The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-27 00:00:00

ErENING, AUGUST.. 27, 1852,

boat shot a-head, leaving them far midst the
with only a single oar to guide their
solitary main,'
fragile barque. As it was useless to attempt further
pursuit in their disabled condition the vanquished
wights were compelled to scull their boat with a single
oar back towards Kintyre, a distance of ten weary
milts ; while the victor, with soul elate, sang in
triumph, Oh, steer my barque to Erin's Isle !' The
sun was high in the heavens next morning ere the
young men, weak and faint from the hot pursuit and
engagement, reached their native shore,
hard-fought
where a number of anxious friends were waiting to
receive them. The amorous couple have not since
been heard of, but it is to be hoped that after all
their difficulties and 'hair-breadth 'stapes by flood
and field,' they have now attained the object of their
wishes, despite of their reluctant and naughty chil-
dren, and that they are now spending a happy honey-
moon
in some corner of the Emerald Isle, undis-
turbed by fears of molestation or surprise.
4g The principal actor in the above ludicrous affair
is a native, we believe, of the parish of West Kit-
bride, *here he formerly plied the shuttle, but ha 3
for a number of years rented a small farm in
Kintyre."

CITY BRANCH SOUP KITCHEN 6' HOSPICE,
VICTORIA. STREET, HOLBORN-BRIDGE.
The ceremony of opening this institution was cele-
brated yesterday, the Right Hon. the' Lord Mayor, as
president, officiating (the chairman and founder bi.ini
Sir F. Kelly, Kr, her Maj2sty's Attorney-General)'
'Cho retectory, or dining room, was filled with a highly
respectable company.
Shortly after the arrival of the Lord Mayor, who was
received by Mr. Charles Cochrane, the Rev. Dr. Barber,
and Mr. Lenten (of Leicester-square), &c., the Rev. Dr.
Barber opened the proceedings of the day in a very im-
pressive address and prayer, in which the Rev. Gentle-
man reminded his auditory of the duty which devolved
upon all classes of Christians to provide for and sustain
their poorer brethren, It was only necessary for him to
repeat the words of the Scripture—" The poor shall
never cease out of the land, therefore I command thee,
saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy
brother, and to the needy in thy land. Thou shalt
surely give, and thy heart shall not be grieved when
thou givest unto him, because for this thing the Lord
thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all thou
puttest hand unto." The Rev. Gentleman, whose ad-
dress was listened to with profound attention, concluded
by calling on the assembly to join him in the Lord's
prayer—a request which was fervently responded to.
The LORD afAiron said, that placed as he was in the
position of first magistrate of this city, he could not
hesitate to lend his assistance, in coejunetion with many
of his friends whom he saw about him, in originating a
plan which had been developed some time since by
many gentlemen for whom he entertained the highest
respect, and which had for its object the amelioration of
the condition, morally and physically, of their poorer
brethren.. .e(Rear.) Rich though many of them might
be, yet recollecting that they, not less than those for
whose relief they were that day assembled, were daily
dependent upon the providence of a Supreme Being,
they should be careful to provide for the wants of those
who had not the ability to take care of themselves. He
hoped that those to whom the management of the insti-
tution was consigned would be careful at all times to in-
culcate among the recipients a grateful feeling towards
those by whom their wants were relieved. He found
that there were a variety of objects contemplated in
this institution, and first he would specially allude to the
lavatories, &c.; and he must say that he held cleanliness
to be a great and paramount object in the promotion
of the physical and sanitary condition of the poor.
Another object was to instruct the inmates in the duties
of domestic servants; and upon this point he dwelt upon
the necessity of a reciprocity of kindly feeling as between
masters and servants. For himself he could only say
that he took a part in all such movements as this on
;he broad principle of trying in his generation to effect
some good for his fellow-creatures. Another object
which would be attempted was to check street mendi-
cancy. It was the weakness of human nature not to
resist an appeal to individual charity, and hence it was
that the vast majority of the public could seldom refuse
the appeal of the mendicant in the street, whose case
might not be worthy of attention. To correct this evil, it
was intended by this institution to appoint six officers,
who would be called superintendent?, whose duty it
would be, as far as possible, to restrain such indiscrirni-
eate relief, by referring all applicants to the institution,
where they would be relieved. Another object was the
establishment of a free registry for servants, it being
understood that the society would give no recommenda-
tion unless the character of each applicant should bear
the most rigid inquiry. Ho recollected that some 20 or
25 years since, subscriptions were raised for the " house-
less poor," which effort was attended with great success.
This institution had the same end in view. The dormie
tones, which would not be ready till the autumn, he
most confidently anticipated would be productive of vast
benefit. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by ex-
pressing his hope that the Great Giver of all good gifts
would bestow his blessing on this vast and Christianlike
undertaking.

