The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

CHARGE OF MURDER.

Yesterday a man about forty years of age, named Job
John Ward, was brought up in custody and placed ;at
the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, at Marylebone Police-
office, charged with the wilful murder of Timothy Easted.
Jane Easted deposed that she was a widow, occupying a
kitchen at No. 19, William-street, Regent's Park, and
had been living with the prisoner for the last two months.
On Saturday night, about ten o'clock, he (prisoner) re-
turned home the worse for drink, bringing with him some
meat for supper, when he desired her to go out for some
beer, and lighted her up stairs. At this period the deceased
was fast asleep in bed and quite well. I said to him,
" Don't beat the baby while I'm gone," and he promised
me he would not. In the course of three minutes I re-
turned, and the poor child was then groaning loudly.
It appeared to be dying, and without loss of time I car-
ried it to Mr. Barfoot, a surgeon, next door, who exa-
mined it, and found that it had had a blow upon the
head. He gave me some medicine, and I took the child
home ; but, at Mr. Barfoot's desire, it was afterwards
taken to the London University Hospital, where it very
shortly afterwards died. Its age was one year and nine
months. Witness said that the prisoner had evinced a
great dislike towards the child, and had frequently taken
opportunities to ill use it. She had often found marks
and bruises upon its person.
Elizabeth Roe stated that when Mrs. Basted ran up to
her the child seemed almost dead. The groans of the
poor little thing were dreadful, and by her advice it was
taken to Mr. Barfoot's.
John Roe, son of the last witness, deposed that on
Sunday morning, having heard that the prisoner had
come home, he ran out with the intention of fetching a
policeman, when he (prisoner) followed, and asked wit-
ness what he wanted with him. He was told that he
knew very well what he was wanted for, when he said
that he had not hurt the child, and tried to get away.
A Policeman came up, and he was given into custody.
Mr. Edward Wade Barfoot, surgeon, 18, William-
street, stated that deceased was brought to him at about
twenty minutes before eleven o'clock on Saturday night.
The child was moaning and insensible, and the head was
much swollen, as if from a blow on the right side just
above the ear. The part affected was very pulpy from
extravasation of blood, and he was unable, from the exa-
mination made by him, to say whether the skull was
fractured or not. While he was making up the medi-
cine which he considered necessary the child was seized
with convulsions, and he subsequently advised its remo-
val to the hospital, as he looked upon it to be a very se-
rious case.

A certificate from the hospital was handed to the
magistrate ; it set forth that deceased died in two hours
after its admission into the institution in question, and
the medical gentleman by whom it was signed added
that he could not state the precise cause of death without
an internal examination.
Mr. EAsvussos remanded him till Wednesday, and
gate directions that every facility should be afforded for
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HAJI n inquiry on Monday at the residence
of Mr. Pau, the gentleman who on the evening of Fri-
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tendant, when he related the particulars
attack in nearly the same words as he had previously
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to Mr. Dodsworth. His recollection of
however, so confused, that he has o remembrance of
how he reached his residence. Thel3 sovereigns, of
which he was robbed, were contained in an old red
purse, with yellow metal slides, and the pocket-book,
which contained three bankers' checks, not filled up,
and other memorandums, was a Russia leather one.
It was at first supposed that the ruffians had probably
come by the same omnibus with Mr. Pau from town ;
but that now appears not to be the ease, as that gentle-
man alighted from the omnibus with which he
came
from town at Hammersmith Broadway, and thence pro-
ceeded in another omnibus to within a quarter of a mile
of his own residence. The alarm occasioned through-
out the neighbourhood by the daring and murderous
outrage is beyoad description, most persons being afraid
to venture out after dark, the darkness on the roads,
from the discontinuance of the gas lamps, affording every
futility for the operations of evil-disposed persons. Ever
since the police received information of the occurrence,
Inspector Morgan and other active officers of the T divi-
sion have been strenuously engaged in endeavouring to
discover the perpetrators of the outrage, which, owing
to Mr. Pau being unable in any way to describe either
their number or appearance, is a matter of great diffi-
culty ; but although no person is yet in custody on the
charge, we understand there are reasons to believe they
will not long escape the hands of justice.
TORY REVERENCE FOR CONSECRATED
GROUND.—The Shropshire fox hounds had a fine run,
on Saturday last, Ileynard made his way towards High
Ercall, and finally entered the churchyard there, and
made repeated attempts to gain the sanctuary of the
sacred edifice, by jumping at- the windows to gain ad-
mission. The sportsmen and dogs entered the church-
yard, pele-mele, gallopinu over the graves, and poor rey-
nard was torn piece-meal.—Stalfordshire Examiner.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We cannot answer the questions proposed by " Equal

