The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-01 00:00:00

JULIUS CESAR.

The following is the brilliantly graphic description
of the personal aspect of Caesar as delineated (liv.
ii. cap. 1) by the Emperor Napoleon 111 :
" To these natural gifts, developed by a brilliant
education, were joined physical advantages. His
lofty stature, and his finely-moulded and well-pro-
portioned limbs, imparted to his person a grace
which distinguished him from all others. His eyes
were dark, his glance penetrating, his complexion
colourless, and his nose straight and somewhat thick.
His mouth was small and regular, and the lips, rather
full, gave to the lower part of his face an expres-
sion of kindliness, while his breadth of forehead
indicated the development of the intellectual facul-
ties. His face was full, at least in his youth ; but
in the busts which were made towards the close
of his life, his features are thinner, and bear the
traces of fatigue. His voice was sonorous and
vibrating ; his gesture noble, and an air of dignity
pervaded his whole person. His constitution, which
at first was delicate, grew robust by sober living,
and by his habit of exposing himself to the inclem-
ency of the seasons. Accustomed from his youth to
manly exercise he was a bold horseman ; and he
supported with ease privations and fatigues. Habi-
tually abstemious, his health was not weakened by
excess of labour nor by excess of pleasure. Never-
theless, on two occasions, once at Cordova and then
at Thapsus, he had a nervous attack, which was
erroneously thought to be epilepsy. He paid par-
ticular attention to his person, shaved with care,
or had the hairs plucked out ; he brought
forward artistically his hair to the front of his head,
and this in his more advanced age served to con-
ceal his baldness. He was reproached with the
affectation of scratching his head with only one
finger for fear of deranging his hair. His dress
was arranged with exquisite taste. His gown was
generally bordered with the laticlam ornamented
with fringes to his hands, and was bound round
the loins by a sash loosely knotted—a fashion which
distinguished the elegant and effeminate youth of
the period. But • Sylla was not deceived by this
show of frivolity, and he was wont to recommend
that people should have an eye on that young man
with the flowing sash. lie had a taste for pictures,
statues, and gems ; and he always wore on his
finger, in memory of his origin, a ring on which
was engraved the figure of an armed Venus. To
sum up, there were found in Caesar, physically and
morally, two natures which are rarely combined in
the same person. He joined aristocratic fastidious-
ness of person to the vigorous temperament of the
soldier ; the graces of mind to the profundity of
thought ; the love luxury and of the arts to a passion
for military life in all its simplicity and rudeness. In
a word, he joined the elegance of manner which
seduces to the energy of character which commands.
Such was Caesar at the age of 18, when Scylla pos-
sessed himself of the Dictatorship. He had already
attracted the attention of the 'Romans by his name,
his wit, his engaging manners, which were so plea-
sing to men, and, still more so, perhaps, to women.'

,SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

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Many of the members being at Nottingham, the rooms
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LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Dus DAY.

The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past 2 o'clock,
it being Ash Wednesday.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time :—Burton_
upon-Trent and Nottingham Railway ; Greenock Police
and Improvement ; Greenock Railway ; North of England
Union Railway ; and Port Glasgow Police and Water.

(LEFT SITTING.)

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market steady but quiet. Sales, probably 3,000
bales.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This Day.

-4.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERIES AT TILE FIRE LAST NIG-HT.—Walter Lee, de-
scribed as an engineer, living in Dorrington-street,
Leather-lane, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with steal-
ing a breast-pin last night at the fire at Saville House,
Leicester-square.

Robert Ward, a compositor, in the Metropolitan Police
Information-office, and residing at 4, Essex-place, Old St.
Pancras-road, said he was in Leicester-square last night
witnessing the fire at Saville House, when he felt a touch
at his neck, and on putting up his hand he felt that his pin
was gone, and immediately seized the prisoner's hand,
which was on his breast. The prisoner tried to get away,
but he prevented his doing so, and gave him into custody.
At the Vine-street police-station the prisoner told him
that he had made a mistake, and that he would have to
pay for it. . _

Fraser, 322 A, said that on taking the prisoner into
custody he said he knew nothing of the prosecutor's pin:
He was searched, but tho pin was not found.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner for a week.
Thomas Owens, a lad, who said he was a slater, residing
in Hamilton-yard, New Cut, Lambeth, was next charged
with stealing a silver watch of the value of £6 from the
person of Mr. Henry Barton, chemist, of No. 300, Holborn.
The prosecutor said he was standing in Leicester-square,
opposite the fire, about 10 o'clock last night, when he felt
a pull at his watch, and on putting his hand down felt the
chain attached to it, and which was also attached to his
waistcoat, stretched tightly out under the arm of the pri-
prisoner, who was standing in front of him. He asked the
prisoner what he was doing, and he tried to get away, and
at the same moment the chain fell in front of him (prose-
cutor), the watch having been detached from it. He kept
close to the prisouer, and gave him into custody.
Bolton, 594 A, said that hearing cries of " Police," he
went to where the prosecutor was standing in Leicester-
square, and took the prisoner into custody, but he did not
find the watch.

The prisoner--All I have to say is that I was pushed by
the crowd.

Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial.
It is a noticeable circumstance that notwithstanding the
immense number of persons present to witness the fire the
above were the only charges brought before the magistrate.