The Express. — London, England, 1864-10-27 00:00:00

ghe entreoo. TO CORHISPONDINTS. ,dvertfaements intended for " The Uprise " Loodea Renting Paper, mast be at the Moe, le, Domverteation, by Two o'cnolt on the day of publication. HA VICUMICr. Turn EVENTNO. THEit:TN AND THE WLPID.—THE STRANGER. Meson. Howe, ?wren, Chlppend.le, Compton, snd Rogers Mesdames Beetnes and Keeley.—ON THE SLY. Mr. Buckstone.—And OUR MARY ANN& —Commence et 7. PILINCEIMM . VMS Er=MO. DORN 10 -- "Zioop LUCIE. Mr. D. Murray. And THE STREETS OF LONDON. Moors. Vida& .1. W. Ray, D. tither D. Murray, J. Nebula. H. Forrester, and H. Ilelloo Uzi H. Marston, Maws Barnett sad Gaynor. LYCEUM. Tun Eynon, THE RINGS BUTTERFLY. Messrs. Yachter, Ryder, Widd*mob, Charles, Mclntyre, Raymond, Clifford, Co llaM : Misses Carlotta Leelereq. M. Benrade, R. Lavine, and B. Laremt—Commenos at haltnast 7. tiFTAIn!u• Tina Emma. THE DYING CHILD. Yn. S. Lane,- Slneng by Mr. Albert Steele, Madame Conn, and leo Annie Radcliffe. And IHB MILLER AND HIS 1111.-V.—Cotantence at ff. MOH WATU AT LONDON-MUDGE. TIM DAY Morning, Oh. Ota....Aftentoon. Oh. 7m. TO-1401410W Morning, Ob. 29m....Afternoon, Oh. 48m. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27. THE Select Committee on Bankruptcy which Mt last Session broke up, as our readers are aware, without making a formal report. The magnitude of the inquiry prevented it from having time to digest the evidence into definite recom mendations, and it accordingly contented itself with laying before Parliament the materials it had collected, and asking that it might next year be re-appointed, in order to bring its labours to a re gular conclusion. The mass of data which it was able to bring together has just been issued in the form of a very bulky blue-book, the size of which certainly justifies the caution of the Committee in desiring ample time for its mature consideration. Even the draft report prepared by the Chairman, Mr. Morrsr, at the desire of the Committee, must, therefore, be looked upon rather as a me thod of formalising the discussion than as the expression of decided opinions. In this respect it will be useful, for is will reduce to the shape of definite objections and proposals the vague feeling of dissatisfaction with which the mercantile world has viewed the operation of the amending Act of 1861, from which so much was at first hoped. A collateral matter started during the very sitting of the Committee, and to which marked attention has been since directed, is the allegation of extensive defalcations on the part of the officials connected with the administration of bankruptcy. crave charges had been brought against the Leeds Court in particular, and the LORD Ciik:vcral.oit having ordered these to be in vestigated by Mr. Commissioner ATRTON and by Mr. HARDING, a London accountant, the result was deemed to be so serious as to call for an ex tension of the inquiry to the other country dis tricts. The report of these gentlemen in regard to the Leeds and the Birmingham Courts is contained in the appendix to the evidence just issued, and in order that the personal question may be dismissed, we shall endeavour to point out the actual facts established. In doing this we shall purposely avoid any reference to the defalcations of a London official 11111;gnee, which perhaps first led to suspicion, for the rea son that they arose almost entirely under the old Act, and may therefore be considered as having only an imperfect bearing on the operation of the Act of 1861. At Leeds there are two official assignees —Mr. You:co and Mr. CARRICK. Mr. YOUNG was rr quired, after the examination of his accounts, to pay over, and has paid over, 1,2041., as the deficiency on two years ; Mr. CARRICK, a sum of 1,3131. These amounts are composed in part of fees received, but not paid over, and in part of office and other expenses charged , and not actually expended. With regard to the former class of items, however, both gentlemen offer an explanation, which will probably be deemed to exonerate them from intentional fraud. The fees in question arose chiefly in bankruptcies in which proceedings had commenced under the old Act, and the fees were those which the old Act gave to the registrars. The new Act assigned them salaries in lieu of fees. But the General Order framed in pursuance of it, as interpreted by a letter of the Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy, directed that fees payable in depending bankrupt cies, and due for work partly done before and partly after the passing of the Act, should be apportioned as each court should direct. In the case of the Leeds Court the Commissioner gave a general authority that in such cases one-half of the fees should be retained by the official as signees. This was acted on, and the fees so re tained were not entered in the accounts rendered. Such appears to have been the total amount of the error committed ; an error, as the gentlemen inculpated observe, more of form than substance, since it consisted in not entering sums as received which they would have been entitled to enter on the opposite page as paid to themselves under the order of the Court. The alleged overcharges of office expenses appear to receive an explanation equally simple. The Act directs that such reason. able expenses shall be paid as shall be allowed by the Court. The Court at Leeds, instead of audit ing each particular half-year's charges, allowed a fixed sum as "reasonable," and this fixed sum the official assignees retained, without giving the detail of items on which it was expended. It is only fair to add that the Commissioner of the Leeds Court gives to one of these gentlemen, Mr. YOUNG, a testimonial as to his accuracy, probity, and honour couched in the highest possible terms ; and that even the investigators speak of his books as being carefully and well kept. In Birmingham there are three official aasignees, Messrs. Wurrsoart, KINNEAR, and HARRIS. In the case of all of these the Examining Commis- NegRICITI and ZAIIBRAIS One Ghtines and ro Claims 71ILD SLAM aid TBLESODPia an war ranted as sarivallect tar power and . 