Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-07-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ADJOURNED INQUEST.  The adjourncd inane,t on the body of Mr Briggs. was re-opened at the ileatry-hall, Hackney, on Monday or.rning, before Mr Humphrey, the coroner fur East  The Coroner, who inemed to be soffiging from severe illness, said that both on the last occasion and on the present there were several witnesses in att •nda,ice who could give important evidence touching this lamentable affair, but he did not think it weuld serve the ends of justice to examine them. It would be obvious that for the same reasons he had not called them at the last sitting of the court. Mr Mirojen, who appeared for the friends of the dee( as d, int-tided to ask for an adjoin ament, anil unless the jury ohjecti-d to it he intended granting his request. lie (the Coroner) was suffering Iron severe illness, and bad left a sick hod to attend the inquest. All things considered he thought it would be bitter to adjourn for a fertnight, as even if he did heir the evidencr of the witnesses h had mentioned he did not think it would cat ry them much further. The foreman of the jury suggested that Mr Lee, the gentleman who saw Mr Briggs in the raii way cirriage on the night of the murder in company with two men, ought to be examined.  _ The Corner said he would comply with the suggestion, as it would place that gentlernao in a proper light b tfo..e the public. Mr Thomas Lee said he was an independent gentleman r silitig at Hackney, and travelled by the Hain in qttestion on the night of the !minim. He knew the deceased well, and constantly trav,lie • in his company on the Notth London line, fie saw Mr Briggs in the train whit waiting on the platform of the Bow station, and said t ) him, "Good night, Mr Briggs," to which the deceased gentleman replied with a similar salutation. Mr Briggs was in a r4-class carriage, sitting with his back to the engine, in company with two men. lie sat on the near side of the carriage, and one man sat on his left and the other opposite. He (witnes-) got into another part of the train directly alter lie had said 'Good night " to Mr llrigg, and sufficient time elapsed before the train moved off for any one to get out of the carriage it) which the deceased was sitting. He could see everything going on in the complement both by the light of the carriage lamp and by that of the gas-lamps at the station, lie saw no attempt on the part of the met. in the cart iage to leave it. He heard nothing more of the matter until Monday, when he saw the account of the affitir in the newspapers. He made the matter known to the police almo,t itnmedlately, and had been in attendance on the lad, occasion to give evidence had he been called upon to do so. He . . . .  could maks no possible mistake about Mr Briggs being the gentleman he had spoken to; he had known him to long nod t o well to be mistaken. After a short conversation of no imuortinee the Coroner adjourned the inquiry until Monday fortnight.  St. Swithin's Diy has passed without a shower. It was, indeed, OM' of the brightest and waim at days We Live had during this exceptionably bright and warm so ieon, and, if thero is any truth in the moteorologii-al legend associated with the anniversary of the saint, we ought to have a fine and early harvest. There is still a large class of p. °pie who b-lieve most religiously in the alleged influence ot St Swithin upon the welther. ' Mr Glaisher. F R.S., and other gent lomeit base started a " Coxwell Balloon Fund," ti reimburse Mr Coxwell for the loss he suwaineil by the destruction of his new balloon at Leicester. The hallo m was a magnificent one, and had just been bull' by Mr C x entirely at his own expense, and was designed by Win to continue and extend the aerial res arches so ably conducted by Mr GI usher, on behalf of the British Astoeutlion. ItRUTAL