The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-13 00:00:00

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
HEREFORD, ROSS, AND GLOUCESTER.
On Wednesday last a public meeting was held at
the Shire-hall to take into consideration the best
means of promoting the extension of the Forest of
Dean Railway to Ross and Hereford. The meeting
was convened by the High Sheriff, James Cheese,
Esq., in compliance with the requisition which had
been presented to him, very numerously signed by
the nobility, gentry, agriculturists, tradesmen, and
others of the county.
Shortly after twelve o'clock, the hour appointed for
the meeting, a large number of persons assembled in
the Crown Court of the Shire-hall, which soon became
so crowded that it was deemed expedient to adjourn
to the music-room. The meeting was one of the
most numerous and influential ever witnessed in this
city, and was characterised by the greatest unanimity
of feeling: Among those present we observed the
High Sheriff, in the chair ; the Earl of Oxford,
Lord BLvetnan, Viscount Hereford, Sir R. Price,
Bart., M.P., Sir Velters Cornewall, Bart., Sir E. F.
S. Stanhope, Bart, Right Hon. Sir I'. Frankland
Lewis, Bart., M.P., G C. Lewis, Esq., M.P., Colonel
Clifford, M.P , F. R. Wegg Prosser, Esq , M.P., T.
W. Booker, Esq., M.P., John Arkwright, E'q., Rev.
Archer Clive, J. K. King, &q., J. F. Vaughan,
Esq., D. P. Peploe, Esq., Rev. R. D. Murray, Joh',
Edwards, Esq., Rev. T. P. Symonds, I. K. Brunel,
E,q., (Engineer of the Great Western Railway Corn-
pail), Rev. Canon Morgan.
The HIGH SHERIFF having opened the business of
the meeting in some very able observations, advocating
the neceet•ity of a railway communication from
Gloucester to Hereford,
Lord BATEMAN, in an excellent speech, moved the
first resolution, pledging the meeting to support a
railway from the Forest of Dean Railway to the
terminus of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
at Hereford.
He was most ably seconded by J. F. VAUGHAN,
Esq., of Courtfield.
Mr. BRUNEL then rose, and said that the flatter-
ing manner in which his name had been introduced
to the meeting might probably occasion some little
disappointment. He would endeavour, however, to
the best of his ability to fulfil the task imposed upon
him, though the dry details which it would be his duty
to bring before them would fall heavily on their ears
after the exciting—the usefully exciting—and elo-
quent appeals of the Noble Lord and the Hon. Gen-
tleman who had previously addressed the meeting.
He must appeal to their indulgence, not as a matter
of form, but as a matter of reality—as he felt incom-
petent to address them in a manner which would be
interesting, because the object was one which, ap-
pealing as he must to facts, did not admit of being
laid before them in an amusing form. He must fur-
ther appeal to their kind consideration, on account of
the peculiar circumstances under which he addressed
them. He had never in the course of his career been
previously called upon to address the meeting in
favour of a railway. He had often, as a professional
man, been called upon in public meetings and else-
where to detail the engineering circumstances
of various lines, and to furnish data upon which
a judgment might be formed ; but he had never
before the present occasion been called upon to advo-
cate the cause of any railway.—(Hear, hear.) He
had never been mixed up with any of the railway
speculations of the day, whether good or bad, but
had simply appeared as a professional man, to lay
before others the results of his labours and inquiries.
But, as Mr. Vaughan had so truthfully observed,
times were materially changed—(Hear, hear)—and
he must remind the meeting that everything had
occurred to alter the view in which they must look
at railway projects. Those railways only which pro-
mised a iair return for the capital would be embarked
in; and such a one he felt assured was the present
undertaking. This he had said was a favourable
opportunity for the construction of this line, because
it would give the persons engaged in the construction
of the works an opportunity of employing their
capital and material, which were now lying idle; and
it would also find employment for all descriptions of
labouring men, who were now, many of them, without
work.—(Hear, hear.) This opportunity had been
seized in many instances during the past twelve
months ; and many railways and public works,
which had been abandoned for want of money,
had since been carried out at a far less cost, and
with advantage to those who invested their
capital in them. Seeing this opportunity occur, he
wrote to his friends, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Bodenharn,
Mr. Evans, and Mr. Hall, expressly stating his opi-
nion. He saw a few months back that if the peculiar
aspect of the times were taken advantage of, that
which they all so much desired might be effected
under the most favourable circumstances.—(Hear,
hear.) These were times when moneyed men were
not disposed to hazard their money, as was the case a
few years ago, merely upon speculation of shares
bought for the purpose of being sold again ; but large
capitalists were disposed to invest their money in a
sounder and reore useful mode, that of executing
works where there was any sort of security for their
receiving a fair interest for their capital invested.—
(Hear, hear.) A short time ago, during the rage of
railway speculation, scrip was bought and sold for
money, and it was the purchase and sale of this paper
money that formed a source of profit and of ruin to
many. At the present time, however, it was only those
who really desired to hold the shares, and expected a
fair return for their capital, who would embark in
this undertaking. The estimate for that portion of
the Monmouth and Hereford line which was embraced
in the line he now proposed, at the time the Great
Western Company had obtained their Act to make
the Monmouth and Hereford line (but which Act was
now expired), amounted to the sum of 440,0001.
