The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

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won by two lengths; four lengths between the sceond and I the last consequcneo that the question should be
third. The Fiction colt a bad fourth.
The winner was buught in by Mr 11. Goater for 140
fully and fairly tried out, and the field at WitubLe.
guineas. I
don affords au echiiirable op-poi-1111,4Le doing so.

The Grange Park Stakes of 15 sovs each, ft, with 50
added from the Fund if three start; for two-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 61b; winners extra; second
to save his stake, T.Y.C., about five furlongs. 59
subs,
Lord Portsmouth's Missionary, Sat 101 b .... (S. Adams) 1
Captain Christie's The Grappler, Bst 101 b.... (Fordhani)
Mr Philip Henry Purity, Bst 1316 (inc 71b ox) (J.Goater) 3
The following also ran :—Shrapnel, Ptarmigan, Swords-
man, and Nukuheva.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Missionary, 3to 1 each agst The
Grappler and Shrapnel, 6 to 1 agst Purity.
The favourite made the running, followed by Tho
Grappler and Purity in close company to the half distance,
where Missionary drew further away, and won easily by
two lengths ; a head dividing the second and third ; Shrap-
nel was fourth, Nukuheva was fifth, Ptarmigan sixth, and
Swordsman last, beaten off.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; three-year-olds,
Bet 31b ; four, 9st 71b ; five, 9st 121 b ; six and aged, 9st
131 b. Two miles. .

We are authorised to state that the distribution
of prizes will take place on Siturday, at 3 o'clock.
ERRATA the 4th Series, Extra Prizes, yes-
terday, J. A. Suter, written as "corpora)," should
be "captain." In City of London Prizs on Satur-
day, Corporal Wortham, London Rifle Brigade,
was written "Northern ;" and in Ist Stage, Queen's,
Corporal Jermyn, 2d Middlesex, was. written
" Gcrmyn,"

Royal Agricultural Show at Newcastle,

NEWCASTLE•ON-TYNE, Tuesday.
Eighteen years ago the society's show-yard occu-
pied somewhat over a dozen acres of its present site,
but now the eye-proof boarding encircles about 45
acres, without wasting at all too much space for
perambulating crowds between the interminable
rows of shedding, It is no easy walk to call upon
the honorary director, Mr Brandreth Gibbs, drop
into the secretary's office in another part of the
ground, step into the bull park, where the machi-
nery is in motion, and then thread one's way across
the great enclosure to the horses' ring, or the " first
class refreshments." Bigger than it was, and with
greater facilities and accommodations of every kind
—with chairs on which to loiter, a telegraph to take
your news, and police-constables from the Imperial
Parliament itself to keep eager ladies and gentle-
men in order, we wish the place could be a little
prettier. If gay red fringes or striped cloth be too
dear, at any rate the society might empower Mr
Manning to grace his booths with clusters of cheer-
ful flags. We may borrow an ornamental idea from
the Bath and West of England Society if we cannot
afford to be smart like the French at their rural
gatherings,
We have here 380 cattle, 160 horses, more than
400 pens of sheep, and 130 pens of swine—a large
increase, indeed, since the Newcastle meeting of
1846, when there were shown about half the num-
ber of cattle, one• third the number of horses, and
about half the number of sheep. And we have here
4,000 implements and machines, instead of the 730
shown 18 years ago. The society's funds are un-
doubtedly flourishing ; the average country meeting
receipts during the last five years (excluding the
exceptional Battersea) have amounted to £9,694,
while five years before they averaged £5,177 ; five
years before that they averaged £4,642'; and five
years earlier still they averaged £4,134. But the so-
ciety has not maintained its progress in every respect
for at the time of the last Newcastle meeting there
were 6,070 members, subscribing £7,040 per annum,
whereas at ;present the society can only congratud
late itself upon the " steady support" of 4,879
members, the average number during the last five
years. If the free admission of members on the
10s. day and other advantages recently obtained are
followed up by bold measures calculated to win the
goodwill of the great farming class, we shall soon
hear no more of such a left-handed style of exten-
sion and advancement.
Among the cattle classes the Shorthorns are the
wonder of the Show, and the most astonishing class
is that of aged cows of this breed. The entire class
of 13 animals is "generally commended," bat the
judges also awarded two "high commendations" to
cows but little inferior to those taking the third
and second prizes, Sir Matthew White Ridley's
Evelina IV. is en extremely fine cow; level, broad,
deep, of great girth, handsome, and with a good
coat. Mr Douglas's Maid of Athelstane is another
extraordinary good cow, and Mr Stratton and Mr
Edward Rowly contribute to this splendid class
animals fully equal in merit to some of the prize-
takers of past years. In the heifer class Mr Dou•
glass takes the first prize with his pretty Pride of
Athelstane, beating Mr Lambert's Queen of Beauty
and Mr Stratton's Diadem. Mr Eastwood's Barmps
ton Butterfly, of the Towneley -park herd, is not
placed, being evidently out of condition. The yearly
heifers make a large and grand class, Mr East-
wood's Royal Butterfly- Pageant, being third to Mr
Mitchell's Blue Belle, and Mr Foljambe's beautiful
Gipsey Queen. Mr Richard Booth's Lady Fra-
grant is highly commended in this class. Sir
Anthony de Rothschild wins in the heifer calf class
with his Isabella Graceful, beating Lord Fever-
sham and Mr Douglas. The judges have been
profuse with commendations on nearly all the short-
horn classes, irreapective altogether of any fashion-
able fancying of nothing but Bates sad Booth blood,
and no one will question the justice of this liberality.
There are some fine yearling bulls in a remarkably
good class. Among the bull calves Mr Fawkes is
the winner, with his little Marquis, an animal of
great size for its age, and of a good red colour, but
not of great substance or expanded frame, and not
with a first-rate coat. Mr Booth's second prize calf
is much admired, and Lord Braybrooke and Mr Ilar-
rat show some very forward and pretty animals in
this class. Of the aged and two-year-old bulls we
spoke yesterday.
The show of agricultural horses is small, but Mr
Cottingham's Talbot, Mr Baby's Conqueror, and Mr
Giles's Ploughboy, are prime specimens of the Suf-
folks, The Clydesdales are a small show, but there
are some exceedingly fine horses, and two or three
good mares and foals. The hunters make a good
show, but nothing like what we have seen on for-
mer occasions.

