The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-26 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

Thero was a large supply of foreign stock on offer in our
market to-day. The best beasts, sheep, and calves sold
steadily, at full quotations; otherwise, the trade ruled
heavy, on lower terms.
The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our grazing districts
were moderately extensive, but, for the most part, in mid-
dling condition. From Scotland the receipts were limited,
but the supply from Ireland was on the increase. Prime
Scots, &0., were in good request, at very full prices ; other-
wise the trade was heavy, at late rates. The top figures
were 5s 2d to 5s 4d per 81bs.

From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire
we received 2,800 short horns, &c,; from other parts of
England, 900 various breeds; from Scotland, 35 Scots and
crosses ; and from Ireland, 450 oxen and heifers. _

There was a full average number of sheep in the pens.
Good and prime-breeds were readily disposed of, at the ex-
treme prices of Monday last. Inferior stock was less active,
at, in some instances, a decline in the quotations of 2d per
81bs. A. few very superior Downs sold at 5a 8d per 81ba.
Calves, the supply of which was only moderate, changed
hands slowly, at late rates, viz., from 4s to Os per 81bs.
There was an improved sale for pigs, on rather higher
terms ; at least a moiety of the beasts and sheep here to-day
were beneath the middle quality.

Per Bibs, to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 81Primecrs-weel d 0.5 2 5 4
Second quality do. 3 10 4 6 PmesSithdowndo.s 6 5 8
Prime large oxen 4 8 5 0 Large orse. calves 4 0 1
Prime Scots, etc. .5 2 5 4 Prime small do 4 10 5 0
Crse. & inf. sheep 4 0 1 4 Large hogs 3 6 4 4
Second quality do. 4 8 5 0 Small porkers 4 8 4 10
Lambs....os Od to Os Od.
Suckling calves, 16s to 21s , and quarter-old store pigs,
20s to 26s each.
TOTAL BUPYLY.

FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts
Sheep ..... ... 10,130
Calves
Pigs

Beasts
Cows..
Sheep .. 28,790
Calves 336
rigs 590
The total imparts of foreign stoct into London, last week,
amounted to 22,424 head. In the corresponding week in
1863,we received 17,372—in 1862,13,477—in 1861, 11,763
—in 1860, 8,672—in 1859, 8,563—in 1858, 7,160.
IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.

From _ Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Antwerp — .. -- .. .. 48 .. 84
Bremen .. 122 .. 122 .. -- ..
80u10gne...... .. -- .. - .. •-- .. 54
Jersey:• •. 2 .. .. .. ..
Dordt. 6O .. 668 .. .. ..
Dunkirk - .. .. .. --- .. 142
Gibraltar — .. - .. - .. "-- .. ---
Hamburg - .. .. 40
Harlingen
Medemblik -
Nieu Diep -- .. -- .. -- .. -- .. --
Ostend - 01 - .. - .. 36 .. --
Rotterdam
Tonning 2363 ~ 2451 .. 279 .. ..

Boasts.

Total .... 4131 .. 15,031 .. 646 .. 863 ..1753
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lembo. Calves. Pigs.
1863.. 2842 11,773 .. 549 .. 879 .. 1329
1862 1900— .. 16,362 .. 215 .. 222 .. 778
1861 .. 2283 .. 7,682 .. 246 .. 693 854
1860 .... 1413 .. 5,539 .. 60 .. 631 .. 1030
1859 1638 .. 6,294 .. 65 .. 263 .. 253
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan
Cattle Market on Monday, Sept. 28, 1863, and this day,
Monday, Sept. 26, 1864.
Per 81b. to sink the offal.
Sept. 28,
1863.
Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 2to 3 6
Second:quality do
Prime large oxen .. 4 4 4 6
Prime Scots, &c :4 8 410
Coarse and inferior sheep 3 6 4 0
Second quality do .. 4 2 4 6
Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 410
Prime Southdown do.
Lambs
Largo coarse calves .. 3 4 4 0
Prime small do.
Largo hogs
Neat small porkers 4 6 410
Beasts ..
Sheep and lambs
Calves
Pigs.. .. 450
Surriazs ON SALE, Sept. 29, 1862.—8
sheep, 25,270—calves, It7—pigs, 510.
SErr. 30, 1861.—Beasts, 6,oBo—sheep, 23,680—calves,
169—pigs, 570,

