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of opinion that all courts of justiceshould be open ; but he
Vas of opinion, that under peculiar circumstances he thought
the ends of justice might be defeated, if the Coroner had not
the power of closing his court, when those circumstances
arose. Therefore it was that he was satisfied with the clause
as it stood.
Mr. PO ULTER explained, that he did not mean that the
discussion upon whether the Court should be open or not,
that would defeat the very end he had in view.
Mr. PALMER said he did not see that any advantage
would arise from inserting the word jurors, because the Coro..
ner, who was usually a professional man, was to be supposed
the best judge of whether the Court ought to be open or not.
Mr. POTTER instanced the case of a man who was exe-
cuted at the last Assizes for Lancaster under peculiar circum-
stances. In the absence of his family, he administered poison
to a child. An inquest was held before a Coroner who al-
ways kept his Court closed, and the verdict was, "accidental
death." The neighbours heard of that, and applied to the Ma-
gistrates, who instituted an inquiry, and the man was after-
wards found guilty.
Mr. PE ASE supported the clause in its original shape.
Major BEA LTCLERK said the great question was
whether the Coroners court should be opened or closed.
He was one of those who supported open courts, and he
thought upon that principle they ought to make their stand.
Mr. MiLE AN observed that the Coroner could not
exclude strangers without alleging some reason for so
doing to the Jury ; and although the Honourable Member
for Shaftesbury contemplated two cases, one of that of an
individual accused who might hear something that would
lead to his escape from justice, yet he thought the state-
ment of such a reason for closing the Court would be
(very unfair, and have the effect of prejudicing the Jury.—
Hear, and " Question.")
Mr. HARDY endeavoured to explain, amid loud cries o
" Question.")
The Gallery was cleared for a division, when there ap.
peared_.

CAMDEN,

sity Members, Goulburn and Law." (Great cheering.)
The three Universities." (Cheers ; some called out " No,
no, the two Universities.") " The Bishops." (Very loud
cheering.) " The Bishops again." ( Cheering repeated.)
" One cheer more." ( Cheering continued.) " For ever."
(Enthusiastic cheering.) " Sir Robert Peel." (Enth
siastic and long continued cheering.) This call was reu-
-
peatedly made and was constantly responded to in the same
manner. " His Majesty's Ministers." (Deep groans and
hisses.) " His Majesty's late Ministers." ( Very loud
cheering.) " Lord John Russell." ( Universal and loud
hissing.) " Lord Morpeth." (Similarly complimented.)
Lord Melbourne" escaped with a smaller portion of dis-
approbation, but was still soundly hissed. " Lord Broug-
ham." (Great hissing.) " Three groans for O'Connell"—
" Three cheers for order" (much laughter), " Sir James Gra-
ham" (Cheers), "Lord Lyndhurst" (Much applause), " Lord
Abinger" (Cheers), " Sir Edward Sugden" (Very great
cheering), " Lord Canterbury" (Enthusiastic cheering),
" Sir Charles Wetherell" (Great cheering), " Lord Eldon."
(Loud and continued applause.) These were pretty nearly
all the cries I heard, and their announcement met with the
reception I have, for the sake of brevity, described in paren-
theses. They were continued rather too long, and it was not
till several efforts had been made by the Chancellor, by waving
his hand, to obtain silence, that tranquillity was restored.
When this was done, the congregation proceeded to the cere-
mony of granting honorary degrees to the several aspirants to
that honour, but they had only got through one when it came
to the turn of the Duke of Wellington to have the grace pro-
posed for his degree. As soon as he advanced to take the
customary oaths and subscribe his name in the University books,
a ceremony gone through by all, a loud shout similar to that
which bad saluted him after his entrance, and as long sustained,
greeted him ; and when he retired among the circle of doctors,
a voice calling out " Three cheers for Dr. Wellington" con-
tributed not a little to the amusement of the audience. At
last, the Public Orator, the Rev. Mr. Tatham, after bowing to
the Chancellor, proceeded to present to him, seriatim, the
subjoined list of noblemen and gentlemen who were admitted
to the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law on this
occasion :

