The Sun. — 1846-09-25 (London, England)

BAROMETER, 29.55.—W1ND W., showery.  perpetration of deeds, which cover with merited odium these pseudo-conservators of the public peace. It is not above a fortnight since we felt ourselves obliged to notice the barbarous treatment to which the wife of a respectable tradesman, far advanced in pregnancy, was inhumanly subjected by a policeman. In the short time that has elapsed since we expatiated upon this case, we find that a verdict of manslaughter has been returned against JAMES PaoBERT, an officer, who recklessly deprived of life, with a blow of his truncheon, REUBEN BUSBY, whilst he was inoffensively enjoying a rural fete, held near Northleach, on the estate of Dynevor. This poor man's life was sacrificed in consequence of a stranger, somewhat inebriated, having refused to pay for a glass which he chanced to break. The landlord called in the police, and the officer in question, when there was only a slight disturbance, and no breach of the peace had been actually committed, at once set about wielding his weapon in all directions with the fury of a wild beast, so as to produce even a remonstrance from and excite the apprehensions of the very landlord who had required his presence, and the result was that REUBEN BUSBY, quietly seated at a table, received the fatal blow that hastily summoned him to another world. We fear that such frightful instances as this would not have occurred, or certainly would have proved exceedingly rare, if the magistrates generally had not unhappily evinced, as they notoriously have, too marked a leaning towards every idle statement concocted by the police to cover their delinquencies. The sense of impunity under which the police appear to act seems, likewise, to inoculate every person connected with them. Thus, the solicitor, concerned to watch the last-mentioned case on behalf of the constable, was so persevering in attempting to fright the seat of justice from its propriety, that the Coroner forced him to leave the inquest-room. The lengthened investigation that has been carried on with reference to the murder of the policeman, CLARKE, in June last, near Dagenham,has been brought to a close. Nothing can well be more momentous to the public than what has been elicited in the course of this protracted inquiry. The police—and one of them a sergeant—who gave evidence, are charged generally with having combined to defeat the ends of justice, and committed foul and wilful perjury. The Coroner, in his remarks to the jury, thus expressed himself:— " With reference to the conduct of the police generally in the case, there were no words strong enough in the English language to express the disgust which must be felt by all right-minded persons as to their conduct. He applied his observations to those policemen who had been guilty of the loul and heinous crime, to say the least of it, of wilful and corrupt perjury. The unfortunate circumstance was, that these very men, the servants of the public, had in the first instance been engaged in tracing out the perpetrators of the deed and in forwarding the ends of justice, and they had been the principal means by which the ends of justice had been defeated. They had been engaged to ascertain the perpetrators of the diabolical deed, and they had done everything in their power to repress the truth. In consequence of these circumstances the greatest difficulty and mystery had been thrown around the case."