21s. sad 41s. In clizmz=-1, Hatlattiarka. IC. U. IC.; W. W. ; us. nest4lnst awl &Taal Palm.. IFROUSERS. —The NEW GOODS are NOW .1. ILtDY, sad palionow who do sot mind plead a hdr price for a good pow of oremere w e diploid on pattern' and materiels that moot be monad. M HAMILTON awl [L PTO 1 O WiItAND, opposite lkohor-hall • MR. MILES'S (the ORIGINATOR'S) Woeld•famed 141 a. TROUSERS an may te had at 73, EIIOOII4ITREIT. HANOVISISQUARE, wbsre oompetitJou is fairly 41.44000 d by 1111184" ALYEED WEBB MIES. ESTABLMRID 1841. JOHN BROODEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CRAIN MANUFACTORY, 16, iIiNSIESTA4ITILUT. 001111:1743•2DIN. JOHN BROGDKN'S GOLD OHAENS. JOHN BROGDKNI3 GOLD GITARD,CHAINI3. JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD ALBERT °HAIM. JOHN BROGDENS GOLD BROOCH C ELLEN& 1 ENCEMBKR ! we wait Supper for you after AV the Cowat Gard= Opera, at IVAITV. Fall not. AMERICA. sioners required the paying and of office expenses stances and subject to . cisely of the same character _ named gentleman is further required to refund sums charged by him improperly against several estates, but he meets this with an explanation that he made such charges with the sanction of his Court, in order to repay himself some actual outlays he had made in other cases, and which he could not recover from the estates properly chargeable. This is certainly a rough way of administering justice ; but it at least is not of the character of peculation, and the sanction of the superior officer transfers much of the blame to him. Other parts of the repayments called for are made up of sums miscalculated by clerical error, and of salaries paid to more clerks than were necessary. Accusations less capable of satisfactory answer have been made by the same authority against other officials in these court.--the Registrar, the messengers, and the ushers. It is the duty of the first of these to tax the bills of solicitors, and this appears in some caws to have been made occasion for demanding an illegal fee. It is the duty of the messengers to take possession of the estates, and sometimes charges have been made for outlay in this respect which in fact was never incurred. It is the duty of the usher to act as servant of the court, and these functions have occasionally been made the instrument of exacting sums from suitors or their attorneys. We cannot at present enter further into the detail of these transactions but we may fairly state as the result, that on the part of the superior officers, so far as yet appears, there has been error of judgment and frequent carelessness, but little or no evidence of dishonesty. And if the inferior officers cannot be fully acquitted of that charge, it is only due to them toss) , that the Act seems to have provided no distinct guide in ques tions of difficulty, and no definite control as a help in resisting temptation. We have seen that the highest of the country officers, the Commiasiostes of Bankruptcy themselves, put an interpretation on the Act and the general orders the Loin CHANCZLLOR'S Committee of Inquiry now declares to be inaccurate, and that they certified as correct the very accounts which are now found full of errors and omissions. This being the case in the highest departments, the same cause of course operates with more energy and less restraint the lower we descend. But the main point which the investigation discloses is, that the individuals are at fault chiefly through the defects of the system, and that we may therefore proceed to the exami nation of these defects, and their remedies, with out being disturbed by the apprehension that they have arisen through the Act being worked by a set of rogues who must be got rid of before its true merits can appear. Cbt erintn. BALMOILAL. Ocr. 25. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena end Prince Arthur, and attended by the Hon. Emma Lewdles, drove to the Lynn of Dee yesterday. Her Majesty's departure from Balmoral has been delayed • few days is eessecusace of the alight iedispontion of Princes' Louise. Sir George Grey had the honour of dialog with the Queen and Royal Family. The Queen wal hold a council at Windsor Castle on Tues. day next, the let of November, at three o'clock. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labium, the Australian colonies, and Gibraltar. PRINCE ALFRED AT WINDSOR.—WINDSOR, WED IILSDAY.—Yesterday b 4 Roy"' Highness Prince Alfred went out 'bootleg. The prise' and his attendants returned to the castle about half-pest 3 o'clock. This rooming his royal highness left Windsor Outle about 10 o'clock, mad proceeded to the Windsor terminus of the Great Western Railway, and, attended by bit suite, travelled by the ordi nary 10.15 up teseenger train to Paddington terminus. Prince Alfred was expected to rebus to the castle in the course of the evening. LEVEE AT THE HORSE-GUARDlik—Rill Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, as Fisid-klanhal Commaodie`- io•Chief, held a levee yesterday afternoon, at the Hone- Guards. About ninety officen attended the levee. His Excellency the Prince de la Tour d'An mane is expected to arrive at the French Embars7 cm Saturday next from Paris, in order to rear me his diplo matic duties am Ambassador from France. The Duke and Duchess of Blanchester will re ceive • sueosesion of visitors at iiimbolton Castle, Bente, during the next fortoight. The Earl and Coultas. of Wilton will take up their residence at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbny, neat week, for the hunting swoop. The Earl and Countess of Carnsrvon have been entertaining a iraocessioe of d'ltinge , shed (needs at High clere Cutler Among the guests have been the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Cornelia Churchill, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Constar Bros alow, the Countess of Portainouth, Count Strzelecki, Lei). Sophia dee Veen; 1 Sir Win. Heathoote, M.P., Lord Cou•tenq, Mr. Butler Johnstone, M.P., lion. Win. Herbert, M-. Beach, M.P., sod Mrs. Beach, Mr. Hams cod, Miss Ogilvy, kc. Lady Skelmenidale gave birth to a son and heir yesterday evening, at the Etrl of Clarendon's residence in Grosvenor-crescent. The Right Rev. the LORI Bishop of Peterborough left town last evening for the Palace, Peterborough. The Right Ron. the Chancellor of the Exchequer left filawarden Castle, Flintahire, yeatuday, for Camber, to attend the forward the Duke of Newcastle, The Lady Constance Marsh= has given birth to • son nod heir. Her ladyship and infant are doing well. The Earl and Countess de Grey arrived at their residence, in Carlton-gardens, last evening, from their seat in Yorkshire. I I Tar Lars Duxs or Nzweawris.