The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-31 00:00:00

CIASSUS.

What a rebel slave ?

JOVILII.
In these rough rotten times, we do not scruple
To raise our rogues to honour. Why then blush
To account a slave, that's capable and honest ?
The genius of this Thracian, had it been
In honourable trust display'd, had quell'd
A score of barbarous nations, and may yet,
Make but the man a Roman.
The scene of the crucifixion of the 6,000 slaves
described in nervous language.

PIIASARICS.
I saw a sight last night that tumid my brain,
And set my comrade mad—the Roman highway
Is each side lined with crosses, and on each cross
Is nail'd a gladiator. Well, 'twas night,
When, with a single follower, I did creep
Thro' the trench'd army to that road, and saw
The executed multitude uplifted
Upon the horrid engines. Many lived ;
Some moan'd and writh'd in stupid agony ;
Some howl'd and prayed for death, and cursed the Gods ;
Some turn'd to lunatics, and laugh'd at horror ;
And some with fierce and hellish strength had torn
Their arms free from the beams ; and so had died,
Grasping headlong at air.
In the dying scene of Spartacus, on which the curtain
falls, there is a touch of true poetry. Tho reverting, in the
very moment of dissolution, to the passion which had ani-
mated the man's dearest and noblest actions in life, is true
to nature and beautiful to witness. The heroic soul of the
Thracian mountaineer passes away in a gentle tranquil
dream. He is achieving in death that return to his be-
loved father-land for which alone he fought 5o gallantly
in life. Slave as he was, he was no vulgar conqueror.
He was freedom's champion ;
One of those, the few in number, who had not o'erstept
The charter to chastise which she bestows
On such as wield her weapons; he had kept
The whiteness of his soul.
And thus it departed, tranquil and joyous, unheeding and
untroubled by the din of battle. The "great gainer of
battles "—glory's minion—ambition's fool—died on his bed,
shouting tete d'armee, and left the world in all the rap-
ture of the conflict, amidst a convulsion of the elements
—the: man who fought for home and freedom, only dies
in the melee with the free dream of home. So be it.
Now for the passage !
Enter Spartacus wounded.
SPARTACUS.

All is lost : but cry
Victory on : I'll reach the General.
CRASSUS.

[Flourish.

Smite him 1 'tis Spartacus.
[Spartacus is wounded by several.
APARTACUS.

Huh! victory 1 (Crassus, thou diest 1 I know thee very

well.)
Romans are straws. No prisoners,—nought but blood.
Why should there be night now ? [He falls,

Mr. Rice„ whose " Jim Crow" has given him extensive
popularity, will take his benefit on Wednesday night, at
the Surrey Theatre, where his present engagement will
close on Saturday.
At a meeting of the Dramatic Authors' Society, on
Tuesday last, Dr. Bird, the American author of The
Gladiator, was unanimously elected an honorary member.
Mr. Bulwer, it is said, is to get 300 guineas from Mr.
Osbaldiston for his new drama ; besides which, under the
late Act, brought in by himself, for the security of copyright
in dramas, as it cannot be performed in any theatre with-
out his consent, he may probably obtain for it a much
larger sum. One country manager paid for copyright last
week 1001.

Earl Howe, in addition to his recent bereavement,
which, it is understood, has overcast the circles of the Court
with gloom, has had the affliction to lose his mother, the late
Baroness Howe, who died somewhat unexpectedly. His
Lordship's only sister, the Hon. Marianne Curzon, also
died a few years since, in the prime of life.

Lord and Lady Stanley and their eldest son have
arrived at Knowsley Park, from their annual visit to his
Lordship's estates in the county of Tipperary.
The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs yesterday attended
Divine Service at St. John's Church, Westminster. They
went there in state. One of the Sheriffs (Johnson) resides
on Milbank-row, which is in that parish, and at that resi-
dence he gives his official dinners and other entertainments
consequent upon his office. The sermon was preached (by
the Rev. Mr. Croly, of Walbrook) for the benefit of the
Metropolitan Benefit Society, the foundation of which was
recently laid by the Lord Mayor, the Charity being for the
aged subscribers to the Benefit Societies of London, &c,
The collection was a considerable one. _

French literature has just sustained a great loss by
the death of M. Raynouard, Secretary to the French
Academy, who died on the 27th, at his house at Passy.
The arrangements for the continental voyage of
the Vauxhall Balloon are at length completed, and Mr.
Green and his adventurous companions are only waiting a
favourable wind.

