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fficers the vehicle with bim, and facts ien familiar to our readers. — Sergeant t Clarke, | | stocked premises i in the 
other followed in other cabs, Th : deposed to finding Mr. Briggs's watch and hat in | serious Mp was gig a thay 
town from the time the Etna cam ight w very the prisoner” E when he was arrested, stated | constable raised a din Ar trad 
Minh, and it increased as he was landed and Gadi that when asked if he had possessed the articles bis, number o pec. ea ao de y? 
to the police-office. He was kept at Liverpool till the | he replied that he had had the watch about two years, had then become the scene of dee 
departure of Saturday morning train, when he was| DI ^x about 12 months, Mr. regm then asked | dismay. The fire soon gained gr "s 
brought to London. There were great crowds for many and, to co Miete the evidence, when the | flames roared through 40 windows, 
hours awaiting the arrival of the train at the Camden hapetints "bedired the case to be bim: m till that | adjoining property. H 
ticket platform as well as at Euston Square and Bow | day week. here was some delay in getting the|danger to Haberdashers’ Hall 
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to Bow Street. Great disappointment was expre sed | clerk asked him if he wanted anything, when he said | the flames rapidly extended to ey 
by the roughs when they cau; ghi e ial of the perire that if he had [3 speak he should prefer doing so in the just been repaired at & cost of 10. 
as he left the van, his me appearance not | English language, as he c could e express himself a^ seized on the premises of Messrs, 
at all coming up to their “expectations of the person} clearly than he nye ud makers, and Mr. Jones, w se 
who could have plauned and executed the murder s asked i endance upon him why he had Wood Street, and had full 
tall, powerfully made man like Me. fim. The not been taken to Stepney, instead of Bow Stre xk The | considerable extent, from which th 
was vide ignes to allow the magistrate to ipi constable , to ld hi im all Government prosecutions air. Haberdashers’ Hall was built 
the Satu ay afternoon, Ze e case was x reet, Her plied, * Well, it Wren on a portion of the site of 
accordingly. BE atch till Monday, w when Müller is of no consequence, T shall got. justice wherever it is.” | which was destroyed by the Grea 
cn mim the bar charged with the wild rater of Mrd About an hour after the clos of the mination | was a heavy building of bri 
as Bri riggs on t the night of the 9th July. Ever. ry e to the prisoner's Y pretensions to exteri 
eet had been kept eres ar for a shor E time, the| and decorated in the interior, 
re of the court, Peo ople had commenced gathering | side traffic being. sent round by the et. On when the premises of Messrs. 
about the doors of the station as early as 4 o'clock i 7th ted, a handsome gatewa: 
he nd by 7 t have at the bottom of the street, but he i evidently | the court-room and bu ? 
fewer than 500 persons waiting to see the prisoner| become too much PU to Ne hos to be discon- | Gresham Street, to harmonise with the new s 
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removed from the cells to the court. At half-past 7|certed by i hen driven to the House of|and a handsome pair of iron gates wi were fixed inti, 
Superintendent Durkin cleared the space between the | Detention. The po rned inquest kA resumed on | doorway, the old walls being I: bu 
poliee-station and the court opposite, and Müller was | Monday e Hackney, anda gain adjourne ed to Tuesday, of thes e the greater me 5 destroyed, r^ 
taken across to the celis attached to the latter. There| when several o itnesses painti 
was some "d as he passed, but the Pee took | at the po oie court on “the previous day were examined | by e arly masters, most of whie bh 
no notice of it, and when he was out of si he mob} at great length, but nothing was elicited which was | ofthe carved work of Grinlin 
dispersed, satisfied of the impossibility of getting | not already to the the close of their | painted ceiling of the hall 
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admission to hear the examination. peces es the inquiry was), further adjourned till| The Hall and o 
at 10 o'clock, when the doors of the court were| Monday next, when it is e expected that Müller will be Mae but that ES w 
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body of police being stationed at each - of the} THE SELF-ACCUSED E or MüLLER.— initié and the books of the row 
street to ix event a crowd in front of the building.| George Augustus King, the man who accused himself | The fire continued burning all , Monday, and msi 
Mr. Flowers was the presiding magistrate for tho day,| of being an accomplice of Müller, was brought up on | entirely got under until the evening. The 
his esther 3 magistrate, Mr. iom ghan , hav ving arran nged Saturday at the Worship Street Court, when Mr. Lee, | fire is not known. 
