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THE SUN, ht U i, slB3 , 0 61 -; nt-w Fartala , w, 134 ANA-, 3/ io 41 73- yealing SUSSt:X, 2i 83 to 31. lleps, 1/ to 31 103 Mar—MWS•OO..-0411144211.10•111 USE (JY Lw, , ,Ds.____THlS DAY.) The cotninued innisoosition of 0:0 Chzne, th e . are gorry to say, pr. , ,P,utt.d his Lordship siOng in • ilcu,e of Lei i cis to•d;, - ,. to ho:ir COURT.—(THIS DAY.) bis Lordship ti.e Matter t , f the Roll., sat to-day in k n;itirt in t h e nolhi'-yard, ChAncery• lane. e h t- t l- furthe: ragumonts the part-`ward c:tse 4-f sr CourteLay cutipied his Lordship the whole • Vi - E-CIIANCERY.—(TITIS DAY.) (u4roreve VICE-CHANCELLori. f ENGLAND.) TILE DUKE OF LEEDS v EARL AmmitsT. o ce ,," furrlicr ht wing t f the atgumcnis in this case P r i 7 ll his llo uour th- whole ti,ty. / I .‘" f re the Vice•Cbancelor KNIGHT BaucE.) e cts ,:' , ur heard bankrupt 13,1itious t 1-day. hut no 'of any . in7urest came before him during the whole (BAire the Vice-Chancellor WIGnAm.) f DOBSON V. LAND. pk o k artier arguments i 3 this part heard case°nu ' the C,urt ti a whole day. „,BOIV-STRE T E.--(THIS DAY.) r'aP etshly - lressed young men nweed Gr.eg'm i t 4'ozosel vec't e charged pith assaulting mai obstruct .l,a palice-office r. S t , " Ita e - constable F 35 stated that he was on duty on ,f ( tird3 .Y night in Russell-court, D:ury-lanc, when a L ortilla complained to him that some drunken mess had ti l eu r 11 her door in, and while he was collecting the par b 41. s cf the outrage the two prisoners came up and a t eg t : r i d abusin g him. He . told them if they did not at (4 4 ,aPart on their business, he would take them into l llf; t i.Y; but instead of heeding this warning, Fowsel, b o `ug hitnse f in di fighting attitude, wished him to ef, L e a set to. He, however, had no wish for anything ti, i e Sort, and seind the prisoner by tha collar, when Vv Et , c ,, ° lal anion interfered, and a struggle ensuing, he d `urawn to the ground with great violence. A crowd n my Collected, and no sooner hal he recovered his e 0 t han the mob, at the instigation of the prisoners, 011)q-iced hustli n g him, but a gentleman who happened / Passing at the moment came to his rescue, and lis s i -ted him in conveying the prisoners to the station. th e t, t i 2 prisoners were fined 20s. each, or ten dap' im • cin nleni. The fines were paid. • 3 oung man named Roberts, attired in the dress of e . art was - charged with breaking the windows of a ' ' etsh ciaa • It;t1 Lion-court, and assaulting the pro- Irletor. ela tt tl i) . 4t riek Riley, the complainant, au elderly Irishman, dia led his case thus :—Yer Harmer. me and me son and tvi l i,; vi fe, and another young man was at tay Satard,y, hi s Z p tho boy there comes in, and sr:filer helpiu' 14 - ',” Without lave to the sugar, he throws the rist on ita9 l ‘ 4.( '• Arsah, sis I, whath are yes about? Divil a 0;1_ 8 More nor that, says he, a thakin up a cup and it at me Mal, yer Hanner. We thin pushed a 114)autside the door, when some feller says to him, ttial:;" yer smash the bowl?" " Not a bit," sis he, and It 41 ' agin, he sans hould ov the sugar bowl, and flings eli n c T the fi re , an d t hi n h e u ps fi l th and fitches me a itt t l e r in the head, yer Hanner, which heie is the 41,:' he lefth b e hi n d Lim. Well, yer Harmer, w e gits bo wi Oat agin, whin th e flier wot remineel him ov the t h ' lB 4 to him, " Did yer do it?" " I did," ati;: 4 e, and with that, yer Harmer, he falls too and th tt - t uf's every pain ov glass in the windey. threatenin t, t if he got h ou ld ov me h e 'd r ip me u p, if h e cou ld n ' t ju it pistil to shoot me. ITALL'gsked what was the cause of this strange telr u ei? Complainant—Yer Hanner, lam at a loss to k i d L "cept that it be that his father lives in the house, t t ua can't agree with him. Lt o L i. TALL—What is the value of the glass he has • i i !' l2 Complainant—Between 6i. and 7s. oche priso ner sa id the complain a nt and his son set ltD Lim first, and he was exasperated at their calling gi thief. 4 BALL ordered him to pay 6-. Bd. for the glass, Ite ' 3 Pay 20s. for the assault, or be imprisoned !bar d aYs• - a fine was not forthcoming. 4/A- `ItLBRO -STREET—(THIS DAY.) 3oCBAROE OF DOG STEALING.— William Kedslie, a It tn 3Yillan baker, was pieced at the bar charged with 40 1 - ":•?. a valuable terrier dog, the property of Mary lil so „ " Wilson, No. 12, James. street. Haymaiket. lie was charged with stealing the dog's collar, value 3s. 4 1 7 Y, 334 A, stated that on Saturday evening he was do duty in James street, Haymarket, when he saw the <,,Produced come out from a door-way in that street. ft n :Qat time the prisoner came by, and snapping his Ivers, *mike.' the dog away into Oxendon-street. (1 41 . 1 r 8 8 followed him and saw him pick the dog up and hi t s l'cto the Black Horse public-house with the deg in t " I PP. Witness went after him and took him into 0 1 1 : - : 1 1 in the tap..room, with the dog in his possession, li k ilxing the i isoner with the theft, be replied that he 'Pee no more than any other man; he saw the dog 4 4 n: &lout, and ho certainly picked it up. tpd 4 . Wilson proved that the dog was her property, vvorth about 5/. • Th tli k ,C prisoner, in defence, made ti . ,e same statement moe msde to the constable. li t . ;qr. Bishop, i f Bond-street, through whose exertions Ip t i 4 -et for the pre,ention of dog stealing was passed, t o mated to the magistrate that the prisoner could be hi'oaitted at once for stealing the collar, which rendered 0 liable t 3 transportation. tar l ,, r . BINGHAM said he should act upon thrt, and com 'bed the prisoner for trial for stealing the dog's collar. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ?" 1 1MCASTLE-ON-TYN E RACES, 1850. t helip for the Northumberland Plate; to declare on the 25 h hat:— Yu. Et. lb. ktl "ti.ekcy .........a 9 61b fby Phoenix -5 9 2 Rose of Caamore 4 6 6 Yrs st lb il: l4tel 11 .. -- II c er 4 . r ldui e 5 8 8, (i),411 0 6 8 4 ‘ , esl osscr ... 5 8 2 Ni t clo wer 5 7 11 1 411 nn 4 tr itr . 5 7 11 1 1 , esi 8 41 1 nYkirk a 7 10 8 ' l inaf 4 7 10 e iii . ai 6 7 8 q it 4iro 5 7 8 14 n 11 • tl ea 4 7 7 k r4l 4 7 7 • , 1 1: 3 A 4 7 6 1) iga n u 4 7 5 06.. 4 7 4 Castanette The Knout Robert de Brus rile Arab Jenny Lind 4 6 4 Reality ...5 6 2 Primrose. 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 paUlter 5 7 21 a4 Y . N ., ...... 4 7 2 li ti rrdereain 4 7 2' Iv wstorna 4 7 2 V„ s tew. .., 4 7 2 Qr'guard ... 47 0 : . 47 0 , it) qt l , 4 ~jt, -on 4 6 12 aq chuine 4 6 12 4 i•s tt iz 6 6 10 Ada Mary 4 6 10 pep........... 4 6 1 0 :stesa 4 6 10 4 ' l d Team V a lley 4 6 10 l'h t '„biter I): Cocktail... 4 6 8 (;k: 4 0 Brat alt ...4 6 8' 4 4 6 8 ) 4 i)-. 4t ator Pion 4 6 61 4tic h • eap for the Members,' Plate; to declare a 3 above:— ti lt: l Yrs at lb Yr) at lb 1t i ,..3' Hilda 6 8 8 Solon V u aidry at t ti , .gusrd k 3 ehnine .... ..... 4 7 9 Tim thy Iti fi Team Valley 4 7 6 First-rate 3 5 6 'ocittail o Il ea l de Brus • v v , WARWICK SPRING MEETING h b • Alt WICK. SUNDAY EVENING.--The folowing horses 'NI arrived :—Knight of Gwynne, Warwick, Mask tr, P 'e3'. Osbaldeston, Woodsprite, ose Pompon, Rat lit?, Fugitive, Andalusian, Jack of All Trades, Doci- V , Sobrit ty, Meath, lanthe, Ballinafad, Abd•el-ICager, Il i ' r Y ba Aisy, Ent-ton, Laurel Gelding,',Venturr, Vaut -4107), Cosachia. A great many others are c xpectel tc ti row. The race-course is in the best , possible cond- ria ..., or . zoth Warwick and Leamington are already full V isitors, and an excellent meeting ii anticipated. Deicoon St. Valentine 3 5 6 Sig. of Holderness 3 5 6 Sir Phillip Mark Tapley Probity . 