The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-29 00:00:00

THE SON, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1860.

the present state of the am, iron-cased ships will
be calculated for home service only ; indeed, our
largest line-of-battle ships as it is, have seldom
been sent to any great diance from home. No
three-decker ever yet went round the Cape, and no
iron-sided Colossus is likely to take that voyage.
It follows, therefore, that our foreign and colonial
service must still be periormed by old-fashioned
vessels, but it does not ffflow that those vessels
may not be rendered less vulnerable than they are
by a judicious application )f iron-plating. Perhaps,
as the lightest craft carry a heavy gun, so the most
nimble cruiser may have aer cuirass to suit.
We can only repeat, in conclusion, that what we
suggested in the way of reassurance has been en-
tirely borne out by the 7eTelations of the contro-
versy. The new ships are .ikely to be more expensive
than was originally supposed, and the richest nation
will therefore have an advantage in constructing
them. On this point we can add some authentic
information. We belince the actual cost of the
largest class of iron-ctsed ships will be about
£350,000, or, according to the old method of reckon-
ing, 110,000 a gun. Tais is a prodigious charge—
in fact, it is double that, of our finest three-deckers.
Iron, however, will 'tat decay like wood, and—
what is of far greater importance-36 guns can be
worked with less than half the crew required for
130. An element, again, of the greatest conse-
quence in the question is hat of speed, and it is be-
yond any doubt that we can manufacture the best
engines, and that we possess the most valuable
fuel. To be brief, we must needs conclude that our
old naval superiority has been kept absolutely
within our grasp' by a discovery which gives us
every point in our favour. The new invention
offers the sovereignty of the seas to the nation
which can work best in iron, provide the best en-
gineers, and supply the largest funds for keeping
batteries afloat. If any nation can beat us in ti
race so regulated we shall richly deserve our defeat.
Times.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

CEYLON.
The report of the directors of this company states
that the result of the proceedings at the extraordi-
nary general meeting of the 23d of July last had
been communicated to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, and by him forwarded to Ceylon.
Mr. Hawkshaw's report had been received in Cey-
lon, and presented to the Legislative Council by the
Lieutenant- Governor, with an intimation that no
action would be taken upon it until the arrival of
the new Governor, Sir C. M'Carthy, who before
his departure from this country, it was understood,
had made himself completely master of the snbject,
and would, no doubt, be prepared to deal with it
impartially in the interests of the colony and the
company. It would, in all probability, be the end
of the year before the views of the Ceylon Govern-
ment could be ascertained, when they would be
communicated to the proprietors. In consequence
of the uncertainty attending the future proceedings
of the company, the operations of the past year had
necessarily been limited. By last advices from
Ceylon, the directors were informed that with the
concurrence of the Government, all the works,
except those on the Lake road, had been stopped ;
that considerable reductions in the police and
medical establishments had been effected, and that
the staff were employed on surveys. At the last
audit the Ceyloa accounts could not be passed
owing to the absence of vouchers ; and, at the re-
peated representations of the directors, the local
Government had consented to audit the accounts
on the spot from the beginning, The Auditor-
General was engaged upon them, and the directors
had hoped to present them to the meeting officially
verified ; but, at the date of the last advices, the
accounts for 1859 only were then under inves-
tigation.
Mr. G. L. Molesworth, the acting chief resident
engineer, stated in his report that he had agreed
with the Government controlling engineer to con-
tinue the works during the past year with a force
of only about 1,500 men. During the spring he
had applied to Government to increase that num-
ber, in order that those works might be executed
during the dry season which lay in districts flooded
during the greater part of the year. The quantity
of earthwork done during the year amounted to
295,173 cubic yards, the cost varying from 111;d.
per cubic yard in high embankments formed from
side cutting, where the lead had been long and the
baling of surface water expensive, to 3d. per cubic
yard where the cost of each cubic yard had been
divided by embankment having been formed from
cutting by means of earth-waggons. The earth-
works from Colombo to Gallihitiavo, 13 miles
from Colombo, were far advanced, and the worst
portions of the flooded district had been success-
fully crossed. The amount of work done in sur-
veys during the year was, 48 miles of traverse sur-
veys, 57 miles of sections, 71- miles of line set cut
permanently, 43 miles of estimates, and 942 cross
sections. The capital account to the 30th of June
showed that £294,221 had bean received in London,
and ;06,377 expended, leaving a balance unex-
pended of 1;191,144.

