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OCTOBER 9, 1850.

CAMBRIDGE MONUMENT.
GENERAL COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN—The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—The Right Hon. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR,
M.P.
Aldrich, Stephen J., Esq. (Secretary to the Royal General Annuity
Society), 18a, Basinghall-street
Anderson. the Rev. J. S. M., M.A., Brighton
Anderson, George, Esq. (Hon. Sec. to the Royal Society of Musicians)
12, Lisle-street, Leicester-square
Bain, George, Esq. (lion. Sec. to the Highland Society of London),
Parliament-street
Barber, the Rev. J. R., D.D., St. Paul's, Vauxhall
Barnard, J. A. L., Esq. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St . Ann's
Society), Royal Brit sh Bank, Tokenhouse-yard
*Bartley, George, Esq. (Hon. Treasurer to the Covent-garden Thea-
trical Fun.l), 11, Woburn-square
*Bennett, William, Esq. (Secretary to the Drury-lane Theatrical
Fund)
Cibben, it. 8., Esq., M.P., F.R.S. (Treasurer), Brick-court, Temple
*Charlier, Esq. (Secretary to the Royal Humane Society), 3, Tra-
falgar-squ4re
Clift, Jatnes' E Si., Bloomsbury-square
*Cochrane, Chtries. Esq. (Chairman of the Leicester-square Soup
Kitchen), 40, Leicester-square
Cox, R. S., Esq., 7, St. Paul's-churchyard
Davies, William, Esq. (Secretary to tue Asylum for Fenntle Orphans),
Westminster-bridge-road
Douglas, Lieut.-General Sir Howard, Bart., 15, Green-street, Gros-
venor-square
Dousberry, Thomas, Esq. (Secretary to the Domestic Servants' Be-
nevolent Institution), 32, Sackville-street.
Edridge, Thomas, Esq. (Member of the Committee of the Leicester-
square Soup Kitchen), 40, Leicester-square
*Farrance, G. J., Esq. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's
Society), s 7, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square
Granby, the Most Hon. the Marquis of, M.P., 102, Piccadilly
grant, George, Esq. (Secretary to the servants' Provident and Bene-
volent Society), 8, Cork-street
'Hale, J. W., Esq. (Member of the Committee of the Governesses'
Benevolent Institution), Tollington-park
Hall, S. C., Esq. (Member of the Committee of the Governesses' Be-
nevolent Institution), Marlborough-chambers,
Harley, John Pritt, Esq. (lion. Treasurer to the Drttry-lane Theatri-
cal Fund), 14, Upper Gower-street
Holland, J. W., Esq. (Secretary to the Royal Society of Female Mu-
sicians), 13, ‘I acclesfield-street, Soho-square
Hutton, Rev. henry, M.A., Rector of St. I'aul's, Covent-garden
James, John,'Esq. (Secretary to the Society of Ancient Britons),
Gray's Inn-road •
Jonea, John, Esq. (Secretary to the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen),
40, Leicester-square
Jones, Jonathan, Esq. (Secretary to the Industrial Horne for Gentle-
women), 39, Brunswick-square
Labouchere, John, Esq. (Treasurer), Birchln-lane
*Laing, the 11ev. D., 31. A., F.R.S. (Secretary to the Governesses'
Benevolent Institution), 62, Mornington-road, Regent's-park
Lilford, the Right Hon: the Lord,•lo, Grosvenor-place
Londonderry, the Most Hon. the Marquis of, Holderness House
Lon;, W. S., Esq. (Deputy-Chairman of Queen Adelaide's Free Dis-
pensary), Bethnal-green
Lott, Mr. Deputy, F S.A., 43, Bow-lane
Lusignan, the Rev. M. W., M.A. (Member of the Metropolitan Sani-
tary Association), Allhallows, Upper Thames-street
Lutwidge, R. W. S., Esq., 19, New-street, Spring-gardens
Mackenzie, the Rev. Charles, M.A. (lion. Secretary to the London
Orphan Asylum), St. lielen's-place
*Mackenzie, Colin, Esq. (Secretary to the National Philanthropic
Association), Leicester-square
*Marsden, W., Esq., M.D. (Founder of the Royal Free Hospital),
Lincoln's Inn-fields
Marsh, Henry Edmund, Esq., 2, Charlotte-row
Meadows, Drinkevater, Esq. (Secretary to the Covent-garden Thea-
trical Fund), the Grange, Michael's-grove, Brompton
Meymott. Edward, Esq. (Secretary to the Royal Infirmary for Chil-
dren), 34, Stamford-street
Nash. Charles, Esq. (Secretary to the Metropolitan Free Hospital),
8, Devonshire-square
Nepean, the Rev. Evan, M.A., 21, Bolton-street
Nicoll, Mr. Sheriff, Albany
Nisbet, James, Esq., Berners-street
Page, Thomas, Esq., C.E., Middle Scotland-yard
Peckston, the Rev. Thomas, M.A., 1, Gloucester-terrace, Cambridge-
heath
*Phillips, J. S., Esq. (Secretary to the Public Dispensary), Lincoln's
Inn
Powles, J. D., Esq., Bank-buildings
Pownall, Henry, Esq., 27, Gloucester-gardens, Westbourne-terrace
*Rayner, T. 0., Esq., M.D., Associate King's College (Secretary to
the Royal Maternity Charity), 1, St. Matthew's-place, Hackney-
road

