The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 1856

SHREWSBURY RACES.—{This Day.)

(BY BLECTRIO TELEORAPIL)

Plausible
Baroda

Leamington
Octavia

Agra

601. PLATE.

STEWARDS' CUP.

Eleven ran.
COPELA.ND NURSERY HANDICAP.
M. Dobler'

Nina ran.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, Justices
Wightman, Coleridge, and Erle.)

THE QUEEN V. THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER IN INSOLVENCY,

Sir F. Thesiger moved fora mandamus against Mr.
Law, Chief Commissioner in Insolvency, commanding
him to make an order for the payment of the surplus of
aninsolvent's estate, under the 92d section of the Ist and
2d Victoria, chap. 110, which enacts that in any case
where a surplus remains after discharging in full an
insolvent's estate, it shall be lawful for the Court,
od application duly made, to order that all such
property so remaining shall be vested in the
person whose debts have been so discharged, or his exe-
cutors, administrators, or assigns. The insolvent, in
this case, was a person named George William Dyson ;
he became an insolvent, and on Bth July, 1850, after he
bad filed his schedule, be sold "all other his estate and
effects to a Mr. Cooke for 3,0001." After paying the
insolvent's debts, a surplus remained of about 4,0001.,
and the insolvent, subsequently to executing the deed to
Cooke, petitioned the Court a second time. The
Chief. Commissioner proposed to dispose of the
surplus by appropriating it towards the liquidation of the
debts under the second insolvency, which was objected
to by Cooke, and a writ of prohibition had been obtained
from the Lord Chancellor to restrain the Chief Commis-
sioner from disposing of the insolvent's estate other than
under the first insolvency.

Lord Campbell—You contend that the order referred
to is a ministerial act and that the Chief Commissioner
has no judicial discretion in the case, and that it is im-
perative on him to make the order.
Sir F. Thessiger—Yes. The Chief Commissioner has
refused to make any order with regard to the sum.
Lord Campbell—Take a rule.
Rule granted accordingly.

THE GOLD ROBBERY ON THE SOUTH
EASTERN RAILWAY.

Since the examination of Agar, the detective officers,
Thornton and Smith, is whose hands the case is, have
been actively prosecuting their inquiries, and it is ex-
pected that they will be in a position in the future ex-
aminations to corroborate Agar, cot only in the main
facts, but the whole of his details. The cabmen who
conveyed Pierce and Agar night'y to the station before
the robbery took place will be produced, as well as the
cabman who drove them there on the night of the rob
bery, and the cabman who on the Morning following
took them to Paddington, and thhn to Euston-square,
and also the chambermaid who showed Agar to the bed-
room in the public-house in the Borcugh under the pre-
text of washing his hands, but in reality to take an im-
pression in wax of the keys of the iron safe which Tester
brought to him.
With respect to the manner in which Fanny Kay be-
came acquainted with the robbery, it appears that though
her suspicions were aroused at the time, the actions of
Agar and Pierce were so guarded that she could not
ascertain what they were engaged about, and although
they answered her inquiries as to what they were doing
when they were engaged in melting the gold, by telling
her " leather apron weaving" (a cant term for " mind l
your own business") the circumstances remained fresh
in her memory, and it was not until Ag4r was convicted
for forgery and uttering, and after she visited him, in
company with Pierce's wife, at Pentonville prison, that
informed she was of the gold robbery by Mrs. Pierce.
Possessed with that knowledge, it would have been
thought that Pierce would have acted towards her and
her child in a more friendly spirit, and not have risked,
by his conduct, the probability of her betraying him.
The threat used by Mr. Lewis at the last examination,
that he would have Fanny Kay watched to her house
because she refused, by the advice of Mr. Bodkin, to
state her residence, has been so far baffled by the pro-
secution, and they have taken means to effectually pre-
vent her being tampered with between the present time
and that of the trial of the prisoners.

THE EUP7RATES VA bLEY RAILWAY

Mr. Andrew, the chairman, and Sir John M'Neill,
the engineer-in-chief of the Euphrates Valley Railway
Company, had an interview yesterday with his Excellency
M.___Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador.

General Chesney and Sir John M`l4eill, having com-
pleted the preliminary survey of the first section of the
proposed Euphrates Valley Railway, viz., from Seleucia
to Aleppo, and made a general examination of the
country
,between the Mediterranean and the Euphrates,
the General returned to Constantinople to complete the
negotiations for the firman, while Sir John M`Neill has
arrived in this country, having left a portion of the en-
gineering staff to make detailed surveys.
Sir John reports that there is every facility for making
a harbour in the vicinity of the ancient port of Seleucia,
near the mouth of the Orontes, and that the country via
Antioch, Mlles, and Ailam, to Aleppo, presents no
engineering difficulty, and that the railway may be con-
structed for 8,000/. or 9,0001. per mile. By making a
detour a rich settled country, dotted over with towns
and villages, is accommodated, and branch lines will he
unnecessary. A large traffic is in existence. According
to the toll-books, at a bridge on the Orontes, more than
1,200 laden camels' and horses passed per diem. The
charge for the conveyance of goods from Aleppo to
Alexandretta was 8/. per ton, but the usual rate is 31.155.
The price of oats at Aleppo in October last was 18s. per
quarter, and at Antioch, about 40 miles distance, 27e.
per quarter. Besides being the most important portion
of the railway, from the Mediterranean to the Persian
Gulf, the section from Seleucia to Aleppo is in itself a
complete work, having a port at one end and the chief
emporium of Mesopotamia at the other, to which the
traffic from India, Bagdad, &c., converges.