The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-12 00:00:00

ESQ.

The Lord Chancellor presents his compliments to Mr.
Dyer, and returns ;he letter from the Secretary to the
London and Westminster Life Assurance- Society. The
Lord Chancellor much regrets Mr. Dyer's removal from
the commission of the peace should have produced effects
pa.ir.ful to him beyond what the grounds of such removal would
lu.stify. In the letter communicating to Mr. Di er the removal
of his name from the commission, the Lord Chancellor stated
the true re tsons for the proceeding, and does not fed jus-
tified in entering more fully into the subject. That letter
did not express any opinion as to Mr. Dyer's motives, but
rested his removal from the commission upon the admitted
fact of his having held such communication with a prisoner
under sentence, as Mr. Dyer himself admitted is have taken
place. Any inference, therefore, which may have been drawn
from the fact of his removal beyond what arises from Mr. Dyer's
statement in his own letter, would, in the opinion of the Lord
Chancellor, be improperly drawn, and would be the subject of
regret to him.
Bruton-street, June 22, 1841.
FRODI H. C. MORETON DYER, ESQ., TO JOHN EDMOND, ESQ.
Devonshire-place House, June 27, 1841.
Sir—Finding that the impressions on the public mind as
to the immediate cause of my late removal from the commis-
sion of the peace for Middlesex and Westminster, and the facts
connected with it, are not only highly erroneous, but very pre-
judicial to my character, I feel I am, in justice to myself and
my friends, bound to give some explanation of the matter. In
so doing the first step which suggests itself to me is thus to
request you will do me the favour of stating what really took
place between us on the one and only occasion upon which we
conversed on the subject of Mr. Medhurst's release,
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient and faithful servant,
John Edmond, Esq. H. C. MORETON DYER.
FROM JOHN EDMOND, ESQ. TO H. C. MORETON DYER, ESQ.

Argyll Chambers, Argyll-place, June 28, 1841.
Sir—ln reply to your letter of yesterday, I beg to say that
on a former occasion, during the time that an investigation
took place, I then considered it my duty to refuse to commu-
nicate the particulars of the conversation you referred to, so
now I mast also dechne to alter my determination.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
To. H. C. Moreton Dyer, Esq. JOHN EDMOND.

FROM li. C. MORETON DYER, ESQ., TO Joint ED)IOND, ESQ.
Devonshire-place House, June, 1841,
Sir—l deeply regret that the circumstances of the cS.Se
ihetild make you feel it your duty to determine to be silent
upon it. Having, however, the highest opinion of your ho-
nour. I confess I have no right to fiefl fault with that de-
termifiafiOni of to dispute your justice or discretion in form-
ing it ; but I am sure you will pardon me for pressing most
seriously upon you the urgent necessity of at least infirm-
ing me, for the satisfaction of my friends and the public if
nything passed between us on the occasion alluded to in my
lift let*, which was dishonoureale or discreditable to me.
as Alagistree or a man of honour, or from which you drew
an inference the I was to derive any pecuniary or other
advintle ftetti Alf. Medhurst's release.
I have the honour to be, Sir, &e.

John Edmond, Esq. H. C. MORETON DYER.
FROM JOHN EDMOND, ESQ., TO H. C. MORETON DYER, ESQ.
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Argyll Chambers, Argyll-place, July 5, 1841.
&did have earlier answered your letter, but being
out of town prevented my doing so. I have no objection to
state, that on the occasion alluded to in your letter, nothing
occurred injurious to your honour or character, nor did I infer
that you were to derive au), advantage or emolument from the
triktgimlon my impression was, that your motives were those
of Mit/14114, I MUSt now beg positively to decline any further
communication on this subject.
1 have the honour to be, Sir, &c.,
, H. Cr Moreton Dyer, Esq. JOHN EDMOND.

NAVAL 1-NT,, LLIGENCE.
WOOLWICH, JULY 9.—The Widgeti! Stcatil-Yersel, Master
Commander John Hamilton, arrived here yest-,- 'v (NM Darer,
,
and the King and'Queen of B?lgium, with their i'..&:leittitV
suite, *lll embark otl board of her at half-past eight o'clock to-
morrow (Saturday) mot:fling, fat 0. passage to 03tend. Mast:
Commander Smithett, of the AOCI ett,atitzliessel, has almost
alwnys the honour of being present when {Belt 10.4ie'sties sfe
on board, and will attend to give his able assistatlee on itAt
OeOaSiott,
The Salattlfinder steam-frigate, Commander }lasting Re-
ginald len tirrifed ait Woolwich on the sth July, from
Plymou.
The Shearwater steam-vessel, Lieutenant Cob/in/elder J,
Washington, arrived at Woolwich, from Harwich, yaiefdayi
*bete she had been engaged in endeavourins, to find some
treeeg 6f the late unfortunate vessel, the Fairy surveying
vessel: The Shearwater will return on Saturday, the 10th
inStanti aeedmintnied by the s'petedwell as a tender, to resume
the mutt upon the ilarwith coast, end other parts of the
north sea.
The Diligence transport-ship heti itrodittich °tithe
7th instant for the Medway.
The Dee steam-vessel was towed to Sheerness to-tllji, it'i if
fitted as a troop .ship.
The Aid sailed yesterday for Portsmouth and Plymouth.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

LONDON, JULY 10.—Wind this day at noon, S. W.
DEAL, JULY 9.—Wind W. S.W., moderate.—Arrived the
Cecilia, Weddell, from Launceston ; John Oldham, Henley,
Jamaica.
LivEitroor., Jin:v 9.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Earl
of Dalhousie, from Calcutta ; Christiana, Valparaiso : Eliza-
beth Wood, Crasley, Barbadoes ; Spinsters, Colquhoun, Cape
Haytien. Sailed the Harvest House, Heron, far Calcutta;
Mary, Queen of Scots, Kelly, Pernambuco : Columbus, Bar-
stow, New York ; Cornelia, Finch, ditto ; Prompt, Morton,
Montreal ; Sherbrooke, Gray, Quebec ; Bunn, Smith, Africa;
Commerce, Corran, ditto. The Maria, bound to Oporto,
grounded near Farmby this morning, but came off on the
flood, and proceeded
HOLYHEAD, JULY 9.—Arrived off, the Joseph Winter,
from the Mauritius.
DARTMOUTH, JULY 8 —Arrived the Somerset, London for
Malta, with loss of topsail, yard, and sails split. Arrived off,
the Tomaten, Wingate, China and Batavia ; Seplung, Raw-
lins, Calcutta.
CARDIFF, J uLY B.—Sailed the Emma, to Naples ; Drome,
Lyra; Off Weymouth, 9th, Earl of Denham, Croucb, Cal-
cutta; Rosalind, Calford, Ceylon; Madras, Parsons, Van
Diemen's Land, sailed the 15th March; Regulus, Hunter, New
South Wales, sailed 11th.
CLYDE, JULY 8. —Sailed the Jane Brown, Wylie, Montreal.
KIN GSTOWN, J u LYB. —Arrived the Vestal, Beadle, Trinidad.
B URHAVEN, JULY 6.—Arrived the Patriot, Smith, Montreal,
SHIELDS,JULY 7 and B.—Sailed the Blixton, Buenos Ayres;
Mr

,ajestic, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 9.—Wind S.S. W. to N.N. W.—
Sailed the Ann, Major, Malta; Irvine, Dalhousie. Arrived
off, the Lavinia, Hall, Sydney ad New South Wales; sailedthe
Pillch, Martin Wingate, China.
COWES, Jury 9.—Arrived the Regalia, Poustee, from the
Havannah ; Munro, Balfour, from Buenos Ayres, and sailed
for Antwerp ; Amelia, Flasdale, Rio Janeiro, and sailed for
London.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 9. —N. N. W.—Arrived off, the Scipio,
Henderson, from Macao.
SWANSZA, JULY B.—The Betsey, of Plymouth, capsized
near Neath last night, but has been righted to-day, and will
be towed into a place of safety.
YARMOUTH, JULY 9.—The Isabella, Newton, which was on
shore on Mundesley Beach, has been got off, and brought in
here.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE —REMARKABLE Es-
cAPE.—On Tuesday afternoon a determined attempt at suicide
was committed at Earl's-court, by a young female named
Charlotte Jones, servant to a lady named Forster, residing in
Rich-terrace, Richmond-road. It appears that her mistress,
having detected her in purloining some fruit from the garden,
reproved her for her conduct, and threatened, on its repetition
to discharge her. Shortly after a noise was heard as of the
fall of some heavy body in the front garden, and on running
out the woman was discovered lying insensible on the ground,
having thrown herself out of one of the upper windows, a height
of from thirty-five to forty feet. She was immediately con-
veyed into the house. and Mr. Godrich, a surgeon, sent for,
but before his arrival she had recovered her senses. On ex-
amining her it was found that, although much shaken, no bonca
were broken.
THE ALLEGED CASE OF STARVATION AT
DEPTFORD.—On Friday afternoon, at half-past four o'clock,
the adjourned inquest on the unfortunate Mary Skelton, t
place before Mr. Carttar, in a large room, near Deptford Pier,
which was crowded to hear what the guardians of the Green-
wich union had to say to the serious charges brought against
them on the former examination. Among the guardians pre-
sent we observed, Adam Young, Esq., one of the county Ma-
gistrates, Mr. Blaknell Carter, the Chairman of the
Board, Mr. Robert Wood, Mr. F. Powell, &c. After the
Guardians and several witnesses had been examined at great
length the room was cleared of s'rangers, and the Jury
after a consideration of nearly half an hour, returned a
verdict of " Natural Death," with the following remark—
" The Jury having maturely considered the case before them,
are of opinion that Mary Skelton died of the disease sander
which she laboured ; thee cannot dismiss from their minds that
her death has been accelerated through personal neglect and
want of neurishment. From the evidence adduced they think
the Doctor's recommendation to have her taken :into the
house, oaght at once to have been attended to, at any rate
until some order had been procured for her admission into the
hospital, &C. They are unwilling to impute censure to those
, whose duty it is to protect the necessitiouv poor ; but, it is a
melancholy fact, that in a country so justly celebrated for its
charities, it is possible for a fellow creature to die of star-
vation."
It is a singular fact that all the chimney-
sweepers in Brighton voted for the Tory !—Brighton
Herald