to take the ordinary charges e who saw two men in the carriage with Mr. Briggs| DESTRUCTION OF THE SURREY ‘Rice ] 
Strand Union, which adjoins “the court. The limited pwate positively that the prisoner was not one of fion. Thursday night at 10 o'clock, a fire of co 
space devoted to s publie was occupied almost | Some othe the magistrate| magnitude took place at the rice mills 
exclusively by the epresentatives of the English and discharged the prisoner, telling him that he had only | Surrey Canal and Docks, Ro ithe, 
foreign press, t in the complete destruction of the property, invaly 
few literary men. Tus nce Humbert, with. his aide- -de- Eu FATAL ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN SPEKE.—The |a loss of upwards, it is reporte 
camp and the Italian Minister, were among t l bs which Me? # enim penny last week that| which were the property of 
men accommodated with seats upon the bench. Shortly | C. aptă n Spe explorer of the Nile, had been | and Gray, were the largest o 
after 11 Mr. Giffard, the counsel for the Crown, who tedontall wr "heed whilst shooting at Corsham, | The mills were largely insured. The Ipposed t 
was accompanied by Mr. Pollard, the Solicitor to the unfortunately proved to be true. It appears|have been caused by friction of the machinery 
Treasury, intir his readiness to proceed with the that on Thursday, the 17th inst, he left Bath| spontaneous combustion is is tl the 
case. imd tb er then directed the gaoler to place | earl; in the morning, and when about four miles| mills have b burn R 
his prisoner at the bar. Müller walked in, — in the country, while getting over a low wall, his gun | occurring about 50 years ago, m 
vhich T. som sex mischance exploded while the muzzle of it] NEW AusrINFRIARS.—On Tuesday the 
have generally maintained s his ted at his chest, The charge entering his|stone of a new Roman Catholic church, 
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n. “e Ho scarcely looked up once fud the | body a p anien through, severing the main | with the Mission of St. Augustine, was aidin Hoxton 
— procteding#, but when he was offered a seat in| arteries of the chest, lacerating the lungs, and passing | Square, Shoreditch, in th 
the dock his face became slightly flushed for a m ied nt | close to the heart. "Mr. Fuller, his cousin, who was} Manning, the Roman Catholic Provost of Westminster 
only. Indeed, any act or word of kindness appears to|shooting with him, waring the gun fired, turned | After the ceremony Dr. i : 
affect him keenly, While he heard the ,mos t damaging | round in time to see him fall from the wallinto the|assembly. He said the act o 
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of the murdered man apparently with perfect indi? | distance, vue his s maste run towa: e dec eased, | the Church of God laid its 
fer erence, The charge on on the sheet havin ng been aly was | hold, and never let go the in| ei 
only Ps ms iven it. The Catholic Church, 
the German Society todefend ths prisoner; requested thet | on e Morel his and to re chest Y said: fi bebly. fnseribed its name on the corners 
ewitnesses for the prosecution M in ae out of | “ Don’t move me,” Shortly peii he sac v d his | London, and the ancient sanctuari 
Ito md the one under e He did|last. A surgeon was on d e spot v n after the | Greyfriars, and Whitefriars, 
not wish to — ming tet! Tanner în t i "the nime | Speke mis but he was dead befor e his "nu Captain known à this day. ub the d 
order. is request. | pe e was Vere ded age and unmarried. At the inquest | inscrutable permission ol 
Taiata Tae stated tha‘ the witnesses vert eady | ju usly return a verdict Tha t | sanctuar: dits His saints, 
Pen row e had given a direction to that effect. | « Diad died 1 now the tog meum of his seltündir those sanctuaries once 
. Gi then said that he was ———A on behalf | own gun, after living a quar an hou Poe Austinfriars was created afresh in another 
of the — er the charge j inst th n once again 
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prisoner at the bar. It would be mere affectation to | of f dochhesd | in their cera whi xn was a s both | among English i form his 
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"n that the vom arme were not eere A be o his family and to the whole country. At the} mission had peculiar fitness, for between St. A 
known to the t already. It wi m ud to t of the Br itish Associat tio of Section E, d England th 
state that on the 9th of July last the late Mr. diy. st a discussion would fitting that he should speak before 
riggs was roe his life by an act of violence i in| take » place between Captain F arent and ibe: ieu Speke great deb d the fa - wh 
a rail He was at the time in to the med as thou t. August 
Session of omieitt je property, and the prisoner was e | Geographieal Section at d early hou c 
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a: a portion of that property within 40 hours | dents of Captain Speke, however, cast a loom over the | faith led to the wen of a Lyn ul i] 
pee Showa age was committed. A man’s hat was | whole assembly, and ee President, Sir a rick Mur- | without the faith of God led men to of th 
this MEN at or rem Mr. Briggs had occupied, and rre taking the chair! moved the "following immorality. King Davai was an n instance 0 i 
e hat worn by Mr. EXAM - = tea 3 while | resolution :— through God he had knowledge of all suem. 
ight of the murder, ound in mp ge “That the geographers with rout ot the, British | spake of all things, great ; 
^ 0 er, was in the possession of| Association havi with prof e fatal| acquainted with all those sciences of 
e prisoner when he was taken into custody. It €— ben has befallen Captain Speke, and b hich they world of which men in these days $ showed t 
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Pw E He tm his worship would feel being out off in condoieneo 1 ont r in n the fu XA zh St. Augustine val rn of Christian 
uty, ab a aaa period of the investigation, and vigou! vii - baptised and sanctified to 
—-— ilt or innocence | The resolation was unanimously passed, every person | his early years. He grew up witha 
is a ins ¡tte proposed, for the present, to | in the hoiding up his ha nd. . ee and b Eh a tinchir of rhetoric 
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a ror p= d emn TS London Railway, who | police-constable, who noticed a g glare of light | more intellectual than England, 
i: Mr Seth Bono: Briggs, the son of the|and volumes of smoke iss issuing Mus "ihe premises of | world was so proud of its 
se ; Mr. ; the " Ate ; Jonathan Matthews, | Messrs. Tapling, carpe manufacturers, in Gresham|and so unbelieving. In 
bdriver prisoners landlady, two of his Street We € x Mute is about 170 feet|test of all — and 
, of | long an igh, is situat opposite the|there so much spi 
Esmee York’ to | Goldie” Hall the upper oors being scraped. | that by the power of reu 
were M em Their evidence | warehouses b; y Messrs, ny uu is in a large block | knowledge of God. Intell 
rot vr ds having been n of honses formed by Gresham Street, Wood Street, and | by parents as some 
the prisoner, but added little to the Í Staining Lane, and contains some of the most t costly-| to insure their future 
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