The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

THAMES.

ATROCIOUS ASSAULT BY A SON ON HIS MOTHER.—
Timothy Mahony, an Irish labourer, aged 22, was brought
before Mr. Selfe charged with committing a brutal assault
on his mother, Ellen Mahony, a poor and industrious wo-
man, who has been the main support of her idle an died-
pated son for some time.

It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Mahony that her
son came home drunk this morning and abused her, and on
her remonstrating with him he broke a table, used the most
abominable language and threats, and gave her a most aw-
ful blow on the nose with part of the broken table, and
caused her to bleed profusely for some time. it was not the
first time that her son had struck her. The woman, who
appeared to be sufferingmuch both mentally and physically,
produced a handkerchief and towel saturated with blood, of
which she had lost a large quantity.
The prisoner said he was drunk this morning, and did not
know what he did.
Mr. Selfe—Are you not ashamed of yourself for striking
your mother ?

The prisoner held down his head, and growled " I doa't
know."

Mr. Selfe—You are a great brute. You are sentenced to
one month's imprisonment and hard labour, for an aggra-
vated assault.

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, March 13.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. ;
moderate breeze, and fine clear weather.
DoyEn, March 12.—A second attempt was made this
morning to get off the Woodcote, London to Adelaide, S.A.,
ashore at Dymchurch, but without success; the cargo is
being discharged. A large quantity of the cargo of the
Wagoola, of and from London for Shanghai, ashore a mile
to the eastward of Folkestone, has been landed on the
beach since last night, and the ship remains in the same
state. Arrived off—Teutonia, from Bremen for Cubs.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Wind N.

Arrived—Margaretta, from Dublin; Scotia, from Newry;
Vigilant, from Waterford ; Courier, steamer, from Jersey;
Tagus, steamer, from Lisbon; Mary Davies, from White-
haven ; Glaslyn, from Port Madoc ; Diana, Jessie, and
Aurora, from Sunderland ; Princess, from Newcastle ;
Hopewell, from Swanage ; Robert and Alfred from Cowes.
Sailed—lndus, steamer, for Alexandria; Wonder,
steamer, for Havre ; Dispatch and Atalanta, steamers, for
Jersey; Bee, for Cowes; Gipsy, for Llanelly.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Wind, N..N.W. ; tide, three hours' ebb ; weather fine.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind, N. by E. ; moderate.
Passed—Nightingale, and Vistula, steamers, from Lon-
don for Cadiz; Enmore, from London for Barbadoes.
Sailed—Sourisquoin, Gauntlet, Athena, 2Erolite, Match-
less, Caradoc, and Sarah Charlotte, with all the outward-
bound, except the Sir Richard Jackson, for Singapore.

ETON COLLEGE.—A resignation from King'a
College, Cambridge, has arrived at the Provost's Lodge, Eton
College, occasioned by the marriage of Mr. C. Booth ; and
Mr. Young, captain of the school, third son of Lady Young,
of Formosa, Cookham, Berke, after undergoing the ancient
ceremony of "ripping," will consequently take his departure
for Cambridge in the course of the present week.
LUXURY AT LIVERPOOL—Let any man who has
known Liverpool intimately for the last 30 years recount
the history of the men who at that period, or for 10 or 15
years afterwards, were largely engaged in commercial pur-
suits, and of those who aro still alive how very few could
he reckon to be affluent, and of those who have gone to
their account what lamentable records of their industry are
visible in their scattered families 1 Now, it cannot be denied
that in too many instances improvident expenditure has
contributed in some degree to such results; but improvi-
dent expenditure is the rule, and the young people of the
present day don't feel satisfied to begin the world unless
in a style approximating to their fathers', and hence
£3OO a year is tabooed entirely as at all adequate for
young married life. Nor does the evil stop here. The
inclination to affect the style and habits of the " upper ten
thousand" is sensibly ou the increase, and you go to a mer-
chant's dinner party now-a-days, probably of 16 or 18, and
find a man-servant behind almost every chair. Nay, we
have coup:, to a climax in Liverpool, for we have a local
Alinack's ; and even among this select set the East and
West Indies keep aloof at their balls from North America
or the River Plato; the Brazils and the West Coast of
America pooh-pooh Irish provisions or Baltic wheat ; while
ship, share, and produce-brokers are mixed up in a hetero-
geneous mass, and admitted according as they suit the fan-
cies of the busybodies who fuss their lives away riddling
such chaff. Now, if this view of our middle classes be cor-
rect, the condition is not a healthy one, and the sooner its
hollowness is exposed the better. It is in vain to be lec-
turing at and to the working people while those above them,
and to whom they ought to look for an example, are mere
ircfpool ion.