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

TRE CONVICT MULLINS AND THE

IRISH PRESS.

The Dublin newspapers have denied that the
convicted murderer Mullins was ever connected
with Irish police ; but their denial is illogical. in-
asmuch as they use the generic term " police" where
they ought to use the substantive term " consta-
bulary." Of that bo'ly he was never a force.
member,
but he was at one time in the Dublin
policenl
Upter, oHis n
the his
ss
unfortunate
f olrrtisuhnmataen,sesnettwleads
bin a n c hp eo
the establishment of the police force
Mullins joined it, and in course ofe timetohg born.
was e
c young
pro-
moted to the rank of sergeant, and
he sonsidered
recom-
an active and intelligent officer,
mended to the Dublin Police binwa
ong
Commissioners as a
upon fisp
the
en likelyuhiin
policeto be of service
Birmingham, Man-
Loigtihisehm
minodmeol,uladsinign
operation in the metropolis,
and the Commis-
chester, and other largo towns;
ervices, he was transferred
sioners accepting
t division. He vas a rigid dis-
ciplinarian, 1101 f asnecrohee:tee: iiosolleutb,l3ifniesapnedetorra,isaenddfartotma
attached
to the College-stree
and 1:1).e-oneostmahelaenssama foarvgouwrhitoerawhiethestthae.
bselgheeadntas saynsdtes:tb.of espionage, so that it was impos-
sible for one of them even to indulge in the luxury
of a pipe without his coming to hear of it. In the
curse of time he went further, and with that
spirit of treachery and heartless cruelty which
led him to lay for the man Rmm the trap into
which he himself has fallen, he employed
agents as propagandists of Ribbonism, and who, so
soon as their dupes were regularly immersed, placed
the constabulary upon their track, and had them
arrested, tried, and transported. The active officer
Mullins was always the first to scent out the com-
ing sitting of a Ribbon lodge, and to forward the
intelligence to the constabulary of the district, al-
leging that in searching a prisoner he had found
papers which led him to believe that a lodge was
about to meet at some particular shebeen house
there, antt thus he came in for a share of the re-
ward paid for the apprehension and conviction of
Ribbonmen. This continued for some time, but at
length a man named Flint, a sergeant in the Dub-
lin police, belonging to the Donnybrook station,
having been degraded through the instrumentality
of Mullins, made a complete exposure of his con-
duct, upon which he had to fly from Dublin. Thissh
is the true history of his connexion with the Irish
police.

CAPT. SIP. LEOPOLD M'CLINTOCV, •P ....--INT •—The
Army and Navy Gazette reports that our illustrious t no,
at Greenlande in
countryman Sir Leopold M'Clintock, who
schooner Nauti;us
anC North America, saved the American eaost
command of H.M.S. Bull Dog, on the coast of
I, rd the celebrated
in the month of August last. Earhro! _
Nautilus visited Greenland, having on
young students from
summer
Professor Cranbourne, with severalto
>r Nautilus it appears had
Massachusetts, who had arrangedhi)
exploring the arctic regions. pass their vacation in
Soon after her arrival in
to do the whole work of thee s •
Nautilus found herself closely
only two professed sailors on Soon
the students preferring
those desolate regions the Nice ice,
from which she found it
wedged into a field of floatinge_nerself. Most providentially the
Bulldog, with her tenant commander on board, arrived
' ht at this cr •
impossible to eictricag
within sight itical moment. Sir Leopold M'Clin-
Con of the Nautilus, out of which in
Prti•ine be had the good fortune of rescuing her.
took immedialteuly;
position
to bear his immense experience
a;,`-'ina et the Nautilus free, Sir Leopold proceeded on his
a'—'-' set
is at present cruising off the coast of North
upon !r.
vt hs
he
way, an
Arnerica•ort i
A letter frem Marseilles of the 27th states that
biscuits, flour, and military stores eoritinue to be shipped at
that port for Gotta,