3 ito 3 8
310 4 6
48 5 0
512 5 4
40 4 4
48 5 0
52 5 4
56 5 8
00 0 0
40 4 8
410 5 0
36 4 4
4 8 410
6,690
24,230

.405
630
leasts, 6,230

Witness—On the Monday morning when he showed me
the chain. I will not swear the prisoner wore the dark
trousers on the Monday or the Tuesday prior to the 9th of
July. I first heard of the railway outrage in the weak fol-
lowing—about Tuesday, to the best of my recollection. I
also heard there was a large reward offered for the discovery
of the murderer. I never said anything to the police about
the murder until two gentlemen came to me. When the
prisoner went away, he had nearly a new pair of boots. I
know he has had a coat, but I did not see it.
Mr Giffard—How do you knew he had a new coat ?
Witness—l have heard the prisoner say so.
Godfrey Ferdinand Repsch said—l saw
prisoner at
my house on Saturday the 9th of July. He then wore a
morning coat and dark trousers—brown and grey, any
colour, every colour. (Laughter.) the
Mr Beard—Let that be taken down.
Witness—l cannot stay positively; there was brown in
the colour I know. I recollect the prisoner coming to my
house or the following Monday. He then wore a new hat.
I said `•You've got a new hat." My missis also said to him
"You are very extravagant to have a new hat on." Prisoner
said he had had the hat a couple of months. I told him it
was a very good hat. I asked him what it cost, and he told
me 14s 6d, and said it was a good hat and worth a guinea.
He then wore a single-breasted coat and light trousers. He
remained at my house that day till about 1 o'clock, but I
saw him every day after until he sailed for America.
Mr Giffard—Did you ever see the prisoner in tho dark
trousers after the Saturday you speak of ?
Mr Beard—l object to your using the word " dark "
trousers, the witness says
Mr GLlfard—l don't wish to call them dark trousers if
you object. Did you ever see the prisoner in tho trousers
Sept. 26, Ihe wore on the 9th of July after that day ?
1864. Witness--No. they were all colours.

Cross-examination continued—l know he had some new
clothes about two months before the conversation took place
about the hat. I can't say I ever saw him again in the
trousers he worn on the Saturday. When I had the conver-
sation with prisoner about the hat I never turned up the
lining to see whether there was a name in it,
Mr Giffard—What trousers had the prisoner on when you
saw him on the Monday ?
I cannot tell you
Witnese—Light ones. They are not the same he had on
on the Saturday.
What trousershad he on on the Tuesday ?
undertake to
The same as he wore on the Monday—light ones: I
gwhilblourhood that
cannot recollect what he wore on the Wednesday.
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in answer to Mr Beard, said—l cannot tell you
you please.
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Witness—lt was 18 -)0, I think.
known the prisoner about two years. Ho worked for Mr
Wild, a tailor, in Toolerstreet. Mr Wild is my brother-
Eliza Mathews, wife
in-law. It was while he was so employed that he first came
to our house. 1 recollect his coming to our place on Mon-
day, the 11th of July, between two and three o'clock. He
said he had come direct from Mr Rol:lschia to wish us good
bye, previous to going to New York. About 4 o'clock, as
the ch ldren were coming from school, I got the tea ready.
He made no observation about my husband.
Ho said the
firm (Mews. Hodgkinson) was going to send him out, and
that they were going to pay him £l5O per annum. He
said ho should like to have his salary hair
yearly. He said
nothing more than that ho had come to say good bye. I
recollect he said ho had met with an accident, and that the
firm was paying the doctor during his illness. I paid him
3s. that day for a small parcel of tea he brought me a few
weeks previously. my sister, Mrs Mabbs, was present
when I paid him.
Mr Flower— Was she present during the conversation,
or only part of the time.
Witness—She came in just as wo had done our tea, so she
only heard part of the conversation.
Examination continued—Mrs. Mabbs also paid her
Is. eid. Prisoner was then wearing a new
albcrt chain. Ho took it off and put it into
my hand, and asked me what I thought of it.
At first I thought it was not a good one, as the gold was
so light. I told him I did not like it as well as his old one,
and he replied " The chain is a very nice 0n0.,, lie then
attached the chain on his waistcoat and put his hand into his
pocket; he took out a cardboard box and said " that is the
box the chain was in," lie gave it to my little girl. I
saw the name of Death on it, and I remarked that he was
a good jeweller. My little girl had the box playing with
the whole ut the aiteraouri. I also olmerved that he had a
ring on his finger with a white cornelian stone, upon which
a head was engraved. He held out his hand for mo to
look at it, and said his father had cent it him from Ger-

