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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29

tries. They have taken for allies and proteges, both in
Spain and Greece, the military party; these carry every-
thing by intimidation, and, if this fails, by murder.
General Grivas, who so lately completed his political
education on board a French steamer, is the Greek Nar-
vaez ; he is the bully and the blusterer for frightening
timid deputies into the right way of voting. And
when Grivas shouts his orders in the Greek
Assembly, they have the same effect as those of
Narvaez at Madrid, where people know that the
hired informer, the dependent court-martial, and the
executioner, wait on the word of the military dictator.
We hear it rumoured, that the French Opposition
is not to be so very violent against us, poor Englishmen,
as it used to be. We shall be very happy to see any
proofs of this ; and shall be eager to do justice to either
journalists or Parliamentary orators who can be induced
to part with those convenient and accustomed themes of
invention and declamation, which afforded argument,
force, eloquence, and apparent patriotism, at so little
expense of talent, information, sincerity, or truth. But
first let us see some indication of this improved feeling,
and, above all, of its effect upon the conduct of the Go-
vernment. What interests us, however, far more than
the tone, either present or prospective, of the French
Opposition, is the actual policy 'of the French Cabinet,
which, notwithstanding the visit of Loads Philippe and
M. Guizot to Windsor, displays all the old jealousy of
French tradition. The Cabinet of M. Thiers, even in
its last days, never acted on so decided a principle of
national rivalry at Alexandria, as that with which M.
Guizot is now counteracting in that country our cer-
tainly not unfair or insidious efforts for procuring free
transit. Even the mild Journal des Debais bristles up
at the idea of a railroad between Suez and Cairo, and is
quite as much haunted by the spectre of the perfide
Albion, as its brethren of the Prease or the National.
POST.—When Mr. Gladstone introduced his Bill for
removing all fiscal obstructions to the exportation of
British machinery, the Morning Post stood alone in de-
nouncing that measure as destructive of the manufac-
turing superiority of England. The Bill in question was
supported almost unanimously by the free traders in the
House of Commons ; yet now the free traders who com-
pose the Manchester Chamber of Commerce declare, in
their elaborately prepared memorial, that unless Go-
vernment shall extend relief to them they must be driven
from all the foreign markets which they at present sup-
ply. " Foreign competition," they state, "has already
been increased by the free exportation of British ma-
chinery ; and so formidable are the indications of in-
creased competition with the very same implements that
are used in this country, that if there were no other
reason for the repeal of the cotton-tax this alone would
be sufficient to render it imperatively requisite." The
Manchester Chamber of Commerce declares that the tax
on raw cotton is equivalent to a tax of ten per cent. in
favour of the American manufacturer. Good ; but in
the possession of better and cheaper machinery, the Eng-
lish manufacturer enjoyed advantages over his foreign
rival, amounting to not less than twenty or thirty per
cent. In his speech in support of the Exportation-of-
Machinery Bill, Mr. Gladstone admitted this fact.
"He believed," such were the Right Honourable
Gentleman's words, " that since the foundation of
machinery establishments in Belgium for machines, equal
in execution to those of this country, the foreigner did
not pay more than twenty or thirty per cent, more than
the British manufacturer paid." Before the passing of
Mr. Gladstone's Machinery Bill, the foreigner did, how-
ever, pay twenty or thirty per cent. more for his machi-
nery than the British manufacturer was obliged to do.
This mighty advantage our free trade loving manufac-
turers and Mr. Gladstone agreed to throw away ; and
now these modest manufacturers declare that the pos-
session by foreigners of an advantage to the extent of
ten per cent. must utterly destroy our foreign trade !
Not merely did the patriotic Mr. Gladstone counsel the
abandonment by our manufacturers of exclusive advan-
tages ranging in extent from twenty to thirty per cent.,
he declared, emphatically, moreover, that while, on the one
hand, our machine makers might hope, by means of the
action of his Bill, to monopolise " the machine-making
of the world," our manufacturers would, on the other
hand, suffer nothing from the influence of the
measure. To our magnanimous Minister the sacri-
fice about to be made by our manufacturers ap-
peared, indeed, absolutely insignificant. "To pre-
vent their foreign rivals"—such were the words of
Mr. Gladstone, " from having so slight an advantage
was most invidious." If it was " invidious " to refuse
to our foreign rivals the " slight advantage" of twenty
or thirty per cent. on the price of machinery, must it
not, according to the logic of our invaluable President
of the Board of Trade, be still more " invidious " to
refuse to our foreign rivals the slighter advantage of ten
per cent. in the price of raw cotton ? The object of Mr.
Gladstone was, as he proclaimed when he introduced
his Machinery Bill, " to secure to England a steady and
valuable trade." An increasing trade in machine making
for foreign countries can, it is obvious, become " steady'
chiefly in reference to its effects in " steadily " diminish-
ing our export trade in all other manufactured commo-
dities. In direct proportion to the increase in the ex-
portation of English machinery, must be the decrease in
the exportation of our cottons,:woollens, and hardware.
In direct proportion, in short, to the extent to which we
may augment the means by which foreigners may manu-
facture for themselves must, of necessity, be the decline
in the foreign demand for English manufactured commo-
dities. Our foreign trade has for a quarter of a century
been all in all in the eyes of all " enlightened commer-
cialists ;" yet these "enlightened commercialists," who
have so long and so unweariedly asserted the paramount
importance of foreign trade, have deliberately sacrificed
that foreign trade, in the acquisition of which England
