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

SEPT. 11, 6 A.M.

I take advantage of the courier who leaves this
morning for Tien-tsin, to add a short postscript to
my letter of the 9th. We reached this place yester-
day, after two days' march through frequent vil
lagcs and over a flat alluvial plain covered with
millet. Had we to contend with an enterprising
enemy this march would have been attended with
the greatest difaulties. In the first three miles out
of Tien-tsin we crossed seven bridges over wide
canals, not one of which had been broken. The
road thence runs along the south bank of the river,
and a few gingal men in the high millet on the
opposite side might have galled us fearfully. kind
barricades been made or the road been broken up
in the villages a serious'obstaele would have been
afforded, for the streets are narrow, and every inch

oii cotintry, save only where the road is made or
houses are built, is covered with millet 14 feet high.
But the " enemy" is invisible, and, according to the
villagers' account, the Tartars were too much
alarmed in their flight to think of anything except
their own safety. Soon after encamping here yes-
terday we had a tremendous thunderstorm.. For
seven hours the rain descended in torrents, and soon
converted the country into a swamp. The road was
quite impracticable for artillery, and the order was
given that we should not march this morning. How-
ever, it cleared up at 11 p.m., and n)w the sun has
risen with every promise of fine weather, and a
fresh breeze is blowing, which will soon dry the
roads.

A flag of truce has just come in, borne by two
Mandarins of the fourth class. They announce that
the leading members of the war party Tsai-wan,
President of the Imperial Court of Punishment, and
Mu-hyn, President of the Council of War, and a
member of the clique which has of late directed the
Government, are coming down to Tien-sin in order
to treat. The order is given that we march at noon,
which is the best answer to this announcement.
Tsai-wan and Mu-hyn will be met on the line of
march, and informed that the Ambassadors refuse
to treat before arriving at Tung-chow. At last the
fox is unearthed, and it will be our own fault if he
be not killed in the open. The Pekinese will see a
European force under the walls of their capital, and
the leaders of the war party, unable to protect them,
suing for mercy. Last night, during the storm, the
drivers of the carts hired at Tien-tsin bolted with
their horses. This was, no doubt, done by order of
the Government, in hopes of delaying our march.
The scheme will not succeed. A number of junks
have been seized and manned by sailors, and, as
the river runs up to Tung-chow, the baggage will
be carried by water instead of by land.

SIIERIFFS FOR 1860-61,

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(From the Gazette of last even‘rig.)
ENGLAND. -
BEDFORDSHIRE.—Joseph Tucker, of Pavenham, Esq. ;
William Lynne Smart, of Eversholt, Esq. ; and Crewe
Alston, of Odell, Esq.
BERKSHIRE.—Henry Lannoy Hunter, of Beech-hill,
near Reading, Esq. , Robert Campbell, of Buscot-park,
Esq. ; and FrederickVilliam Allfrey, of Hill-house, Shin-
field, Esq.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.—Sir Anthony Nathan De Roths-
child, of Aston Clinton, Bart. ; William Pennington, of
Fernacres, Esq. ; and Philips Cosby Lovett, of Liscombo-
house, Esq. •
CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—Edward
Hicks, of Great Wilbraham, Esq. ; George Onblow, New-
ton, of Croxton park, Esq. ; and Stanlake Ricketts Batson,
of HOrseheath, Esq.
CHESHIRE.—John Ralph Shaw, of Arrow-hall, Birken-
head, Esq. ; Edward Holt Glegg, of Backford, Esq. ; and
Thomas Aldersey, of Aldersey -hall, Esq.
CUMBERLAND.—Thomas Ainsworth, of the Flosh, Esq.;
Samuel Lindow, of Cleator, Esq. ; and William Nicholson
Hodgson, of Newby-grange, Carlisle, Esq.
DERBYSHIRE.—WiIIiam Thomas Cox, of Spondon-hall,
Esq. ; Haughton Charles Okeover, of Okeover-hall, Esq. ;
and Sir. Henry Flower Every, of Egginton, Bart.
DEVONSHIRE.—Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth, of
Weare, Topsham, Bart. ; Major-General Edward Studd, of
Oxton ; and Sir George Stucley Stueley, of Hartland-
abbey, Hartland, Bart.
DORSETSHIRE.—Robert Hassell Owen Swaffield, of
Wyke Regis, Esq. ; Joseph Gundry, of the Hyde; Brid-
port, Esq.; and Charles Wriothesley Digby of Studland,
Esq. _ _ _ _