—The late Duke of Newcastle's funeral takes place to-day. The mournful cortipe is appointed to lean Clamber at 11 o'clock for 1 Markham Clinton, the halal-place of the Duke. of New (-title. The Earl of Lincoln (now Dube of Newcastle) sod his two brothers will be the chief mourners. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer has already arrived at Clamber to Fey respect to his noble friend. Lord Harris hes also left town, to ofßciate in the &broom of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wale., who, had he been present in Ereglaud, would ham attended personally. The Tetley Military Hospital Railway in Hants will be completed by about May next. The terminus will be just behind the hospital, on the Hound and Ramble mad. The Netley Railway-bridge, which crosses the Rehm River, will be completed about next Christona. It will be sop- Ported by sunken cylinder, like the Hirogerford-bridlle ' across the Thames. Is spans the lichen Jost at the site of the ancient Roman tewn of Clitosentum on one side of the river, and near the mine of St. Denys Priory at the other side. A survey has been made for exteeding the Watley Hospital Railway to Fareham, by which means the hospital would be in railway communication with Portsmouth. THE CHANNEL BQOADZON.--It is stated that the Channel squadron, now at Pertlaad, under the command of Bear-Admiral Sidney Colpoys Decree, having just com pleted inspection, will he divided as follows :—The Prime Consort, iron -clad, Captain Willer, C.B. ; the Black Prince, iron screw ship, Captain Lord P. Harr; and the Defence, iron-clad ship, Captain A. Phillimore, will proceed early is the ensuing week to Plymouth. The Warrior. iron-clad, Captain Hon. A. Cochrane, C.B. ; Rector, ironclad, Cap tain Preedy, C.B. ; and the Edgar, Roe-of-battle ship, Captain Geoffrey T. P. Hanby, bearing the admiral's flag, will come to Portsmouth, and the men will be granted long leave. The remaining portion of tee squadron, °Desisting of the Enterprise and Research, will praised to the Ilediter. TUMID. In the Richmond Enquirer of October 6 the enlistment of negro soldiers to reinforce the Southern army is advocated. ARRIVAL OF THE PERUVIAN. (VE Gramm"AO NEW YORK, Oar. 14, Enznira. The World contains a rumour that General Grant has removed Generals Warren and Meade, for pro testing against his orden to assault the Confederate works in their front, which are of great strength. The military situation is unchanged. In accordance with Secretary Seward's request the Governor of Cuba has ordered the arrest at Havamiah of Appleton Oakmnitb, a slave trader. He has, however, not yet been found. The bids for the loan of 40,000,000 dole. amount to 60,000,000 dolt. The tenders range from par to 30-100 the. The steamer Roanoke, from Havannah for New York, is missing since the 29th ult. She is supposed to have been captured by the Confederates. The cue of the passengers of the steamship Etta has been decided in favour of the government. NEW YORE. Ocr. 14, Evranro. Money easy. Gold has fluctuated violently be tween 108 and 119. The closing quotation to-day is 114 per cent, premium. Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 119* ; Illinois Centrals, 122 ; Erie, 97* ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 108. NEW YORK, Ocr. 13, Holum. The Richmond journals contain rumours that Hood had captured Atlanta, together with four Federal corps; and other Southern journals still assert that the movements progressing in Georgia render Sherman's position untenable. Price's head-quarters are at Borneviller. He had made a speech, asserting that if the people would rally to his standard he would remain in Missouri. It was reported that the preparations which were being made for a Federal attack on Wilmington both by sea and land were nearly completed. The elections of Pennsylvania have resulted in a large democratic majority on the home vote, which it is believed the soldiers' vote cannot overcome. In Maryland the elections show a majority of several thousand against the adoption of an anti-slavery constitution. It is believed that the soldiers' vote will not reverse this result. It is reported that Mr. Case will succeed the late Chief Justice Taney. Gold, 119* prem. NEW YORK, Oar. 15, Eviramic. _ _ Vice-President Stephens has written a letter in which he says that the only key note to peace is the acknowledgment of the sovereignty of the States. He favours an armistice and a convention of the States, and believes that the question of the boundaries of the Confederacies—Union or Unions —would adjust themselves to the interest of parties and the exigencies of the time. Several guerilla bands have entered Maryland. The government has accepted 60 .per cent. of the bids for the 40,000,000 Dollar Loan at from par to 30 hundredths. The balance has been taken above that figure. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Ocr. 15, Emma. Money easy. Gold declined this afternoon to 115 k per cent. premium. Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 1191. Illinois, 1211. Erie, DI. 5-20 U.S. Bonds, 1081. Cotton slightly firmer. Midland Upland, 1150. Flour, wheat, and corn advancing. Proviaions steady. Petro leum crude, 40 to 42 ; refined, 66. opinion of ties ly to render question. It wan - de Lhuys replied officially to the repeated applications which Signor Nigra had been instructed to make to him. Ao cording to the French government it was necessary that the promise made by the Italian government not to attack or permit to be attacked the Papal territory should have in addition some material guarantee of a nature to assure catholic opinion that the projected convention would be respected. In examining guarantees of that order the Italian negotiators had been formally instructed to reject every proposition which might be con trary to the law of nations. " Therefore," writes the ambassador on Sept. n, after the convention Lad been signed, " there could be no question either of an abandonment of the national aspira tions, or of a collective guarantee of the catholic powers, or of the occupation of a yard of Roman territory by the French troops as a gorge of the fulihuent of our undertakings. For us the Roman question was a moral question, which we were resolved to settle