Mr Whiteeide's Maurice, 5 yrs, 9st 121 b (Fordham) 1
Lord Weetn3oreland's Aurelian, 6 yrs, 9st 131 b (J. (loat€r) 2
Betting-2 to lon Aurelian, who made the running to
the enclosure, when Manrico came through, and won a
good race by a neck.

The sheep show is remarkable for the gro-dd diss
play of Shropshires. Here Mr Thornt- Mr Hol-
land, Mr Henry Smith, Mr Coxon
,;Ir Sim ~pson, Mr
Bowen, and Mr Crane suPlnrt the high position of
this very valuable bre.:a.
What metanical novelties may be concealed
amen! 16 ti extensive assortments" of implements
of the 235 exhibitors, some single stands being over
200 ft in length, it is impossible for a brief report to
say. We can merely name a few. Messrs Clayton
and Shuttleworth have a new traction engine
coursing about the yard. Messrs Tuxford show
another traction engine, fitted with grooved riggers
for steam cultivation, and an application of
Appold's centritugal pump for draining low
lands. Messrs Rushton and Procter have a
new form of straw elevator. Mr Whitehead
exhibits in action a solid and perforated brick
machine, pugging the clay and squeezing out the
bricks at the rate of 10,000 a day. Mr James
Coultas, jun., has contrived that valuable aid to the
turnip famer, an efficient drop drill. On Mr Cran-
ston's stand is a new haymaker, an American
" notion," in which a series of forks are actuated by
separate cranks, instead of being affixed to a re-
volving frame. Mr Wood has a new self-raking,
side-delivery reaping machine, with rake sweeping
the platform independently of the reel. Messrs.
Hornsby have brought out a new swathe-delivery
reaper, and another reaper with " grated, drop-sheaf
apparatus." Messrs. Barrett, Exall, and Co. show
a novelty in thrashing machines, the movements
being all rotary. Messrs. Burgess and Key have
introduced a very clever piece of mechanism into
M'Cormick's sheaf-delivery reaper, simplifying and
improving the action. Messrs. Peters exhibit a
steam hoist or crane, raising weights by means of
a single piston, 'without winding barrel, breakwheel, or any intermediate gearing. Messrs. A m
ies
and Bar"ord have attached a fan and blast pipe to

an ordinary chaff-cutting engine, blowing the chaff
to any required distance. Messrs. Ashby exhibit

revolving harrows, which pulverise the soil more
effectually than the ordinary harrows, especially
shows
an hauled by steam-power- Mr Kelsey
an American V-shaped barrow "on purely scientific

