The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-27 00:00:00

TNitw -tilW back was turned to the assassin, and when 1
there, consequently, could not have been made (from
the dcspete character of the blows administered)
even a sho of resistance. A plasterer's hammer
(exactly flit' to the wounds upon the head of the
murdered wo ), a hammer belonging to the
'accused (now the nvicted) was produced in court
during the trial in -support of the evidence. A
half worn-out boot (likewise, in its turn, fitting to
a bloody footprint on a plank of tho flooring imme-
diately outside the room in which the murdered
body was found), a boot also T,lorging to the ae-
::sl-(1 (now the convicted), was, in the same way,
produced in court during the trial in support of the
evidence. The very plank itself, or at least that
portion of it bearing the bloody footprint, was
submitted in court to the scrutiny of the jurymen,
Between the cracks in the worn-out sole of the
boot it was shown that there were grey hairs, grey
human hairs, precisely like the hair upon the head
of the old woman who was murdered. But, then,
MuLniels was by trade a plasterer—a stray hair or
two like that might (without much marvel) be
found sticking to the boot of any plasterer. The
jury wanted a pair of compasses to convince them
that the size of the boot corresponded with the
outline of the bloody footprint. The hammer was
an ordinary plasterer's hammer like hundreds of
other hammers that would fit just as accurately
into the wounds in the head of the miserable
woman murdered. All this, and a great deal more
of the like kind of circumstantial evidence, was
clean swept aside as, comparatively speaking,
valueless, in the cautious, masterly, scrupulously
impartial summing-up of the Lord Chief Baron
POLLOCK, before whom this wretched man was
tried, and by whom, after the verdict of guilty had
been delivered in by the foreman of the jury, the
miserable creature was formally and solemnly
sentenced to death as a convicted murderer. All
those parts of the circumstantial evidence brought
to bear against lisluLLlss, all that about the ham-
mer, and the boot, and the hair, and the bloody
footprint, even the waxed thread tying up the parcel
found in the shed near EMI'S house in the brickfield
and the thirty threads or strands in the old apron-
string of tape—all this, let it be observed particu-
larly, was swept aside by the Lord Chief Baron in
his summing up, as being (as we have said), to his
mind, in a manner, so to speak, absolutely valueless.
But—when the Judge came in his summing up to
that part of the evidence where it was shown that
Mui,LiNs, unconsciously to himself, revealed the
infamous " plant," by which he had endeavoured to
fix the guilt of this murder upon an innocent man
—for the sake of diverting attention from himself,
and of actually obtaining for himself at the same
time tho bloodmoney (;C3OO sterling) offered for
the discovery of the murderer —then an audible
thrill ran through the Court, and it was felt

that the jury had but one verdict to give, that the
prisoner's days were already numbered. The index
finger pointing directly to the guilt of MULLINS
was this--at his (MULLINs's) instance, in compli-
ance with the suggestions of his own volunteered
information against Emm as the accused murderer

—the shed near Eau's house was surrounded by
the police headed by Sergeant TANNER; Nothing
was found—the police came out of the shed baffled
in their search—and then MULLINS (finding his
" plant" fail) stepped forward with the exclama-
tion, " You hau'n't half searched the shed ; look
behind that slab; you'll find the parcel under
the bricks at the back of it." Well might the Lord
Chief Baron deduce from this that the men-
tion by MULLINS of the slab and the bricks
behind it—inferred on the part of MULLINS a
certain guilty knowledge. Recognising those
egregiously absurd admissions blundered out by
MuLuNs, all the rest of the evidence " fits in"
against him, as exactly as the sharpened edge and
the blunt end of his hammer fitted into the deadly
wounds upon the head of the murdered woman,
as the sole of his half worn out boot fitted into
the bloody footprint near the door of the
room in which her body was found mur-
dered. The twofold guilt of the assassin and the
false-witness is fairly brought home to this hoary
headed ruffian—he is convicted, at last, upon the
clearest evidence, although throughout every particle
of that evidence is strictly circumstantial—he now
lies justly condemned to death by the laws of
his country, awaiting his last hour, with but
short time for repentance, his name blackened
with a double infamy—as a villain and a mur-
derer.