EDINBURGH AND DUNFERMLINE.
A meeting was held at DunSermline oh Thursday
for the purpose of adopting preliminary measures
for the formation of a railway. from Edinburgh to
Dunfermline—Provost Robert:i,on in the chair.
The report of Mr. Bouch, engineer, showed
that the proposed line would:be 15 miles in• length,
with a ferry across the Firth. of Forth at Queens-
ferry of three-quarters of a mile, and the capital
proposed to he raised was £130,000, of which the
North British Railway Conx:pany were to take
£30,000. The line would join the Edinburgh and
Glasgow at Haymarket, and communicate with the
North Vritish, which was to -work the proposed
line. At Dunfermline it would also connect with
the existing railway commtinication. Stations
would be opened at points facing the route, and a
new low-water pier would -,b() formed at North
Queensferry, corresponding to the pier of Port
' Edgar on the south side of the, Forth.
On the motion of Mr. WEI.IWOOD, the meeting
approved generally of the propnsed scheme; a com-
mittee was appointed to carry out the objects of
the meeting, and the sum of £5OO was subscribed
towards the preliminary expenses, besides other
subscriptions. From the suppoLrt which the project
received, it was expected that it would be carried
out.

NORTHERN OF FRANCE.
The traffic receipts on this company's line for
the meek ending the 20th in; t. amounted, on 602
miles, for passengers to .£16,,569, and for luggage
and merchandise to £34,711; total, £51,280. The
receipts for the corresponding week of last year on
the same mileage amounted to £52,390, showing an
increase of £l,llO, or 2.11 per cent. The total
receipts, from Jan. 1 to Oct, 20, amounted to
£1,919,788, and for the corresponding period of
1859 to £1,820,086, showing an. increase of £99,702,
or 5.47 per cent.

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.
The capital account of this company, ending June
30, showed that £2,774,597 had been received on
shares consolidated into stock, £4,450 not yet con-
solidated, £3,500,939 on debentures, £2,996,900 on
preference debenture capital, and £3,111,500 on
provincial debentures, making %total of £12,388,386.
The expenditure, including £319,425 during the
half year, amounted toXll,7S2,272,leaving a balance
to credit of capital of £606,114. The revenue
account for the half year ending 30th June last
showed that £314,811 had be en received, and
£268,811 expended, leaving a balance of £43,000.