has endured so many fearful sacrifices. In enabling
foreigners to manufacture fur themselves, we have ob-
viously abandoned our cherished scheme of manufactur-
ing for them ; in other words, we have virtually aban-
doned our foreign trade. What, however, let us ask,
may be the value of that trade in machine making which
Mr. Gladstone hoped to gain, when weighed against the
v due of the trade which we have consented to throw
away ? Statistics for determing this question have been
supplied by free-traders. Our manufactured annual ex-
ports, foreign and colonial, amount, as Leaguers are
never weary of proclaiming, to fifty millions sterling.
Ot these about thirty millions represent the extent of
our foreign trade. The value of English machinery ex-
ported before the passing of Mr. Gladstone's measure,
by means of smuggling, and of the " licensing" system,
was shown by the free-trader, Mr. Brotherton, to
amount to one million and a half annually. The value
of the machinery so exported, when compared with the
value of the goods which that machinery was fitted to
produce, was declared by Mr. Gladstone to be five per
cent. These estimates—estimates supplied by free
traders—prove, that the machinery which, under the
action of the " licensing " system, was exported from
Eogland—machinery of the value of one million and a
half sterling—represented an annual production of goods
abroad to the extent of thirty millions sterling—repre-
sei4ed, therefore, a loss to that extent to English manu-
facturers of cottons, woollens, and hardwares. The
whole of our actual foreign trade scarcely exceeds, as we
have stated, thirty millions sterling. As, therefore, ac-
cording to Mr. Gladstone, the value of machinery em-
ployed in manufactures does not exceed five per cent. on
the value of the commodity produced—and as, according
to Mr. Brotherton, we did, before the passing of Mr.
Gladstone's Bill, send abroad, by direct and indirect
means, machinery to the annual value of a million acd
half—it would seem to follow, that whenever Mr. Glad-
stone's Bill shall double our former exportations of ma-
chinery, our foreign trade must be annihilated. Our
system of foreign trade is, therefore, doomed. We shall,
hereafter, discuss the very curious question—why our
manufacturing agitators in favour of " extended foreign
trade," should have lent themselves to Mr. Gladstone's
scheme for the overthrow of our foreign trade.
HERALD.—The late anniversary dinner, to celebrate
the acquittal of Hardy and Co. in 1794, has been too
little alluded to. It is a new and a remarkable feature
in our politics, that judges are now expected to sacrifice
their own convictions, and act as the mob wish. This
was avowed on that occasion. The health of Lord
Denman was toasted as an honest judge, because he
voted in a way to meet the approbation of the agitators.
Those who agreed with him were praised as his sup-
porters ; those who differed from him were held up to
the reprobation—" the contempt and scorn"—of the
people ; the mention of them was received with yells and
hisses. Therefore the judges are now expected to give
their decisions, not according to their opinions, their
consciences, and their oaths ; but are expected to give
them on one side. This is quite clear; no judge can
ever be the subject of praise or blame for giving his
judgment according to his honest opinion ; he has no
control over his opinion ; his reason is convinced by the
argument presented to him ; he decides accordingly.
To praise him for this, or to blame him, would be about
as absurd as to praise or blame a man for saying that two
and two make four. But, if a judge is to decide, not as
he thinks but as the mob wish, then it is quite consistent
for the mob to thank him. Now, then, we have, in the
late meeting, a new and striking illustration
of what we have so often maintained—
namely, that the late judgment
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Denman, Cottenham, and Campbell, regarded by their
party as an act conducive to the interests of that party.
By the way, what reason could make the Hardy-men
omit all mention of Mr. Justice Maule's opinion and ar-
gument against the agitators ? and yet he was one of
Mr. O'Connell's members in the last Parliament, and he
decided against him. The extraordinary, the wholly
unprecedented step since taken by the Lord Chief Jus-
tice, adds force and illustration to the same position.
When before did a judge ever appeat to the public
through the press ? When did any of Lord Denman's
predecessors ever publish his argument, and add page
after page in support of his reasonings which he had not
delivered in his place ? Lord Tenterden was so jealous
on the subject of judges publishing, that he would not
even give a new edition of his book on shipping with his
name. We believe 'Mr. Justice Bayley had the like
scruple as to his book on bills and notes. But what
would either of these judges have said of a Chief Justice
resorting to the press, and giving both a corrected report
of his own speech in pronouncing judgment, and adding
many pages which he never had spoken ? How can
Lord Denman know that his delivering these arguments
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THE CASE OF INFANTICIDE AT
WOLVERHAMPTON.
CONCLUSION OF THE INQUEST.
This investigation was resumed on Friday last,
and adjourned on the evening of that day. On Tues-
day the Coroner and jury met again, and after the
examination of several witnesses, whose testimony
added nothing to the general statements published last
week, the jury, after ten minutes' deliberation, re-
turned the following verdict :—" That the said unknown
female child was born alive in the month of October,
in the year aforesaid, and died immediately after
her birth, and was found dead on the 28th day of
the same month, in the same year, in the night soil
of a certain privy situate in the parish aforesaid, in the
county aforesaid, and that her death was caused by ex-
travasation of blood upoa the brain, the result of ex-
ternal violence, but how or by whom such violence was
caused, sufficient evidence does not appear to the said
jurors."
Mr. Sheriff was removed from the police station to
Stafford on the night of his commitment, and Miss Rail-
ton and Mr. Hildreth early on the following morning ;
but Mrs. Hildreth has remained in the town, in conse-
quence of the ill state of her health.

