The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-24 00:00:00

I Mr. Kemmis said that the letters which were produced
on the trial were given to him by Lord Hatherton.
Upon those letters Mr. Johnson was examined upon
oath, and he proved, to the satisfaction of the jury, that
he gave no directions for his resignation to be sent in.
Mr. Irwin here said that Mr. Johnson was not exa-
mined at all.
Mr. Kemmis said he was, and it was proved to de-
monstration that a forgery had been committed.
Mr. TWYFORD asked the complainant how he could,
under the circumstances, venture to charge Mr. Kemmis
with the offence he had done 2—Mr. Irwin, in reply,
said, because he was able to give the statements of Mr.
Kemmis the flattest contradiction, and he could bring
Lord Hatherton forward to prove that Mr. Johnson's
letter, containing an acknowledgment of his resignation,
and the acceptance of it by Government, was in the
Castle of Dublin, with the post-mark upon it, from
whence it had been abstracted by Mr. Kemmis. He
had subpoenaed his Lordship to attend the trial at Dublin,
but which he failed to do.
After a very long discussion Mr. TWYFORD said that
if it could be shown that there was any foundation for
the charge against Mr. Kemmis he would detain him.
Mr. Kemmis said the complainant evidently laboured
under some delusion on the subject, for he had already
summoned the Marquis of Normanby on a similar
charge.
Mr. TWYFORD said he was very sorry Mr. Kemmis
had been put to so much inconvenience, and as there
were no just grounds for the accusation against him he
should forthwith dismiss the complaint.
Mr. Irwin then applied for summonses against Lord
Hatherton and Mr. Armstrong to prove that the letters
in question were, at the time he alleged, in the Castle of
Dublin. The application was, however, refused, and the
parties left the Court, the complainant vehemently de-
claring that justice had not been done him.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Harvie Farquhar, Esq., of the banking firm of Farqu-
har and Co., St. James's-street, summoned before Mr.
Hardwick a pawnbroker living in Gilbert-street, named
Dobree, to show cause why he detained several saddles
and bridles, and other articles, his property, which had
been stolen and unlawfully pawned.
It appeared that the property in question had been
pawned at different times by Mr. Farquhar's groom, who
had absconded as soon as his delinquencies came to light.
The duplicates relative to the missing property were
found in the prisoner's box, and as some of the pawn-
brokers when applied to refused to give up the property,
a summons was taken out in order to ascertain whether,
under the provisions of the new Police Act, the Magis-
trate could not enforce the restoration of the articles to
the lawful owner.
Mr. Humphries attended on the part of the defendant.
In the course of the inquiry it came out in evidence
that Mr. l'arquhar had not used all the diligence in his
power to procure the apprehension of the prisoner after
the felony was discovered. He had suffered some time
to elapse before he gave information to the police, and
this circumstance was made use of by Mr. Humphries
for the advantage of his client.
Mr. Humphries contended that had Mr. Farquhar
taken immediate steps against his groom, the probability
was that the man would have been in custody, and then
there would have been no difficulty in securing to Mr.
Farquhar the return of any property he might prove to
have been stolen from him. As it was, he was of opinion
that the Magistrate had no power to award the relief
prayed by Mr. Farquhar, namely, that the pawnbroker
should give up the property, for, as there was a charge
of felony to be made out, it was necessary that the pro-
perty should remain in its present hands in order to be
produced against the culprit when taken into custody.
Mr. Farquhar complained of the hardship of having
his stables plundered, and although he had clear proof
the property had been illegally pawned, that he could
not be put in possession of it.
Mr. HARDWICK said the Act was defective in one im-
portant respect ; it gave power to a Magistrate to adju-
dicate in cases where property had been stolen and
pawned, or where illegal 'possession of property was
proved, this property being afterwards pawned ; but the
Act made no mention of property pawned which a party
had legal possession of ; now, the delinquent groom had
legal possession of the property, inasmuch as it had been
entrusted to his care by his master.
Mr. Humphries contended that the complainant could
receive no relief under the trover clause in the Police
Act.

Mr. HARDwics. said he could not understand what
was meant by the term trover clause; the clause.in ques-
tion appeared to him to be a police clause, intended to
operate as a check on pawnbrokers against taking goods
in pledge without due caution.
Mr. Humphries said the complainant was in the situa-
tion of prosecutor in a case of felony, and as he, there-
fore, could not legally give evidence in his own case, he
could not be examined in support of the information
against the pawnbroker.
Mr. Farquhar thought that due caution had not been
used by the pawnbroker in taking in such a number of
articles from a livery servant.
On the part of the pawnbroker it was declared that the
groom had been in the habit of pawning property at the
same shop for fourteen years, and that he was always be-
lieved to be a horse dealer in a. small way.
Mr. HARDWICK said the best way was to allow a rea-
sonable time for the apprehension of the culprit, and if
the police did not succeed in finding him, then to bring
the case before him again, and he would decide in what
way the property was to be disposed of.

