The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

WOOLWICH, J. 3.
It is in contemplation to form a permanent Board at
the Admiralty, to consist of 'the following naval officers :
—Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., Captain the Hon.
Robert S. Dundas, C. 8., and Captain Alexander Milne.
The report of the committee on manning the navy is
most anxiously looked for. We have been assured by
naval officers that there are many men at Woolwich
and other ports, but they will not enter, as they do not
credit what is told them as to their being sure to be well
treated and have the restoration of their gill and better
pay, as they had plenty of promises before which were
never realised. A. naval lieutenant, after expatiating
on the advantages which seamen will in future enjoy
according .to the general opinion of the officers, was
answered by a seaman in the following words :—" If I
knew what you say, Sir, to be. law, I'd enter this mo-
ment." It is evident to all engaged in raising men that
while the future pay and prospects of seamen remain
unknown to them, there will be great difficulty in
obtaining men worth having.
The Imperieuse, 50, screw steam-frigate, Captain R.
B. Watson, C. 8., had her steam up to-day in the basin,
and made an excellent start of her engines, a number of
naval officers being on board, and Mr. Atherton, chief
engineer at Woolwich Factory, Mr. Dinnen, inspector
steam machinery afloat, Mr. Hartrees, of the firm of
John Penn and Son, the constructors of her engines,
and Mr. F. P. Smith. The screw made 54 revolutions
per minute, with a pressure of 121 b. per square inch on
the boilers, and worked very satisfactorily. The Im-
perieuse will be ready to leave Woolwich for Chatham
about the 10th or 12th inst. to have. her masts and rig-
ging put up at that port, where they have been ready
some time.

The Firebrand steam-frigate, Captain Hyde Parker,
was to-day taken into the dock from which the Impe-
rieuse was taken out on Saturday.
The Rhadamanthus steam-transport, Master-Com-
mander Belam, had her steam up to-day, and left Wool-
wich in the afternoon for Deptford to take on board
stores, and then proceed round to Chatham, Sheerness,
and Portsmouth.

ADVICE TO THE POOR, BY LORD

BROUGHAM.

Learn to reflect often on the nature of your being; on
the duties imposed on you by the laws of the Creator,
which cannot be neglected or evaded without future
suffering.
The great mass of mankind are destined inevitably 'to
live by labour ; some undoubtedly are exempted from
the necessity of working ; they are few in comparison of
the number who must submit to live by industry.
But the wealth of the rich has arisen from labour.
Capital, money, and property, are no more than the
savings made from the produce of labour beyond the
portion which was required for the preservation of the
individuals who have worked to raise it. Upon these
grounds the rich are as fully entitled to their large pos-
sessions as the cottager to his cottage.
There is no man enjoying a common portion of health
and strength but he may gain by work more than is
necessary for him to consume, for his preservation, and
even for his comfort. He may always by forbearance
lay by something. This is proved by men being able by
their personal industry to support a wife and young
children ; the amount of whatever this young family
consume might have been saved before his marriage, and
might have been laid by for his future use.
Marriage is the state to which the poor look forward.
It is more necessary to them than the rich : the labourer
wants a helpmate ; and his home is miserable without
one.

Begin therefore early to provide for it. Lay by a
little money to buy a bed, and the most necessary
articles of furniture in a house. Do not begin by getting
into debt ; if you do, you will probably never be free
from it.

If you have ready money you may deal to great ad-
vantage with tradesmen ; you can choose the best article
at a fair price. The tradesman who permits you to run
in debt, permits it only because he calculates by so doing
it will be advantageous to himself. He sells inferior
articles at the same price as the best ; and as he is aware
he will have many bad debts owing to him, he charges
those who do pay the more to compensate such losses.
The village shopmen always deal upon these principles.
Look at their books ;_ many of the poor owe them thirty,
forty, or fifty shillings ; this debt is never cleared, and
the poor man thus involved dares not buy anywhere
else.

If you have any money beforehand, go to the best
market in the neighbourhood, or let your wife go once a
week, or once a fortnight. You will there get for seven
or eight shillings better articles than you can get for ten
shillings at the village shop, and better weight. In a
public market the dealer does not venture to use false
weights ; at the village shop, most of the poor are in
debt, and dare not complain, lest they should be refused
credit.

Send your wife to market, in preference to going your-
self. Women are less subject to the temptation of drink-
ing than men ; they are quick at detecting defects and
small differences in goods ; their minds readily seize on
the point of view advantageous to themselves they
express themselves with readiness and ease ; they dis-
cover and aim at the weak points of defence in a trades-
man with a dexterity which it is in vain for a husband
to attempt to imitate. A woman is worth on these
occasions from two shillings to five shillings in the pound
more than a man. A tradesman who could stand firm
against the persuasions of a man will often yield to the
superior management of a female customer.

Sometimes there are found in a village experienced,
trusty, and clever females, who will market for several
families. This is the cheapest mode. The expense of it
is divided amongst many ; often the wife cannot be well
spared from the care of the house and children ; and
by thus employing another, her time and the wear of
her clothes are saved.