many. I asked him if it was a family likeness, and he
said it was not. He left our house about six in the even-
ing, and I walked some distance with him towards the om-
nibus. Prisoner walked slow and lame. I bade him good-
bye, and the prisoner then said he thought he should come
on the following morning to see my husband. The next
day, about half-past eight in the morning, my husband trod
accidentally upon the little box. He made some observa-
tion as he picked up the box, and I then put it into a
drawer. My husband came homo on the Monday night
following, about 10 o'clock at night, and I then gave the
box to him.

Mr. Flowere—Did prisoner say when he had met with
the accident.
Witness—Yes. He said he met with the accident on the
Monday previous to the Saturday, by a letter-cart ruining
over his foot at London Bridge.
Cross-examined--I don't know that I owed the prisoner
more than three shillings. I can swear that I don't own
him any more. I have been married t) Mathews 12 years.
John Henry Glass—l reside at 91, Henry-street, Hemp-
steadt-aa '$ and lam a tailor. lam in the employ of Mr.
Hodgkinson. I have known the prisoner about four years.
On Thursday the 12th of July ho came to me in the shop,
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and asked me if
I would buy a watch. He showed me a gold one.
He said that he had also got a chain, but that it was
in pawn for £l. He told me ho wanted money to go to
America, and that was the reason he asked me to purchase
the we' ch and chain for £4, because he could then go abroad.
I told him to come on the following Wednesday morning,
which he did about 9 o'clock. We both went to the pawn-
broker's and redeemed the chain. It was at a shop kept by
a Mr Barker. He afterwards went to Cox's, near Leicester-
square, and there the watch and chain were pawned by the
prisoner for £4. The prisoner actually pawned the things.
I took the ticket and he the money. It was pawned in m 3
name. I gave him 5s more for the ticket, so altogether I
had advanced £lss, as I had to pay the money to take out
the chain. We then parted, prisoner saying he was going
to the London Docks to get a ticket for New "fork, and
he should come and bid me good-bye before he went ; and
he did so the same day about six o'clock in the evening.
This was on the Wednesday following the 9th.
Mr Gifford, of 4, Queen's-square, Finsbury, assistant to
Messrs Grinnell, shipowners—They have an office at the
North Quay of the London Dock, I open it about 9 in
the morning. I recollect the prisoner coming there on the
13th of July last, about 11 o'clock in the morning. He
asked the price of the passage to New York, and I told
him LI. He asked when the ship sailed. and I replied to-
morrow. He then went away. I was on duty at that office
on the previous Monday. If any person came to inquire
about a passage on that day I should have been sure to see
him. Nothing had passed between us relative to the pas-
sage to,New York before the Wednesday. On that day he
returned to our office about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and
said, " I've come to pay my fare," and laid down LI, for
which I gave a contract ticket. [The contract ticket pro-
duced is the one I delivered to the prisoner.] After this
ho went away, but returned, to the best of my belief, about
half-past 3, and brought his luggage. It consisted of
three parcels—two large and one small. I took no-
tice of one—it was done np in canvas—and
about 18 inches long and 9 wide. It did not appear to me
to contain a hard substance. He had a box, but I did not
see it. He asked me to take charge of his parcels, but I
refused. Ho then took them away, and I told him he would
have to leave them with Smith, the foreman of the docks.
The next day the prisoner came to the vessel, the Victoria,
and went aboard, and was so when she hauled away. She
went into Shadwell Basin that afternoon, and on Friday
morning she sailed. I went with her as far as Gravesend.
The vessel went right on, with the prisoner on board.
By Mr Beard—l am not alway sat the office, sometimes
lam on board the ships. There is a Gorman porter in the
office who would answer inquiries during my absence.
Mr Flower—Were you absent at all on the Monday ?
Witness—l might have been called away.
Mr Flower—And remained some time, I suppose?
Witness—Yes, sir.

