The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

TIIE CONVICT MULLINS.

No answer had been received at Newgate last
night from the Home Secretary to the different
memorials and representations that have been
transmitted to the Government by the prisoner,
through his solicitor, Mr. Hubert Wood, and it is
expected that no reply will be made until the
Saturday before the day appointed for the execu-
tion, when the usual formal notification will be

sent to the Sheriffs, that all the facts of the case
have been considered, and that there do not appear
to be any sufficient grounds for recommending the
prisoner to the clemency of the Crown. There is
no foundation for the rumour that the prisoner had
received a respite from the 12th to the 19th of
November, and the rumour appeared to have arisen
from the fact that according to the ordinary prac-
tice the execution would have taken place on the
second .clear Monday after the trial, and this would
have been the 12th. As, however, the prisoner
was only tried at the end of the week, and sentence
was not passed upon him until late on the Friday
evening, if the Sheriffs had adopted the usual
course the execution would have followed upon the
sentence in the very shortest time allowed by the
law, and they therefore deferred the execution for
another week, the law giving the Sheriffs the
power to fix any time not within the period men-
tioned. The culprit still continues to' assert his
entire innocence of the crime for which he is to
suffer, and upon every occasion when he has been
visited 'by the authorities of the prison he con-
' tinues to delare that he did not commit the murder.
He is permitted the flee use of pen, ink, and
paper, and he occupies a good deal of his time in
writing, and has addressed several letters to his
wife and his children. It will be recollected that

at the trial a person named Barnes was called as a
witness on his behalf, and she stated that about
half-past ten or eleven o'clock on the Tuesday
morning, the murder being supposed to have been
committed on the previous evening, she saw one of
the windows of the house of the deceased opened
by some one. It appears that the relations of the
prisoner have discovered that a tradesman named
Davidson, living in the neighbourhood, was with
Mrs. Barnes at the time she saw what she repre-
sented took place, and he conirms her statement,
and the prisoner relies upon this as a confirmation
of his assertion that he did not commit the murder,
and this is one of the facts that he has transmitted
to the Home Secretary in support of his application
for a remission of the sentence. The prisoner is
visited three times a week by his wife or some
members of his family. His wife and daughter
were with him on Monday, and they conversed for
some time upon family matters, and also in refer-
ence to the murder, and Mullins again asserted his
innocence of the crime, and in allusion to the pos-
session of the cheque for £lO. which was the prin-
cipal point of evidence against him, said this could
be accounted for without his being in any way
connected with the murder. He has never
attempted to give any reasonable explanation of the
circumstances under which the property belonging
to the deceased, and which undoubtedly must have
been stolen at the time the murder was committed,
came into his possession. As the period approaches
nearer for the carrying out of the sentence,
the culprit appears to become more restless
and excited, and within the last day or two he has
expressed his intention, if he should suffer, to ad-
dress the crowd from the scaffold, and he says he
hopes that his strength will be sufficient to enable
him to do so. He is visited every day by the Rev.
Mr. O'Callaghan, a Roman Catholic priest.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL—Nov. 13.

There was a good attendance of town and country millers
at this morning's market, but we had only a limited busi-
ness in wheat, which may be quoted at 2d per 100 lb lower
on the week. Flour still inactive and may be noted Gd to
Is per sack and barrel under late ra+es. Oats and oatmeal
sold slowly, and prices without material alteration. Barley,
beans, and peas in moderate request at about late rates.
For Indian corn there was a better demand, at is 6d per
qr decline on the week.

' BRISTOL—Noy. 13.
A dull business doing in the wheat trade to-day. Fine
sorts exceedingly scarce and much wanted.

'LEEDS—Nov. 13.

Our market to-day was fairly attended by millers, but
the arrivals are moderate. Good descriptions of new and
old wheat scarcely held for former rates. Inferior barley
quite neglected, and must be quoted at fully 2s below the
rates of last market. Beans and oats quite as dear.