DR. GLOVER, IN REPLY TO MR.
LETHEBY, ON THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN
BELANEY'S CASE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The only reply to Mr. Letheby which I think
myself called on to make through the public press, con-
sists in the correction of three misrepresentations of my
statement. In a letter to the Medical Gazette I have re-
plied more fully.
1. Mr. Letheby accuses nie of endeavouring to prove
that the taste of prussic acid " must be hot." Now, I
only go the length of supposing this substance, when
swallowed in a poisonous dose, to be capable of giving
rise to a sensation which a person might term "hot," not
being in a condition to "search for choice expressions."
2. He tries to found something upon an inference
which he supposes me to make in Belaney's favour, from
his apparent intention of using thelancet. But I expressly
guard myself from drawing any such inference; and content
myself with showing, that as bleeding is, in the opinion of
most authorities, an excellent remedy in such cases, and
in the opinions of others the very best remedy which
can be employed, it does not quite follow, as the Medical
Gazette hath it, that Belaney took out his lancet in
order to kill his wife.
3. He asserts that I dissent in toto from the opinion
given by himself and Dr. Thomson in regard to the
smell of prussic acid remaining for some time in a room
where some of this substance may have been spilt. I
express no such dissent, but endeavour to show the exis-
tence of circumstances which explain the absence of
smell in the case in question.
The position which I hold is so secure, that Mr.
Letheby, like another opponent, in despair of being able
to attack it with success, has fallen on points which Ido
not hold.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT M. GLOVER, M.D,
12, Northumberland-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
November 27.

