The Sun. — 1841-06-23 (London, England)

DEATH FROM TAKING TOO MUCH OPIUM.—' On Monday night an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, in the Board-room of King's College Hospital, respecting the death of Mary Ryan, aged twenty-six. It appeared that the deceased was a prostitute, and on 'Wednesday night, having no home to go to, she was allowed to sleep in an empty room at 43, Clement's-lane. In the morning her hands and feet were much swollen from the cold, and the landlady put 'her in her own bed, where she slept till eleven o'clock. She then got up, and was in and out of the house till three, when she went out with her sister, and, having pledged her petticoat, bought some opium at Mr. Lovett s, in Clare-street, Clare-market. It was about the size of a bean, and she broke it up, and, mixing it with some flour, made it into pills. She had several times before attempted suicide, by taking laudanum. She afterwards had her tea, but in the evening became very ill; her face and hands turned blue, and she was brought to the hospital in a cab, where she died almost instantly. She bought a pennyworth, and the sister said the piece was half as large as at. walnut. Verdict—That the deceased died from taking, ca overdose of opiutn, and that the shopman was much to blame in not using more caution. DISTRESS AT NoßwicH.—We are • sorry to learn that one of our factories is about to close. Hundreds of people in this city are now out of employMent, and are parading the market-plate.—Bury Post:  ;  :]••; ,  We are concerned to perceive by the. Dublin newspapers which we received yesterday, that objections are made to the appointment of Sir John Campbell, not from any. thine- personal to the Learned Gentleman; but on the ground that he is not a .Member of the Irish bar. From the intelligence and liberality of the gentlemen practising in the Four Courts, we should have supposed that they Would have been above any such jealousy, and that they would have seen the great advantage which would arise to both parts of the United Kingdom, if English lawyers were occasionally selected. to preside in the Irish Courts, and Irish lawyers in the English Courts. But we find a complete misapprehension exists with respect to the case of Lord Plunket, when appointed by Mr. Canning, Master of the Rolls in England in the year 18727. It is supposed that the English bar met and came to a resolution against practising before him, whereby I tis appointment was recalled. Now we can state on the most correct information that the bar never met, nor, as a body came to any resolution or expressed any opinion upon the subject. A few individuals blamed the appointment without the authoiity or concurrence of the bar, and their murmurs, which would have soon died away,* coming to the ears of Mr. Plunket he very unnecessarily and very unfbrtunately shrunk back, and declined to take his seat at the Rolls. Had he• done so, as .his best friends advised him to do, there cannot be a ' aibt that he would have been received by the u - leer with perfect respect and cordiality; Enelisn would have been established and a precene.... `n gentlemen Leine- taken alicial situations which would have len e. i n• from the Irish bar to -a, might be England, in all cases in which- tiae higher considered more competent, -or-hawring--. claims to promotion, than gentlemen at the L'nb-11.91 :2='r. Thi;iiiiilertlteacze has. been carried on, begefia !ietween Englend and Scotland. Lord Loughborough and Lard Brougham, sue'cessiveiy Chaneellors of England, commenced their career at the Scotch bar; and Sir Samuel Shepherd, appointed Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, and one of the most popular Judges that ever presided there, was called to the English bar, and was Solicitor and Attorney General of-England for a considerable number of years, The Irish lawyers, eminent for their learning, their elcarence, and their high spirit, must be above any local or corporation spirit; and they have certainly had full share of promotion of htte years, as we have heard it stated that while J; mpbeli has been Attorney-General of England there leave been seven or eight distin guished men who hate held the office of Attorney-General of Ireland, alid most of whom are now, with great credit to themselves and benefit to the public, presiding in the Courts of Justice iii their own gauntry. The rel4Fitals4isqualification by which Roman Catholics are preftl'iftod from filling the office (47.1 Chancellor we should he 00.4 to see done away with. But for this, O'Loghlen, °tic 9 the greatest Equity Judges who have appeared in a;+ land or Ireland einae the time of Lord Hardwick, ought undoubtedly to have been the successor of Lord Plunket. All the circUrnemees of the case being considered, we believe it must be allowed that a better appointment could not have been made ' than that of Sir J. Campbell. His renunciation of the pension must acquit him, as well as the Government, of any sordid motive in the arrangement; and we ary not exactly sure whether any gentleman at the Irish bar would at the present moment have accepted the uffiee on the same terms. The Dublin newspapers likewise mention a tumour that there was something disrespectful to Lord Minket in the manner in which his resignation was brought about. But for this- there cannot be the slightest foun' dation. Every one must have been disposed to consult the feelings of a man who has done such honour to Ireland and to the United Kingdom, as an orator and a statesman, as yell as a lawyer.- It is well known that from his yett4fabbe age and increasing infirmities, he has for some time expressed a wish to be relieved from the fatigtles -of office, that he may enjoy, in domestic life that dignified ease to which,Ifrom his long and eminent services, he is so justly entitled.—Morning-Chronicle.