3 5 5 Knight of Gwynne 3 5 2 Gleam 3 5 2 Mulgl ave 3 5 2 Seneca 3 5 0 First-rate 3 5 0 Equiria 3 4 10 Timothy Michael Brunton 3 4 10 Istithe Luxury 3 4 8 Augean Wallace COURT CIRCULAR. r he Queen and Prince Albert, with tha Princess tf . °37111 , the Duchess of Kent, the ladies gentlemen bthe Court, and the domestic household, attended t i: v ihe service yesterday morning ir, th 3 private a Pel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. The Royal Family took their accustomrd ex rcise ye sterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. til'he Count and Countess de Neuilly visited her 'iPsty on Saturday at Buckingham Palace. 1 10 !iii Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on n Saturday, attended by Colonel Bouverie. tf iLr Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince 1, !Vales and the Princess Royal, honoured the Royal tv ‘ iii ian Opera Howe with their presence on Saturday a' e tling. The royal suite consisted of the Viscou n tess ° eelyn, Lord Dufferin, Lord Alfred Paget, and °lo nel Bouverie. 1) The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham ala ce on Friday evening, and played the following pieces • " Cal 3 pso" Winter. " Malik Adel" "Guido et Genevra" Halevy. L a vatina, " S,hvveitz , er Familie" Weigl. Swinton. 411 acic Marsch. her Royal Highness the Duchess ( f Kent visited `E' Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday at Gloucester i 4Q USe. t His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left on Saturday on a visit to the Duke of Rutland " telvoir Castle. The Count and Countess de Neuilly, and the Duke 4 Duchess de Nemouri visited her Royal Highness et Duchess of Kent on Saturday at Clarence house, . J ames ' s. 4 , 4 . Cabinet Courcil was held on Saturday afternoon the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John ' l4 sell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of rte, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis 13arinR, Sir John Hobhouic, the Eal of Cirli-I‘, th.: Right nits. H Lab3uchere, i.t e Marquis o! C and the Right lion. Fox It aule. Tce Council sat three now's. Mr. Duncult, ALP., and M. Flair, M.P., had an interview %vial Sri George Grey on Saturday at the Home-office. Mr. J ihn Wood, Ci - iairtnan of the Board of Inland Revenu,-, had an ir:kfrvi,w with roe Chancellor of the Exch.:quer on Friday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches for the Governors of the West India Colonies, and also for the Governor of Gibraltar, were sent if on .Saturthy evening from the C9lonial-office. 2lr. Cowan, M.P. Imd an interview on Saturday. will Sir George Grey. . Rev. Dr. Buchan and the Rev. Dr. C.nuilish had also tin interview on Satur day with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Horne-office. 'The Duke of Wellington attended the early se; - vice % f'sterday i% the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Welksley officiated and preached the sermon. The of Litindaff reached the sermon at the daily service. Tne prayers were read by the Bev. G. Ryp . or, and the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, The Duke of Manchester, the i,.arquis of Salisbury; Lords St. Germans, Powis, and Gough, were among he nobility present. LITE“ATURE. ANTONINA; or the Fall of Rome. 3 Vcds, We have already briefly commented upon the prin cipal features of Mr. Collie's historical roinaixe, and the following extracts font its pages will corroborate our expressed opinion as to the Enusaal power evinced by Mr. C rilins in painting startling scenes, or portraying heroic characters. Many incidents in "Autoninti" are se 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 cxeggerations. But so vigorous is the delineation, and so perfect the colouring of these scenes of terror in the pages of " Auto 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 luxi.- ricus Raman senator Vetranio ' • the gentle, child. like Antonina ; the Gothic soldier Hertnanic, alternately swayed by the colder influence of his nothern edu cation and the irresistible fascinations of the southron maiden; Numeriar, at first stern to cruelty towards his unhappy daughter, and then bewailing her absence with heart -broken la- mentetions—these, and many of the minor characters, are excellently well depicted • but it is in the drawing of the ruthless thisvintha 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 Cnristianity 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. Tne other individua.l whom we have particularised as affording an impressive evi dence of Mr. Collins's skill in the terrible, is Goievin tha, a Gothic matron, rendered a widow and childless by Roman swords. All the powers of her heart and mind, all the faculties of her being are concentrated in one feeling, the yearning (or revenge. Sae stands before us alternately an impassioned Nemesis, or as cold and lifeless as the statue of Niobe. " Her sor row," 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 grief that holds no com munion with tears." Rightly to appreciate the almost fiendlike Goisvinths, it is necessary to contemplate her in the pages of "Antonina." Tee 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 " Antouina." In the first volume we contemplate with contemptuous.surprise the lux urious banquets and voluptuous amusements of the un worthy 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 aro, peihape, so frequently mistaken as those on which we are most apt to venture, in endeavouring to furetel the effect of out vard events on the characters of men. In no form a our anticipa tions are we more fe. quertly burned than in such at tempts to ett'inete bt forehand the influence of circum stance over conduct, not only in others, but also even in ourselves. Let the event buthappen, and men, whom we view by the light our previous observation of they, act under it as the living contradictions of their own cha raetere. The friend of our daily social interc )urse, in the progress of life, and the favourite hero of our his toric studio=, in the progress of the rage, as onish, ex cc el, 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 but too often to expose the fallacy of our wisest anticipations, to con. template the nature of that conduct after it has been displayed, is an use fal subject of curiosity, and may, per haps, be made a fruitful source of instruction. Similar events which succeed each other at different periods are relieved from monotony, and derive new importance, from the ever-varying effects which they produce on the human character. Thug in the great occurrence which forms the foundation of our narrative , we may find little in the seine 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, wt alth and dominion, which brought Alaric 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 eentemplation and unbounded surprise. " We shall perceive, a 3 an astonishing instance of the inconsistencies of the human character, the spectacle of a bole leople (already fallen from the highest position of national glory to the lowest depths of national degra dation), threatened by an overwhelming invasion at their very doors ; and ytt, in spite of all that he wade-Tread baseness cf their previous characters might hula led us to expect,resisting their enemies with inflexibl e obstinacy for the honour of the Roman mine, which they had dishonourad fir ages past. We shall behold men, wh o have hitherto lattAhed at the very name of patriotism, now starving resolutely in their country's cause ; who stopped at no villany to obtain wealth, now hesitating to employ their ill-go:ten gains in the purchase of the most important of all gratifications—their own security and peace. Instances of the unimaginable effect produced by the event of the Beige of Rome on the characters cf her inhabitants, might be drawn from all classes, from the lowest to the higt eit; but to produce them here , would be to admit too long an interruption in the pr - gress of the present narrative. If we are to enter at all into detail on such a subject, it must be only in case clearly connected with the cctual requirement; of our story; and such a case may be fewid, et this juncture, in the conduct of the tenator Vetrauio, under the info ence of the worst calamities attending the