The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-24 00:00:00

Exchequer, and that many families were com-
pelled to throw themselves upon the tender
mercies of the union work-houses, from the
unjust and impolitic restriction upon giving publicity
to their wants and wishes.

It may suit some parties to assert that there would
be no reduction in the tariff of charges for the ad-
vertisements which are entitled to peculiar favour,
viz., those relating to applications for employment,
but that the same rates would still be demanded and
paid, that the only difference would be that certain
SUM would find their way into the pockets of news-
paper proprietors, in place of into the
national Exchequer. The argument is simply
ridiculous. There is too great a competition
in such matters to render it possible, much less pro-
bable, that any such attempt would be made, but if it
were it must necessarily prove abortive. The privi-
lege of lull and unrestricted publicity is one that will
be thoroughly appreciated by every one of the indus-
trious clauses.

There is another point, too, that must be imme-
diately attended to. The income-tax will, of coune,
be renewed, but not in its present form. Schedule D
must be considerably modified before it can receive
the legislative sanction, or even the assent of any
body of honest men. The equal taxation of all kinds
of income, no matter from what sources derived, or
whether permanent or fluctuating, is a gig .n,ic absur-
dity, that is at length thoroughly understood. rc,tr
people were too long hoodwinked, but they will be
so no longer. The late ➢linistry forfeited the ap-
probation of the community by trying to maintain
an untenable position. Their successors will not

fall into a similar error. Tne income•tax must be
placed on a just foundation, if Ministers hope for a
prolonged tenure of office after the rapidly approach-
ing appeal to the country

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL
(THIS DAY.)
_ _ _

:n the Exchrcitter -Chatnber, bef:-.)re 'Lord CANPBELI,
tho! CHIEF BARON, Mr. 133r0n PARKE Mr. Jt.siko
ERLE, ishrl Mr. J mtice WILLIAMS.)
THE QUEEN V. WILLIAM BALDRY.

This WBB SO of peal from !he assizss. The
prisoner, who is a v.,ry aged man, was tried before Mr.
Justice Cimpbell on an indictment charging him with
having administered poison to his wife, with the intcn-
ti'l.n of murdering her. On the part of the. prosecution
a police-cons?aide was called, who gave the following
evidence:—••I went to the p..isoner's house on the 19th
of December, and saw the prisoner. Dr. Vincen,,
Paae, another police-constable were with me. I told
him what he was charged with. He made no reply, hte
sat will his face buried in his handkerchie. I helii-ve
he was crying. I said he need net say anything to cri-
minate him* I,', but what he did would be taken down
and used as evidence against him." Obj4ction was made
on behalf of the prisoner, that what be then said waa no:
admissible, Mr. Justice Campbell thought, that although
the caution of the, constable dlfered from that directed
by 11 and 12 Vie , c. 42, s. 18, to be given by a justice
to a prisoner in the word 4, will," instead of " may," it
did not amount to any promise or threat to induce the
prisoner to confess; that it could have no tendency to
induce bim to say anything untrue; and that, in spite of
it, if he did 'Stem's) ds confess, the confession most be
considered voluntary. He, therefore, allowed the wit-
ness to give in evidence what the prisoner then said,
which amounted to confession of guilt; but as doubts
had been entertained by Learned Judges whether a con-
fession after such a caution might be lawfully given in
evidence, he reserved the question for the Court of Cri-
minal Appeal. The prisoner was convicted, and sen-
tence of death was passed upon him.
Mr. 'MILLS said he now appeared, on the part of the
prisoner. to substantiate the objection which was taken
at the trial. The question was, whether the words ad-
dressed to the prisoner held out to him any assurance
as a consequence of his
makingo f worldly
a satdavt
ea
mn teangt toor hoi mf
she al f m as the result of his
retraining to do so. The law presumed that a statement
made after such a caution was untrue, tied was not ad-
missible in evidence?. A confession. in order to be ad-
missible, must be free and voluntary, not extracted by
nor by any direct or implied
any threats or violence,
promises, however slight, nor by the exercise of any im-
proper influence. He also made another propo,ition,
viz., that the law could not measure the force of the in-
theece used, nor decide on its eff,ct on the mind of the

prisoner.
The CHIEF BARON observed that the Learned Coun-
sel was overstating the fact in siqing that the law pre"
judged a confession made under such circumstances to
be untrue. It would be more correct to say that the law
was not perftxti) certain as to the statement being true.
Mr. Minns said he should, on a review of other cases,
be able to substantiate the point that the law presumed
the statement to be untrue, or at any rate incredible.
Lord CAMPBELL CL:libted whether the practtce pro-
ceethd on the rnfiumption of the law that it was take,
but thought rather it proceeded on the principle that it
was daogerons to trust a jury with evidence so obtained.
Mr. Mans contended that such evidence was unwcr-
thy of judicial notice, whether presumed by the law to
be untrue or incredible. The smallest possible induce-
ment was held by the law to be enough to lead a pri-
soner to convict himf-If. There was a case in Leach's
Criminal LAW of a man who was suspected of having
stolen some irons from the window of a public-house.
The lardlotd used these words to him, " I em in great
.Distress about my irons—it you will tell me where they
are I will be lev,,urable to you." Tina simple induce-
ment was held to be sufficient to make the man charge

imselt wiih the crime, and he wv.s acquitted. Mr.
Mills cited a considerable number of otner cases in
which a similar point was irvolved, and contended that
upon the ground he had urged the conviction ought to
be quashed.
n,:unsel was heard on the other side.

