritual, " when death do them part ;" as during his wife's last illness he would in all human probability be in too great grief to think of any but her whom he has promised " to love and cherish in sickness, as well as in health, until death them do part." But if mankind is so disposed to love their wives' sisters during the lifetime of their own wives, I am, Sir, well convinced that (which from the • knowledge of life and human nature that I daily gain in my profession) no Act of Parliament or other legal enactment will ever be the means of preventing their so doing.—l am, Sir, &c., A LAWYER. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the per formance at the Royal Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday. Her Majesty and the Prince were accom panied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. In attendaece upon the Ra) al party were the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Dufferin, and Colonel Bouverie. There were also present—His Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Douro, the Marchese Brancaleoni, the Earl of Durham, the Earl Grosvenor, the Earl of Longford, the Earl of Lanes borough, the Earl of Darnley, Viscount Exmouth, Vis count Glentworth, the Countess of Essex and Miss John store, Lord and Lady Foley and the Hon. Miss Foley, Lady Wallscouit, Lard .Adolphus Vane, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Lord Arthur Hay, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, the Right lion. Sir R. Peel, Bart., Lady Peel, and Miss Peel, Hon. Augustus Vernon, Hon. G. Miles, Hon. A. Willoughby, Hon. J. Fortescue, M.P., lion. G, Byng, Hon. Fitsget ald Foley, Hon. Sir Edward Butler, Bart., and Lady Butler, Sir William Bathe, Bart., and Lady De Bathe, Sir W. Ball, Batt., Sir George Armytage, Bart., and Lady Armytage, Sir John Campbell, K.C., La3y Campbell, and Miss Campbell, Sir Charles Ibbetson, Bart., Sir Thomas Hare, Mr. 11. Baring, M.P., Mr. Ewart, Don Manuel Legardi and Madame Legardi, Madame Rallie, Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., Colonel Brawnlow Knox, M.P, Mr. Montague Gore, M.P., Major Monntjoy Martyn, Captain T 3 r whit, Captain Dudley Carleton, Captain Dalrymple, Captain Clinton, Mr. Augustus Lumley, Mr. Etrutt, Captain Durham, Captain De Bathe, Mr. Dash wood, Mr. Bulteel, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts and Miss Roberts, Captain Bailey, Mr. Lloyd Clayton, Mr. Greville and Miss Greville, Mr. Bentinck, Mrs. Millman, Miss Ri chards, &e., &c. ARTISTS' AMICABLE SOCIETY. The second reunion of the Artists' Amicable Society took place on Friday evening, at the George Hotel, Aldermanbury, when about 60 gentlemen interested in the progress of art sat down to an elegant though substantial repast. Amongst the gentlemen present were the brothers MI) hew, E. Lenclellee, Esq , T. Miller, Esq., P. Egan, Esq., G. F. Sargent, Esq, and F. Skill. Esq. After the usual loyal toasts had been disposed of, " The Uni,n of Literature and Ail" was proposed by Mr. Wagstaff in appropriate terms, and responded to by Mr: Henry Mayhew, who, in an eloquent speech , d escanted u p on the power of the beautiful as displayed in the sister arts of painting and printing, and pointed out the beeeficial in flueace which art generally exercised in elevating the mind, improving the morals, and promoting the happi ness of the people. " Success to the Great Art Exhi bition of 1851 " was proposed by Mr. G. F. Serge's', and drunk with much enthusiasm. The proceedings of the evening a ere not a little enlivened by the exertions of one or two members of the musical profession. Conscience is a sleeping giant; we may lull him into a lorger or a shorter slumber; but his starts are frightful, and terrible is the hour when he awakes.— Eliza Cook's Journal. The Commissioners of Inquiry into the Market of Smithfield and the other markets for the sale of live and dead meat in the metropolis will make their report im mediately after the Easter recess. The plans for the enlargement of Smithfield-market, and for its better ma manegement under an improved system, Lave been laid before the Commissioners by the authorities of the City. The report, however, will embrace the whole question in all its details. MELANCUOLY SUICIDE.—About six months ago a case was reported under the head of Greenwich 'Mice- court, wherein it appeared that a publican residing at Woolwich, in a large and respectable Ray of business, together with his son, a promising young man, about twenty-four years of age, were chargid with carting and removing several cart-loads of bricks belonging to the lailwsy company, and depositing them on the pr mites of the father; and after as examination bafire the magistrate, they were sentenced—the father to uu dergo an imprisonment, with hard labour, for eighteen months, and the son to six months and hard labour. The son's imprisonment expired on Friday last, %%here• upon he immediately returned to the inn kept by his father, and i esumed his avocation of wtiting on the cus tomers as usual, and whilst so doing on Tuesday last, one of them limn lowly made we of the expression, ' lities long lost to the erssent geeeration. The felled; " Itow about the briar,' or words to that eff,ct, which curious matter is selected from the pre face to th a3" - I - Trd.., g neee- ete . 