The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-10 00:00:00

A MANIAC SAILOR-A FEARFIIL SCENE.

SHIELDS, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
A mnst fearful scene was witnessed in South
Shields Market-place last night. A sailor named
Thos. Cook had returned from a voyage that morn-
ing, and though he did not show any lunacy when
he came home, it is supposed his brain must have
been affected by the extreme heat that has prevailed
at Hamburg, where his vessel came from. After tea
he dressed, and told his wife he was going out for a
walk, and it appears that shortly after he left the
house he was attacked with a sudden fit of madness,
for he was noticed to run into St. Hilda's-churchyard,
and with the agility of a cat clamber up by a spout on
to the roof of that edifice. He then crept along a
water-way to the steeple, and clinging with his_
feet to a ledge running round the sides not an incli
in breadth, dug his fingers into the lime between
t
the stones in the sides of the tower, and in
outside
of miraculous manner wrought himself to th
of it. He looked like a fly on Ordi s
that every
side of the
tower, and the crowd below P
moment he would fall and be smashedexreoeped with his
e to pieces.
Having got to the outside he
hands on to the ledge, and with d')
whole body upon them managed_ayin,got back to the the weight of his
to make the
0
entire circuit in safety.
roof of the church, be smashed his watch and threw
it amongst the peoplee ne then took off his neck-
tie, coat, and linen shirt, tore them into fragments,
and pitched them amongst the crowd, which by
this time had numbered several hundreds. Hav-
ing disburdened himself of the principal part of
his dress, he scattered a quantity of coppers and
cigars amongst the crowd, and it was thought that
he was making ready to leap from the roof to the
flags beneath, when he must inevitably have been
killed, but the police and a number of young men
broke through the belfry on to the roof, and though
ho made a fierce attack upon them they over-
powered him, and he was removed to the police
station, where he was put into a strait waistcoat.
The medical men think that he will have to be
taken to a lunatic asylum.

to any of the ordinary means of conciliation, an(
it is so:much to our interest to believe itthat we ate
not disposed to weigh probabilities minutely; cr
call into question what some might consider very
doubtful assertions. Let me then, by all meanv,
take it for granted that our diplomatic fend is at an .
end, and that a state of feeling has succeeded very
different from that which dictated the curt and
acrid despatch with which Count Walewski con-
cluded the corr. spoedence. Let us turn our minds
to the exploits now enacting on the tropical_plaius
of India, to the oretorical thunder launehe'd against .2
us from the temple of the Capitoline Jove at Wash.
ington, to the destinies of Commissioner Yeh, to '-
the blood-stained valleys of Montenegro, or' to
whatever other quarter may challenge the attention
of the political observer. Still there is one unfor- -
tunate fact which will force itself upon our atten-
tion in. spite of the very best exertions we c-in
make to persuade ourselves that the political at.
=Sphere is quite as clear on the side of France ae .
we could desire. For what purpose, or in what ;
quarrel, against. whom or for whone.ave know riot-,
Franca is • undoubtedly arming-2:o) /I, scale, with a -
Method, a system, and a de!iherationetrnly' f ,r-
-midable to all her neighbours—whether, like our-
selves, dry have the good fortune to be sheltie ed
from the impending storm under the um-
brageous branches of an-entente cordiale,—whether,
like Belgium, Piedmont, and Spain, in the con-
Scieusness of their inability to resist, they.liktt!ti
With-iiii unreasonable trepidation for the first howl •
of the coming tempest,—or whether, like -Atistria,
they-know not hew soon they may be compelled
to fight for their dominions against a brave and '-
well disciplined enemy. France is certainly arm-
ing,
and arming both by land and sea. Her army,
lialready large, is undergqiug considerable increase.
he is just- on the point of completing .a railway.
hich connects all her . military stations with the
rtifications of Cherbourg, a port constructed at
enormous pains and at vast expense, and possessing .
every facility that skill can devise for the sitnul- .'
taneous embarcation of very large l.odies of troops.
France is, besides, busily "engaged in 41i-4 -cons tra e- ,
tion of a great s.teain fl et, armed and propelled 1 n. _
the very-best and newest principles at present de-
veloped by the art of war ; she is gathering up her
colossal strength, and would appear to be on the
eve' of some vad enterpriie; in the prosecution of
which that strength is to be put forth to the utmost.
Not only .is the military element studiously -
st-engthened and increased, but it is beginning is
assert a predominance over c:vilians which showa
itself more and more every day, and naturally -
Makes us anxious about our relations with a coun-
try in which the .balance is so cempletely pressed .
down by the superior weight of the military class.
It is in vain Viet we seek for anything in the pre-
sent co edition. of France which can account for the
remerhable procei dings to which we most unwil-
lingly allude. The finances of the country ar: in a
state that inuit render any naval or military ex-
penditure not tibtolutely called for by nectar sit), or
honour peculi%rly inexpedient. The people of •
Engla,rd have •no wish nearer their hearts thin to
rein tin on the very be terms with their formidable
and wailike neighbour, end we are Lure that there
is no country in Europe wh'ch would regard a
rupture with France with any other feelings than
those of the most' genuine abhorrence and dismay.
We cannot believe for a moment that the enormous
preparations which Fiance is making are intended
for defensive warf re, fur there is not the slightest
symptom of a wish in any quitter to attack her.
Her form of government egret-s entirely with the
notions entertained by the Governments of the
greater part of Europe, and we in England have long
learnt to renounce the Quixotion idea f f Liming
our own ideas upon other nations. if France is
happy we are content she should be to in her own
way, and desire n ,thing but to see hie. great, p 2 aceful
and prosperous. Why, then, is Fiance arming?
It may be that the peculiar form of government
in which France has see:s tit to indulge Lee sgratets
some,increase of the army for parpaio; of domestic
represkior, and we w uld much rather believe it is
so than suppose she is marshalling her forces for
some f 'reign war ; but, if we grant that .the army iS
increased fer the purpose of insuring domestic tran-
quillity, on what ground are we to account for the
corresponding and centecuperaneous augmentation
of her fierl ? The n ivy has always been a favourite
force in England, because, among other reasons, it
is a force which cannot readily be used for the pur-
pose
of coercing the people. In France the same
principle meuss apply, and We are at a loss to know
fear what pacific purpose a large steam navy is being
prepared. France has but Tow colonies, and those
of inconsiderable extent. She has no large foreign
commerce to protect, no refractory Indic to reoon-
ques ancbreorganise. She his no:hing to fear from
a descent on her co fats from any foreign Powf r.
Why, then, is France arming and augmenting her
navy ?