DEATH THROUGH EXCESSIVE DRINKING. —On
Thurday, Hr. Baker held an inquest at the Beehive,
George-street, Bromley, Middlesex, on the body of Mrs.
Sarah Wybrow, aged fifty years. It appeared by the
evidence that the deceased was the wife of a respectable
gentleman, holding a responsible Government office, but
in consequence of her habits of intemperance, he had
been compelled to separate from her, since which time
she has resided at No. 23, George-street, Bromley ; and
when she received her monthly allowance would indulge
to great excess in ardent spirits. She kept no servant,
but relied upon her poorer neighbours to perform the
necessary domestic offices of her house. On Friday last
she drank upwards of a pint of brandy, and continued in
a state of intoxication until the following night, when she
went to bed, but before doing so she gave the key of her
house to a woman named Rylev, desiring her to come in
again before she went home, and get her some toast and
water. About one o'clock on Sunday morning that
person did so, and on going into her bed-room for the
'urpose she found her lying on, the bed quite dead. Mr.

mythe, a surgeon, saidhe—made a post mortem exam:

nation of the body, and found the bilain in a highly con-
gested state. He had known the deceased for upwards
of two years, and, from her known habits of inebriety,
had no doubt death had been caused by apoplexy, pro-
duced by a continued indulgence in ardent spirits. The
jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical
testimony.
DREADFUL DEATH.—Late on Wednesday evening
Mr. Payne held an inquest, at Guy's hospital, on the
body of Sarah Elizabeth Tharme, a married woman,
aged twenty-eight. Mary Ann Easton, of No. 2, Suf-
folk-place, Snow's-fields, said that about eight o'clock
in, the evening of last Saturday three weeks deceased
received a visit from a relative, a young man named
Copeland, the captain of a vessel trading to Stockton.
He had been drinking rather freely during the after-
noon, and was frolicking about the room with deceased.
Deceased made some jocular remark to him, in
reply to which he exclaimed, " Oh, then, get away
with you, do ;" and at the same time gave deceased a
push, that caused her to stagger towards the fireplace.
She was instantly tripped up, in consequence of one
of her feet coming in contact with the rug, and as
she was in the act of endeavouring to save herself from
falling, her left, arm struck against the handle of a
saucepan full of boiling water, that happened to be
standing on the hob by the fire. As she came to the
ground, the saucepan and its contents fell upon her,
and she was scalded over the arms and neck, and even
through her clothes, in a most dreadful manner. A sur-
geon was instantly sent for, and by his advice deceased
was taken immediately to SL Bartholomew's Hospital.
Mr. Ash, house-surgeon, said that the injuries deceased
had received were so severe as to preclude even the possi-
bility of her recovery. In spite of every means that could
be resorted to, she continued to sink under the acuteness
of her sufferings, and the violent shock the system had
received, and she died on Monday last. The deceased
was a young woman of remarkable personal attractions,
and had not been married more than a few weeks.—Ver-
diet, " Accidental death."
EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF SELF-DESTRUCTION BY
A LADY.—At the close of an inquest on Thursday, a
juror remarked that it was to be regretted that more in-
quests were not held, for he was satisfied that many
came by their deaths unfairly, without the slightest no-
tice being taken of them. Mr. Wakley agreed with the
speaker, and he, too, was convinced that scores were an-
nually murdered in London with impunity. Since he
entered, on the office of coroner, most extraordinary
cases came before him. A gentleman lately called upon
him, and requested him to hold an inquest upon his
sister, who had died after nineteen hours' excruciating
agony. As she had been so long ill he did not think it a
proper case for inquiry: but her brother requested him
to hold an inquiry, as unpleasant rumours had been cir-
culated in consequence of her having been seized with ill-
ness just after parting with her lover. Mr. Wakley,
therefore, ordered the body to be opened, preparatory to
the inquest. Upon examination, it was ascertained she
had taken a large quantity of vitriol, which destroyed
the back of her throat and her gullet, and also burnt two
holes in her stomach. That she had taken the poison
herself there was not the slightest doubt; for to avoid it
being detected that she took poison, she so poured the
vitriol down her throat that it did not injure either her
lips or tongue, and yet (said Mr. Wakley) the lady who
evinced so much fortitude in a bad cause was only eigh-
teen years of age.
STATE OF TRADE.—LIVERPOOL.—Parliamentary
discussion has absorbed a large portion of the attention of the
mercantile world, and business has again suffered from the
unsettled state of the great measures that have been brought
forward. So far as Liverpool is concerned, these changes
have met with no favour. Whig, Tory, and Radical, all feel
that something more is intended than meets the eye, and so
long as the mystery is preserved, mercantile arrangements
are unsafe. As it is, very considerable engagements have
already been made for the supply of foreign free labour sugar ;
and had the Ministerial measure been negatived again on
Monday night, very considerable losses must have ensued.
The large arrivals of produce during the last fortnight are
now coming on the market, and we have this week expe-
rienced a better feeling in all branches, both buyer and seller
being disposed to do business. Money is plentiful, and
readily obtainable at low rates, on good security, yet there is
very little speculation going on. Cotton has been in better
demand : the trade have come forward more freely, and the
sales have been larger than for many weeks, whilst the prices
for middling sorts are certainly a shade higher, and there is a
more healthy appearance altogether. The import this week
has been light, in comparison with the previous fortnight
A favourable change of weather has produced an altered ap-
pearance on the Corn Exchange, There now seems but very
little chance of a low rate of duty this summer, and, there-
fore, what foreign supplies have been received must-lose
money for the importers.—Liverpool Mercury.