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

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SUN OFFIOE, Six oiaock.

SHREWSBURY RAOES.—(This Day.)

(BY LLECTRIC TELEORAPII.)

60/. PLATE.

Plausible
Baroda
Dolly Varden

Seven ran.
STEWARDS' CUP.

Leamington

Octaria.
Agra

Eleven ran.
COPELAND NURSERY HANDICAP.
M. Dobler
Lima

Nine ran.
COLUMN HANDICAP.

Lord Alfred..
Titterstone....

Moonshino..

Nin© ran. Won by two lengths.
50/. PLATE.

Diana
Uzella
Van Eyck

Nine ran.
BEATEN STAKES.

Catherine Parr
Maid of Cadiz
Meton

MONK MOOR HANDICAP.

Alfred
Inder..
BarGda

Eight ran.
NEW RACE.

Garnet
Di pthong colt
D warf

Six ran.
WELTER CUP.

Red Rose
Lough Bawn
Little Tom

Seven ran.

THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.

BANKRUPTCY COURT—(THIS DAY).
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd).
This afternoon a private meeting was held under this
estate, on an application by Mr. Linklater, for an order
calling on the whole of the directors to file a balance
sheet from the formation of the company, in 1849, to
the time of the stoppage.
Mr. Reed and Mr. Mason opposed, and considered
that it would meet all useful purposes that each director
should render an account for the period in which he had
been in office.
His Honour suggested that an account should be pre-
pared with rests, so as to distinguish the separate ac-
counts, and that each director might verify his por-
tion.

The case was ultimately adjourned until Tuesday so
that copies of the proposed order might be given to
Messrs. Linklater and Mr. Mason.

THE GOLD ROBBERY ON TUE SOUTH
EASTERN RAILWAY.

Since the examination of Agar, the detective officers,
Thornton and Smitb, in 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, not only in the main
facts, but the whole of his details. The cabmen who
conveyed Pierce and Agar nightly 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 then to Euston -square,
and also the chambermaid who showed Agar to the bed-
room in the public-house in the Borough 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
your own business") the circumstances remained fresh
in her memory, and it was not until Agar was convicted
for forgery and uttering, and after she visited him, in
company with Pierce's wife, at Pentonville prison, that
she was informed 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 EUPERATES VALLEY 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 TurkiAi Ambassador.
General Chesney and Sir John M'Neill, 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 Seleuaia,
near the mouth of the Orontes, and that the country via
Antioch, Killes, and Ailam, to Aleppo, presents no
engineering difficulty, and that the railway may be con-
structed for 8,0001. or 9,000/. 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-boqks, 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 81. 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, 275.
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.