The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

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PARRICIDE AT SHEFFIELD.

Since the last Midsummer assize the town of Sheffield
has been the scene of an appalling number of the blackest
crimes. There have been two instances of cool premedi-
tated murder, besides several homicides of a less heinous
character. Another death has occurred this week,
which has led to the apprehension of a young man on
the charge of having slain his own father. The name of
the deceased was Francis Brice. He was about 54 years
of age. He resided in a dingy court in Coalpit-lane,
and obtained a livelihood by vending firewood. He had
a son residing with him—a violent-tempered young fel-
low, named Richard Brice, who has scarcely attained his
majority. He works at Mr. Patrick's saw•mill in Bond-
lane. He is a young man of most dissipated habits, and
being of a very irascible temper he seldom went home
tipsy without creating a disturbance with his family.
On Saturday night he was out thinking till past
midnight, and when he went home he began to chastize
his sister because of some opprobrious epithets that some
few hours before she had applied to a young woman with
whom he keeps company. The father and mother inter-
posed, and a great disturbance ensued; but it was an inci-
dent to which the neighbodurs were so accustomed, as
coming from that particular family, that they took no
notice of it. The mother sunk down upon the floor in a
fit, and the young man, having now less opposition to
contend with, was able to indulge his violence to greater
purpose. Some hard fighting ensued. The father
having been struck at least once with great violence by
the son, and seeing no hope of quelling his rage. ran out
of the court and thouted for a watchman. The next
moment he dropped senseless, and one of his daughters
having run to his assistance he expired in her lap di-
rectly afterwards. The watchman came and took the
young man into custody. Tho circumstances of the
case will be investigated by the coroner, probably this
(Tuesday) morning.

PROFESSOR BLACKLE. -- Last week, Professor
Blackie was entertained to dinner in the Hall of the
Royal Hotel, by about one hundred of our loading
citizens, anxious to testify their respect for his public and
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Marischal Collage and University, to the chair of Greek
in the University of Edinburgh.
BRITISH. AND YANKEE CLIPPERS.—OD Saturday
morning the Aberdeen clipper Stornaway, Captain John
Robertson, arrived in the Downs from, China ; and
another Aberdeen vessel, the Chrysolite, Captain En-
right, one of the four clippers which were to accompliih
a race from the Celestial Empire to the Mersey, arrived
at Liverpool, having made their voyage in 104 dep.
The Stornoway and Chrysolite left China the same day,
and two Yankee clippers were to follow in three or four
days after. From the leg of the Chrysolite we find that
she left China on the 9th July, and was in company
with the Stornaway until the let of September (43 days),
when they parted off Cape Reciffee. The Chrysolite
was built in Aberdeen ; and certainly it is gratifying to
know that that town cell turn out clippers capable of
outselling the " boasted Yankees." It may perhaps be
well to mention that these vessels bring the first cargo
of new teas to England. What adds to the celebrity of
the Stornaway is, that although one-third of her crew
deserted, she, nevertheless, came home with the other
two•thirds only.

ARRIVAL OF Two ARABIAN HORSES FOR lIBR MA
JEsTY.—On Friday afternoon a number of persons
assembled at Waterloo road terminus to see the arrival
of two splendid Arabian horses, sent by the Peoha cf
Egypt as a present to her Majesty. The noble animals
appeared high bred, and were accompanied by two cative
attendants in their eastern costumes. After some
trouble, they wore taken to some livery stables iu the
Belgrave-read to be properly broken in.

SHEERNESS, OCT. 25,8 sat.
By a private letter from Greenock, dated the 22d inst.,
we are informed that her Majesty's steam-vessel Cy-
clops, commanded pro tem. by Lieutenant Seacombe, of
the Horatio, screw steam guard-ship, arrived at that
port, on the 12th instant, having towed the Blazer
from Gravesend in six days. The whole of the boilers
(four in number) intended for the Duke of Wellington,
are not made, nor the engines for that ship ready, and it
will be the end of the present month ere any portion of
the machinery will be embarked in the Blazer. This
vessel at one time can only stow one boiler and a part
of the machinery ; hence she will have to make four
trips from Greenock to Portsmouth. Under the most
favourable conditions of wind and weather, it is calcu-
lated that the Cyclops will occupy ten days in towing
the Blazer the distance between these ports. The end
of the present year will consequently have nearly ar-
rived before the whole machinery for the " great Duke"
has reached its destination.

The committee appointed to devise the best plan for
adapting the Royal Albert to screw propulsion have re-
conia3ended that she should be longthened sternways
35 feet, and furnished with engines of the actual power
of 1,000 horses. Should this proposition be acted on,
the Royal Albert will bo upwards of 4,000 tons burthen,
and consequently much larger than the Duke of Wel-
lington.

The following circular relative to the future payment
of the seamen, &c., in the royal navy, has very recently
been issued t) all commanders-in•chief, captains, com-
manders, and commanding cilicvrs of Her Majesty's
ships and vessels :

‘i Whereas, by an act recen►,ly passed, of the 15th
and 16th Victoria, chap. 46, it is directed that so much
of the 18th section of the 2d George IV., chap. 20,
which enacted that there shall always be left six
months' wages of the seamen, marines, and boys of the
fieet in arrear and unpaid,' shall be repealed ; and
whereas it is the intention of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, not only to carry the provisions of the
first mentioned act into effect immediately after the
time prescribed by the said act—viz., on the Ist of Oct.
next, but also, as soon as practicable afterwards, to es-
tablish such an amount of ' monthly pay' as together
with the monthly payment of allotment to the wives
and relatives of seamen, and the value of clothing, to-
bacco, and other articles taken up by the seamen out of
the public stores for their own use, shall, upon an aver-
age, as near as may be, leave only one month's gross
pay in hand for casualties; it is hereby directed, in the
first place, that after the 30th inst. the commanding of-
ficers of her Majesty's ships in any port where there is
an establishment of pay clerks (or destined to arrive at
any one of such ports), shall, instead of waiting until
there he twelve months' wages due to the sea-
men as heretofore cause the pay books of the
ships under their command to be made up in the
manner heretofore done, according to the existing
regulations, but without retaining six months' pay in
hand. One month will be allowed for completing every
book, in order that the moneys paid monthly—the
monthly allotments—and all other charges incurred
during the period for which the pay books shall be made
out, shall be set off thereon, and the balance up to the
end of the pay book paid to the seamen on such day
after the termination of the month allowed for making
up and examining the pay books as the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty may fix.—By command of their
lordships,
" Admiralty, Sept., 1852."

" AUGUSTUS STIFFOIID.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 25.
APPOINTMENTS.

Master.—John Cla;k-13;rio;(1835), to the Water-
loo, 120, flag-ship, at Sheerness, vice Tonkin.
Clerk.—John Binmore Burlace (1846), to the Ajax,
58, screw-steam flag-ship at Cork.
The Driver steam-sloop is ordered to be made ready
for sea in every respect at this port, and to have her
guns, shot, shell, and powder on board, when she will be
taken to Sheerness and kept as an advanced war steamer
at that port.