The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-18 00:00:00

Ctirro Wbition

SUN-OFFICE,, Seven o'Clock.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PArERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—We have taken some pains elsewhere, and on
former occasions, to signalise the consistency c,f Sir Robert
Peel's practice and principles. The illustration of that dis-
tinguishing quality of the Prime Minister will be completed
this evening, when he brings in his Income Tax Bill, with its
appropriate and improved machinery. The Sir Hobert Peel
of 1833 spoke as follows on the impolicy of constrUcting any
such machinery for any such purpose :
" I think likewise," (Mirror of Parliament, p. 1,331),
"that the Noble' Lord has done well in not proposing an in-
come or a property tax. Nothing but a case of extreme neees-
slip can justify Parliament in subjecting the people of this
country, in a time of peace, to the inquis,torial process which
must be resorted to in order to render the impost productive,
and to have recourse to such a machinery for the purpose of
raising 2 or 3 per cent. would he most unwise. Such a tax is a
great resource in time of necessity, and theretora I am unwill-
ing, by establi'hing the disgusting inquisition with which it
must be accompanied, to create such an odium against, it, as
would render it impossible to resort to it in time of extreme
necessity."
We have it, then, on the most explicit authority of the Pre-
mier himself, who is so fond of quoting his own prece-
dents, that what he means to propose to-night, and what-

ever machinery he means to carry it into effect by—art
most unwise. It is most unwise to erect such machinery
to raise Iwo or three per cent. ! What must it be to erect
such machinery to raise so little, fur so short a period !
IVell, then, .we can only safe the Premier's reputa-
tion fer wisdom by supposing that his ostensible pur-
pose in ptuhing tkis measure is not his real one. That—with
the ministerial Alachiavelism ascribed to him as a merit by the
Timis—lie does not ,mean to be "hanged for half-a-erown"—
to levy an income tax for three per cent.—to call in•o life such
swarms of animaLules—such "spawn of tax-born riches"—for
f 0 small a matter, and so short a span of vermin vitality—to
tai e so vast a scaffolding for so puny an edifice. At present,
his projected machinery can only strike the mind's eye like the
" firm-compacted balks" which surmount the Nelson column in
Trafalgar-square. There is nothing at present but thin air
between them ; but we know there is to be. But Sir Ro-
bert's scaffolling would seem at 'present to be about to be
erected for its own sake—or at least for the sake of such a
per-centage as Sir Robert has declared is not worth the cost.
Are there other and more permanent purposes kept in the back
ground ? We do not believe it. We do not credit the Premier
with any large views in the matter. If he had large schemes
of finance, he must have based them on just principles. Merely
to magnify the vermin he is now creating, will turn insects
into monsters. The Country will tolerate no such microscopic
enlargements of deformity.
STANDARD.—The people will, however, gain something
in protection, if nbt in present abatement, by the removal of
prohibitions and prohibitory duties; provisions cannot rise
much higher in price, and this is an important consideration
in an augmenting population, and, what we trust, to Conser-
vative Government, it will be a population advancing in prospe-
rity ; and can the intelligent farmer doubt that he gains much
in relief from obloquy—that it is of great value to him to have
his position secured against a renewal of the attacks of which
for twenty years he has been the object, by the surrender Of a
merely ► ominal protection ? And are not all classes benefited
by a knowlege of the truth ? But this is a narrow view
of the subject. The tariff is a whole, and as a whole it is
confessedly beneficial. But is any farmer weak enough to sup-
pose that such a measure could pass without including articles
of provision ? If the farmer would fairly estimate his gain by
the whole tariff, let him turn his eyes to the Continent. As we
hive before said, the articles of provision raised by European
agriculture are pretty generally as dear upon the neighbour-
ing pat is of the Continent as they are in England ;
but it is yet very certain that many prudent fami-
lies pass over to the Continent upon economical considerations,
and that they are not disappointed. But how is this? Be-
cause all, except the articles of provisions referred to, is so
much cheat.er—because taxes are so much lower. Begin with
the single article of house rent. We have seer a calculation
satisfactorily demonstrating that the rent of a moderate house
at Dover or Brighton, capable of accommodating a
family of eight persons in middle life, would pay all
the expenses of the same family in equal comfort at the other
side of the Channel. But the house rent is the heaviest ex-
pense, and the main element in this is timber next
comes the cost of furniture then coffee, &c. finally,
taxes. To be sure, there is this to be said, that
the animal food, from which the farmers dread com-
petition, is so bad, as well as dear, that there is a
motive to use little of it, which helps something in
saving. Lately, the lighter branches of education are
cheap, because a general condition approaching to poverty
makes intelligent human labour abundant and of low price.
Now, glance from the condition of middle life abroad to
the tariff, and it will be seen in how many articles the British
farmer, and every other British subject, pill obtain relief; let
him then make his election between the basely nominal compe-
tition of the Continent with the rest of tile tariff on one side,
and double Assessed Taxes, all the indirect taxes unrepealed,
and the obloquy of prohibitory duties from which he derives no
advantage on the other.

