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London, England, 1850-03-18 00:00:00

THE SUN,

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Mar—MWS•OO..-0411144211.10•111
USE (JY Lw,,,Ds.____THlS DAY.)
The cotninued innisoosition of 0:0 Chzne,
the. are gorry to say, pr.,,P,utt.d his Lordship siOng in
• ilcu,e of Lei i cis to•d;,-,. to ho:ir

COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
bis Lordship ti.e Matter t,f the Roll., sat to-day in
k n;itirt in the nolhi'-yard, ChAncery• lane.
eht-tl- furthe: ragumonts the part-`ward c:tse 4-f
sr
CourteLay cutipied his Lordship the whole

•
Vi
-E-CIIANCERY.—(TITIS DAY.)
(u4roreve VICE-CHANCELLori. f ENGLAND.)
TILE DUKE OF LEEDS v EARL AmmitsT.
oce,," furrlicr ht wing t f the atgumcnis in this case
Pri7ll his llouour th- whole ti,ty.
/I.‘" f re the Vice•Cbancelor KNIGHT BaucE.)
ects,:' ,ur heard bankrupt 13,1itious t 1-day. hut no
'of any. in7urest came before him during the whole
(BAire the Vice-Chancellor WIGnAm.)
f DOBSON V. LAND.
pko k artier arguments i 3 this part heard case°nu-
' the C,urt tia whole day.

„,BOIV-STRE T E.--(THIS DAY.)
r'aP etshly - lressed young men nweed Gr.eg'm
it 4'ozosel vec't e charged pith assaulting mai obstruct-
.l,a palice-office r.
St, "Itae-constable F 35 stated that he was on duty on
,f( tird3.Y night in Russell-court, D:ury-lanc, when a
L ortilla complained to him that some drunken mess had
tileur 11 her door in, and while he was collecting the par
b 41. s cf the outrage the two prisoners came up and
ategt:ridabusing him. He. told them if they did not at
(44 ,aPart on their business, he would take them into
lllf;ti.Y; but instead of heeding this warning, Fowsel,
bo`ug hitnse f in di fighting attitude, wished him to
ef,Le a set to. He, however, had no wish for anything
ti,ie Sort, and seind the prisoner by tha collar, when
VvEt, c,,°lal anion interfered, and a struggle ensuing, he
d `urawn to the ground with great violence. A crowd
nmy Collected, and no sooner hal he recovered his
e 0 than the mob, at the instigation of the prisoners,
011)q-iced hustling him, but a gentleman who happened
/ Passing at the moment came to his rescue, and
lissi
-ted him in conveying the prisoners to the station.
the
t,ti2 prisoners were fined 20s. each, or ten dap' im •
cinnleni. The fines were paid. •
3oung man named Roberts, attired in the dress of
e .art
was-charged with breaking the windows of a
''etshciaa • It;t1 Lion-court, and assaulting the pro-
Irletor. ela
tttli).4triek Riley, the complainant, au elderly Irishman,
dialed his case thus :—Yer Harmer. me and me son and
tvili,;vife, and another young man was at tay Satard,y,
hisZptho boy there comes in, and sr:filer helpiu'
14-',” Without lave to the sugar, he throws the rist on
ita9l‘4.('• Arsah, sis I, whath are yes about? Divil a
0;1_8 More nor that, says he, a thakin up a cup and
it at me Mal, yer Hanner. We thin pushed
a 114)autside the door, when some feller says to him,
ttial:;" yer smash the bowl?" " Not a bit," sis he, and
It 41' agin, he sans hould ov the sugar bowl, and flings
elincT the fire, and thin he ups filth and fitches me a
itttler in the head, yer Hanner, which heie is the
41,:' he lefth behind Lim. Well, yer Harmer, w e gits
bowiOat agin, whin the flier wot remineel him ov the
th 'lB4 to him, " Did yer do it?" " I did,"
ati;:4e, and with that, yer Harmer, he falls too and
thtt-tuf's every pain ov glass in the windey. threatenin
t, t if he got hould ov me he'd rip me up, if he couldn't
juit pistil to shoot me.
ITALL'gsked what was the cause of this strange
telruei? Complainant—Yer Hanner, lam at a loss to
kid L"cept that it be that his father lives in the house,
ttua can't agree with him.
Lto Li. TALL—What is the value of the glass he has
• ii!'l2 Complainant—Between 6i. and 7s.
oche prisoner said the complainant and his son set
ltD
Lim first, and he was exasperated at their calling
gi thief.
4 BALL ordered him to pay 6-. Bd. for the glass,
Ite' 3 Pay 20s. for the assault, or be imprisoned !bar-
d
aYs•
-a fine was not forthcoming.
4/A-