The change, however, in the times had now enabled
them to enter into a much safer contract, with
into
such and responsible men, who had entered
such contracts before, for the sum of 230,000/. This
difference did not result wholly from the difference in
the prices of labour and materials, but in some mea•
sure from the more sober views which were now
taken in the formation of railways. Formerly,
everything was constructed on a more extravagant
principle ; but poverty had taught them wisdom.—
(Hear, hear). The construction of single lines of
railway now made a considerable difference. The
promoters of railways were now contented with a
much more business-like and more useful set of
works than those which were considered necessary by
Parliament and by the public a few years ago. For
these. reasons they were now enabled to construct a
railway immensely below the amount which was ex-
pended a few y care since.—(Hear, hear). He had
put eimself in communication with contractors, and
would state, on his own authority, that the moment
they were prepared to enter into a contract, he
would find a contractor ready to construct the line
for the sum stated. The meeting, therefore, had
now to determine whether or not
they would have a
railway from Hereford to Ross and Gloucester.-
-(lleer, hear.) As to the advantages of
such communication, he need not say muthe
l
las they must be well acquainted with
them. But with circumstances connected
h had with more remote districts they might not be so con-
versant. By the letter which had been read from
Mr. Ormaby Gore, they would see that the Shrews
bury and •
ad struggled
through difficulties greater or quite as great as the
Gloucester Hereford
andl Hereford—wasford in— whic
about
com-
menced immediately. —(Hear, hear.) being
This position
had been obtained by the adoption of the principle
which he had laid down, and which was the only
means to ensure success, viz., an unremitted exertion
of landowners and all other classes.--(Hear, hear.)
By these exertions the Shrewsbury and Hereford
Railway Company had succeeded in being in a posi-
tion to commence the formation of their line,
which
would open an extensive communication with the
north by the line from Shrewsbury to Chester, and
thence to Birkenhead, Liverpool, Manchester, &c.
The promoters of the Shrewsbury and Hereford
line were very well aware of the advantages which
would be likely to result from the formation of the
line he now proposed before the course of traffic were
settled down. They must all be aware bow very dif-
ficult it was when traffic fell into any particular
course, to alter it. And ,this was no less the case
with railways than with turnpike roads : it became
them, therefore, to take the tide at the flood, and
to seize a favourable opportunity when it
offered.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) By the
information of the Shrewsbury and Hereford line, a
great deal of traffic must take place between the north
and the south districts of the country. The inhabi-
tants of this district would be placed in direct com-
munication with Birkenhead, which was now likely
to become a rival port with Liverpool, competing with
it for the trade of the world. By the way of Holy
head, the most direct communication would be opened
with Ireland , and by various railways all parts of the
north of England would be easily gained. A com-
munication would also be made with South Wales,
and it would be as good a communication with those
districts, and nearly as good with the metropolis, as
any other lino in existence.—(Hear.) The opportu
nity of opening extensive communication to Here-
fordshire was now offered, if the inhabitants would
embrace it—the food was put into their mouths, if
they would only swallow it.— (Hear.) They had now
an opportunity of placing themselves in as good a posi-
tion with regard to railways as any county in Eng-
land. He would earnestly beg of them to rely on
nobody but themselves.— (Hear, hear.) He did. not
mean to say that in that room alone, or in the
city of Hereford, the whole sum of 275,0001.
necessary to go to Parliament could be raised ;
but a large portion of it might be raised if
they would exert themselves, and have a little more
courage to embark their capital in works of
such great utility.—(Hear, hear.) He did not ask
them to enter into it as a speculation--to buy and
sell shares with a view to profit—but to consider the
advantages which the railway offered to themselves.
—(Hear, hear.) His opinion was, that as an invest.

ment it would be a perfectly safe one. It was an im-
portant link of communication; and be did not know
where there would be more traffic, more carriage of
agricultural produce, coals and minerals, than upon
this short piece of line.—(Hear, hear.) And there
were not many lines which could be made much
cheaper, if they refrained from all works of an ex-
pensive character.—(Hear, hear.) He hesitated not
to recommend this line to the meeting, and he was
ready to enter into the speculation himself, and take a
considerable number of shares.—(Applause.) He
did not, however, do this with the view of creating
work for himself; but in the firm belief that it would
prove a good undertaking, and that it was a line
which ought to be made.
We regret that we have not space for a full report
of Mr. Brunel's speech, which made a most lively and
convincing impression on the meeting, and was re-
ceived throughout with the most marked attention and
with great applause.