In the Palace of the Archduke Charles, at Vienna,
there is the largest collection of engravings in the world.
It contains upwards of 150,000 prints, contained in 900
portfolios, and arranged according- to the various schools
and masters.
There has been a saving of poor-rates during the
last year, and since the establishment of the Hone Union,
of 8,747/.
After a marriage in Connecticut, the bridegroom
took the parson aside most mysteriously, and whispered to
him—" Can't you take the pay out in tatoes ?"
At the auditing of the accounts of the Wincanton
Union on Saturday, they displayed a saving in the year of
4,4791.
On Thursday, at the Brighton police-office, a mise-
rable-looking old woman, all but naked, was placed at the
bar. She had been found in an unfinished house, where
some girls had stripped her of her rags (for they could not
be called clothes), and had burnt them, and she had been
for three days without food. While the officers were lead-
ing her away, a concealed pocket dropped from her, in
which were upwards of two pounds, and she had fifty pounds
in the hands of a gentleman at Lewes. She was ordered
into the workhouse, and the officers could scarcely drag her
from the bar, so importunate was she for the return of her

money.
On Saturday, at the Kingston Petty Sessions, two
lads, named James and Henry Sibley, were charged with a
robbery at Hampton Court Palace. The prisoner Sibley
endeavoured to dispose of a silver spoon to Mr. Robinson,
of Kingston, who, from the crest having been erased, sus-
pected that it had been stolen, and he gave the prisoner and
his companion into custody ; when it was ascertained that
the property belonged to the Hon. Berkeley Paget, at the
Palace.—The prisoners were remanded.
A letter of the 18th instant, from Vienna, an-
nounces that the Duchess of Berry bad been delivered at
Gratz of a daughter.
Much curiosity was manifested on Saturday in con-
sequence of the heavy fall of snow, which it was feared
would greatly impede, if not prevent the running of the
trains on the Greenwich Railway, but not the least incon-
venience was experienced, and the carriages ran as usual.
An application was made to one of the police of-
fices at the west end of the town a short time since, under
the following extraordinary circumstances :—The wife of a
tradesman, carrying on a most extensive business at the
west end of the town, had, it appeared, while on a visit at
a watering-place; imprudently suffered the attentions of a
young man of fashionable exterior to be paid to her for some
time ; but she, at length, broke off the connection, and re-
turned to town. She had not been long returned before
she received a visit from the individual whom she had seen
at the watering-place, and, upon her requesting him to leave
the house, lie told her in plain terms that he should not
leave it until some money was given to him. The lady,
horror-struck at the occurrence, and fearing lest the affair
should come to her husband's knowledge, consented to give
him 101., and be then retired. She had, however, but a
short respite. In a few days the individual again threw
himself in her way, and insisted upon having 201. This
sum she also gave him. From this time !the demands of
the individual became so exorbitant, he, on one occasion,
demanded no less a sum than 1001., that the lady, finding it
impossible any longer to comply with them, resolved to
communicate the whole affair to her husband, and in con-
sequence arrangements were made for the apprehension of
the individual in question, and he was secured upon his next
appearance. Finding his proceedings had been made known,
be was induced to declare that he would desist from further
persecution of the lady in question, and as the parties were
unwilling to come forward as prosecutors, the matter was
thus suffered to drop.
Mr. Day, the celebrated blacking-manufacturer, who
died on Wednesday last, has by his will, bearin,, date im-
mediately after the marriage of his daughter with Mr. H.
Clagget, left to her a life interest in 4,0001. a year, payable
to her receipt alone, and 2,0001. a year to Mrs. Day. These
, sums to go in equal divisions, after their respective deaths,
to his nephews and nieces, whom be has appointed resi-
duary legatees to his estate, amounting to 450,0001. The
business in Holborn is ordered to be sold.

Captain James Dalrymple and Mrs. Dalrymple, from Mar-
shall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Rev. W. Crichton,
aid Mrs. Crichton, from ditto ; Henry Moss, Esq., Mrs. and
Miss Moss, and J. Stubbs, Esq., from ditto ; the Rev. Dr.
and Mrs. Thompson, from the Sackville Hotel, Sackville.
street, for Broadstairs ; Mr. and Mrs. Seagrave, from ditto,
for Seven Oaks; Baron and Baroness d'Ende, from ditto,
for Dresden ; Captain Hay, fom ditto, for Dublin.

The Marquis of Bute is entertaining a party with
the sports of the field, at Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire. Mr.
Otway Cave, M.P., joined the party on Tuesday.

The Earl of Charleville has invited a party to his
seat, Charleville Forest, in the King's County.

The Countess of Kilmorcy, who is at present at
her scat at Taplow, has a large party staying with her,
the Ladies Georgiana and Miss Alicia Needham, Viscount
Newry, Gen. Pigott, and the Misses Gun, her Ladyship's
sisters.

The venerable Earl of Besborough has arrived at
Bath, from a tour of visits in North Devon.

Lord Fitzroy Somerset arrived in Great Stanhope-
street, on Thursday, from a visit to their Majesties, at
Windsor.