Prince Pozzo di Borgo, Duke of Grafton, Marquis of Bute,
Marquis of Downshire, Marquis of Exeter, Marquis of North-
amT,ton. Marquis of Douro, Earl of Hardwicke, Earl Am-
liei:st, Earl Brownlow, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Abinger, Lord
Teignmouth, Lord Lisle and Dudley, Lord Castlereagh, Lord
Camden, Lord Burlington, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lord Clive,
Lord Prudhoe, Sir E. Sugden, Sir J. Graham, Sir N. Tin-
dal, Sir J. Parke, Mr. Baron Graham, Hon. R. Clive, Hon.
G. R. Trevor.
The following were admitted Doctors, ad eundem :—The
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Wellington, the
Bishop of Exeter, 'the 11:shop of Llande.ff.
The following received degrees of A. M. :—Lord Boscawen,
ad eztndern; Hon. W. W. Forester, Hon. H. Manners Sutton;
Sir Francis Ch'antrey, Sir G. Rose, Sir P. Malcolm, Sir E.
Kerrison, Sir C. Wetherell.
• In his address to the Chancellor, the Public Orator, having
then Prince Pozzo di Borgo on his right hand, after having
congratulated the University on the brilliant assemblage col-
lected from such remote quarters under the auspices of their
illustrious Chancellor, proceeded to compliment the Chancel-
lor on the manner in which he had discharged the post he had
filled in the councils of his Sovereign, and expatiated on his
patriotic conduct, and his private virtues. He congratulated
the University on the presence of an illustrious descendant of
the House of Brunswick, and trusted that those virtues which
had always distinguished that family, would always continue to
adorn it. He Oren adverted to Prince Pozzo di Borgo, noticed
in very complimentary terms his able conduct as a diplomatist
at the Congress of Vienna, and concluded by presenting him
to the Chancellor in the usual form.
After paying a very eloquent tribute to the military merits
of the Duke of Wellington, in terms which I really have not
time to notice, at length he adverted to his Grace's civil ser-
vices, commencing—." et in toga qua& quantusque vir," a
sentence which was received with loud plaudits, made several
very happy turns of language, and after a very able speech
presented the Duke to the Chancellor.
The Archbishop of Canterbury was then addressed by the
Public Orator, who eulogized his private and public character,
congratulated the University on having among them "hunc
ornatissimunt sororis nostrce natunt"—praised in high terms
his meekness, forbearance (especially in the case of the Dis-
senters), and Christian charity—his distinguished humility,
notwithstanding- his exalted station, and then turning to the
gownsmen said, " Vos igitur, academici, hunc ornatissimum
virum accipite, colite, et observate." After a few more ob-
servations the Public Orator presented his Grace to the Chan-
cellor.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1835.

