The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-08 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

(Before the COMAION SERGEANT and Mr. Alderman
LAWRENCE.)

ROBBERY.— CatherineLlly, 21, Amelia Fregery, 16, and
Eten Fitzgerald, 30, described as spinsters : Margaret Fre-
gery, 32, a married woman ; and HannahHannahWallace, 29,
ny indicted widow, were severa 0
Brien, for stealing a lace veil, the
property of Mary
According to the statement if the prosecutrix, it appeared
that she was a passenger on board the Duke of Cambridge
Ann-
steam-vessel, on a voyage from Cork to London, and be-
came acquainted with another female passenger, who, like
herself, had toms over from Ireland in search of a situation.
and on the vessel arriving in 't. Katherine's
This woman offered to take her to some friends living near
INliit ec
n e
the
Pel 3d of February, they
both proceeded to the
place in question. Here they met with the prisoners. A
few days afterwards the prosecutrix missed her trunk, con-
Dock,
Ohtaining a variety of articles, and among others the veil
which was found in Wallace's room in a box.
For the defence, it was contended that the ve I was not the
property of the prosecutrix, and that her whole story was
false, and trumped up ior the purpose of exciting the com-
miseration of the public.
1 Injury Acquitted all the prisoners.

BOW-STREET --r THIS DAY )
Williarn Lewitt and John Wardrope were charged, before
Mr. Henry, with stealing a large quantity of tin-plates.
saucepans, and other articles, the property of Mr. Adam
Meakin, tin-plate worker and ironmonger, in Leman-yard,
Bedfordbury,
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner Lewitt had been
same years in his service, and the other man, Wardrope, had
also been formerly in his service, but was dismissed some
time ago. On Thursday night last the witness saw his pre-
mises safely locked up before he went home. Yt sterday
morning the prisoner Lewitt came up to his house and told
him that the shop had been broken into, and a large
quantity of goods taken away. This, _upon going to
the warehouses, he found to be the fact. A stableman,
named CLarles Pellet, saw the prisoners in the
Goldsmith's Arms public-house, Bedfordbury, when
they had some new tin pots with them, which they offered
to sell. None of them had the handles in front, which Mr.
Meakin accounted for by saying that they were stolen in an
unfinished state, but he knew them to be his property and
make. -

Wardrope denied all knowledge of the manner in which
Lewitt became possessed of the property, and the latter tie-
dined to offer any defence.
Mr. IlfamY remanded the prisoners for a week.

ES.—(THIS DAY.)
Roger 1113:GliArath,3w1ho has been sewral times remanded on.
a charge of cutting and wounding John O'Brian, on the
night of the 15;h ult., Was again brought up for re-e2cami-
nation. The prosecutor, who has been seventeen days in the
London Hospital, appeared in a very deplorable condition. i

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The depositions having been completed,
the prisoner Was
committed for trial.