0 eppeartd to I - avo such an e ffect upon the mind of the logos:—" Amongst other curious mint will be fh ep -4. '4, si gh e "h" -- young men that he immediately repaired to a shed a' which was snuck by a per:on named Farr, who it reihdidt:/ es tj s the back tart if the building, and hung himself by a Rainbow Coffee-house, Fleet-scree', which hour; tatefieter t te - titeij rope which he a'tsched to one of the milers of the out- exi s ti ng i n i ts or i gtna l s t a t e , h av i ng esca p e d thei t 4teete't house, where be continued hanging until his family, fire in 1666. F a rr xa: le eft presented by the war tat • ' missing him, made a- search, when le was fours:'. lie to be prosecuted for selling the 4 deleterious liquor s ' atteti_ - Lt_ten nvt: was immediately cut down, and medical assistance coffee. Th ere arc a l s o coins struck by a pe r so ' promptly procured, but life had been extinct for some kept the Tu r k' s H ea d, in 'Change-alley, who a s s i s ti ' V 4. IS NI time. We understand the party who made use of the making the use off coffee more known to his fellea - expression has been compelled to quit the neighbourhood citizens. There is also the coin issued by the person in consequence of the feeling of the inhabitants. then the occupant of the celebrated Boar's Head Tavern EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—BIRMING- in Eastcheep, which though long passed away with the HAM.—On Thursday night last, or early on Friday things that were, will, while Shakspere and the English morning, the premises of Mr. Oeborreolanefecturing language exist, be ever in the recollection of readers as jeweller, Lichfie:d-street, Birmingham, were broken the rendezvous of/Prince Hal and his merry associates." open, and gold, silver, and plated goods, consisting of The cabinet was on Saturday deposited in the Museum brooches, guards, pencilcases, seals, rings, studs, pins, of the library in the presence of Mr. Blades, the chair snuff boxes, &c., amounting in value to between 5001. man cf the committee, who first introduced the subject to and 6001., stolen therefrom. In consequence of previous the corporation in an admirable speech. robberies the doors and window-abutters were iron- THE LATE ROBBERY AT PENRITH STATION. It plated and deemed impregnable. The premises were will be remembered that, about three weeks ago, a locked up by the porter soon after ten o'clock. The leather bag, containing 1181 in gold and siver, was stolen thieves succeeded in entering the back part of the ware - out of the office of the goods d e p artment of this railway house by breaking a hole in the wall, and having thus station in a most mysterious manner. In th e meantime obtained ingress, by dint cf great labour and the use of every effort has been made to find out the thi e f. How crowbars, they broke open the interior doors and found ever, on Saturday evening last James Sp e ddi ng, the access to the most valuable portions of the stock. No goods delivery clerk, who had resigned his situation, fewer than six crowbars were discovered in the ware- and was about to leave it that evening, was taken into house next morning when the workmen came to their custody, when a considerable sum of money was found employment. A reward of 100 guineas has been offered upon him. Oa Sunday morning he was sent to prison, for the apprehension of the depredators. and on Monday afternoon was brought up before the - DEATH OF MR. RAMSAY OF BARNTON.—We regret magistrates. The ends of justice require that what to announce the death of this gentleman, which took transpired should act be made public. He was remanded place yesterday forenoon at Banton House near Edit- till Monday nexn—Carlisle Patriot. burgh. He died of an attack c f pleuri s y, f rom w hich he RESTORATIONS AT NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL, had suffered only a few days. Mr. Ramsay was pos- PARlS.