The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.

Yesterday Robert Barnet, a powerful young man,
dressed in a smock frock, was placed at the bar of
Southwark Police. court, charged with knocking
down and attempting to rob Mr. William Robinet, a
printer.
The complainant stated that on the preceding night
as he was walking along Market-street, Borough-
road, two women of the town wanted him to enter a
house, which he refused to do, and desired them to
leave him alone. He then quickened his pace, when
one of the women who had a poker, threw it at him,
and as he became alarmed, he commenced running,
and heard one of the women call aloud " Bob," upon
which the prisoner rushed out of one of the houses in
that street and pursued him. When the prisoner got
up to complainant, he struck him a blow in the face
and knocked him down in the mud, and while he was
lying on the ground he felt his assailant's hand in his
pocket, and immediately called out " police." The
prisoner attempted to make his escape, but a police.
man coming up stcurtd him near the spot, and took
him to the station-house.

A policeman stated that on hearing the cry of
" murder," on the night in question, in Market street,
he ran to the place from whence the cries proceeded,
and saw the complainant, who pointed out the pri-
soner, and said that he had knocked him down. The
complainant's clothes were saturated with mud, and
be was bleeding profusely from the nose. He added
that he also found a poker near the spot, which the
complainant said had been thrown at him by one of
the women by whom he was first accosted. The street
in question was one of very bad repute, being inha-
bited chiefly by thieves and prostitutes.
The prisoner commenced by asserting that he was
as innocent us the " babe unborn;" that he was pass-
ing along Market-street and saw the complainant
punching a woman, and that he (prisoner) on going
up to her assistance was given in charge by the com-
plainant.
The prisoner was committed.

RESPECT DUE TO VVIVEs.—Do not jest with your
wife upon a subject in which there is danger of wounding
her feelings. Remember that she treasures every word you
utter. Do not speak of some virtue in another man's wife
to remind your own of a fault. Do not reproach your wife
with personal defects, for if she has sensibility, you inflict a
wound difficult to heal. Do not treat your wife with inat-
tention in company, it touches her pride—and she will not
respect you more or love you better for it. Do not upbraid
your wife in the presence of a third person ; the sense of
your disregard for her feelings will prevent her from
acknowledging her fault. Do not entertain your wife with
praising the beauty and accomplishments of other women.
It you would have a pleasant home and cheerful wife,
pass your evenings under your own roof. Do not be stern
and silent in your own house, and remarkable for sociability
elsewhere.

