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men ship Pegasus, 83 days, from Bon] bay . .iver-
pool ; 16th, the French ship Le Bot lumanier, 43
days, from Bourbon Isle, for Hants; 18 th, the Eng-
lish ship Beaufort, 24 days, from Ala oa Bay, for
Boston ; 10th, the ship Cleadon, 69 days, from
Colombo for London, and the ship P. S. R. G., 90
days from Bombay for Portsmouth ; 20th , the ship
linnehaha, from Moulmein for Portsmon th; and
29th, the bark Victory, 102 days from Rati:oon.

The Kearsage and the Alabama.

WASIIINGTON, July S.

Secretary Welles has sent to Captain Winslow of
the Kearsage the following recognition of his ser•
vices in the destruction of the pirate Alabama :

" Naval Department, July 6.

" Sir,—Your very brief despatches of the 19th
and 20th ult., informing the department that the
piratical craft Alabama, or 290,' had been sunk on
the 19th of June, near meridian, by the Kearsage,
under your command, were this day received. I
congratulate you on your good fortune in meeting
this vessel, which had so long avoided the fastest
ships and some of the most vigilantand intelligent
officers of the service, and for the ability displayed
in this combat yon have the thanks of the depart-
ment. You will please express to the officers and
crew of the Kearsage the satisfaction of the Govern-
ment at the victory over a vessel superior in tonnage,
superior in number of guns, and superior in the
number of her crew. The battle was so brief, the
victory so decisive, and the comparative results so
striking, that the country will be reminded of the
brilliant actions of our infant navy, which have been
repeated and illustrated in this engagement.
" The Alabama represented the best maritime
effort of the most skilled English workshops. Her
battery was composed of the well-tried 32-pounders
of 57 cwt., of the famous 68-pounder of the British
navy, and of the only successful rifled 100-pounder,
yet produced in Rigland. The crew were generally
recruited in Great Britain, and many of them re-
ceived superior training on board her Majesty's
gunnery ship Excellent.
" The Kearsage is one of the first gunboats built
at our navy yards at the commencement of the re-
bellion, and lacks the improvements of vessels now
under construction. Tee principal guns composing
her battery had never been previously tried in an
exclusively naval engagement ; yet in one hour you
succeeded in sinking your antagonist, thus fitly
ending her predatory career, and killing many of
her crew, without injury to the Kearsage or the loss
of a single life on your vessel. Our countrymen
have reason to be satisfied that in this, as in every
naval action of this unhappy war, neither the ships,
the guns, nor the crews have been deteriorated, but
that they maintain the ability and continue the re-
nown which ever adorned our naval annals.
The President has signified his intention to re-
commend that you:receive a vote of thanks in order
that you may be advanced to the grade of Commo-
dore. Lieutenant-Commander James A. Thornton,
the executive officer of the Kearsage, will be recom-
mended to the Senate for advancement ten numbers
in his grade, and you will report to the department
the names of any others of the officers or crew
whose good conduct on the occasion entitles them
to especial attention.—Very respectfully,
" GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy.
Captain. John A. Winslow, U.S. Navy,

Commanding U.S. steamer Keareage,
Cherbourg, France."

The Murderer of Mr Briggs.

To allay the excitement which prevails in regard
to the pursuit of the supposed murderer, Francis
\hiller, it may be stated, that it is exceedingly pro-
bable that no news will be received for a month or
five weeks. The Victoria was last seen off St.
Katharine's Point, Isle of Wight, on Saturday
Afternoon. The wind was then favourable for her.
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Washington, having the detectives and some of the
witnesses as to Mailer's identity on board, will, it

is thought, pass her at sea; but it is not considered
it all likely that the Victoria will be boarded. Tae
officers will proceed on to New York, where they
will await the arrival of the ship.

In case of any mishap occurring to the City of
‘Vashington, the Government have determined upon
sending out dupl:cates of the warrants by another
steamer, which leaves Liverpool on Saturday, and
which it is considered possible may reach New York
before the Victoria. _ _ _

The average time occupied in a run from the
Thames to New York is nineteen or twenty days.
If the Victoria takes that time, the arrest and the
return voyage will occupy twelve days more; and,
therefore, Mailer cannot be brought back to England
before the end of August.
Muller's conduct while he has been in England
has been ascertained to have been that of a well-

