The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.

Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Masai 31,

Will be presented WEBSTER AT HOME, AN ADELPHI FARE
OF THREE REMOVES AND A DESSERT. Characters by Messrs.
B. Webster, L. Murray, Keeley, &O. ; Miss F. Maskell and Mrs. L.
Murray, &c.
After which, A NOVEL EXPEDIENT.
With TO PARENT 3 AND GUARDIANS.
THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG.
PEPINO THE DUMB BOY, AND PUG, HIS MONKEY.

ROYAL OLYMPIC: THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
Third Night of an entirely new Drama.
THIS EVENING, Maims 31,

Will be presented SALVATORI ; or, the Bandit's Daughter.
Supported by Messrs. H. Marston, F. Robson, and W. Morgan (their
4th appearance here), G. Cooke, Kinlocb, and Clifton ; Misses
Anderton and H. Gordon.
To be followed by the Farce of CATCHING AN HEIRESS.
To cone nde with the Ballet of THE DUMB RECRIII r.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Fourth Night of the New Management.—New Dramatic and Eques-
trian Company.—New Spectacle and New Stud of Horses.

THIS EVENING, Mutat 31,
Will be produced an entirely new grand spectacle, in three acts, by
Fitzball (founded on principal recent hostile events in Kaffrarni),
entitled AMAKOSA ; or, scenes of Kafir Warfare; with new
scenery, costumes, and appointments.
To be fol!owed by SCENES of th' ARENA.
To conclude with a POPULAR FARCE.
B open daily from Steven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins Der —Morning 6 min. after 5 Evening 29 min.aft. 6
To-Mmutow—Morning 57 min. after 6 I Evening 31 min.aft. 7

and Captain PRICE, of the 67th Bengal Native
Infantry, also perished in the deplorable transac-
tion, while Lieutenant BUSB:NELL and Messrs
HINDE and WiLsoN, mates of the Winchester,
were severely wounded.

Despite, however, this powerful drawback, there
is every reason to congratulate the country on
the auspicious prospect of permanent tranquillity
in India and Kafirland, and the probability
of no such onerous demands on the Bri-
tish Treasury being henceforward required for
the vindication of the British honour and
the protection of British subjects in those remote
quarters. The intelligence, too, is peculiarly
well-timed, inasmuch as it will prevent the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER from relying on
the existence of hostilities as a ground for refusing
to part with or modify any existing source of in-
come. No valid reason can now be assigned
against venturing on fiscal experiments which
promise propitious results, and which nothing but
very urgent exigencies could justify the neglect of
for even a single Session.

If evidence were wanting to prove how well a
really sound and practical lawyer may yet be the
very man who has acquired distinction for him-
self among the most eminent and gifted cultivators
of polite literature—that evidence might be found
in the remarkable yolume * recently issued from
the press by the learned Recorder of Hull.
Happily, however, the fact referred to has not
remained until now in order to be clearly demon-
strated. Notwithstanding the ignorant prejudices
hitherto in vogue to the contrary, it has so hap-
pened that we have seen in England some of the
most celebrated authors upon general subjects rise,
in spite of their literary merits, to the highest
posts in the legal profession—showing, unmis-
takeably enough, that Fancy may be occasionally
allied to Justice, that the daughters of Mnemosyne
may sometimes be attendant on the Goddess of
the Sword and Scales, that the gentler graces of
Art may be combined (without detriment to
either) with the severe charms of the science of
Jurisprudence. Illustrations of this have fortu-
nately received a twofold commemoration. They
are inscribed upon the annals, at once, of Law and
of Literature. Howbeit, these testimonies are
not alone of the Past--they are not restricted to
History they are discoverable elsewhere—
they are discernable even nowadays among
some of the most notable of our contempo-
raries. Seldom, perhaps, has there been any
period in this country during which the circum-

stance here indicated, was, everything considered,
more capable of immediate demonstration. For
precisely at this time we may recognise in the
Lord Cflief Justice of England one of the most
luminous of our biographers, and in one of the
twelve Judges of the land one of the most classic
and poetic of living dramatists. Added to-these
honoured names—added to the name of TALFOURD
and the name of CAMPBELL---a were scarcely pos-
sible to refrain from, at least, some cursory
allusion to one other intellect, rendered illustrious
by its researches into so many of the manifold and
multiform departments of human knowledge. It
is scarcely necessary, we conceive, to do more than
simply mention its comprehensive character, its
indefatigable energy, and its indomitable perseve-
rance—for, notwithstanding all the jealousies, and
piques, and animosities engendered by political
contention, it cannot easily be forgotten that, in
BROUGHAM, an orator in an age of orators, the
translator of DEMOSTHENES, the celebrant of a
whole generation of Statesmen, a lover of science,
a promoter of art, a cultivator of letters, a student
and a debater, a legislator and an administrator,
rose, in defiance of all these " obstacles" to legal
advancement, so that he ultimately contrived to
ascend even the woolsack of the Lord High Chan-
cellor.