LITERATURE.
BERTHA, a Romance of the Dark Ages. BY
William Sernarcl McCabe, authori of "A Catho-
lic History of England." London : T. C. New*
Wellbeck-street, Cavendish.square.
Toe scene of this novel is laid in GermanY, at the
eriod of the minority of the celebrated King Henry
IV., and it is a powerfully written narrative of the
struggle for supremacy; which then took place he'
tween that Sovereign and the ambitious and clever
Pope Hildebrand, or Gregory VII , which ended, se
is well known, in the humiliating pilgrimage of
Henry so Rome, to entreat pardon of the Pontiff for
having resisted his authority. The war of the King;
with the rebellious Saxons, the excommunication 01
the POpe by the Bishop of Utrecht, the subset:lOP!
excommunication of Henry, and all the princips'
events of those stirring times are brought before the
reader by means of an interesting love story. Bertil
from whom the novel takes its name, is the patie
and virtuous wife of the vicious monarch; but
the
heroine of the tale is Beatrice, the Rose of Aschaffelr
burg, the daughter of William, Bishop of Utreelftt bl,
a sec:et marriage. This was the Bishop who espnon
the cause of Henry in cm:maiden to the Pope' are
went so far as to excommunicate Hildebrand froMlire
Cathedral Church of Frankfort-on the-Maine.
_:
imposing ceremony is thus described by Mr. Mac Ca
uL
"4. When high mass in the Great Church of Fool
fort'had been concluded, were to be seen in the p 157,
immediately adjoining the altar, and near to the throi.37:
erected for Henry, his wife, and his mother, voile b:ii
d
persons in eorgeous armour, or in costly robes, ai
sat,
radiant wi.h gold and jewellery, whilst before there ,
in their magnificent pontificals, the bishops of the e...
pire. 'The upper part of the church shone forth, i° l;
.` ,
blase of day, one mass of splendour; and upon teat 014,74
dour gaz d an awe-stricken population, who
hick cr rwd together, and who were but the repress IP:
Lives of vast multitudes who thronged in thousands oceerie
side, and who waited with impatience to bear wb.scafror
pressedir_
might parrs, and which it was an utter itnpossibibq' •
themselves to witness.
fhe high mass was concluded; bat instead of do!!
who had been in prayer during its celebration Pea,
paring to depart, a low murmur of excitement foil
through the. church when it was seen that the King Pro
all the high. dignitaries rose from their knee beardres?
their seats, and when the church bells were ring'
ing forth, .not in regular peals, but in harsh. ja°g,,,fel
and disordered sounds, as if alinouncing that sonic ",,,,t
calamity had occurred. The joyous and triurnrii7g
swell et the organ was suddenly changed into a ":.11;000
and melancholy cry, as the vestly doors Were woos.
open, and, issuing forth, were seen first, the Y
..„00
ful acolytes in red rubes, and ;ben subdese",,,,
in dirk cassocks, deacons in White surplices, priests;`:
their plain chasubles, and the chaplains, in
upon the bishop, Cully vested as priests. These sfivi r fife
marching forth two by two—file pouringDDelta,taa, wit
—and all bearing long, white, lighted tap l, .00
hands; and last of all issued forth, with a mitre of
Ws
gold upon his head, and a snow-white earl sv-,WO'
shoulders, the officiating prelate in the eeremonr
Ham, Bishop of Utrecht. ed 0.5
attendosti;
" With slow and solemn tread the Bishop follow
Glue,
procession, until he reached the centre of the hill: seeof
the steps of which he ascended. Acolytes, sub tea of
deacons, and priests, arranged themselves on tre %rook
the altar, each mounting according to his respecTaniaess
—one a step above the other, and the Bishop's chaplains
ranging themselves at the two extremities of trso aes
before which the Bishop stood. ' When all were Bodes
ranged the Bishop turned and faced the va his lat!„.001•
and as he did so a sudden paleness overspread
Of the vflOal,,
tenance. It came upon him as the wailing°. • et, wee
ceased, and as the tumultuous jangling of the be" •
silruced, by of
A one
" Close to the side of the Bishop was piece— itiA.B
his chaplains, a long lighted taper; ehitst "
sop.
drew firth from his bosom a parchment on she
heling
characters were inscribed. There wart a solemn, Lod
stillness in all parts of the church, as the Bishop sur.foos
from the altar to the uttermost verge of thes
on which it rested. Every syllable, although sP remote
harsh and broken voice, was audible in the Inos6
corners of that vast church. ch, °ft%
"4 My brethren,' said the Bishop, ' the Chili' L. Be in'
tooepus
it has determined upon the excommunication (too.
corrigible sinner, has also declared that event
eertsfa
tion should take place upon certain days, en anion clef
seasons—as upon a Thursday—upon an /Ise! churea
—and upon the feast of the Dedication of ;tie t tbei
of the twelve Apostles. It does so to signify tlairs
Pats
11 Peg
who are so excommunicated are cast off fr_ _ „c'Ea first 00 •l'
cipation in the blessed Sacrament, institute': ~ testtle
Thursday; upon the Ascension day, SS 5110 a it
i OW
Church, which then prays for all, alone renounce oat
and upon the least of the Dedication, az annwinigezeill
the Cnutch, which is opened to all the faitefe too sets
them from its doors. Necessity compels tig; upon
all
occasion, to deviate from these observances; bests,
f the ,„
have preserved others—the disorded ritiging°' hest, '-
and the extinction of the lighted candles--tb°lo resit
• showing that the bells, which, by their regairregablr
convoke Christians to prayer, will, by tbejiro 030:
chiming, scatter the unbelieving into conlitldlieligt
the light of the candles is extinguished, so end& CO",
of the Holy Spirit be darkened in thweiriteiwith,oll7
portion of these ceremonies has been cop eel,
the other you have yet to witness. i ead 11.-
" ' The excommunication of a Christian ih°
