The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1864.

States. Mr. COEDILN'S very is motion on
the extension of Government Manufacturing este-
blishments—a motion striking at the very root
of lavish expenditure and wasteful inefficiency—
swept many of these fancy foreign dishes off the
sideboard. But were it not for that providential
Appropriation Bill, who will dare to doubt that
there would be a perpetual quorum of members
ready and willing to go on asking questions and
retailing rumours, and calling attention to every-
thing in Heaven and earth, and under the earth,
from this time till next February, and taking more
delight in such harmless; sport than in all the plea-
sures of yachting, or deer stalking, or partridge
shooting, or hunting. And yet these long-suffering
patriots complain of parliamentary dyspepsia.
Why not follow the advice of our eminent physician,
and instead of attempting to digest night after
night all these succulent morsels—why not throw
them altogether in a heap on the table in front of
the SPEAKER, and see how they look ? why not
have all these notices and motions read out one
after the other by the clerk, for the edification of
an uninstructed British public, who know not
what legislators suffer for their country t

TAR renewal of the peculiar and intimate
alliance formerly existing between the Courts of
Russia, Austria, and Prussia, was last night the
topic of an interesting discussion in the House of
Lords. The restoration of that union can hardly
be said directly to affect our interests, and perhaps,
therefore, to those who are daily insisting that the
vote of the House of Commons a fortnight since
was a declaration in favour of our absolute
neutrality under all circumstances, and our per-
fect indifference to the course of political events
in Europe, it may seem that the Peers
were engaged in an irrelevant discussion.
As, however, it is certain that nothing was further
than this intention from the mind of the great ma
jority of the members of the House of Commons
when Mr. K INO LAKE'emotion waspassed, we 11111R1010,
for the present, that the progress of liberty and
the advances of despotism on the Continent are as
much the concern of the British Parliament now as
they were in the days when DI ACV swan and HINRY
BRUI:011•31, denounced the Holy Alliance. As a
nation, we have our principles of government to
maintain. How to maintain them must always
be a question to be decided by political pru-
dence. Our rational example of order and
liberty is • standing condemnation of despo-
tism, and we have the right to add to it our
explicit protest. When, however, community
in the exercise of despotic power becomes • bond
between sovereigns—when two Emperors and a
King join in a league to resist the
progress and application of liberal ideas—we
may be sure that they aim at something more
than the coercion and repression of their own
subjects. Narrow politicians of parochial mind
may insist on the duty of liberal nations to shut
themselves up to the pursuit of material gain ;
but whatever free States may do, the great op-
pressors of the world will form their leagues and
combine their forces.

Perhaps Lord STRAI7ORD DR RIDCLIFFI would
have done well to have treated what is loosely
called the revival of the Holy Alliance on the
basis of patent facts, rather than upon that
of the disputed diplomatic correspondence
published by the Morning Post. It was
the Triple Alliance which made those letters
of interest, and not those letters which gave im-
portance to the alliance. Earl R 088113.1. pro-
nounced an opinion last night unfavourable to
the genuineness of the despatches—a judg-
ment in accordance with that of the best foreign
journals. It is to be regretted, however, that he
should have imputed their orgin to Bourse specu-
lators. We can see no reasons for this conjecture,
and many against its admissibility. Earl Russau.
ealt with the general question with prudence.
He showed from history that the Holy Alliance
had failed, inasmuch se liberal ideas and liberal
forms of governments had triumphed in all the
countrieswhich ithadmarked out as the sphere of its
influence. This is an important fact, and the po-
tentates most concerned would do well to take note
of it. But although France threw off her Ikt-snort
King, and Spain became constitutional, and Italy
reconstituted herself, all thee° movements being in
opposition to the principles of the three Courts, yet
between 1815 and 1850 the Holy Alliance was
the source of boundless mischief. Besides leading
to interventions in Spain, Italy, and Hungary, it
was a mutual insurance society to maintain the
prerogatives of despots against their subjects,
who asked for liberty and public rights. France
was seen in 1830 to be too strong',
to be interfered with, and Spain could
not be touched against her will. Bat it was not
until Prince SCHWARSIIIBERG'S "immense ingra-
" titude " had destroyed the good understanding
between Russia and Austria, and the united arms
of England and France had broken the power of
the CZAR, that Germany had liberty or Italy
hope.
At St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Berlin it is
boasted that after an interruption of ten years and
more this good understanding is restored, and it
is intimated that the Three Powers will not for
the future remain passive spectators of such
irre-
gnlarities as during that period they have been
compelled to witness. The value of this resolu-
tion will depend very much on the judgment
which the three Courts form of the state of rela-
tions existing between England and France.
Should the two Western Powers appear to be
well agreed, the threatened action of these crowned
conspirators will prove like one of Mr. DISRALLeII
famous motions—it will be long delayed, and come
to nothing when adventured. Lord STRATFORD
Di Renctirrs dwelt last night upon the value
of the French Alliance at the present time as •
safeguard against dangers to Europe. We have lately
had occasion to remark in the French semi-official
newspapers an increased appreciation of the alliance
with England, and it is satisfactory to find Earl
Rcsszti. bearing witeess to the disposition
of the French Government to cultivate a
clear understanding with our own. It will
be observed that Earl R rsarxx quoted from a
newly-received despatch of M. DZOUTX Dr LHOTB,
in which that statesman, referring with satisfaction
to the successful co-operation of the Ministers of
the two countries at Constantinople, expressed
the hope that the accord between France and
Great Britain on this sobject may be the precursor
of their agreement on important subjects which
may yet come before them. Englishmen of all
parties will echo this wish, and its fulfilment will
be the best guarantee of the peace and liberty of
Europe against combinations of Kiegs and Empe-
rors.