MARGATE.—FRIDAY.—The barquo Nemesis, of
London, struck, on Monday night, on the Girdler Sand,
near Margate. As soon as her signals of distress were ob-
served the Margate lifeboat, which the National Lifeboat
Institution had just sent to that station, was manned and
launched. Immediately the vessel was reached the lifeboat
crew boarded her, and after assisting to lighten her she,
with her crew of 17 hands, proceeded on her voyage, with
a general cargo, to Bombay.
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It is rather a curious fact that the prisoner enter-
tained, or pretended to do so, a conviction that he
would surely be acquitted of the charge, and that
it was at his own urgent request that the trial took
place at-the recent session, as he said he was tired
of being in prison, and wanted to get out. His
learned counsel, Mr. Best, was extremely desirous
that the trial should be postponed to the next ses-
sion, as it would have given an opportunity for the
excitement that had been created in the public
mind to cool down, and there is no doubt, if an
application Lto that effect had been made to the
judges, that it would have been complied with,
and, indeed, it is generally the rule in all these
serious cases, not to try the prisoner at the E4ame
sessions that the bill is found by the grand jury.
Mr. Wood, Mullins's solicitor, it seems, suggested
to the prisoner that this course should be taken,
but he objected to it, and it was at his own earnest
desire that the trial was brought on. For a short
time a.fter the conclusion of the trial, the prisoner
exhibited a good deal of excitement, and asserted
that he was innocent of the crime of which he had
been convicted, but since then he has become quite
calm, and apparently resigned, and evidently feels
the fearful position in which he is placed. The pri-
soner and all his family are Roman Catholics, but
it appears that before his trial he made no objec-
tion to attend Divine service in the chapel of the
prison, and listened with apparent attention to the
exhortations of the Rev. Mr. Davis,,the ordinary.
On Saturday, however, he expressed. to Mr. Jonas,
the governor of Newgate, a desire to see a priest of
his own communion, and that gentleman imme-
diately sent a communication to the Moorfields
Catholic Chapel to that effect; and since then the
prisoner has been visited by a Roman Catholic
priest, and he will be permitted to have access to
him whenever he pleases, during the interval that
will elapse before his execution, which will take
place on Monday, the 12th of November. It is
not likely, even if the prisoner should make a
confession, that the real circumstances under which
poor Sold Mrs. Emsley was brutally murdered,
will ever be fully made known to the public, as
a statement of such a nature made to a Roman
Catholic priest is considered as given under the seal
of confession, and therefore sacred, and would not,
under any circumstances, be divulged by the party
,o whom it was made.

THE CONVICT MULLINS.

The career of this nefarious villain, who has been
justly convicted by a jury of his country of the
crime of wilful murder, hds been most extraordinary.
He was mixed up with the prosecution of Ribbon-
men in Ireland while he was attached to the Irish
Constabulary, and acted the part of spy, informer,
and witness on several occasions. Twice he nar-
rowly. escaped assassination by Ribbon conspirators.
While he was in the K division of the metropolitan
police, he was constantly intriguing and getting
other constables and sergeants into trouble, and was
a very mischievous fellow. While he was officiat-
ing as sergeant he was very unpopular with the men
under his control, and was very officious and very
arrogant.
For several years after the opening of the Black-
wall Railway the metropolitan police did duty on
that line, and Mullins, who was then a sergeant,
was appointed to look after the police-constables
selected to do duty at the various stations between
Blackwall and Fenchurch-street, and apartments
were assigned to him in a house belonging to the
railway corn pony in London-street, Fenchureb-
street. In the same house lived another Irishman,
named Dempsey, a constable in the K division, and
a railway guard named Rutherford. At that time
the carriages on the Blackwall Railway were pro-
pelled by means of wire ropes attached to enormous
wheels set in motion by stationary engines at each
end of the line. A carriage for each station was
attached to this wire rope, and cast off from it
while the train was in motion on nearing the sta-
tion to which it belonged, and where it was to
stop. It happened that the guard (Rutherford)
had 'made a complaint to the secretary of the com-
pany of the dirty habits of Mullins and his family,
and their general disorderly conduct. This came
to the knowledge of Mullins, and he declared
that he would have a word or two with Ruther-
ford the first time he met with him ; in other
words, Mullins, who was a person of very quarrel-
some disposition when offended, determined to have
a row with him. For that purpose he got upon a
Poplar carriage one Wednesday afternoon when the
full train started from Fenchurch-street. Ruther-
ford was on the West India-dock station carriage,
and after the train had passed Limehouse Church,
he took off the coupling irons to detach the carriage
he was upon from the hers. The carriage had no
I sooner been detached from the others than Mullins
discovered the mistake he had committed. He was
upon the wrong carriage, and made an attempt to
step from the Poplar to the West India-dock car-
riage. In doing so he fell upon the line. The
wheels of the carriage Rutherford was upon went
over his knee. He was severely injured, and when
assistance was obtained he was insensible. He was
taken to the London Hospital, where he remained
under medical treatment for three months; On his
recovery he again joined the police force, and re-
sumed his old position on the Blackwall railway.
One night he presented himself at the station-house
of the sub-division in Shadwell, with his clothes
torn, marks of violence on his person, and apparently
exhausted} and stated that as he was walking down
the railway after the trains had ceased running, he
saw three burglars attempting to break into the
rear of a house in Brunswick-terrace, Stepney, and
that he went down stairs at the station, took the
burglars by surprise, and attempted to capture
them, on which. they attacked him, and after beat-
ing him in a brutal manner, disabled him. This
story obtained credence from his superiors, and
was not contradicted by those who knew it to be
a fabrication, because they were glad to relieve
the force of Mullins at any price, and soon after-
wards he was superannuated upon a pension of
£35 a year. He obtained employment through the
influence of one of his countrymen on the South-
Eastern line, and immediately commenced a
system of plunder which terminated in his con-
viction and a sentence of six years' penal servitude.
On his discharge as a ticket-of-leave convict he ob-
tained employment from Mrs. Emsley as bricklayer
and plasterer, and was almost constantly engaged
in executing repairs in one or other of her nume-
rous houses until he committed the barbarous mur-
der for which he is doomed to forfeit his life.

