The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-14 00:00:00

Cross-examined—The child was quite healthy when it left
the workhouse. The child had no clothes but those belong-
ityr to the tiliotf•hovg.e. It is the custom of the house to
tate away i:io clothes frOtti OA children when they are taken
out of the house, even although they hale no other clothes,
and were left naked. The child was called 2,lin Butcher.
Henry Dikon—l am a surgeon, residing at Paris:lL I made
an examination of the body of the child found in the brook
by Brown. I opened the body. The appearance of the
viscera was healthy, and there was nothing which was likely
to cause sudden death. I even now cannot say what was the
immediate cause of the child's death. I cannot say it was
by suffocation by drowning. There is nothing to enable me
to say it died from suffocation, or that it did not die of suffo-
cation.

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This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr._ C. SAUNDERS then addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and contended that there was no evidence to show that the
child died from drowning, which was the cause of death
charged by the inquisition, of which they must be perfectly
convinced before they could convict the prisoner. The child
might have died on the road, and as it was illegitimate, might
then have been thrown into the water by the prisoner to pre-
vent her shame being known.
Mr. Baron Roryv.Eln,summing up, told the jury to take all
the eircurnstance_ , 1.415 e into their consideration and
then say whether tkilleit.•!:..ght the death of the child was
from natural causes,: .e , drowning by the hand of the
prisoner. It was not' .'h .use the surgeon could not dis-
tinctly say whether the child died from drowning or not that
they were to acquit her, but they were to decide that ques-
tion looking at all the facts.
The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, acquitted the
.prisoner. .

ADDRESS FROM
ASTLE THE
.DUKE OF
NEWC

" TO sly COUNTRYMEN;
" Encouraged by your former kindness and consideration,
I trust that it may not be mistimed nor unacceptable that I
now again venture to intrude upon your attention.
'.About this time last year I presumed to address you
upon a subject of intense national interest then in progress.
I then hazarded an opinion that the same ruthless hand
which planned the elevation of Popery would not scruple to
work the downfall of our agricultural system. You have
now too much cause to lament with me, that my words have
not proved untrue. You have witnessed with astonishment
and detestation the hideous treachery and tergiversation of
public men, which burst forth suddenly upon your incredu-
lous viw in the full blaze of its trihant deformity, sup-
portede by a shameless effrontery u exampled in the annals
of well-regulated states.
"As virtue is proverbially said to be its own reward, so
treachery may be said to be its own perdition,—and thus it
is in this case. The Prime Minister expected that he had so
contrived and so securely plotted his arrangements that suc-
cess 'lva; certain, failure impossible. No man was ever more
mistaken in his calculations, no Minister ever more deceived
in an estimate of his own controlling (if not despotic) power,
and individual essentiality. Instead of dismay from the fear
of losing him, he finds that no one desires to retain his
services; and where he thought to raise entreaty, he has
only raised a pitiless storm of scoffs and indignation. Faith
and confidence in him have ceased, and his political sun is set.
Under protective laws we have flourished, under
them and by them observe well, not in spite of them
Gi%lit Britain has grown into an empire of the first rank for
wealth and power in the universe. Who, in truth, can deny
this fact? Not the merchant, the manufacturer, the trades-
man, the shopkeeper, the artisan, or that humbler but most
deserving class,upon whose industry andlabour the wealthiest
merchants and producers depend, as in turn the work-
man depends upon his employer for ample remuneration in
the shape f liberal wages—all of these must perceive that
without protietion their prosperity will decline into abject
poverty, and that a full protection is as indispensably neces-
sary to them,' as to the British farmers and labourers in
husbandry.
" Now, then, gentlemen of England, stand forward. The
clergy, bold yearten, ,trusty farmers, worthy labourers—
all those interested in the cultivation of the soil—stand
forward. Must I stop here ? No ; general protection is a
question of vital interest to you also, and you cannot, must
not, shall not, be excluded from the appeal. Without the
grossest injustice to your high national feelings, and an un-
pardonable insult to your patriotism, to your acknowledged
intellect, and comprehensive understanding, I cannot
omit you. I call upon you, merchants, manufactu-
rers, and traders of England, to come forth frankly, boldly,,
nobly, as an essentially component peat of our great English
brotherhood—stand forward, join us freely, without any
mental reservation whatsoever, aild unite with us, your
British brothers, with all your heart :.end all your soul, in de-
fence and preservation of our Church aid Otate, for involved
in and most intimately connected with Oen", is the all ab-.
sorbing question of general protection to B.'itioh industry.
" I confidently call upon you, all and each,
scr your assist-
ance. By your timely aid and determined supt.'G.rtuves—
yo may
rs.el
bring into power men who, I trust, think like
rations
men who have no party but their country, no asp.:sided
but-for its solid and permanent welfare—who are idess,
with you and your interests, and who, by their plain de.,l';
ing, honesty, and English uprightness, will scorn all crooke.,
ways, and will undeviatingly pursue those of equity wad

truth.
"You must be prompt and energetic. A general election
may be near at hand. I have just witnessed in my own
county a most extraordinary result of British virtue and
moral courage, emanating from and conducied by the agri-
cultural interest alone, which may well be a model of action
and an example to the whole country.
" Believing, as I confidently believe, that we all most
earnestly desire, the peace, welfare, order, and prosperity of
our loved native soil, allow me to entreat you to adept the
measures so successfully employed in Nottinghamshre. .
" Then lose . not a day or an hour ; instant3Y and
busily set to work to form and organise Wotife-
tion Societies in every county in England—especii.:ll,-
make choice of a good and influential chairman and as
working committee—associate with you all the friends'
of protection to British industry, whether farmers 6r
others—make yourselves acquainted with all your brother
electors—pay the closest and most minute attention to
the registers, and select and communicate with fit, and none
but the fittest men, to represent you in Parliament ;
leave nothing undone ; let your preparations be com-
plete at the earliest period ; and, the done, calmly, but
most determinedly, await the hour of trial, and, when-
ever it does arrive, take into your own hands what is
your own business ; regulate. execute everything for
yourselves, with the energy, the intelligence, the just--
and fair, bnt unbending eettermination of Englishmen,
and you may reasonably hope that, by God's blessing,
you may be enabled to save your insulted and injured coun-
try from the most fearful perils which the machinations or
infatuation of false men and treacherous statesmen ever de:-
vised for the degradation and ruin of the land of their birth--
a land whose natives are worthy of all protection, and deserv-
ing of the most ardent exercise of your purest and most
exalted patriotism.
" Believe me to be
" Your ever faithful friend,
" NEWCASTLE.
"P.S. I can scarcely anticipate that this revolutionary
measure, now under discussion, can ever become the law of
the land ; but if, most unfortunately, it should be so, as-
suredly a future national majority will at once decide that an
enactment so atrocious shall no longer continue on the Statute-
book.
" London, March, 1846."