bkckade of Rome by the Goths." The " Banquet of fanine"—a banquet given by Vetranio to his starving fellow-Sybarites —e banquet at which wine alone was provided for the entertain ment of the guests—the only article of food procurabe in the besieged city, boiled bran and salt horse flesh being set aside as 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 of the luxury of its de generate days. The following extracts will gave some idea of the many beautiful passages to be met with in " Antonina: THE GuTIIS BEFORE ROME. ‘• It was no false rumour that had driven the populace of the suburbs to fly to the security of the city walls. It was no ill-founded cry of terrcr that struck the tar of Ulpiuo, as he stood at Nurnerian's window. The name of Rome hal really lust it; pristine terra rs; the walls of borne, those walls which bad morally guareb.d the empire by their renown, as they had ao tuslly its capital by their strength, were de • prived at length of their ancient inviolability. Anarray of barbarians had indeed penetrated fur coequest and for vengeance to the City of the Wort;.' ! The achievemt nt which the invasions of six hundred years had hitherto attempted in vain, was now accomplished, and accom plished by the men whose forefathers had once fled like hunted beasts to their nctlve fa:tnesscs, before the le gions of tl o Cte3ars—"The Goths were at the gates of Rornel' " And now, as his warriors encamped around hie-, a; he saw the err;;) ed hos's whom his summons had gathered tcgether, and his energy ltd on, threatening at their doers the cirrupt Senate who had deceived, and the blastful popultice who had despised him, what emo tions stirred within the heart of Marie? As the words tf martial command 1(11 from his lips, and his eyes watch , d the movements of the multitudes around him, what exalted aipiristione, what daring resolves, grew and strengthuni-dia,tl:e mind 01 the man who.was the pios of that mighty relolutiou which s‘‘ept from one quarter of the w rl l the sv ay, the civilisation, the very life and spirit of centuries of ancient rule? High thoughts d fAst ire I:is mind; a daring ambition expanded within him—the ambit iou, nut of the bat burial) ; lunderer bat of the aveng( r w u hid come to punish; not of tl e warrior who combatted tor combat's sake, but of the hero Wbc) was Towed to conquer and to sway. From the far- LONDON, t vCren ) i•n 14.a3 driven from his territories by the , ft) night pollute:I by the Imassa , re of Cie m 4^‘ q'tilcia, the hour of just and territl, ref; iUnti,itt fur Cl ..eh u n rungs had batm d -63 - 0 ihrough the weary - :apse of tf a warningeenvullions of bi t r s!r•fe. , , to ,rproach at la,t under him. 1.10 , looked on the f,e.Ner:Dg walls tefore hjtr, the only invzchr since liannini by wt.o:n ti:ey had been belidd; and he fu:t as lit - I..ruloci, new :is- L i:rations (iii CO ; d cu ive Lim, thut his drams of domition wen:: brigteting it t prond th,t hi destiny wr:s I.;rion:ily linked wi , h the overthrow of Ltperisd Rome." ANTONINA'S LONELINESS. "I never looked at the sun-light, or woke from my s'ev to look on and to thiok cf the distant stare, but I longed to love sore this that might listen to my joy. But my father forbade me to be happy ! Tie frowned even when hy, pve me my flower•garden—though God reale rioi, ere. Ile destroyed my lute—though Gtd made music. My lire has been a longing in loneliness for the voices of frit ads! My heart has swelled and trembled within me, bccauEe when I walked in the gartku and locked on the plains and woods und high f-right mountans that were round roe, I knew that I loved them alone! Do you know now why I dire not flie ? It is bee arise I must find first the 1 aKiness which Ife 1 God has made for me. It is ht cause 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 thilc who sigh, and never among those who smile! It is for this that I fear to die! I must find comi,aniona whose prayers are in singing and in happi ness before I go to the terrible hereafter that all dread. I dare rot di.! I dare not die!'" A PEN-AND INK PICTURE. "Signing tr Herznanric to kindle the extinguished torch at a eeighbeuring watch-fire, Goirvintha carried the still insensible girl into the tent. As the Groli si• lently proc( pried to obey her, a vague, horrible suspi cion, that he shrunk from emb,.dyinr, passed across his mind. His hand shook so that he could hardly light the torch, and bold and vigorous as he was, i.is limbs trembled beneath him as he slowly returned to the tent. " When he had gained the interior of his tuiep,rary abode, the ligl.t of his torch illuminated a strange and impressive scene. " Goisvietha was seated on a rude oaken chest, sup porting on her knees the form of the yourg girl, and gezlng with an expression of the most intense and e:.- thralling interest upon her pale, wasted countenance. The uttered 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, delicut) features were l eked in a rigid r( pose. But for her deep black hair, which heightened the ghastly a pect of her face, she might have been mis t liter), at she lay in the evemsn'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 Goisvintha's tall, powerful frame, clothed in dark garments, and bent over the fragile form and white dress of the fugitive, was illuminated by the wild, fitful glare of the torch,— whea the heightened colour, worn features, and erger expression of the a omen 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 force. It was a picture executed by the hand of Rembrandt, and imagined by the mind of Raphael." ANTONINA AND HERMANIC. " Thus, false to his nation, yet true to the new Egeria of his thoughts and actions—traitor to the requirements of vengeance and war, yrt faithful to the interests cf tranquillity and love—did he seek, night af.er night, Antoniva's presence , . Ilis passion, though it denied him to his warrior duties, wrought no deteriorating change in his disposition. All that it altered in him, it altered nobly. It varied and exalted his rude emotions; for it was inspired, not alone by the beauty and youth that he saw, but by the pure thoughtF, the artless elcqi.ence that he heard. And she—the forsaken daughter, the source whence the northern warior derived those new and higher sensations that Lai never animated him until now—regarded her protector, ber first friead and corn• panion as her first love, with a devotion which, in its mingle.' aLd exalted nature may he irna ; ined by the mind, but can be but imperfectly depicted by the per. 15 was a devotion created of innocence and gratitude, of joy and sorrow, of apprehension and hope. It was tco fresh, too unworldly, t,) own any upbraidings of artificial shame, any self reproaches of artificial propriety. It resembled in its esseoce, though not in its application, the devotion of the first daughter& of the Fall to their brother-lords." FIRST PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE. By Archibald Billing, M.D., F.R.S., 6-c. Fifth Edition. To Dr. Billing is due the credit of having been the first medical philos )pher 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 Thoma°. 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 fur his own satisfaction, instruction, and guidance, he drew up a code 'of general principles of medicine, which principles he had logically deduced from his own cli nical otservations. After haying been for 20 years engaged in this work, he published the result of his labours in a small volume of 130 pager, 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' MAGAZIN E, Journal of the Money Market, and Railway Digest. This is decidedly one of the cheapest and most useful 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 Bank Account?." 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 Bank.," " Railway Digest," and several other matters equally interesting and instructive. ITER MAJESIr . S THEATRE.