DURHAM.--Richard Lawrence Pemberton, of Barnes,
Esq. ; George Henry Surtees, of Dinsdale, Esq. ; and John
Hildyard, of Horsley, Esq.
ESSEX.—Sir Wm. Bowyer Smijth, of Hill-hall, Epping,
Bart. ; Joseph Samuel Leacher, of Boyles, Brentwood,
Esq. ; and George Alan Lowndes, of Barrington-hall,
Hatfield Broad Oak, Esq. -
GLOCESTERSHIRE.—John Waddingham, of Guiting
Grange, near Winchcorabe, Esq. ; Sir • George Samuel
Jenkinson, of Eastwood, near Berkeley, Bart. ; and John
Battersby Harbord, of Stoke-park,, Stoke Bishop, near
Bristol, Esq.
HEREFORDSHIRE.—Robert Henry Lee Warner, of Tiber-
ton, Esq. ; John Hangerford Arkwright, of Hampton-
court, Esq. ; and Stephen Allaway, of Courtfield, Esq.
HERTFORDSHIRE.—Wm. Jones Loyd, of Abbotts Lang-
ley, Esq. ; John Hodgson, of Gilston-park, Esq. ; and
Samuel Richard Block, of Barnet, Esq.
KENT.—Alexander Randall, of Foley-house, Maidstone,
Esq.; Henry Bannerman, of Hunton-court, near Maidstone,
Esq. ; and Arthur Vansittart, of Footscray, Esq.
LEICESTERSHIRE.--Richard Sutton, of Skeffington, Esq. ;
James Beaumont Winstansley, of Braunstone, Esq. ; and
Sir Robert Burdett, of Kirby Bellars, Bart.
Lirtcotaisiting.—Weston Cracroft Amcotts, of Kettle-
thorpe, Esq. ; Thomas John Dixon, of Holton-le-moor,
Esq. ; and Rowland Winn, of Appleby, Esq.
MONMOUTHSHIRE.-James Proctor Carruthers, of the
Grondra, near Chepstow, Esq. ; James Jameson Cordes, of
Bryn Qua, near Newport, Esq.; and Joapph Davin*, of
Bedwas, near Newport, Esq.
NoaroLx.—John Thomas Mott, of Barningham, Esq. ;
Henry James Lee Warner, of Little Walsingham, Esq. ;
and Joseph Stonehewer Scott Chad, of Thursford, Esq.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—John Edmund Severne, of Then-
ford, Esq. ; William Smyth, of Little Houghton, Esq. ;
and George Ashby Ashby, of Naseby, Esq.
NORTHUMBERLAND.—WiIIiam John Pawson, of Shaw •
don, Esq. ; John Cookson, of Meldon-park, Esq. ; and
Watson Askew, of Pallinsburn, Esq.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—John Henry Manners Sutton, of
Kelham, Esq. ; Henry Savilo, of Rufford Abbey, Esq. ;
and Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard, of Flintham-
house, Esq.
OXVORDSIIIRE.—Honry Birch Reynardson, of Adwell,
Esq. ; Charles Edward Thornhill, of Woodleys, Esq:; and
Emilius Watson Tiylor, of Headington, Esq.
RUTLANDSHIRE.—AIexander Doria, of Manton, Esq. ;
William Fludyer, of Ayston, Esq. ; and the Hon. William
Charles Evans Freke, of Bisbrooke.
SirnorsicuE.—George Pritchard, of Bromley, Esq. ; Sir
Yincent Rowland Corbett, of Aeton Reynald, Bart. ; and
Thomas Charlton Whitmore, of Apley-park, Esq.
SO.MERSETSHIRE.—Francis Wheat Newton, of Barton-
grange, Esq. ; Ralph Neville Grenville, of Butleigh-court,
Esq. ; mai William Speke, of Jordans, Esq.
SOUTHAMPTON (COUNTY).—William George Craven, of
Brambridge-house, Winchester, Esq. ; John Deverell, of
Purbrook-park, near Cosham, Esq, ; and Sir Henry Bou-
verie Paulet St. John Mildmay, of Dogmersfield-park,
Winchfielfi, Bart.-
STAFFORDSHIRE.—John William Philips, of Heybridge,
Esq. ; Newton John Lane, of Elmhurst, Esq. ; and Wm.
Banbury Sparrow, of Penro, Esq.
SUFFOLK.—John Berners, of Weolverstone-park, Esq.;
Edward Robert Starkie Bence, of Kentwell-hall, Melford,
Esq. ; and Sir John Ralph Blois, of Cockfield-hall, Yox-
ford, Bart.
Snuunt.—Samuel Gurney, of. Calshalton, Esq. ; Sir J .
Andrew Cathcart, of Cooper's-hill, Egham, Bart. ; and
Joseph God wan, of Park Hatch, Godalming, Esq.
SussEx —George Gatty, of Felbridge-park, East Grin-
stead, Esq. ; the Hon. John Jervis Carnegie, of Fair Oak,
Rogate, and Herbert Mascall Curteis, of Windmill-hill,
Rye, Esq.
WARWIOKSHIRE.—Richard Greaves, of the Cliff, War-
wick, Esq. ; the Hon. Charles Lennox Butler; and Alleslay