`ItLBRO -STREET—(THIS DAY.)
3oCBAROE
OF DOG STEALING.— William Kedslie, a
Ittn3Yillan baker, was pieced at the bar charged with
401-":•?. a valuable terrier dog, the property of Mary
lilso„" Wilson, No. 12, James. street. Haymaiket. lie was
charged with stealing the dog's collar, value 3s.
417 Y, 334 A, stated that on Saturday evening he was
do duty in James street, Haymarket, when he saw the
<,,Produced come out from a door-way in that street.
ftn:Qat time the prisoner came by, and snapping his
Ivers, *mike.' the dog away into Oxendon-street.
(141.1r88 followed him and saw him pick the dog up and
hitsl'cto the Black Horse public-house with the deg in
t"IPP. Witness went after him and took him into
011:-:11 in the tap..room, with the dog in his possession,
likilxing the i isoner with the theft, be replied that he
'Pee no more than any other man; he saw the dog
44n: &lout, and ho certainly picked it up.
tpd4. Wilson proved that the dog was her property,
vvorth about 5/.
• Th
tlik,C prisoner, in defence, made ti.,e same statement
moe msde to the constable.
lit. ;qr. Bishop, i f Bond-street, through whose exertions
Ipti4-et for the pre,ention of dog stealing was passed,
to mated to the magistrate that the prisoner could be
hi'oaitted at once for stealing the collar, which rendered
0 liable t 3 transportation.
tarl,,r. BINGHAM said he should act upon thrt, and com-
'bed the prisoner for trial for stealing the dog's collar.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
?"11MCASTLE-ON-TYN E RACES, 1850.
thelip for the Northumberland Plate; to declare on
the 25 h hat:—

Yu. Et. lb.
ktl"ti.ekcy .........a 9 61b fby Phoenix-
-5 9 2 Rose of Caamore 4 6 6

Yrs st lb

il:l4tel 11 ..
--
II c er
4. rlduie 5 8 8,
(i),411 06 8 4
‘ ,esl osscr ...5 8 2
Nitclower 5 7 11
1411 nn
4 tritr .5 7 11
11, esi
8411nYkirk a 7 10
8 'linaf 4 7 10
eiii. ai
6 7 8
qit4iro 5 7 8
14 n
11 •tlea 4 7 7
kr4l 4 7 7
• ,
11:3 A 4 7 6
1) iga n u 4 7 5
06.. 4 7 4

Castanette
The Knout
Robert de Brus
rile Arab
Jenny Lind 4 6 4
Reality ...5 6 2
Primrose.
Roland 4 6 2
Lady -I-am-cff 5 6 0
Impertinence, b h 5 6 0
Clincher
Lord Saltoun a 5 10
Burghley 4 5 8
Gulliver

paUlter 5 7 21
a4Y .
N., ...... 4 7 2
litirrdereain 4 7 2'
Iv wstorna 4 7 2
V„stew. .., 4 7 2
Qr'guard ... 47 0
: . 47 0
, it)
qtl,4 ~jt,
-on 4 6 12
aq chuine 4 6 12
4i•sttiz 6 6 10
Ada Mary 4 6 10
pep........... 4 6 10
:stesa 4 6 10
4 'ld Team Valley 4 6 10
l'ht'„biter
I): Cocktail... 4 6 8
(;k: 40 Brat alt ...4 6 8'
4 4 6 8)
4i)-. 4tatorPion 4 6 61
4tich •
eap
for the Members,' Plate; to declare a 3 above:—
tilt:l Yrs at lb Yr) at lb
1ti,..3' Hilda 6 8 8 Solon
Vuaidry
at
tti,
.gusrd
k 3 ehnine .... ..... 4 7 9 Tim thy
Itifi Team Valley 4 7 6 First-rate 3 5 6
'ocittail
o
Ileal de Brus
• vv, WARWICK SPRING MEETING
hb• Alt WICK. SUNDAY EVENING.--The folowing horses
'NI arrived :—Knight of Gwynne, Warwick, Mask
tr,P'e3'. Osbaldeston, Woodsprite, ose Pompon, Rat-
lit?, Fugitive, Andalusian, Jack of All Trades, Doci-
V, Sobrit ty, Meath, lanthe, Ballinafad, Abd•el-ICager,
Ili'rY ba Aisy, Ent-ton, Laurel Gelding,',Venturr, Vaut-
-4107), Cosachia. A great many others are c xpectel tc-
ti row. The race-course is in the best, possible cond-
ria ...,
or . zoth Warwick and Leamington are already full
Visitors, and an excellent meeting ii anticipated.