COAL MARKET
Ships arrived since

d.
Huddle's West Hartley l7 6
Cart's Hartley
Chester Main
Hell, ell Main .
Leacz's Main
ew Tan tield Moor l4 0
Old Tanfield ...... 13 9
Pontop Viindsor l5
West Wylam
West Hart1ey........... l9 (:
Walls End Heaton l9 0
Walls End Hilda
Walls End ltillingworth ... 18 6
Walls End Riddell's l9 U
Walls Endl'old's Bensham 14 t
Walls End Wharncliffe. l9
W. E. Braddyll'stietton :'l 6
Walls End Haswell.
Walls End Raton !2l fi

7.-(THIS DAY.)
last market .day, 30.

s. d.
Wal,s End Pemberton l7 9
Walls End Stewart's ......
Walls End Whitwell ......
Walls End Cassop lll 3
Walls End Hartlepool
Walls End Heugh Hall tit 6
Walls End Kelloe
Walls End Barrett l9 0
Walls Ertl Bowburn l7 0
Walls Endßrown's Deanery :9 0
'Walk End Coundon )8 0
Walls Et d Evenwood
WMs End Gordon ...
Nslls tnd Hopper .. 17 3
CVal:s End TeesHetton .... 16 6
Wal a V.: d lees
Anthracite 23 0
Cowpen

EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
AMOS V. MOORE.

Mr. HUMPHREY' moved for a rule to show cause why the
verdict in the cave should not be set aside, and a new trial
granted. The case had been tried before Mr. Justice Wil-
hams, at the last assizes for Northanipton.
It appeared that, on the evening of the day on which the
plaintiff had been married, a party col:ected rontid the house,
and, in conformity with an old usage in the village in which he
lived, created a noise in honour of the marriage.
The defendant, becoming irritated, fired out of the window on
the party, and wounded the plaintiff in the face ; and the trial
was brought on for the recovery of eatrages for the injury he
had sustained. The day after the occurrence the plaintiff, when
asked by the defendant whether he was not one of the parties
who had been annoying him, denied that he had been present
at all on the occasion. But it was distinctly proved en the
trial by three different witnesses, that the defendant was
present at the time, and that he had been shot by the
defendant under the circumstances mentioned. The Counsel
for the defendant did not call in cnestion the truth of the evi-
dence they tendered. The Judge before whom the case was
tried, in addressing the Jury, said the case was one for them.
The Jury, thinking ai parently they might, after this charge,
deal with it as they might think proper, returned a verdict for
the defendant.

Mr. Baron PARKE said the Court, before deciding on the
present application, would refer to the notes of Mr. Justice
Williams.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice CotEatnoE.)
THOMPSON V. WOODS AND HOFFMAN.
This was an action brought against the defendants for an un-
reasonable distress. The plaintiff was a licensed victualler liv-
ing at. Bermondsey, and a distress was put in upon his goods on
the 2d of November by Mr. Hoffman, the agent of Mrs.
Woods, the landlady of the plaintiff. The plaintiff was
disturbed in the possession of his goods, but they
,vere sold on the 25th of November to a person
named Trig, fer the amount of the distress, namely,
Trig sold the goods afterwards to a solicitor named
Gillain for T.V. Two surveyors were, however, called in by the
plaintiff, who valued the goods at between 601. and 701. The
question for the Jury therefore to decide, was between the fact
of the goods being sold for 181., and the value put upon them
by the surveyors.
The Jury, without leaving the box, brought in a verdict of
One Farthing Damages.
His LORDSHIP refused to certify for the costs.
Counsel for the plaintiff, Messrs. Bell and Keating; for the
defendant, Mr. Kelly.
The Court then adjourned till eleven o'clock to-morrow.

DIALBOROUGH-STREET.
THIS DAY.)
ATTEMPTING TO PICK POCKETS AT THE ITALIAN OPERA
lIOUSE.—A very fashionably-dressed young man, who gave
,he name of Thomas Morgan, but who is known by the police
as one of the " Swell Mob pickpockets," infesting the race-
courses and places of public amusement generally, was placed
at the bar, charged under the followit,g circumstances.
Police constable No. 78 of the A division stated that about
12 o'clock on Saturday night, just at the breaking up of the
Opera, he observed the prisoner walking arm and arm with
two other very fashionably-dressed young men, under the
Colonade in Charles-street, and knowing them, from having
seon them at different races, and as he watched them and saw
the priioner a!tempt several gentlemen's pockets as they were
ontering their carriages opposite to the pit entrance, his com-
panions covering him as much as they possibly could from
observation. They aftert%ards proceeded into Waterloo-place,
and witness then seized the prisoner, upon which his coinpa-
ons r:n cff.

Sergeant Waller, No. 1G of the C division, identified the
prisoner as a suspected person, and as the constant associate of
common and conv!cted thieves.

Mr. Robinson, the solicitor, attended on behalf of the pri-
soner.

Mr. MArrav, the presiding Mrgistrate, said he was quite
satisfied that the prisoner's intentions were to commit felony,
and therefore committed him to Westminster Bridewell for
two months to hard labour.