The building is admirably adapted for the purposes
required. In the gallery at the top there is a place set
apart where servants are instructed to clean windows,
boots, and plate; to weigh, to pack parcels, &a., and we
mention with great satisfaction a room in which tables
are laid out in regular form for a dinner, with side-
tables fur dessert, &c. The cooking apparatus is con-
structed by Messrs. Smith and Phillips, gas engineers
and patentees, and it is applicable equally for heating,
cooking, and ventilating. The renowned Soyer is the su-
perintendent of the cuisine, we were informed, but we
did not see him on the occasion. The dormitories con-
tain 22 beds for men, which number will be increased to
40; the female wards contain 18 beds. Of the efficiency
of the
gas apparatus in cooking we had undoubted proof
in a substantial repast, of which we had the pleasure to
partake; and we have to acknowledge the great cour-
tesy of Mr. Lenton, who acted as chairman, Mr. Smart,
the secretary, &c. The proceedings of the day gave
general satisfaction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH- STREET
Captain Shepheard was brought before Mr. Hard-
wick charged with being drunk, and with assaulting
a police-constable.
From the evidence of police•constable Smith, C 17,
it
appeared that the defendant was found at an early
1 hour in the morning knocking and ringing at the door
of a house of ill-fame in Sheppard-street. lie remon-
Atrated with the defendant for creating a disturbance
in the public street, upon which Captain Shepheard
raised his stick and struck him over the body with it.
Finding the captain was not sober he took him to the
station house.
aptain Shepheard denied being drunk. lle bad
C
been somewhat excited at the part he had taken in a
trial at the Middlesex Sessions during the day ; but
he had taken nothing except half a pint of wine with
Fladong's Hotel.
his dinner at
Mr. BARDwrcii asked Captain Shepheard if he had
not at one time been under restraint.,—Captain Shep-
explain the circumstance.
heard would
Mr. HARDwicx. considered such explanation was
needless.
ue could not understand how Captain Shep-
heard, who professed to be an officer and a gentleman,
could reconcile such conduct with his pretensions. It
was not creditable to be found in the morning, in a
state of intoxication, creating a disturbance at the
door of a house of ill fame.
Captain Shepheard said be had not been able to
procure a
bed at Fladong's and other hotels, and he
house and
had gone to this had engaged and paid for
when he applied for admission he was re.
a bed ; but
fused by the owner of the house.
Mr. llARDwicg ordered him to find two sureties of
himself in 501. to keep the peace.
251. each, and
MARYLEBONE.

John Sheen and John Palmer were brought up f"
re-examination and placed at the bar before Alr.
Bingham, in
charged with having been concerned
and robbin under the " garotte"
attacking System
g,
man named James William Dowse, residing at No. 3,
a
Paul-street, Lisson-grove. o. 3,
The particulars of what previously transpired have
already appeared, and it will be remembered that ath"
prosecutor, who had been to the Marylebone Theatre
prisoner and
night of Wednesday the 18th instant,
.ii the We to
towardsr
a public-house and drank with the
ano-
ther person, and that
.at a late hour at night,
leaving them, and while quietly proceeding
his home, he was SR ized hold of by the prisoner Sheen,
who grasped him tightly by the throat and threw bin'
down, while the other man rifled his pocket of a
pursea
piece, with which they ran off.
Prisoner was
Dulti-
mately captured by Clarke, 268
, who saw him hold.
ing a horse in front of the Sailor public-house, in Sa-
lisbury-street, Portman-market:
The prisoner Palmer, who, in
a day or two after
the cutrage, was taken into custody, was brought b 2..
fore Mr. Bingham, b 9 whom he was remanded ; and
Yesterday two additional witnesses were examined
in support of the charge against the prisoners ;and it
owing to the
was stated when the prosecutor first, gave informs_
lion of the robbery to he man named C ements,
he fell
to the ground quite to his eyes at the time
being ready to start from their sockets,
ruffianly attack which bad been made upon him 1.,
Palmer. '-'37
The prisoners, who are old offenders, and who de-
nied in this caw their guilt, were fully Committed for
trial.

woßsair-sTREET.
James Phillips
' and Richard Adams, two respea.
table-looking
young men, were placed at the bar
before Mr.
lltyiscouuT, charged with the following
most adroit robberies :
stoke Newington,. stated
. Mrs. Emma s• Oa the wife of a jeweller and
silversmith in Iliignr-nst'relet,
that on the afternoon of the preceding Monday the
prisoner Adams" entered her shop alone, and, after
n'Tliring the -price of some gold shirt•studs
which were exhibited in the window, selected and
purchased a set, and placed his hand into his pn,,d„t
for them. He
for the apparent purpose of ptlYing
immediatly, however, withdrew his hand,
.with on air
of much surprise and vexation, and observing that be
bad unfortunately either lost or come out without his
Purse, requested her to set the studs by for him until
the evening, when he would call with the money.
She consented to do so, and the prisoner left the shop,
but did not keep his Oppointment ; and she heard