—Crossing the river, our attention is attracted by sensed of estates in Mid-Lothian and Stirlingahire, to an the almost complete restoration e f Notre Dame. The extent popularly conferring on him (whether correctly ground in front has been lowered, and instead of descend or not we do not say) the distinction of " the richest ing into the cathedral, we now tare to ascend three or commoner in Scotland . " He was widely known on the four steps into it—in early times there were eleven steps turf fur a considerable number of years. and some of the —an improvement of no small importance after all. Tne horses reared and trained under his inspection carried towers and the beautiful front are almost entirely reno away many of the principal cups and stakes at the dif- vated, and in approaching them, we are now infinitely ferent racing meetings throughout the country. For more struck with their grandeur and beauty; the richly the last few years Mr. Ramsay has ceased to take ornamented portals . look higher and nobler since the much interest in racing matters ; and, some months levelling of the ground. To the south of the cathedral, ago, the greater portion of the Barnton stud was dis- on the spot where the Archbishop's palace formerly posed of by public auction. In 1831, shortly after stood, has been built a beautiful sacristy, according, in he attained his majority, Mr. Ramsay was elected Gothic character, with the edifice; and in front of it is Member for Stirlingshire by the unreformed constitu- a noble quay leading to the public promenade, once the ency of that county, in opposition to Admiral Fleming, Archbishop's garden, and at present covered with tem and went to Parliament pledged to oppose the Reform porary barracks for soldiers. At no time has this into- Bill. He did not offer himself to the new constituency, resting building been more complete, or presented an and did not again make his appearance . in political mat- appearance more thoroughly in accordance with its reli ters till the general election in 1841, when, owing to the gious character. It is the most curious, as it is the most retirement of Mr. W. Gibson-Craig, he came forward ancient Gothic edifice in Paris.—Builder. as a candidate for Mid-Lothian. and was returned with- Sin JOHN FRANKLIN.—On Saturday Mr. Green, out opposition, owing ti the Tory Tarty having, by the the aeronaut, forwarded nine balloons to the expedition manufacture of fictitious votes, the representation of the about to sail in search of Sir John Franklin. Lady county entirely in their own hands. He resigned, with- Franklin had previously been in communication with out assigning any reason, in 1845, when Sir John Hope, Mr. Green on the subject. On Monday an experiment the present Member, was returned as his successor. Mr. was made in the presence of her Ladyship, Mr. Holland, Ramsay was the eldest and only son of the late Mr. M.P., and others, at the house of Mr. Green, with a bal- George Ramsay, of Barnton, and of the Hon. Jean, loon containing thirty-two packets, consisting of 3,000 sister of the late Lord Belhaven. He was born in the slips of silk and paper, which were to be detached at the year 1809, and was consequently 41 years cf age at the rate of one every five minutes. The balloon was be period of his death. He was married in the year 1828 tween five or six feet in diameter, and was filled with to the Hon. Mary, daughter cf Lord Torphichen , by hydrogen gas. After the balloon had proceeded a short whom he has left one son (an infant), who will heir distance the packets began to be liberated at short int the estates of Barnton and Sauckie.—Scotsman of Sa- tervals. It took a south-western direction, and some of turday. the packets were picked 'up at Chichester. The balloon BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRlCE.—Saturday then proceeded towards the Channel. Mr. Green has being the sixty-seventh anniversary of the establishment forwarded to the commanders some apparatus for gene -of this excellent charity, the whole of the children edu- rating the gas. cated and clothed by the society (upwards of 1,500 in THE REV. Pnorgssort PUSSY.—' e learn that the number) had a holiday. The anniversary festival was, pamphlet advertised by the Rev. Dr. Pusey against the for the second year, abandoned. Last year, notwith- royal supremacy—in reinforcement of the arguments of standing the absence cf the festival, the funds suffered the Rev. Messrs. Keble, Msskell, Sewell, and others— no material depreciation, a-ad it is to be hoped that on has been suppressed. The antecedent of the reverend the present occasion the claims of the charity may be author, aided to the recently-announced fact of a go . equally responded to. verness in his family having joined the Church of Rome, OPENING OF THE BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.— and another lady who has hitherto followed his direction During the last few days Captain Simmons, the Govern- being on the point of joining the Romish schism, may meet inspector of reilsvays, has been actively engaged in have suggested this prudential step.—Church and State inspecting this gigantic structure prior to the sanction of Gazette. the Commissioners being given for its being opened to TEE CONVICT ANN MERRITT.