The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-17 00:00:00

16 6RD.

CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION IN-

QUIRY.-(THIS DAY.)

The investigation into the existing state of the Corp-
Pltion of London was resumed this morning at eleven
°tioekr. _
Mr. Deputy Woon stated that he was prepared now to
14wer a question which had yesterday been put to him,
nth reference to the number of ale-conners. The num-
'4' is four. With respect tn the ofnee of City leather
it had been abolished some years since, pursuant
t 4 a recommendation of the House of Commons. The
4iter information which had been desired, as to other
?It), officers, be was not at present prepared to give, but
It would he afforded in the course of the day.

HORRID MURDER AT NORTHWICH.

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Air. Lie tit Ticririn was the next witness called—
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e Staten that persons inhabiting the Bridewell Precincts
mere qualified, and did exercise the right of voting at
t°l'porate elections. Witness never knew their right of
Ltieeting the Common Council, or of being elected to that
°°,ly, disputed. The inhabitants of the Temple have
Lever claimed this right. The persons resident in a place
balled Baldwin's gardens, in the wird of which witness is
tl'e Deputy, have claimed the right of carrying on trades
without being admitted citizens of London ; but the ques-
tion is still at issue, and an action has been brought by
the city solicitor, by the direction of the Court of Alder-
ben,
to try it.
Sir FRANCIS PALSGRAVF inquired of Mr. Deputy
wood if the list of the various charters which had been
furnished to hint was a correct list of all the charters now
Mr. Deputy Woon would be able to answer the ques-
tion on comparing it with a list he had in his possession.
Mr. DILLON, of Fore-street, begged to take that oppor-
tunity of inquiring whether the Court would make any
4der for the inspection of the charters by such persons as
ttlight be examined with reference to them.
Mr. BLAcxnuaNE said the Court had no authority to
triske any such order.
Mr. DILLON said it was extremely desirable that persons
to be examined should be enabled to inspect the charters
°F which the printed copies before the public had been
found
extremely incorrect.
Mr. C. PEARSON suggested the propriety of the Court
proceeding to take all the information which Mr. Deputy
wood could give, and in case that information should he
deemed insufficient, it would be open to any member of the
corporation to call for further evidence.
Mr. Deputy Woon said he was now prepared to give
14 a correct list of the various charters now in the pos•
tession of the Corporation. The first two charters were
!Minted by William the Conqueror.
Mr. Commissioner ELLIS inquired what was the date
°I what might be called the governing charter of the
%rporation.
Mr. Deputy Woon said he was not aware that there
l'as any charter that could be called a governing charter.
I his opinion the Corporation of London was a prescrip-
tive Corporation, A consolidation of the charters by
i4speximus was attempted in the reign of Charles the
4cond, but there is no leading charter creating solely the
turporation, as it at present exists. The witness then
ttte in a list of the extant charters in possession of the
torporate body.
The examination of these lists was very tedious, and
has proceeding when our Reporter left.