by moral force. We accept, then, seriously and loyally, the engagement not to apply those violent means which cannot solve questions of that claws. But we cannot give up our rehanoe on the force of civilisation and progress to assist us to arrive at the union of Italy and the papacy—a union which the intervention of France on,y makes more difficult and more distant. The French government, while admitting the weight ol these considerations, insisted that it was impossible to accept the proposal unaccompanied by the ma terial guarantee. It was then that the Marchese Pepoli, looking at the home situation of Italy with reference to Rome, said to the Emperor that he knew that, independently of the question actually under discussion, and for political, strategical, and administrative reasons, the government was occu pied with the question of the propriety of remov ing the seat of government from Turin to some other city." The Marchese Pepoli returned to Twin, and submitted the affair to the K'ng. In order that the King's government could come to a deetion, it was necessary to name a term in which the French occupation should cease. The imperial govern ment declared that such a term could not be fixed at less than two years. The endeavours of the Italian negotiators to reduce this period were fruit less. After deliberate reflection, the King's go vernment decided to accept the convention with the clause of the transfer of the capital. "It was fully understood In our conference' with the French plenipotentiaries," writes Signor Nigre, " that the convention neither ought nor could signify more nor less than therein appears—that is to say, that by the con vention Italy bind' herself to renounce all violent reaariures. We have also equally insisted that this convention is the consequence of non-intervention ; so that the future policy of Italy so regards Borne will for the future con sist in observing sad causing to be observed the principle of non-intervention, and in employing all the influences of moral force to arrive at a reconciliation between Hely and the Papacy on the basis proposed by Count Carouse, • A free church in a free state.' Thus have been concluded those long and difficult negotiations which have never, from the constitution of the kingdom till to-day, ceased to occupy the successive governments of his Majesty. If we *amide, the entail condition of politica, the state of public opinion in France and catholic Europe—if we recall the excitement which the Roman question ass raised in the world, and the difficulties whioh it has created in Italy, both in home politics and in her foreign relations, espe cially with France—it will be evident that the King's go vernment would have iircorred the gravest responsibility in the face of the nation and of history if it bad mitered an arrangement which has for its aim the eess►tion of foreign occupation, and which only requires from as the renuncia tion of those violent margins already rejected by parlia ment." #1,14.ii alio' b.s&4 Arlrosean t9a2, 49 Greeacastie.. 64'S1 Os way Valenti!' .... 43.3.3,50 Cape Clear .. 19.33 , 15 te A' N.N.E. LS.Z. E.N.L • i I 8.5 LILL •L E.N.Z. N. E. N.E. Qin=lows. 49.161 i 5..... Liverpool l/471" N.N.L Holyleari 111.83,3? N.N.L Pembroke— 111.8t[22 , Z. Pomace 29.30 1 ,111 Z. Brest __last Z. 6. L'Orloot 2023.68 Rochefort 20 41 , ILE. Plymootlt (811 1661 Z. Weymouth 19.80 E 4 N.W. Portoosoutb 111.28818 W.N W. Loudon 28.14 : N.N.W. Dover Yarmouth ioorborooBB- 20.60 ILN.Z. I IRMO Belpolsod 4838.62 L DEB Nl. &NI. LLL LL Lw. &Z. w. LILL a ILL A.L IL N.Y. ISA LIL. rIOIABLE. 4.34 4 -.1. 4 10.10 $ ro 0.23 2 r 0 •0 70 2 ur .0 40 1 ou 0.23 1 br 3 oo 1 ob 015 3 1441 0.11 4 00 0.00 4 ob 004 1 0m 0.24 1 o 0.17 2 r'OAS o 1040 0.50 6 050 6 0.23 6 0.10 6 VUDAY. ON NOSTRUM SAYCIDLY. 1.8.11. to S.S.W.,itrong, Comma. 11.3. to B.W. and S.W., Wily, with rain. strong to moderate, some rah'. As above. Mgresin. As above. N.E. to SAL and S. W., tlocrranz. B.R.W. to N. N.W., variable. moderate to strong to moderate, strong, unsettled. rain in places. As Dell above. Romeo. As next above. Cautionary signals on Wednesday. itorthoro=Sooiloott. iv totem=lretand, Wales, lad ad fitill.lige. Southern - - - -English Channel and Bay of BlaCill. fosters misvitward to gland and North Bea OUTWARD AN/RICAN A/CD CAICADIA/C MAILA.•-•• To-day the Allan 'tomer North American will leave Liver- pool for Quebec wit► malls for Canada and the United Steam On Saturday next the Canard Royal Mail steamer Africa will sell for Halifax cad Boston with mails for the United States. Letters, he., will be received at the Liver- pool poet-Moe until 11 o'clock forenoon, and eid Cork until &JO pan. VIRECI ON THE BARBER SANDS, CAINTOS, NEAR GREAT YARROOTH.—WZDERSDAY NIGHT.—Oar lifeboat has been instrumental in Brio( the entree the Richmond Rook* of Stocktoo, Shakeshaft master, booed from bliddlembeire' to Dookirk with • cargo of hoe. She wet in a &agentss position on the Barber Bands, and obtervieg her visuals of distriet, the Caistcw lifeboat of the National restitution was at secs laneihed and proceeded to bar help sad brought ashore the crew from their very &errors posißon. It may be bent observed that therein few lifeboa4 in the kingdom wish have rendered more important minima to shipwrecked mews then the Glister lifeboat. %Au-- - 7, 1844. • TRIAL OF MULLER. (THIS DAY.) Yam killer. deeiribed in the calendar se being 23 years of age, and by trade a tailor, was this morning placed at the bar of the Central Criminal Court to take his trial for the wilful murder of Thomas Briggs. It would be difficult indeed to describe the some of excitement that presented itself in the coati and Its vicinity, or the whey that was marlitented to hear the proceedings. So early as 8 o'clock the police had orders to be in attendance, and a number of the City eauslables was placed at the different entrances to the court under the orders of Inspector Daddy and Inspector Leonard, and Sergeants Goodie, end Wades, and it is only doe to them to state that they carried out the stringent orders given to them with good humour and forbearance. The sheriffs (AM/man Dakin aid Alderman Begley) were in attendance, as were also the under-sheriffs (Messrs. De Jersey and Davidson), before 9 o'clock, and as the time for the commencement of the proceedings approached the ex citemeet visibly increased. AA at the trial of Palmer one of the doers of the court was permanently closed, sad seas were erected which ac commodated a eouelderable number of persons. The counsel for the crown caste into court shortly before 10 o'clock. They were the Solicitor-General (Sir B. P. Collier), Serjesnt Ballantine, Mr. Hannan (counsel to lbs Treasury), Mr. Giffmd, and Mr. Beasley, Instructed by Mr Greenwood, Q. 0., solicitor to the Treasury, sad Mr. Pollard, amisrleat solicitor. The counsel for the defence were Serisaat Parry, Mr. Metcalfe, and Mr. Bosley, in. 