MR. HURST'S AFFAIRS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—A grossly exaggerated statement in reference
.0 the affairs and pecuniary embarrassments of our pre-
sent Member, Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., having gone
the round of the principal newspapers of the day, copied
from the columns of the Brighton Guardian, which from
the evident vindictive feeling exhibited in the article in
question is calculated, not only unnecessarily to wound
the feelings of Mr. Hurst and his connexions, and in-
flict a deep and lasting injury on the junior members of
his family, but also create an unfavourable impression in
the minds of strangers as to the tradesmen who are al-
luded to in that article—we, the undersigned tradesmen
of the borough of Horsham, with many of whom Mr.
Hurst has for years past been in the habit of principally
dealing, feel it our duty, in justice to Mr. Hurst and
ourselves, thus publicly to deny, so far as our knowledge
and interests are concerned, the truth of the statement
inserted in the Guardian reflecting on the character and
conduct of Mr. Hurst in reference to any debts con-
tracted with ourselves, or of which we have cognizance
with any other tradespeople. Our accounts have been
always fairly and honourably paid at the usual period of
the year for discharging the same, and we have every
confidence that our claims for the current year will be
discharged in like manner. So far from Mr. Hurst's
" disappearance" from Horsham being sudden and un-
expected to us, it was a matter of common notoriety for
.ome considerable time previously to his departure.
With regard to the alleged intended sale of his house-
hold furniture, farming stock, &c., the only disposition
of such property advertised is the ordinary sale of
farming stock, &c., by a gentleman quitting his farm
and declining to follow that occupation.
We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
W. Lintott, grocer. W. Aldridge, plumber, gla-
J. Stanford, draper. zier, &c.
C. Knight, grocer. G. Waller, gun maker.
H. Razell, saddler, &c. R. Collins, tailor.
C. Rowland, stone-mason. J. Honywood, builder.
J. Penfold, smith. T. Honywood, builder.
H. Stanford, baker. T. Redford, butcher.
J. Herring, druggist. J. Rowland'
J. Potter, baker. B. Rowland, bricklayers.
Webber and Taylor, buil- J. Clarke, printer and book.
ders. binder.
G. Rich, upholsterer. S. Stovell, brewer.
H. Mitchell, brewer and coal G. Clark, coachmaker,
merchant.
Horsham, 20th Nov., 1844.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 28,

CADERIX U. LITTLE.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
The jury, after about an hour's deliberation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff on all the counts—Damages, 405.,
which, in this action to try a right, carries full costs.

WINTER ASSIZES.
_HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Non. 28.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
SINGULAR CHARGE OF Aasox.--John Wilson, alias
Rowland Howell, aged 30, described as a tailor, was
indicted for feloniously setting fire to a stack of hay,
the property of John Stephens, at Farnborough.
William Stephens, the prosecutor's brother, deposed
that he had a farm at Chelsfield, in the parish of
Farnborough, and between two and three o'clock on
the morning of the Gth of September he was awoke
by an alarm of fire. On getting up he found that
one of the haystacks was in flames, and before the fire
could be extinguished the greater portion of it was
consumed. He afterwards saw the prisoner in cus-
tody, but he knew nothing of him, and to the best of
his knowledge had never seen him before.
Wm. Tompsett, a police-constable of the R division,
who is stationed in this neighbourhood, deposed, that
upon hearing the cry
,of " fire," he got up and went
towards Mr. Stephens s premises, and when he got
close to them he met the prisoner, who told him that
there was a haystack on fire. He asked the prisoner
which road he was going., and he said to London ; and
witness asked him to give information of the fire to
any policeman he might meet, and request him to
come and assist, and the prisoner promised to do so,
and proceeded on his way towards town. Witness
then proceeded to the stack-yard, and found the stack
in question on fire all over.
Cross-examined by the prisoner—The place where
I met you was in the high road from Sevenoaks to
London.

should wish the sergeant to be questioned with regard
to his treatment after he was removed to the Sidcup
police-station, and whether he was not placed under
restraint ?
The sergeant said he was not aware of the fact,
but there was no doubt that it was considered all along
that he was not in his right senses.
The prisoner asked whether the surgeon who exa-
mined him at the station did not say that he was at
the time labouring under delirium tremens
The witness said he could not speak to that fact.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence,
apologised to the Court for the time he had occupied
in questioning the witnesses, and said that with the
permission of the Learned Judges he would read a
few observations he had reduced to writing in answer
to the charge. He then proceeded to read an excel-
lently worded defence, which commenced by ob-
serving that poverty prevented him from producing
any witnesses, but still he trusted the facts
as they already appeared would warrant the
jury in believing the statement he was about
to make. He then went on to say that he had been
confined in a lunatic asylum for two years, and was
only liberated about a year ago; but his mind had
been wandering since that period, and, for some time
before this occurrence took place, he had been in a
very low and desponding state. At the time in ques-
tion he had been to Sevenoaks to look for work,
and, being unsuccessful in obtaining it, increased his
despondency, and passing by the place at the time of
the fire, he was induced, in a moment of delirium, to
make this groundless charge against himself, and for
which he declared there was not the slightest founda-
tion. He proceeded to state that, ever since he had
been in custody, he had been treated as a person not
in his right mind, and, while at the station-house,
under remand, he was not allowed to use a knife or
fork, and• his neckerchief was also taken from
him, in order that he might not do himself
any . violence, and similar precautions had been
adopted since he had been in Maidstone gaol,
where he had never been left by himself, but
was continually watched. He begged the Court
would explain to the jury the different result that
would follow from the event of his being acquitted on
the ground of insanity, and an unconditional ac-
quittal; and he said, that rather than the former
verdict should be returned, which would probably
have the effect of immuring him in a lunatic asylum
for the rest of his life, he would retract his plea of not
guilty, and plead guilty to the charge; although he
at the same time declared that he was entirely inno-
cent; and that he only made the statement he did to
the sergeant under the influence of an excited ima,
gination.

