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

ANTONINA AND HERMANIC.

" Thus, false to his nation, yet true to the new Egeria
of his thoughts and actions—traitor to the requirements
of vengeance and war, yrt faithful to the interests cf
tranquillity and love—did he seek, night af.er night,
Antoniva's presence,. Ilis passion, though it denied
him to his warrior duties, wrought no deteriorating
change in his disposition. All that it altered in him, it
altered nobly. It varied and exalted his rude emotions;
for it was inspired, not alone by the beauty and youth that
he saw, but by the pure thoughtF, the artless elcqi.ence
that he heard. And she—the forsaken daughter, the source
whence the northern warior derived those new and
higher sensations that Lai never animated him until
now—regarded her protector, ber first friead and corn•
panion as her first love, with a devotion which, in its
mingle.' aLd exalted nature may he irna;ined by the
mind, but can be but imperfectly depicted by the per.
15 was a devotion created of innocence and gratitude, of
joy and sorrow, of apprehension and hope. It was tco
fresh, too unworldly, t,) own any upbraidings of artificial
shame, any self reproaches of artificial propriety. It
resembled in its esseoce, though not in its application,
the devotion of the first daughter& of the Fall to their
brother-lords."

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

Edition.

To Dr. Billing is due the credit of having been
the first medical philos )pher 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 Thoma°. 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 fur his
own satisfaction, instruction, and guidance, he drew
up a code 'of general principles of medicine, which
principles he had logically deduced from his own cli-
nical otservations. After haying been for 20 years
engaged in this work, he published the result of his
labours in a small volume of 130 pager, 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' MAGAZIN E, Journal of the
Money Market, and Railway Digest.

This is decidedly one of the cheapest and most
useful 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 Bank Account?." 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 Bank.," " Railway Digest," and several other
matters equally interesting and instructive.

ITER MAJESIr.S THEATRE.—The green's box at
Her Majesty's Theist& e was on Saturday evening occu-
pied by the Earl and Countess of Listowel, and Lady
A UgU3lti Hare, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone,
Lady Alfred P(.get, Mr. Bentinck and party. There
were sl,o present—The Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury, the illarquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury,
the Marquis of Clartricarde, his Excellency the Russian
Minister, tt.e Baroness Brunnow and Mutiny. Olga de
Lee liner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the
Baroness Rehausen, NI. de Berg, the Earl of Falmouth,
the B of Lonsdale, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl and
Countess ( f Jer:_ey and Lady Clernentir. a Villiers, the
Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Count' as of liar-
ringtoa and Lady Jane Stanhope, the Earl of Car ding-
ton, the Esrl of Malmesbury, the Marquis de Surguerl,
the Comts. de Corbenil, Count de Barke, the Comtc
D.vry. M. de Sivern, Comte Perpoucher, the Viscount
and Viscountess Ebrington, Viscount Cantilupe, the
Viscountess Torrington, the Viscountess Mahon, Vis-
count Clifden, the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, the
Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, Viscount Cran-
bourr, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Sandys, Lord Charles.
Wellesley, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Lord Wm. Lennox,
Lord Cecil, Lord Gardner, Lord Francis Gordon' Lord
and Lady Southampton, Lord 11. Vane, Lord G. Paget,
Mr. Repton, M.P., and Lady Jane Repton, Lady Charles
Somerset, Lady Louisa Primrose, the lion. Mr. Duff
Gordon and the Hon. Miser Duff Gordon, Mr. Cubitt,
M.P., Lady Augusta Paulett, Hon. Mrs. Repton, Colonel
the lion. G. Anson, M.P., and Mrs. Anson, Sir Thomas
B. Lrnnard, M.P., Major-General Sir Alexandt r Wood-
ford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Woodford, Lady
Flower, Sir James and Lady Ross, Sir Thomas Retford,
Bart., General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., M P., and
Lady Kerrison, General the Hon. 11. Cavendish, Lady
Duffetin, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Sir W.
Scott, Mr. Fitzroy Stanhope, Mrs. Montague Gore, Col.
the lion. Cecil Forrester, Mis:iiLssowiltheearu,:errk.,lAllorl.forcd,.
Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., Mr. Sandford, Mr. Nor-
man Macdonald, Mr. Rose,
Barry', Baldwin, M.P., Mr. 11. Single:on and Miss Sin-
vleton, Colonel Williams. Mr. Thornton, Major Buck-
ley, Mr. and Mrs. C J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Brereton
Trelawr,ey, Mr. C. VV. Broke, M.P., and Mrs. Parke
Reading, Mr. and Miss Spencer de Horsey, Mr. Her-
bert de Burg, Mr. Langdon, Mr. W. Delafield, Mr. Va-
lentine Browne, Mr. Greville, Mr. Denistour, Mr. and
Miss D. 'aware, Mr. Sturt, M.P., Mr. Ford, Mr. Cutler.
Mr. Rcgers, Mr. F. Perkins, Mr. Bewley, 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 has is
his possession many of the earliest unpublished efforts
( f his uncle, as well as the originals of his more cele-
brated poems, which show in a remarkable manner, how
that most fastidious of poets polished and reflucd his
Terse."—Literary Gazette.