The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-17 00:00:00

THE AMIDES OP MA. BRIGGS.

The son of the late Mr. Briggs, writing to the
Time,, states :—" About haltpest 10 o'clock co Snaky
night three repremotatives of the German Legal Protection
Society called at my late lather'. resideeee„ mid stating
that they Mee oo matters connected with Franz Moller,
requested to see Mrs. Briggs. nig being out of the mese-
hoe, one of my brothers had as inteswiew with them ;
they the., msaming that be and the rest of the family were
dissatisfied with the verdict, and sotwithetendi his
assurance that they were utterly =Mathew, proceedd foe
the apace of three quarters of sea hour to recapitulate ell the
arguments which they had already Dade public in favor of
Franz Mailer's innocence, and sodsvonred tot argued* him ti
go at owe with them ins cab which they hod waiting Lithe
door to Sir George Grey to Weed Pereellelly for a rosette
for the pneoser. You cannot doubt, sir, that the widow
and children of the murdered rasa would be the Mat he
wish that an incest man should be vaaished for the
crime, se such as event weld not fail to add greatly to their
grief at the loss they have mateined, and I pot it to yea
and the public whether they should not have beau spared
so Indelicate ad ill-timed as appeal. If you will
allow ma, sir, I wish to add that, while fully sympathising
with the feelings that prompted Mollies °mere-
ma to make every effort to prove his inaoceeee, I
maintain that those efforts should have bees is arcordasee
with their knowledge of the troth of facts, Indite' at
which. in the memorial addressed to Sir George Grey it wee
stated that Muller's desoriptioo of Mr. Digances assiMaist
was correct, although ha had bees previously takes S.
Muller by Mr. Beard, and declared by the former to he
»know% to him. Tbee, the Fdatooloa affair was alluded
to, although an explanation had been gives by the foot
men ; and, tautly , I hare been informed by the Rev. Mr.
%alba= that Mellor told him that he was strongly
opposed to the attempt to prove an alibi, as it was set
true that he went to the house of Mts. Jones on the 9th of
July. and that be had so stated to his advisers from the
tlreh"

MI tis EMILY FAITHIMLL —Our readers will ',-
member that, • few months ago, Mire Emily Feldstein'
name was, roost unfairly we are told, brought into a muse
ethlwe which caste before Jades Wilde. We uoderMand
that now that the ease is about to be miseard. she has of bee
own fres will demLnded to be examined on oath is the wit-
ness•box in order that she may show the world as clearly
as, we hear. she has proved to her friends, that she we. per-
fectly guiltless of any oomplicity in the unhappy affair. and
that, eves if she was incautious, bet want of motion wee
the result of as bones's:id usenspielons eaten.—Guardliert„
EXTILMBIVE DiTALCATION. —Yesterday Mr. Will-
lism Castier, who has been meager of the Worcester Gen
Works for a somber of years, was taken before the mayor
and magistrates of Worcester, at the Guildhall,
with embezzling =obeys belonging to the Worms=
Company. The accused has been for many years the
confidential manager of the Worcester Gm Works, sad
large soma of money passed through kis beads annually.
Some suspkioa having been latterly suited by his extrema-
p.m habits and other circumstances, sad some smarm
having been observed in the books kepi by him,
an opportunity was seised during his abeam, is
London of examining his amounts, when the di-
rectors of the company discovered that the m•
count books had been tampered with, certain eutrim
of sums retuned having bees altered by erasing a lime.
thus making—say 21. take the Placa of as entry al apf,
Is this manner it we. stated that tielakatioes had her
discovered already amounting to upwards of 1,0001. ; bat
as the accounts are still coder kirestigatioe, a mooed
was asked for. Mr. J. Ballard, the chairman of the Gres
Company, was the only witas marnined, mid having gives
formal 'eidetic,, the prisoner was remanded for • week.
He was apprehended is Worcester on Monday sight. on Ids
return from Loodos. The affair, in 00WielieW with Mier
matters which it was expected weld shortly brought
before cue of the legal tribuushi ia Loodon, has aural
peat scandal in
Lerma GIENNItAL ()Erma Ocerrair: (Llama).
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