Justice."
Mr. Small should have stated on what day the paragraph
appeared• but he will find the best information on the
subject in the speeches made at a meeting of Bond-
holders, which appeared in The Sun at full length.

THE WEATHER.—NOON, NOVEMBER 22.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 55 Highest 55 Lowest ....... 42
Barometer 29.30.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO W
M0rning......49 minutes after 9 1 Evening 21 minutes after 10.

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1841.

The Tories are busily engaged in providing for
the security of plunder and the destruction of
liberty. They will not allow the people to have
bread, and they are preparing to give them
bayonets. Barracks, it appears, have been re-
cently erected at Ashton and Derby, or are
about to be erected. The Home-office has also
put Colonel WEMYSS into communication with
the civic authorities at Bolton, in order to get a
barrack built in that town, or in its neigh-
bourhood.
On Wednesday last a meeting of the inhabit-
ants of Bolton took place to consider the proposi-
tion of the Home-office and the Horse Guards

to build a barrack there, if the inhabitants would
find a site. The meeting, though composed
exclusively of those who pay the highest
rates, declined the honour, and declared that
they would rather trust the protection of
their property to their townsmen than to the
military. They did not hesitate to say that
they thought the object of the Home-office and
the Horse Guards was to make the starving
people die quietly, and place the community
under a complete military despotism. The
patriotic men of Bolton are deserving of great
honour for resisting the insidious proposal of Sir
JAMES GRAHAM, one of the leaders of the
landed interest, and for revealing the designs of
the Tories. We now see why Sir ROBERT PEEL
wished to have so long a period for deliberation,
and what he is to execute after receiving the fair
trial Mr. WAKLEY advocated.

We have already, more than once, suggested
the suspension of the Corn-law, by order in
Council, as an instant remedy for the public dis-
tress. Anything, however, so just, so honest:,
so simple, and yet so efficacious, is not to be ex-
pected from the Starvation Ministry, whose
power and whose very being depends on mysti-
fication, dishonesty, and injustice. A modifica-
tion of this suggestion is strongly urged on us by
a Correspondent, and has already been men-
tioned by other Journals, but it is worthy of
being repeated. The distress at Paisley, Spital-
fields, &c., has been, or is to be, we hope, par-
tially relieved by charity. At the same time,
the increase of the poor is great, and they must
be fed by rate-payers, many of whom are on the
verge of pauperism. Now, although we dare not
hope from the starvationists that they should
give up their adored starvation law, it may
perhaps not be too much to expect even from
them that they should forego their tax on the
rood which charity supplies. Our Correspondent
accordingly recommends the subscribers to the
Mendicity Society, to the Paisley fund, and to
other charitable societies, as well as the borne
down rate-payers, to petition the QUEEN, and
implore her benevolently to pass an Order in
Council to allow foreign grain and provisions of
all kinds to be imported and taken out of bond
for the use of the suffering poor without paying,
any duty. Her MAJESTY would cheerfully con-
sent to the prayer, and hasten to grant it, as soon
as its purport was known ; but her masters and
our tyrants will frame a thousand objections to
such a scheme, and will allege as an excuse for
their sordid hard-heartedness that the plan
would be impracticable, that others than
the poor fed by charity--that the half-starved
workman—would by these means obtain cheap
bread, and they will prevent her MAJESTY from
assenting to so reasonable a request. It would
be of no use, we are afraid, to state that the un-
taxed food might only be issued to the respon-
sible officers of charitable associations, and of
the Poor-law unions. The men who refused to
allow foreign corn to be ground in bond, lest a
grain of the untaxed bread should pass into the
stomachs of the hungry labourers, who feed and
clothe society, are capable of anything; and they
will, most likely, refuse even this little diminu-
tion of the cruel wrong they inflict on their
brethren. We mention the matter, however, in
obedience to our Correspondent's wish, and add
that the only way to obtain even this trifle is
for all the persons who subscribe to relieve dis-
tress also to unite in petitioning that the provisions
necessary to feed the poor may be imported
duty free.