Thomas Bacon, assistant to Mr Cox, pawnbroker, pro-
duced a gold watch and chain pawned by the prisoner.
[These were identified by the witness Glass as those he
purchased.] The articles were pledged for £4. I took them
in, but I cannot identify the prisoner as the person who
pledged the articles.
The watch and chain here spoken of were those belong-
ing to the prisoner, and not those stolen from the late Mr
Briggs.
Mr Diganee—l am a hatter, and carry on business at the
Royal Exchange. Mr Briggs was a customer of mine, and
had been so for five and thirty years. I have made every
hat he has worn during that period. I took an order from
him in 1863. It was on the 24th of September—the parti-
culars are entered in my book. The hat was made expressly
for him, and sent home a few days after.
Mr. Giffard—Will you just look at the hat which has
been cut down,
"Witness—The hst produced is a bell crowned hat, similar
to that I supplied Mr Briggs with in 1863. I have com-
pared the measurement of the hat with tho figures entered
in my book, and it corresponds in every particular. The
hat when it was sent home was found to be a trifle too large,
and the next day Mr 131 iggs came into the shop, and I
pasted a piece of tissue paper underneath the leather inside the
hat. I find the piece of paper has been removed, but small
fragments of it remain adhering to the hat, which clearly
shows there had been tissue paper all round. The hat is now
shorter than it was when it left my shop. It hes been cut
down from one inch to an inch and a half. It has not been
done as a hatter would do it. It is very nicely done by an
inexperienced hand. It is now stitched on. It a hatter
had had to effect such an alteration he would have used a
composition for such a purpose. When a hat is made to
order we always put the name of the person for whom
it is made inside it, just by the band. The place
where I should have placed it in the hat
now before me is gone with the part which
has beers cut off. Mr William Thorne is the name of the
person who actually manufactured the hat.
By Mr Beard—lt is not an unusual thing to put tissue
paper inside hats. 'When the hat is too large at the side
we place tissue paper in that part. I never saw the hat
after I put the paper inside until it was shown to me. We
sometimes give the old hate left at our shop away. The
hat now in my hand is a genuine hat.

Mr GiffArd—You have the hat now in your hand ; will
you swear that it is the one you made for Mr Briggs.
Witness—l will not undertake to swear that if the pieces
that has been cut away were here I could then say whether
or no.

Mr Beard—Or, I suppose, you mean to say it would en-
able you to speak more positively.

W fitness—Yes.

Frederick William Thorne—l am a hat manufacturer. I
made the hat now put into my hand. It has my private
mark inside. I furnished the hat for Mr Diganco.
Mr Giffard—ls it in the same state now as when you
furnished it.