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principles."
Yesterday the society's consulting engineer, Mr.
Amos, was engaged in testing the comparative
and mechanical efficiency of
power the various
steam cultivators by means of some very ingenious
dynamometers, applied to ascertain the draught of
the implements, the tension of the hauling and fol-
lowing ropes, &c,, and the results are expected to

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
On Monday morning a cabman named Jonathan Mat-
thews was taken to the Harrow-street Station, where ho
made the following communication :—" I live at No. 68,
Earl-street, Lisson-grove, and am a cabman. Last night,
and for the first time, I saw a placard in the Edgware.road
having reference to a murder committed on the North
London Railway. I communicated certain information to a
waterman named Amos."
The following is the communication made by the cabman
before Mr Henry, the chief magistrate at Bow-street, yes-
terday afternoon :
" I know Franz Muller. He is a native of Cologne. His
age, as he told me, is 25, and for some time past he has been
employed as a shirt, cutter in the firm of Hodgkinson,
hosiers, of Threiti!,needle•street, in the city. Seven or eight
months ago l.ecommenced to keep company with my sister,
and as ker suitor he was in the habit of coining to my house.
1 r'7.nember one Sunday in October or November last he
came to my house and said to me, You have got a nice hat,
where did you get it from F' I told him I had bought if trona
a man named Walker, a hatter, in Crawford-street. Muller
said,' Well, I should like to have one like it.' I said, ' Well,
try this on,' and he did so, but found it too tight for his head.
I then said, I know your size now, and I will get ono for
you.' I did so, and the following Sunday he came and took
it away. Some time afterwards he came to my house again,
when I said, How well that hat wears ; I have had three
hats since then.' I laid hold of the hat, and noticed on the
inside brim a peculiar thumbmark, caused by the hat being
put on and taken off by the hand at one particular spot.
The hat produced (the one found in the railway carriage)
is the same, and I could swear to it. Last Monday week
Muller visited my house and saw my wife. After paying
her the usual compliments he took a box out of his pocket
and pulled out of it a gold chain, which he said he had paid
£3 10s. for that morning. He then fixed the chain on a
watch and gave the box to my child to play with. fThel:
was produced, and identified by Mr Death, whowas Pre'
sent, as the one which he had placed the chain in.] Muller
then exhibited a ring which he had on his finger, andwhich
tler then
began to complain, saying he had been
was similar to the one described by Mr Death. 3fil
he had been down to the city, and ahaving passed
ankle.seo Jonathan (me
near his foot he had sprained his
veryHeun
cart
tfhoretnunsaatied:
aII-
-6 I am going to Canada ; be surehnever came, and I have you
ing me), tell him not to go out to-morrow morning
untiltil
e
come, for I particularly im
want to see two or three
mornings I waited for him, but
never seen him since. Yesterday I communicated the
above facts to Inspector Steer, of the D division, and I
eer t
o
handed over to him the box produced.
The other evidence adduced went to show that Inspector
Steer gave this information at Scotland_yard, and the Corn-
on instructed Superintendent
T
thoroughly investigate the
matter. These two officers at once went to No. 16, Park-
terrace, old Ford, Bow, a house kept by a man named
myth, who said he was in bed on the night of the day the
murder was committed when Muller came home.
miidsdsiy anders o f
Inspector Pollee
immediatelyS t
The officers next interrogated a lodger in the house
named Goodwin, a German, who said that on the night
mentioned Muller came home about 11 o'clock, and ap-
peared very much confused, which he accounted for by say-
ing he had met with a severe injury in the city and had
sprained his ankle. The lodger produced a pawn-ticket,
which he said he had bought of Muller. The ticket related
to the gold chain Muller received from Mr Death, and
which Muller had pledged in a pawnshop in Bow.
Mr Adams, the American Minister, was present during
the whole of the examination, and at his request a copy of
the depositions was prepared to be forwarded to the Home
Executive in America.

It further transpired in the examination that Muller
sailed from the London Docks on Thursday afternoon last
in the sailing vessel Victoria, bound for New York.
Last night at 9 o'clock Mr Inspector Tanner, Mr Death,
and the cabman started from Euston-square for Liverpool,
oi route for New York by to-day's American mail. Tho
inspector was furnished with a warrant granted by Mr
Henry for the apprehension of Muller on the cht►rge of
murder, and he also carried with him letters from Mr Adams
to the Executive at New York.