The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July 27.—Owing to the near approach
of the settleraent there has been but little business
done, but the market is nevertheless firm, and prices
show but slight variation. Threes, for the Account,
opened at 66f. 10c., and are now at 66f. 12te. 1110-
bilk'. now stands 992 f. 50c. Railway Shares are
firm. The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents .. 94 35 Italian Loan 6B 05
Do, end month.... Do. end month 6B 05
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 66 05 New Mexican .... 56a
Credit Alobilier.... 986 25 Russian -
Do. end month.... 985 Austrian
Bank Shares 3375 Spanish Threes.... 50 50
Credit Foncier l2OO Home Debt . . 4B 50
Roman — Deferred ~

BA.IL

AM.
Cash. Anoonnt.
Northern
Orleans - 8757 5o • '
.. 87Z, 75
"
Lyons and Mediterranean 890 576 25
New ditto — .. 893 75
Southern
Western
Eastern ....., .... 510 ..
Sardinian. •• • • ***** 475 • • 475
Austri^ • 350 .. 348 75
Lo- -ti
- 4. bard
worth of Spain
!Saragossa 525 .. 526 25
Ditto to Barcelona

The Murder on the North London Railway.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

The police authorities are still making investigations with
a view to the clearing up of various obscure points connected
with the robbery and murder of Mr Thomas Briggs on the
night of the 9th inst , on the North London Railway, and
especially to elicit some evidence corroborative of the state-
ment made by Mr Thomas Lee, to the effect that he saw two
men in the railway carriage with the deceased gentleman,
at Bow, on the night in question. One statement, which
has not hitherto been made public, is that of another party,
who affirms that he also saw Mr Briggs at the same place.
He states that Mr Briggs was dozing back in the carriage,
and he is positive that there was one man opposite him. He
adds, that he thinks there was a second individual in the
carriage, but he is not absolutely certain upon the point. It
appears very certain that Mr Brigg's murderer did not get
into the carriage at Bow station, and therefore the most
natural interference is that he got in at Fenchurch-street.
It will not have escaped observation that, according to
the evidence of Mrs Blyth, the supposed murderer, Francis
Muller, was in the habit of coming home regularly at an
early hour up to within about a week of the murder, but
that during that week he came home late, without giving
any explanation of his change of habits. This period was
also that during which he had discharged himself from Mr
Hodgkinson's employ. Strange to say, no information can
be obtained as to his doings during that time.
He was not in the habit of travelling by the North Lon-
don Railway, the Bow and Hackney-wick stations being
upwards of a mile distant from the house where he lodged,
while The Old Ford omnibus went past his door and that of
his employer in Threadneedle-street. He therefore used
that conveyance when he wanted one in preference to the
railway.
By the desire of the coroner and jury, the officials of the
North London Railway have caused the line to be measured
from [the Bow station to the spot where the body of Mr
Briggs was found. It measures essactly three-quarters of a
mile, and the distance thence to Hackney-wick station is
800 yards. From Bow to Hackney-wick there is a very
cenaiderable incline, as the line passes under the Bow-road,
and then through a deep cutting upon the Metropolitan
main drainage works at Old Ford, where it passes over the
new sewer at a level nearly 24 feet above that of the road.
While at this part the trains are shut out from view except
to those occupying the houses which fringe the line along
Fairfield-road and Park-terrace, on shooting over the sewer
the whole of the carriages can, in a manner, be looked into
by any one passing along the road from the sewer to the
Mitford Castle, Victoria Park; and in crossing Duckett's
Canal the train passes over a bridge within a very short
distance of that over the road which runs parallel to it,
From the Mitiord Castle the left side of the railway is lined
with houses, which overlook the interior of the trains as
they pass.
But even if anything wrong were going on the glance that
could be obtained would only be momentary. ln order
to
overcome the resistance of the incline the trains are driven
at the utmost speed--,generally at the rate of 30 or 40 miles
an hour. Last night the distance from Bow to Hackney-
wink was run in 2 min. 25 secs. This would leave hardly a
space of time of one minute and a quarter for the commis-
sion of the murder and the casting of the body out of the
carriage-door, if the testimony is to be absolutely relied
upon that the robbery and murder had not been in progress
before the train arrived at Bow. if there is no mistake or
misapprehension on the part of Mr Lee, the deceased gen-
tleman was not asleep—he was quite observant when the
train was at the Bow platform—and it is therefore certain
that no attack could have been attempted or commenced
until Bow had been kit well behind; and this would have
still further diminished the time in which the murderer
enlist have done his work.
A fact which may have an ulterior significance has tran-
spired. The sons of the deceased gentlemen were in the
habit of having their clothes made at the shop in which
Francis Muller was employed as a journeyman tailor, and
it is not impossible that in this way Muller might have be-
come acquainted with the fact of Mr Briggs's connexion
with a bank in Lombard-street. After the murder the black
leather bag which Mr Briggs carried with him was found
thrown under the seat of the railway carriage with marks of
blood-stained fingers on the lock. The bag had been exa-
mined by the murderer, who, finding it empty, threw it
away from him. It would almost seem as if the bag and
what it might naturally be supposed to contain had formed
the principal inducement for the perpetration of the crime.

