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London, England, 1848-10-30 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

(Before Mr. Justice MAUL& and Mr. :justice WIGIITMAN.)
SENTENCE ON MULLINS THE CHARTIST.
On the Judges taking their seats at ten o'clock,
George Bridge Mullins, the Chartist, who was con-
victed on Saturday, was placed at the bar to receive the
sentence of the Court.
The prisoner, on being asked what ho bad to say
why the sentence awarded by the law should not be
passed upon him, said that he intended to have said a
great deal if he had been allowed, but by the advice of
the Counsel, who had so ably defended him, it was not
his intention to say much. There was one thing, how-
ever, with which he was charged that ho must allude to,
and that was with respect to the plan that had been pro-
duced. It had been stated that he drew up that plan.
He denied most solemnly that he had not done so,
and to the best of his belief he had never seen
it. That plan, he believed, was drawn up by a person
who had either gone to France, or was about going
there. He had also to state that he was not acquainted
with a person of the name of Dalby, with whom it was
alleged he had acted in concert. lie did not deny that
he was a Chartist; he believed that the Charter was

essential for securing the rights and liberties of the
people, and he was willing to lay down his
life in defence of its principles. The prisoner
concluded a short address by thanking the Court for
allowing his witnesses to character to be called after the
trial had concluded, by thanking Mr. Cope and the
authorities of the gaol for their kindness towards him,
and the jury for their attention to his case, and their
recommendation of mercy, which he hoped the Court
would give effect to.

