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

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July 27.—Owing to the near approach
of the settlement there has been but little business
done, but the market is DUE rtheless firm, and prices
show but slight variation. Threes, for the Account,
opened at 661. 10c., and are now at 66f. 121 c. Mo-
bilia now stands 9921. 50e. Riilway Shares are
firm. The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents. 24 35
Do. end
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 05
Credit Mobiher 986 25
Do. end month 985
Bank Shares 337.5
Credit Fancier 1200
Roman ......

'ltalian Loan 6B 05
Do. end month 6B 05
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican ~.. 56a
Russian
Austrian .. B3 50
Spanish Threes., 5O 50
Rome Debt
Deferred

RAIL

'AYE).
Cesh. Account.
Orleans - 875 .. 873 75
Northern. 977 60 ~ 876 25
Lyons and Mediterranean 890 .. 893 75
New ditto
Southern ..... ... 640 .. 610
Western
Eastern ..... ~,•,.. 475 --- .. 475
Sardinian
Austrian .
LOlrbard - 525 .. 528 75
North 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. Ono 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 ho 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.
Ho 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 whell he wanted one is preference to the
railway.

By the dire of the coroner and jury, the officials of the
North London Railway have caused the line to be measured
from ftho Bow station to the spot where the body of Mr
Briggs was found. It measures er..actly 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
considerable 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 21 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 tho road from the sewer to the
Mlford 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. In 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-
wick 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 cf 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 left well behind; and this would have
still further diminished the One in which the murderer
must 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 14e-
come acquainted with the fact cf 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 for
blood and other stains. The result of the examination has
not, of course, been made known.

DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE.—A miner left St.
Austell, Cornwall, a few years ago, leaving at
home a wife and daughter, with the intention of bettering
bis 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 war
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 ho was married to another woman, At the end of two
days the Australian wife gave up her claim on the receipt of
£2OO. The legal wife, who was a very respectable woman,
has intimated her intention of refunding what she received
from the parish.

TT

THE PRECINCT OP THE SAVOY, notwithstanding
the decline and fall of the hospital, its chief struc-
ture, contained:many commodious houses, and held a busy
population. The King's presses were maintained here, and
here ail proclamations, acts of Parliament, and gazettes
were issued. Here, too, the Looks of the Royal Society,
and other contributions to popular and scientific literature,
were produced, as we learn from the title page of the Anglia
Notilia, 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 St. Paul's-church-
yard, in the year 1671. Besides the royal chapel of the
Savoy, which was assigned to the parish of St. Mary-1e-
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 draw 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 cut 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 lralc, , • • ,
A var steamer,' apprienily ram,
carrying the Federal American flig, was seen on Tuesday
afternoon steaming pea the Isle of Wiglat to the westward.

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Clurt. eirtilbt

HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, July
Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Beatrice,
drove out yesterday. Major-General Seymour was in
attendence.
Royal Highness tho Duke of Cambridge, attended
by Colonel Clifton, arrived at Osborne from -London
yesterday evening.

The Prince and Princess of Wales at
Goodwood.

Yesterday morning, at ten minutes to eleven, their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Widca, at-
tended by Captain Grey and Mrs F. Stoner, took their
departure from Frogmore House, and drove to the Windsor
station of the South-Western Railway, en route for Good-
wood, on a visit to the Duke of Richmond, whose guests
the royal party will remain till to .morrow (Friday), when.
the prince and princess aro expected to proceed to Osborne.
At eleven o'clock precisely the royal train left Windsor,
travelling at a fast pace along the South Western RailwaYs
via Staines, Feitham, Richmond, and Putney, to Clapham
Junction, 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 ➢lr Hawkins, the traffic manager of the Brighton and
South Coast Railway. The royal train left Clapham at
11.45, and proceeded on its route to Chichester, via Bel-
ham and Windmill Bridge to Reigate Junction, which was
made at 12.19 pm. Thencs the journey was continued by
way of Three Bridges and Ford Junction to the Chichester
station on the South Coast, where their royal highnesses
arrived about 1.39, Their royal highnesses reached Goa.-
wood about two o'cicok.

THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRIISSIA.—By his
Majesty's order, the customary prayers for the safe delivery
of the Crown Princess will bo offered up in the churcheo
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, in
Hampshire, on Thursday, August 4. His Royal Highness
Prince Louis of Hesse will probably be present.

Their Roy al Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and Princees Mary are expected to leave Cambridge Cottage:
Kew, about the middle of next month, on a tour.
The Dake and Duchess of Athole are expected
home early in November from North Amerka, where the
noble duke is doing duty with the let Battalion of the Scott;
Fusiliei 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 during
the noble earl's absence with the Countess of Ripal at
Putney.
The Earl of Suffolk mud Berkshire has arrived at

the Portland Hotel, Southsea, from London.
The Countess of Dunmore arrived at her residenCe
on Carlton-house-terrace on Tuesday evening from DO'
more Park, near Stirling, N.B.
Katherine Dowager Countess of Dundonald is
still at her residence at Neuilly, near Paris. Her ladyshiP
is prevented by severe indisposition from proceeding to
Vichy, as she intended•
Count and Countess de Flahault have arrived at
Coventry House, Piccadilly, from Germany. The nob
count and countess will shortly leave town on a visit to tbe
Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne at Bowood, and
then go to the countm's scat in Scotland for the shooting
season.

Viscount and Viscountess de Vesci and Hon.
Misses Vesci will leave their residence on Carlton-house
terrace for their seat in Ireland early in the ensuing
week.

