The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING CLUBS.

The following circular has been sent to the local com-
mitte-s by the executive committee:—
" Sir,—With reference to the copy of the resolution of
certain railway companies, receLtly transmitted to you,
we beg to call your particular sttention to resolution No.
2, by which you will observe that the facilities proposed
to be afforded for enabling the working classes to visit
the Exhibition next year, are confined exclusively to
those associated in clubs.

" The expediency of promoting the formation of tra-
velling clubs has thus become a subject which, in our
opinion, deserves serious consideration, and we request
you will bring this resolution before your committee with
our earnest recommendation that they should use their
weight and influence for the formation of such associa-
tions as shall be acceptable to the working classes.
In towns, however, where such associations are already
in active operation, we would suggest that your com-
mittee might express their readiness to promote the es-
tablishment of additional clubs, should the wants of the
town, or any other circumstances, be found to render
them desirable.

" We would also suggest that resolution No. 2 should
be widely circulated in your district.
" We shall be glad to be advised from time to time of
the progress made in these arrangements.
" We are, Sir, your most obedient servants,
" WILLIAM REID..
ALEI. REDURAVE.
" Office for the Executive Committee,
1, Old Palace-yard, Westminster, Nov. 25."

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1851.
The following are the present fixtures as nearly as
we can ascertain:—

FEBRUARY.
Liverpool Spring
MARCH.
Warwick Spring
Northampton . 26
IL.
Bath
Mahon l5
Newmark. First Spring 21
Abergavenny 24
Chester

Coven try 4
Doncaster Spring,
API
Croxton Park 1
Catterick Bridge... 3
Epsom Spring 4
Newmarket Craven
The Hoo l2

Newmkt. Second Spring 6
Shrewsbury 8
Plymouth Spring

Ascot
Beverley, Hull, &c 4
Hampton ll
Manchester ll
Btbury . lB

Newmarket
Cirlisle ........ 1
Worcester
Liverpool 9

Ripon
Brighton 6
Wolverhampton .....

SEPTE;

Warwick
Radeliffo 8
Weymouth lO
Doncaster
Saudbach

Monmouth
Richmond
Chester ..

York Spring
Epsom

Worcester..

Newton
Stockbridge
Winchester 2O
Newcastle

Nottingham
Stamford.... .. l6
Goodwood

UST.
Lewes ]3 or 14
York
Egham 27

'3lBEft.
Bedford 22 or 23
Eglinton Park
Manchester Autumn.... 25
Newmarket F.O 3O

Wrexham
Newmarket S.O l3
Newmarket Houghton 27
,MBER.
First week.

NOVE.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

MIDLAND RAlLWAY.—'Traffic Returns, including the Bris-
tol and Birmingham receipts, also Leeds and Bradford, Not-
tingham and Lincoln, Syston and Melton, Stamford and
Peterborough, Leicester and Swannington, Ashby Canal and
Erewash Valley, and Nottingham and Mansfield :
Week ending Dec. 8 ... £19,355 8 7
Corresponding week of last year, exclu-
sive of the Nottingham and 11Iansfield
receipts ... ... 19,065 5 6
Aggregate :-1849, 520,537/. 17s. Id. ; 1850, 53.5,618/. 3s.
11d. Miles opened for traffic : —lB5O, Double line, 47 Oi ; single,
26 total, 496*. 1819, Double line, 467 i ; single, 23i—
total, 491.

ISIANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 8, 1850,
inclusive :

Passengers, parcels, &c.
Goods, merchandise, &c.

... £2,463 8 61-
~. 3,588 7 8

Total ... ... ... £5,051 16 21
Corresponding week in 1849 ... 4,428 1 0}
Number of miles opened, 1671. The above includes the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company's
proportion of the receipts of the Manchester South Junction
and Altrincham Railway; also, the Grimsby Dock duties,
&c., and Chesterfield Canal receipts. Number of miles
opened corresponding week 1849, 164

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 14.