WHrreHALL, JI7LT 21.—The Queen has been
irdto direct lotion palest to be paled coder tin Gnat
irseliag the dignity of a hereon of the United Itiag.
dew of Groat Britain and Inlaid auto Sir Charles Lyell.
et Kinnordy, in the dandy of Forfar, knight, sad the heirs
Neale of his body lawfully begottirs.—Garette.
NHw Divorcz ACT.—The Divorce Act has just
boss amended to supply s animater assiseisa. Where as
wart of protestioe bus been granted kis silo, the busload
et creditor may apply to rosolod the soma to a essisbate
acting is elm same district. Hitherto the same rusgitrals
who rioted the order weld rehear the mottos.

fax goirrt.
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mown. Jta,2 22.

The Queen, accompanied by PrinossaLouiee and
Princes@ Beatrice, drove in the grounds yesterday =rain.
In the &harpoon her Majesty, acoompanied by the Priam
and PriDONI Louie of Hialle and Priam William of Prude,
and attended by Colossi the Han. A. Harding, paid a obit
to Prince and Primer Leiningsa, at Went Cowes.
A deputatioa had an interview with the Lord Preeideet
and the Vice-President of As Omaill, at the Privy Caswell.
ones, Whitehall, yesterday, apes the subject of schools
of art.

The Right Rev, the Moderator*: the Coaxal Assembly
of the Church of Boatload ; the Rev. Dr. (bath, Moderator
of the Gemmel Assembly of 1863 ; and the Rev. K. M. Phio,
of Gslathiels, Joint Cooveners of the Church of Bcotkod's
Army and Navy Chaplain, Committee, bad an interview
with Earl de Grey and Ripon at the Warof6ce yesterday.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-aloe yesterday
from the Goversors of the Cope of Good Hope, Natal, Bt.
Helena, Vancouver's Island, and British Columbia.

LATEST IN T ELLIGEN CB.
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(=UTZll'il TUMMIES )
AMERICA.

THE PEAOII NEGOTIATIONS.

The inelipeadanee Beige of the 20th says :