Deicoon
St. Valentine 3 5 6
Sig. of Holderness 3 5 6
Sir Phillip
Mark Tapley
Probity . 3 5 5
Knight of Gwynne 3 5 2
Gleam 3 5 2
Mulgl ave 3 5 2
Seneca 3 5 0
First-rate 3 5 0
Equiria 3 4 10
Timothy
Michael Brunton 3 4 10
Istithe
Luxury 3 4 8
Augean
Wallace

COURT CIRCULAR.
rhe Queen and Prince Albert, with tha Princess
tf.°37111, the Duchess of Kent, the ladies gentlemen
bthe Court, and the domestic household, attended
ti:vihe service yesterday morning ir, th 3 private
aPel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev.
Gerald Wellesley officiated.
The Royal Family took their accustomrd ex rcise
yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
til'he Count and Countess de Neuilly visited her
'iPsty on Saturday at Buckingham Palace.
110!iii Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
n Saturday, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
tfiLr Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince
1, !Vales and the Princess Royal, honoured the Royal
tv‘iiiian Opera Howe with their presence on Saturday
a'etling. The royal suite consisted of the Viscountess
°eelyn, Lord Dufferin, Lord Alfred Paget, and
°lonel Bouverie.
1) The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham
alace on Friday evening, and played the following
pieces •
" Cal 3 pso" Winter.
" Malik Adel"
"Guido et Genevra" Halevy.
Lavatina, " S,hvveitz,er Familie" Weigl.
Swinton.
411acic Marsch.
her Royal Highness the Duchess ( f Kent visited
`E' Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday at Gloucester
i 4QUSe.
t His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
on Saturday on a visit to the Duke of Rutland
" telvoir Castle.
The Count and Countess de Neuilly, and the Duke
4 Duchess de Nemouri visited her Royal Highness
et Duchess of Kent on Saturday at Clarence house,
. James's.
4, 4. Cabinet Courcil was held on Saturday afternoon
the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John
'l4sell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of
rte, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis

13arinR, Sir John Hobhouic, the Eal of Cirli-I‘,
th.: Right nits. H Lab3uchere, i.t e Marquis o! C
and the Right lion. Fox It aule. Tce
Council sat three now's.
Mr. Duncult, ALP., and M. Flair, M.P., had an
interview %vial Sri George Grey on Saturday at the
Home-office.
Mr. J ihn Wood, Ci-iairtnan of the Board of Inland
Revenu,-, had an ir:kfrvi,w with roe Chancellor of the
Exch.:quer on Friday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
Dispatches for the Governors of the West India
Colonies, and also for the Governor of Gibraltar, were
sent if on .Saturthy evening from the C9lonial-office.
2lr. Cowan, M.P. Imd an interview on Saturday.
will Sir George Grey. . Rev. Dr. Buchan and
the Rev. Dr. C.nuilish had also tin interview on Satur-
day with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Horne-office.
'The Duke of Wellington attended the early se; -
vice % f'sterday i% the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
Rev. Dr. Welksley officiated and preached the sermon.
The of Litindaff reached the sermon at the
daily service. Tne prayers were read by the Bev.
G. Ryp.or, and the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore,
The Duke of Manchester, the i,.arquis of Salisbury;
Lords St. Germans, Powis, and Gough, were among
he nobility present.