'traded by Mr. T. Bred. At 10 o'clock, the Lard Chief Baron and Baron Martin, accompanied by the Lord Mayor, Alderman Sir J. Duke, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden, Alderman Phillips, and Alder. man J. C. lawmen, and by Alderman sad Sheriff Dakin and Alderman and Sheriff Bailey, Under-Sheriff Davidson and Underffilieriff De Jersey, entered the court, and the prisoner was placed at the bar, and the indictment was read over. The prisoner appeared remarkably calm and composed, and when he was asked to plead, he replied, in a calm, low lone, " I am not guilty." He was then asked whether be would be tried by a jury of Englishmen, or one partly composed of foreigner.. Serjeant Parry mid that the prisoner, with the entire concurrence of hie counsel, would elect to be tried by • jury of Englishmen ; but he should request that the jury should be called by ballot indiscriminately from the whole panel of juries. This was accordingly done. The proceeding occupied considerable time, an • great many of the jury were chal lenged by the counsel for the prisoner. At length • jury wee empanelled, and the prisoner woe formally given in charge to them, and the trial proceeded. It occupied nearly an hour before the jury could be formed, and during the whole time the mama appeared to pay the deepest at- Motion to the proceeding'. The Solicitor-General then rose amid profound ileac* 601 thanes the jury on behalf of the crown. He sad it was his duty to state to them the circumstances of • most extra ordinary murder, and the evidence pointing to the oonclu. sion that the prisoner was the person by whom that murder WU committed. There could be no doubt that the circumstances of the case had muted the greatest potable amount of public interest, and that the facts had been canvassed in almost every hones is the king dom, and opinions had been expressed as to the prisoner's guilt, but be entreated them to dismiss all they bad heard or road from their minds, and be guided only by the evi dence. Mr. Briggs was one of the chief clerks in the bank ing-house of Messrs. Roberta, and was highly 'steepled by all who knew him. He wee in the habit of travelling to and fro on the North London Ragwar. On the night of Saturday, the 9th of July, Mr. Briggs dined with one of his relatives, • Mn. Buchan, re siding at Peckham. Mr, Buchan went with him to meet the omnibus, which was to take him to the Fenehurchetreet station, and at that time Mr. Briggs had with him a black leather big and • stick, and wee wearing • watch and chola. There would be very little doubt that on that night, on his journey from the Fen church-street station, Mr. Briggs was robbed and mur dered. It appeared that at the Hackney station two young men were about to get into • cordage, at about 10 o'clock, when one of them discovered somethiag moist cm one of the cushions, and upon examining it more chesty found it wee blood, and he also tuned a black bag and • stick. Information wee given to the guard, who looked the door, and no one else was allowed to eater. About 10 o'clock the woe night • guard of one of the trains, aa ha was passing up the line between the stations at Bow and Hackney, ow something dark in the lieu, sod it was after wards found to be a man is a date of insensibility and very severely injured. The body found tamed out to be that of Mr. Briggs, who died very shortly afterwards from the injuries he head received. There was on e wound which IMP of a very severe character, and which It was agreed by the medial gentlemen had been caused by the fall from the railway carriage on to the ground. The clothes of the demand did sot appear to beer signs of oily severe eta nggle having taken place. The bag which he we, seen to airy when he got into the omnibus war left, and some gold we. found in one of his pockets, and a ring which he wore was not removed from the finger. The supposition, from the locality of the spots end marks of blood in the railway carr:sp, was that Mr. Briggs we. attelki i while sit keg is the corner next the door, and most likely while was dosing, and was throe a out of the win dow. The Solicitor-General sad the jr , y might perhaps risk whether the murder was committed by one or two men. He thought the probabi'ity wee that it was done by only one, sa if there were more it was probable that his pothole would have been riff •d end the money taken away. Then, again, there might be • question as to the imatiument that was used. The stick which deceased arricd, and which was found in the railway carriage with marks of blood upon it, was a stout stick, heavy in one end, and would be • very formidable weapon. Beside. the bag and stick which were found in the carriage, there was • hat which did not belong to Mr. Briggs, sad it was possible that the murderer, in the struggle had knocked off him hat„ and bad, in his hurry to meths, token up the hat of Mr. Briggs instead of his own, and it appeared to him almost oonolasive that the man who were the hat found in the railway carriage, on the night of the murder, mud have been the perpetrator of that murder. The prisoner Moller was • tailor, and bad for about • week pre vious to the occurrence been out of work, and was about to try his fortune in America, and it was only fair to the prisoner to draw the attention of the jury to the het that he had decided upon leaving the country befor e the murder was committed. He was very poor, and had previous to the day in cthestioo pawned his own watch and chain for 31. The prisoner, it appeared, resided at Vic toria-park, and the train by which Mr. Briggs travelled would take Victoria-park station on its route, which would be the prisoners way home, but it did not appear that be was in the habit of making use of it. On the Sunday succeeding the murder and rob bery the prisoner war indoors *early the whole day with the landlady of the house in which he lodged. At 10 o'clock on the morning of tha 11th Moller was found doilies with a chain, which was identified as that belonging to Mr. Brings. It appeared he went to the shop of Mr. Death, • jeweller in Cheapeide, and produced the chain in question and asked the value of it, Mr. Death valued it at 31. 