Lotion froin Berlin inform us that the pesos negotiations
will open to-day, the 20th Judy, in V 1131212&. It is stated
that they will be coedosted by the two Ministers of Po.
reign Affairs, Herr Von Bismarck and Count Hochberg. It
is probable that Denmark will be represented by two stetes•
men who belong to the present cabinet, M. de Moltke aid
M. de Qcsado, ministers without portfolios. Frames,
which aided Denmark to place herself in con-
'. =ruination with the 01111111117 powers, and assisted
in sketching out the first negotiations, now holds
completely aloof. The choice of the city where the nego-
tiations are to take plow sufficiently indicates this; in default
of this proof one would be found in the susceptibility with
which Germany repels the idea of all interference in a
question which she menden exclusively her own affair,
whether by Earope or by a great power. Denmark bee-
self, moreover, can only gain by throwing herself
upon the generosity which her weakness imposes
upon her adveteariee, Ka the control which their divergent
interests will exercise over their conduct towards her.
We do not me►n to say, however, that France remains
completely indifferent, although she does not act. The
plan of an eventual absorption of Denmark by the Confide-
nttion and that of a material aggrandisement of Prussia
forbid her to do so. Independently of the reservations upon
this point already made by the Chancellery of H. Drouyn de
Lbuys, mention is made of a fresh circular of that minister
respecting the negotiatioss now open, and is which, weepy-
ing himself specially with the future governmset of the ,
duchies, he indicates, it is said, the consultation of the wish=
of the populations as the sole means of esttling the
rind claims to the sovereignty of the new Asia. This view
is also that of the liberal papers of Germany, especially
of those which appear in the duchies. Organs of the send-
meets of their fel/ow-citizens, they show therm to us as
very weary of the state of provisional administration in
which the conquering powers bold them, and ready to ins
against every attempt to impose upon them any other sore-
reign than the candidate of their choice, Prince Frederick of
Augustenbarg.
The Paris Temps says :
_ _ _

In London everyone is looking towards Vienna. Will the
diplomatists be more successful as the banks of the
Danube than epos those of the Thames la the short
space of time from the 20th to the 31st July will they em-
ceed in discovering a basis of negotiations! Nothing Jodi-
rtes this at present. The greet German powers claim the
entire deans, while t►e Copenhagen cabinet still elinp to
the: chimerical project of a personal union. It is probable,
however, that an understanding will be arrived at at
lest, and that the allies, in exchange for the Duchy of
Lanenburg, will code to Denmark the northers part of
filetwig, which extends from Apenrade to the North Sea.
It remains to be seen whether the populations interested
and German public opinion will ratify this compromise.

Aooording to • ministerial paper (the Brrs/art
Gazstis) Prussia has determined not to consent to
the entrance of Sleswig into the German Confede-
ration. The new state, it is said, is to be placed
under • sort of suzerainty of Prussia,

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TER DECORATIONS AT Sr. PAUL'S CATRIDRAL.
Yesterday afternoon the istrestiag serearry of erringrvo the Ant of the mornpaintingsis St. Patin
Cathedral. forming part of the ratan! embellishineets of
the interior, took place is the premise el mayoral Dahlman
and ggecentbsseat forming the carimittee for lug funds far
the 'es of the cathedral. and Mr. PAC. Pones, the
architect to the deem cad chapter. We are compelled to
nerve • fuller throe of this work which bed been prepared
far pabliestios.
lIKEILOTZD INDUSTRIAL DWIILLINOS CONPANT.—
The ordinary reran members of thin sompay wee held
y at the Illassioa. louse, alder the presidency of
yesterday a$ Sb. Maodo..bc., alder the preddeacy ci
lb. Aldus... Leek. II appeared from the report that the
subscribed capital at the compaoy amounts to 3%000/., la
300 theme of 1001. sack. Treece& of 10/, per there have
been paid, and 2,9101. riISOSIS• in advance of cells. The
sum of 739/. 10a. Bd. has bees paid in of the
purchase of the freehold property in Begs wells, the
law ear ea which aerated to 181. Cr Bd. An agremnest
has bees metered into fora leer of • Imp_ plot of gromad in
Old St. Pancras-road, rem to the Great Northers Railway
Static, at Kinee-croes. The site will be large
enough for five Worm of buildings Lathe to these
being erected at Wapping and Sowthwark, erh
of which provides aocommodatkee for throaty
families—tee having three room sad wash-born, red tee
two rooms sad waah•hcoace, each. The buddies at South-
wark has a barmiest story, whisk it ie proposed to let with
the grouted Boor for warehousing rapers. The buildings
alaudy retracted for are being proceeded with la • Wm-
factory maser, and they will lee probably ready for mess.
patioo about Christine& The ;gat metal at Bagnigge-
aed the interest allowed by the beakers, amount to
mere Wes eaffkiiest to meet the earnest expense, of the
half year, and afro making up the darer, shows in the
revenue worst of the preview report 711. 9e. ld.
ham bees carried to the credit of the pro&
and lose account for the halt .
ear. Nereids.
standing the iacreased oast of the goer-
quest niece the high prise of brines and the great dessead
for labour. the diresten have thelimbished ooafidere is the
success of the asterprise. Whig* perishes of honer are
being removed for the coestreation of various railways and
public " loaprovemeata," but co attempt appears to be
made to provide proper homes he the place of those whisk
are being swept sway, and the desired for decant dwrli?
which ban slwaS• bees is earth is sow altogether beyond
the =pry. Nusseroas_ applicethas for the derelliap lave
already bees received, both at Southwark and at W
although the building are not yet roofed in. The
therefore, ripper to the members the desizaisility of in-
dewing their Meads to take up the remainder of the capital
of the compsay without any further delay.