—The green's box at Her Majesty's Theist& e was on Saturday evening occu pied by the Earl and Countess of Listowel, and Lady A UgU3lti Hare, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Lady Alfred P(.get, Mr. Bentinck and party. There were sl,o present—The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the illarquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Clartricarde, his Excellency the Russian Minister, tt.e Baroness Brunnow and Mutiny. Olga de Lee liner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, NI. de Berg, the Earl of Falmouth, the B of Lonsdale, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl and Countess ( f Jer:_ey and Lady Clernentir. a Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Count' as of liar ringtoa and Lady Jane Stanhope, the Earl of Car ding ton, the Esrl of Malmesbury, the Marquis de Surguerl, the Comts. de Corbenil, Count de Barke, the Comtc D.vry. M. de Sivern, Comte Perpoucher, the Viscount and Viscountess Ebrington, Viscount Cantilupe, the Viscountess Torrington, the Viscountess Mahon, Vis count Clifden, the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, the Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, Viscount Cran bourr, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Sandys, Lord Charles. Wellesley, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Lord Wm. Lennox, Lord Cecil, Lord Gardner, Lord Francis Gordon ' Lord and Lady Southampton, Lord 11. Vane, Lord G. Paget, Mr. Repton, M.P., and Lady Jane Repton, Lady Charles Somerset, Lady Louisa Primrose, the lion. Mr. Duff Gordon and the Hon. Miser Duff Gordon, Mr. Cubitt, M.P., Lady Augusta Paulett, Hon. Mrs. Repton, Colonel the lion. G. Anson, M.P., and Mrs. Anson, Sir Thomas B. Lrnnard, M.P., Major-General Sir Alexandt r Wood ford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Woodford, Lady Flower, Sir James and Lady Ross, Sir Thomas Retford, Bart., General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., M P., and Lady Kerrison, General the Hon. 11. Cavendish, Lady Duffetin, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Sir W. Scott, Mr. Fitzroy Stanhope, Mrs. Montague Gore, Col. the lion. Cecil Forrester, Mis:iiLssowiltheearu,:errk.,lAllorl.forcd,. Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., Mr. Sandford, Mr. Nor man Macdonald, Mr. Rose, Barry', Baldwin, M.P., Mr. 11. Single:on and Miss Sin vleton, Colonel Williams. Mr. Thornton, Major Buck ley, Mr. and Mrs. C J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Brereton T re l a wr,ey, Mr. C. VV. Broke, M.P., and Mrs. Parke Reading, Mr. and Miss Spencer de Horsey, Mr. Her bert de Burg, Mr. Langdon, Mr. W. Delafield, Mr. Va lentine Browne, Mr. Greville, Mr. Denistour, Mr. and Miss D. 'aware, Mr. Sturt, M.P., Mr. Ford, Mr. Cutler. Mr. Rcgers, Mr. F. Perkins, Mr. Bewley, 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 has is his possession many of the earliest unpublished efforts ( f his uncle, as well as the originals of his more cele brated poems, which show in a remarkable manner, how that most fastidious of poets polished and reflucd his Terse."—Literary Gazette. MON DAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1850 TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Medea was rep:WA here on Saturday even ing, and Parodi produced.even a more striking effect by her majestic delineation cf the character of the illedea, and by her faultless execution of Meyer's music, than she did on her first apirarance. She is, par excellence, the qufen of lyric tragedy.. The new ballet of the lißtamorpAosrs, with. its splendid sceneryonagficent costliine.c, and perfect dancing excited a perfect furore.- In addition to the delightful espiegle versatile Carlotta Grisi es the sprite, we had ou Saturday Marie Liglioni, who made her first ap pearance for the season, and who returns to us having made great and decided progress in her act 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 Signor Lorenzo, the new bary tone, In.:lies h!s first appearance tomorrow in the character of Nino, and that Mr. Sims Itceves makes his &but on Thurzday as Ernani. Toe house was crowded in everYlVit,t. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. I The Royal Italian Opera opened for the season on Saturday evening, on which occasion her M jesty, Pi ince Albert, and their Royal ll;glsnesscs the Prince cf Wales and the Princess Royal honoured the theatre with their presence. The 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 opera admirably adapted to . the peculiar resources of this theatre, as it brings into full play the orchestra and the magnificent churns. Costa, on taking his: seat in the orchestra, was loudly applauded, and the overture, which was splindidly performed, was enthusiastically encored. The following 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. Mtssol, Samiele (Zamiel), M. Deering; 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 drisiking 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 the doomed Caspar been more powerfully delineated,. never has• the music of Weber be more effectively sung. Signor Enrico Maralti is a new candidate for public favour, his voice is a tenor of much ssveetnesa and consider. able compass, and he sung the music of the part with great care. his solo Piu B. eta ;Au i prati" ("Through the forest, through the meadows"), was beautifully given, and was much applauded. Madame Castellan would have made an almost perfect Agnes had she bsen content to sing Weber's music as Weber composed it, but she introduced sundry ornaments of her own imagining into. the grand - scene, which, however 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 should 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. Madlle. Cotti, who was recently at the French Theatre, was the first Bridesmaid, and she sang the solo verses of the Bridesmaid's chorus with exquisite taste and effect. The choruses were all perfectly rendered, and full justice was done both by chorus and orchestra to this the chef d'oeuvre of the most , dramatic of mo dern composers. The lluntsman s chorus was, as a matter of course, encored. The scenery by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin was magnificent; the Wolf's glen has lost none of its traditional horrors in their hands. Her Majesty remained until the conclusion of the opera, immediately after which the National Anthem was sung. Tne theatre was crowded. GREAT FIRE AT WESTMINSTER. Oa Saturday nigho', at a few minutes before eight o'cleck, a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Messrs. J. and C. Rigby, 23, Holy well-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 limes 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, oath those of the brew house belonging to Messrs. Thorne, the parish, and West of E 'gland 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 widc', used as joiners' workshops on first fluor, and store-houses on ground fhor, 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, Esrl-street, Mr. John Mann, blacksmith—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—Premi ses and contents damaged; insurance unknown. No. 37, Wilton-street, occupied by sundry persons—The contents broken by hasty removal, and building much damaged. No. 38 in the same street, belonging to Mr. jVrlliam 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. THE EXPECTED GREAT COMET. TO TILE EDITOR OF TRETIMES. 