Mr. Justice MAULE then proceeded to pass sentence.
The jury had found the prisoner guilty of a most
mischievous offence to carry out a design, which, if
effected, would hayed occasioned a great sacrifice of life
and property. No person who had heard the evidence
could entertain a doubt of the prisoner's guilt, and al-
though witnesses bad given him a good character before
he joined these parties, with whom he bad been asso-
ciating, and although the jury had recommended him
to mercy, still the Court could see nothing in his
case different from that of the other persons who
had been tried at the last session. He thought
the education the prisoner bad received was an aggrava-
tion of his offence. The crime the prisoner had com-
mitted had not been done in the heat of passion, but
deliberately, day after day, and week after week, and
if it had been carried out, would have occasioned the
most alarming results. The prisoner and his accom-
plices had not considered the force that would be op-
posed to them—namely, the well-disposed portion of the
community, who would not passively submit to have
their throats cut by a gang of ignorant ruffians,
for such they were. The sentence of the Court was,
that the prisoner should be transported beyond the seas
for the term of his natural life.
The prisoner nodded most impudently to the Court
and left the bar.
MURDER.—TELE WALWORTH ABORTION CASE.—
Spencer Linfield, 66, widow, Richard Orpin, 35, car-
penter, and Mary Ann Dryden, 53, widow, were indicted,
Linfield with the wilful murder of Eliza Wilson, and
Orpin and Dryden with being accessories before the fact.,
Mr. Ryland was for the prosecution; Mr. Ballantine
was counsel for Linfield, and Mr. Parry for.Orpin.
Dryden had no counsel.
Mr. RYLAND having stated the case to the jury,
called the following witnesses:—
Mr. S. Elyard, a magistrate of the county of Surrey,
had taken down a statement made by the deceased on
Wednesday, the 20th of September. He had seen her on'the
previous Sunday. He was asked to go there by .the
Inspector of Police to take down the statements of a
dying woman. He did not take down the statement on
the Sunday, but went again on the Wednesday,
when he took down the statement produced,
the young woman telling him that she believed she
was dying. The following was the statement :
" I am in my thirty-second year, and having had cri-
minal connexion with Richard Orpin, and suspecting
myself in the lawily-way I mentioned my suspicions to
him. Ile replied, Stop till Monday, and we will go
together to a woman in East-lane, Walworth, and that
I need not not trouble myself for three or four months.'
He went with me on Monday, Sept. 4, to East-lane, but
we could not find out the woman, and on the following
day I went by myself, but did not succeed in finding her.
I saw Mrs. Dryden, who resides in York-street, Wal-
worth, to whom I mentioned that I was in the family-
way, and informed her I wished to get rid of it. She said
it would be all right if I would pay her 45., which I gave
her. She then gave me a box of pills and a bottle of stuff
which did nct have the expected effect. Mrs. Dryden
then went with me on the Wednesday to Mrs. Lin-
field's, in Prior-place, East-Lane, Walworth, a herb
shop. Mrs. Dryden said, I have got a friend of mine
come to see you. Mrs. Linfield, without asking any
questions, said, ' I will take her upstairs directly, and
shortly afterwards did so, and told me to lie on the bed
on my left side. I did so, and she then performed an
operation with some instrument. I went again on the
9th, and she used the instrument again, say-
ing - I slept there that night, and paid
Mrs. Linfield 21. 10s. on the first day, and
she gave Mrs. Dryden a few shillings for
taking me there, I went to Mrs. Linfield's again on
the 11th, when she again used the instrument, and when
I returned home I was very ill. I told Dirs. Linfield
that my father thought I was ill, and she said, ' Non-
sense, you are all right.' Richard Orpin promised to
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MARLBRU-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
John Walker, a seaman belonging to the Devastation
Hardwick,steam-sloop, and George
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rescue him from the custody of the police-constable.
Police-constable, 66 C, stated that about one o'clock
this morning he was on duty in Oxford-street, when his
attention was attracted to several persons who were
fighting in Market-street. He ran to the spot and saw
the defendant Walker fighting with another man not in
custody. Witness parted them, and persuaded them to
disperse quietly. Walker refused to do so, and persisted
in following the man with whom he had been fighting.
Witness laid hold of him for the purpose of detaining
him till the other man got away. The prisoner, finding
his object frustrated, became exceedingly violent, and
struggled to get away, and in the scuffle threw witness
on the ground. The prisoner Lee then came up, and,
laying hold of witness's collar, said " You ----, let go
your hold." Witness, however, maintaieed his hold till
some other constables arrived, wheal both the prisoners
were secured and conveyed to station.
In defence Walker said he was proceeding quietly
home when a man wine up and struck him. He was
merely acting in :,elf-defence, when the constable came
up and colla,:•ed him. He denied using any violence.
Lee s^fid he had hold of the constable for the purpose
of ,fitting off Walker, who appeared to be suffering
violently from the pressure of the constable's knees.
Mr. IlanDwlcx said, as there did not appear to be
much violence used, he should fine Walker 105. and
Lee 5e.--The money was paid.

DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
On Saturday an accident, by which nearly thirty
persons were deprived of life, was occasioned by an
explosion of fire-damp, at a pit on Wynie Hill,
Cleaton Moor near Whitehaven. More than twenty
bodies were brought up the shaft in a dreadfully
mangled condition, and ten more were undiscovered,
of whose existence in the pit in the morning there is
the clearest evidence, namely, the statement of the
only survivor, who managed to ascend the shaft, leav-
ing below several others ready to follow him, but
whom the fire-damp suffocated instantaneously. The
bodies having been identified for the purposes of a
coroner's inquest, which will commence on Monday,
the 30th, were removed in carts from the spot, which
presented a frightful spectacle from the dead placed
around, scorched and disfigured—the piteous cries of
the wives, children, and friends of the deceased, as
the blackened remains of each were brought up from
the pit—the utter appearance of desolation which the
works themselves exhibited, and the continued fall
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__., 4L, great distress. The cause of the catastrophe is
attributable to bad Ventilation.

Lord Palmerston left Town on Saturday after-
noon to visit Lord Melbourne at Rocket Hall, Herts.
His Lordship is expected to return to town to•day.
nit CIIOLERA.--- WooLwwir, OCT. 29.—The
Medical report up to 12 o'clock to-day, gives one new
case since yesterday's report, being the only one since
Monday last. The total number of cases is, 44 at-
tacked, 14 deaths, 14 recoveries, and 10 convalescent, all
CQUiC ts.