The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-16 00:00:00

TH,B SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1844.

disposed for conversation. be dull and silent ; and when-
ever you see that he is interested in what he is talking
about, especially if he wishes you to attend to him, keep
yawning. Ttere are two ways of discharging your house-
hold duties. If you are languid and listless, you may let
them alone; f not ab:e, you should be continually turn-
ing the house topsy-turvy, under pretence of setting it to
rights. You can either let your servants do just as they
please; or yos may be continually in the kitchen, looking
after them. Ia the latter case, scold them freently, and in
an audible voice, so as to be heard up-stairs. Never think of
looking to your husband's shirt-buttons; leave that to the
laundress; or. if you must attend to his linen, superintend
your washing in person, and have frequent water-parties;
aild, especially in winter, always have the clothes dried be-
fore the parlour fire. If your husband has to go out to a
business dinnu, or to the play, never let him have the latch-
key ; and should he, on any occasion, stay out late, send the
servant to bed sit up for him yourself, and make a merit of
the sacrifice to" the wretch." Have a female confidant, who
will instruct yiu in all the ill qualities of husbands generally,
and will supply any deficiencies in the above hints. In
conclusion, beir these grand principles in mind—that men
must be crossed and thwarted continually, or they are sure
to be tyrants—that a woman, to have her rights, must
stand up for them—and that the behaviour which won a
man's affectiois is by no means necessary to preserve them.
—Punch.

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selves upon the retired list to which he had alluded.
The system bad been instituted by Lord Howe,
and it had continued until the Duke of Clarence
had been appointed Lord High Admiral, when an
alteration bad taken place. The Duke of Clarence had
adopted a more just principle. He had adopted the
principle that no officer should be promoted to a flag
who had not served either four years in time of war,
five years in time of war and peace, or six years in time
of peace. That retired list was not a voluntary retired
list —it was formed of officers who had not inte-
rest enough to procure employment afloat. It was in
fact a punishment upon officers for not having suffi-
cient interest with the Government to procure
employment. The Commission had recommended
that all these officers should be taken off the retired list,
and allowed the rank of Rear-Admiral, Vice-Admiral.
and Admiral, but without enjoying the pay.
When he asked the Right Hon. Baronet to give him a
retired list, it was a moderate proposal, and he was only
surprised and astonished that the Right Hon. Baronet
found 138 Gentlemen to support him in such
a thing. What ! he asked, was to allow officers
of sixty years of age to retire upan 1001. a
year. They had now ten officers retired to Green-
which Hospital upon 801. a year ; and he proposed
to increase it to 1001. a year. The Gallant Com-
modore then referred to the Report of the Commis-
sioners, and stated that he read it in order that the House
might understand what the retired list was. It was
necessary that he should show the House what was
the lamentable state of the British navy at the present
moment. The Honourable and Gallant Commodore
then referred to the state of the navy in 1815 and 1818.
He was aware that Government could not help
many of the evils which existed, but still be
thought they ought to take some steps to put
an end to them, and bestow rewards with impar-
tiality. He was actually shocked when he looked
at the returns of the respective ages of the officers
of the navy. That list showed there were only two ad-
mirals and nine vice-admirals under 70 years of age ;
twenty-five rear-admirals under 65, and fifteen under
60 years of age. Of the two hundred captains in that
list, thirty were between 70 and 75 years; forty-eight
between 65 and 70; sixty-one between 60 and 65 years
of age; and fifty-one under 60 years of age; whilst the
youngest was 52 years of age.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

GRAND WEEKLY

ANTI-CORN-L AW LEAGUE

INCREASE OF DOG-STEALING.
The New Epot ling Magazine, for this month, contains
a paper on the increase of the crime of dog-stealing,
which is now carried out on a perfect system, by which
contributions to an almost incredible amount are levied
on those who value a favourite four-footed companion
more than they do a tolerably heavy sum in hard cash.
So great has Vie evil become, that application is to be
made to Parliament for an Act making dog-stealing a
felony, and putting that animal on the same footing as
the horse. The paper gives some curious details con-
nected with the practice, or with what may be called the
statistics of dog-stealing. The following sketch is also
given of the rise and progress of the plan for applying a
remedy by legal means .—" The idea of first petitioning
the House of Commons to have this Act of Parliament
passed, originated with that well-known and eccentric
character, Mr Bishop, of Bond-street, the justly cele-
brated gun-maker ; the petition being signed by great
numbed of the first nobility and gentry in the country.
In his inner sh-ip—or rather studio, as it may be termed
—is held at all seasons of the year, till grouse-shooting
rather thins its daily attendants, a kind of sporting
levee, where the merits not only of guns, but all de-
scriptions of sporting dogs, are talked over by their
various owners or admirers; the conversation being ren-
dered doubly agreeable by the accompaniment of a large
brown loaf and 'ripe Stilton,' and divers foaming pots of
Barclay and Perkins' entire. Now The Bishop,' is, and
has been for about 30 years—that is to say, as long as he
has been upon the town,' or rather before the public
—an eccentric character ; from his long attachment to
all descriptions of fun pervading this great and tasteful
metropolis, whilst his acquaintance with innumerable
' queer characters' of every grade has given him an
insight into society rarely to be met with in any man,
however long an apprenticeship he may have served.
Many of the unfortunate attendants at the aforesaid
levee, having been deprived of their favourite dogs by
the hands of the dog-stealers on whom we have been
descanting, applied, in the moments of their distress,
to Mr. Bishop for his advice in the matter, himself hay
ing been a fellow-sufferer, and, to regain his favourite,
having been mulcted by these harpies in a considerable
fine upon the occasion. His knowledge of the town
and of many of the queer characters' of whom I
spoke, has enabled him to get some of the stolen
dogs restored to their owners, upon paying, through the
medium of a third person, a most exorbitant and shame-
ful ransom. This part of the transaction is generally
negotiated by a man who may be termed the Jonathan
Wild of ' the fancy;' who prefers neglecting his busi-
ness by seeking after the enormous profits arising from
the degrading and rascally negotiations above alluded
to. Since Mr. Bishop has become an accidental assistant
in many of these canine transactions, not only has the
levee become daily increased in the interior of the
studio, but numbers of carriages may be seen in the
morning, containing ladies, anxiously inquiring if any-
thing has been heard about their Floras or Phillises."
The following is a slight outline of the amount of the
ransoms paid for the lives and liberty of the canine
favourites:—" The immense sums of money which have
been lately paid for the restoration of stolen dogs is per-
fectly incredible: the large amount of 900/. and up-
wards has been extorted upon these occasions alone
where Mr. Bishop has personally interfered for the
restitution of the stolen property, in some instances for
dogs, which have been stolen twice, and even more fre-
quently. Amongst those persons who have been suf-
ferers, may be enumerated his Royal Highxess the Duke
of Cambridge, 301.; Wyndham Bruce, Esq., 251.; Capt.
Alexander, First Life Guards, 221.; and many others,
too numerous to insert in these pages."

—Ashocicing accident occurred at Blenheim Palace
on Tuesday. News arrived in the afternoon of the birth
of a son by the Marchioness of Blandford. Some can-
non in the park were fired off in honour of the event,
when a young man named Henry Summer, who was em-
ployed in discharging one of the guns, proceeded to re-
load the same without, unfortunately, having cleaned it;
having put in the charge, it ignited from some fire left
in the gun, at once exploded, and blew off both his
bands. He was speedily removed to the Radcliffe Infir-
mary. Oxford, with very slight hopes of his surviving.
His age is twenty-five, and he has a wife and two children