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 averaging 292 years, or there abouts. It is highly improb a bl e th a t two successive revolutions of a comet w i t h so long a per i o d s h ou ld be accomplished in exactly the same t i me ; an d though the addition of 291 years—the interval be tween July, 1264, a n d April, 1.556—t0 the latter epoch would bring us t o F ebruary, 18 48, as th e ti me of the comet's retur n , we are to l era bly sur e th e 1 ar: cts of planetary perturbations must either expe dite or retard it, perhap s severa l y e ars; so that the cornet may not y et h ave arrived i n these p ar t s o f space. Several astronomer s provided with ii6Werful telescopes, h ave , to my I: no wledge, kept a close lot k-out up on i ts track for the l ast two years or more, and it i s not likely it can h ave passe d it s perihelion, an d escaped detect i on a lt oget h er . Thi s , in fact, c ou ld on l y happen when it arrives at its least distance fr om t h e sun, between D ecem b er an d Feb ruary, for, 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 knowledge ; 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 been 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. T. Barber, of Etwull, near Uttoxe ter, relative to the disturbances due chiefly to Jupiter's attraction during the last revolution. At the expense ef an amount of time and labour which those only who are conversant with these intricate matters can properly appreciate, Mr. Barber finds that between the years 1556 and 1592 the united at traction of Jupiter and Saturn would diminish 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 must take place. How much longer Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune may detain it beyond this time we do not at present know, but the perturbations produced by the former planet up to 1806 are now in course of calculation by Mr. Barber, and, on their comple tion, we shall probably be further enlightened .in re spect to the delay which has occurred in the comet's return. -In these computations the elements which I deduced from the observations of Fabricius in 1556 have been employed. Now, if the major axis of the orbit in that year—on which the period depends— 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 case, and since, in our present ignorance of the exact length of the major axis in 1556, we may as fairly suppose it to have bsen longer as shorter than that deduced as above, it appears very possible that the cornet roav yet be several months, if not one or two years, be f.,re it makes its appearance, particularly if the effects of . Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, in the aphelion vrtion of the orbit, tend to retard it, as I believe they must Those of our readers, there fore, who are provided with suitable telescopes, would render great service by in:met:lately 'commencing a systematic search for 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 i ;entity 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 presaeil 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 :c-ohserved any one of these bodies certainly kno xn to be revolving In a longer orbit than Halley's came', 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 correc, 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 cur countrymen Newton and Halley. It is tolerably certain, that had Halley been ac qua i n t e d w i t h t h e particulars brought to light within the last century, he would not have supposed the comet cf 1680 to re volve round the sun in 575 years. The expected comet is distant from the sun, at its aphelion, more than 8,560,000,000 miles, or upwards of 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 horizon the tail stretched past the zenith towards the .west, or covered an aro 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. Slll,—Elaving been for many years past your con stant reader - and admirer on almost all subjects, I now address you upon this moth-agitated question. The point I wish to direct your attention to is the ab surdity of Mr. Sbeies 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 ch-ek may soon be coldly and lifelessly laid, if she shall be taught to associate her wedding garment with her sister's shroud. Mr. Sheil adds, be 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 men, 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 11Ir. Shell, it is a dangerous and hazardous thing fur married women t 3 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, gild 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. Sheil 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 oe, 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 bas 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 M ajesty the Queen and his Royal highness Prince Albert honoured the per f)rmance at the Royal Italian Opera eith 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 attendance upon the Royal 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 Branca!eoni, the Earl of Durham, the Earl Grosvenor, the Earl of Longford, the Earl of Lenes borough, the Earl of Darnley, Viscount Exmouth, Vis count Glentworth, the Countess of Essex and Miss John stone, Lord and Lady Foley and the Hon. Mies Foley, Lady Wallscoutt, Lord Adolphus Vane, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Lord Arthur Hay, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., Lady Peel, and Miss Peel, Hon. Augustus Vernon, lion. G. Miles, Hon. A. Willoughby, Hon. J. Fortescue, M.l'., Hon. 0, Byng, Hon. Fitzgerald Foley, Hon. Sir Edward Butler, Bart , and Laity Butler, Sir William Bathe, Bart., and Lady De Batt.e, Sir W. 13811, Bart., Sir George Armytage, Bart., and Lady Armytage, Sir John Campbell, K.C., Loeb , Campbell, and Miss Campbell, Sir Charles Ihbitson, Bert., Sir Thomas Hare, Mr. IL Baring, M.P., Mr. Ewart, Don Manuel Legardi and Madame Legurdi, Madame Rallie, Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., eel mel Briwnlow Keox, M.P, Mr. Montague Gore, M.P., Major Mour.tjoy Martyn, Captain Tyr whit, Captain Dudley Carleton, Captain Dalrymple, Captain Clinton, Mr. Augustus Lumley, Mr. Strutt, Captain Durham, Captain Do Bathe, Mr. Dashwood, Mr. Bulteel, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts and Miss Roberts, Captain Bailey, Mr. Lloyd Clayton, Mr. Greville and Miss Greville, Mr. Eentinck, Mrs. Horsman, Miss Ri chards, eze., ARTISTS' AMICABLE SOCIETY. The second reunion of the Artists' Amicable Society took pities) on Friday evening, at the George Hotel, Aldermaubury, when about 60 geutlemea interested in the progress of art sat down to an elegant though substantial repast. Amongst the g•-ntlemen present were the brothers Mayhew, E. Landelles, E,q , T. Miller, Esq., P. Egan, Esq., G. F. Sargent, Esq., and F. Skill, &cf. After the usual loyal toasts had been disposed of, " The Union of Literature and Art" was proposed by Mr. Wagstaff in appropriate terms, and responded to by Mr. Henry Mayhew, who, in an eloquent speech, descanted upon the power of beautiful as displayed in the sister arts of painting and printing, and pointed out the beneficial in fluence 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. Sargent, and drunk with much enthusiasm. The proceedings of the evening were not a lit:le enlivened by the exertions of one or two members of the musical profession. Conscience is a sleeping giant; we may lull him into a longer or a shorter slumber; but his starts are frightful, and terrible is the hour when ho 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 management under an improved system, have been laid before the Commissioners by the authorities of the City. The report, however, will embrace the whole question in all its details. MELANCIIOLY SUICIDE.—About six months ago a case was reported under the head cf Greenwich Police 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, wero charged with carting and removing several cart-loads of bricks belonging to the railway company, and depositing them on the pre mises 01 the father; and after an examination before the magistrate, they were sentenced—the father to un dergo an imprisonment, with hard labour, for eighteen months, and the s o n to six months and hard labour. The son's imprisonment expired on Friday last, where upon he immediately returned to the inn kept by his f.ther, and resumed his avocation of waiting ou the cus tomers as usual, and whilst so doing on Tuesday last, one of t7;cra incau'ioa:!" n c u e a' c•How about the b l i c i“," cr words to C!at cff, ut, which ;pi:eared to I.av3 such an tff.e: up•.. , a tile miad of the y °erg man that l.e immediately repai,vd shed at the Lt.ek / art cf the buitilcg, az.tl fin.:seif by a rope which he z7t:.ched to ere of the rafters of the out house, whet...? L.ngirg until his Canli3y, missirg him, mad, - ., a Eearch, when I e virios fount'. lie immudiately cut down, and rue(icul wsistance promptly procured, but !Se htd h,,cn txtmet for :tome time. We urderi3tand the party who made u:c cf the expression h. - .s btec compelled to quit the neig,hlJuurhood in eenscqucxce of the feeling of the intu..bitu,ts. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JLIVILLEIIY.-13IIMING- rraer.—On Thursday night last, er early on Fiiday nsorring, the premises of Mr. °Aurae, tearal.octuring jeweller, Lichfie:d-street, Birmingham, were broken open, and gold, silver, and plated geode, consi.tc gof brooches, guard:, per:encases, seals, rings, studs, pins, snuff boxt s, &ea., anacunting in value to beta', ea 500/. and 6001., stolen the rerroan In contequeece of ptcvious refaberies tie doers and wine° • -sbuttsta were ire'', plated and deemed Lep:, garble. The pre miss v ere locked up by the pt rte: anon aft, r ten e'elseln The thieves succ,eded in entering the bock part of the ware house by breaking a hole in the wall, and having thus obtained ingress, by chat t f great labour and the use of crowbars, they oke per: the interior doors and found access to the most valuable pee Cons of the seek. No fewer than six crowbar; wore discovered in the ware house next morning when tl e wo:kmen came to their employment. A reward of 100 guineas has been offered for the apprehension c f she d, pres'aeTe DEATH OF MR. RAMSAY ('F BA TINTON.—We regrc t to :rumour C' '(..f this genii man, a lo,h Laic pl ace yetter. tee f 'wen at 13 .t at on House near Edit:- burgh. He d:e iofan a tack f p'e iriey, from hic'o he had suffsred only a ft-w days. Mr. Ramsay war pes 'sessel ef estate: in Nlici-L thian and Ste:dings:hire, to an extent popularly conferring on him (whether correctly or not we do riot soy) the distictAton of " the richest commoner in Scotland." He was widely knoen on the turf f,r a considerable number (.f years. and some of the horses reared and trained under his inspection carried away many of the principal cups and stakes at the dif ferent racing meetings throughout the country. For the last few years Mr. Ramsay has ceased to take much interest in racing maters ; and, some months ago, the greater portion of the Barnton stn.] v, as dis posed of by public auction. In 1831, shortly after he attained his majority, Mr. Ramsay was elected Member for Stirlingshire by the time f Amed constitu ency of that county, in oppoition to Admiral Fleming, and went to Parliament pledged to oppose the Reoren Bill. He did not offer himself to the new constituency, • and did not again make his appearance in political mat ters till the general eliction in 1841, when, owing to tho retirement cf Mr. W. Gibson-Craig, he came forward as a candidate for Mid-Lothian, and was returned with out opposition, owing t o the Tory party having, by the manefecture of fictitious rote; the representation of the county entirely in their own hands. He resigned, with out asigning any reason, in 1845, alien Sir John Ilepe, ihe present Member, was returned as his successor. Mr. Ramsay was the eldest and only son of the late Mr. George Ramsay, of Barnton, and of the Hon. Jean, sister of the late Lord Belhaven. Ile was born in the year 1809, and was consequently 41 years e f age at the period of his death. lie was married in the year 1828 to the Hon. Mary, daughter cf Lord Torphichen, by whom he has left one son (an infant), who will heir the estates of Barnton and Stuckie.—Scotsman of Sa• turday. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.— S :.turday being the sixty-seventh anniversary of the establishment of this excellent charity, the whole of the children edu cated and clothed by the society (upwards of 1,500 in number) had a holiday. The anniversary festival was, for the second year, abandoned. Last year, notwith standing the absence of the festival, the funds suffered no material depreciation, and it is to be hoped that on the present occasion the claims of the charity may be equally responded to. OPENING OF THE BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.— Daring the last few days Captain Simmons, the Govern ment inspector of railways, has been aqively engaged in inspecting this gigantic structure prior to the sanction of the Commissioners being given fur its being opened to the public. It is expected that the opening will take place on an early day in April, and that his Royal High ness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, will be present at the ceremony. 'We, too often, make our happiness depend upon things that we desire, whilst others would tied it in a single one of those we possess.—Eliza Cook's Journal. Lord Langdale is appointed one of the Deputy Speakers of the House of Lerds, to preside in the ab sence of the Lord Chancellor, in addition to Lords Den man and Campbell. This appointment is rendere3 necessary by the continued illness of Lord Denman, and the necessary absence of Lord Campbell on circuit. These arrangements aro not attended with any addi tional expense. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner, on Saturday evening, at their mansion, in Carlton-gardens, his Excelleacy the French Ambassa dor and Madame Drouyn De L'iluys, his Excellency the Danish Minister and the Countess Reventlow, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Lord and Lady Eddisbury, Lady Georgiana Gtey, Lady Malet, Lord Harry Vane, Hon. Spencer Ponsouby, Mr. W. Welles ley. and Mr. Sullivan. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the louse of Commons gave his sixth full-dress Par Earner t iry ban quet this session on Saturday evening, at his temporary official residence, in Eaton-square, when the following noblemen and g entlemen were among the gu. ste of the Right Honourable Geatlernae:—The Marquis ( f Wor cester, Viscount Somerton. Viscount Newry and borne, Viscount Gala ay, Lord Ossulton, Lord Wm. Powlei t, Lord Guernsey, the Hon. Arthur Cole, the Hon. E. H. Stanley, &c. MORE DISCORD IN THE DIOCESE OF ExETER.— The Exeter Gazette gives an account of a quarrel be tween the perpetual curate of Plymstock, the Rev. E. F. Cooke, and Colonel Harris, and ether parishioners, the immediate cause of which does rot appear. The Bishop was applied to f,r a commission of inquiry into the Rev. Gentleman's c)nduct, which the fermer offered to grant on the expen.es being guarar.teed by the parishioners, who, however, appeared to think the ex penses ought to be paid by the Bishop. His Lordship urged on both parties mutual forbearance, and an en deavour to live in peace—advice that appears to have been followed out by the curate shutting up the organ, and dismissing the choir, and the parishioners meeting, and agreeing to petition the House of Lords, praying their Lordships, in cons:•queneo of this last act—'• To make such a revision of the rubric and canons, or to grant such summary power to the Bishops of the diocese to check these misdoinge, which at present tend to eneanger the safety of the national church." AlAnLnonoucu-HOUSE.