new 10
drpeiarcieoneuftur
recourse
duty,against
it: l and
the
heoene last tos a
d whichex ,re thein igy
.0 12 13: is 1.0.03 s in i
antsy
more painful to direct it priest; bubo cop
my brethren, has been reserved the most Pilo to she
iotreasgtaliany;
an in the co. tor o.:f
duties, that of excommunicating one who ran ~.a.
highest of all bishops.
•• 4 Why do I excommunicate hins? Becnuse bee-r-er
acted as a tyrant—e,,cauge he has
with the multitude, by thwarting the will of Psi:Gif do'
by interfering with them in the government ofw."b pc
sought for
ipixotTea
minions—by denying to them the privileges _ Truero_
them from rewarding with
pertain to them as sovereigns—by seeking to Pre
church those servants whom they know to be 10,70001
voted tie them, and of whose merits they 13avel;esase.0
cognisance. Why .4
..o I excommunicate Oar „lit be br ,
the highest offien dr,
am but one of the many German bishops "' bon
0%
visited with his ceneures, ana that he declarers tO, earie 10
r ciel° al
communicated because we will not compel on d bad 0 0
live as if they were angels, and not meneenritrof ti,t;oo
the passions of men. He who rejects the caer,oehr,
German bishops as unfitted to continue bisu go all;
the part of the German bishops, repudiate 600000
toilets! superior. He who threatens to ex ce • re'
our King, I now excommunicate, .0 the blot
" • Yee—f• ow this spot—from this alter,' 1000,iii,
sence of my King, of his nobles, and of tore thati."„o
multitude, I, William of Utrecht, here deelir"rope no:
debraud, he who falsely designates hirnse'lefeer pt..
gory VII., is a tyrant, a perjurer, a seeke,: eonli,",,ty
ties, a dishonoured bishop, and adulter°7n; Lino "udj
man whose life is stained with manifold 5:-.r ore , 9, a
' numbered vices, and renouncing him a! ; his' ,6„- be
' denouncing him as a bishop, and scornilt, hifn '
man, and from this moment forward doll'''. he°s'
ex,c,o,nrouniiiciiadteebd.rand
•ged
theme! anathema! anathema!'sei- •
be ~. II
t " And as the Bishop spoke these words doshiP6All
the lighted taper that stood by his side, anuTest /ties,-
the false rope, / ow say
uhepondithe earth, he trampled oat the light' the des 'f'
r
imitated on the instant by ... were eibe
andsub-deacons,
0110
tin anises a shriek from all parts
this priests ; and as these ligot;so of
of horror arose( 0 0
church."
the death of thews a criptle
ii written des sitsr'
of the atin
powerfu y
Tae novel is bigb/Y (Pi'
full of in and rtby 0 .0
sit •
powers Walter
of Scott.
tb e author
Bishop upo.n the steps arge,.,
uations, described in a manner not unvi°descriFt/0,.
the
-O-Lida s_,
we spmeacyiraeli:ft be t•11:o"f Dillies
count of the result of the disastrous hail: reballieu
gensalzs, fought between Henry and t
Saxons— sal
; Azov'Wl
"For mile after mile were the ing It
sod e,
bwyerethoevehrotarkseemn singly or t
weed t° be see
groups
put to death; and here the bodies were e;a
_,
,i ;tier : nbeedol
murdered men heaped together, and .were e ,;00tes
o •
t two or three. The cries for novel 'Ball e°l3 • Oa
,enwlelethderbY • 116n°' himbandth Lbef vill of
or they were derided, whilst the pursuers oon oc ~
14(4 nibilsttou it
untired in their sanguinary task- ed
Duda of duo!
whole Saxon army c:ruld hoe esa4P cletlustfd eos
hesei
darkness, conjoined with the - wing, tat thef
raised by the fresh breezes a '3, gritty tua-,,re io,
so bewildered the military butchers 0' tel, they were st
could no longer distinguish those of vr,."; one portirlde
pursuit. In some cases, it happened ti; et teensy 0 it;
Henry's forces supposing another theirdivstu 20e
urmy to be the flying Saxons, slew t° deet,r°tYoe.
miseilte for those whom both were OW° till bolo i the
" The great body of the Saxon", eih° woke ° 0,01
the r in their hurried flieht, reached the„„ves sel° 4t
Unstrutt. aed thith r did they find
ibeno;ir a tootvor
by some thousands of Henry's soldiers• -r
_, e for 03413e1
they deliberated whether they should aeon river. oiog
cast themselves into the waters of the IT e 011 0
gets
the wl5 be;
olono.litehdelbapciku,tigateidd
isieleaub,godtybe work of car iiitioig 0
of the Unstrutt, and as they they
:0 e,
71;e:Iris::018
of arrowseame pouring down upon B°,looe, Ouija
aft, rwards the clear stream was red with u
;di tbe Pfng to'
corpses of the dead were rolling awaY w*-- selves • at,
river. Those who escaped arranged the
if ots
gular lines as they reached the bards, re ' ;tie essi
lacked, to exact a deep-rate revenge
ie coup" toe
ores that hart been perpetrated upon the d the p
to
tor all tu:rvosoi
" The darkness of night had now covereo
__..i, te,...
and Henry feared to cross the stream to v !Toe.
the
who, to his grief. had lived to escape his vehgrree to ;a,
returned to the field of battle, and frottloatteeesol;oo;l.so
Saxon encampment, where he learned t a ~,, ru ,_,
combatant attendants on the Saxon leads!. re'cato 'fel,
who brought provisions to the earop, ano.i_nt with ou,he
lowers—had all been put to death, end Olt,. ~,. en ' 0
brutal cruelty that men shrunk from dwelllto"se bee
details of the horrible tortures to which they
~. lied
subjected. n eo)c et,
" the murderers and torturers bad hce
...A pill ,
with en euormous spoil of goblets ingold 17, eel",
and garments decorated with precious stones;
._:"cciou
.0
it. wit that choir joy was boundiess and the'r own °;0
tions incessant, as they welcomed King
of 0,
a conqueror, lie marched in, at the head of hi
ing been °
that enesnapment which had the same morn
tb°
cupied by the enemy.
e For mile upon ruil, had he travelled backbeetaloolif
encampment over the bodies-of the dead, &11l a f 11,4) d 0
had he trampled upoe' the lifeless remains el , obeli Pri 1
beware well aware that be was to be rewardeu uabt one
returned with the title of ' a He thodeof oi
himself and the glory he bad thus acquired' all