The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

THE MURDER OF MR. BRIGGS.

Yesterday afternoon a special report was received
from
ice Inspectorhat Tanner,
the chief of the detective
arrived by the City of Manchester
steamer at New York, hadpol at Scotland-yard, London, stating that he
safely
in company with Sergeant
Clarke, also of the detective police, and the two
witnesses who went out for the purpose of identi-
fying the supposed murderer, Muller. Chief In-
spector Tanner, upon his arrival at New York, put
tn
communication
dreeeived from them every
with the Government
possibleand himself
po l i ce in
assistance.
4 The most complete arrange-
ments have been made to effect Muller's capture
upones e l beinghe arrival
kept
readiness,th
Victoria, a special steam
v
with steam up night
and day, to start the moment the Victoria is sighted,
in order ts t
the pilot-boat may
be anticipated, lest
by any mischance information should reach Muller
that the officers of justice are on his track—it being
of i n
reared that he might in desperation seek by suicide
to evade justice. As a proof that the police took
their measures with
well grounded confidence, we
further learn from Inspector Tanner's report that
Inspector Kerrissey, who followed with the second
warrant in the City of Cork steamer, had arrived
out safely.

BISHOP POLK' s FUNERAL.--Bishop Elliott de-
iivered an address at the funeral of Lieut.-Gen. Polk,
and at its close left the desk, and, turning his face to the
North, solemnly summoned such of the bishops and clergy
of the North as have urged on this war to meet him and
their victims at the Judgment bar there to answer it—" In
the name of the episcopal office of the dead ; in the name of
the blood that, like that of Abel, called aloud from the
ground for vengeance on those who lend the sanction of the
Church to this crusade ; in the name of desolated homes and
blackened roof-treee, of desecrated churches, of altars pro-
faned and the Holy Sacrament trampled in the mire; in
the name and by the authoritY oi God, and by the enchant-
ing spell-word evoked from the presence of the mangled
and martyred dead. And (added th bishop in the pro-
found silence) God have mercy upon then: in that day !"
ENoCLI ARDEN.--Seventeen thoust..nd copies
were struck off as the first impression, says the London lie-
view, and the whole of these were delivered to the trade on
Saturday week and Monday last. A second impression of
10,000 is now in the press, and of these, it is conjectured,
but few will be unsold by the end of the present week.
HENRY FELIX JOHN RECANO, Ed-.,
Li of the
Kiddie Temple, Barrister at Law, is 'Duce more
announced, we observe, in the official paper at Gibraltar to
:rave assumed the position of Judge of the Supreme :'curt.
• here during the temporary absence of Sir James CochreNe.
rhe London friends of the former hon. and learned gentle--
'nen will be interested to read the subjoined announce-
cent of the fact above alluded to, an announcement pub-
ished under date Auguet 8, 1864, in the Gibraltar Chro
nide. We, therefore, reprint it as follows :—" His Excel
lency the Acting Governor has been pleased to appoint
Henry Felix John Recano, Esq., of the Middle Temple,
London, Barrister at Law, to act as
:Judge of the Suprerm
Court of Gibraltar during the absence of Sir Jas, Cochrane,
Knight, and he Was this day sworn into office,"