ANTECEDENTS OF MULLINS IN IRELAND.
Mullins is about fifty years of age, 5 ft. 9 in. high,
with carroty hair and whiskers; a thin-faced, pale
man, of gentlemanly appearance and good address.
Ile was never known, it is said, to form an intimate
acquaintance, but always led a solitary kind of ex-
istence. He is a bricklayer and plasterer by trade,
is descended of Irish parents, but speaks with an
English accent. Soon after the establishment of
the London metropolitan police he joined that body,
and was promoted to the rank of sergeant in the K
Division, in which he remained until a metropoli-
tan police force was established in Dublin twenty-
four years ago. He was then promoted to the rank
of inspector. Ireland was then overrun by a con-
spiracy under different names, but all belonging to
the same body. They were exclusively Roman Catho-
lic, sworn to aid and assist each other, and to keep
the secrets of their society. They had branch lodges
in all the manufacturing towns of England and
Scotland. The Government entered into a eorres •
pondence with the late Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin, who succeeded in obtaining
a bull from the Pope, excommunicating all the mem-
bers of the secret society ; and a Catholic priest in-
duced a Ribbonman to give secret information
respecting the society to the Lord-Lieutenant. He
obtained a warrant from Sir James Graham, the
then Home Secretary, for opening letters passing
through the Post Office. The letters of sus-
pected persons in one postmaster's district were
ordered to be forwarded back to the General Post-
office. In a short period a number of letters were
accordingly sent marked to Dublin by a post-
mistress in the north of Ireland, and by this means
the authorities learned that a meeting of delegates
from all parts of the United Kingdom was to be
held to alter the signs and pass-words of the society.
A letter of invitation to the delegates for Man-
chester was detained, and Mullins was despatched
to Manchester to make himself acquainted with
the appearance, habits, employment, &c., of the
Manchester delegates. This he faithfully did, and
then, armed with forged letters from England, pro-
ceeded to the north of Ireland, delivered his ere-
dentials, and was heartily welcomed. He spent
money lavishly, and was what they termed "a
regular trump." The authorities, receiving from
him due notice of his movements, kept a large force
of police in motion. The police, in great force,
secretly arrived in the town where the meeting
was to be held, in plain clothes, and were concealed
in the barracks. Mullins, the night before, lodged
in a public-house in Ballyconnell, kept by one of
the members of the club, and the beds being p.ll
occupied, the landlord sent his wife to sleep with
his two daughters, and shared his own bed with
his new friend, after drinking long and deep, a 1
vowing eternal friendship. The .next morning
they proceeded together to 13allinamore, where
they met many of the delegates in a public-house.
Only a part of the delegates had arrived, and com-
menced business, when one young man, more
acute than the rest, put questions to Mullins,
and found that he had never been a member of
the society. This young man acquainted two
I others, and preparations were instantly made for
the despatch of Mullins, the rest of the gang