—The authorities the public. It is expected that the opening will take had the pa nfal duty, on Saturday, of communicating to place en an early day in April, and that his Royal High- this unhappy woman that her execution will take place ness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, on Monday, the Ist of April next (Easter Monday). It will be pi esent at the ceremony. will be recollected that the convict was found guilty of We, too often, make our happiness depend upon poisoning her husband, James Merritt, a turncock, in things that we desire, whilst others would fed it in a the employ e f the East London Waterworks. Almost single one of those we possess.—Eliza Cook's Journal. . from the moment of her return to the oell, after her Lord Langdale is appointed one of the Deputy condemnation, abe has been absorbed in grief. When Speakers of the House of Lords, to preside in the ab- visited by the Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordinary, or the go since of the Lord Chancellor, in addition to Lords Den- vernor, she has exhibited the most painful distress, and man and Campbell. This appointment is rendered often has reiterated her perfect innocence of the crime necessary by the continued illness of Lord Denman, and fir which she bad been condemned. On Friday Lady the necessary absence of Lord Campbell on circuit. Pixie, and other ladies forming the committee of ladies, These arrangements are not attended with any addi- who have much interested themselves on behalf of ue tional expense. fortunate creatures who had been confined in the metre- Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained politan prisons, saw the miserable woman in her cell; at dinner, on Saturday evening, at their mansion, in and her grief, while in their presence, was most execs- Carlton-gardens, his Excellency the French Ambassa- :lye. From the violent manner she wept, and other cir cumstances, some of the ladies entertain the impression dor and Madame Drouyn De L'Huys, his Excellency the Danish Minister and the Countess Reventlow, the Mar- that the is enceinte. Although she did not urge that quis and Marchioness of elaericarde, Lord and Lady state, when sentenced, it is not improbable that she may Eddisbury, Lady Georgians Grey, Lady Malet, Lord really be so, and that a jury of matrons would be directed Harry Vane, Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, Mr. W. Weller- by the Secretary of State to examine into her condition. ley, and Mr. Sullivan. Her three children, the eldest of which is about eight The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of years of age, are in the Homerton workhouse, and the Commons gave his sixth full-dress Parliamentary ban- guardians have very wisely prevented their becoming quet this session on Saturday evening, at his temporary objects of any morbid curiosity. official residence, in Eaton-square, when the following THE AYLESBURY SAVINGS BANK.—As there is not noblemen and gentlemen were among the guests of the the most remote chance of any funds, under the bank- Right Honourable Gentleman :—The Marquis of Wor_ ruptcy of Stratton, being forthcoming to liquidate the ceder, Viscount Somerton, Viscount Newry and Horne, claims of the depositors in the savings-bank to the ex- Viscount Galway, Lord Ossulton, Lord Wm. Powlett, tent of between 9001. and 1,0001., arrangements have Lord Guernsey, the Hon. Arthur Cole, the Eon. E. H. been made to give full compensation to the poor people Stanley, &c. who have been pluneered by the fugitive bankrupt, and MORE DISCORD IN THE DIOCESE OF EXETER.-- to restore the money of which they have been defraud e d. The Exeter Gazette gives an account of a quarrel be- The whole affair having been laid before the Commis- Leven the perpetual curate of Plynastock, the Rev. E. sionera for the reduction of the National Debt, th e y F. Cooke, and Colonel Harris, and other parishioners, have just signified their consent to the sum of 500/. the immediate cause of which does not appear. The being taken from the surplus fund of the bank, and ap- Bishop was applied to fur a commission of inquiry into Propriated towards making good the claims of tho se he the Rev. Gentleman's conduct, which She former offered had robbed. The remainder of the deficiency of Strat to grant on the expenses being guaranteed by the ton will bo made up by Mr. James, the secretary to the parishioners, who, however, appeared to think the ex- savings-banle, in whose employ the defaulter held the penses ought to be paid by the Bishop. His Lordship situation of clerk at the time the defalcations took place. urged on both parties mutual forbearance, and au en- By these satisfactory arrangements not one farthing deavour to live in peace—advice that appears to have will be lost to the depositors whose claims have been been followed out by the curate shutting up the organ, allowed by Mr. Tidd Pratt. It is expected there will and dismissing the choir, and the parishioners meeting, be about 2e. 6d. in the pound under the fiat for the pri and agreeing to petition the House of Lords, praying vate creditors of the bankrupt. Steps will now, ; their Lordships, in consequence of this last act—" To stated, be immediately taken to cause the apprehension make such a revision of the rubric and canons, or to grant of Stratton in America, and bring him back to England. such summary power to the Bishops of the diocese to —Weekly Dispatch. check these misdoinge, which at present tend to endanger DIABOLICAL ATTEMPTAT VIOLATION AND MURDER. the safety of the national church." —SWINDON, FRlDAY.