Reed, Andrew, Rev., D.D. (Hon. Secretary to the Asylum for
Idiots), Poultry
Richardson, Henry F., Esq., F.L.S. (Founder of the British Benefi-
cent Society), 9, Lincoln's Inn-fields
Rowden, the Rev. Dr., Temple-grove, East Sheen
Rowland, Lieut.-Colonel (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's
Society), Woolwich
Shed ten, Alexander, Esq. (Secretary to the Middlesex Hospital),
Charles-street
*Solomon, Samuel, Esq. (Secretary to the Jews' Hospital), 5,
Houndsditch
Soul, Joseph, Esq. (Secretary to the Orphan Working School), 32,
Ludgate-hill
*Stone, David Henry, Esq. (Hon. Secretary to the City of London
Hospital for Diseases of the Chest), 6, Liverpool-street
Street, W. Jesse, Esq. (Member of the Committee of the Governesses'
Benevolent Institution), Lincoln's Inn-fields
Talbot, the Right Hon. the Earl, Park, Old Brampton
Tapster, S. E., Esq. (Hon. Secretary to the Hotel and Tavern
Keepers' Provident Institution), Craven-street
Tett, Charles, Esq. (Secretary to the Choral Fund Society), Polygon,
Clarendon-square
Thornton, Reyes, Esq. (Hon. Secretary to the Hospital for the Cure
of Diseases of the Skin), 25, New Bridge-street
Twining, li., Esq. (Treasurer of the Public Dispensary, Line
Inn), Strand
Watts, Francis, Esq., F.S.A. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St.
Ann's Society), I, Warwick-square, Pimlico
Wire, Mr. Under-Sheriff, Swithin's-lane
*Wood, George Watson, Esq. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St.
Ann's Society), 'Victoria-square, Pimlico
Wood. John, Esq. (Treasurer of the Royal General Dispensary, Al-
dersgate), 8, Falcon-square
Wright, the Rev. T. P., M.A. (Hon. Secretary to the London Orphan
Asylum), Dalston
Those marked with asterisks form the Acting Committee.
Treasurers - B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., and John Labouchere, Esq.
Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Messrs. Twining; and Messrs.
Williams, Deacon, anl Co.
The Members of the Committee are anxious to collect such an
amount of subscriptions as will enable them to raise that description
of monument which will do equ el justice to their own feelings and to
the many exemplary virtues of his Royal Highness the late Duke of
Cambridge.
The above-named bankers and gentlemen are v, Ruing to receive
subscriptions; and /Sir, John Smart, the only authorised collector,
will wait on such parties as may be desirous of contributing to this
national object.

By order,
ET/W. FREDK. LEEKS, Honorary Secretary.
2, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, August 22, 1850.

SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAY AND
RIVER DUN COMPANY.
'At the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL and also SPECIAL MEET-
ING of Shareholderss, held at the Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, on Satur-
day, 31st August, 1850.
Lord WIIARNCLIFFE in the Chair,
The Secretary read the advertisement convening the meeting.
On the motion of the Chairman, the Common Seal of the Com-
pany was affixed to the Register of Shareholders.
The Secretary read the Report.
On the motion of the Chairman it was resolved—
That the Report now read be received and adopted, and printed
for circulation amongst the Proprietors.
That the forfeiture of the following Shares declared by the Direc-
tors be confirmed, and that such Shares be disposed of by cancelling
the same:—
From To Shares
145 .. 289 .. 145
9160 .. 9253 .. 94
36747 .. 36760 .. 14
1093 .. 1107 .. 15
1284 .. 1297 .. 14
3559 .• 1598 • • 10
1713 • • 1729 .. 17
14435 .. 14144 •• 10
14469 .. 14487 • • 19
17603 .• 17612 .• 10
33029 .. 33 50 • • 22
33916 .. 33962 .. 47
1839 .. 1862 • • 24
17994 .. 18059 .. 66
22316 .. 22329 .. 14
32759 .. 32997 -. 239
33300 .. 33:322 .. 33
33376 • • 33380 • • 5
21838 .. 21856 .. 19
34065 .. 34078 .. 14
31311 • • 32248 • • 938
5015 .. 5435 •• 421
5949 .. 5472 • • 24
14876 .. 14899 • • 24
33902 • • 33908 .. 7
5974 • • 5993 • • 20
6354 .. 6385 .. 22
6655 . 6688 .. 34
6890 .. 6918 • • 29
19191 .. 19260 .• 70
2129 •• 21282 •• 24
34079 .. 34132 .. 54
7096 .. 7283 • • 188
7308 • • 7330 • • 23
7336 .• 7345 .• 10
7318 • • 7357 • • 10
19359 .. 19382 .. 24
7281 • • 7307 .. 24
7360 .. 7393 • • 34
37311 .. 37328 • • 18
19521 • • 19569 .. 49
14579 .• 14588 .. 10
19261 .. 19267 • • 7
17846 17848 .. 3
8063 .. 8147 85
8255 .. 8348 94
19664. • 19687 24
23,121 • • 23063 .. 43
9654 .. 0678 25
21397 • • 21420 .. 24
33799 .• • • 1
36997 •• 37042 .. 47
9684 • • 9712 .. 29
19757 •• 19786 .. 33
22193 • • 22202 .. 10
13606 •• 13661 .. 56
36924 .. 36950 27
10456 • • 10470 .. 15
16706 • • 16737 .• 32
20338 • • 20374 .. 37
33500 .. 33807 • • 8
35808 .. 35922 .• 115
36615 .. 36664 • • 20
10586 .. 10.595 .. 10
11075 .. 11151 . • 77
11182 •• 11195 .. 14
That a Dividend, at the rate of 61. per. cent. per annum, from the
23d January to the 19th April last, be now declared, and also that
a Dividend, at the rate of 21. per cent• per annum, be declared from
the 20th April to the 30th June, 1850.
SPECIAL MEETING.
The Meeting was then made special.
Moved by the Chairman, and carried unanimously,
That the Directors be authorised to raise, on Mortgage or Bond,
a sum of money not exceeding one hundred thousand pounds.
Moved by the. Chairman, and seconded,
That the Directors be authorised to create and issue such number
of Additional Shares, to be denominated Navigation Shares, as
shall be equal to 150 Shares of 201. each, in the Capital Stock of this
Company, in respect of each share in the River Dun Navigation ;
and that the Company guarantee the payment of a dividend, after
the rate of 41. per cent. per annum, in preference to all dividends on
the ordinary Shares of the Company, on such of the said Navigation
Shares as shall be by the Proprietors accepted in lieu of the ordinary,
Shares of the Company, noon condition that such guaranteed Divi-
dend shall be in lien of all varying and other Dividends, until or un-
less such stock shall he redeemed by payment of 3,0001. for each 150
allotteeiiliares, according to the provisions of the Company's Act.
Whereupon au. amendment was proposed by Mr. Hadfield, and
seconded by Mr. Boothroyd,
That this meeting be adjourned for twelve months, to be held in
Yorkshire.
The Chairman put the amendment to the meeting, when fourteen
voted in favour of it, and ten against.
'1 he amendment was declared to be carried.
WHARNCLIFFE, Chairman.
On the motion of Air. Ironside, it was
Resolved unanimously—
Ti iat the thanks of the meeting' bt given to the Chairman for
his able conduct in the Chair, and for the fairness and candour of
his explanations to the meeting.
J. CHARLES lIANDFIELD, Secretary.

From

Shares.

11375 11384 .. 10
22217 .. 22263 •• 47
23077 .• 23086 •• 10
33021 .. 33028 .• 8
13920 •• 13959 .• 40
13980 .. 1
35090 .. 35124 .. 35
3 208 .. 35224 .. 17
11880 .. 11907 •• 28
20544 .. 20553 •• 10
12734 .• 12747 .. 14
7394 .. 7399 •• 6
20554 •• 20558 •• 5
12780 .. 12792 .. 13
13045 .• 13068 .. 24
13125 13180 .. 56
13292 13296 .• 5
32998 .. 33006 .. 9
7400 •• 7419 •• 20
19418 19437 .. 20
18284 •• 18293 .. 10
17216 .. 17229 .. 14
21548 •• 21594 .. 47
32750 .. 32758 .. 9
33195 .. 33214 .. 20
18294 .. 18310 47
36168 .. 36188 .. 21
14545 .. 14554 .. 10
2050 2072 .. 23
35771 .. 35302 .• 32
33294 •. 33295 .• 2
14682 .. 14691 .. 10
36520 •• 36553 34
36568 •• 36644 .. 77
33739 •• 33754 •• 16
6045 .• 6143 .• 99
6144 •• 6167 •• 24
19186 .. 19190 .. 5
21283 .. 21294 .. 12
34011 •• 31044 .. 34
32598 •• 32611 .. 14
19392 .. 19417 .. 2G
6929 .. 6951 .. 23
5740 .. 5789 ..
19438 •• 19520 83
22987 .. 22996 .• 10
32729 .. 32735 .. 7
13329 .. 13843 •• 15
7041 7045 ••
9100 .. 9101 .. 2
32496 .• 32500 •• 5
22174 .. 22192 19
7932 7952 .. 21
9274 •• 9278 .. 5
7468 7514 .. 47
36459 .. 36485 .. 27
37394 .. 37404 7
9767 .. 9771 .. 5
10140 .. 10149 .. 10
36189 .. 36208 .. 20
11974 .. 11978 .. 5
12579 •• 12718 .. 140
36445 .. 36451 .. 7
3354 3400 .• 47
14001 •• 14036 .. 36

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THE FRIMLEY MURDER.
ADJOURNED INQUEST.