—This London residence of her late Majesty the Queen Dowager, will shortly be given up to the custody of the Crown by her late Ma jesty's representatives. The remainder of the effects will be removed in the course of the present week, and possession of the mansion will then to rendered to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. THE OWENS COLLEGE, IN MANCIIESTEIL—In 1846 the late Mr. John Owens left a sp'eodid bequest, amount ing to about 100,000/., for the purpose of founding a college in Mancheiter, and the trustees have now pub lished a report, containing a detailed account of the ge neral character and plan of the institution, in pursuance of the directions of the testator. It is recommended that the subjects of instruction should include classical lite rature, mathematics, natural philosophy, logic, moral and mental philosophy, history of political philosophy, and the English language and literature; with the addi tion, as needed, of chemistry, various branches of r atural history, physiology, and (with a special view to commer cial education) book-keeping, the geography of commer cial products, the history and progress ( f arts and ma nufactures, and the general principle of commercial jurisprudence. The six more important branches of knowledge are to be confined to as many professors, while the modern languages, book-kee ping, and other commercial studies, may be entrusted to occasional teachers and lecturers. The salaries of the professors, it is proposed, should not at first exceed two,-thirds of the expected annual income of the trust fund (3,0000, or 1,7002, exclusive a 200/. additional to one of the professors, as principal, and of the remuneration of occa sional teachers. The committee think it desirable that the Owens College should be pieced in connexion with the University of London; but at the same time they invi'e attention to the important subject of the establish ment in Manchester of a university, conferring its own degrees without resort to the metropolitan university. L cesis Mercury. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 15th ale.: —Messrs. Thomas Watkins Hooper, New Peckham; Henry Anthony, Dungsrvon, county of Waterford; Edwin Henry Bolton, K.nrington; Joseph Edmund Kooystra Nadin, Manchester; Daniel Rossiter, Frome, Somerset; William Jeynes, Colford, near Frome, Sourer • set; George Pain, army; Thomas henry Pierpoint, Lindfield, near Cuckfield, Sussex; Thomas Roberts, Pylheli, North Wales; and Thomas James Duthoit, Hoe ton-square. DECORATIONS TO THE MEDICAL WAR OFFICERS.— We understand that the civil Order of the Bath, but not the military, is to be extended to the distinguished offi cers cf the medical der artments of both services. PIRATES' HEAD MoNEY.----The total amount of head money fur pirates captured since the passing of the Act in 1825, f o r enenurag i ng the capture or d es truction of piratical vessels, is shown by a recent return called for by Mr. Ilume to be 57,255/. SIR R. PEEL ON FRENCH POLITICS. — The Patrie says:—" One of our friends received a few days ago a letter from Sir IL Peel. I: contains the following pas sage:—' I have no hesitationi r n an ßiving the present state of things in France. Fr m aLe y is opinion a on dili gence full of honest people, stopped on the road by bri gands, d and which is waiting for the gendarmes.' " MR. BEA.OFor'S DONATION TO THE CORPORATION of LazipoN —The cabinet of old coins presented last week to the corporation by Mr. Beaufoy, whose public munificence is so celebrated, has txeited the greatest curiosity. It is the result of many years' labour and ex pense, and contains a series of nearly 1,000 pieces or coins, bearing date between Vie years 1648 and 1675. They were issued by various tralers of the city of Lon don, partly to supply the want of small change, the Go vernment haling put forth no small copper moneys before about the year 1672, and partly, doubtless, by way of advertisement, the name, residence, and sign of the house being generally to be found upon each token. They consist of various metals—of iron, lead, tin, brass and copper, and a few even cf leather, and, independently of their value as curiosities cf two centuries back, will furnish, when the index now being compiled shall have been completed, an impoitent record of the typography and history cf the city of London at that period, as well as a key to the streets and loca ::ties lerg lost to Cie present eo7.ere.tion. — The following cur:ous matter is selected from the p:efsce to the cats logue:—" Amongst other'euxiem; coin; will Ire found one which was struck by a person named Farr, who kept the Rainbow Coffee-house, Fleet-street - , which house is still existing in its ori'Ausal state, having ezcaped the gte.st fire in 1666. Farr vas presented by the ward inquest to be prosecuted for selling the ' deleterious liquor called coffee. There are also coins struck by a person who kept the Turk's He-ail, in 'Change-alley, who assisted in malting the use off coffee mere known to his fellow citizens. There is also the coin issued by the person then the occupant of the celebrated Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, which though long passed away with the things that were, will, while Shakspere and the English language exist, he ever in the recollection of readers as the rcrultayous of,Prinee llal and his merry associates." The cabin. t was on Saturday deposited in the Museum of the library in the presence of Mr. Blades, the chair man of the committee, w-lio first introduced the subject to the corporation in an admirable speech. THE LATE RCEBERY AT PiailllTll STATION,--It will be remembered that, about three weeks ago, a leather bag, containirg 1181 in gold and liver, was stolen out of the effica of the Looc; department of this railway rt ition in a must mysterious manner. In the meantime every effort has 'been made to find ou t t h e t hi cf. how ever, on Saturday evening last James Spedding, the goods delivery clerk, who had resigned his situetica, rind was about to leave it t'Att evening, %nisi taken int o custode, when a considerable sum of money was found upon him. On Sunday morning he w as sen t to pr i soe, and on Monday atter:loon eas brought up before the m agistratts. The ends of justice require thst what transpired should at t he made public. He was remanded ti!lMonday I:ext.—Car/Ide Patriot. RESTORATIONS AT NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL, PARlS.—Crossing the river, our attei.tion is attracted by the almost complete restoration if Notre Dame. The groucd in front has 13en lo Tvered, and insteai of descend ing int ) the cathedral, we now have to ascend three or four s:eps into it—in early times there were eleven steps —an improvement of no small importance after all. The towers and the beautiful front are almost entirely reno vated, and in approaching them, we are now infinit ly more struck with their grandeur and beauty; the richly ornamented portals look higher and nobler since the levelling of the ground. To the south of the cathedral, on the spot where the Archbishop's Palace formerly stood, has btea built a beautiful sacristy, according, in Gothic character, with the edifice; and in front of it is a noble quay leading to the public promenade, once the Archbishop's garden, and at present covered with tem porary barracks for soldiers. At no time has this inte resting building been more complete, or presented an appearance more thoroughly in accordance with its reli gious character. It is the moat curious, as it is the most ancient Gothic edifice in Paris.—Builder. Six Jourc FRANKLIN.— Oa Saturday Mr. Green, the aeronaut, forwarded nine balloons to the expedition about to sail in search of Sir John Franklin. Lady Franklin had previously been in communication with Mr. Green on the sulj ct. On Monday an experiment was made in the presence of her Ladyship, Mr. Holland, M.P., and others, at the house of Mr. Green, with a bal loon containing thirty-two packets, consisting of 3,0u0 slips of silk and paper, which were to be detached at the rate of one every five minutes. The balloon was be tween five or six feet in diameter, and was filled witla hydrogen gas. After the balloon had proceeded a short distance the packets began to be liberated at short in tervals. It took a south-western direction, and some of the packets were picked up at Chichester. The balloon then proceeded towards the Channel. Mr. Green has forwarded to the commanders some apparatus for gene rating tl e gas. THE Ray. PROFESSOR PUSET.