Witness—Certainly not ; it has been cut down.
Mr CTiffard—ls the work done as a hatter would do it ?
Witness-No; a hatter would have used composition
and varnish. Tho shortening of the hat now before me
had been sewed round, and not done in any respect like a
a workman would effect such an alteration.
Mr Flowers—Do you think the sewing is neatly done ?
Witness—Yes, sir, I should say it is vet)/ neatly done.
Mr Samuel Tituiarsh—l reside at Church-street,
Hackney, and am a watchmaker. I know the late Mr
Briggs as a customer for the last seven or eight years. The
witness here examined the watch handed to him by Inspec-
tor Tanner with his glass, and immediately afterwards ho
said—l now know that this watch was the property of the
late Mr Briggs. I had the watch to clean on the Gth of
February, 1863, on which occasion I made some figures
inside the case which still remain there.
Mr Thomas Fishbourne, of Lucas street, Commercial-
road—l am a ticket colleotor at the Fenchurch-street
station of the Blackwall Railway. I attend at the bottom
of the stairs leading to the North London Railway trains.
I knew the late Mr Briggs by sight. I saw him on Satur-
day night, the 9th of July, at a quarter to ten. He spoke
to me.
Mr Giffard—Do you recollect what he said ?
Mr Beard—l must object to that,
Mr Giffard—lt is immaterial, and therefore I shall not
press it.
Witness—My attention was o ailed to the outrage on the
Sunday afternoon. I then went to Bow with Sergeant
Lambert, and from thence to Mr Briggs's house at Hackney.
rolice-constable 71 H said—l was on duty in Wick-lane,
Bow, on the 9th of July last. I heard a cry of a man on
the line. I afterwards saw several persons carry the body
of a gentleman to the Mitford Arms. I searched the body.
I found the shirt much disordered. There was a black stud
in it. There were £4 and some keys in one of the pockets,
but I have returned the keys to the bank. In the right hand
trousers pocket was 8s in silver, and in the side pocket various
,letters and papers, by which I was enabled to ascertain
who he was. The gentleman had a diamond ring on the
small finger of the left hand. There was a new sort of
watch-fastening on one of the waistcoat button-holes, but
as I did not know how to got it out I loft it there. I have
measured the 'spot at which the body was found, and I
found it is 1,434 yards from Bow station, and 740 from the
Hackney Wick station. The entire distance from Bow to
Hackney Wick is 1 mile 414 yards.
The Court here adjourned for ten minutes.
On the reassembling of the Court,
Benjamin Haines was called—Ho said, I am a guard on
the North London Railway. I was the guard of
the train
that left Fenchurch-street at 9 50 p.m. on the 9th of July
last. The train was five minutes late at starting. The
same train goes add returns at that hour. On our return.
ing to Hackney in about half a minute after the train had
stopped, my attention was called to a first-cfass Carriage near
the engine. I got my lamp from the break soon, and when I
got back I found the gentleman waiting who had first called
my attention to the carriage. When I saw the carriage
first the door was open, and I found blood on the near side
cushion, and saw blood also trickling down the glass win-
dow. The handle of the cff side dour had blood on it. The
door was fast. I know the haudlo had blood on it, because
when I touched it I felt a dampness on my hand, which
on getting to the light I found to be blood. I Lund
the hat, bag, and walking-stick in the carriage. :1 left
them there, locked the carriage up, telegraphed to Chalk
Farta, and on arrival there I taw Mr. Greenwood. I

pointed out the carriage to him, and gave him possession
of the articles. I then proceeded to Bow, whE re
the carriage was placed in a shed, where it now remains.
It has never been used since. The train on that evening
took three minutes and a half to run from Bow to Hackney
Wick.

Mr Greenwood, station-master at the Chalk Farm station
of the North London Railway—On the night of the 9th of
July the last witness showed the interior of a first-class
carriage of the train of which he was the guard. I took
the hat, bag, and walking stick therefrom, and delivered
them to the police the next morning.

The case was still proceeding when we went to press.

THE INQUEST-THIS DAY.

This m( ruing Mr Humphreys, the coroner for East
Middlesex, resumed the inquiry touching the death of MI
Briggs, alleged to have been murdered en the 9;h of July
on the North London Railway. Although so early an hour
as 8 o'clock was fixed for the commencement of the pro•
ceedings, a large crowd assembled outside the Hackney
Town-hail, in the hope of catching a glimpse of Muter,
who, it had been arranged, would be in attendance fir the
purpose ct hearing read over the evidence which had been
taken on previous days. The inquest room was densely
crowded.