FKIMLET, TUESDAY.—The proceedings of the coro-
ner's inquest in this mysterious murder, which stood
adjourned from Tuesday last, were resumed to-day.
The interest connected with the affair, as may be
supposed, had in no degree abated in the meantime.
The village was visited by many parties from the
neighbourhood anxious to be present at the proceed-
ings, and the crime which had been committed was
the theme of general conversation. No new facts
have been allowed to transpire beyond those that have
been already published, which, it must be admitted,
are not of a very conclusive nature so far as they tend
to implicate those persons now in custody ; but the
police -officers who have charge of the case are very
sanguine as to their being able to connect all the mi-
nute circumstances which have been allowed to trans-
pire with the prisoners, and trace home to them a
guilty knowledge of the deed. In the meantime, it
seems as if there was some want of a controlling power
with regard to the inquiry. It has been already stated
that there is no rural police in Surrey, and one con-
sequence of this has been that no one appears to be
charged with the sole and exclusive management of
the case. There are three parties acting, each inde-
pendent of his neighbours. The first on the scene of
the murder, and not the least active throughout the
whole inquiry, was Mr. Biddlecombe, superintendent
of the small police force in the town of Godalming.
Sergeant Kendall, of the metropolitan police force,
was dispatched from Scotland-yard, as soon as interngence of the murder arrived there ; and, besides these,
there is Mr. Hollinton, superintendent of the police in
the borough of Guildford (the town nearest to Frim-
ley), and who apprehended the prisoners. Between
these' three there is no more concert than their own
good sense and zeal for the ends of justice dictate to
each ; and it is hardly possible but that some little
jealousies, or at least emulation es to who shall derive
the greatest credit from the affair, should creep in,
and to that extent prevent co. operation. There is the
further evil arising from the want of a county police,
that both Biddlecombe and Hollinton have the affairs
of their own special districts to attend to, and cannot
give their undivided attention to the investigation of
this affair. An instance of the inconvenience which
may be expected from this arrangement occurred at
the coroner's inquest to-day, when Hollinton, though
a most important witness, was not forthcoming before
the coroner, having been detained, it was said, by the
investigation of a robbery which occurred the night
before in Guildford.

We may mention here what we ommitted to state
on Saturday last, that Mr. Neale, solicitor in Guild-
ford, presented himself befor the magistrates on Fri•
day, as attending the examination on behalf of the
prisoners, and that the magistrates denied his right to
appear in that capacity, and refused to permit him to
remain during the examination. Since then Mr.
Neale applied to have an interview with the priso •
ners, in order to prepare their defence, and was again
refused. We understand that he appealed to the
Home-office, and that he has received an official com-
munication, to the effect that he cannot be permitted
to see the prisoners until after they shall have been
committed, if the present inquiry should issue in
such a decision.

There was, therefore, no appearance for the pri-
soners at the coronor's inquest to-day, nor were the
prisoners themselves brought forward. But some
time before the appearance of the coroner, the room
in which the inquest was to be held was crowded
with parties anxious to hear what further evidence
was to be adduced, and among these we noticed Mr.
Burrell, lord of the manor of Frimley ; the Rev. Sir
Henry Dukinfield, Bart.; Mr. Tickell, Frimley, &c.
Mr. W. Holiest, younger brother of the deceased,
and clerk to the magistrates of the district, was in the
village, and had a private interview of some length
with the police officers, but he did not attend the in-
quest. . .

- The jury having answered to their names,
The CORONER said it must be quite fresh in their
recollection that at the inquest on Tuesday last they
had taken some preliminary evidence, which tended
to attach suspioion to three, or rather to two out of
three, individuals then in custody. Since they had
met an active inquiry had been goiug on, minute
researches had been made by the police officers, and
other additional evidence had been procured. A
fourth person was now in custody, against whom
strong circumstances of suspicion had transpired. He
apprehended, from the information given to him by
the police officers, that it was hardly possible for them
to conclude the inquiry that day. That though there
were several witnesses to be examined who would
give evidence that tended to throw suspicion on dif-
ferent parties, still he thought there would hardly be
eufficient to justify the jury in returning a direct
verdict of guilty against any one. There were two
courses open for them—one was, if the evidence was
not sufficient to implicate any one, to return a general
verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons
unknown. But if the evidence, in their opinion, tended
to attach suspicion to any parties, they were bound fully
to investigate the matter, and to go into the whole in-
quiry. It was as much within the province of the coro-
ner's jury, in cases such as the present, to inquire
into all the circumstances, -and to take the evidence,
before returning their verdict, as it was the duty of
the magistrates to do so before committing prisoners
for trial. Now, as the witnesses were not present to-
day, and as he thought the present evidence was not
sufficient to justify a verdict, though he thought it not
improbable that other circumstances would yet tran-
spire which would render the matter clearer, he pro-
posed that they should now take the evidence of one
or two of the officers who had the matter under their
charge, and then he would suggest that they should
adjourn the inquiry to a future day.
Sergeant Kendall was then addressed by the Co-
roner without being sworn, and stated that he had
been engaged in the inquiry since Tuesday last ; that
circumstances had transpired to attach suspicion to
certain parties, and that there was some clue to fur-
ther evidence,
which would be forthcoming at another
day if toe inquest were adjourned till that time. He
further suggested that Alr. Biddlecombe's evidence
should be first taken, as he was first on the spot after
the murder.

