The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-02 00:00:00

THE CONF7CT MULLINS AND THE IRISH
PLUS.

The Dublin newspapers have denied that the
convicted murderer was ever connected with the
Irish polies, but their denial is illogical, inannuch as they
um the generic term "police," where they ought to use the
subalternate term " constabulary." Of that body he was
never a member, but he was at one time in the Dublin
police force. His father was au Irishman settled in Man-
chester, where his unfortunate son was born. rpm the
ertablishment of the borough police force there young
Mullins joined it, and in course of time was promoted to
the rank of sergeant, and being considered as an active and
intelligent officer he was recommended to the Dublin Police
Oommiseioners m a man likely to be of service to them iv
moulding the Dublin police upon the English model, as in
operation in the metropolis, Birmingham, Manchester, and
other large towns, and the commissioners accepting ser-
vices, he was trailderred from Manchester to Dublin, and
raised from the rusk of sergeant to that of inspector, and
attached to the College-street division. He was •
rigid disciplinarian, and by no means • favourite
I with the sergeants and sub-constables, among whom
he established a system of espionage, so that it warns imp-
tilde for one of them even to indulgei in the Injury of a
pipe without his coming to hear of it. In course of time
be went. further, and with that spirit of treachery and
hoarder cruelty which led him to lay for the man Emmet
the trap into which he himself has fallen, he employed
agents as propagandists of ribboniem, and who, so soon as
their dupes were regularly immeshed, placed the 000stabu-
lacy upon their track, and bad them arrested, tried, and
transported. .The active officer, Mullins, was always the
ant to scent out the mining sitting of • Abbot lodge, and
to forward the intelligence to the constabulary of the dis-
trict, alleging that on searching a prisoner he bad found
papers which led him to believe that • lodge was about to
meet at some particular ahebeen house there, and thin he
came in for • share in the reward paid for the apprehension
and conviction of Ribbournea. This continued for some
time, but at length a man, named Flint, • sergeant in the
Dublin police belonging to the Donnybrook station, having
I been degraded through the instrumentality of Mullins, made
• complete exposure of his conduct, upon which he had to fly
from Dublin. This is the true history of his connexion with
the Irish police.

THE COXING "FIFTH OF NOVENBER.."—HE by
the act of parliament, pealed at the end of the last session,
concerning the maki sale, and use of fireworks, the
peealties were greatly increased, it may perhaps act as •
awful caution to Mate " that any person selling or offerinl
for sale any fireworks without license for that
selling any faeweeks to any person apparenh7M and
selling
years of w, shall far every such offence forfeit any stun
not exceeding 51. ; and if any person discharge or melt in
discharging any squib, serpent,okrocket, or other firework, in
any thoroughfare or public placer he shall for every each
offence forfeit may sum not exaseding 51." By the mum act
one of her Afrikety's principallemeteriee of State "may ap--
point a person to inspect and examine any mill, magazine,
ha. in which gunpowder, fireworks, Arc., ere manufactured
or keo, or !apposed to be manufactured or kept, such in-
spector harming power to enter sad inspect any such place
at all reasonable times in the daytime without previous
noir* the owner of the Owe to furnish the means neces-
sary for doing so," and the penalty for rofusing to afford
each means or obstructing the inspector v for every such
offence 51.

—ititaN7aa Caostwatz.—la "The Treasury of Wit,"
by John Pinkerton, F.&A. (published under the fictitious
name of H. Bennet, !CAA: London, 1786, vol. ii. p. 149,
Is given the followiog seeedebe of Oliver Cromwell, which
do not find to be sawed by say of the Glasgow historians,
nor recorded of him by by numerous biographers, so tar ail
I have observed, and perhaps some of the readers of" N.
and Q." may know the authority from which Mr. Pinkerton
had it :—" Oliver Cromwell, while carrying on war in
Scotland, was riding nesr Glaogow at the head of a body of
hone ; a Scotch soldier, planted on an high will, took the
opportunity to fin at him, but missed hem. Oliver, with-
out slackening or drawing his rein, turned round end said.
' Fellow, If say Snooper ol mine bad mimed web • mark he
should have4sed en hundred lashes.' He did not even order
the man to be seised, and he made his escape." This,
remarks Xx., P., was a rare example of true courage. G.N.
—From Ircitia 0114 Queries.
A large body of workmen have commenced the
new fortifications between flionce Point and the Needles,
in the Isle of Wight. The cost of these fortifications is
' estimated at 169,000!.