The Tories have found out a new effect of the
Corn-law, though we have been told, years ago,
that nothing new could be said on the subject.
"The law tempers prices," it is said ; probably as
fire and water temper steel, and give it a keen
edge to slay the opponents of those for whom it
is tempered. The Corn-law, by tempering
prices, slays the manufacturers. The only effect
before ascribed to the Corn•law was, that it
raised or lowered prices, or gave them stability,
or made them fluctuate. To temper them is
a perfectly new effect, the discovery of which
must be ascribed, we are afraid, rather to the de-
sire to mystify the question than make it clear.

Besides tempering price, the Corn-law is said
to lower the price of food, and raise the scale
of wages, which is the reverse of the inten-
tion of those who made it. They designed
it to raise and keep up the price of food. We
know that the law has not fully answered their
intention on this point. They calculated that
it would keep the price of wheat up to 655. per
quarter; it has only kept up that price to 565. If
it have lowered the price of food, and raised the
scale of wages—as the present condition of
society, the Tories will probably say, testifies—
it is only necessary probably to repeat the dose
and make it stronger. Give us another Corn-law,
and let the pivot be 80s., and the protecting duty
then 255. It is impossible to have too much of
such an admirable an invention as the law which
lowers the price of food and raises the scale of
wages. If the landlords have done this for the
people, then, indeed are they Gods, and worthy
of adoration.

It is impossible to predict what may be the
consequences of the threatened interference with
the internal administration of Spain by a Confer-
ence of European Powers sitting in London,
With all its faults the Government of ESPAR-
TERO is more powerful and more respected at
home than that of Louts PHILIPPE. No secret
societies threaten its existence in the capital ;
and while an army of 50,000 men are requisite to
defend the person of the KING of the FRENCH
from the bullets of assassins, the REGENT of SPA IN
walks the streets of Madrid in perfect safety, un-
attended by a single soldier or National Guard.
Nor has the REGENT acquired his authority,
neither does he maintain it, by being the to:A of
any faction in the State. The Exaltados of Bar-
celona find no more favour in his eyes than the
Christinos at Pampeluna and Vittoria. His guide
is the Constitution and the laws, which, while
they secure the liberties of the people, uphold
the dignity and maintain the just preroga-
tives of the Crown. From the accession of
ESPARTERO to the Regency, till the Christino in-
surrection, Spain was tranquil, and her Govern-
ment as firmly administered as that of any na-
tion in Europe. Now the Christino insurrec-
tion was the work of France, and a handful of
Spanish fugitives, having no hold on the loyalty
or affection of that country. ESPARTERO but
put forth his hand to grasp his sword, when the
revolutionary faction vanished like smoke. In
Barcelona the news of his approach put the
Exaltados to light, so that the Government is
now without an internal enemy. Can this be
said of France, with her numerous Secret Socie-
ties for hurling Louts PHILIPPE from the throne?
But then France is too powerful to admit of fo-
reign interference, while Spain, on the contrary,
is weak. This is, in truth, the reason why the
latter is selected as the fitting theatre for dis-
playing the power of the new Holy Al-
liance. But if the principle be once ad-
mitted that such interference is allowable
in the internal administration of weak
States, a combination of the Powers can easily
reduce any one nation to a level with such Go-
vernments as those of Portugal and Spain. What
a combination of the Powers made France in
1815, a similar combination could make her in
1845. If, then, she sanction foreign interference
in Spain, because French gold was capable of
corrupting
a Spanish garrison at Pampeluna, she
may yet have to justify to Europe her retention
of a form of Government under which nothing
flourishes but regicidal and revolutionary con-
spiracies.

Should a Congress, of the character indicated,
assemble, we implore the Government of this
country to have nothing at all to do with it.
The honour and interests of England are bound
up with the freedom of, and the right of, volun-
tary choice of institutions by the Spanish
people.
The people of Spain have, in the most unequi-
vocal manner, testified their attachment to the
Constitution and the Regency of ESPARTERO
and it is the duty of our Ministers, be they Whig

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