nothing more of him until a subsequent evening, when
a constable entered with a lady's gold brooch in his
hand, and having asked her if she knew anything of
it, she immediately recognised it as having bean stolen
from a glass case of jewellery, which was kept at that
part of the counter where the prisoner had been stand- ,
ing at the time of his visit about the studs. Witness
then recollected that on coming out of the parlour to
attend to the prisoner she observed that the glass case,
which had baen before closed, was then partly open,
but the prisoner's appearance seemed to he too re-
spectable to justify any suspicion, and, not having in
consequence examined the contents of the case, she
was not aware that she had been robbed until the
brooch was brought to the shop by the officer.
The brooch in this case was discovered in conse-
quence of the circumstances attending another charge
of a similar nature preferred by Mrs. Jane Rogers, a
fancy stationer at Stamford-hill, from whose state-
ment it appeared that both prisoners called there on
Tuesday se'nnight, and asked to be shown some silk
purses. A number were placed before them, but they
left without purchasing anything, and a few minutes
after they had gone she missed a whole package of
penknives from the counter; she gave immediate in-
fbrmation of the robbery to a constable, who pursued
and captured the prisoners, who were transferred to
the station, but the stolen property could not be dis-
covered. The prosecutrix, however, was positive es
to the robbery, and, the gold brooch having been found
in the possession of Phillips, they were both detained
upon the double charge, although Phillips declared that
he had purchased the article, and was confirmed by
Adams, who professed to have been present at the
time, and also to have made a purchase himself at the
same shop.

The prisoners protested their innocence and honesty,
but Watts, a constable of the N division, identified them
both as the constant associates of thieves for the last
two years, one of them having, moreover, been con-
victed of felony, and they were therefore committed
for trial upon one charge, and ordered to be brought
up again in a week, it having been intimated that
other charges of a like description would no doubt be
preferred against them, if an opportunity were af-
forded for that purpose.

St. George-in-the-East, on the 17th August, the son
of a furniture broker, aged 8 weeks, "cholera in-
fantile (1 week)."
At 23, Aim-street, in the subdistrict of St. Paul,
on the 13th August, the daughter of a spinster, aged
5 month " marasinus, cholera infantum (14 days)."
At 2, lin-ooport- street, in the sub-district of Rat-
cliffe, on the 20th August, the son of a mariner, aged
1 year, h cholera infantum (3 weeks)."
At Hog-lane, in the sub-district of Greenwich
East, on the 16th August, the (blighter of a labourer,
aged 8 months, " summer cholera (5 days)."
At 17, Suffolk-street West, Camden.town, on the
18th August, the daughter of a boxmaker, aged 3
years, died of " diarrheet (14 days)." The medical
attendant states that the drainage of this house is so
imperfect that the night-soil actually oozes into the
kitchen, evolving the most offensive and poisonous
gases. _

At 52, Noble-street, in the sub-district of Old-
street, St. Luke, on 14th August, the son of a white-
smith worker, aged 2 years, died of " variols (14
days), vaccinated with one effect." Mr. Austin, the
registrar, states that this child had been vaccinated
four times. Five other children in the same house had
it, end recovered.
Opposite the King's Head, Upper Tooting, in the
sub-district of Streatham, the 14th of August, the
son of a bricklayer, aged 11 years, died of " scarlatina
maligna." The registrar, Mr. Withal!, remarks that
" this is the second death in the samo family from
scarlatina within four days. There are two more ill
with the same complaint. The drains are very de-
fective. The privies of this and the adjoining houses
contain a quantity of stagnant filth ; the smell at times
is most offensive."

STATE OF THE WEATIIER DURING THE PAST WEEK.

SurinAT.—The sky was for the most part covered with
cloud till 7h. and clear afterwards. Heavy rain fell
during the earlier portion of the morning.
MONDAY.-The sky, with slight exceptions, was overcast
throughout the day • cirrostratus.
TuEsnAv.—The clouds were slightly broken during the
afternoon, otherwise Vie sky was overcast throughout the
day; cumuli, cumulostrati, and cirrostrati. Between 7h.
PM. and 7h. 30m. P.M there was a severe thunder storm,
and rain fell to the depth of 0.25 in. in five minutes, and a
second storm occurred at about 11h. I'.m.

WEDNESDAY.-The sky was for the most part covered
with cloud throughout the day; cirrocumuli, cirrostrati, and
scud.

THURSDAY.—The sky was overcast till Sh. r.ar., and the
amount of cloud was variable afterwards; cumulostrati,
cirrostrati, and scud. Rain fell during the earlier portion of
the morning.
FmDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day.
Rain falling occasionally.
SATURDAY.—The sky was covered with cloud till noon,
and the amount of cloud was variable afterwards; cirro-
cumuli and cirrostrati.

ELEerniciTy.—Aug. 19th, positive, and tension weak
during the afternoon. This wes the only exhibition or
electricity during the week at the times of examination.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast of the Dreadnought Hospital Ship, and read each day at
9h. A.M. was 61.8 Q ; and the mean reading at 9h. r.m. was
61.0° ; the mean readings at the Royal Observatory for the
same times were 63.3' and 62.0 Q respectively.
The reading of the barometer decreased from 29.46 in.
at the beginning of the week to 29.23 in. by 1013. A.m. on the
15th ; then increased rapidly, and was 29.71 in. by 9h. P.M.
on the same day, and 29.83 in. by 9h. A.m. on the 16th ;
it began to decrease at noon on this day, and was 29.59 in.
at 91i. SUL. on the 17th ; and then increased to 30'07 in. by
the end of the week.