EITILOPLIN KIIIGILATION TO THZ UNITZD STATIA4-•
" We lam by spatial. telegram from Waglagtes, IWSe
State Deparhaest has advice from Barope that upwards
of 10,000 Beim maignints are bow at Havre and other
European pets, sweating peewit to the comistry.
great pressure Opal the eteunship Bees eesuyieg *signets
to the United Slates, thia year, is without tmeledent.
Use lassas ago, the Curia limb the Montreal line, and the
Havre and Hamburg line% all available room for presagers
is al ways takes up for six or eight weeks a adverse.
We here so American steamships conveying Prsa
or saythitsg else from Swope to oar own nhovesr
various ressoss, taw emigrants come in eagles ,cads, a.
Yid to be the ore knurly. They steely all like avenge
is steamships. It is • 'marvellous Wag, this tremendous
nelgratloo from Europe at the present time. The people
there ars told by the spavined writers and speakers that our
poor °matey is gives up to universal anarchy mad ruin.
The damn of death and the wail of despair are cesseime
throughout our land. amid bid fair to have no sada*.
The heavens ars lurid, and the soil le soaked with blood.
Taxation is crashing, loaakruptcy aortal°, despotism sure as
death. They are told if they come here the will modestly
be forced into the army and marched to the frost to he
butchered by the rebels, and their carcases gives to the
vultures. But still, and ootwitheteadteg ell this, hither-
ward and @tenthly they much, tee those tea thousead ie
amber—with • sublime faith in the gloriosa sad
mortal feta, of the Republish with • arm seenneame is
the triumph of our arms, with a axed faith to the
endorses' of our Hbortiss,asd with in undoubting eerhaety
that here they will and • promperese home for themselves
bad for their shildrea and their chili. iree's ohiklres. Book •
faith is the @tar of America, and is the republic% gee
sad fortunes, no the pert of the hopeful rued yearn's;
yousury of Europe, ought pu to the Wish thew,
soon as who are dosblful b
ad timid sad deeposding,
and who met, beyond the devisees that ler ea hear
esehrends es, see ev formes the braisass splesdeues el the
wmiog day."—New York Timm, July 9.

THE MURDER ON THE NORTH LONI)01;
RAILWAY.

Yesterday, upon the application of Inspector
Willimns and Kerrissey, a second warrant was greeted Ly
Mr. Mary, sad some farther testimony adduced, robe,,, th
the murder of Mr. Brigge, the object being to strength.. the
evidence given at the private sitting on Tuesday main:.
whim the promedinp were ommemily harried, owing to tie
iansediato departure of the officer.