W. H. Biddlecombe was accordingly sworn. He
said, I am superintendent of police xt G-odalming.
On Saturday, the 28th September, I was directed by
the magistrates to come to Frimley ; and about five
in the evening I examined the house of the 11,.w.
Gmorge Holiest. I found that an entrance had been
effected by breaking a pane of glass in the scullery
window, and then, by boring a quantity of holes with
a centre-bit or other instrument, to enable the person
to remove an iron bar that was fastened. to the wood-
work. On examining the scullery door, I found that
two holes bad been bored in the frame of the door,

directly opposite the bolt, which would enable a per-
son with a crooked Instrument to force the bolt back.
I exaniined two cupboards in the kitchen which is
next the scullery, a door communicating between
them. I found these cupboards had been broken
open. I have compared a screw-driver which I re-
ceived from Richard Giles with the marks on the
cupboard doors, and I have no doubt that they were
made with that instrument. The marks correspond
exactly as to their width. I found that one of
the doors communicating between the kitchen
and the dining-room bad been forced. There is
no passage between the kitchen and the dining- room,
but a double door and two steps. One of these
doors did not appear to have been fastened. The
passage between the dining-room and the front
passage had also been forced, and there, too, the
marks on the door corresponded with the screw-
driver. The front door had not been forced. About
two yards from the step of the front door, on the
gravel of the carriage drive, I observed two foot-
marks—both of them were the marks of right feet,
without shoe or stocking. The impression of the toes
was quite distinct, which showed that there was no
stocking. These footsteps were in the direction from
the house. About thirty-seven yards further on, in
the direction of the front gate, there is a tree, I think
a cypress tree, on the lawn. Under that tree there
was a good deal of trampling, as if parties had been
standing there for a considerable time. From that
to the front gate is a distance of from seven to ten
yards. At the gate I saw the impression of a man's
heel, as if he had slipped, and on the side of the
green, but on the gravel there was the impression of
a man's arm, as if one man had fallen down there. I
should have stated before that where the trampling
was under the tree I picked up this piece of worsted.
(Witness here produced a small piece of blue
worsted, apparently a shred of a woollen stocking.)
I received, as I alreadlt stated, from Richard
Giles a screw-deiver, , a cotton handkerchief,
and part of a worsted stocking; and from Ellen
Valler some paper, which I suppose to have been
the paper that rammed down the bullets, as it was
doubled up like wadding paper.—(Witness here pro-
duced some shreds of half-burnt paper, which still
retain the smell of powder). From inquiries I made
my suspicions fell upon the three men in custody,
which I communicated to Mr. Hollinton. On the
following day Mr. Hollinton accompanied me to
Frimley, and we arranged to take them into custody
on the following day. The names are Levi Harwood,
James Jones (but I shall prove that his name is Bur-
bage), and Hiram Smith (but I shall bring a person
to prove that his name is Trower). They were ap-
prehended on the charge. I have since measured the
right foot (on Thursday) last) of Harwood and
Smith, and I find that the naked foot of Harwood is
9f inches long and 3 inches wide, and that Smith's
is 9/ inches long and 3-f wide. These are as near as
possible the dimensions I found in the garden as to
length and breadth. I measured them on the Sun-
day morning. I only found them on the Saturday
night by candle light, and it being too dark then to
measure them I covered them up. I found the great
toe of the right foot of Harwood very much cut, as
if it had come in contact with flint, or as if it had
been running on flint stones. The stocking also had
a quantity of blood on it. The stocking was taken
off him by Hollinton.
CORONER—Have you reason to believe that if this
inquiry were adjourned other and important evidence
will be forthcoming ? Witness—l have not the least
doubt of it.
CORONER—Do you know that there is a fourth man
in custody ? Witness—Yes, Hollinton took him.
CORONER—Is Hollinton here ? Witness—No.
CORONER—Do you know the prisoner's name ?
Witness—His name is Harwood, I believe Samuel
Harwood. He is first cousin to the other prisoner
Harwood.

Ellen Valler—l am a single woman, and was in
the service of the late Mr. Holiest. I had been with
him for sixteen years as a servant of all work. There
was another female servant, and a man servant. The
name of the other female servant was Elizabeth
Tanner. On Friday, the 27th September, 1 went to
bed about eleven o'clock, the same time as Mrs. Hol-
lest. Elizabeth Tanner had gone to bed earlier. We
both sleep in the same room. Before going to bed I
had seen that all the doors and windows were fastened.
This was a little before ten o'clock. My mistress and
I were the last persons out of bed. I was in the
scullery between nine and ten o'clock. I did not look
at the window. Elizabeth Tanner fastened the scul-
lery-door, and I bolted the inner door leading from the
kitchen to the dining-room. The bolt -8 on the side of
the dining-room. I also fastened the door leading
from the dining-room to the front passage. The bolt
was on the passage side. There Sc two bed-room
floors in the house. I slept on the upper bed-room floor.
The window of our bed-room looks to the side of the
house, to the east side. I was disturbed about three
o'clock in the morning by the firing of a gun or
pistol, and screaming. I know the time, because
when I came down stairs I looked at the clock. The
report and the screaming wero both in the house. I
got out of bed and unlocked the door. My fellow-
servant rose at the same time. I met the man-
servant at the bottom cf the stairs ; he was coming
for me. He said that master was shot, and that
thieves were in the house. I went up stairs again to
my master's room. There was a door on the land-
ing, which I found fastened. Either my master or
mistress opened it directly. They were both stand-
ing at the top of the stairs when it was opened. I
saw blood on my master's night-dress. I looked be-
low the bed, and in the next room, to see if any per-
son was left, as master said he was not sure that all
were out. On Saturday morning I found as many as
five pieces of green baise lying in the parlour, and
gave them up to Biddlecombe. [The Coroner here
remarked that these had not been produced.] They
gweerae kitchenssmelly, si f a candle had been
rloufbnudnpdiea small
pieces
and in the bed-room over
the
hr
easy, its.ilkin thevery
kitchen I found a piece of cotton handkerchief. I
gave all these to Biddlecombe. I afterwards saw where
the window had been broken. I saw nothing of any
men about the house.

