The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

POOR RELIEF IN LONDON.

The following is a copy of a bill to make pro-
vision for distributing the charge of relief of certain
dames of poor pennons over the whole of the metropolis,
brought in the House of Commons by 11r. Valiers and Ma.
Gilpin on ►he part of the government :
" Whereas it is expedient that provision should be made
for distributing the charge of the relief of certain poor
persons in the metropolis in a more equitable manner than
is now lawful ; be it therefore enacted by the Queen's
most excellent Majelty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords spiritual and temporal, end Commons, in
this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same :

" 1. That after the 29th day of September next the guar-
dims of every union or parish situated wholly or partly
within the district to which the Metropolis Local Manage-
ment Act applies may, subject to the orders and regulatious
of the Poor-law Board, make out a separate account of the
money expended by them daily in the relief of destitute
wayfarers, wanderers, or foundlings during the hours from
8 o'clock at night until 8 o'slock in the morning, sod submit
the mime to the auditor appointed to audit their accounts at
the usual times of audit, who shall duly examine the same,
and shall orrtify the amount which be shall bed to have
been legally expended in and about such relief under his
band, sad the said guardians may thereupon make applica-
tion in writing to the Metropolitan Board of Works for
reimbursement of the amount so eerti6ed by the auditor.
"2. The said Metropolitan Board of Works shall forth-
with pay the amount so certified to the guardisas making
the application out of the funds in their possession from time
to time raised under the provision, of the 'said Metropolis
Local Management Act, and the amount so paid shall be
deemed to be part of the expenses for which the said board
are empowered to make emoluments under the said act, end
the said guardians shall app!y the sum received in aid of the
poor rate of their parish or the common fund of their union.
as the case may be, and shall moonlit for the same acoord-
ingly.

"3. The relief to which this act shall apply shall Melnik
food sod articles of necessity 'applied by the said guar-
dians, or ,y their relieving or other offieer, or by any
metropolitan poLios ocisstoble authorised by them in each
behalf, anil also the cost of lodging or shelter provided for
any such poor pesos, bat sot mosey given to him.
"4. Where the guardian' shall have provided proper
ward. or other places of reception for this class of poor,
and the mine 'ball have been approved of by the Poor-law
Board, they may include as part of the expense incurred by
them in the relief of these poor perms such sum in respect of
each pauper as the Poor-law Board shall from time to time
allow for the cost and expense of providing and maintaining
such wards or other places.
" 5. The several words used In this act shall be construed
as in the act of the 4th and sth William IV., clasp. 76, and
the subsequent acts explaining and exteading the same, and
the provisions thereof not incoosistent with anything herein
contained shall be incorporated herewith.
"6. This act may be oiled for all timpanist the ' Metro-
politan Houseleas Poor Act, 1864.'"

THE ARcHBIsHOP or CANTRIBURY'S PRIMARY
YfaßATlos.—His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has
caused the usual inhibitions to be usoed preparatory to hie
holding his primary visitatioe of the clergy sod laity of
the diocese of Canterbury, to commence the first week in
October next, at the Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of
Christ Church, Canterbury.
proem or CAIITE'RBURT.—The Rey. GreVille
John Chester, 8.A., has bees licensed to the earthen of
!wade and Sittingbourn. The Bay. James Sanderson
Clarke, IL A. lies been presented by the Dean and
Chapter of Rochester to the Amuse of Goodluirst. The
Rev. Wm. Viscose, M.A., is to be licensed to the curacy
of Betabanger ; and the Rev. Geo. Weahingtos is nominated'
to the curacy of Charlton-by-Dover.
CONSECRATION or ST. SkTlOtit'E CHURCH
LONDON-HTIMIT, FITZROY-SQUARE. —The above church,
formerly called Fitzroy Chapel, St. Pancras, was cone-
crated yesterday by the Lord Bishop of London, in the pro.
winos of a numerous atbsockoop et the stagy of the disteist.l
" HOPLICY v. liorLer."—We are informed that li
' Mrs. Hopley, as soon se the verdict in the Divorce Court
was communicated to her, of her own free will left England
in order to avoid returning to her husband.—Tiara.
Divoace Cover.—The number of petitions fee
dissolution of marriage last year exceeded the number In
any previous year duos the court has been established.'
Them were 255 each pettier filed in the year 15G3, beelike
1 7 for &chino' the marriage null from the first 43 perms
petitioned for judicial separation, and 12 applied for protec-
tion of property. 257 judgments were given in the year
1.619 have been e'en in the last six yeses. But which
way the judgment went is not told ; strange as it must
seem, the Registrar makes his Teter' to the Secretory of
State year after year of the Maisons der in this court,
giving some donde of little intender importance, but meet
states bow many marriages are dissolved io the year.
THE DROUGHT IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND.--
Glowworms are rwmarkaLly plentiful this year oe South-
acepton-eoromas. Mr. Thomas, the jeweller, of Southamp.
too, has transferred a great number of them from the corn-
meal to his pales la the high street, Where they sparkle at
sight among his plants like precious stow" and have a very
beautiful effect. It V probable the drought sod heat bare
•010ething to do with the plentiful appearance of these
inseele. There eau be no doubt that the drought and heat
are Wieling the lamed world is a remarkable manner. Oa '
Maeda, Southampton was serarmiag with clouds of green
aphis and other insects. In the docks there, where there a
no vegetation, these aphis covered almost everything.
RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PAILLIA-
mcur. —Yesterday in the House of Lords a committee
assembled to conifer the bill of the Great Pastern Railway
for their metespolit.• terminus and railways, but on the
application of mussel the ►serial' was deferred to this day.
The proinotees'esse for the St. lielea's Railway wee opened,
sad that for the Teign Valley Radial closed. Mr. W.
Cooke and Mr. Somerset were beard in opposition to the
Gloucester and Where Railway, and Mr. Dentine for the
Glasgow and South Waders against the Portpatriok Rail-
way. The Glasgow City Gains and Keith and arm ee
bel6 passed, sad those for the London sad Brightoo
Com-
pany's additiosal powers, Wallingford and Watlingtoe
and Great Waimea is Lord Redesdales committee. Mr.
Calvert, Q.G, elated the ems for the Dublin Improvemma
Bill before a ememittee of which the Duke of Bucklogham
chairman, which after hearing *video*, passed it. In the
Commons Mr. Merewether, Q.C., sad Mr, Webster bade(
rammed up, the Mew bill wee pared.

