The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-09 00:00:00

THE WORK-TABLE MAGAZINE.

This is the first number of a new periodical, de-
voted, as its name indicates, to the art of " plying
the polished shaft." The present number contains a
variety of patterns for different kinds of work, one
of which is very beautifully coloured, accom-
panied by very careful explanations. This
new magazine will doubtless prove attractive
to the fair circle for whom it is intended. It is in
character somewhat similar to a very excellent French
publication, the " Journal des Demoiselles." The
French magazine is, however, not exclusively devoted
to the work-table, and in this respect it would be
well for its English contemporary to follow its
example. Its attractions would be greatly
increased by the addition not of sentimental tales,
like those which too often fill the pages of ladies'
magazines, but of somk literary contributions calcu-
lated to benefit, as well-as interest and amuse their
readers. It is, perhaps, right to add, that the Work-
table Magazine appears under the special patronage
of her Majesty.

PAINFUL AND EXTRAORDINARY
CASE OF LUNACY.
On the evening of Wednesday last, a man in the garb
of a sailor entered the shop of Mr. Maplestone, up-
holsterer, St. Matthew's-street, in this town, and on
seeing that gentleman told him he was then come to
take possession of the property in his (Mr. Maplestone's)
shop and premises, for it all belonged to him, and at the
same time desired that Mr. Maplestone should imme•
diately leave the premises. Mr. Maplestone at once
perceived that the poor fellow was labouring under
an aberration of mind, and did as he was requested ;
thinking that if he were to attempt to remonstrate
with the man upon his strange delusion he might pro-
ceed to acts of violence ; he accordingly left his shop,
and very wisely sought the assistance of the police
who returned with him to his shop, from whence the in-
truder was removed to the station-house, and while there
it was quite evident from the poor fellow's conduct that
he was insane. On the following morning (Thursday)
Mr. Manning, the Relieving Officer, applied to the
Mayor, at the Town Hall, for his advice as to how he
should deal with the case, the man having been found
within his district. He said Mr. G. Millen, surgeon,
had seen the man, and that gentleman had
advised that he should be properly taken care
of for a few days, when he probably might be
so far recovered as to be sent to his home. The Captain
of the "Three Hands," from Goole, in Yorkshire, who
was in attendance, stated in answer to qustions put
by the Mayor, that the name of the unfortunate man
was William Jackson, whom he had engaged on leaving
Goole, as a seaman on board his vessel, at which time
he appeared to be in good health, in mind, as well as
body. The first symptoms of an unsoundness of mind
in the man, he said, were noticed in the night prior to
Christmas-day, for Jackson went into the Captain's
cabin about twelve o'clock at night, and said to the
captain, who was in bed, " That he had been in Heaven
and with Jesus Christ," and otherwise talked in an
incoherent manner ; but upon being requested to go to
bed, he left, and the captain did not see him again till
the following morning (Christmas-day), at which time
he was reading his bible. The Captain, in continuation,
said, after having witnessed other acts which led
him to believe that the poor fellow was non compos men-
ds, he had him kept as quiet as possible until the vessel
reached Harwich, which it did on Wednesday last, at
which place he had him conveyed ashore for safety by
the crew of a smack, but he had contrived to come up to
Ipswich on board the River Queen steamer on the
same day. He was afraid, in the state of mind
Jackson then was, to take him back to Goole,
where he had a wife living. The Mayor told the
captain (who had said he was going to sail for Goole
on the following day) to inform Jackson's a ifo, on
his return, that her husband would be taken care
of while here, and ordered the relieving officer to see
that he was taken to the union house, there to be kept in
a room, with a fire, and to have a person constantly with
him. The poor man was removed from the magistrates'
room exclaiming that he was " King of the country."
The poor fellow's disordered state of mind was painfully
evident, from the fact that, shortly before he was re-
moved from the vessel, he was caught sitting over the
fire which he had kindled upon the cabin floor. Jackson
was brought before the magistrates on Monday (yester-
day), who granted an order to the relieving officer, Mr.
Manning, to remove him to the Peckham Asylum.—
Ipswich .Express.

•
DEATH OF COMMODORE DANIEL PRING.—We re-
gret to announce the death of Commodore Daniel Pring,
of the West India, Halifax, and North American sta-
tions. This gallant officer died on board the receiving-
ship Imaum, 72, at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 29th of
November last. His remains were interred in the
.burial-ground of the parish church of St. Andrew,
jat
Kingston. Commodore Pring served as midshipman on
board the Russell, at Copenhagen, in 1801. He •
lieutenant in command of the Paz, schooner, in wtha:
second attack on Buenos Ayres, in 1807. As commander
he 'was actively employed on the lakes in Canada,
on the death of Captain Downie he s and
ucceeded to the
command of the flotilla in the attack on the American
squadron at Plattsburg, where he was captured. His
captain's commission is dated September 19, 1815. He
was appointed to the West India station on the 16th
September, 1844.

SUICIDE OF A. PERSON OF PROPERTY. —TEe
Courrier de la Gironde states that a few days ago Mr
Charles Warre, a person of large property ati Hamburgh,
but residing at Bordeaux, left his home and made his
way to the wood on the hill of Cenon Bastide, and
there hung himself on a tree. That he was in a state of
inanity there can be no doubt, as he had previously been
an inmate of a lunatic asylum, and yet he had .had the
precaution of taking his watch, his money, and his keys
from his pockets, and leaving them on a table in his
apartment.