man insane. Did not hear him say he had taken laudanum;
the few words he uttered he did coolly.
Jane Worth sworn.—Examined by the Coroner.—ls the
wife of Joseph Worth, seaman, residing at No. 11 in King-
street. Witness had known the deceased, Jane Honey, from
her infancy ; had lived two or three doors from the deceased's
for about the last fourteen months ; had seen deceased and her
husband walking together repeatedly up King-steeet ; does not
know of her own knowledge whether they lived happily to.
gether ; never knew them to have had any quarrels. Witness
was looking out of the window of her house this morning at half-
past 12 o'clock, when her attention was attracted to the resi-
dence of the deceased. Witness ran out, and went to the front
door of deceased's house, past several persons coming out appa-
rently hurried. Witness went into the passage, and there saw
the deceased laying at the bottom of the stairs. Mr. Willis
(the last witness), Mr. and Mrs. Warner, and the old Mrs.
Honey, and a person or two more were present. Cannot
swear that the deceased's husband was present. The body
was removed to the adjoining parlour. Heard the deceased
speak ; she asked for " mother," and Mrs. Honey went to her
and kissed her. Deceased's husband was then present. Neither
the deceased or her husband said any thing. The husband
(Henry Honey) then rushed out of the room staring like a
madman. He appeared either drunk or mad. Witness was
almost afraid of him.
The CORONER here inquired whet-ner there were any other
witnesses present in the room where the inquest was being
held. No person answered. The Coroner then directed the
officers in attendance not to allow any witnesses to be present
beyond the one under examination.
Examination by the CORONER continued_ Deceased's hus-
band ran to the kitchen, and-Witness and the old Warner fol-
lowed him. He appeared in a dreadful manner. He threw
himself down, and appeared in great trouble. He unbut-
toned his shirt-collar, when the marks of blood appeared. He
said he was dying ; that he had taken laudanum ; that he had
killed himself; that he wanted some water. They gave him
some water. He repeated several times that he had taken
poison and laudanum. A surgeon was sent for. Witness said
to deceased's husband " How could you do it ?" Witness al-
luded to his state and that of his wife's. He replied with much
violence, that "it was drink and jealousy." He did not ap-
ply it to any person. He did not say who was jealous. He
was very violent in his manner, and repeated the words
" drink and jealousy" several times. Witness left the
kitchen to get some vinegar for another person. When
she returned, about four or five miantas after, de-
ceased's husband had left the kitchen. She was soon
after desired to carry warm water up stairs for him. Witsess
did so, and afterwards went down for some cold water for him.
Witness about half an hour after saw him coming down
stairs surrounded by the police. Witness said to him, " Oh,
lam vary sorry for it—it's a dreadful thing." He replied
that he hoped it would be a warning to all, and said that he
would not go out through the front-door ;he would go through
the back-door—he was induced to go out at the fore-door,
where he got into a carriage.
The' minutes of this witness's evidence were here read over
to her by the Coroner, after which she signed the same.
Examined by a Juryman- :Witness did not hear deceased
say, while she was there, " that Henry had done it." Did not
hear deceased speak on the stairs. Witness was out of the
room several minutes. She might have said it then. Witness
left the room to go to the kitchen. She left Mr. Willis and
the deceased's husband there, and therefore she cannot say
whether either of them then spoke. Witness remained with
the family several hours, but did not see deceased's husband
after.

At the close of this witness's examination, it being about
0 o'clock, the inquest was adjourned to 2 o'clock to-morrow
fternoon.

The attendance of the principal inhabitants of the town at
the Inquest was numerous, as well as that of the medical men.
The anxiety, on the part of the multitude assembled out-
side the Inn where the Inquest was held, to learn its nature
as it proceeded, and particularly at the period of its adjourn-
ment, was intense.
There can be but one opinion as to the conclusion to which
the Jury will arrive, as soon as the remaining witnesses shall
have been examined—and that will be a verdict of Wilful
Murder against the deceased's own husband. The witnesses
who have yet to be examined are the medical gentlemen and
the mother-in-law, grandmother-in-law, one or two neigh-
bours, and the policemen. We will furnish the particulars of
the continuation of the inquest the moment it either again adjourns or terminates. General opinion is that it will ter-
minate

D ÜBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The extraordinary decision of the Tory Committee, on the
Drogheda petition, has given great disgust in Ireland. It is
considered that other Members, beside Catholics, might re-
quire a flapper; and if Sir Harry Inglis could spare a little
time from his voluntary occupation of conscience-keeper to
Mr. Shell, he might acquire some popularity, by extending
his vocation. The case must be bad enough, it will be al-
lowed, when even Tory writers acknowledge that it a " very
hard" one, and misrepresent facts, in order to bespeak a fa-
vourable judgment of the public, of the impartiality of the
Committee. "It is not true," they allege, " that the result
seats a Conservative." Perhaps not. In terms this may be
corre,ct—for Conservative is a misnomer, when applied to the
advocates and supporters of all abuse and corruption. But it
is true and most notorious, that the result has seated the
Hon. Randal Plunkett, a member of the (so called) Conser-
vative Society—a back-bone Tory, as indeed his votes in the
House have already proved him, without any reference to his
stupid homilies in Tims's parlour. To volunteer a defence of
the Committee on such grounds, is to place it unnecessarily
in an awkward position. The Hon. Gentlemen were upon
their oaths, and what need we more ? No person insinuated
their decision was biassed by any sinister influence. The public,
however, look upon their determination as a grievous error of
judgment, and consider Mr. O'Dwyer's ejection to be " a very
hard case" indeed—hard with respect to himself, and -tenfold
harder as against the people of Drogheda, upon whom a re-
presentative is palmed neither chosen by their voices, nor
acceptable to their feelings. Mr. Randal Plunkett has been
elected, not by the electors of Drogheda, but by Mr. Gaul-
-nuns and his five compeers. He is their Member.
The good sense and benevolence which have always distill-
, uished the Duchess of Kent, have exposed her Royal Highness,
from time to time, to much unmanly vituperation among the
lower classes of Irish Orangemen, and to the bodeful mistrust
and dislike of their leaders. She has been ever the consistent
and !warm friend of Ireland and the Irish, without distinction
of creed or party. That is enough to make any one unpopu-
lar -with the wretched faction ; and the mother of our future
Sovereign, has often on this account been the subject of
gloomy headshakes
.and fearful anticipations. Latterly, how-
ever, they have found it convenient to take her into favour,
in the hope, no doubt, of being able to throw their net over
her. A report went among them, that her Royal Highness
was no longer a friend to liberal police—that she had been
convinced of the danger of governing for and with the peo-
ple, and become a sincere convert to the doctrines of the
Court. A lady who has pursued so dignified and wise a
course as the Duchess of Kent has, not identifying herself
with any party in the country, but commanding the affec-
tionate respect of all that is valuable in society, is not likely
to be swayed from the lofty position she holds, by the intrigues
of the most impotent and despicable faction that ever set it-
self against the will and the happiness of a great nation. Her
character was too teen established, her prudence and gene-
rosity too long tried and known, to suffer so unworthy an im-
putation to receive credit : and therefore, although the Tory
press with its wonted recklessness reiterated the audacious as-
sertion that her Royal Highness had attached herself to the
Tories, no respectable person believed it. Even the dupes of
the faction rather hoped than permitted themselves to be per-
suaded of its truth ; while the public, observing how this il-
lustrious lady still " kept the tenor of her way," needed no
distinct or formal denial to assure them of its falsehood. Not-
withstanding this, and although the statement neither has de-
ceived nor could deceive any who cared for truth, it is gra-
tifying to be enabled :to produce a proof that her Royal
Highness still retains those kind and warm feelings towards
Ireland, without the slightest taint of party prejudice, for
which this country has always known and blessed her. It is
a trivial circumstance; but on that account perhaps the more
entitled to consideration than a greater occasion, as indicating
the prevailing sentiment of her mind towards Ireland. Mr.
O'Reilly, a manufacturer of tabinets and poplins, sent a dress
of .his manufacture, which had been designed by the Countess
of Mulgrave, and named after her Excellency, to be presented
to the Duchess of Kent. The answer of Sir John Conroy
has been published in the Newspapers. It is as follows :
" Kensington Palace, June 19, 1835. •.
" am commanded by the Duchess of Kent to ac-
quaint you, that the dress of Irish Summer Tissue you
have sent for her Royal Highness arrived this morning. Her
Royal Highness is highly pleased with it, and will wear it at
Court on the 25th instant, as the first specimen of the kind
made in Ireland (and which was named the Mulgrave Sum-
mer Tissue,) and it ever will afford to her Royal Highness
the greatest satisfaction to promote the use of the manufacture
of Ireland. I am, &c., JOHN CONROY.
"To Mr. O'Reilly, 30, College Green, Dublin."