ness—Oh, yes ; I found some pieces lying
CORONER—Did you find any pieces of parr ? Wit"
master's bed, near the fireplace, which is very near
the bed. They looked as if they had been pieces of
match paper. I gave these also up to the police. I
also picked up a gun cap outside the bedroom door on
last Friday afternoon, when I was sweeping the room.
The cap was split, as if it had been down by
exploded. I
think 1 had swept this all through the bedroom over
the carpet. I gave it to
the door to me. My Master went into bed directly.
My master used to have the curtains drawn on the
side of the bed, but not 'at the foot. I cannot say
how the curtains were that night, as I was in such a
state of confusion. I thin curtainsrt.heWlllianlH oel lrt.
w unl
went into my master's bedroom directly he opened
.
Sergeant Kendall stated that there were no other
drawn, but I cannot speak positively.
In answer to the CORONER,
ees
material witnesses present, but that he expected, at a
future time, to produce other evidence, which would
throw more light on the transaction.
a few minutes
The room was then cleared, and after
spent in deliberation between the Coroner and the
_ay, the 22d
jury, it was announced that the
further proceedings
of the inquest was adjourned till 'Tuesday,
inst., at half-past ten o'clock.

THE LIVERPOOL PLAT-6 ROBBERIES.
and March, Maguire, of
Liverpool, for having
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againstLlVE lilieloriolLli,aTmUEmSD:w.ecACCOrding to previous ar.
rangements the hearing of
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the chapel and house of th
case against Mr. T. C. Sirrell,
Plate
from the residence of Mrs. Finley, of Ilill-street,
of 54, Barbican, London, silversmith, Cc., for felo-
niously receiving the said plate, knowing it to he
;aannddthaelso a further quantity of
stolen, was heard by the county magistrates, at the
Central Police-office, High-street, this afternoon.
The affair excited much interest ; there were, there-
fore, a large number of persons present, and a pretty
extensive muster of the most noted " prigs" in Liver-
pool. The following magic rates
man were on the bench;
hair ;
—R. E. Hervey, E, q• J. B. Yates'
R. Thealtstone, J. T. Bourne, R. Neilson, and J.
Rosen, E-quires.
The prisoners, who have been confined in Kirkdale
since Friday, were placed at the bar shortly after
eleven o'clock. Mr. Sirrell was defended by Mr.
Lewis, of London, solicitor; and M'Auley and
Maguire by Mr. Simon, barrister, who was instructed
by Mr. 'Wheeler, of Liver Poo-
l first case taken was that preferred against Mr
Sirrell, for receiving the plate, knowing it to be stolen,
and M‘Auley for sterling the same.
Mr. Dowling, the barrister, and Commissioner of
the Liverpool Police, who has been appointed by the
Town Council a public prosecutor, conducted the
prosecution.
lie first called Ann Smith, who is servant to the
Rev. J. Fisher. She proved that on the 29th ult. she
locked all the doors and bolted the windows of her
master's house, at about half-past six o'clock. She
then left the house and returned next morning, when
she found the doors opened, and also observed that
the house had been robbed. She missed a pair of
silver sugar-tongs, and some silver table and tea_

spoons, which she was able to identify. She went for
a polic,rnan, and also called in a Mr. Green, who re-
sides next door to Mr. Fisher. The table and tea-
spoons she had borrowed from Mary Jones, grand-
daughter to Mr. Morley.

Mary Jones, on being sworn, deposed to lending
the table and teaspoons to the last witness, and could
identify them. She knew them by the letters which
were engraved upon them. The tablespoons had the
letter G on them, and the teaspoons the letters
B.W.M.

