The Sun. — 1851-10-28 (London, England)

SOUTH WARK. Susan Martin, the wife of a tradesman residing in Broad-wall, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. A policeman stated that the prisoner was found on Saturday evening on the step of a door in the street, apparently in a dying state, and when questioned she admitted that she had taken poison. He therefore lost no time in conveying her to a surgeon in the neighbourhood, who pronounced that she had swalloweda quantity of laudanum, and the stomach-pump being brought into requisition she recovered from the effects of the dose she had taken. It appeared that she had procured the laudanum by purchasing small quantities at different chemists' shops, until she got enough, she supposed, to answer her purpose, and then swallowed the whole. The husband was then called, and the first thing he did was to produce a bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, saying that she had nearly ruined him owing to her propensity for liquor. He was compelled to leave her some time ago, and allowed her U. a week to live upon, besides giving her furniture to furnish a room. Mr. A'BECZETT said that the husband of such a woman was to be pitied. He should remand her for a week, and in the meantime the husband would have an opportunity of consulting with his friends, and making some arrangement as to her future disposal in the event of her being discharged. In the course of the day Mrs. Johnson, a lady who has interested herself in a very benevolent manner on behalf of the two poor women named Suban, relative to whom an application was made a few days since, attended for the purpose of explaining some circumstances in allusion to their case, and to a letter which appeared in the newspapers from Lord Lansdowne on the subject. The applicant stated that, having seen the Marquis of Lansdowne's letter in the newspapers, she considerd it only an act of justice on the behalf of the two sisters Suban to attend before Mr. A'Beckett to explain some inaccuracie3 which appeared in the former report of their application at that court. She then proceeded to describe that the father of the two women did not live as butler in Lord Lansdowne's family, but served in that capacity to Dr. Taylor, of Kenmare, and that after their parents' death they lived in a cabin on his Lordship's estate in the county of Kerry ; that they inhabited the cabin up to the time of their quitting Ireland about two months ago, and that it was under the advice of Mr. Townsend, Lord Lansdowne's agent, that they left their native place, Kenmare, and embarked at Cork to come over to this country under the supposition that they would be enabled to make out a livelihood here; that Mr. Townsend paid their passage for them; and that they had documents to prove that, and also a letter from the Rev. Mr. Godfrey, the rector of Kenmare, recommending them as decent, well-conducted women, and entitled to the sympathy of the benevolent. She into the applicant) had made the most strict inquiries the characters of both the sisters, and had ascertained beyond doubt that they were not impostors, but were the persons they represented themselves to be, and for many their parents as well as themselves bad lived many years on the estate of the Marquis of Lansdowne, in the county of Kerry. The applicant added, that the two poor women had since left for Ireland, and that her object in making the present application i was for the purpose of acquainting his Lordship of the real circumstances, and disabusing his mind as to the unfortunate women being impostors, such animputation upon their characters being sufficient to destroy their future prospects in life if left uncontradicted. Mr. ATECHETT said that Lord Lansdowne in his note had:contradicted the assertions as to a man named Suban ever having been in his service as butler, or of such a person ever living on his estatesin the county of Cork; his Lordship disclaimed ever having possessed an estate in that county. He (the magistrate), from the manner of the two women when before him,  was prejudiced in their favour, and believed that they were not impostors, otherwise he would not have interested himself in procuring their removal back to Ireland as he did ; that he should write to his Lordship, acquainting him of the explanations given by the applicant, in order that the matter might be set right, and that what previously occurred might not operate to the disadvantage of the two sisters when they got back to Ireland. The applicant having thanked the magistrate, then withdrew.  sonable orders of this court by such fines as will force attention to their duties. Ilere we have ben half suffocated during the last two hours this morning by the windows being closed. There are a great number of persons here, and I shall mark my sense of the disobedience very strongly, because I don't think it is the business of the judge to waste his time with a matter such as this.  (The court-keeper, John Whiteside, then appeared.) The