The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-18 00:00:00

ANTONIN.CS LONELINESS. •

"I neve looked at the sun-light, or woke from my
seep to look oa and to thi, k of the distant stare, but I
lunged to love some thiray,. that might listen to my joy.
But my father forbade me to be happy! He frowned
even when he gave me my flower-garden—though God
made dossers. lie destroyed my lute—though God
made music. My life has bet n a longing in loneliness
for the voices of friends! My heart has swelled and
trembled within me, because when I walked in the
garden and laokfd on the plains and woods and high
bright mountains that were round me, I knew that
I loved them alone ! Do you know now why I dare not
die? It is bet aase I must find first the happiness which
I feel God has made for me. It is because 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 those who sigh, and aever among those who
smile! It is for this that I fear to die! I must find
companions whose prayers are in singing and in happi-
nsss la fore I go to the terrible hereafter that all dread.
I dare not die! I dare not die!"'
A PEN-AND INK-PICTURE.
" Signing t 3 Ilermanric to kindle the extinguished
torch at a neighbouring watch-fire, Goisvintha carried
the still insensible girl into the tent. As the Goth si-
leetly proceeded to obey her, a vague, horrible suspi-
cion, that he shrunk from embodying, passed across his
mind. His hand shook so that ho could hardly light the
torch, and bold and vigorous as he was, his limbs
trembled beneath him as he slowly returned to the tent.
" When he had gained the interior cf his temporary
abode, the light of his torch illuminated a strange and
impressive none.
Goisvintha was seated on a rude oaken chest, sup-
porting on her knees the form of the young girl, and
pa:rig with an expression c•f the most intense and en-
thralling interest upon her pale, wasted countenance.
The tattered 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, delicate features were locked in a rigid
repose. But for her deep black Lair, which heightened
the ghastly aepect of her face, she might have baen mis-
taken, as she lay in the woman'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 Goisvietha's
tall, powerful frame, clothed in dark garments, and bent
over the fragile form and white dress cf the fugitive, was
illuminated by the wild, fitful glare of the torch,—
when the heightened colour, worn features, and eager
expression of the woman 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 fora'. It was a picture
executed by the hand of Rembrandt, and imagined by
the mind of Raphael."

ANTONINA AND lIEB.MANIC.
" Thus, false to his nation, yet true to the new Egeria
of his thoughts and actions—traitor to the requirements
of vengeance and war, yt t faithful to the interests of
tranquillity and love—did he seek, night after night,
Antonina's presence. his passion, though it denied
him to his warrior duties, wrought co deteriorating
change in his disposition. All that it a:tered in him, it
altered nobly. It varied and exalted his rude emotions;
for it wss inspired, nut alone by the beauty and youth that
he saw, but by the pure thought?, the artless elcque%ee
that he heard. And she—the forsaken daughter, the source
whence the northern werior derived those new and
higher sensations that tai never animated him until
now—regarded her protector, her first friend and com-
panio❑ as her first love, wish a devotion which, in its
mingle 1 and exalted nature may be ima;ined by the
mind, but can be but imperfectly depicted by the per.
It was a devotion created of innocence and gratitude, of
joy and sorrow, of app; chension and hope. It was ko
fresh, too unworldly, to own any upbraidings of artificial
shame, any self reproaches of artificial propriety. It
resembled in its eseace, though not in its application,
the devotion of the first daughters of the Fall to their
brother-lord:."

FIRST PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE. By
Archibald Billing, M.D., F.R.S., 6-c., 6-c. Fifth

Edition.

To Dr. Billing is due the credit of having been
the first medical philosopher 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 Thomas. 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 for his
own satisfaction, instruction, and guidance, he drew
up a code of general principles of medicine, which
principles be had logically deduced from his own cli-
nical observations. After having been for 20 years
engaged in this work, he published the result of his
labours in a small volume of 130 pages, 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' 111AGAZ1N h', Journal of the
Money Market, and Railway Digest.
This is decidedly cne of the cheapest and most
ustful 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 B ink Accounts." 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 Batilu,"
." Railway Digest," and several other
matters equally interesting and instructive.

HEIL MAJESTY'S THEATIM.--The Qaeen's box a'
Her Alijesty's Theatre was on Saturday evening orcu
pied by the Earl and Countess of Listowel, and Lady
Augusta Hare, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone,
Lady Alfred Paget, Mr. Bentinek and party. There
were also present—The Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aileshury,
the Marquis of Clauricarde, his Excellency the Russian
Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Madlle. Olga de
Lechner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the
Baroness Rebmann, M. de Berg, the Earl of Falmouth,
the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl and
Countess of Jeney and Lady Clementina Villiers, the
Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Countess of Har-
rington and Lady Jane Stanhope, the Earl of Carding-
ton; the Earl of Mahnesbury, the Marquis de Sorgueil,
the Cousta de Corbenil, Count de Barke, the Comte
D:vry, M. de Sivern, Comte Perpoecher, the Viscount
and Viscountess Ehrington, Viscount Cantilupe, the
Viscountess Torrington, the Viscountess Mahon, Vis-
count Clifden, the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, the
Baron and Bareness Lionel de Rothschild, Viscount Cran-
bourn, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Sandye, Lord Charles
Wellesley, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Lord Wm. Lennox,
Lard Cecil, Lord Gardner, Lord Francis Gordon, Lord
and Lady Southampton, Lord 11. Vrine, Lord G. Paget,
Mr. Repton, M.P., and Lady Jane Repton, Lady Charles
Somerset, Lady Louisa Primrose, the Hon. Mr. Dud
Gordon and the Hon. Misses Duff Gordon, Mr. Cubitt,
M.P., Lady Augusta Paulett, Hon. Mrs. Repton, Colonel
the Hon. G. Anson. M.P., and Mrs. Anson, Sir Thomas
B. Leonard, M.P., Major-General Sir Alexander Wood-
ford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Woodford, Lady
Flower, Sir James and Lady Ross, Sir Thomas Retford,
Bart., General Sir Edward Kerrnion, Bart., M P., and
Lady Kerrisun, General the lion. H. Cavendish, Lady
Dufferin, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Sir W.
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Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., Mr. Sandford, Mr. Nor-
rmiti Macdonald, Mr. ttoe, Miss Be‘..uclerk, Mr. C.
Barry, Baldwin, M.P., Mr. 11. Sin..le',on and Miss Sin-
gleton, Colonel Williams, Mr. Thornton, Major Buck-
ley, Mr. and Mrs. C J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Brereton
Trelawney, Mr. C. W. Broke, M.P.,
and Mrs. Parke
Reading, Mr. and Miss Spencer de Horsily, Mr. Her-
hart de Burg, Mr. Langdon, Mr. W. Delaiield, Mr. Va-
lentine Browne, Mr. Greville, Mr. Denistoun, Mr. and
ikliss Delaware, Mr. Start, M.P., Mr. Ford, Mr. Cutler.
Mr. P.ogere, Mr. F. Pei kips, Mr. Bowley, 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 Las in
his possession many of the earliest unpublished efforts
c f his uncle, as well as the originals of his more cele-
brated m pees, which show in a remarkable manner, how
thatm most fastidious of poets polished and refined his
verse."—Literary Gazette.