LITE“ATURE.
ANTONINA; or the Fall of Rome. 3 Vcds,

We have already briefly commented upon the prin-
cipal features of Mr. Collie's historical roinaixe, and
the following extracts font its pages will corroborate
our expressed opinion as to the Enusaal power
evinced by Mr. C rilins in painting startling scenes,
or portraying heroic characters. Many incidents in
"Autoninti" are se extraordinary, not to say impro •
bable, that if described by an ordinary writer, we
might be inclined to find fault with them as gro-
tesque cxeggerations. But so vigorous is the
delineation, and so perfect the colouring of
these scenes of terror in the pages of " Auto-
nine," that they are positively magnificent in
their horrible, heart-thrilling actuality. It is in
depicting scenes of this nature, and individuals of
almost superhuman character, that the skill of Mr.
Collins is most conspicuously displayed. The luxi.-
ricus Raman senator Vetranio ' • the gentle, child. like
Antonina ; the Gothic soldier Hertnanic, alternately
swayed by the colder influence of his nothern edu-
cation and the irresistible fascinations of the
southron maiden; Numeriar, at first stern to
cruelty towards his unhappy daughter, and then
bewailing her absence with heart -broken la-
mentetions—these, and many of the minor
characters, are excellently well depicted • but it
is in the drawing of the ruthless thisvintha
and the pertinatious Ulpius that the master hand of
the limner is chiefly visible. Ulpius from his child-.
hood had been dedicated to the service of the heathen
divinities of -pagan Rome, and he had in his man-
hood been the priest of the idol Serapis. Under the
happier influence of Cnristianity the heathen worship
had been abolished, but the pagan priest yearned for
its re-establishment with all the ardour of an
enthusiastic nature, and toiled for it with all the
vigour of an indomitable will. His passage
through a rift in the walls of Rome,
in order to join the blockading hosts of Alaric, and
betray the city into the hands of the Goths, is de-
tailed with elaborate skill and holds the reader
in breathless attention. It is hardly possible
for an isolated extract to do justice to this
powerful description. Tne other individua.l whom
we have particularised as affording an impressive evi-
dence of Mr. Collins's skill in the terrible, is Goievin-
tha, a Gothic matron, rendered a widow and childless
by Roman swords. All the powers of her heart and
mind, all the faculties of her being are concentrated
in one feeling, the yearning (or revenge. Sae stands
before us alternately an impassioned Nemesis, or as
cold and lifeless as the statue of Niobe. " Her sor-
row," it is beautifully said, " took the fatal form
which irretrievably destroys in women all the softer
and better emotions—it changed to the despair that
asks no sympathy, to the grief that holds no com-
munion with tears." Rightly to appreciate the almost
fiendlike Goisvinths, it is necessary to contemplate
her in the pages of "Antonina."
Tee story occasionally leads us to the camp of the
Goths, conspicuous for the stern simplicity of their
manners and the severity of their discipline. But
the contrast between these hardy soldiers of the north
and the effeminate senators of Rome, is hardly so re-
markable as is the startling contrast exhibited by
Rome and the Romans at the commencement and
towards the close of " Antouina." In the first volume
we contemplate with contemptuous.surprise the lux-
urious banquets and voluptuous amusements of
the un worthy bearers of the Roman name,
but shortly afterwards, when the city is blockaded
by the Goths, starvation takes the place of luxury,
and desolation and despair reign paramount where
all had been magnificence and mirth. Rome, during
the famine, is (as might have bee n anticipated) ad-
mitably depicted by Mr. Collins ; and, in the follow-
ing passage, is emphatically described a reviving
gleam of Roman virtue-:
" Of all prophecies none aro, peihape, so frequently
mistaken as those on which we are most apt to venture,
in endeavouring to furetel the effect of out vard events
on the characters of men. In no form a our anticipa-
tions are we more fe. quertly burned than in such at-
tempts to ett'inete bt forehand the influence of circum-
stance over conduct, not only in others, but also even in
ourselves. Let the event buthappen, and men, whom we
view by the light our previous observation of they, act
under it as the living contradictions of their own cha-
raetere. The friend of our daily social interc )urse, in
the progress of life, and the favourite hero of our his-
toric studio=, in the progress of the rage, as onish, ex-
cc el, or disappoint our expectations alike. We find it as
vain to foresee a cause, as to fix a limit, for the arbitrary
inconsistencies in the dispositions of mankind.
‘• But though to speculate upon the future conduct of
others under impending circumstances, be but too often
to expose the fallacy of our wisest anticipations, to con.
template the nature of that conduct after it has been
displayed, is an use fal subject of curiosity, and may, per-
haps, be made a fruitful source of instruction. Similar
events which succeed each other at different periods are
relieved from monotony, and derive new importance,
from the ever-varying effects which they produce on the
human character. Thug in the great occurrence which
forms the foundation of our narrative, we may find
little in the seine of Rome, looking at it as a mere event,
to distinguish it remarkably from any former siege of
the city— the same desire for glory and vengeance,
wt alth and dominion, which brought Alaric to her walls,
brought other invaders before him. But if we observe
the effect of the Gothic descent upon Italy on the inha-
bitants of her capital, we shall find ample matter for
novel eentemplation and unbounded surprise.
" We shall perceive, a 3 an astonishing instance of the
inconsistencies of the human character, the spectacle of a
bole leople (already fallen from the highest position
of national glory to the lowest depths of national degra-
dation), threatened by an overwhelming invasion at their
very doors ; and ytt, in spite of all that he wade-Tread
baseness cf their previous characters might hula led us
to expect,resisting their enemies with inflexible obstinacy
for the honour of the Roman mine, which they had
dishonourad fir ages past. We shall behold men, who
have hitherto lattAhed at the very name of patriotism,
now starving resolutely in their country's cause ; who
stopped at no villany to obtain wealth, now hesitating to
employ their ill-go:ten gains in the purchase of the most
important of all gratifications—their own security and
peace. Instances of the unimaginable effect produced
by the event of the Beige of Rome on the characters cf
her inhabitants, might be drawn from all classes, from
the lowest to the higt eit; but to produce them here ,
would be to admit too long an interruption in the pr -
gress of the present narrative. If we are to enter at all
into detail on such a subject, it must be only in case
clearly connected with the cctual requirement; of our
story; and such a case may be fewid, et this juncture,
in the conduct of the tenator Vetrauio, under the info-
ence of the worst calamities attending the bkckade of
Rome by the Goths."
The " Banquet of fanine"—a banquet given by
Vetranio to his starving fellow-Sybarites—e banquet
at which wine alone was provided for the entertain-
ment of the guests—the only article of food procurabe
in the besieged city, boiled bran and salt horse-
flesh being set aside as unworthy of the occasion.
As the powerful drink affects the weak frames of the
starved and already dying feasters, one by one they
fall back on their sumptuous couches, and thus dis-
play in their last hour a remnant of the
spirit of
ancient Rome in the midst of the luxury of its de-
generate days. The following extracts will gave
some idea of the many beautiful passages to be met
with in " Antonina:

