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

RENDER OF THE MURDERER.

(Abridged from the Chester Courant.)
The murder this week Of a respectable young
woman at Leftwich, near Northwich, has caused
considerable excitement in the neighbourhood. It
appears the deceased, Mary Pemberton, aged 21,
resided with her widowed mother on a farm at Left-
wich ; about 12 months since she became acquainted
with Samuel Thorley, a gardener, of Northwich ;
a coolness subsisted between them for some days,
past, and he was much troubled by her conduct,
and became desponding. Friday last, after trans-
acting his business in Northwich market, where he
has a shop, he proceeded to the house of the de-
ceased, and remained there until 11 at night, some
time after the family had retired to rest. On being
lighted to the door he drew a razor from his pocket,
and cut the unfortunate woman's throat ; she in-
stantly fell in the lobby, where she was soon after
found by her mother. Thorley immediately re-
turned home and called up a youth in his serv►ce to
give him admittance; be told the boy of his guilt,
and despatched him to his father's, at Lawton gate,
near Sandbach, to acquaint him of the circumstance,
and also his intention to go directly to Chester and
surrender himself into the hands of justice. The
wretched man deliberately exchanged his blondy
clothes for others, and about four on Saturday
morning locked up his shop and commenced his
journey to this city. He arrived at the Queen's
Head, Foregate-street, between nine and ten, and
called for a glass of porter; after a few minutes he
left the house, and went to the Castle. He pre-
sented himself at the lodge, and said to a person in
attendance that he came to surrender. He was
asked if he had an order or commitment in his pos-
session. lie replied " No." "Do you surrender for
debt ?" he was asked. " No," he replied, " for

murder." A magistrate was sent for, and he re-
peated the melancholy tale. Shortly after the chap-
lain was sent for, and to him another confession was
made. lie speaks of the deceased in the highest
terms, and says she was the most virtuous of her
sex. An inquest was held upon the body yesterday,
but when our paper went to press we had not heard
the result. The name of Samuel Thotiey is not
new on the list of murderers in this county. A
butcher of that name was executed arid gibbetted
many years since for murdering a young woman, and
it will be recollected that he cooked part of her
body and partouk of it at a public house. Neither
is the deceased the first of that family who has met
with premature death, a sister having been thrown
from a horse and killed some time since.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 10.
—We continue to experience a very good demand for
cotton—the sales to-day are 4,000 bags at very steady
prices; 1,500 Maranhams 9d. to 9id. ; 1,000 Bahias
Sid. to 9d. ; 450 Pernams 9-id. to lOid. ; the remainder
oc
Americans 7d. to 9d. per lb.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—Between
wereh.ad just brought in and handed over
waitingßteii, in
Eigo.u,rt until the Clerk of
six and seven o'clock on Wednesday evening last, whilst
which
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the Peace had announced, in the usual manner the bills
a gentleman, upon
hearing a bill of indictment which he had preferred for
perjury bad not been found, rose, and addressed the Bench,
in the presence of the grand jury, nearly as follows:
'° May it please you, Mr. Chairman, I have to observe,
with respect to the bill just mentioned by the Clerk of ttie
Peace, that the grand jury has ignored this bill without
having called or examined the witness whcoe name is
mat ked on the back of it. I take this opportunity, there-
fore, whilst the grand jury is here present, to inform the
Court of this fact, with a view to give them an opportunity
of denying it, if the statement be not correct ; which state-
ment, in my judgment, involves a question of the utmost
importance to the well-being of society at large--namely,
whether a grand jury has a right to ignore a bill, duly
laid before them, without examining the witnesses en-
dorsed on it." The Chairman, having paused for a moment,
observed to the. gentleman, .‘Surely,` Sir, you must be
mistaken?" when a voice exclaimed,Chairman, I
Dly
have been used in the s.ime sv,iy by this gwill rand yury.
has been ignored, and although I have had six witnesses
in attendance, who have aecotnpmied me fur six days to
these syssions, and from a distince in the country at a
great expense, nut one of theta
was
them, standing up in court, declared
prosecutor'sue story to be correct, which astoun,'ed every
p t, and it was not without difficulty that the
Courtne r-
could be persuaded to give credit to this second
examined. Here they
-,re." The whole of
,•itirge. The Chairman, in reply to the prosecutor.,
Aserved, that lie had no control over the grand lot y, but
be desired that the bills complained of should be slinevn,
ro be identifi,d by them, which was dune.