'LAX V. THU LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY

COMPANY.
(Continued front our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
Mrs. Sear proved that she lived at 75, Castle-street
East, Oxford-street. In August a gentleman came to
her house and said he wanted apartments for a gentle-
man coming from Liverpool to London. He took a
room on the first floor at Bs. a-week, and said his
nephew for whom he took the room would come the next
day. He paid a deposit of 45., and gave a reference to a
Mr. Heather. The gentleman said his nephew's name
was Elam. The next day a person came to the house
and said he had just come from Liverpool, and
-hen took the apartments which had been engaged
en the previous day. He said he expected his
'uggage from Liverpool in the afternoon, and then
cent out. He returned about eight o'clock, and in
%bout half-an-hour afterwards his luggage arrived
in one of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne's ♦ans. The person
who said be was Mr. Elam paid the porter and signed
the book. A cart afterwards came and took all the
goods away, with the knowledge of the person calling
liimself Mr. Elam. The person calling himself Mr.
Elam went out in the evening and never returned again.
Mr. George Sear,' the husband of the last witness,
proved that he went to a Mr. Heather's, in Cirenceater-
place, and asked him if he knew anything of the person
who had made use of his name as a reference when he
took the lodgings of witness's wife. Mr. Heather said
he did, and that he was a respectable man, and paid his
way.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the jury for the
defence. This was on• of the most remarkable and
mysterious cases that had ever come within his experi-
ence. The defence which he had to lay before them
rested mainly on probabilities. What the circumstances
of the plaintiff were was a most material consideration
for the jury. There was no doubt that the plaintiff had
deposited certain goods at the railway station at Liver-
pool, on the 26th July. The goods were conre) ed to
London, and they remained at the Camden station from
the 27th July until the 20th August before they were
called for, when the defendants received a letter, signed
"A. Elam," the name of the plaintiff, directing
them to forward the boxes to the house of
Mrs. Sears, in Castle-street. A person was on
the spot to receive the goods and to sign the
way-bill. The company then supposed there was an
end of the transaction. That was in August. 1849; and
then, in the following December, four months afterwards,
they received a letter from the plaintiff demanding the
goods to be sent to his house in Holies-street. It was
not for him (the Solicitor-General) to deny the first letter
was in the handwriting of the plaintiff; but it might be
so or not; if it was not his handwriting, it was evidently
that of some ono most intimately acquaiated with the
plaintiff's handwriting and his affairs, without going the
length of saying that that first letter was written by the
plaintiff in a feigned hand. There was in both letters
the same peculiarity of dotting the " i's" with a
comma instead of a round dot, and they both
closed with the same words, that the goods
were to be sent immediately. Nobody know of
the packages being left at the Liverpool station, or of
the contents of them, besides the witness Snowdon and
the plaintiff himself, not even his father or brothers.
What was the condition in life of the plaintiff ? Were
his circumstances prosperous? He (tho Solicitor-Ge-
neral) should show the jury that the plaintiff left Hud-
dersfield in an insolvent condition, and that the whole
family were then in difficulties. Afterwards, when the
plaintiff was found at the shop in Oxford-street, he de-
clared that the goods by which he was surrounded did
not belong to him, and that he was only a journeyman
receiving twenty-five shillings a week. The plaintiff
did not pay his rent or his taxes in the
❑eighbourhood. Under these circumstances the plaintiff
went to America. When the plaintiff returned from
America, he (the Solicitor-General) would prove that he
described himself in the most destitute condition to an
old friend whom he met in London, scarcely possessing
the means of subsistence. Shortly after that he was
found in prison for 1621., for rent which he owed. Was
it at all probable that a man so circumstanced should lie
in the Queen's Bench prison for a considerable time,
when, according to his account to-day, he had lying at
the railway station money and effects sufficient imme-
diately to relieve him from his difficulties? It struck
him (the Solicitor-General) as one of the most extraor-
dinary stories he had ever heard. The plaintiff
came out of prison in a state almost of destitutionon the 6th
of November, and it was not till far on in December that
he went to the railway station to inquire about his
goods. How could it occur to any one besides some of
the connexions of the plaintiff to go to the railway
station and get the goods, describing at the same time
the exact day on which they were forwarded from Liver-
pool? The jury under these circumstances would take
the case into their most serious consideration, as the
company believed they had been made the victims of a
fraudulent transaction,

Joseph Paul, a servant in the employ of Messrs.
Chaplin and Horne, proved the delivery of the goods
in question on the 21st of August, consisting of eight
packages, at 75, Castle-street East.
Mr. T. Thompson, a clerk at the railway station,
proved the entry of the goods in the railway-bill, but
admitted, on cross•examination, that he had been keep-
ing out of the way to avoid being subpcauae,d for the
plaintiff.
Mr. Pollard, a clerk in the employ of the Railway
Company, said he went to inquire for the plaintiff at 75,
Castle-street, and at 386, Oxford-street, i❑ December
last. At the latter place he saw Mr. Alfred Elam, the
plaintiff; and asked him if he had any goods at the Cam-
den-town station. lie said ho had, and ranted them
very much. Witness asked him on what day they left
Liverpool ; plaintiff .aid his letter would tell that. Wit-
ness then asked if ho ever resided at 75, Castle-street
East, Oxford-street. He started, and asked why witness
put that question. Witness said he had a reason for asking