10a., and the prisoner selected a chain worth 31. 5e., which he said he would have in exchange. Mr. Death asked him what he would the for the odd is,, and' he maid he would have • ring and he wee given ON With . • oomph= stone. The prisoner was seen with the chain sad ring in the coons of the day and he said he had purabuid them that morning. It appeared that having exchanged the chain of Mr. Berme, he pawned the one he obtained by the exchange, and with the money raised by that he redeemed his own watch and chain, which he took to another Fawn broker who would lend him more money on them, and °braised 41., after which be sold the ticket, and having raised money in that manner, he west to the docks and purchased • ticket for his pump to New York in a vessel which sailed on the Friday. The miaour was not aide found Jailing with Mr. Briggs', chain, but at the time of his apprehension Mr. Briggs's watch was found in his trtok sewed up in a piece of cloths. In ordinary came of robbery the fact of • prisoner being found so soon after the robbery in possession of the stolen property would be deemed salami proof of guilt, but, in • or,. of mur der, they would probably require some additional "videos., and he should, he believed, t a in • position to prove that the hat found in the railway carriage, which was the hat of the murderer, war the hat worn by the prisoner, He then proceeded to narrate the 'vides.. which would be called to prove that the the was the prisoner's It appeared that the prisoner was acquainted with • cabman named Matthews, whom be bad seen wearing a hat of • peculiar style, and whom loathed to purchase his cuplike it. Mat thews purchased Muller • hat from gasket whose name was Walker, and Matthews, to whose little girl the primmer bed given the box which had been ghee to ht. Death with the chain, having sere the pleased off a reward brought this fact to the notion of the polio*, he after wards saw the hat found in the railwaycarriage . which was identified by him as the one he for the primmer. It was further identified ITP= j WHINIOIIII as having been worn by the prima. Thee would come the gumptioa what wee done with Mr. Brig A hat ? When the primmer was apprehended he was wearing a hat which he belied he would be able to show was the leg of Mr. Brigp. Whoa find shown to the son of Mr. Briggs , he said it was much too low for his father's bat. That was easily accounted for, as be would call witnesses to Notify the fury that the hat had been ent down Moat aa :a& and a half, sad the brim bad been pat on sgaio, not am it would have been dome by • hatter with a hot iron, bat had been pasted and lawn, and sewn very mostly. He said lie bad now stated the principal facts, and he must my the evidence was purely circumstantial, but he would remind the jury that great crimes could often only be discovered by 'Mime of such a chamoter. - The evidence for ilieicesecu lion wee then proceeded with. kir. David Buchan said—Mr. Briggs, the demand, was a relative of my wife. His age we about 69. I remember his coming to visit us on the 9th of July. He came about 5 o'clock. He had a black bag with him. He dined at my house that day, and left about half-put 8. I accom panied him as far as the Lord Nelson, in the Old Kent-road, and maw him to an omnibus, which would take him to King William-street, for the purposed going to the railway. When I parted with him he was in his usual health and spirits. I knew that he wore a watch and chain, the watch in his waistcoat pocket. He had a small seal and two keys attached to his watch. He had the watch and chain that night. The next menthe I wait to his house between 10 and 11 o'sk * I saw him, but he was at that time insensible, and did not recover up to the time of his death. Orosa-examined —He wee perfectly sober when he left in.. I should thick Mr. Briggs had more than one hat ; he wee very well off. I reside at Peckham. The omnibus goes up the Kent-road, and goes over Lcodon-bridge. I walked with him to the Lord Nelson. The omnibus starts from there. Ido not know from my own knowledge that any threats have been held out against Mr. Bngys. I be lieve my wife does. My wife was examined before the ooroner. but not before the magistrate. lire. Huhn said—l am a relative of the demised Mr. Brigp. He wu at my house in the evening of the 9th July. He was quite sober when he left. I never saw him again Ore. ons-examined—l was examined before the coroner. I have never hoard any persons use threats towards Mr. Briggs. Have beard of threats being used through a third person. I wso asked the same questiou by the coroner. I believe it was a person to whom he refused to lend mousy. Thomas Fiahboene mid—l am ticket collector at Fro church-street 'tattoo. It ism) duty to mark the tickets, and for that purpose stand at the bottom of the stain of the platform. I know Mr. Briggs by sight. He was in the habit of travelling by the railway. On the night of the 9th July he promoted his ticket to me in the ordinary way at • quarter to 10 o'clock for the train which ought to have started at 9.45. He spoke to me, and I marked his ticket. I heard of his death. _ _ Croes-examined—l ally alp the tickets for the North Loodoo stations. Flirriyßernes mid—l am clerk in the employ of Messrs. Roberts and Co. On Saturday, 9th July last, I west to the Hackney station of the North London Railway about 10 in the evening. I was in the company of Mr. Jones, a clerk in the same employment. I opened the door of a carriage. It was empty at the time. I and Mr. Jones got in sad set down. Before the train started Mr. Jones celled my attention to some blood oa his band, and I im mediately called the guard and be brought a light. There were two others ct oc i ke nti d ) carriage with us. When the guard came with • ht I saw a hat end • stick in the car riage, and the guard up the carriage with the articles in It. This witssen arse sot orose-mamined. RythseiTioneaeTeki:llive at 15,Tharesbnry-park, and am a clerk to Ilewas. Roberta. On the evening of the 9th of July I went to the Hackney station with Mr. Berner, and took a firet.claes ticket for Highbory. I got into the same carriage with Mr. Berum. He opened the door. On en. tering the carriage! saw a black beg of the seat. It wee on the left hand side near the door, and I put it on the oppo site side. Croesexamined—l knew Mr. Being very well He was in the same bank. I have known him about four years, and have seen him from day to day. Haynes maA—l sea • guard on the North Lou. don ill arey. I wee the guard of the train which left Fenchurchetrent station at the 9th July, at 9.50. On lIITiViEj at the Hackney station my attention wu called to a Stet-aims carriage, No. 69, by Mr. Berme& re the cushion nearest the engine then was some blood, and on the quarter light on the name side there was also some blood. 