Mr. David Bogdan having repeated the evidence girt% kt
the inquest,

Mr. Thomas Lee said—l live at 4, Pa 116e11-villa., K.;,
Edward's Rossi, Hackney.
Mr. Burnaby ithe Chief Clerk)—What are you!
Witness—l am • private gentleman. I knew the late
, Mr. Brigp well. The last time I saw him was ou the Licht
of the Bth lost, at about 10 o'clock. I was waiting ou the
platform at the Bow Station fora train to go to Haase,,
when the cane up and I saw him in • firetelLe
compartment. e said, " Good night, Tom," sod I
answered, " Good night. Tom." Knowing his eirly
habits 1 felt some surprise at seeing him .14
.so late. He appeared is his usual Mulch sad
spirits. He was sitting with his heck to the engine.
I were two moo in the carriage with him. By his side au t
' dark, thin man, who seemed to me to be tall, and oefrAite
to him was a stontiah. thick-set man, with light whi•ker-.
I noticed that his band, which was thrust through the
at the carriage window, was of unusual sire. I as. re iv,
of him than of the other, because the light was fully r,
fieried on his face. They were in the first compartment
a railway earrings, the division nearest to the engine, aid
I Mr. Briggs was sitting in the corner on the Bear side of the
hos—the opposite to the side on which he could eater st
Fenchurch-street. I conversed with him a few seconds while
' waiting for the train to start, and then got loin • wood.
elms carriage, further to the frotit. The sett station wouti
be Hackney Wick, but I went oo to Hackney. The tide
bad stopped at Hackney Wick. I heard uothiog of the
murder till I saw the papers on Monday morning.
Elizabeth Sarah Betroth deposed—l am the wife of I:nd
frey Ferdinand Reinch. tailor, of 12i, Jersey.street„.lldgate.
My permits, were German, but I was born in EoglaaJ.
bare known Frans Muller, • German tailor, about tiro
years. He used to work with • triad of my husband's, aid
he thee took is work-mom of his own, but continued t,
come sad see us. It was my husband who got him ha
situ atioe at Mr. Hodgkineoes, and when he left that he
worked for us about • fortnight. The last time 1 ea.
him was ou the morning of Thursday, 14th July, the day
he sailed. He told us he was going in the ship VirtorU
from the Loudon Docks, to New York. Oa the
previous Saturday. the 9th Md., I had sees
him at my house when I left him at about half-past seven
o'clock at night talking to his framed Jobe Haifa. He had
net told me he was going anywhere. When I came bark,
at shoat half-past eight, Haifa was still there at work, bet
Muller was gone. I did not see Muller at all on the Sundae,
bat bevelled on Monday between tea and elem. o'clock, and
mated himself on the sbopboard beside my husband. He
then took out of his pocket the gold Albert guard now pro-
duced, and said he had paid 31. Iris. for it, and he showed
• ring upon his linger with a white star and a peculiarly
shaped head upon it, and told us he had oe ght it
for s. 6d. When he left he had the ring
ma his finger. He told us that be bought
the chain and rim( of a man at the docks whom
he met when he was pie( to take his pump ticket.
and he thought it was a good bargain. I yoked him about
it and said it was not worth the motley, upon which be took
up the shears and scraped the chain to show me the way of
tasting it. He said, ' You see it is punt gold." I observed
the hat he was wearing was quite new, and I said to hum.
" How extravagant you are with your hate." He said be
bad smashed his old one in getting out of an omnibus to
°blip • lady. No, that is wrong. I was thinking of another
affair. He said be had smashed his old oee and thrown
into the dust-hole. I bad particularly noticed his old hat
becauae it had • striped finials unlike any other hat I had
ever seen. lam quits certain the bat sow produced is the
same. I do aot know how it is, hat I have always takes
particular notiee of the bate.
Sergeant Tiddy, in reference to the sleeve-lining foutd
in the grate of the room which Muller occupied, said it was
• rag which Muller usually rubbed hie boob with. There
was blood on one sod of it.

It appea a that the eaZoo's wife (Mrs. Matthews) re-
membered that Muller, being dimadided with the flat
brim of his hat which Matthews purchased for him, had
tamed up the rides is the fashion worn by foreignen, sad
this is precisely the apprentice which the hat now presents,
the alteration having been evidently made by • pawn at.
socutonted to the work. It was also stated that
the remote why Matthews offered so boy the Let
was that be owed Moller for • waistcoat made
some months ego, end the bat wee to be I
kind of set-off for the amount due. A number of other
depositions were taken, having reference to facts which
we hare previously placed before our readers.
The warrant was then made out and signed by Mr. Henry.
after which it was taken to Mr. Adosse,the Antrim
Meister, to be endorsed. It was then heeded to Impecor
Earriesey, sad thin officer started with it by the sight mail
to Liverpool, intending to catch the mail packet which
sails from that port early this morning.
The former warrant was obtained in a very hurried sem
ner on Tuesday evening, after the court had closed, sod
some important links in the evidence could sot be supplied.
For this reason, sad to guard against any pois%le delayof
the Manchester. it wee eassekbred desissik to seed out s
duplicate werrent, with all the further details that meld be
gathered rasps:ties the murder of Mr. Briggs.