The Baron de Maw), and the Baroness de Maui.
and family have left Thomas's Motel, Berkeley-square, for
Germany.
Lldy Llanover has had several receptions daring
the last week, including two afterno,on assemblies, with
dancing parties, and one evening dance, all of which were
numerously attended.

DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM BRERETON,
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, 1803. He had the honour of serving
continuous period of active service, from the early part of
the Peninsular war up to the occupation of Paris. The lat
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 ho commanded, He
served in the batteries at the siege of Sin Sebastian—was
present in the battles of Baressa, 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
frorn Burgos—at San Munos, near Salamanca, Helette,
St. Palais, Sauveterre, Aire, and Tarbes. He commanded
a division, as second iu command of the expedition under
Major. General d'Aquilar, which assaulted and took the
forts of the Bocca Tigris, in the Canton Rive:, those of
staked barriers, and of the city of Canton, when t:79 pieces
of heavy ordnance were spiked. On the outbreak of the war
with Russia. be prcceeded to the East, and took part in the
war, being on board her Majesty's ship Britannia under the
command of his relation, Vies-Admiral Sir James W. D'
Dundas, and directed the rockets fired against the foes and
city of Sebastopol in 1854. For a short period he held the
command of the Irish constabulary, and for a time well
commandant of the 4th brigade of the Royal Horse Artil-
lery. In 1838 he was made a companion of the Order of the
Bath, having the year previously been made a Knight of
the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. In 1861 the gallant_
officer was nominated a Knight Commander of the Order of
the Bath, in recognition of his military services. Sir
William had also contributed largely in a literary sense t°
his military renown by his writings on the improvement,
of artillery. The late general held the silver war medal with
six clasps, and the Crimean medal and clasp for Sebastop^l•
Hia commissions bore date as follows :—Second-lieutenant
May 10. 1805—first lieutenant, June 1, 18C6—captaieo
Sept. 30, 1816—brevet major, Jan. 21, 1819—brevet Bent -
colonel, Jay. 10, 1837—lieut.-colonel, Aug. 179 1843—'d
brevet colonel, Nov. 11, 1851—colonel, Jan. 24, 1554-44
major-general, Dec. 16, 1834.

THE FIRST ASSIZES IN MANCHESTER; These
assizes were held under a special commission
iu
October, 1694, being the sixth year of the reign of William
and Mary. Their object was the trial of Lord Molyneux,
three baronets, and four gentlemen, of this and the
adjoining county of Cheshire, on charges of high
treason, it being alleged against them that they bad
"imagined and intended the overthrow of this Govern-
ment, and the bringing in of foreign power," and that theY
had accepted several commissions, " levied men, provided
artus,and taken measures when and how to act." The trials
took place in the " Sessions House, which formerly stood
in the square opposite the present Exchange." All the
prisoners were acquitted, the jury believing that the
charge of a plot was concocted by a man named Leant, evh°
had been extensively engaged as a Jacobite agent. A g°°""
deal of detailed information respecting these trials will be
found in the 28th volume of the Chetham Society's publics'
tions.
AN AMERICAN ORDER.--,Gen. Taylor, the Conte`
derate commander in Louisiana, recently issued ail
order congratulating his men upon their achievements'
After giving a catalogue of their spoils, and so forth, he6ss',,fl'
—" Along 100 miles of his path the flying foe, with 00"
than savage barbarity, burned every house and villa€,,,!
within his reach. You extinguished the burning ruins 1-
his base blood, and were nerved afresh to vengeance by t."(itle
cries of women and children left without shelter or 10°- r
Long will the accursed race remember the great river ?ei
Texas and Louisiana. The characteristic hue of his turbi
or"
waters has a darker Hoge from the liberal admixture of fat
blood. The cruel alligator and ravenous garfish ev°l.s er. '
on rich food, and our native vulture holds high revery
many a festering corpse. If the stern valour of our we'
trained infantry was illustrated on the bloody fields of gall‘a
field and Pleasant Hill, this long pursuit has covered te'er.
cavalry of this army with undying renown. Like gellwo
roux hounds with the game in full view. you have lira
the
neither hunger nor fatigue, and the hoarse cannon, and to
t
ringing rifle have replaced in this stern chase the sonoro °
horn and the' joyous halloo. Whether charging cr). f:,3!,
shoulder to shoulder with our noble infantry, or
your squadrons on the masses of the foe, or hanging' °Olt,
flying columns with more than the tenacity of the C°6214,03
you have been admirable in all. Conquer your own vl,llO
and you can conquer the world. Our artillery has been'
admiration of the army. Boldly advancing, without
a
against the heavy metal of the hostile fleet; twill:3l)er De':
often without support, within range of musketry, or retscing
ing last on the field to pour grape and canister into acival'oey
columns, our batteries have been distinguished in !h
es()
proportion as opportunity was afforded. Soldiers o'nioia
aro great and noble deeds, and they will live in Char the
and in song as long as the Southern race exists to h° it of
the South languishes in the invader's grasP'
earth. But much remains yet to do. The fairest cil_e
sons mourn her fate in every land. The checks ofoiltrotel
daughters yet mantle with the blush raised by tb
_lour
tyrant's insult; not a Confederate soldier returns to hib.g throbe
from this sad Venice of the South but recounts witd
Ling hoard and tearful eye how, amidst danger au
jcis
these nob'e women—angels upon earth—cheered 1 :via
at bons.'
fiteement, and relieved his wants. To view the ,
lie her If7r
smiles of these fair dames will be a soldier's prou..deere
bt
the brightest leaf in his chaplet of laurels. Solat
,10(ot
though a
army marches towards New Orleans; and
s.
a,,
reach the goal, the hearts of her patriot women shall
high with joy, responsive to the echoes of your g