Precisely at 8 o'clock Muller was brought into the inquest
room in custody of Inspector Tanner. He was brought
from the House of Detention in the prison van, and on
reaching the Town-hall he was received with lout execra •
tions. On entering the inquest room he at once entered
into earnest conversation with Mr Beard, his solicitor, on
whose application witnesses were ordered out of court.

George Blythe said that Muller lodged in his house. He
saw him on Saturday, the 9th July. On the following day
they walked out together. He wore the dress ho had been
in the habit of wearing. He recognised Muller in Court.
By Mr Beard—He wore the same clothes on Sunday as
he had worn on Saturday.

By a Juror—Lie did not know whether he had any change
of linen.

Mrs Blythe, who was examined on a previous occasion,
was recalled, and identified Muller. She said he had six
new shirts when he left.

Matthews the cabman, Mrs Matthews, Haifa, Sergeant
Clarke, Inspector Tanner, and Mr John Death identified
Muller as the person to whom they had referred in their
evidence.

Mr T. Briggs said his father usually wore his necktie
in a bow, and at the time of the occurrence he wore a
mourning band on his hat. He believed that the hat which
had been produced and inspected was his father's.

The Coroner said this was the evidence on mhich he
should wish the jury to consider their verdict. The inquiry
had extended over several days, and possibly some of it
might have escaped their recollection. The Coroner then
proceeded to read the testimony of the various witnesses,
commencing with that of Mr Thomas Briggs, Muller lis-
tened with marked attention to the evidence, and several
times made remarks to Mr Beard on the subject of it. It
will be remembered that Mrs Buchanan, the niece of the
deceased, said in the course of her evidence that she knew
a person who had asked her uncle for a loan, which had
been refused. That person had declared he would do her
uncle an injury. This evidence seemed particularly to at-
tract Muller's attention, who evinced much astonishment
while it was being read.

On arriving at the evidence of Mr Leigh, who stated that
he saw two persona in the carriage with the deceased on the
night of the murder, that gentleman, at the request of the
jury was recalled, and in answer to questions, said he could
not identify Muller as one of those persons.
A juror suggested that Muller might put on the hat
which was found in the carriage.

Muller put on the hat and stood up, but Mr Leigh could
not identity him. _ _

Mr Beard—Can you describe the two men you saw in the
carriage ?

Mr Leigh—The man who sat by the side of Mr Briggs
appeared to be a tall man with whiskers, but I only saw
him for a moment.

Mr Beard—Had he dark whiskers ?

Mr Leigh—Yes. I think so. (Muller has scarcely any
whiskers, and what he has are very light.)
Mr Beard—Describe the other man?

Mr I,eigh—He was a slighter man with light whiskers.
Mr Beard—About what age ?

Mr Leigh—l cannot say.
In answer to a juryman, Mr Leigh said he could not
tell whether the man had dark or light whiskers, or
whether he had any whiskers at all, as he only saw
him for a moment.

Mr and Mrs Repsch were called and identified Muller
as the person they had referred to in their evidence.
The Coroner having finished the evidence, cautioned
Muller in the usual way, and asked him his name and age ?

He said his name was Franz Muller, and that he was 24
years of age.
The Coroner asked him whether he had anything to say
or any questions to put to the witnesses who had been
examined
Muller—l have nothing to say now.
The Coroner said that under those circumstances the pri-
soner might ba removed from the court. He was then con-
veyed away in the prison van amidst loud yells from the
crowd.
When order had been restored,