Boughton Leigh, of Brownsom-hall, Esq.
WEST3fORELAND.—WiIIiam Hopes, of Brampton Crofts,
Appleby, Esq. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Gandy, of
Heaves-lodge, Kendal ; and William Wilson, of High-
park, Esq.
WILTSHIRE.—CharIes Penruddocke, of Compton Cham-
berlaine, Esq. ; Thomas Fraser Grove, of Fern, Esq. ; and
John Elton Mervyn Prower, of Purton-house, Swindon,
Esq.
WORCESTERSHIRE.—James Moilliet, of Abberley-hall,
near Worcester, Esq. ; Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lech-
mere, of the Rhydd, Worcester, Bart.; and Richard Hem-
ming, of Bordesley-park, Bromsgrove, Esq.
YORKSHIRE —Sir George Orby Wombwell, of New-
burgh-park, near York, Bart. ; William Frederick Webb,
of Pepper-hall, near South Cowton, Northallerton, Esq:;
and Godfrey Wentworth, of Woolley-park, Esq.
WALES (NORTH).
ANGLESEY.—WiIIiam Bulkeley Hughes, of Plas Coch,
Esq. ; Robert Davies, of Bwlchyfen, Esq. ; and the
Florence George Henry Irby, of Llanidan.
CARNARYONSHIRE.—Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, of
Gwynfryn, Esq.; John Priestley, of Braichybib, Esq.; and
Henry M'Kellar, of Sygunfawr, ESCI. _
DENRIGHSHIRE.—CharIes John Tottenham, of Berwyn-
house, near Llangollen,
Esq. ; John Lloyd Wynne, jun.,
Coed Coch, Abergele, Esq. ;
and Boscawen Trevor Griffith,
of Trevelyn-hall, Wrexham, Esq.
FLINTSIIIRE.—Robert Howard, of Broughton-hall,
Esq. ; Philip Pennant Pennant, of Bodfari, Esq.; and
Charles Butler Clough, of Llwyn Offs, Esq.
MERIONETHSHIRE.—David Williams, of Deudraeth-
castle, Esq. ; Charles Ansel', of Glanrhiadr, Esq. ; and
Samuel Uolland, of Plas-yn-Pentryn, Esq.
MONTGOMERYSHIRE.—Price James Drew, of Glanha-
fren, Esq. ; John Heyward Heyward, of Crosswood, Esq. ;
and John Lomax, of Bodfach, Esq.
WALES (SOUTH).
BRECONSHIRE.—WaIter Do Winton, of Maeslough-
castle, Esq. ; Jeston Williams Fredricks, of Talwen, Esq. ;
and David Watkins Llozd, of Aberllech, Esq.
CARDIGANSHIRE,—Pryse Loveden, of Gogerddan, Esq. ;
Herbert Vaughan, of Brynog, Esq. ; and Pryso ' Lewes,
of Gwastod, near Lampeter, Esq,
CARMARTHENSIIIRE.—Arthur Henry Saunders Davies,
of Pentre, Esq.; Sir John Burnet Dundas, Velinvole,
Bart. ; and James Price Gwynne Holford, of Cilgwyn, Esq.
GLAMORCANSIIIRE.—Edward Robert Wood, of Stout-
hall, Esq. ; Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, of, Sully-house, Bart. ;
and John Whitlock Nicholl Came, of Dimlands-castle,
Esq., D.C.L.
PEMBROKESHIRE.—Edward Wilson, of Hean-castle,
Esq. ; James Bevan Bowen, of Llwngwair, Newport, Esq.;
and Lord Kensington.
RADNORSHIRE.—Henry Thomas, of Pencerrig, Esq. ;
George Greenwood, of Abernant, Esq. • and Walter de
1 Wiltin, of Maesliwoh-castle, Esq.

771 E CONVIrT MULLINS.

No answer had been received at Newgate last
night from the HOlllO Secretary to the different
memorials and repiesentations 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 free 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 confirms 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 assertei 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.

C OUN2RY 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 6d to
is per sack and barrel under late rates. Oats and oatmeal
sold slowly, and prices without material alteration. Barley,
beans, and peas in moderato 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.

NEWCASTLE-UNDER •LYNE—Nov. 13.

At this corn market there was a very fair show of old
and new wheat, but the demand was inactive, and prices
declined is to 2s upon late rates—white making 60s to 70s,
red 54s to 665. The supply of barley shown was middling,
with a firm demand. Oats in small supply, and the trade
firm, from 265,, t0;134s pets 21 atenez Beans made from
480 to 64s per qr.