It has already been mentioned that a fellow lodger of
Muller's had in his possession a life•preserver, which he
kept at the head of his bed, and to which Muller could
have had access. The weapon was sent yesterday by the
authorities to an eminent analytical chemist to be tested far
blood and other stains. The result of the examination has
not, of course, been made known.

DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE.--A miner left S
Austell, Cornwall, a few years ago, leaving a
home a wife and daughter, with the intention of bettering
his condition. He succeeded very well at the diggings, and
for some time sent regular supplies of money to his wife.
At length he stopped doing so, and the poor woman was
obliged to apply for parish relief, which was granted. Being
resolved to satisfy herself as to her husband's position, she
was enabled, by subscriptions and accepting a situation to
take charge of two children to Melbourne, to procure a pas-
sage to the colony in September last. A letter has been
received from her stating that her husband had turned
farmer, and was residing about 50 miles from Ballarat. She
first saw him in the harvest field, and on being asked if he
knew her said he believed he did, and afterwards confessed
that he was married to another woman. At the end of two
days the Australian wife gave up her claim on the receipt of
4200. The legal wife, who was a very respectable woman,
has intimated her intention of refunding what she received
from the parish.
THz PRECINCT OF THE SAVOY, notwithstanding
the decline and fall of the hospital, its chief strno,
ture, contained:many commodious houses, and held a busy
population. The King's presses were maintained here, and
here all proclamations, acts of Parliament, and gazettes
were issued. Here, too, the books of the Royal Society,
and other contributions to popular and scientific literature,
were produced, as we learn from the title page of the Anglia
,Arotitia, now lying before us, which inform us that the
work was printed in the Savoy by T. N. for John Martyn,
printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in &Paul's-church-
yard, in the year 1671. Besides the royal chapel of the
Savoy, which was assigned to the parish of St. Mary-le-
Strand on the destruction of the old church by the Protec-
tor of Somerset, there were churches, or congregations,
established for the Dutch, High Germans, French, and
Lutherans, and also Protestant dissenters. But the chapel
of the Savoy alone possessed the privilege of sanctuary,
and this circumstance drew into the place the worst cha-
racters, and often led to serious consequences. Whenever
an attempt was made to follow a debtor or other offender
into the precinct, the mob assembled and executed summary
vengeance, in accordance with the wild customs of the
locality. In 1696 a creditor went into the Savoy to demand
a debt of one who had taken sanctuary. The population
immediately poured out from every nook and corner, seized
the unfortunate creditor, tarred and feathered him, and in
that condition conveyed him in a wheelbarrow into the
Strand and bound him to the maypole, where they left him.
Once a Week,
A war steamer, apparently an iron-plated ram,
carrying the Federal American flag, was seen on Tuesday
L after)aeon stowing peat the isle of Wight to the westward.

717,W
Corr lirdtzt

HER MAJESTY,

Her Majesty, accompanied b:-.; 13'.80Rwr, July 27. s
Prince and Princess Lou;
`..., of Hesse and Princess Beatrice,
J-
drove out yesterday, Major -General Seymour was 1
attendance.
His P their Royal Highnesses
..oysi Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
by., 'Colonel Clifton, arrived at Osborne from London
evening. attended'

The Prince and Princess of Wales at
Goodwood.
Yesterday morning, at ten minutes to eleven, their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, a':
tended I,y Captain Grey and Mrs F. Stonor, took their
(.1
.aparture from Frogmen: House, and drove to the
Windscr
station of the South-Western Railway, en route for Good-
wood, on a visit to the Duke of Richmond, whose guestg
the royal party will remain till to-morrow (Friday), when
the prince and princess are expected to proceed to Osborne.
At eleven o'clock precisely the royal train left Windsor,
travelling at a fast pace along the South Western Railway'
via Staines, Feltham, Richmond, and Putney, t 3 CClaphamJunction, which was reached at 11,33. The South-Western
engine was then detached, and a Brighton locomotive
coupled to the special, which was transferred to the charge
of Mr Hawkins, the traffic manager of the Brighton and
South Coast Railway. The royal train left Clapham et
11.45, and proceeded on its route to Chichester, via Bel•
ham and Windmill Bridge to Reigate Junction, which vies
made at 12.19 p in. Thence the journey was continued 14
way of Three Bridges and Ford Junction to the Chichester
station on the South Coast, where their royal highnebses
arrived about 1.30, Their royal highnesses reached 00°4
wood about two o'clock.