THE GuTIIS BEFORE ROME.
‘• It was no false rumour that had driven the populace
of the suburbs to fly to the security of the city
walls. It was no ill-founded cry of terrcr that struck
the tar of Ulpiuo, as he stood at Nurnerian's window.
The name of Rome hal really lust it; pristine terra rs;
the walls of borne, those walls which bad morally
guareb.d the empire by their renown, as they had ao-
tuslly its capital by their strength, were de •
prived at length of their ancient inviolability. Anarray
of barbarians had indeed penetrated fur coequest and for
vengeance to the City of the Wort;.' ! The achievemt nt
which the invasions of six hundred years had hitherto
attempted in vain, was now accomplished, and accom-
plished by the men whose forefathers had once fled like
hunted beasts to their nctlve fa:tnesscs, before the le-
gions of tl o Cte3ars—"The Goths were at the gates of
Rornel'

" And now, as his warriors encamped around hie-, a;
he saw the err;;) ed hos's whom his summons had
gathered tcgether, and his energy ltd on, threatening at
their doers the cirrupt Senate who had deceived, and
the blastful popultice who had despised him, what emo-
tions stirred within the heart of Marie? As the words tf
martial command 1(11 from his lips, and his eyes watch, d
the movements of the multitudes around him, what
exalted aipiristione, what daring resolves, grew and
strengthuni-dia,tl:e mind 01 the man who.was the pios
of that mighty relolutiou which s‘‘ept from one quarter
of the w rl l the sv ay, the civilisation, the very life and
spirit of centuries of ancient rule? High thoughts
d fAst ire I:is mind; a daring ambition expanded
within him—the ambit iou, nut of the bat burial) ; lunderer
bat of the aveng( r w u hid come to punish; not of tl e
warrior who combatted tor combat's sake, but of the hero
Wbc) was Towed to conquer and to sway. From the far-

LONDON,

t vCren ) i•n 14.a3 driven from his territories
by the , ft) night pollute:I by the Imassa, re
of Cie m 4^‘ q'tilcia, the hour of just and territl,
ref; iUnti,itt fur Cl ..eh u n rungs had batm d -63-0 ihrough
the weary- :apse of tf a warningeenvullions of
bi t r s!r•fe.,, to ,rproach at la,t under him. 1.10, looked
on the f,e.Ner:Dg walls tefore hjtr, the only invzchr since
liannini by wt.o:n ti:ey had been belidd; and he fu:t
as lit - I..ruloci, new :is-Li:rations (iii CO; dcuive
Lim, thut his drams of domition wen:: brigteting it t
prond th,t hi destiny wr:s I.;rion:ily linked
wi,h the overthrow of Ltperisd Rome."