The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-12 00:00:00

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No. 16,325, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SU Ny DECEMBER 12, 1844.

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turing to drop a hint or two about the necessity
or the value of protection ; but ho receives n 9 encou- :1 -'
ragement, and is listened to either in silence, or with '.-- '---,
smiles. A daily organ of " public opinion " s ,
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gles on, hoping against hope ; and another oe 'ago' ally '''''. .1 '
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exhausts its capacity in elaborating a snee hit the _ '
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League ; but, with these exceptions, the advocacy, of the ~ 4
restrictive system is abandoned by everyman whdavishee ' -i,a----:-''''C-,
to escape the imputation of imbecility, either atspApi , 44-.;;;A:ifii
use of his reasoning powers or his capacity to &mkt '
the progress of public events. The question is not now
what is free trade, but when and how will it be attained ?
The Anti Corn-law League propose to answer this
question; and the deep interest which was evinced by
auditory in the seemingly dry details of the regis-
tration, as narrated by the chairman, show that this is
now the turning point in the movements of the League.
Between it and Sir R. Peel there is now something like
reciprocity. In exchange for " buying in the cheapest
and selling in the dearest market," the League have
adopted his famous policy of "Register, register, register,"
and are likely to work it out with far more effect than he
has done his avowed free-trade principles. We offer at
present no opinion on Mr. Cobden's bold and ingenious
scheme for invading the counties, by means of his forty-
shilling freeholds ; we merely notice the fact of the
deep interest manifested by the meeting in electoral
operations and plans which have already be, n taken up
with great zeal and activity in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
The Anti-Corn-law League, almost in spite of itself, is
becoming a great normal school of political agitation,
and interesting thousands in the possession and the use
iif the franchise who, otherwise, might have remained in
a state of entire quiescence. This is ever the fruit of
continued injustice, the fatal consevenee of selfish pro-
crastination in the settlement of great national questions.
In 1841 the corn-law controversy might have been closed
for a century by the prompt adoption of a moderate fixed
duty and a free trade tariff ; in 1842 compromise was
not impossible, when Sir Robert Peel wa.; disturbing,
without settling, the whole of our commercial affairs ; ,in
1844, nothing short of the total repeal of the corn-laws
would extinguish the Anti-Corn-jaw League ; and when
the corn-laws are repealed, there appears to be now a
strong probability that the bulk of those who fur years
would have been satisfied with commercial reforms, will
neither be contented nor put down without the ac-
companiment of political changes, affecting the structure
of the electoral body, and consequently the re-distribution
of the balance of political power. The perfect apprecia-
tion by the auditory of the question of free trade was
drawn out by Mr. Cobden in his usual happy way, Al-
luding to the dinner to Sir Henry Pottinger then taking
place in Merchant Tailors' Hall, he asked what was the
crowning service of that distinguished man, • in ac-
knowledgment of which merchants subscribed to tes-
timonials, and were swelling by their voices the
acclamations with which he was greeted ? Why,
the imposition of a perfectly free-trade tariff on the
Chinese ; a universal, not a one-sided tariff ; one open
to all the world, and wholly irrespective of conditions of
reciprocity--a tariff which freely admitted the main
articles of human food, repudiated duties for protection,
and laid down moderate ones, solely for revenue
This told upon the audience with great effect, which
was increased when the speaker declared, that if the
landowners would permit China to send over a Chinese
Sir Henry Pottinger, to do as much for England as
Sir Henry had accomplished for the Celestial Empire,
he would willingly subscribe his quota in acknowledg-
ment of the services of so great a benefactor. Striking
contrasts like these sink at once into the mind of an
audience, Bald render superfluous a world of argument.
On the whole, the meeting of last night in Co-
vent-gaaden Theatre, demonstrated that the Anti-
Corn-law League is as strong, if not stronger, than
ever ; and that continued refusals on the part of the
Legislature to deal with and settle this great ques-
tion, may lead to political changes far more perilous
than hesitating statesmen imagine. Let the middle
classes lend effectual aid, in order to rescue the land-
owners from the effects of their selfishness and obstinacy,
and though some mischiefs are now all but irreparable,
the next general election, not very Jar distant, may com-
pensate for the infatuation of the last, and save the
country in time from undergoing, in the next series of
scarce and dear years, evils similar to those which dark-
ened the disastrous cycle of 1837-1842.