—Yesterday a man named Abra- Mnitemononeet-Housß.—This London residence of ham Hicks, a carter to Mr. Weston, who resides at her late Majesty the Queen Dowager, will shortly be Batty-hill, near this town, was brought before the ma given up to the custody of the Crown by her late Ma- gistrates, the Earl of Radnor, James Cowley, J. E. jesty's representatives. - The remainder of the effects Prover, and S. C. Saddler, Esqs., on a charge of will be removed in the course of the present week, and attempting to violate and murder a married female possession of the mansion will then be rendered to the named Elizabeth Denley. From the evidence it appeared Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. that the prosecutrix (who is at present so injured as to unable to leave her bed) was a dealer in harm, and be Friday , THE OWENS COLLEGE, IN MANCHESTER. — In 1846 frequently visited Cirencester. On the preceding the late Mr. John Owens left a splendid bequest, amount she was proceeding along the high road leading from ing to about 100,000/, for the purpose of founding a Ashton Keynes, when she met the prisoner, who was lished a report, containing a detailed account of the g e .college in Manchester . , and the trustees have now pub - driving a horse and cart. Having frequently seen dot neral character and plan of the institution, in pursuance prisoner before, and knowing that he was going her way, of the directions of the testator. It is recommended that she asked him to give her a lift in his vehicle. He imme the subjects of instruction should include classical lite - diately consented, but as the cart was proceeding through rature, mathematics. natural philosophy, logic, moral Siddington loud cries of murder were heard in the and mental philosophy, history of political philosophy, cart. A man named Smith instantly went up to the and the English language and literature; with the addi- cart and tried to stop the horse, for the purpose of don, as needed, ef chemistry, various branches of natural learning what was the matter. The prisoner thereupon . history. physiology, and (with a special view to commer• threatened if he interfered that he would murder him. cial education) bock-keeping, the geography of commer- Feeling apprehensive for his own safety, he allowed the cial products, the history and progress of arts and ma- fellow to putt ed, who, on get ing some distance fur nufactures, and the general principle of commercial ther, threw the female out, a-.d l i fe her for dead. She jurisprudence. The six more important branches of was found at seven o'clock by Mr. Broad, a baker, quite knowledge are to be confined to as many professors, inteesible ' in the turnpike-road. Her face was l iterall y while the modern languages . , book-keeping, and other smashed ; her eyer, nose, and mouth were frig htf u ll y mu commercial studies, may be entrusted to occasional tilated, her jaw bone broken, and her teeth, with d part T of teachers and lecturers. The salaries of the professors, the jaw bone, were picked b in o th c e te pu b blic k i;o ck a s and thehe it is proposed, should not at first exceed two-thirds cf wounds appear t h h a e ve latte , e r n w i es e t d covered blood, and the expected annual income of the trust fund (3,0000, handle of a p or 1,700/., exclusive cf 2001. additional to one of the there w t a b s e a that wl ; of blood in the bottom of the cart.. depositions taken at the poor creature's bed professors, as principal, and of the remuneration of occa- . From side, it seemst h a t sional teachers. The committee think it desirable that tt'e Owens College should be placed in c o nnexion with by the prisoner, he attempted by farce, and even to _murder her. , , He was fully committed to take the University of London; but at th e same time they tried d ' invi:o attention to the important subject of the establish- trial at the next asrie.s. ment in Manchester of a university, conferring its own The common mind may maintain its place miler degrees without resort to the metropolitan university.