TUE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA,—By 1116
Majesty's order, the customary prayers for the safe deliver',
of the Crown Princess will be offered up in the churches
throughout Prussia from and after August 14 next.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold will lay the
first stone of a new infirmary at Bishop's Waltham, 131
Hampshire, on Thursday, August 4. His Royal Higho6°
Prince Louis of Hesse will probably be present.
Their Roy al Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and Princess Mary are expected to leave Cambridge Cottage,

ow, about the middle of next month, on a tour.
The Duke and Duchess of Athole are expected
home early in November from North America, where the
noble duke is doing duty with the Ist Battalion of the Scots
Fusilier Guards in Canada.
The Earl de Grey will leave town early in the
ensuing week for a tour of inspection of the military fortifi•
cations on the western coasts. The countess will stay duria
the noble earl's absence with the Countess of Ripon t't
Putney.
The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire has arrived of
the Portland Hotel, Southsea, from London.
The Countess of Dunmore arrived at her residence
on Carlton-house-terrace on Tuesday evening from Dun'
more Park, near Stirling, N.B.
Katherine Dowager Countess of Dundonald ie
still at her residence at Neuill y, near Paris. Her ladyebiP
is prevented by severe indisposition from proceeding t°
Vichy, as she intended•
Count and Countess de Flahanit have arrived fit
Coventry House, Piccadilly, from Germany. The noble
count and countess will shortly leave town on a visit to the
Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne at Bowood, and
then go to the countess's seat in Scotland for the shootia

season.
Viscount and Viscountess de Vesci and 11°13'
Misses Vesci will leave their residence on Carlton-hence:
terrace for their seat in Ireland early in the 0260*
week,
The Baron de Maui and the Baroness de Maui
and family have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for

Germany.
Lady Llanover has had several receptions daril,
the last week, including two afternoon assemblies, with
dancing parties, and one evening dance, all of which were
numerously attended.
DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM BREItETON, *G.131
AND K.H.—Major-General Sir W. Brereton, of the
Royal Horse Artillery, died yesterday at noon,
at the Al-
bany, Piccadilly. The lamented general, who was verging
upon his 78th year, obtained his commission as second lieu
tenant in May, 1805. He had the honour of serving e
continuous period of active service, from the early part of
the Peninsular war up to the occupation of Paris. The lat e
general served in Spain from December, 1809, and was pre-
sent at the defence of Cadiz and of Fort Matagada, the ar-
tillery at which last-named Place he commanded, 11°
served in the batteries at the siege of San Sebastian—Wee
present in the battles of Barossa, Vittoria, the Pyrenees,
Orthes, and Toulouse. In the campaign in the Netherlands
he was present at Quatre Bras and at Waterloo. In addi-
tion to the principal engagements, he took part in the retreat
from Burgos—at San Munos, near Salamanca, Helette,
St. Palais, Sauveterre, Aire, and Tarbes. He commanded
a division, as second in command of the expedition under
Major- General d'Aquiler, which assaulted and took the
forts of the Bocca Tigris, in the Canton River, those 0'
staked barriers, and of the city of Canton, when 879 Piece!,
of heavy ordnance wore spiked. On the outbreak of the We'
with Russia. he proceeded to the East, and took part in the
war, being on board her Majesty's ship Britannia under the
command of his relation, Vice-Admiral Sir James
Dundas, and directed the rockets fired against the forts ell
city of Sebastopol in 1854. For a short period he held tit!,
command of the Irish constabulary, and for a time w,
commandant of the 4th brigade of the Royal Horse Artoe
lery. In 1838 he was made a companion of the Order of Ulf
Bath, having the year previously been made a Knight °t
the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. In 1801 the gelletlf
officer was nominated a Knight Commander of the Orde Sir
the Bath, in recognition of his military services.
William had also contributed largely in a literary seiasB„t;
his military renown by his writings on the improveelioh
of artillery. The late general held the silver war medal scra.
six clasps, and the Crimean medal and clasp for SebasteP' t,
Ilia commissions bore date as follows :—Second-lieutenelt.o'
May 10. 1805—first lieutenant, June 1, 18G6--caPti,
Sept. 30, 1816—brevet major, Jan. 21, 1819—brevet lieu
b
colonel, Jan. 10, 1837—lieut.-colonel, Aug. 17, 184.3 4
brevet colonel, Nov. 11, 1851—colonel, Jan. 24, 1.851"-'-'
major-general, Dec. 16, 1854.