The Canadian Orangemen have not yet had their
fill of folly. As if it had not been enough to be
left to ruminate on their bigotry at Kingston, and
to have placed their Mayor at Toronto in the most
illnominious position an Eng/islanan can occupy,
which we will not, indeed, specify more exactly,
they held it appears on the sth a public meeting at
Toronto, to whitewash the Orangemen, and to tar
and feather the Duke of NEWCASTLE. They have
just sense enough to say no harm of the QUEEN
and her son, but of the unfortunate Duke they can
hardly say evil enough. The truth is they have got
themselves into as ridiculous a scrape as the POPE'S
Irish Brigade at Spoleto; and, like Dr. CULLEN
and the Cathedral full of ecclesiastics who said mass
all day long over the souls of the prisoners and poor
PIMODAN, the Toronto Orangemen thought that
nothing was better than boldly to face it out. The
assumption would then be that those who made so
much of themselves and theirs were something after
all. If a thousand men could vote that they were
the excellent of Canada, the very salt of Toronto,
and that the Duke of NEWCASTLE ought to be hung,
then so it must be. The finding of such a jury who

could question ?
It will, however, be questioned, and pretty pub-
licly, too, some clay, if tile Toronto Orangemen go
on as they have begun. They have appointed a
committee to prepare an address to the Queen, to
both Houses of the Imperial Parliament, and to the
different branches of the Canadian Legislature,
founded on the resolutions passed at this notable
meeting ! We may be sure therefore that some Earl
RADNOR—or perhaps Messrs. NEWDEGATE and
SPOONER, will undertake the business of lecturing
the Duke in Parliament by asking for a copy of the
address and of her MAJESTY'S advised answer—
when perhaps the Premier may have the pleasure
of telling all the zealots concerned his views of the
advice given by the DUKE to the PRINCE ; and we
apprehend they will not wish to be told them a
second time: They must have something to say for
their rude follies very different to anything they
have yet said, before they will change the minds of
all England, indeed we might say of all America
too, in regard to their behaviour. They have
written themselves mad bigots in the eyes of cis il-
ization ; it is hardly worth their while to brand it
on themselves by further outrageous immodesty.
We have read, as carefully as it was practicable
to read such rubbish, the full-length report of these
brave speeches in a Toronto paper ; and we can
say that that, for unblushing parading of bigotry
and folly, as consummate virtue and wisdom, they
are quite equal to the performances of Archbishop
Cui, L and other leaders lay
and clerical
"Brass Band" at home. But
and
, neither the speeches nor the resolutions enabled us
Ito get hold of anything which amounted to even th
:I.of' the BwYER,

shadow of a grievance. We gave the resolutions
on (? Wednesday); but, lest we should misrepre-
we repeat the chief accusation in their own
words, 'it is that " repressing their patriotic
demonstration of welcome to his Royal Highnes
the Prince of WALES and interfering with the action
of various municipal bodies under whose auspices or
with whose sanction they were invited to join in the
general rejoicings with their fellow-subjects of all
classes and creeds,produced irritation andheart burn-
ing, and left a feeling of dissatisfaction And (discon-
tent among the Protestant population of Canada,
which never would have existed had the Duke re-
membered that his Royal Highness was the guest
of the Province, and that through the Government
alone should all his communications have been ad-
dressed to the Canadian people." This charge of
interfering with the municipal bodies seems to be
the favourite one hit upon by the Canadian con-
stitutional lawyers, as they think themselves. They
again " cannot refrain from expressing their in-
dignation that, while the people of Canada possess
representative institutions, and have their own
Parliament and the management of their own local
affairs, any member of the Imperial Government,
who owes no responsibility to them, should dictate
the course to be pursued by the inhabitants of the
country and make direct communication to their
municipal authorities in matters of purely local
arrangements which not only did not contravene
any law of the Province, but not even any law of
the Empire." The ineffable absurdity of all this
will be apparent enough when it is recollected that
these " municipal authorities" had so managed
matters that the DYKE and the PRINCE were com-
pletely taken by surprise, that it was indeed
the intent of these violently cunning men
to surprise the PRINCE into passing under their
yoke. Whatever the propriety or impropriety of
the DUKE'S communicating with the municipal
authorities, he had no alternative when the obtru-
sion upon him of what was known to be offensive
was so sudden and municipal.
But what can be said for these gentlemen when
the correspondence is known which they had the
hardihood to produce at the meeting. Mr.
CAMERON, the head of the Toronto Orangemen, had
written to the Governor, and had been informed by
him, after conferring with the DUKE, that an
Orange address would " be very embarrassing." He
boasts that he bad listened to that advice, and the
Orangemen had presented in consequence no ad-
dress. The Governor, however, seems to have re-
ceived another letter from the restless Mr.
CAMERON—fOrlhat gentleman read to the meeting
the following letter :

"MY DEAR SIE,—I have no objection to your publish-
ing my letter of August 13.

