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

Acting itranagar—ilr. Wm. Suitt.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wn. BATTY.
Triumphant inccess and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of ROBIN HOOD.

This Evening, the highly suocessful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by E. Fitzball. Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or, the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan-
a-Dal Rebecca, Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.

To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of
Europe.

Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-oMee open daily from 11 till 4.
Stare Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

C"iTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma ....- Miss RUSSELL.
Adaleisa Madame MARIA,
(Her first apnearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistino- of Seventeen Per-
formers. organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Nero Delineations, Anecdotes, Arc. Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, 0. W. Pell, 11.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGLIMANS.
Balcony, Is, Hall. 6d.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1880.

Numerous and frightful though the murders of
the present year have been, one of the very blaQkest
recorded upon the blood-stained annals of 1860 was
the assassination of old Mrs. E3ISLEY down at
Mile-end, on the evening of Monday, the 13th of
August.

It was a crime in itself singularly brutal in its
character ; but its own intrinsic atrocity has since
then been enhanced by its perpetrator to a degree
of infamy almost, we believe, if not entirely, un-
paralleled. The prisoner, who was accused of
having deprived this wretched old woman of lite,
has now—after what he himself acknowledged to
have been a careful and patient trial by a jury of
his countrymen—been formally convicted upon the
evidence, and is 'at this present moment in
the condemned cell under sentence of death.
The evidence upon which GEORGE MUL-
LINS has been thus found guilty is what
the evidence almost invariably (we had nearly
written it almost inevitably, from the very nature
of the crime of murder) must be—circumstantial.
It is the rarest occurrence well imaginable to be
found anywhere related in the history of these
deeds of blood and darkness, when the murderer
is actually seen in the act of destroying human
lire—when he is seized upon the spot, red-handed,
with the weapon yet warm in his grasp. Half a
century has gone by since the family of the MARS—
father, mother, and children—were all butchered,
had their throats cut at mid-day in their home, in the
very midst of this populous city of London, actually
in the 37.gh t or
witness against the author
of that wholesale assassination. And even then
that eye-witness of the crime-.the servant girl,
who had gone out to get the beer for dinner
—beheld the murderer cutting the throats of his
victims as she stood, jug in hand, paralysed with
horror at the half-open sitting room door—beheld
the murderer cutting the throats of the last of his
victims in the reflection of the ghastly scene in tie
lass over the mantelpiece !
looking-glass The evidence of
an actual eye-witness in fact is about the rarest evi-
dence that is ever brought into a court of law against
a murderer. Whenever it is brought into court it
is almost always that of King's evidence—or rather
we should say now Queen's evidence. It is the
evidence of an accomplice—not actually himself
a shedder of blood—who purchases immunity
from the penalty of death by the additional
infamy of turpitude to the more heinous criminal,
the actual assassin, Otherwise in the vast majority
of instances the evidence against the accused must
needs be, we repeat, almost by necessity circumstan-
tial evidence. It is entirely upon circumstantial
evidence that Alueeime has now been convicted of
the murder of Mrs. RUSLEY. No one saw him do t 1 e
deed—re one affects to have seen him do it. In all
human probability the murder was witnessed only
by the
awful eye of DIVINE PROVIDENCE. It was
perpetrated about twilight o n londay evening, the
13th of August.
A crashing blow or two
must have done it, when the victim
was taken altogether at a disadvantage,

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