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ATROCIOUS MURDER AND HIGH-
WAY ROBBERY, NEAR TRECASTLE, BRE-
CONSHIRE.
This neighbourhood was aroused by the intelligenee of
the above murder (recorded in The Sea of Monday),
and on the constables proceeding to the spot they found
the body lying on its back, at the top of a short hill, with
the hat drawn over its face, and two small pools of blood,
which had issued from a bullet wound two inches behind
the right ear, the ball being afterwards discovered, on
post mortem examination, to have penetrated the brain, and
to have flattened against the skull, where it lodged on
.the opposite side. His waistcoat had been torn open with
such violence as to break several buttons, and all his cash
had been abstracted from the money pocket ; his watch and
several articles in other pockets were untouched. From all
appearances it was evident that the fiend-like assassin had
fired the fatal shot.vrhile walking up the ascent of the road,
at the side of his unsuspecting victim, who must have fallen
forward on his right knee and forehead, and have been turned
over on his back by the murderer, for the purpose of plunder.
Messengers were immediately forwarded to Brecon. On
the intelligence reaching Mr. D. Rosser, landlord of the
Bridgent Inn, where the deceased (whose name was David
Lewis) had been in the habit of putting up, the suspicion
flashed across his mind that the deed had been done by a
man named Thomas Thomas, of Llansowel, Carmarthen-
shire, who had called at his house in a drab mackintosh, and
had inquired for butter carts going to the vicinity of his
home, about two hours before Lewis and his boy started,
He accordingly caused a letter to be sent per mail to a i•e-
spectable innkeeper in the neighbourhood of Llansowel,
immediately forwarded descriptions to the rural police of the
county, several of whom were stationed near.
In the meantime inquiries had been made by the Brecon
police, which strengthened the suspicion, and Mr. Super-
intendent Stephens, accompanied by the late superin-
tendent, who knew Thomas from having had him in custody
on a previous occasion, started off for Carmarthenshire,
while printed descriptions were forwarded to all the adjacent
districts and seaports. Having been detained making in-
quiries on the way, the Brecon police did not reach Llan-
sowel until after one o'clock on Sunday morning, when
they found Thomas in the custody of the rural police,
who had taken him under the following circum-
stances .—Acting on the information they had received,
they had proceeded to his father's house, and found that
he had reached home at half-past eleven o'clock ; they also
ascertained that he had been seen in the village, and
deeming it likely that he would come home at night, tha
superintendent stationed his men on the look-oat, lying
in wait himself with one of his men in a lane near hie
father's house. Soon after eight o'clock they heard hint
coming down the lane, and passing one on each side of
him, collared him at once. Being a very powerful young
man, he succeeded in throwing them both down, and
after a severe struggle on the ground, they were compelled
to draw their cutlasses before lie would surrender. During
the struggle 'he dropped a brace of pocket-pistols, which,
fortunately, were not loaded, and in his pocket were
found twelve bullets, caps, and some powder. Having
been surrendered to the Brecon police, lie was brought
on Sunday to the station-house in that town,
and on Monday was taken to an adjourned in-
quest held before Thomas Batt, Esq., at the Camden
Arms, Trecastle. From the evidence here adduced, it ap-
peared that he had nine days previously bought the pistols
at an ironmonger's shop in Brecon, and that on Friday night
he rode in a farmer's waggon a short way out of town until
overtaken by Lewis and his cart, when he made the bargain
for conveyance to Trecastle. The boy who had charge of
the waggon, and Mr. Lewis's little boy, swore most positively
to his identity; and such a chain of circumstantial evidence
was made apparent, that the jury without hesitation re-
turned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Thos. Thomas,"
who was therefore remoTed to the county goal, to take his
trial at the March assizes.
His appearance was more that of the careless, cheerful,
country boy than that of a designing boy ; and he kept hie
composure to the last, maintaining that the two boys were
mistaken as to his identity.

THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT
NEAR NOTTINGHAM.

INQUEST ON MR. JAMES BOLESTRIDGE.
NOrrINGUAM, DEC. 11.—Shortly after six o'clock, last
night, Mr. Browne, coroner, and a very respectable jury,
assembled at the house of the deceased, for the purpose of
inquiring into the cause of his death.
The CORONER addressed the jury at some length. He be-
sought them to cast from their minds any impressions that
the verdicts in the other two investigations might have given
rise to, and trusted they would arrive at such a conclusion as
the evidence which might be brought before them would jus-
tify. He considered it would be totally unnecessary to go
over the whole of the ground again •, and as he was most
anxious that the present inquiry should terminate before the
assizes, which take place on Saturday next, he would pro-
pose to them what he thought the best mode of facilitating
the business—namely, to produce before them the several
witnesses, read over to each his depositions as given on the
former occasion, the jury, at the same time, reserving the
right of putting any further questions which might suggest
themselves to their minds. This would answer all legal
purposes, and save a great deal of time. Should the jury
not agree to this, it was impossible that their labours could
terminate this week, for in the case of Mr. Deane, he (the
Coroner) took down no less than 148 closely-written pages
of evidence ; and to go through the same task again would
be the work of four days. He repeated, that it was highly
necessary, on Mr. Lightfoot's account, that this investigation
should close before the assizes, as that gentleman would
then be arraigned for the crime of manslaughter.
The jury unanimously expressed themselves perfectly sa-
tisfied with the Coroner's proposition, and thought with him.
that it was necessary they should conclude their labours be-
fore Mr. Lightfoot took his trial.
The Coroner and jury then proceeded to an adjoining room
for the purpose of viewing the body. The deceased did not
present any remarkable appearance.
It was ultimately decided by the jury, on a show of hands.
that they should meet at three o'clock this afternoon, and.
if necessity required it, continue their deliberations eachday
to a late hour.

As a matter of form, a witness was called who knew the
deceased, and was present at his death.
The jury then adjourned, shortly after seven o'cleck, tin
this day.

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