A novel and striking proof that legal and lite-
rary abilities are by no means incompatible has
recently, we repeat, been furnished by the Learned
Hull Recorder. Doubtless, the present is not by
any means the first occasion upon which Mr.
WARREN has indicated—in the teeth of that igno-
rant prejudice which we have already mentioned--
that he has capacity for profound research, for
vigilant and unwinking astuteness, for apposite
knowledge, and ripened experience as a Lawyer,
although, in revealing these rare qualities, he has
had to contend against the influence of his success
as a novelist, and. as such actually to labour under
the burden of a rare and brilliant reputation. The
anomaly of the thing is absolutely ridiculous. But
it is, unluckily, as true as it is ridiculous. Never-

theless, contended he has done against the diffi-
culties of his position as a Man of Letters—and
so far triumphantly. We should be fain to exult
in this, if it were only for the credit, and
the honour, and the glory of Literature. It
is pleasant to reflect, in his instance, that
there is real cause for this exultation. If
it is something for the author of " Ion" to
have won the garland of bay leaves, and yet
after that to wear the robe of ermine in his judi-
cial character—it is something too for the author
of " Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician"
to have conquered still more formidable obstruc-
tions than those which strewed the pathway
of the poet, and, by so doing, to have com-
manded the respect of his contemporaries
through the eminence of the position assumed
by him in that most difficult and honourable
profession. It is something, we say, to have
accomplished this under the pressure of those
absurd but discouraging circumstances. What-

ever their weight, they have not, in his regard,
crushed one nerve of energy, one thew of courage,
or one sinew of resolution. Hence : the writer of
Fiction is—nevertheless—one of her MAJESTY'S
Counsel. The Novelist is—notwithstanding—the
Hull Recorder. Already, as we have before in-
timated, Mr. WARREN has displayed his power as
a legal writer of singular lucidity and intelligence.
Until the appearance, however, of the remarkable
work just issued from the establishment of Mr.
BUTTERWORTHS, he had never revealed that scope
and vigour as a jurisconsult which are here ren-
dered so conspicuously apparent. His well-known
"Introduction to Law Studies"—the vade mecum.
of every law student—was, without question, as
its very title-page implied, at once " popular and
practical," conducting the novice by an agreeable
and alluring gradation through all the various de-
partments of the profession, whether civil, crimi-
nal, or ecclesiastical. It has, consequently, long
since become the acknowledged guide and accepted
text book, in such matters, both in England and
America. His definition, again, of the " Duties
of Attorneys and Solicitors," has been admitted
very generally to be a volume replete with
chastened and elevating sentiments, inculcating
truths of no little importance, and opinions born

only of serious and- tranquil meditation. It was
surprising to observe the sedate and almost severe

simplicity of productions like these coming from
the same hand which had traced in a very different
vein the powerful and enthralling incidents pur-

porting to be taken from the note book of a

deceased physician. It was surprising—though
less so because the effusions, however dissi-

milar in the manner of their execution, in
conception, at least, came somewhat more within

the same category—to witness the successive pub-
lication of these legal tomes stamped with the

paramount merit of utility, coming to us from the
same pen whose magic had conjured into existence
tho varied concourse of imaginary beings crowded
together in the story of " Ten Thousand a Year"
—that prose epic of every-day life in our own
generation. The creator of the gentle and loveable
KATE AUBREY, of the villanous and astute OILY
GA.Aimorr, of the vulgar TITMOUSE, and the narrow-
minded HUCKABACK, and the paltry SNAP, and
the Odious QUIRK, and the gifted lord of dear, old,
beautiful
Yatton—proved himself thus capable
of grappling, upon occasion, with the dry details of

Practice of Election Committees,
* "The Law and
Completionß of a Manual of Parliamentar
being the
Election Law."
of the Inner Temple, Samuel WARREN, Esq., F.R.S !
and Recorder of Hull."°B
Altogether, the volume is, Un-
doubtedly, her MAJESTY'S Counsel
to
the structure
elaborate compen-
TERWORTHS, 1853. Altov:' pp
' 370. London : BUT-
cture of the House
the most Comp
of its construction)
dium of the laws relating
the forma-
of Commons (or rather to the more
popular branch of
ever published—laws affecting not
tion, but the very existence of the merely
the Imperial Parliament.—ED. Sun.