01111117RDEE OH THE NORTH LONDON
RAIL WAY.
' DISCOVERY OF THE MURDERER.
• A peat feeling of relief will be experienced this
musing when it is announced that a clue has at last been
found to the murderer of the late Mr. Brigp. The polies
yesterday went to the hones of a cabman at Bow, where
for some months past a German tailor, named Francis
Muller, ham lodged. This mac, it now trasepinis, left
Leedom • few days ago for the potpies of ptomain to
New York. The discovery was first made by • little girl,
the d►ughter of the cabman referred to. After he left four
days ago she found in the room he had occupied a small
ard•baard box, arch as is used by jewellers, and upon her
showing it to her father, he remembered the name of
the jeweller with whom the chain of the late Mr. Brine
had been exchanged. The cabman at ones communicated
with the police authorities, and the box was by them taken
to Mr. Death's shop, that person's name and address being
on the inside. Mr. Death at once identified it as one of his
boxes, and such • one u he should have used wherein to
places chain similar to that exchanged for the one supposed
to have been taken from the late Mr. Briggs, and which had
been identified as his property. That slight clue having
been obtained, of course the next step was to connect Muller
with the man who exchanged the chain, and Mr. Death, in
company with the cabman and the police, went to the house
at Bow, and upon geeing a photograph Muller had given to
the child, at once recognised the features as those of the
person who changed the chain on Monday. The next step
was, of course, to ascertain whether the bat which had been
left in the carriage oo the railway on the night of the
murder could in any way be connected with Muller.
The cabman was therefore taken up to Scotland-yard, and
upon the hat being shown to him, he at once knew it as
one he had purchased for Muller about four mouths ago.
Inspector Tanner thereupon obtained a warrant for the spore-
lierudon of Francis Muller. The next step was to inquire
u to his whereabouts ; and u he had on leaving his lodgings
stated his intention of going abroad, close inquiry was set on
foot as to any person bemire a similar resemblance having
left England. Success attended the inquiries, and • person
fully identified as Muller was ascertained to have left Lon-
don four days ago in a ship bound direct for New York,
which usually avenges 19 days in the journey, and which,
having left the Downs many hours before the inquiries
were set afoot, must be clear away ere this reaches the
public eye. Government remoras were at once asked for
and granted. Sir George Grey gave every facility, and an
Admiralty 'roves' steamer from Liverpool has some hours
linos taken Inspector Tenser and fiergeantClarke after the
murderer, or probably to await his arrival, as the steamer
will reach America at least four days before the sailing
vessel ia which Muller has gone. Mr. Death (the jeweller)
and the cabman, whose name our reporter did not ascertain,
accompany the police officers in the steamer for the purpose
of identifying Muller.
The history of Muller, as far as e•a at prowled be gleaned,
shows that he came to this country about eighteen months
ago, and followed his occupation as a tailor, and it was not
anfrequently noticed that he had in his possemice a very
handsome gold watch and massive chain, by no mean/
according with his position or the money at his command.
Whether he was in the habit of drinking, or how the ch.
cwstance arose, Muller would never divulge. but some
months age he got into a fracas with some weenie, or
woman, and lost hie watch and chain. He refused to give
any description of it, to offer any reward, or maks any in
(purism, but has continuously complained, and most bit
terry, of the loss he had sustained. Siuoe the murder he
has, as has bees sow ascertained, shown on several occa-
sions • very handsome watch, and said he had saved up
money enough to bay it, and was quite contented at having
been able to get one.

The chain which Muller obtained from Mr. Death he
pledged on Tuesday at ► pawnbroker's in the City, and sold
the ticket no the day following to another tailor, a friend
of his, a German. This man, upon being questioned by
Inspector Thomson, admitted that he had read about the
murder, but had not said anything to any one about the
chain. It hen riot, however, been comidered that.there was
sufficient evidence to justify the police in detaining him for
ally complicity in the murder. He will, however, remain
tinder surveillance sou to be forthcoming at the trial upon
being brought back to this country.
The servants of the railway speak coutidently u to their
being able to identify the mu supposed to have got into the
carriage with Mr. Briggs, and it is understood that the
photograph of Muller will be shown to them is the course
of • day or so, to add that other link to the chain of cir-
cumstantial evidence already obtained.

A second account stales that the vessel in which Mallet
sailed for New York was the Victoria—the point of depar-
ture being the London Docks.