- Mr. Justice WILLIAms asked the prisoner whether
there were any witnesses connected with the gaol
whom he wished to have examined ?
The prisoner said he should like to have the go-
vernor of the gaol called as a witness.
Mr. Jossph Bone, the governor of the gaol, was
accordingly sworn, and in answer to questions put to
him by the prisoner, he stated that when he was
brought to the gaol he appeared in a very weak state,
and in consequence of some communication that was
made to him relative to the prisoner having once
before attempted to destroy himself, he was placed in
a coil with two other prisoners. He added, that he
believ'd the prisoner told him that he had once before
att, in.pt3d to destroy himself.
I ris >ner—Was it not in consequence of the dis-
covers of a mound upon my person which I had in-
flicted, upon my being examined when I was brought
to the gaol ?

The governor said it might have been so, but he
did not recollect the circumstance. He added, that
the fact of the existence of the wound, if it really
were so, would appear by the books of the gaol.
The books were sent for, when it appeared that
the prisoner was described as having a wound upon
his person.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then summed up, and he
remarked upon the singular nature of the case, at the
same time observing that there did not appear to be
the least evidence against the prisoner, except his own
statement. It was for the jury to say, under all the
circumstances, whether they believed that statement
was founded in fact, or whether it was, as the pri-
soner alleged, merely the effect of an excited imagina-
tion and weak mind ?

The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON, &c.)
Edward Faithful, a man apparently about 30
years of age, respectably connected, married, and
with a family, was indicted for a rape on the person
of Sarah Alice Nott, aged 18.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Ballantine attended to prose-
cute ; M. Clarkson and Mr. Wilkins were engaged
for the defence.
The prosecutrix, a young lady of engaging appear-
ance, and of fashionable attire, who gave her evidence
with the most perfect self-possession, was examined at
great length by Mr. Ballantine • and cross-examined
at still greater length by Mr. Clarkson. The circum-
stances, where they can be given, are briefly these :
The prisoner rented a house from the young lady's
father, in Alfred-place, Old Kent-road, the neighbour..
ing house being the residence of the landlord himself,
where the young lady lived. Mr. Nott being engaged
in the brewing-house of Reid and Co., was obliged to
leave for his employment on Monday, the 21st of
October. The same day was granted to the servant
for a holiday, and Miss Nott was in consequence left
alone. The prisoner called between eleven and twelve
o'clock, on pretence of having some business with her
father, and after some conversation on indifferent sub-
jects, he kissed her, and then it was alleged committed
the offence charged in the indictment. A labouring
man, named John Hogan, a messenger from the
father, called between twelve and one o'clock, with
some zinc, and change remaining from half a sove-
reign. The door was opened by Miss Nett, who
took the change, and said, " It's all right," the pri-
soner at the time being still in the parlour. The wit-
ness saw nothing unusual in her appearance at the
time. Mr. Nott returned home about two o'clock,
and was informed of the outrage, and between five or
six in the same evening the prisoner was taken into
custody in his own house.

After the surgeon's evidence had been given,
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury at great length,
and in the most able manner analysed the evidence,
and pointed out to the attention of the jury the sang
froid which was so remarkably exhibited in the man-
ner of the prosecutrix, and some seeming discrepan-
cies in the statements of the principal witnesses. He
then concluded an able address by beseeching their
merciful consideration for the unhappy prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and the jury
returned a verdict of Not Guilty, but expressed their
abhorrence of his profligacy.
Baron ALDERSON—He is certainly a profligate
man ; we are all agreed in that.
The trial occupied the time of the court for above
five hours.