The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-03 00:00:00

duct will► deprive them of all charitable relief,and
they will be doomed to undergo the most dread-
ful inflictions of want and misery. Such is the
state to which they will reduce themselves. If
these consequences attached only to the guilty
ringleaders no regret would be felt; but unhap.
pily the calamity will spread indiscriminately
over all those classes and individuals who subsist
by their labour. The wretched peasantry will
be punished for offences in which they never
shared, and the progress of national improve-
ment will be arrested at the very moment of
its commencement. The capital of England was
flowing into the sister island, and the most cheer-
ing prospects were opening upon 'it. The spirit
of the people was reviving, and Ireland seemed
likely to become also the seat of industry and
comfort. A blow, however, has been struck
against her welfare, u hick we fear it will require
some considerable time to recover. In order to
avert the many evils with which the present state
of things is pregnant, we trust that the provisions
of the new Act will be vigorously applied, and
that all the protection of the law may be fully
given to those workmen who are disposed peace-
fully to follow tl►eir business and uphold the
trade of their country.

LMORNING MERALD.]
We do not know whether it is owing to the
heat of the weather, the paucity of business, or
from what other cause it may arise, but many
Learned Members of the Bar appear to have left
town this summer, more than usually out of hu-
mour with each other; and some of the Circuits
have exhibited specimens of personal contest not
very creditable to the learning or liberality of
this most learned and liberal profession. On
the Northern Circuit this quarrelling has been
carried so far, that one of the Judges is
represented (we know not with what truth) to
have made it his personal request to the Bar to
abstain, at least for a season, from these un-
seemly broils, declaring that he would never go
to that Circuit again. if the Learned Gentlemen
were thus to fall out merely from an excess of zeal
on behalf of their clients, however one might la-
ment the spectacle such things exhibit, one could
not appreciate the motives : but we fear they
are, for the most part, not entitled even to this
apology. The late Lord Erskine and Sir Sa-
muel Romilly, by far the most warm and ener-
getic advocates of our time, and who adopted
their clients' interests with an intense zeal, never
for a moment gave way to intemperance of this
kiud. Lord Erskine, in particular, was all
kindness to his associates. Towards those of his
own rank and standing at the Bar, nothing like
jealousy or ever escaped him ; while to the
younger aspirant for honour and distinction, he
was all mildness and courtesy, and anxious to af-
ford opportunities for the display of rising talent.
One of his opponents (the late Sir Vicary Gibbs)
had that fault of temper which seems to characterize
so many of our modern pleaders; but no sourness
or provocation ever moved Erskine from the two
great points he had in view—the honour of his
profession, and the interests of those whose
cause was intrusted to his care. In the race
for the emoluments, it would be as well, we
think, if the present Bar were rather more
mindful of its honour. The quocunque modo
rem may do very well for a huckster—
for the man on whose mind neither the truths
of philosophy nor the blandishments of society
have ever dawned ; but to see men of liberal edu-
cation and enlightened views descending to the
arena of Billingsgate and St. Giles's, is a spec-
tacle which must strike every looker-on with
disgust, and is calculated to degrade both the
law and its practitioners in the eyes of all man-
kind.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

THE ALLEGED MURDER AT HAMMERSMITH.

Mr. STIRLING, the Coroner, and a highly re-
spectable Jury, assembled at the Red Lion, Hammersmith,
yesterday morning, to inquire into the death of a respectable
female, of the name of Elizabeth Ennis, who was stated to have
been violated, and then murdered, in the fields near the above
hamlet.—The inquiry excited the greatest interest.
From the evidence of six witnesses it appeared, that on Sun-
day evening the deceased called at the house of Mrs. Walker,
in -Hammersmith, and stated she was looking for an Isleworth
coach, as she wished to get on as quick as possible; this being
after ten o'clock, all the coaches had passed, and being afraid
to go on by herself, Mrs. Walker directed John Davis, a watch-
man, to procure her a lodging ; he promised to do so, but could
not, and placed her in, his watchbox (as he stated) about one
o'clock. and she then seemed very depressed and low in spirits,
Davis went his rounds, which were a very considerable extent,
and returned about 4 o'clock in the morning, and thought the
deceased was fast asleep, as he heard a noise like snoring. He,
however, did not look into the box, and, on coming back again
in half an hour with two other persons, he was surprised to find
the deceased extended along the box in a fainting fit. He raised
her up, and discovered that her shawl and veil were gone, from
which it was concluded she had been robbed. She was carried
to the workhouse, and Dr. Bowling immediately attended, and
from her appearance, concluded she was in a fit of epilepsy.—
He directed her to be placed in a warm bath, but this was
of no avail ; she never recovered her senses, and died without
giving the slightest appearance ofsensibility.
Her pockets being searched, it was discovered she had lived
at Isleworth, and messengers being sent there her father and
family were apprised, and they attended the Inquest, and from
their statement it appeared she had been to town on business,
and it was supposed, being detained late, had lost the coach,
and had walked on to Hammersmith.
The Jury thought it a very suspicious case, and at very great
length cross-examined Davis, the watchman ; but he declared
he had 'done all he considered necessary, and had no communi-
cation whatever with her after he had placed her in his watch-
box ; at that time she had her shawl and veil, but during his
absence they must have been stolen. He had seen no persons
coming in the direction from the box, and could not by any
means conceive how she had been robbed, but he did not be-
lieve that she had been ill-used.

Mr. Bowling, the surgeon, confirmed this part of his state-
ment, and said there were no marks of any violence whatever
about her body.
A Juror asked him, as a report had been circulated that she
had been criminally abused, if that was the fact ?
Mr. Bowling said certainly not. She had died solely from
the effects of an epileptic fit ; and he understood she was sub-
ject to an affliction of that kind.
Mr. Payne, a Juror, asked him, if instead of being placed in
a watch-box, proper care had been taken of her,' would she
not have been alive at that moment ?

Mr. Bowling declared he could not give an opinion.
By desire of several of the Jurors, a female who had known
the deceased for nine years, was examined, and proved that
many times during that period the deceased had been attacked
with similar fits.
A very confused discussion arose among the Jury upon the
evidence, which lasted a length of time, and the principal point
appeared to be a wish to punish Davis for his inhuman neglect.
in not taking the deceased to the workhouse.
The Jury, at half-past twelve o'clock, returned a verdict of
" Died by the visitation of God ;" and also added a censure
upon Davis's conduct, 4nd a hope that he would be disn.4-ised
from his situation. The whole numbei of persons summoned,
namely 24, attended,