conducted man. His manners are described as being
good and even gentlemanly. Mr. Hodgkinson, of
Threadneedle-street, for whom he worked for two
months, speaks favourably of him, and Mr. cnd
:qrs. Blyth, with whom ho lodged, never conceived
ne could have been the perpetrator of so ferocious a
crime. Ho was never known to be in liquor ; he
generally returned home straight from his work ;
and it is said that he never frequented public-
houses. He quitted Mr. Hodgkinsou's service on
The Saturday previous to the murder of his own
action, on account of some slight difference
as to time. He used to work all day on the
shop-board at the back of the premises in Thread-
needle-street, along with another workman, a Ger-
man like himself, named Hen. Whether he got
any other employ during the week which elapsed
between the time of his discharging himself and the
day of the murder does not appear.
On the night of the murder he let himself into the
nouse in Old Ford-road, Bonner's-fields, by means
of a latch-key, at about eleven o'clock. Mr Blyth,
being in bad health, had already gone to bed, as

had the rest of the family likewise. - Muller lighted

candle, and went up ataire to bed. Nothing was
neard either that night or subsequently to excite a

.aapicion that anything was wrong. He came down
to breakfast as usual on the Sunday morning, and
the family observed nothing the matter with his
clothes which led them to think that they had been
washed or that he bad been in a struggle or row.
He had previously intimated to Mrs Blytb his in-
tention to try to get to New York or to Canada,
where he said he had some friends; and he had
introduced to her his shopmate Heffa to succeed him
as a lodger in the room which he occupied. On the
Monday after the murder Heffa came to the house,
and slept there that right. It was on the Monday
afternoon that Mr and Mrs Blyth saw Muller had
got a new watchchain, and she jocularly remarked,
" Some people get on in the world. Ido not know
how they do it." Muller made no reply to the
remark, but said that he had bought the chain. She
saw that he had a watch, but she had no opportu-
nity ot looking at it closely. From that time until
the Thursday when he left the country she observed
no alteration in his manners. She had no rqeollee-
tion of the subject of the murder having been alluded
to by him. Ho complained of a sprain io
and he wore a slipper, in which he walked intoe
th
town ; but he had the sprain, and
be wore
slipper before the day of the murder. She .s
posi-
tive upon this point, and 3 ShoPalate Heft I
corroborates her in the maw.
Ipreserver. The
At no time was he ever known to have in his
possession such a thing as a life
police searched the place carefully, uly. but found no
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weapon belonging to hiw..f. lte
preserver, which he
kept hanging up r Miller, who longed
in the cars© house, bad a l
in his room. The accused man
could have possessed himself of this, and replaced
it. It has, therefore, been subjected to close ex-
amination, but no traces of blood or hair have been
detected open its surface. It is supposed that what-
ever weapon was uszd in the comlititi6iol3 of the

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where the murder was perpetrated. clifti;'..6-:r 0,
The time at which the murder V. . :',:pil'%77Q
was about five minutes past 10, and hei—kit• hi
and let himself into his lodgings at 11. lb must,
no doubt, have stepped from the train on to the six-
foot way when it was slackening its Speed to go
into the Hackney4wick Station. lie must have
passed down the embankment and got into White.'
post lane, and then on his way to his lodgings in
Park-terrace he would pass along wick-lane., in
close proximity to the Mitford Castle, into which the
body of his victim was removed by the parties who
found the wounded gentleman on the railway.

The Relief of the Casual and Vagrant Poor,

At a meeting of the elected vestry at the perish
of St. Mary, Lambeth, held last evening •st the
Vestry Hall, Kennington-green, presided over by
Mr Robert Taylor,
Mr F. DOULTON, M.P., called the attention of
tha vestry to a measure recently introduced into the
House of Commons by the President of the Poor-
law Board, the object of which was to throw upon
.the Metropolitan Board of Works the payment of
the expenses connected with a certain class of poor
relieved by the metropolitan parishes.
The bill
provided that each parish should keep an account
of the amount of relief afforded by it to the casual
or vagant poor between the hours of eight o'clock
in the evening and eight o'clock in the morning,
and that on their presenting a certified account
of the same to the Metropolitan Board of Works,
the latter should pay the same out of the General
Purposes Fund connected with it. He had nothing
to say against the principle of the measure, which.
he considered good, as it was the first step towards,
their obtaining an equalisation of the poor rat,e
over all the parishes, which he was sure they all !so
much desired. (Hear, hear.) But at the same tiz ae
there was a peculiarity attached to the meas a re,
which was this—the only fund for general purry,see
which the Metropolitan Board had the power of
raising was what was called the sewers rate, which
was a tax upon the owners of property, so t hat by
placing upon that fund this additional burdien, they
would be placing upon the owners of property that
which was at present paid by the occupiers. lie
did not mean to cavil about any great additional
burden it would be upon the sewers rate, but what
he hesitated at was the changing of the principle of
taxation from occupiers to owners. It was, he believed,
the intention of the Metropolitan Board to apply to
Parliament next session, by means of a new bill, or:
a clause introduced into an cld one, for power tote
levy a rate for the payment of their expenses otb.er
than that of the sewers rate, and the charge he I.)a d
referred to would come legitimately upon that fund.
In the meantime, however, he had considered it
proper to bring the matter before the vestry, and. to
ascertain their opinion respecting it.
Mr. FOWLER moved, " That the vestry request
their representatives in the House of Commons to
give the measure their support."
Mr. SWEET having seconded the motion,
Mr. RHODES expressed his approval of the mews
sure.