1 looked underneath the seat, and found • has and stick, and the hat was flattened up. The bat produced is very much like the hat. flocked the door of the carriage, with the hat. and stick, and beg is it. I telegraphed to the station et Chalk Farm, and es arriving there Mr. °rosewood examined the carriage. It was sent to Bow, when it sow remains. The hat, and big, and stick were taken by Mr. Greenwood as lost Pritimsty- Cronsexamined—There was • goal quantity of blood. There was a mark of blood on the door, se if from a hand. It wee in a liquid state. Thews was a 'Omsk of blood on the window, as large es • crown plum. I left rencherela. street at 9.50, and loft Hackney at 10.15. That would bs 25 minutes. We left Hackney at soe minute pad 10. There is one station between Bow and Hackney. I did not Nee Mr. Briggs at the Bow station. I have measured the datums from Bow to Haeley-wick. We differ in the time we take to go the distance. On that night we were from three minutes to three minutes sad • half going from Bow to Hackney-wick. Reexamined—l alio saw • spot of blood on the cushion on the other side and nu the handle of the door. W, Timms, a guard on the North London Railway, mid —I brought the up-traio from Chalk-farm as 2D minutes pest 10 on the night In question. fliers to go over the caul bridge. While going over the bridge my attention was caned by the driver, and I put on the breaks mid saw the body of Mr. Brigp on the line. He was not dead. I helped to take him to a public-bows. The witness described the position of the body. Alfred Elio rid-1 was engine -driver of the train to which the last whams was guard. I was just going on the caul bridge when I saw something oa the ine, sod stopped the engine and went back to the spot where the body vu found. I did not =MA to take the body away. Croes-exszolued —Where the bad woo found the rails run on en embankment 8 or 9 yards Edward Tuggso am He 71 K. I was OD duty In Bow at stoat 10 o'cikok. and, in coosequence of an alarm I heard, I west en to the line, end saw several pluses carrying a gsatlenna off the line. Ho was taken In the Millard public-house. I searched him, end found foer sovereigns and some keys in his trousers pocket. Is his vest pocket I found • florin sad ball of • velum ticket for the North Leedom In his right-hand breams pocket I found 10a. in silver. I aim found • silver muff. box, sod • diamond ring on hie fter. There was • gold imitating attached to his WaldoOlk which I could not undo. His shirt was crumpled and our of hie black etude was gone from the breed. I have measured the &duce from Bow station to the spot whore the body was found. It is 1,434 yards, and from the same spot to Hackney 700 yards. This witness wee act amen.examinal. Mr. Francis Bonham eaid—l ern • needled practitioner, carrying on business at Claptoe. I was the medical at. tof the late Mr. Brine. I believe him to have been in his 70th year. Ile generally enjoyed good health. On the morning of the 10th of July I was sent for between 2 and 3 o'clock. Mr. Briggs wee still alive, but not sensible. I was with bins continually until • quarter before 12 oe Saturday eight. It was quite • hopeless came from the first. After his death I made • post mortem examination assisted by Dr. &eretou. The cartilage of the left ear wee severed ; about an inch anterior was • deep wound extending to the boas. Over the temples Wass • contused wooed, superficial and grazed. There were several incised wounds in the scalp—l think as many MB four. There was one wound on the grown of the head—an incised wound three inches in length. The other wounds were about three quarter., of en inch, having • direction from before to the behind. Upon the removal of in. scalp the head was toned to be extensively fractured. In the oestre • portico of the bone, about three-quarters of an inch in length and half an inch in breadth, was entirely esparated. There was an e ff usion di blood between the skull and the skullcap. The wounds on the top of the head, I should say, were caused by a blunt in strument, used with considerable force. The wooed on the left ear I also believe to he.. been inflicted by • blues iastru. meet. There were four or five distinct wounds on the scalp, which I should infer were inflicted by so many blows. There were no wounds that could be attributed to • sharp inst.: tx• meat. dioWe-exarninoi—There were five or six wooed,. The wooed on the temple might have been ceased by a fell. Deceased was about five feet sight iu height. His weight I should say was about 11 or 12 stone ; 1 should say eat move thee 12 stone. Mr. Brereioeseici-1 am a larvae practisiog at Old Ford. I was sidled to the Nitford Arms on the eight of the 9th 3111 y, and saw the deceased, Mr. Briggs. He was su ff ering from assess 00000lniOn of the brain. This wattleyy after describing the nature of the wounds, said—l examined the carriage on the Sunday moraine, and found some blood upon the cushions, and found some splashes of blood on the step. There wet also some blood on the handle of the door. I found on the mat of the carriage a link of a chain. Mr. Thomas Oooper was then called and gave similar es'. demos to that of the two last witnesses, and said that the waged on the ear was caused by a fall on • storm. At 1 o'clock the court adjourned. Upon the re.easembling of As 004141, George °rosewood was called, and said--I me station. master at Otwilk-farm station on the North London Railway. Os Saturday night, at about belt put 10, re, attention was called to a fint-class carriage. I found the hat, bag, and stick produeed la the I took possession of than and locked them up mita tM next morning, when I gars them into the hand@ of polieoeseoteble Isthibmt. - . - 9roes-exantieed--1 took preseerioe of the hat ;nd locked It in my room. When 1 pve it to Lambert it was not i■ the ewes coodition as it is now, it was knocked about and looked am though it had been pressed on the head and the Being tom out of it. Louis Lambert, police-ormertable, said—Ca the mornied cf 10th July. I west to Chalk Yana statism, and Mx. Green wood handed we a 'tisk, a ►as sea a ten. The articles pro• dated are the mama. I took these to Mr. Briip' house, and THE E•' ✓ = THUIVIDA.Y ' e PCl:ro ‘ B. • - - • ring overcharged, over of fees net .