The Coroner then commented upon tho evidence,
tracing the deceased from the house at Peckham, where he
had dined, until the time he was fonnd on the railway.
Adverting to the medical evidence, ho said it was clear that
some of the injuries from which Mr Briggs suffered were
caused by blows, while others were occasioned by the fall
from the carriage, With regard to two persons being in the
carriage with Mr Briggs when Mr Leigh saw him, he did
not attach much importance to it, as there was ample tine
foe either of the persons to get out. He next commented
upon the discovery of the hat, the exchange of the chain,
&c., at Mr Death's, and the confirmatory et' 'ence which
was supplied on Muller's capture by the officers of jut.
tico. At the same time, they must remember
that Muller had a fortnight previously announced his
intention of going to America; but then, again, he had not
sufficient money to pay his passage, which accounted for
his desire to possess it. Looking at all the circumstances,
he thought the jury could not come to any other conclusion
than that Mr Briggs died from violence, and it would be
for them to say whether the evidence was sufficiant to
connect any person with the murder, for it was either a
murder or nothing.
The jury retired, and, after an absence of 20 minutes,
returned and found—" That the deceased died from the
effects of great violence administered in a railway carriage
9th of July last, and that Francis
e Mullere niisg
htthoof thepe rson by whom the murder was
committed. The jury, while passing their verdict,
take this opportunity of expressing their disapprobation
at the present state of railway accommodation as affording
facilities for the perpetration of various crimes and offences,
and earnestly desire to call the attention of the Home Go-
vernment to the subject, and to the necessity of enforcing
the adoption by railway companies of some more efficient
system of protection to life, character, and property."
The Coroner then made out his warrantlfor the committal
of Muller.

Drury-lane Theatre,
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• On Saturday evening Messrs. Falconer and Chatterton
commenced their season with great (vial. During the re-
cess the interior of the theatre has been re-embellished, and
many improvements have been made in the fiont of the
house, all of which greatly add to the comfort of the patrons
of Old Drury. The joint lessees have engaged a company
of unrivalled excellence, embracing the names of Mr Cres-
wick, Mr H. Marston, Mr Walter Lacy, Miss Helen Faucit
(Mrs Theodore Martin), and Mrs Hermann Vtzin, the
whole being placed under the direction of Mr Phelps, whose
serNices have been scoured for the entire season. The groat
success of Shakspere's play of " Henry IV." last season,
rendered a novelty for the commencement of the present
campaign unnecessary, thus we had a repetition of that
play in the opening night, with almost the same cast of
characters. The most important alteration was the assump-
tion of the character of Hotspur by Mr Creswick, in place
of Mr 'Walter Montgomery, and without at all deprecating
the abilities of Mr Montgomery, we must candidly admit
that his successor proved the best suited to the part. It is
so long since wo have ,had the pleasure of witnessing Mr
Creswick in a part really worthy of his abilities as a genuine
actor that it was with real gratification we found his name
on the bills on the opening night, and without entering into
an elaborate and detailed criticism of his rendering
of the fiery Hotspur, we may sum up our praise of
the part by briefly saying it was a fine performance.
and one which gave general satisfaction. On Mr Phelps's
Sir John Falstaff we have already pronounced a very high
opinion, and therefore we need only on the present occasion
remark that it was marked by all those evidences of deep
study which invariably accompany all the characters repre-
sented by this great artist. The scene in the tavern at
Eastcheap was given with more than usual point and ex.
eellence ; the audience seemed thoroughly to enter into the
spirit of the play, and the applause at its termination was
general and enthusiastic. Mr W. Lacy re-appeared as
Prince Henry, and met with a very warm reception, while
that general favourite, Mr Henry Marston, received the
same meek of favour on his appearance as the King. The
part of the Daughter of Glendower was sustained by
Miss Arabella Smyth; and although she had the dis•
agreeable task of singing a Welsh song after pretty little
Miss Wynn, she acquitted herself in a manner which was
highly satisfactory to the audience. " The Battle of
Shrewsbury,' was given with all its pristine splendour, and
the curtain descended amidst the most enthusiastic ap-
plause. The play was preceded by the capital farce, "Au
April Fool," in which Mr G. Belmoro created the u'most
merriment, and followed by another entitled "Beauty and
the Beast," which introdUced the other members of the
company. The house was filled in every part, bar
fifes
Falconer and Chatterton have every reason to be satisfied
with the successful inauguration of their winter season.
The first revival of tho season will take place next Sa-
turday evening, when the second part of " Henry the
Fourth" will be performed.

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