THE. ESCAPE AND DETECTION

OF GOOD.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
The following are important particulars relating to
the escape and the detention of Good, on the correctness of
which the public ni,,y implicitly rely. It appears that after
leeping in the room at South-street, Manchester-square, on
Wednesday night, he went on Thursday morning to visit
his wife, as already stated, at the east end of the town.
After seeing his wife he proceeded to the Borough, where
he purchased at a clothes shop, which is well-known, the
dress of a bricklayer's labourer, in which he appeared at
, he bar of the Police Court this morning. For numerous
.eascns this is the mcst perfect disguise the man could have
asvumed. As an Irishman he might readily have passed for a
labourer out of employment ; but besides this he has, it seems,
previously worked in the trade, and is quite conversant with its
peculiar phraseology. It is believed that he exchanged his
dress at a lodging-house, in which he slept on the Friday night.
On Saturday evening, finding the pursuit of the police grossing
rather hot, he determined on leaving London. He took the
SeverVaks road, and after walking some distance past the
liricklayeri' Arms, he got a lift in a cart with two persons. It
does not appear that these individuals were at all accomplices
in his escape, inasmuch as he went entirely unrecognised by
them. On entering the town of Seven Oaks he left the cart,
and separated from the party. He then took a field read,
avoiding the turnpike, and made for Tunbridge. He reached
this place in safety. He went to a public-house where he pro-
cured a lodging for the night, and the next evening, under the
name of.TamesConnor, he applied for and procured the employ-
ment in the occupation of which he was arrested, as stated in
another part of our paper.
We understand that Good has said that had it not been for
his accidental meeting with the discharged policeman of the
V division, it was his intention to have left his emplounent,
and after again changing his disguise, to have made for another
part of the country. He expresses a strong conviction than by
this means he should have been enabled to have altogether
chid( d the vigilance of the police force. Good is said greatly
to enjoy the idea of locking the policeman in the stable, and thus
making a clean way for his escape. His defence is as excellent as
every other part of his scheme. He simply declares that he knows
nothing of the body, and that he was as much surprised as any
one could be on hearing that such a thing was found on the
premises. Altogether Good is said to be one of the most acute
and artful of any offender the police have for some time past

had to deal with. He is, to use an expressive though vulgar
term, " up to every thing," and it is said to be rare that a man
so accomplished in the art of crime has for so short a period
evaded justice. From this it will be seen that the police, to
whom so much blame has been attached, are after all anything
but culpable, and that in the present instance the attributions
of want of energy and ability are at least unjust and unwar-
ranted. The means taken to evade justice were most artfully
designed aqd most skilfully worked out. The officers employed,
instead of exhibiting any negligence, seem to have been most
vigilant and active, and effected their object in a much shorter
space of time than might, under such circumstances, have been
anticipated.
_

Goixi on his way up from Maidstone yesterday preserved the
strictest silence ; not a word escaped his lips. After he was
lodged in the police-station, however, his demeanour was very
different. Ile became greatly excited, and frequently fell en
leis knees, and put himself in the attitude of prayer. He is
said to have muttered a great deal, and, as far as could be
judged, in af4 reign tongue. His language, however, was not
Irish. Good, although an illiterate man, is said to speak
French, Italian, and other languages very fluently, having
picked up a perfect knowledge of them during a residence
abroad. A very strong feeling was exhibited by the people
upon the line of road from Maidstone to London. fhe popula-
tion turned out on every side, and assailed the supposed mur-
derer with groans, hootings, and missiles. The windows of the
post chaise were broken; and at tine time it was feared that the
enraged multitude would have torn the carriTe to pieces, in
order to get at the man they would have made their victim.
It was at ►ast deemed necessary to have, the vehicle guarded by
a body of mounted office's, on whom was at once enjoined the
duties of keeping the prisoner in safe custody and protecting
him from the mob.

One other piece of information which we have to add will,
no doubt, excite feelings of regret. It is, t‘ e believe, the strong
impression of the first police magistrates in London, as also of
many eminent lawyers, that Good cannot under any circum-
stances be arraigned on an indictment for murder ; and, indeed,
that no legal ingenuity can devise a way in which, on the evidence
already collected, he can be tried upon such a charge. In addi-
tive to the facts that no murder can be brought home to Geed,
on the evidence as at present shaped, a great difficulty also
occurs from the circumstance that an indictment for murder must
con!zin, as au essential ingredient, some allegations to be suit-
ported by proof, as to the way in which the murder was committed.
Now, on the face of this case, it is clear that little short of
a miracle can bring to light any such fact. The murderer
has his self destroyed all proof of the way in which his crime
was committed. No one can tell whether the woman was
killed by a blow sn the head, by the cutting of her throat, or
by what other means. Certainly if it should prove that this
view of the case holds good, it will be one of the most remark-
able instances ever known of the entire superseding of every
moral conviction by the necessity for legal testimony.
CONDUCT OF THE PRISONER IN THE BOW-