" If I recollect aright, no word passed between us on the
subject of Orange insignia or banners to be used in the re-
ception of the Prince. Had the question been received,
I should certainly have thought them quite as likely to be
embarrassing' to an English Prince and English Minister
as any address which could be presented.
" The antidote to an address may, if necessary, be admi-
nistered in the answer; the other class of demonstrations
admits of no such protest.
" however, thin is immaterial. There can be no doubt
that you, as the chief authority on the part of the Orange-
men, foresaw the probability of difficulty, and took measures
to obtain correct information at the earliest practicable mo-
ment. —Yours vex y faithfully,

"EDMUND HEAD.

"Hon. J. H. CAMERON."

Thus fully warned, not through the municipal
authorities, but through the Governor of Canada
himself, that their gaudy partisan exhibitions would
be annoying to our English Prince and Minister,
these worthies yet persisted in annoying their guest
with what they knew would be so unpleasant to
him!

lAfter these flucts are known, we imagine there
will not be two opinions here on the conduct of
these persons—gentlemen, so far as this matter is
concerned, we cannot term them. All that we
heard before bore but one aspect; but that they
should, in reply to their own inquiries, have been
told that what they would wish to do would be
annoying, and that they should still not abstain
from doing it, :renders their behaviour a disgrace
to the colony, and no meetings of their partizans
all over Canaela can wipe it out. Are we to
hope that the sober Protestants of the colony
will step forwso:d and vindicate their character.
If they do not our conclusion will be, that
they, who know so much better than we can do the
local status of these bullies, deem them unworthy
of their notice. They possibly are below contempt,
at least below w hat ought to call forth public ex-
pression of it. It may be that we, in writing about
them, are giving them a purely factitious import-
ance. Of one thing we are certain, that the con-
sistent, manly, liberal conduct of the Duke has
won him gold en opinions here; and that an
Orange mob, wi;th the delinquent Mayor of Toronto
in the chair, are little likely to change opinion in
England. All ret ipectable Protestants in this country
regard Orangeisin much as they do Ultramontanism,
and they are only grieved
,to see it compassing
sea and land to make proselytes, and when
it has made them that it should also make them
tenfold more the children of bigotry than them-
selves. From, such persons the charge of favcuring
Catholics at the expense of Protestants, will be
simply evidence of perfect religious neutrality
on the part of the Duke.

The reception accorded to H.R.H. the Prince of
WALES by the free-born citizens of the United
States is something more important than a mere
piece of court pageantry passing through the midst
of a hospitable republican demonstration. It is
one of the most graceful and beautiful incidents
that the future Bancrofts and Macaulaypi will hqve
to record in the annals of the eider and the
younger divisions of the great Anglo-
Saxon race. Americans and Englishmen
can only be brought more closely and more cor-
dially together, by such reciprocations !of good
feeling between the citizens of the young republic,
and the heir to that old constitutional monarchy
from which that young republic (now not eighty
years ago) emanated during the reign of the Prince
of WALES'S great-grandfather. It was only a
day or two since that we published the
particulars of the reverential visit paid by
his Royal Highness, the eldest son of our
beloved SOVEREIGN to the hallowed grave of that
great rebel to the Crown of her MAJESTY'S grand-
father, King GEORGE lll.—that great rebel and
heroic patriot who has left behind him so pure a
fame and so imperishable a monument of his msg.
nanimity. It comes as a fitting sequel to this
pilgrimage of the Prince of WALES to the grave
of WASHINGTON, that his Royal Highness should
so soon afterwards pass through the street of New
York in the midst of such heartfelt and enthusiastic
acclamations. Not one loyal Englishman amongst
us all but will read, with a glow of pleasure,
the particulars given in another part of our
impression of this evening, the deeply interesting
account there given of the Prince of WALES'S
arrival in New York, and of his Royal High-
ness's progress down the noble Broadway.

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