The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

THAMES.

SANGUINARY AFFRAY.—Louisa Percy, a young woman,
was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with assaulting and
wounding John Reynolds, a labouring man, who is in the
London Hospital, and in a precarious state from the effects
of the injury he has received.
A police-constable named Richardson, 219 H, put in a
certificate from Mr. Payne, house-surgeon of the London
Hospital, stating that Reynolds was in danger.
Charles Holly, landlord of the Cork beer-house, in
Chamber-street, Whitechapel, stated that last night he
heard a noise in his tap-room, and upon going there a
quarrel was proceeding between the prisoner and a man
named Reynolds. • There were two quart pots on the table,
and the prisoner was about to seize one. He prevented
her doing so, and she then seized an iron spittoon and struck
Reynolds a violent blow on the head which causes him to
stagger, and he bled profusely. A severe wound was in-
flicted, aii,d the man was convoyed to the hospital.
A heavy iroi;
spittoon with which the wound was inflicted
was produced.
potzr man is in the hospital ?
.
Richardson—With Selfe—on—And theh 'd skull.
a fractui,
The prisoner said that Reynolds struck her, knocked her
it:
down, and kicked her.
Mr. Selfe—The man's life is in danger, and you are re-
manded for a week.

CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A BIRMINGHAM
MERCHANT.—John Plimley Edwards, merchant, of Bir-
mingham, who absconded a short time ago, taking with hint
a considerable sum of money, was apprehended the early
part of last week at Stockholm by Mr. Sadler and Mr.
Tandy, detective police officer, on a charge of forgery, and
was brought back to Birmingham, where he arrived yester-
day (Monday) morning. He was brought up before Mr.
Kynnersley, stipendiary, charged with forgery, and Mr.
Motteram, of the Oxford circuit, instructed by Messrs.
Hodgson and Allen, applied for a remand till Friday, which
was granted. On the application of Mr. John Scnith, who
appeared for the prisoner, the magistrate agreed to accept
bail, the prisoner in £2,000 and two sureties of £l,OOO each,
2t hours' notice to be given to the prosecutors.
TEST FOR ANCHORS AND CHAIN CABLES.—Sir T.
Elphiustone has given notice of a bill to establish a test
for anchors and chain cables for 'the merchant service. ha
the navy this precaution is fully taken, but in the mercan-
tile marine any sordid shipowner may, without fear of the
slightest penalty, send his vessel to sea with the certainty
stan.e, and for this
reliancethat
on
in lhl
her
ro groundto destruction
taekle m oa ny
becometh e first
at
£2 or £3 for an ordinary brig is said to be the difference of
expense
the
lives
board cableare andcoconstantly
a badntly olr9erilled. Of
course the insurance system leads to a desire in many cases
that a vessel should be wrecked.:Fhe shipowner wants a
a ,good price for an unprofitable ship, and the underwriter
is not insensible to the axiom " the more wrecks the more
premiums." In the face of these considerations the vigi-
lance of the Legislature is more especially demanded. Look-
ing at the total yearly sacrifice of lives on our coasts, and
the peculiarly demoralising features of the system under
which it occurs, there can be no doubt that few subjects
could be named of mere urgent impertanee to the cause of
humanity and civilisation. It seems, however, too plain
and practical to claim much synipathy in the House of
Commons from the professional philanthropists who prefer
the theoretical fields of taxation and reform.
Making the best of
Mau is born to Trouble,"
most unquestionably. It is a fact continually and physi-
eally expressed, from the first shrill cry it our swaddling
clothes to the last breath heaved at the gate of eternity.
Setting this down as a leading and unalterable clause in
Mortality's Act of Parliament, it seems but wise to meet
the trials and crosses of every-day life with something like
cheerful resignation, and blunt the sting of that very " busy
bee," Trouble, by " making the best of it." Vainly do we
grumble and repine at the innumerable incidents which
occur to mar our wishes and derange our comforts. Weak
and childish is the everlasting murmur on the lips of
thuse who appear determined to be as unhappy as
they can; for the indulgence of a rebellious and un-
gracious spirit only fixes vexation deeper, and makes
the whole aspect of life gloomy and distorted. All
philosophers, in all ages, have asserted and proved
that our great sum of happiness is composed of small social
items; yet how strangely is this forgotten in the jostling,
jarring, selfish conduct developed in simple instances of
hourly exhibition 1 Strong heads and line hearts will suffer
themselves to be chafed into feverish excitement, or de-
pressed into cold sullenness. by events and positions alike
trivial and unimportant. The principle of natural benevo-
lence, and the qualification of cultivated reason, are gene •
rally unemployed where they would be of the greatest
service. They should operate on the jagged and minute
angles of domestic circumstances, as light and science on
the broken and sharp-edged bits of glass in a kaleidoscope ;
and the very material which too frequently only supplies
matter for anger and discontent, would, if treated philo-
sophically, be often converted into a medium of pleasure.
This universal plague—Trouble —take what shape it may,
has no more efficient antidote than a resolution to "make
the best of it ;" yet how we fail to apply the practice to the
theory I—Eliza cook's (4 trottinis from my Journal."