TnE FUTURE WIVES OF ENGLAND.— My pretty
little dears,—You are no more fit for matrimony than a
pullet is to look after a family of, fourteen chickens. The
truth is, my dear you want, generally speaking, more
liberty and less fashionable restraint; more kitchen and
less parlour; more leg exercise and leis sofa; more making
puddings and less piano; more frankness and less mock
modesty ; more breakfast and less bustle. I like the buxom,
bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, full-breasted, bouncing lass, who
can darn stockings, make her own frocks, mend trousers,
command a regiment of pots and kettles, milk the cows, feed
the pigs, chop wood, and shoot a wild duck as well as
the Duchess of Marlborough or the Queen of Spain; and
be a lady withall in the drawing-room. But as for your
pining, moping, screwed-up,
.wasp-waisted, putty-faced,
music-murdering, novel-devouring, daughters of fashion and
idleness, with your consumption-soled shoes, silk stockings,
and calico shifts, you won't do for the future wives and
mothers of England.—Nrs. Ellis's Lectures, addressed to
Young Ladies.
WRECK OF AN AMERICAN SHIP THE FRANCONIA,
AND Loss OF ELEVEN LlVES.—Yesterday morning intelli-
gence reached Liverpool, announcing the total wreck of the
American ship Franconia, on the Anglesea coast, on Satur-
day night, with the loss of Captain Smith, his chief mate, and
nine of his crew. The Franconia was bound from Baltimore
to that port with a cargo of tobacco and cotton. Lloyd's
12, 18o1.— Gentlemen,—l am
sorry to inform you of the total loss of the ship Franconia, of
agent thus
Holyhead,s vritten to
jan th. e consignees, Messrs. J. Brown
aigidencto has
Baltimore, Salith master, bound from Baltimore for Liver-
pool, near Rosslyn, southward of this place. The master,
mate, and nine men were drowned. She became a total
e has been
used. I am, gentlenien,—W. B. JONES, Lloyd's Agent."
wreck before the hands that were saved left her. Very little
tobacco hogsheads,Everyrtion
ex
with the excep-
toifo the
eof c a'u.vgeory saved.
few, all 1h
' brokee
Loss OF LIFE AT SEA --7-On the moraine- of the
29th of November, as Captain Knight, of the New York
packet-ship Ivanhoe, was standing on the poop, hauling in
the mainbrace, the vessel shipped a heavy
sea, and he was
swept overboard. No one SAW him carried away, and of
course he was beyond the reach of assistance before his dis-
appearance was known, the ship at the time having sprung
her spars, split sails, and received other damage. Captain
Knight's loss occurred in lat. 44 46, lon. 40 31.
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, REG ENT•STREET.—
Lord and Lady John Russell and family Were amongst the
,visitors to the Diorama of the Overland Mail yesterday
A morning.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)
COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.
' The writer of the opening article on the military
' crisis in Europe takes a perfectly novel and original
view of the consequences likely to result from the
present crisis in Europe, and of the course which it is
alike the duty and the interest of England to pursue.
He says :
" We maintain, then, that instead of exerting its in-
fluence to prevent the nations of Europe from drawing the
sword,Greet Britain ought rather to encourage them. We
have no reasons, political or commercial, for giving per-
manence to the status quo. On the cuntraty, the more
we meditate on the probabilities of the future, the more
we seek to realize to ourselves the history of the eve nts
that are to be, the more thoroughly must we be convinced
that now is the time for us, as well as for all those whose
whose interests are linked with the progress and well-
being of humanity. Communities entertain friendship
towards each other, cceteris paribus, in proportion to the
similarity of their institutions, particularly when the
state of the world is such as to render them more or less
dependent on each other against the attempts of antago-
nistic states.
"Now the experience of every day makes it manifest
that our great rival, Russia, is infinitely better calculated
than we to command the sympathies of despotic govern-
ments because of the close analogy existing between
them. She is in fact their natural ally and protector,
and has a paramount interest in giving them force and
permanence, though always in subservience to herself.
Freedom, however modified, limited, or disguised, she is
compelled by the very laws of her existence to regard
with aversion, since exactly in proportion to the increase
of its influence must be the diminution of her own. It
is this fact that justifies, in the eyes of her statesmen,
the incurring of so lavish an expenditure by engaging
in foreign intervention. All reforms in neighbouring
states are pregnant with danger to her; ideas travel and
diffuse themselves in an inexplieable manner; opinions
are more contagious than the plague, for men brought
into each others vicinity, whether for mutual aid or
mutual destruction, are sure to communicate the virus of
innovation. Nevertheless, it is still believed possible in
Russia to convert bayonets into an effectual circumvalla-
tion against the principle of liberty, for which reason
Russia holds herself iu constant readiness, with nearly a
million of armed men, to rush towards any point on
which it gives signs of vitality.
"In conformity with the old maxim, fas eat et ab
hoste doceri,' we should allow the prudence of our
enemy to exert a beneficial influence over our own pro-
ceedings. Precisely in the ratio in which the establish-
ment of free governments is injurious to Russia, must it
be beneficial to us. We should ally ourselves, therefore,
with the revolutionary principle on which all our own
institutions are based, and further, by all the means at
our disposal, the subversion of the continental despotisms.
It is every day becoming more and more a contradiction
to denominate them military governments, since they
already dread the soldiers, whom they have disciplined
for their support, but who, in proportion as circumstances
have enabled them to look abroad, have made the dis-
covery, that there exists no identity of interest between
them and their employers; but that instead, their wisest
course will henceforward b rather to insist on their own
rights as citizens, than to aid a few virtual usurpers in
trampling on the rights of others. It is this startling
truth, now every day becoming more and more ap-
parent, that has, during so many months of excitement,
and on the most feverish effervescence of ambition, para-
lysed the arms of Germany, France, and Russia. De-
mocracy has got into the haversack, and the soldier
longs to be his own master. Almost for the first time,
therefore, in the history of the world, the military sys-
tem is found in opposition to the system of absolution,
and if we may draw any conclusive inference from the
existing phenomena of society, the greatest danger to
arbitrary power resides in the very bayonets which it
has sharpened and polished for the subversion of civil
liberty."
These-views, opposed as they are to the generality of
our preconcieved notions, are nevertheless entitled to
the attentive consideration of our legislators. The
article on " The French Army as it is" contains some
most valuable statistics of French military service ;
and the article on General Rosas and the Argentine
Republic makes us intimately acquainted with the
two perhaps most remarkable personages that the re-
volutions in Spanish America have produced—the
Dictator of the Argentine Republic, Don John Ma •
nuel Ortes de Rotas, and his daughter Manuelita.
There are several other papers of interest in the pre-
sent number of Colburn.

JANUARY l4, 1851.