The Rev. James Fisher was the next witness
celled. He swore that he slept at Everton on the
29th ult., and had left Great Crosby in the afternoon,
about twenty minutes past five. He left his servant
Ann Smith in the house, and returned on the follow-
ing Monday morning. As soon as he returned he
fcund that the back lobby door bad been bored, and
the bolt drawn. The circular holes bored in the pan-
nels were about six inches in diameter. On seeing
this his first care was to go into the sacristy, which is
in the chapel that adjoins his house. He found the
door leading to the chapel open. The sacristy is
what is called a vestry. Ile went to the drawers,
and found all in great confusion. On examining
them he missed two silver pyxes, and two holy oil
stocks. He also missed an incense boat, and a spoon
belonging to it, also some copper money. He could
identify the pyxes and the oil stocks.
Lawrence Khoe, an officer of the Liverpool detec-
tive police, was then called, and proved that he went
to London on the Ist of October. Knows the pri-
soner Sirrell. His place of business is at 54, Barbi-
can. He went there on the 2d of October, about
eleven or twelve o'clock in the forenoon. When he
got there he saw a man go into his (Sirrell's) shop,
with two parcels. Sirrell keeps a shop and a
counting-house, and a smelting place at the rear
of the shop. The parcels were wrapped in a brown
paper. Immediately after the man came out
without the parcels, and he (witness) went in. He
bad Inspector Lund, of the metropolitan police, and
Sergeants Whicher and Shore, besides two other
officers in uniform. Lund went in before him. Can-
not say whether it was before or after the delivery of•
the parcels. When he went in, he saw Lund stand-
ing at the counter and the two parcels were placed on
the desk at the end of the counter. Lund seized the
parcels and witness went into the counting-house
where Sirrell was. On entering be pulled out his
warrant card, and then said to him that those two
parcels had come to him that morning from Liver-
pool. He said he did not know who they were from.
He then asked him if he had not got any letters of
advice respecting them. Sirrell became restive when
he asked him respecting the letters, and inquired what
he wanted with his private letters, and that he would
not allow him to come there. Witness then arrested
him, and told him if he could not conduct himself
properly he would make him. Lund also told him
that he must hehave himself quiet. He then produced
a letter which he got respecting the parcels. It was
to the following effect:—
" Sept. 30, 4, Hope-street, St. Jude's, Liverpool.
"I have forwarded some silver, about 15.5. Your
attention as usual will oblige yours respectfully,

" WILLIAM M`A.oLiz."
Knows M'Auley, but does not know where he lives.
The parcels were opened in his (witness's) presence,
the police, and the prisoner. They were wrapped in
brown paper, and one was in a tin canister. The par-
cel produced is the one that was only in paper, tied
with a string, fastened with sealing-wax. It was ad-
dressed, " Mr. T. C. Sirrill, 54, Barbican, London,"
and contained two broken silver table-spoons, two
silver pyxes, lour silver teaspoons, two salt and one
eggspoon, a silver sugar tongs, two castor tops, and
two holy oil stocks.
The articles were then identified by Mr. Fisher,
his servant Ann Smith, and Mary Jones; as those
taken from his house and chapel at Great Crosby.
This was all the evidence produced by Mr. Dow-
ling, who proceeded to the case of Maguire, for steal-
ing plate from Mrs. Tinley.
The cases were remanded till this day week,
although Mr. Lewis addressed the bench, stating that
no case had been made out against his client, Mr.
Sirrell.

