The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-08 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

This Committee were engaged the whole of to ;day in
hearing a discussion as to the mode of proceeding with the
arguments of Counsel in support of and against the
objections raised by the petitioners (twenty-four in num-
ber) to the referring the whole case, both of law and facts, to
the Commissioners appointed to sit in Dublin.
After a long consultation; the committee decided that eibh' -
objection should be argued separately, and by one counsel only
on each side.

The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow at 12 o'clock.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Yesterday an Inquest was held at Whitecross-street prison
before Mr. Payne and a respectable Jury, on view of the body
of Mrs. Jane Dalston, aged sixty-one.
It appeared from the evidence of an elder daughter of the
deceased, and others of her family, that she (deceased) had
for several years carried on a respectable business as an eat-
ing-housekeeper at Vauxhall, during which period she dealt
with a butcher in the same neighbourhood, of the name of
Emsworth, her weekly bills with him frequently amounting to
181., and her payments were constantly kept up until the sum-
mer of 1833, when, on a bill being delivered to her of 71. 10s.,
she disputed the 10s., on the ground that meat delivered
amounting to that sum was unfit for use. Emsworth, how-
ever, objected to reduce the bill one penny, and, the deceased
persisting in the refusal of the payment of the 10s., he obtained
a writ, and in a short time the aggregate of debt and costs
amounted to 191. The deceased, by the advice of her attorney,
removed the action into the Court of King's Bench, and on the
trial taking place a verdict was obtained for the plaintiff. The
trial taking place at Croydon, in Surrey, the deceased was
committed to Horsemonger-lane Gaol, in which prison she
continued some considerable time, but eventually was released
on her signing a warrant of attorney to pay the debt and costs
in instalments of 1/. a month. The deceased, however, fail-
ing in keeping up her payments, judgment was entered up, and
execution levied, but there being no effects the deceased's
person was again taken into custody, and she was recommitted
to White-cross-street Prison in September last. Subsequently
an overture was made by plaintiff's solicitor to release the de-
ceased from confinement on her paying half the original bill,
with the whole of the costs ; but this the deceased was unable
to accede to, and she continued in prison up to the time of her
death, which took place on Wednesday, the Ist of April.
Mr. Wood, the surgeon of the prison, deposed that he had
attended the deceased. She laboured under a pulmonary con-
plaint.
In answer to questions from the Jury,
Mr. Wood said that a distressed state of mind and confine-
ment would tend to aggravate the disease under which she
laboured.

he plaintiff in the action attended the investigation with
his solicitor, and entered into an explanation of his conduct
towards the deceased.

The Coroner observed that it was much to be regretted that
he should have sued the deceased merely because she disputed
the payment of so small a sum as 10s., when she had dealt
with him so many years, and bad been so liberal a customer,
and so prompt in her payments.
The Jury strongly animadverted upon the plaintiff's con-
duct, and after some discussion returned a verdict of " Natural
death," and a vote of censure was passed on the plaintiff.