(Abridged from the Liverpool Chronicle.)
A murder, some particulars of which appeared in our
Alper last week, was committed on Friday week last, in
the neighbourhood of Northwich, by a tradesman of that
It'lvn, named Samuel Thorley, on the person of a young
ttnale named Mary Pemberton, the daughter of a widow
ittly residing on a farm at Leftwich, to whom he had been
Paying his addressee.
A Coroner's inquest, on view of the body, was held at
the Bowling-green, at Leftwich, at three o'clock on Monday
afternoon. The jury, after hearing evidence, returned a
l'trdict of " Wilful Murder" against Samuel Thorley.
The funeral of this ill-fated young woman took place on
Tuesday forenoon, at Davenham church. It was attended
I/ a vast crowd of spectators, and sorrow seemed to sit
411 every countenance.
The Liverpool Mercury says, " We have been waited
11Pon by a relative of the murdered female, who assures us
that the account given in the Chester Courant, is incor-
tett in several particulars. The following is his version
of the melancholy affair :—The parties became ac-
quainted about twelve months ago, but it is not true
that their courtship had proceeded to the length men-
tioned by our contemporary. No house was furnished by
Thorley, no wedding-clothes were bought, and no prepa-
rations were made for their union. About a month ago
the young lady and her mother having been informed
that Thorley had several illegitimate children ; that,
far from being in good circumstances, as he re-
Presented himself to be, he was very much involved;
and that his object was, probably, to obtain possession of
the young lady's property, they were induced to decline his
acquaintance, and the connection, so far as they were con-
temned, was broken off. Thorley, it appears, then took
t,O drinking, and for a fortnight or three weeks before
'riday last, when he met Miss Pemberton in Northwich,
it being market day, he had been almost constantly in a
tttte of intoxication. They met between six and seven
o'clock in the evening, and Thorley taking hold of her
basket, insisted on going home with her. He accordingly
accompanied her part of the way to her home, which is
about half a mile from Northwich, until they overtook a
harried sister of Miss Pemberton's, when he left them,
and The two sisters proceeded home together. It appears
that later on in the evening, Thorley went to the house,
and was let in by Miss Pemberton, she, probably,
thinking that it was one of her brothers, who bad
not come home, and for whom she was sitting up, the
rest of the family having gone to bed. The brother af-
terwards came in, the door having been left on the latch,
and bearing his sister in conversation with some person in
the parlour, he did not go near them, but went straight
up stairs to bed. Mrs. Pemberton afterwards called out,
two or three times, to her daughter, to ask her whether
she was not coming to bed? to which the reply was,
that she would be up immediately. Hearing the house
door shut to, she then called to her daughter again,
but receiving no reply, she became very much alarmed,
arid on going down stairs found her unfortunate child
lying in the lobby, drenched in blood, with her
head nearly severed from her body, and quite dead.
Only a minute or two had elapsed between her last calling
out and the shutting of the door ; and she had heard no
noise or scuffle to prepare her in any way for so dreadful
a spectacle. Her feelings may be more easily imagined
than described ; we understand that she remains in a
deplorable situation, and that from the effects of this
shock, added to the loss of her husband about eight
tzonths ago, she is not likely to recover. From the ap-
pearance of the wound, it seems that the murderer must
have forced his victim's bead back with one arm, whilst
he cut her throat with the other hand, and that so effec-
tually, that the vertebrae on each side of the neck was

Penetrated by the razor.
It is rather a singular circumstance connected with this
horrible transaction, that it was the paternal grand uncle
of the murderer, who was also called Samuel Thorley,
that murdered a female ballad.singer, at a place called
Westgreen, in the smile neighbourhood, about fifty years
ago, in a very shocking manner, got a part of his victim's
flesh, of which be had with him a considerable portion,
tied up in a bundle, cooked at a public-house, and actually
partook of it. The monster was afterwards hung and
gibbeted for his crime.

At a pigeon-shooting held at the W hite Horse
Inn, Broadway, on Wednesday, Mr. Thomas Print, land-
lord of the above inn, who is a young shot, has lost the
sight of one eye, pulls the trigger of his gun with his left
hand, sad stands with the right foot foremost while shoot-
ing, beat some old shots and the whole of the field !-
Oxford Journal.
DERBY TRADES' UNIONS.-The members
of the Trades' Union in this borough are still " out."
There are now in consequence 1,800 men, women, and
children, out of employment. Most of the manufac-
turers are doing a little, partly with their old hands, but
chiefly with new.-Derby Reporter.
SWAN RIVER.-By accounts from Perth,
Western Australia, of the 12th of August, the following
were the current prices of provisions, &c. by retail :-
Bacon, per lb. 2s. ; hams, ditto, ls. 6d. ; butter (salt),
Is. 6d. a 25., ditto, (fresh), 39. ; bread, 41b. loaf, Is.
4d. ; beef (salt), per lb. 6d. (fresh) Is. 6d. ; mutton, per
lb. Is. Bd. ; kangaroo, per lb. Is. 2d. ; pork (fresh), per
lh. Is. 6f1., (salt), Bd. ; cheese, Sydney, per lb. 2s. ;
ditto, English, 2s. ; coffee, per lb. ls. 6d. ; eggs, per doz.
41.; milk, per quart, Bd. ; fowls, each 3s. a ss. ; wild-
fowl-pigeon, 9d. ; duck, 2e. ; teal, Is, ; swan, 6s. a Bs. ;
dried fruits, per lb. Is. 6d. ; raisins, per lb. Is. ; oil, per
gallon, 10s. ; rice, per lb. Bd.; wine, cape, per gallon, ss.
a 6s. ; rum, ditto, 16s. ; brandy, ditto, 14s. ; sugar, per
lb. Bd. ; tea, per lb. ss. a 7s. ; potatoes, per lb. 3d. a 4d.;
cabbages, each 3d. ; flour per lb. 6d., by the bag, ;
wheat, per bushel, 101. ; hay, per ton, Si. ; soap, per
lb. Is. 6d. ; starch, per lb. 2s. ; vinegar, per gallon,
ss. a 6s. ; gunpowder, per lb. 4s. ; ale and porter, per
the. 11. 4s.