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

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 Enston.square 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-stag
tion. The first face which was recog•A
nised by those who had the privilege of
being on the platform, was that of Inspector
Tanner, who gaardtd his window, that of the
carriage, carefully, so as not to allow even
a chance of escape.
He was taken to the police-station at Bow
examination will
a
street, and the &large of murder formally entered
against him y Inspector
osp
ro on Monday.'
.11•1

The Self-Accused Murderer of Mr. Briggs,

EXAMINATION AND DIECHAE.GE-1 HIS DAY.
At the Worship-street Police-court, before Air Cooke,
this morning, George Augustus King was charged on
remand upon his own confession with being concerned nith
Muller in the murder of Mr Briggs.

Mr B. J. Abbott said that since the last occasion the
evidence that could be produced was strongly in favour of
the prisoner, but his conduct was by no means satisfactory.
Thomas Itichbat, a ticket collector at Fenchurcb.-street,
said ho saw the late Mr Briggs at the foot of the North
London stairs at a (platter to ten on the night of tha
murder.

11,1 r Vann, on the part of the accused, said that when ho
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 cm-
traordinary letter to Mr Brigge, 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 3 mild for
such wretches. He (prisoner) having assisted in conveying
the body of the late Mr Briggs to the Mitford Arms, de-
clared that he had been nearly run over by a passing train
while on the line, and he hoped, as he had lost three or fouK
days' work, that he should receive a trifle from Mr Briggs•
Mr Leigh, gentleman, of Hackney, said ho 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 ono of those
two,

Mr Inspector Honey said the prisoner had been on tha
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 forcing themselves upon the public.
The prisoner was discharged.

LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening,

FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 16.

It is horeby notified that E srl Russell, K.G., her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
has received from Mr \Valsham, in charge of her Mojesty'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) D 1 azt~tiLiAx.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT 15.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint his
Excellency the Right 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
AmbassadorExtraordinaryand Plenipotentiary to the Em-
peror of All the Russias.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
his Exceliency 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. 5.

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 cf York,
gentleman, her Royal licence and authority that he may,
in compliance with a condition in the last will and testa-
meat of John Wigglesworth, of Brandon aforesaid, de-
ceased, henceforth 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'AtrAires at Saint Petersburg, enclosing
a copy of a Rwsian Imperial Order fixing the duty on un-
cleaned rice imported into Saint Petersburg by sea, at 30
copecs the pod.

ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 15.
The undermentioned Commanders have been promoted
to the rank of Retired Capt.in from the Ist July, 1864,
under the provisions of the Order in Council of the 9th
July, 1864;—Henry St. John Georges, William Montagu
Isaaeson George Pasco, Herbert Grey Austen, Robert
Jenner, and Robert Phillips,

Alexander Kent, was promoted to the rank of Paymas•
ter-in-Chief on the Retired List, on the Septeuaber,
1864.

BANKRUPTS,

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im
portance in the Gazette :
E ;ward Parr, coal merchant, Leamington
Fredk. Will;ams, grocer, Plymouth
Henry Hif-theock, grocer, New Cross-road, Surrey
William Reed, builder, West Ham, Essex
Francis Brown, glazier, 13.0-ton-under-Need wood
Horace Fuller, horse dealer, Canterbury
Tiv,mas Bulmer, plumber, Kingland-road
Richard Styles, fishmonger, liingsland
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Cheshire
Wm. Fryer, contractor, Gateshead Low Fell
John Wilkinson, farmer, Strensall
John F. Davis, auctioneer, Peterborough
"W. G. Parbery, grocer' orthampton
SU/ICH BANKRUPTS.
George Riddoch, merchant, Aberlour, Banffshire
James Scott, farmer, Rochallie, Perthshire
John Campbell, merchant, Thurso