The Daily Times. — 1860-11-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THOMAS YOUNG.—This bankrupt, a tea and coffee merchant, carrying on business at Liverpool; came up on his last examination. The bankrupt Was allowed to pass, Mr. rembeiteini for the assignees, intimating that some questions arising upon 'the case would be reserved for the, certificate meeting. The certificate meeting was fixed for the 12th December. THE CONVICT IVlumaNg.--No answer had been received at'Newgate on Tuesday 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. There is no foundation for the rumour that the prisoner had received a respite from the 12th to the 19th of November, and tbe rumour appeared to have arisen from the fact that, according to the ordinary practice, the execution would, have taken place on the second clear Monday after the trial, and that 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 within the period mentioned. 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 Continues to declare 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 children. It will be recollected that at the trial, a witness named Barnes was called as a witness in 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 relatives 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 represented 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 member of his family. His wife and daughter were with him on Monday, and they conversed for some time upon family matters, and also in reference to the murder, and Mullins again asserted his innocence of the crime, and in allusion to the possession of the cheque for £lO, which was the principal point of evidence against him, said that this could be accounted for without his being in any way connected with the murder. The prisoner is evidently a cunning, crafty man, and he must be aware that the only chance he has of escaping is by persisting in asserting his innocence,' but although he does this with considerable earnestness and pertinacity, 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 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 be has expressed his intention, if he should suffer, to address 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, and they have long and apparently earnest conferences together.