[PRICE SD.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TIM he French crusade against the great
anonymous is assuming the ugly look of a struggle
between matter and spirit. The press makes little
resistance, but the Government makes no way. All
sorts of difficulties show themselves, not in the
humour of the people, but in the operation of the law.
It begins to be evident that the object of attack is too
airy, too impalpable, too subtle and illusive, to be
chained, or transfixed, or cloven, or crushed, or other-
wise subjected to the laws of matter. Countless ques-
tions arise. What is an article ? What is a " discut.-
mon ?" What is an opinion ? What is a fact ?
What is a signature ? What is an author ? Indeed,
the troops are on the move before it is precisely un-
derstood what they are to attack. When tyros legis-
late they invariably substitute their intention for the
actual process, and think that a motive makes a law.
In the present instance the National Assembly have
done little more than express their feelings against
anonymous journalism. They certainly have not
3et given effect to that feeling. They trust possibly
to an assistance which even the most experienced-
and practical legislators occasionally are fain to
depend upon; namely, that the courts will supply
the defects of the law, and put the new
principle into working form. That is all very
well when we are moving in the track of existing
law, when we are dealing with things already recog-
nised, and when there are precedents to guide us ; for
jurisprudence favours those that keep in the old paths.
But the sample of legislation now before us is alto-
gether uncustomary ; it introduces new things into
legal discussion, and demands new interpretations. In
the first place, what is an article ? Does a black
line—do two or three asterisks—does a total change
of subject, destroy the unity of an article ? If a
writer is not able in the hurry of composition, or by
the habit of his mind, to arrange his thoughts in
mechanical continuity, but throws them out in the
form of "thoughts," though with a perceptible unity
of subject, is he writing one article or a dozen 1' On
the other hand, if a man gives a mechanical unity to
his composition, and pours it out in one continuous
paragraph, without break or halt, but begins with
an indecent story from Lucian, proceeds' to a criticism
on the original text of Job, glides off to Whigs, stock-
brokers, and Jews, and winds up with some corn-law
statistics, is that one article merely because it is one
paragraph ? If we regarded only the subject, a strict
interpretation of the French law would require only
one signature in the former instance, and in the case
of the multifarious gentlemen would insist that he
should pause, and write his name at full length half
a dozen times in the course of a half column. The
Moniteur made several distinct statements on the au-
thority of the Attorney-General, with the name of
that functionary only once expressed, and did not
dream that it was breaking the law ; nay, it daily
repeated the offence till the Gazette de France pub-
lished Pensies diverses, separated by asterisks, with
only one signature for the whole, and the National
did something of the same kind. It then became evi-
dent that the law was evaded, and all the offenders
have been called to account. But we need not look to
the other side of the Channel for proof of the fact
that there are people not so much ingenious at evad-
ing the rule of unity as incapable of observing
it. There is also the conversational style,
such as that of " Christopher North " in
our northern contemporary. What is to hin-
der every variety of subject from being brought
into a dialogue between two imaginary per-
sons, or more, if necessary ? The British public
would recoil against the requirement of a signature
to every little morsel of with—ta a pun, for example
—not two lines long. Charivari is already ground
to dust by this process. Again, what is to prevent
the use of mouth-pieces? We do not mean what
somebody has called a go-to-prison editor, or any con-
trivance of that obvious description. But there are
men who habitually gather round them their juniors,
or their inferiors, or peogle with less force of charac-
ter, and more easily moulded than themselves. Their
fol,owers repeat their sentiments almost as faithfully
as they could do it themselves. Socrates never wrote
a word, but we know what he thought and felt on
every possible subject of philosophical discussion.
Boswell did Johnson more justice than Johnson
did himself. We have frequently read arti-
cles in reviews which left no doubt of the im-
mediate inspiration to which they were in-
debted. The "Tinguy •Lahoulie amendment," as it
is called, cannot touch this sort of influence. It can
only extort the name of the man that holds the pen,
though he may be little more than reporter to the
real original. The moving spirit of the National
or the Presse may go into the office of his journal
every day, gather a set of young spirits about him,
and set them all of a flame on some topic of the day.
They will not be good fur much if his facts, his images,
his quotations, his antitheses, and a good many of his
very expressions do not appear in the paper the next
day. Everybody acquainted with the press knows
that an article is often a condensed and perhaps a dry
form of an animated conversation. Everybody knows,
too, that many a good article is nothing more or less
than a private letter, translated into the dialect of
journalism. Now, how does the Tinguy-Laboulie
amendment affect articles of this class, in which, by a
natural and innocent process, the prompter and the
writer are two different persons? The result will be that
some young hand, or some ready writer, wholly un-
known to the public, will sign his modest name at
the foot of the article, while the prompter will retain
his incognito. If this is not already the case at Paris,
things are in train for it. The old hands are lying
by to wait for the event, and youngsters are supply-
ing their places for the time with tedious articles
that are not the better fur being owned. Paris will
not stand this very long; and if its chief political
writers do not choose to comply with the new law,
they will at least have to put more life into their
proxies. Could we suppose the law to continue in
force, and the signatures of well-known men regu-
larly appearing in the papers, it is evident that what
the Government and the cause of order may gain in
one respect they will lose in another. Journalists
will write in a more guarded, but perhaps a more
sarcastic, more allusive, and more telling style, than
now. They will get into the way of con-
veying an impression, when they seem only
to be stating a fact. They will learn the insi-
dious and powerful tone by the use of which "so
many writers of the last age succeeded in sapping the
foundation of sound policy or religion, without leaving
the censor one word to lay hold of—the style of
Voltaire, of Hume, and of Gibbon. These men owned
what they wrote, but they were not the less dangerous;
and the two former at least were not the less shrouded.
The difficulty of drawing a line, and possibly a wish,to
appear impartial, have led to the prosecution of no
less than six journals ; one of them a devoted Minis-
terialist. As usual, the most hostile amongst them
affect a laudable desire to become acquainted with the
law, but ask for some less inconvenient mode of
in-
struction than a series of prosecutions, each elucidating
some one mystery of the new law, but at the expense
of a considerable fine, or worse penalty. It is sug-
gested, or rather demanded, that the Attorney-
General should give practical lectures on the opera-
tion of the law, with examples of what a
journal may do, and what it may not. In
England this is certainly no part of the Attor-
ney-General's functions. The Evenentent, however,
has succeeded in extracting an opinion gratis, though
there is some reason to apprehend that the opinion is
a bad one. At all events, it is at variance with the
proceedings taken against the six journals. in reply
to questions from the Evi-nement, the Attorney- Ge-
neral is said to have given an opinion that a number
of facts might be clustered together, with asterisks
between them, and with only one signature below;
and also that the editor's signature would do for an
article prepared at his discretion by another hand, a
responsible signature being all that the law desired.
Such an opinion is so lax, so open to abuse, and so
contrary to the line already taken by Government,
that some people suspect an intention of backing out
of the Tinguy-Laboulie amendment altogether.
Whether there be such an intention or not, the result
will probably be the same. The attempt to destroy
the old position of the press, and to split it up into
individual names, is too! serious an attack on its
power and independence to be readily complied with.
It will open a festering sore between the Govern-
ment and popular feeling, in which all the accidents
and opportunities of the quarrel will be in favour of
,
the latter.

CHRONICLE.—The Journal des Debate, of two
or three days since, made a very true remark the
foundation of a singularly false conclusion. After
observing that English jurisprudence clings servilely
to the letter of the law, and that the legists of France
make it their business to discover its spirit, the writer
proceeded to infer that the new enactment against the
Press would be absolutely intolerable in London,
while, under an equitable application of its provisions,
it might possibly be endurable in Paris. We leave
the controversy, as to the abstract merits of the
English and French systems, with the hint, that each
might borrow with advantage from the characteristics
of the other; but we must express our strong dissent
from the notion that a law requiring the signature of
articles in a journal would operate with greater
severity in England than in France. It nrght be
urged, with much greater plausibility, that such a
law would be a mere dead letter in the English