• p ii+ST 4 l . ll l. T :was imps:net, bn=the opi goverameet, sot oiently D explanations •• • 41,1 (1440hawaii019.. • • '" the re-epeeijigAt'ihis qnesti actor as at Leeds. The onl •• June lest tUM. Drouyn de LI ther required to refund sums AMERICA. c officially to the repeated applications w CANADA. Q OBBEC, Ocr. 14. . - The Canadian Union Conference meets wits closed doors. It is understood that an invitatioa will be sent to the Pacific colonies to join the Confederation. A proposal for the crown to appoint the head of the confederate executive, and the governors of the provinces, has been favourably received. FRANCE. VISIT OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. PARIS, Ocr. 27. The MoAikur this morning announces that the Emperor set out yesterday at noon for Nice, to pay a visit to the Emperor and Empress of Russia. The Covistitutionnel of to-day says :—" We are authorised formally to deny the rumours relative to the issue of a new loan." NICE, Ocr. 27. The Emperor of Russis bas given a banquet to the battalion of Chasseurs of the Guard. Prince Watgenstein proposed a toast in hononr of the Emperor of the French, and the commander of the troops reciprocated by proposing the health of his Rusai-in Majesty. ITALY. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. The Paris Mortiteur, in speaking of the proceed ings of the Italian parliament, observes :—" The suspension of the sittings is no doubt due to the necessity of giving to the committees charged to examine the bills submitted to the chambers suffi cient time to prepare their reports." The despatches respecting the Franco-Italian Convention, which were presented to the parliament on Monday last, by General la Marmora, now ap pear in the Italian journals. Ina despatch dated Turin, June 17, SignorVenosta, the Italian minister of foreign affa , rs, communi cates to Signor Nigra at Paris the substance of a despatch, in which M. Drouyn de Lhuys replies to the different communications made to him on the Roman question. Intimating that the Marquis Pepoli would join his efforts to those of the Vatican repre sentative at Paris, Signor Vesosta proceeds to state that the Italian government are prepared to engage that the Roman territory shall be attacked neither by a regular nor irregular force ; and to raise no objection to the formation of • regular army, provided it is recruited by the Papal govern m-nt purely as a means of defence. This proposal, the minister says, " offers the only means of arriving gradually at a solution of the Roman ques tion by the slow and infallible triumph of that moral force to which the Italian parliament has appealed by its votes—that is to say, the progressive application of the principles of right and religious liberty." On July 9 Signor Venoata, on behalf of the Italian government, Itpropoe of recent parliament. ary discussions, addressed to the ambassador • note, in which he requested that the negotiations might be resumed at the point at which Count Cavour had left them, and that they might be based on the principles of non-intervention ; further asserting that the King's government was prepared to undertake that no force, regular or irregular, should invade the Pontifical territory. This despatch is the starting-point of the last phase of the negotiations now terminated. Signor Nigra communicated it to M. Drouyn de Lhnys on the 16th of the same month. The political BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON RAILWAY COMPAll7=iniii - i " .iy.7 The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was bald at noon, at the London Tavern ; Mr. RLWSOJ In the chair. The report, which bad been already published, having been taken ea read, The CHAIRMAN, fin moving its adoption, said it touched on all poiats of interest in the last half.year's business. The agreement between that company and the Grand Trunk Company was producing satisfactory results in Canada. Mr. Brydges had beau enabled to obtain traffic, oc to afford faci lities for graft; which could nos have been secured before that union. The traffic receipts on the two systems exhibited an increase of 20 per cent. over those of the corm spoading period of last year, and there was raison to believe that the net results would be still more favourable. The development of treflio in Canada was going on rapidly, and be hal no hesitation in saying that before loag that com pany would he receiving a dividend. (Hear, hear.) He had hoped to be able to congratulate the meeting on the termination of the proposed agreement with the bond. holders, bat within the last ten minutes certain difs - bad been raised by the bondholders themselves. [The correspondence which had passed on this snbjeot WP I here reed to the meeting. The difficulties were, it appeared, connected with the raising of the sum of 90.0001. by the directors by a certain date.) The chairman obAei red that but for the present state of the money market there would be no difficulty in raising the amount in question. Mr. Blegor, as represeottag the bondholders, said all they wanted was an assurance from the &rectors that the mosey would be raised. The Soucrroa of the company said he believed that the difficulties had so narrowed themselves that the question was now we of words rather than of .abouince. The direc tors honestly thought the mosey would be raised, and all they asked was a little forbearance. After Kane discussion, the report was adopted. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) THCISDAY, OMB= 27, • A.ll. IL IT.I P. ft, L 1 Z. & o.ao a liomm