The Sun. — 1841-03-24 (London, England)

TRIALS FOR MURDER IN IRELAND.—The verdict of the jury iu the ease of Hughes, who was teed last Tuesday at•the Armagh Assizes for the murder of Mr. Powell, is freely commented on and condemned by the Mail; while the acquittal of the notorious Sam Gray at the Monaghan Assizes is regarded with equal disfavour by the Dublin Evening Post, the Mail's political antagonist. Speaking cf Hughe,'s trial, the Mail, amongst a mass of angry sayings, has the following :—" Another farce, similar to diet enacted at Tullamoore. has just been played off at Armagh, and another person, charged with a most revolting murder, has been enabled, for a time at least, to frustrate the ends of justice, through the weak and pernicious policy of the Crown. Mme. Powell was murdered in cold blood, at his own door, in the presence of his daughters, ore of whom clearly identified the prisoner as being act;ve in the perpetration of the foul deed. • Another witness saw the same man retiring from the scene of slaughter immediately after—and, on his capture, his clothes _were at first donie to be his. The conclusiveness of the case may be found to Lear the traces of recent blood,tind these clothes he jugged of from the fact that, although the Crown, as usual, declined to exercise their right of challenr, one individual only was found true encugh to the popular system to hold out against the conviction of his companions, The construction of the Jury, however, was sufficient to make it notorious, from the moment it was sworn its, that there would be no verdict. Before a word of evidence was given, it was known to every one in the Court-house that a conviction was hopeless. We do hope and trust that this gross case will have the effect of compelling the Crown to return to their old and constitutional exercise of the right of challenge. It is the grossest case that has yet occurred. The Government should send down special commissions for the trial of those cases in which the Julies will be selected front the grand panels of the country. This we say will be the duty of the Goverarneet ; but, at the same time, we are bound to declare our conviction that, unless the Juryboxes cf the country be purged cf itibbonism, no case that human testimony can make will ever be sufficient to prom cure a verdict in prosecutions of this description." In a letter to the Bolton Fi ee Press, Colonel Thompson, one of the earliest and most efficient opponents of the Corn-laws, says the opinion of your correspondent that "there is no scarcity of food in England or Ireland, but there is a scarcity of work and wages, wheressi h to: purchase the food," I fear may be likened to the same .assertion made in the ease of a beEi ged town, or one where the gates were voluntarily closed with the patriotic mot've of raising the price of corn. Of the corn that should be grown on the house-tops or in boxes at the windows,there would 'always be a f urt..,er quantity which would be grown if men would give an increased price for it. Whereon your correspondent would say, the want was is the work or in the waged. It was some defeat of management on these points, which did not give men as much abundance off flagstones as out cf a ploughed field. For it is clear "'item, is soma work and some wages, which ifsr". 'item, Would enable diem to pay our raising cern on ilag.stones; what more plain therefore, than that if it is not done, it is for want of taking measures to secure this work and wages ? Whether after all, the. e is not excuse for thinking, that the wages and the hours worked for them, will have some connexion with the quantity of corn to be divided, is what must be left, as heretofore, to the judgment of the public. In despite of your correspendeat's barring the plea of impossibility, there are tougher, when once effectually set up. The fact is, few thatafter after all, that it is as impossible the gates of the besieged town are opened, wages. should be reduced till men starved as before—as it was that they should rise when the gates were shut, till they gpe every man as much out of no corn as out of an abundance. The impossibilities are preCisely'the counterparts of oue another." The furthpr consitierati9n of the Railways' , , Bill is deferred to F! idly, Vd Qf April.  MONEY and