— common circumstances; the truly great alone overcome Leeds Mercury. the trials of prosperity or adversity; showing a humble ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following thankfulness in one, a generous sympathy, not bar gentlemen having und. rgone the necessary examinations dened by its own suffering, in the other; not priding for the diploma were admitted members of the college at themselves on the first, not envying in the lase—Eliza the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 15th inst.: Cook's Journal. —Messrs. Thomas Watkins Hooper, New Peckham; The Countess Grey had an assembly on Saturday Henry Anthony, ungarvon, county of Waterford; evening, at the family mansion, on Carlton House-ter- Edwin Henry olton, Kennington; Joseph Edmund race. His Grace the Du • Kooystra Nadin, Aianchester; Daniel Rensiter, Frcme, Ladyship with hispresence on the occasion, and amoeg Somerset; William Jeynes, Colford, near Frome, Somer • Lord and Lady Jobn Russell the company we observed ke of Wellington honoured her £o'; George Pain, army; Thomas Henry Pierpoint, and the Turk- Lindfield, near Cuckfield, Sussex; Thomas Roberts, and the flee. Mis b s is L E is x te c r e , ll h e i n s ey Ex tb c e elle ish Ambassador, French ncy Ambassador Pylheli, North Wales; and Thomas James Duthoit, , Hos ton-equare. American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence and Miss Lew - DECORATIONS TO THE MEDICAL WAR OFFICERS.— and Madame Drouyn de L'Huys, his Excellency the We understand that the civil Order of the Bath, but not l c , tte Marchioness cf Clanricarde and the the military, is to be extended to the distinguished obi-rbernacer,gt)he Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duch( ss Ladies De Burgh , the Marchioness of Ai:esbur y , the curs cf the medical derartments of both service,. E ar l a nd Countess Granville, the Countess of Minto and PIRATES' HEAD MONEY.--The total amount of Lady Charlotte Elliott, the Earl of rowis, the Countess head money fur pirates captured since the passing of the Dowager of Morley, the Earl and Countess of Listowell Act in 1825, for ellecureging the capture or destruction and Lady Augusta Hare, the Earl and Countess cf of piratical vessels, is shown by a recent return called Arundel and Surrey, the Earl and Countess of St. for by Mr. Hume to be 57,255/. Germans, &c. Slit R. PEEL ON FRENCH POLITICS.—The Patric The Queen has bestowed a pension of 1001. a year says:—" One cf our friends received a few days ago a on Mre. Bessy Moore, wife of the celebrated poet letter from Sir It. Peel. It contains the following pas- Thomas Moore. The pension, as the warrant sets sage:—'l have no hesitation in giving , my epiuron on forth, is gaited "in consideration o f t h e literary the present state of things in France. Franco is a dili- merits of her husband and his infirm state of health."— gencc full of honest people, s topped on the road by bri- Athenauni. gands, and which is waiting for the g endarmes.' " The Duchess of Sutherland, an d th e D u k e an d Ma. BEAUFOY'S DONATION TO THE CORPORATION Duchess of Argyle and party, honoured the Diorama with a visit on Friday last. or LONDON—Tic t b t be week A KERN SPORTS excited the greatest • corporcreatiboir by o lt f lr o . ld ße c a n u i f t ? ls y, pr w e h se o n se te p d ub la lic t munificence is so celebrated, has states that during SPORTSMAN,— Nottingham Nottingham paper the heiht of a gale a few days ago a poacher was seen with his six o'clock in the about d contains a series of nearly 1,000 or curiosity. It is the result of many years' labour piecesand ex ptnse, anevening, on the Scafttvorth side of the . gun, watching the river side, co i n s, bearing date between the years 1648 and 1675. river, opposite Scroob v . Presently he was observed by a They were issued by various traders of the city of Lan- person on the 100k- out to shoot at a wild duck as it was don, partly to supply the want of small change, the 'Go- flying past. The shot took effect, but the bird unfortunately vernment haring put forth no small copper moneys before fell into the river Idle on the opposite side. The man seeing about the year 1672, and partly, doubtless, by way cf delay was dangerous, immediately stripped, and in a very advsrtiseme4t, the name, resideece, and sign of tho house short time swam across and succeeded iu gaining possession being generally to be found upon each token. They of his p rize . He then too k to the river again, with the consist of various metals— of iron, lead, tin, brass, and duck in his mo u th, f u r copper, and a few even of leather, and, italependently ofhis clothes_ t and his he gun, and be reached the opposite bank wi , t t h o s o a t fe y . .we her, not follow, and the man got their value as curiosities a two centuries beck, will furnish, when the index now being compiled clear off with his booty. being an expert swimmer, durst Mr Baron Platt, on Thursday, ordered sentence shall have been completed, an irepoi tent record el the tspography and history cf the city of London of death to be recorded , at St afford, a g ainst J ohn Riley, for breaking open the house of Mr. Renshaw , and brutally ill at that period, as well as a key to the streets and lees-treatingthat gen tl e man, and stealing much valuabl e property.- w; ~t t ^ - _' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY U