The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-09 00:00:00

CASE OF POISONING.

CORONER'S INQUEST.--YeSterday afternoon
an Inquest was held at the sign of the Bank public• house, King-
street, Drury lane, before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq. Coroner
for Middlesex, on the body of Elizabeth Forth, aged 40. It was
reported about the neighbourhood that the deceased had come
to her death by unfair means, and the case excited much interest.
Bridget Binely being sworn, deposed, that she was frequently
employed by the deceased to wash, and bad been acquainted
with her for some time. On Monday morning last the hus-
band of the deceased called on witnesl, and requested her
attendance at his residence, No. 25, King-street, Drury-lane,
as his wife was taken very ill, and desired to see her. She in-
stantly proceeded to the house, where she found the deceased
in bed, excessively ill, and she complained of burning in the
inside. On questioning the deceased, the informed her that
she had taken some pearlash in mistake for salts, and likewise
some mixture which her husband was in the habit of taking to
cure the gout. She died at four o'clock in witness's arms, being
two hours after her arrival.

that the tie-
William Ford, husband to the deceased, deposed, icated, aed
ceased was in the continual habit of gettin g
would frequently return home in the most senseless
the gout, Witness, in consequence of being afflicted witih,
bemixed
with
pro-
vided himself with some meadow saffron,
which
couple of spx; n..
some rum, of which he used frequently
to
tr'thee habit of drinking
full, and the deceased was occasionallyiii•:o
which the deceased
small quantities. It was in a cupboard to informed Lint
had free access. On Sunday last the , 2,,';'eh had made 1,,,,,r
that she had drunk a cup full of thee stuff; w"'
had poisoned herself, and
very ill ; witness told her " that ?l,i.
tointo.x conditiun.
prepare for death as
was a dead woman," advising I,
quickly as she possibly could. ,
she went to bed, and at her
a doctor, who sent the deceased
arsirderable persuasion, she drank.—
she had taken pearlash in mistake. for
arenqeume set t
i lci ,
e whichwe nt to, with itl r. Joni,
Witness understood that
salts.
i landlady of the house in which the deceased
pearlash instead of salts, and she was so very
Mrs. E. Lee, tta
t.),
i deceased was frequently intoxicate-0,
de"edLL; she called witness to her room, and told her
lodged,
I'd u.s desirous of having medical advice. Witne;„
ill that she wh
every assistance, but she died soon after. The
rendered her .
was a
husband
deceased's
husband.
Coroner said there was no doubt but the deceased had
'The
the meadow saffron and rum by mistake,
taken . while labouring
undo r intoxication.
of
and cze.Sundaiyke..
The Jury being the same opinion, %turned a verdict
accOrdingly. _ s

CORN EXCIIANGE JUNE 9.
There is not much Corn fresh at market to-day, bi t the wea-
ther continues line, and the trade is therefore generally dull.
Wheat remains as last quoted. Barley finds very few buyers.
Beans and Peas are unaltered from Alonday's report. Oats
that are dry and sweet meet sale with freedom at la.qt quota-
tior s, but other sorts are dull. Arrivals—Wheat, 1b00;
250; Oats; OW quarters ; Flour, MO sacks.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 9.

[BRITISH PR ESS.3
France, it appears, is endeavouring to revive

her influence with the Porte, and taking mea-
, sures to extend it, if possible, in Persia, and
throughout the East. Guilleminot, the new Am-
bassador from the Court of the Tuileries to
Constantinople, had sailed from roulon on the
Bth of May, and was expected to reach the
Turkish capital by the close of the month. He

was accompanied by a numerous suite of diplo-

matic characters, and also by several able officers
. of engineers, beside his Aid-de-camps, who
served with him in Spain. Some of these indivi-
duals were appointed on missions into Asia, par-
. ticularly, it is said, to Persia, where the French
had been intriguing before. France was the
ancient ally of the Ottoman, from the period of
the league between Sultan Solimp and Francis
the First, formed against the powers of Charles
the Fifth, and which drew down a load of re-
probation throughout Europe on the French
Monarch. France possessed a large portion of
the Levant trade previous to the Revolution, and
had secured by treaties many valuable privileges
in her intercourse with Turkey, which it is the
object of Guilleminot's mission now to revive.—
_

Lord Strang,forci's influence had for some time
sunk with the barbarous Divan : the Porte was
indignant at the aid afforded from this country to
the Greeks, and nothing but jealous apprehension
of the power of Russia, to controul which the
superior ascendancy of Great Britain was consi-
dered necessary, enabled our Ambassador to
succeed against strong prejudices, and obtain a
promise of the evacuation of the Principalities.
France cannot wish for the destruction of
the Greeks, and, she must be opposed to the
dangerous designs of Russia on the Turkish Pro-
vinces. The influence of Guilleminot will not,
therefore, be opposed to that of Lord Strangford;
but, on all occasions, we should expect, be given
in aid; as the views of Great Britain and France,
as regard the political state of Turkey, and the
situation of the Greeks, must be in a great degree
the same,. The object of our Cabinet is to pre-
vent Russia from gaining a more extended foot-
ing in the South East of Europe, and monopo-
lizing the whole commerce of the Black Sea, be-
sides raising a dominion, dangerous from its re-
sources and extent, to the independence and tran-
quillity of other nations. The policy of France
must be in accordance with these views ; we can,
therefore, anticipate nothing prejudicial to the
interests of this country, or to the struggle of the
Christians for liberty in Greece, from Guillemi-
riot's present mission to the Porte.

[NEW TIMES.]
Consols yesterday remained stationary at 95i
for the Account, there being no Express or other
Foreign arrival to produce the slightest influence
upon the Funds. The only feature of public in-
terest in the Foreign Market was the rapid im-
provement in Mexican Scrip, and in the Colom-
bian Loan, the former closing at 2i premium,
and the latter at 14-, after having been at a dis-
count for some days past.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Ad vices have been received from Buenos Ayres
to the 14th of March, at which period every thing
was quiet there. A material change had taken
place in the sentiments of the leaders, of the In-
dependent .cause in the Capital, which, it was
hoped, would tend to consolidate the interests of
all the provinces. The latter haie always ac-
cused Buenos Ayres of what in the coun-
try is called capitalism, or a wish on the
part of the capital to take an undue lead
in the affairs of the whole. in fact, -has
been one of the chief causes of those succes-
sive discussions w hich have separated the pro-
vinces from each other for the last fouryears, and
caused each to form a Government of its own.—
By this means the province of Buenos Ayres was
left to itself, and the re-establishment of that
mutual confidence, which had been destroyed by
th 9 singular manoeuvres of the Congress of Tucu-
man, was !eft to time. M. Itivadavia, and those
who act in concert with him, have long seen the
insufficiency of this system, and they have now
determined to propose to the local Governments
of the several- provinces, constituting the former
Viceroyalty of La Plata, a plan of federation,
which it was confidently expected would be car-
ried into effect.

[MORNING HERALD.]
SundKy's.Paris Papers arrived last night. The
French Funds had recovered a little from the
effect of the rejection by the Peers of the pro-
ject for reducing the Five per Cents. The last
quotation of those on, Saturday. was 103 f. 25c.
Rumours, the natural growth of Ministerial.dis-
comfiture, were freely circulated in Paris. A
change—at least a partial one—of the administra-
tion was confidently anticipated. The Prime
Minister, however, M. de Villele, whose especial
measure this was, is spoken of as likely to hold
his ground.. The proposed extension of the du-
ration of, the Chamber of Deputies was again
discussed In that Chamber on Saturday.-1
M. de la Bourdonnave vehemently opposed it ;
the Minister of the Interior as strenuously deH
fended it. -In the course of his speech he madel
an observation, whence it would appear that the
French think they. may enjoy the good things in
the gift of the Ministers, and vet give independent
Votes at the elections. The-Minister, in defend-
ing his conduct, said that when a placeman is
situated between his interest and his conscience,
he should instantly obey the latter, and thus the
Government, by calling for his resignation,
only Obliged him to consult his conscience and
inderpendence. M. de Girardin improvised a.
reply, which frequently called, forth murmurs,
from the indiscreet frankness and' vivacity with
which he expressed himself.
In
,thesEn refutin,!, the
supposed analogy
glish House of'Corn-
mons, he pointed!one'difference, that persons are
the 'age of forty only
eligible wi.th -them at
wherOfts hi" England we have • legislators at.

twenty-one. Adverting to the Chamber of Peers,
who are admissible at five and twenty—he ob-
served that the latter would look like the barrack
of the effective troops, but the Deputies (from
their age) like the invalids. The debate was not
yet near its close. Several orators remained to
be heard on both sides. These papers 'contain
no intelligence from the Peninsula.

[THE TIMES.]
A Marseilles article, quoted in one of the
Frankfort Papers, throws out some hints respect..
ing the nature of General Guilleminot's instruc-
tions on undertaking his mission to Constan-
tinople. It would appear on this authority, that
the new Ambassador is accompanied, not only by
political, but by military engineers; and that
among certain Asiatic missions which are to be
thrown out as feelers from the main body of the
Embassy, one is to take the direction of Teheran,
and to push the French interests at the Court of
Persia. What those interests may be, we pre-
tend not, to describe; though %4 trust that the
Ministers of this country are more specifically
informed on the subject. It is known That France,
as well as Russia, entertains a deep, though
we are far from saying an unlawful jealousy,
of the influence exercised by the British Em-
pire over the East. This jealousy of British
power is perhaps the only point in which,
apart from the immediate purposes of the Holy
Alliance, any sympathy can be found between
the two great rivals of Continental Europe. But
France can have no designs in that quarter, ex-
cept as an auxiliary to the schemes of Russia.
There are no territories, as it would seem, to
be acquired by France on the side of the Per-
sian Gulf. There is no temptation to obtain a
footing for French troops on the soil of Persia,
or to facilitate, through the friendship of the
Schell, the march of an army of that nation to-
wards the Indus. But the work of France may
he done as effectually by aiding the schemes of
Russian aggrandizement in Asia, engaging the
British Government there, and distracting its
attention from other quarters, where France
again may play principal, and Russia second. It
may, indeed, be taken for granted that the Court
of the Tuileries is anxious, either to reinforce
directly the intrigues of Russia against England,
in so far as concerns the politics of the Ring of
Persia, or, in the shape of an amicus curia', to gain
the ear of his Majesty to the counsels of France,
and thus determine the pretensions of the rivals,
as may best square with the interests of her
own ambition. There is nothing illegitimate
in this,—nothing censurable in point of morals,
nor affording just cause of enmity or irritation on
the part of Great Britain towards the French
Government. France has the same right to try
her influence over Persia that England herself
possesses—the same right to prefer Russian po-
litics to British, as to make an opposite choice.—
We are anxious only to put Ministers on their
guard, that no advantage may be lost to this
country through negligence or ignorance, that
France and Russia, there and elsewhere, may, as
Mr. Plunkett recommends with respect to the
Catholic Association, be vigilantly watched ;
and, above all, that men of repute and ability
may be employed to counteract at the Persian
Court those machinations which men of the very
highest talent have been long directing agains
the Eastern interests of Great Britain.

[MORNING: Posr.]
The Marine Insurance 13111 will immediately
come before the House of Lords, and, there is
every reason to hope, under different auspices
from those which secured its success in the Corn-
mons. It must be admitted on all hands, that
while the vast funds, resources, and connexions,
of the greatest tnercantile Association perhaps in
the world, are employed in procuring the earliest
and most correct naval intelligence, and in at-
tending to the fate of insured ships and cargoes in
every part of the globe, the privilege of being an
" Underwriter" of this society is absolutely thrown
open, either directly or indirectly, to the whole
mercantile community. If we mistake not,
to become a constituent member of this firm,
besides the necessary qualifications of character,
&c. an annual subscription of thirty pounds or
thirty guineas is required, and then the trade
of insurance between such persons and the pub-
lic is perfectly free. There is accordingly no
fixed or monopoly rate at which Insurances
must be effected, but competition prevails as
fully and beneficially as if no such establish-
ment as Lloyd's ever existed. Nor do the ad-
vantages stop here. While each House or each
individual " underwrites" as suits his cir-
cumstances, or may be eventually arranged with
those he insures, a sort of guarantee is 'given by
the reputation of the Establishment and its offi-
cial agents, that whether in estimating the loss
which may be endured, or in reimbursing its
amount, fair dealing will guide the entire pro.
ceeding. It is indeed superfluous to attempt
enumerating or enlarging upon the great utility
and high rank of Lloyd's Company.
.The onus
lies on those who would trench upon its honour.
able usages to prove how, when, or in what in-
stance it has acted otherwise than advantageously
to the public ; in other words, to state the
injury sustained from its existence and mode
of conducting business. During the progress of

the Marine Insurance Bill in the House of
Commons, we could discover no case of
the sort even plausibly advanced, much
less made out. Nay, have complaints of Lloyd's
at any time come before the Public, either as to

e manner in which the insurances of the House

have been conducted, or as to its supineness on
any question political or commercial affecting
the interests of the country ? No such thing.—
There is absolutely no ,charge whatever against
it; but, on the contrary, volumes might be
filled with the meritorious services rendered
to the Government as well as the people
of England. if these circumstances are to be
of no avail now, we confess it seems to por-1
tend much evil to trade in general. The real
point involved in the fate of the pending mea-
sure, is not whether every reasonable freedom
should be given to commerce, but whether a
temporary spirit of adventure should be more en-
couraged than a systematic and long-proved ad-,

herence'to the highest principles of probity, com-
bined with the justest spirit of liberality. On the
latter ground, as well as on every other consi-
deration we have mentioned, we conceive the
present endeavour to establish a rival Company
unworthy of support. We are fain to hope, too,
that the House of Lords will concur in this opi-
nion, and that, like several other ephemeral pro-
jects which have recently strove to break the
shell of speculation, the Marine Insurance Bill
will be consigned by the wisdom of the Legisla-
ture to an early but timely tomb.