TIIE FIRST ASSIZES IN MANcuESTEII..--IlleSB
assizes were held under a special commission
October, 1694, being the sixth year of the reign of Wi
lliam
and Mary. Their object was the trial of Lord Dielybeil,:,
three baronets, and four gentlemen, of this and „.
adjoining county of Cheshire, on charges of had
treason, it being alleged against them that the)" Dita
" imagined and intended the overthrow of this Gover-v.
ment, and the bringing in of foreign power,•" and that °IA%
had accepted several commissions, " leviea' men, previuch,
arms,and taken measures when and how to art." Their %.
stoe
took place in the " Sessions House, which tarraerlY
in the square opposite the present Exchange." .I'll !Ilse&
prisoners were acquitted, the jury
charge of a plot was concocted by a man named L•ont' 11,11
had been extensively engaged as a Jacobite agent. -a",,gi-ob
believing that '-
deal of detailed information respecting these trials
iv
pup
found in the 28th volume of the Chetham Society's
tions. fe
AN AMERICAN ORDER.--, Gen. Taylor, the van
derate commander in Louisiana, recently iss'aea Itio
order congratulating his men upon their achievaleesys?
After giving a catalogue of their spoils, and so forth, Ile:j re
—" Along 100 miles of his path the flying foe, vvitli
a
than savage barbarity, burned every house and 'ln
within his reach. You extinguished the bu ruing rd,P"O,O
his base blood, and were nerved afresh to ve,lgeaneo 111.,„cd.
cries of women and children left without si leiter or ;
of
Long will the accursed race remember the great tiverbfri.
Texas and Louisiana. The characteristic hue of his Yen'
waters has a darker tinge from the liberal admi.s.t are°
as fat
kee blood. The oruel alligator and ravenous gLtrflsix W
over
on rich food, and our native vulture holds high :rev °lrrlwell,
many a festering corpse. If the stern valour *lf c'eugos'
trained infantry was illustrated on the bloody field .S the
field and Pleasant Hill, this long pursuit has c, )cere xenon
of this army with undying renov,2. :own,
rous hounds with the game in full view. y ou ha•ve nd the
neither hanger nor fatigue, and the hoarse c abu°ll',,,;orott°
ringing rifle have replaced in this stern chase til° pot,
horn and the joyous halloo. Whether char,inghurlin
shoulder to shoulder with our noble infantry'' orthio
your squadrons on the masses of the foe, or 11(st'gihfosso,
i
flying columns with more than the tenacity of the
vice°
ou have been admirable in all. Conquer you,' '3'9,ootb°
and you can conqusr the world. Our artillery h.'s ", coat
admiration of the army. Boldly ridvancing, with')ll'boriat
against the heavy metal of the hostile fleet; 11; '
emsin
often without support, within range of musketry, or ,riciog
ing last on the field to pour grape and canister into a"11 oact
columns, our batteries have been distinguished 1, the
proportion as opportunity was afforded. Soldiersoiirorop
are great and noble deeds, and they will live tho
and in song as long as the Southern race exists to n'Tcity of
earth. But much remains yet to do. The fair
the South languishes in the invader's gra°
eesll4„f for fie
s ch ,
sons mourn her fate in every land. The the
daughters yet mantle with the blush raised 140, is colour
tyrant's insult; not a Confederate soldier returns t throb'
fromliug
heard this sad
and
ndVenice
tearful of
eye
ee
hSoowu h
amidstb t rrecounts ireuo t,
these noble women—angels upon earth—cheer
theus,proing
finement, and relieved his wants. To viewccd:6l D
tb
ost.;
hrot
meilbe sr iof thesee efaafi
n damesi s
chwailpll
ebte of sloa.ludarineeldrs'
.80.1Prtei elh
irtscifoo
army marches towards New Orleans , shall
Und
reach the goal, the hearts of her patriot wonl;
Sun
high with joy, respotsive to the echoes of you