Mr. GILES complained of being asked to give
their assent to the measure without having seen it.
He understood that at a meeting of the -Marylebone,
Vestry it had been strongly objected to, and h
thought, therefore, they should have time to coup.
eider the matter.

The CHAIRMAN proposed that the matter should
wait for further consideration.

After some conversation the Chairman's sngges•
tion was adopted, Mr. Fowler's motion having been
withdrawn, and the matter dropped.
The CHAIRMAN, in reference to the inspection of

the main drainage works on Monday and Tuesday
next by the different metropolitae vestries, under
the superintendence of the Board of Works, said
that ample arrangements had been made for con.
veying the parties to the works by steamers which
would take up at the different piers, from Hunger..
ford downwards. It was expected that about 2,000
gentlemen wonld join in the inspection, end ar,
ran gements had also been mr de by the refreshment
department for the members of each vestry having a
compartment for themselves.

The .Accident on the Great Eastern Raili.vays

IlAnwica, Thursday Evening.

To-day the investigation into the circumstances
of tho accident to the ito:terdam train on the
Harwich branch of the Great Eastern 11.1ilway,
in which the engine and carriages were thrown
down the embankment, and the fireman, William
Wright, killed, and several of the passengers moreor
less injured, was resumed before Mr W. Codd,
coroner for Essex, in the National School-house,
Bracfi:4ld.

Joseph Wright said that ho was guard of the
train to which the accident happened. on Wednes
day, the 13th inst. The train left Harwich for
London at 2.51. The time of starting depended on
that of the arrival of the steamer from Rotterdam.
The train went on steadily at the rate of about 30
miles an hour, until it arrived within three-quarters
of a mile of Bradfield, when it suddenly left the
rails, and the engine and carriages tumbled down
the embankment. The speed did not seem to
him to be greater than usual. Captain Farley,
who was driving by at the time, examined the
line to sec how the accident had occurred, and wits
nese saw him pull one of the keys out from between
the rails and the chairs with his fingers. Somo of
them were loose, and one was rotten, but none
were out. Bat those were towards London, on a
part of the line Which the train had not reached.
Witness had not seen the engine "jump" off the
rails. He was quite satisfied that it had not jumped.
When the carriage was thrown off the line he was
pitched off his seat.
James Fisher, platelayer, said he had examined
the line on the morning in question, and it was then
in perfect condition. Eight trains passed after the
line was examined before the Rotterdam train.
The Coroner asked whether the lino was examined
after the passing of a train.
Mr Robertson said that a railway was kept in
such perfact working order that the passage of one
train over it could make no impression on it, and
therefore it was not necessary to examine it after
every passage.

Witness said that he had three miles of lines to
inspect, and he found it safe in every respect. It
was common to find the keys loose, in consequence
of their being shrunk up from the beat of tha

weather.
By Col. Yolland—There were seven sleepers to 18
feet. In April all the sleepers were not renewed, only
those that were decayed. The old sleepers that
were suffered to remain were fastened where they
needed it with iron spikes, and not with trenails as
elon the before. The new chairs were also secured by paeans
of iron spikes. For three or four years past it had
ibreoenn
sfpoiukneds .
The witness, in answer to Colon necessary
to replace treuails of Wood by
Yolland, said
that the traffic bad been greatly increased
line during the last six months, and in consequence
new bleepers had been put down, and instead of one
man per mile being employed, there were ten or
twelve.
Colonel Yolland said that the speed seemed to be
spoken of as excessive.
Tim Coroner said that, assuming 1
have been even 1 te Epecd to
forty miles ailh
it our, the rate could
not he called cxceE,sive, for if .
ti
avei
sa
t. were so, no one could
i 13? by an express at ncaL) -, , double the
pace.

G3lonel Yolland said that everything depended
on the state of the line,

Mr I.ti)b-ertsou said that the actual ditifar.ca from
Harwich to the plaeo of the accident was fluty 7;
miler!, end Kventeen minutes were occupied in,
getting over the groLtad. The rate was remarkably
moderate.

After other evidence,
The Coroner said that Col. Yollaud had not as
yet had sufficient time to take all the circumstances
of the occurrence into conside.tation before making
his report as to the cause of the accident. The court
would therefore now adjourn.
The proceedings were e.djourtird aceoruiogly.