We hare a right to ask the question ; for,' what-
ever be the enemy a2airist witorn the thunderbolt
is forged, there is no doubt that these warlike pre-
parations in a timo of profound peace tend to inflict
upon us, in °Amnon with the re,t of our neigh-
bours, many of the cala'niti,s and miseries of war.
If france will insist on increat.ing her armies and her
navies, she forces u=, her neigLb curs and her Milt s,
to do the Saint'. Wo have too much at stake wi lain
tuts little island of ours to he content to exist by the
permission and on the sufrera 'tie of any ally, how-
ever faithful, —of any foreign Prince, however, mag-
nanimous. history warns us against incurring
the fate of those nations who have trusted the
power of the sword in other hands than those in
which they were content to trust their f e,tdoin.
France is determined to arm we must either be
content to lie at her metey or prepare to arm too.
If increases her regnl,r army, we can hardly do
lees than call out and embody our militia. If sho
insists upon increasing her navy, she tortes us 111, st
unwillingly, from the barest coniderat ions of pru-
dence, to nude! go the expense of a channel flee'.
This expendituie, winch is not requirod for d, Ines-
tic purposes, nor for the defenc3 of our colonies,
nc-,r for the reduction of the Indian rid)
purely of the Latin e of a war expenditure in self-
defenco, forced upon us by the tinvatening attitude
of a Power winch tells us in the same breath that
it is our cordial fii,nd and sure ally, We should
prJer other proofs of cordiality, friendship, and
alliance than are to be found in an attitude whir h
compe!s us either to trust ouzselresblis State, blindly and
en' irely to the profess ohs of a powerful
to hamper our comair roe, embarrass our hnauct s,
and retard necessary improvements for the purpose
of keeping up a barren and unprofitable force to
defend us against attacks which may certainly never
have been contemplated, but which it is our boun-
den duty to render impossible. The time has
arrived when we ought to speak plainly on
this matter. We hate had somewhat too
much of compliment and grimace of late, and a
little openness and sincerity on the part of Eng-
land would be refreshing, were it only for their
novelty. We would, then, take the liberty respect-
fully to submit to the EinpEitor Napoleon that it
is the sincere wish of this cauntry to be his good
friend and true ally ; that to this end we have
made many sacrifices, and are prepared to make
many more ; but he asks two much of us if he
expects that he is at once to enjoy whatever power,
support, or influence his alliance with England
m
may give him, and at the same time to flict upon
us by his vast military and naval prepar.ationa a
war expenditure which we are mcst unwilling to
incur, and which cats upon us many of evils
of a state of actual hostilities. In politics many
things apparently discordant may be made com-
patible, but it is impossible that two powerful and
in time
Clos b
class
neighbouring nations can a
arming against each other and
the
united same
alliance and cordial friendship.

The Nemesis, with the Calcutta mail, has arrived-at
Suez, reporting the departure of the Victoria, with the
Australian mail of the 11th of April, from Aden, twenty
hours before the Nemesis. The Victoria had previously
been obliged toput back to Galle from a derangement
in her machinery, and had been detained there three days.
The telegram containing the announcement of her arrival
at Suez and a summary of her news may now be expected
hourly. The silver by the outgoing Bombay steamer is
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