The Earl and Countess of Beverley and the Ladies
Margaret Percy, have arrived at Toulouse, on a tour
through the south of France, whence they proceed to Paris.
_ _

The Honourable Mrs. Westenra has returned to
her mansion in Green-street, Hyde-park, from her villa in
Berkshire.

The seven daughters of the Earl of Cardigan, of
whom the late Baroness Howe was the second, have been
by common consent considered as the elite of the English
Nobility, both in beauty and accomplishments.
The Countess of Munster still continues in the
same delicate health which her Ladyship has so long suf-
fered, and which prevents her from making any great exer-
tion, and from taking much exercise.

The Countess Dowager of Farnham has been on a
visit to Mr. and Mrs. Thistlethwayte, of Southwick Park,
Hants. _ _ _ _ _

Ti venerable palace of Scone, in Perthshire, so re-
nowned in Sbakspeare's tragedy of Macbeth, has recently
been embellished in accordance with its ancient costume,
by order of the Earl Mansfield, who will entertain a suc-
cession of visitants until Christmas.

Lord Holland is the trustee appointed to receive the
pension granted for the benefit of Mrs. Fox, relict of the
late Right Hon. Charles James Fox ; it is of the annual
amount of 9381., and the grant bears date December, 1806.

The Earl of Carlisle's mansion, in Grosvenor-place,
is undergoing repairs and improvements preparatory to the
return of the family from Castle Howard.

A great part of Mr. Hope's valuable collection of
sculptures, pictures, and books, have been removed to his
interesting seat the Deep Dene, near Dorking, where a new
library, a gallery, and an amphitheatre, to arrange and dis-
play antiques, have been built from Mr. Hope's designs,
expressly for the reception of each class of subjects.
On Saturday there was performed, in the Trinity
College chapel, Cambridge, a selection of music, upon the
occasion of the opening of the organ recently enlarged and
improved. The performances were Handel's Grand Coro-
nation Anthem, " Woe the Priest," Fantasia, Extempore
and Pedal Fugue (MS.), by Thos. Atwood Walmisley,
who is the organist of the chapels of Jesus and Trinity
Colleges ; also selections from Seb. Bach, Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, &c.

The new Catholic Chapel at Osbaldeston was
opened and consecrated on Tuesday last by the titular
Bishop of the district, assisted by thirty Priests. High
Mass was performed with great pomp, and the number of
persons attending was very great.
Mrs. Keeley is one of the most pleasing actresses
we have seen for a long time. Her chaste and natural style
of acting has enraptured all those who have had the good
fortune of witnessing her performance. Her expressive
countenance and musical voice are such powerful auxiliaries
to her in expressing the true emotions of the heart that she
elicits alternately tears and smiles from the audience. We
must not omit to mention that she sings very prettily.—Arew
York Paper,'Sept. 26.

. .
The Duchess Dowager of Richmond and Lady
Sophia Lennox have been staying on a visit to the Land-
gravine of Hesse Romberg, at her residence near Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine. Her Grace and Lady Sophia will
shortly proceed to Berlin on a visit to the Duke and Duch-
ess of Cumberland.
The Duke of Devonshire intends to leave Chats-
worth for town, about Wednesday or Thursday next.
The Earl of Orkney has made great improvements
on his delightful estate at Taplow, near Maidenhead, which
commands one of the richest views in England. His Lord-
ship is a near neighbour of Sir George Warrender, at Clif-
den. His Lordship's second son, the young Hon. Henry
Warrender Fitzmaurice has, it is said, been adopted by Sir
George.

The departure of Lord Elphinstone, to assume the
Government of the Presidency of Madras, occasions a va-
cancy in the command of a troop in the Royal Horse
Guards (Blue). Lieut. the Hon. Horace Pitt, brother to
Lord Rivers, is next in rotation for the troop.
The Lieut.-Governor and Commander-in-Chief in

Nova Scotia, Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.8.,
in addition to the other emoluments of his Governorship,
has received the Colonelcy-in-Chief of the 72d Highlanders,
vacant by the demise of Sir John Hope, and worth, it is
understood, nearly 1,2001. per annum.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's will leave
Southampton this day for town. In ten days they will
go to St. Alban's House, Regency-square, Brighton, for
the winter.
The Duke of Newcastle purchased 140 lots of the
Crown lands near Newark, Nottinghamshire, formerly in
his own possession, at a cost of 62,8551. ; the whole of the
property sold for 90,285/.
The very beneficial effect which the use of sea-
bathing at Norderney has had on the health of Prince
George of Cumberland, has brought much nearer the time
for the operations which it is hoped will restore the sight
of the young Prince.
We have been assured by a private friend that Sir
Robert Peel is greatly improved in constitutional strength,
or we should rather say bodily strength, by his short Con-
tinental tour. He is now entertaining his private friends,
and enjoying the full comforts of an English horne,,,.
Liverpool Standard,