21 DECEMBER 1844, page 11

Criminal Injustice.

THE state of the criminal law is a perpetual puzzle to all who are concerned in it, and not infrequently draws scandal upon the admini- stration of " justice." Every term or......

The Scotch Income-tax Commissioners Have Been Chasing The...

General Tom Thumb ; who, as an alien, declined to pay British taxes. He should get off, on the principle de minimis non curat ter; but it is his income, not his person, that......

Police Interference With The Press In Malta.

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S Government always seems to suffer when the Premier leaves " the Departments" to themselves. He acts with To- ries whom he has furbished up anew as......