The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-17 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. I

GERMANY.

The Cologne Gazette of the 13th says—" The
States of Southern Germany appear to be resign%
ing themselves to the reconstitution of the Zollve.
rein. A letter from' Studtgard states that the
Minister of Finance urgently demands that the new
7.Alverein shall be adhered to before the Ist of
October, and the Kin?, of Wurtemberg is said to
have stated in private conversations that the nen.
acceptance of the Frencti Treaty of Cammoree was
impossible. In Bavaria M. de Schrenk, it is true, is
said to have declared that he would never affix his
signature to that document, but his refusal may be
got over. There is at present no Minister of Com.
merce in that country, although the Budget provides
for the formation of such a.ministrv, and grants
the funds of the Minister's salary. Oae will there -
fore be appointed who may sign the treaty without
that fact preventing M de Schrenk from remain-
ing President of the Council."

The Departure of Muller for London.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)

Inspector Tanner, with Muller, left Liverpool
his morning by the 9 o'clock express train, which
Ls due at Euston■Egnare at 2.30.

ARRIVAL OF MULLER AT BOW-STREET.
At 25 minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon
the Liverpool express train drew up to the
ticket platform of the London and North
•Western Railway near the Camden-sta•

tion. The first face which was recog•
nised by those who had the privilege of
being on the platform, was that of Inspector
Tanner, who gaarded his window, that of the
carriage, 'carefully, so as not to allow even
a chance of escape.

lie was taken to the police-station at now
street, and the charge of murder formally entered
against him by Inspector Tanner.
The examination will take place on Monday.

The Self-Accused Murderer of Mr. Briggs,

EXAMINATION AND DUCHARGE—TIIIS DAY.
At the Worehip-street Police-court, before Mr Cooke,
this morning, George Augustus King was charged on
remand upon his own confeesion with being concerned with
Muller in the murder of Mr Briggs.

Mr B. J. Abbott said that since the last OCCUIOII the
evidence that could be produced was strongly in favour of
the prisoner, but his conduct was by no means satisfactory.
Thomas Richbat, a ticket collector at Fenchureb.-street,
said he saw the late Mr Briggs at the foot of the North
London stairs at a quarter to ten on the night of the
murder.

Mr Vann, on the part of the accused, said that when he
was charged upon his own confession with being the mur-
derer, he also was charged as" drunk and incapable."
Mr Abbott said that the prisoner had written a most ex-
traordinary letter to Mr Briggs, jun., and, as it was in
court, perhaps it had better be read.
Mr Safford, clerk, then read the letter, which was sent
from Coburg-cottages, Ford-row, dated July 15, 1864. In
it the prisoner said that he condoled with the bereaved
family, and called down the vengeance of Heaven upon the
guilty murderer, as the law of the land was to mild for
such wretches. He (prisoner) having assisted in conveying
the body of the late Mr Briggs to the Mitford Arms, de-
dared that he had been nearly run over by a passing train
while on the line, and he hoped, as he had lost three or four
days' work, that he should receive a trifle from Mr Briggs.
Mr Leigh, gentleman, of Hackney, said he knew the
late Mr Briggs, and saw him at Bow on the night of the
alleged murder. There were two men in a first-class car-
riage with him, but prisoner was certainly not one of those
two.

Mr Inspector Honey said the prisoner had been on the
stage.

Mr Cooke told the prisoner that his own confession had
been upset by the most positive evidence, and he would be
discharged ; but he had been most properly punished, and
it was to be hoped that the result of this case would deter
other persons from foreinK themselves upon the public.
The prisoner was discharged.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evenings

FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 16.

It is hereby notified that Eul ltussell, K.G., her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affdira,
has received from Mr Walsham, in charge of her Majesty's
Legation in Mexico, a despatch, inclosing a copy of a
decree by which the blockade established in the Gulf
of Mexico and on the Pacific Coast of Mexico has been
raised.

The following is a copy of the decree above referred

The official journal published yesterday the following
decree, under date July 29 :
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico,
Desiring to afford to commerce a proof of the interest
which we take in its freedom and prosperity, we have de-
creed and do decree—
Art. 1. The blockade of all the ports of the Empire, both
in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Pacific, is raised.
Our Secretary of Finance, in communicating the present
decree to the Maritime Customs authorities, will transmit
to them the necessary instructions.
Given at the Palace of Mexico, July 29, 1864.
(Signed) MAXIMILIAN.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT 15.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint his
Excellency the ltight Hon. Sir Andrew Buchanan, K.C.8.,
now her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-
potentiary to the King of Prussia, to be her Majesty's
Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary to the Em-
peror of All the Russias.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
his Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Napier, Kt.,
now her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-
potentiary to the Emperor of All the Russias, to be her
Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to the King of Prussia.
DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 15.
The Queen has been pleased to ratify and confirm the
appointment of Hugh Williams Austin, Esq ,to be a
Member of the Privy Council of the Island of Jamaica:.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 6.
The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto
George Crowther, of Brandon Lodge, in the township of
Wigton, in the parish of Harewood, in the county t f York,
gentleman, her Royal licence and authority that he may,
in compliance with a condition in the last will and testa-
ment of John Wigglesworth, of Brandon aforesaid, de-
ceased, henctforth take and use the surname of Wiggles-
worth in lieu of that of Crowther :
And also to command that the said Royal concession and
declaration be recorded in her Majesty's College of Arms.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 14.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her
Majesty's Charge d'Aff.tires at Saint Petersburg, enclosing
a copy of a Russian Imperial Order fixing the duty on un-
cleaned rice imported into Saint Petersburg by sea, at 30
copecs the pod.

ADMIRALTY, SErr. 15.
The undermentioned Commanders have been promoted
o the rank of Retired Capt sin from the Ist July, 1864,
under the provisions of the Order in Council of the 9th
July, 1864 ;—Henry St John Georges, William Montagu
Isaaieson George Pasco, Herbert Grey Austen, Robert
Jenner, and Robert Phillips.
Alexander Kent, was promoted to the rank of Paymeg •
ter-in-Chief on the Retired List, on the sth September,
1864.