The L ,ED CHIEF BARON esid it would be repugnant
to common sense to suppose that the words u•ed by the
police cfficer eld out au it:ductm,nt of any kind to the
prisoner to make a statement. He, therefore, thought
the Lord Chi'f Justice was perfectly right in admitting
the evidence at the trial, and that the conviction was
good.
Mr. Baron PARKE and the other judges concurring
in that opinion, the cor.viction was 'Armed.

HER MAJESTY'S SUMMER CRUISE.—The Queen,
accompanied by the Prince Consort and a portion of the
Royal Family, intends paying a summer visit to Bristol,
Waterford, Dublin, and Holyhead, en route to the Scottish
autumnal retreat of Balmoral. The Court will remove to
Osborne on the 22d of May, and her Majesty will embark
from the Isle of Wight some time alter (not before the
Parliam,nt is dissolved) on board the royal steam-yacht
Victoria and Albert (now in process of refit-and embellish-
ment for the royal service at Portsmouth dockyard), for the
summer cruise.—Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette of
this day, Saturday, April 24.

CABINET DINNER OF THE CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER —The Chancellor of the Exchequer entertained
his colleagues at dinner, on Wednesd ty, at Grosvenor-gate.
Tne members of the Cabinet present were the Earl of Lons-
dale, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Derby, the Duke
of Northumberland, the Earl of Malmesbury, Mr. Secretary
Walpole, Sir John Pakington, the Earl of Hardwicke,
Lord John Manners, and Mr. Henley. The Lord Chan-
cellor and Mr. Herries were prevented attending the dinner
by indisposition.
THE NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER.
coLouus.—Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal llighness
Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales
and the Princess Royal, acco ..:panied by the Countess of
Desart, Lord Colville, and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Sey-
mour. and suite, honoured the New Society of Painters in
Water Colours yesterday with a visit, and expressed their
great satisfaction at the superi oity of the exhibition.
THE HEALTH OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.-.. 111
consequence of the continued illness of the Lord Chancellor
the House of Lords did not sit to hear appeals yesterday
From the inquiries we have made we understand his Lord-
ship is better, though still unable to attend to his official
duties, but that he is expected to be able to sit in the House
of L:rds on M mday morning.

ADAM GRA/35LE OP MOSaCITLAY, BY THE AUTHOR
OP " MARGARET MAITLAND." 3 voLs.--" Adam Graeme" is
a story awakening genuine emotions of interest and delight
by its admirable pictures of Scottish life and scenery. The
plot is cleverly complicated, and !there is great vitality in
the dialogue, and remarkable brilliancy in the descriptive
passages, as who that has read " Margaret Maitland" would
not be prepared to expect; but the story has a mightier
magnet still, in the healthy tone which pervades it, in its
feminine delicacy of thought and diction, and .in the truly
womanly tenderness of its sentiments. The eloquent author
sets before us the essential attributes of- Christian virtue,
their deep and silent workings in the heart, and their beau-
tiful manifestations in the life, with a delicacy, a power, and
a truth which can hardly be surpassed. —Morning Post.'
_ _

Toe far-famed Slough Hotel is to 1)8 dismt,ntled.
The arrangement of the auction, which is under the direction
of Messrs. &bins. appears in our paper of this evening.
Thirteen days will be occupied in distributing the costty fur-
niture, the valuable plate, the rare wines, and the various in-
teresting and recherche articles congregated by Mr. Dceesio,
with his well-known judgment and taste, during the
many years the hotel hex been under his management. The
auction commences on Monday, May 3.
HOLYHEAD HARBotHL—Tbe galvanic battery is
still used with great effect in the quarries now working for
materials for the breakwater and pier at the new harbour.
Upwards of 7,oooibs. of powder were recently lodged in three
chambers, in a shaft 55 feet in depth. with 66 feet of head-
ing, and this heavy charge was fired by means of wires at-
tached to a galvanic battery. The explosion was eminently
successful, throwing down and dislodging upwards of 30,000
tons of stone, many of the misses being upwards of 20 tons
in weight.—Worth Wales Chronicle.
DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING —ESCAPE OF ME.
THOMAS FRANCIS MlCAGHER.—lntelligence has been received
at the office of the National newspaper that Mr. Thomas
Francis Mca4her has effected his :cape from the custody of
the authorities at Ven Diemen's Land. It appears that a
gentlem,n in Dublin has received a letter from his brother-
in-law. an assistant-surgeon in the British navy, written
from Hobart Town, and bearing the date of the 18th of last
January, which states that Meagher had escaped. and that
the Government officials had searched his house in vain. He
Coward, surgeon, had fled beyond capture ar,d pursuit-
THE SUIPS SEEN ON THB ICEBERG.—ME. Henry
tos callrey ibtir brother, has wide
they were not Fractlin,, ships,
Coward, of the brig Renovation, has published a letter, in
which he says--
geon, of North Shields, brother to Captain
" I believe my brother's opinion to be that
but ordinary whalers; and,
unwilling to risk his ship and crew without his own super-
intendence (being himself
an abscess from the throat\
very ill at the time, suffering from
and a dense fog coming on, al-
ways very dangerous in the vicinity of icebergs, he gave
havethem ,b asee
been
the
asdaei sailors
now at Vmeunniieti:nnds
he will
iO3 gout w hboe
irst berth.
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