SURRENDER OF A MURDERER.—At Stalybridge, near
Manchester, a man named Robert Thornley, a muffin
and crumpet dealer, has delivered himself up to the po-
lice as having been implicated in a murder which took
place in 1847. He states that the murder was that of
James Brooks, of Godley, near Hyde. At that time,
he says, he had an improper intimacy with Brook's wife,
and that she asked him if he could not get some kind
of herbs which would be a slow poison. He told her
that he did not know of anything that would act as a
slow poison except laudanum, which would act as a slow
poison if given in small doses. That she requested him
to get some laudanum, and that he purchased some at
Oldham, and gave it to her. That she gave it to her
husband, but he threw it up, and it did him no harm.
That he then purchased her threepenny worth of arsenic
from Mr. Sutcliffe, druggist, Stalybridge, which he gave
her, and that she told him she had made some puddings ;
and that she had put the arsenic into one of them, and
given it to her husband. That the husband. died at the
time, and an inquest was held over him, but nothing
was found out, and he was interred at Mottram Church.
That the husband did not eat all the pudding ; that
what he left was thrown out, and that a quantity of hens
belonging to a man named Scott were poisoned by eat-
ing this pudding. About a week after the death of her
husband, he met the wife at Chapel Hill, Dukinfield,
when he asked her if she were not afraid, and she an-
swered, "No, only through Scott's hens being poisoned,"
and that he replied that he had been very uneasy ever
since, and that he, married the woman three months
afterwards. It appears that, at the time of the alleged
murder, a man of the name of James Brooks did die
very suddenly, and an inquest was held before Mr.
Hudson, coroner, and the jury decided that he died
from the effects of a hurt in the head which he had re-
ceived when working as a collier. The self-accused
murderer has not been living with Brooks' widow for
the last 18 months, and he now says that he is conscious
of the dangerous position he places himself in by making
the confession, but that he is determined the woman
shall be punished, whatever may be the result. He has
been handed over to Mr. Little, constable for Hyde,
who has a commitment against him for some misdeme-
nom. ; and Mr. Little is engaged in strictly investigat-
ing the statements made by Thornley, who still persists
that all he has stated, the substance of which we have
given, is strictly true.
FATAL LEGACY.—We find the following in the Journal
des Vosges :—" A few days since, a young girl residing
near Charmes (Vosges), on returning from Nancy, where,
she had been to receive 800 f. which had beeii beqtrathed
to her by a relative, was overtaken on the road by a
young man and a girl, who fell into conversation with
her. She had placed her money in a hand basket, and
as the young man observed that she frequently trans-
ferred it, on account of its weight, from one hand t7o the
other, he offered to carry it for her, which was accepted.
The young man, at the same time thrust in some things
of his own, and amongst the rest his papers. On
reach-
ing Cravechamp, they all entered a public-house to
take some refreshment, and the young woman re-
ceiving the basket from her male companion, placed
it on the table by her side. The mistress of the house, in
serving them, struck against the basket, which gave out
a metallic sound. She asked what the basket contained,
and ,was informed 800 f. belonging to the young woman.
The plan of the mistress of the house was without doubt
formed instantaneously, for making 'a sign to the girl to
follow her out, she said to her when in the passage :
You are not aware with whom you have been walking ;
that young man is a very bad character. Do not
think of departing with him.' What am Ito do,
then ?' said the girl. Take your basket, and go
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late in the evening, they overtook no one, but being met
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clared, that it can be sold for more than the original '
cost,

The mails for Australia via the Cape of Good Hope are made up
on the 2d of every alternate month. Those made up on the 20th
and 24th of each month via Southampton and Marseilles are sent by
sailing vessels at present from Singapore, but next year they will be
sent in steamers.

Mails are al:o made up on the 2d of every alternate month for
the Cape of Good Rope.

* The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by
French packet to Marseilles.

SERIOUS OURAGE IN A
.ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHE-
DRAL.—The following appears in the Freeman's Journal :
—" At a few minutes to eight o'clock last evening, while
the Metropolitan Church, Marlborough-street, was
thronged to the utmost verge of its spacious bounds by
an immense congregation, piously engaged at the con-
clusion of the jubilee, the solemn ceremony was suit-
denly interrupted by the perpetration of an outrage of
the most atrocious character. A man of middle age and
mean appearance, who had taken his seat at the lower
end of the front nave, suddenly sprung up, and jumping
on the form on which he had been sitting, with a heavy-
cudgel loaded with a ponderous iron ferule at the end,
struck a gentleman who happened to be sitting before
him a tremendous blow on the head—the gentleman
fell stunned on the floor. The fellow then proceeded to
deal blows indiscriminately on those of the
was such as may be easily conceived.
con-
gregation immediately near him, and amongst others
a lady. The scene of confusion
the congregation made a rush upon the
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ruffian; but it Intiann 04. 4owever, that some members
of the police; not on duty, but taking part in the de-
votions, were in attendance, and he was quickly secured
by them, as well as perhaps protected from serious con-
sequences. In a few moments after the alarming con-
fusion thus created had arisen, the Rev. Mr. Irwin,
with the Rev. Messrs. Murphy and Burke, appeared in
the church, and exerted themselves with the utmost
energy to allay the highly excited and indignant feelings
of the vast congregation. The people were desired by
the clergy to kneel and proceed with their devotions,
and they at once obeyed. The persons who were as-
saulted, with several females, who, overwhelmed with
terror had fainted on the occasion, were assisted into
the vestry. In the meantime, intelligence of what had
occurred having been received at the adjoining
house, Sa.ckville-place, a . very strong body of police was
the spot, while thousa
quickly on
k d hood bloc e u nds of persons from
the neighbour p the street for a consider-
able distance so as to. render it nearly impassable. It
with no small difficulty that the large
was
assembled could protect the • police
furiated multitude while he b • was being taken to the sta-
tion-house, where he was charged and locked up for the
night.
night. It was ascertained that his name is Patrick
Feehan, resident at Barry's-lane, la, k 't B c -in s, and aa,
brushmaker by trade."