—We learn that the pamphlet advertised by the Rev. Dr. l'usey against the royal supremacy—n reinforcement of the arguments of the Rev. Messrs. Kob!e, Mlskell, Fe ell, and others— has been suppressed. The antecedent of the reverend author, aided to the recently-announced fact of a go. verness in his family having joined the Church of Rome, end another lady who has hitherto followed his direction being on the point of joining the Romish schism. may have suggested this prudential step.--Church and State Gazette. THE CONVICT ANN MERRITT.—The authorities had the pa efal duty, on Saturday , r f communicating to thi. unhappy woman that her execution will take place on Monday, the Ist of April next (Easter Monday). It will be recollected that the convict was found guilty of pub'. ring her husband, James Merritt, a turncock, in the employ e f the East London Waterworks. Almost from the moment of her return to the cell, after her condemnation, she has been absorbed in grief. When visited by the Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordinary, or the go vernor, she has exhibited the most painful distress ; and often has reiterated her perfect innocence of the crime for which she had been condemned. On Friday Lady Pire, and other ladies forming the committee of ladies, who hare much interested themselves on behalf of un furter! ate creatures who had been confined in the metre politan prisons, saw the miserable woman in her cell; and her grief, while in their presence, was most excels .ive. From the violent manner she welt, and other cir cumstances, some of the ladies entertain the impression that she is enceinte. Although she did not urge that state, when sentenced, it is not improbable that she may really be so, and that a jury of matrons would be directed by the Secretary of State to examine into her condition. Her three children, the eldest of which is about eight years of age, are in the Homerton workhouse, and the guardians have very wisely prevented their becoming objects cf any morbid curiosity. THE AYLESBURY SAVINGS BANK.—As there is not the reo:a remote chance of any funds, under the bank , uptcy cf Stratton, being forthcoming to liquidate the claims of the depositors in the savings- bank to the ex tent of between 900 L and 1,000/., arrangements have been made to give full compensation to the poor people who have been plunc:ered by the fugitive bankrupt, and to restore the money of which they have been defrauded. The whole affair having been laid befrre the Commis sioners for the reduction of the National Debt, they have just signified Li eir consent to the sum of 500 L being taken from the surplus fund of the bank, and ap propriated towards making good the claims of those he had robbed. The remainder of the deficiency of Strat ton will be made up by Mr. James, the secretary to the savings bank, in whose employ the defaulter held the situation of clerk at the time the defalcations took place. By these satisfactory arrangements not one farthing will be lost to the depositors whose claims hate been allowed by Mr. Tidd Pratt. It is expected there will be about 2s. 63. in the pound under the fiat for the pri vate creditors of the bankrupt. Steps will now, stated, be immediately taken to cause the apprehension of Strstton in America, and bring him back to England. I Vechly Dispatch. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT AT VIOLATION AND MURDER. —SWINDON, FRlDAY.—Yesterday a man named Abra ham Hicks, a carter to Mr. Weston, who resides at Batty-hill, near this town, was brought before the ma gistrates, the Earl of Radnor, James Cowley, J. E. Prower, and S. C. Saddler, Esqs., on a charge of attempting to violate and murder a married female named Elizabeth Denley. From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutrix (*lac) is at present so injured as to be unable to leave her bed) was a dea'er in berm, and frequently visited Cirencester. On the preceding Friday she was proceeding along the high road leading from Ashton Keynes, when she met the prisoner, who was driving a horse and cart. Having frequently seen tl e prisoner before, and knowing that he was going her way, she asked him to give her a lift in his vehicle. He imme diately consented, but as the cart w as proceeding through Siddington loud cries of murder were heard in the cart. A man named Smith instantly went up to the cart and tried to stop the horse, for the purpose of learning what was the matter. The prisoner thereupon threatened if he interfered that he would murder him. Feeling apprehensive for his own safety, he allowed the fellow to proceed, who, on get tug some distance fur ther, threw the female out, aed left her for dead. She was found at ;even o'clock by Mr. Broad, a baker, quite insensible, in the turnpike-road. Her face was literally smashed; her eyes, nose, and mouth were frightfully mu tilated, her jaw bone bra ken. and her teeth, with part of the jaw bone, were picked in the public road. The wounds appear to have been inflicted by kicks and the handle of a whip; the latter was covered with blood, and there was a d.at of blood in the bottom of the cart. From the depositions taken at the poor creature's bed side , it seems that because she refused improper overtures made by the prisoner, he attempted by force, and even tried to murch r her. He was fully committed to take trial at the next assiz ss. The common mind may maintain its place under common circumstances; the truly gr ea t a l one ov ercome the trials of prosperity or adverse) ; showing a humble thankfulness in one, a generous sympathy, not har dened by it s can suffering, in the other; themselves on t h e first, not env in in the last.—Eliza y Cook's J ourna l. not priding The Countess Grey had an assembly on Saturday evening, at the family mansion, on Carlton House-ter race. his Grace the Duke of Wellington honoured her Ladyship with his presence on the occasion, and among the company we observed Lord and Lady John Russell and the Hon. Miss Lister, his Excellency and the Turk ish Ambassador, his Excellency the French Ambassador and Madame Drouyn de L'Huys, his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence and Miss Law rence, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Argyle, the Marchioness of Clanricarde and the Ladies De Burgh, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Countess of Minto and Lady Charlotte Elliott, the Earl of Powis, the Countess Dowager of Morley, the Earl and Countess of Listowell and Lady Augusta Hare, the Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey, the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, &c. The Queen has bestowed a p ens i on o f 1001. a erfiartin sta t e of on Mrs. Bessy Moore, a ife of th e celebrated pear Thomas Moore. The pe ns i on, in cons id era tion id infirm as the war ran t s ets forth,merits of is h g e r r a h n u te s d ban " and co Athencrunt. otfhheeallitethr;Ly The Duchess of Sutherland, and the Duke and Duchess cf Argyle and party, honoured the Diorama with a visit on Friday last. A KEEN SPOITSM&N.—A Nottinglim paper states that during the height of a gale a few days ago a poacher was seen w ith hi s gun wa tching the river side, about six o'clock in the even i ng, on' the Scaftworth side of the river, opposite Scroobv. Presently he was observed by a person ou the l oo k- ou t to shoot a t a wild duck as IL'was flying past. The shot took effect, but the bird unforWnVely fell into the river Idle on the opposite side. The man seeing delay was dangerous, immediately stripped, and . in a very his gun, a n d b e r short time swam a cro ss and succeeded in gaining possession of his prize. He then took to the river again, with the duel: in the e s ompopuotshit,efobranhkiswitlhothseasfetay. The watcher, not nd being an expert swimmer, durst not follow, and the man got clear off with his booty. Mr. Baron Platt, on Thursday, ordered sentence of death to be recorded, at Stafford, against John Riley, for breaking open the house of Mr. Renshaw, and brutally ill treating that gentleman, and stealing much yelueblo proPurtY•