The meeting was afterwards addressed in support
of the proposed undertaking by Viscount Hereford,
the Rev. Archer Clive, Sir Robert Price, Bart.. M.P.,
Colonel Clifford, M.P., Mr. Wegg, Prosser, M.P., Mr.
Cornewall Lewis, M.P.. Sir Velters Cornewall, the
Rev. 0. Symonds, Mr. James King King, Mr. T. W.
Booker, M.P., Mr. James Davies, and Captain Pep-
loe, in support of the various resolutions; and full
directions were given that the Act should be applied
for in the next session.
A large amount of shares was afterwards sub
scribed for.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTELN AND SHREWSBURY
AND BIRMINGHAM COMPANIES.—We understand that
immediately after the recent decision of the Lord
Chancellor in favour of the London and North-West-
ern Company, the result of which has placed the
latter in a position, if they think proper, to enter
upon a race of competition that would be most inju-
rious to the former, the authorities at Euston-square,
through their chairman, renewed their offers for a
friendly settlement of the unfortunate differences that
have so long existed between the parties. It is stated
that no answer has been returned to this offer. Upon
the answer returned the policy of the companies will,
no doubt, in a great measure depend.
RATING OF RAILWAYS.—There has been a meeting
of the general committee of representatives of railway
companies on the question of railway rating, and,
following the policy determined upon last year, it has
been decided that a strong appeal to Parliament, in
the shape of a declaratory resolution, shall be made,
and, if necessary, a Bill is to be introduced for the
purpose of obtaining relief from the peculiarly heavy
burdens under which railway property so unjustly
labours.
EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER.—A special
meeting of the proprietors of this company took place
yesterday, at the offices of the South-Western Rail-
way Company, York-road, for the purpose of receiv-
ing the report of the committee appointed at the last
meeting to confer with the directors of the London
and South-Western Company; Mr. E. Woolmer in
the chair. The chairman having stated the terms of
the agreement, it was unanimously resolved that the
offer of 395. per share, which had been made in full
of all demands, should be received. After a vote of
thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 11.
Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. Baron Martin ar-
rived at York yesterday, and immediately opened the
commission for the winter gaol delivery.
This morning their Lordship; having attended ser-
vice at the Minster, proceeded to the Castle about
twelve o'clock.
Mr. Justice PATTSSON presided in the Crown
Court, and charged the grand jury, in the codse of
which he noticed the great number of prisoners op-
posite to whose names in the calendar was a note
showing that they read and wrote imperfectly. This
was some indication that the great prevalence of crime
which the calendar showed was traceable to deficient
education.

The calendar is very heavy, containing the names
of no less than 117 prisoners, and 17 persons on bail
to answer charges to be preferred against them at this
assize. Of these-2 are charged with murder, 30
with robbery, 12 with rape, 20 with burglary, 8 with
manslaughter, 18 with cutting and wounding, 4 with
perjury, 2 with horse-stealing, 4 with sheep-stealing,
4 with arson, 2 with concealment of birth, 2 with
bigamy, 3 with poaching, 1 with forgery, 1 with em-
bezzlement, 4 with stealing from a dwelling• house,
and the rest with other offences.
CROWN COURT—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
Richard Petty was charged with having on the 9th
of August last, at North Bierley, in the West Riding,
assaulted John Wright, and stolen from his person
two sovereigns, a bill of exchange for 301., another for
751., and a third for 3501., and four 51. notes of the
Bradford Commercial Bank.
Mr. Bower prosecuted, and Mr. Dearsley defended
the prisoner.
It appeared that on the evening of the day in ques-
tion the prosecutor, who is a respectable manufac-
turer, and a fine looking old man, of great bluntness
of manner, while on his way home, called at a public-
house called the White Swan, in North Bierley, and
there had three glasses of gin and water; after
which, about eleven o'clock, he set off home. The
prisoner and a companion, named Greenough, were
in the public-house, and the prisoner was there
heard to say that he had no money. On the prose-
cutor leaving to go home they followed him, and
when he was about a field's length from his house
he heard, as he described it, a pattering coming
behind him ; he looked round, and was immediately
seized by the coat collar, and pulled down slap on
his back. The prisoner and Greenough each
got upon him, and he (the prosecutor) cried out
" What's up, lads? Come, drop it." The prisoner, whom
the prosecutor called that "little gentleman," then
d—d him, and told him to make a less noise, and
" liver" up, and " pawsed" him full in the head. He
was then robbed by the prisoner and his companion of
the money charged in the indictment. On cross-
examination he was asked if he were quite sober at
the time. His answer was, that men are sever quite
sober after they have had three glasses of gin and
water. He was also asked if Greenough was not a
relative of his. The prosecutor said he should have
to go a long way back to find it—his (prosecutor's)
wife's grandmother and Greenough's grandfather were
half cousin's.—(A laugh.) On information being
given to the constables a search was made, and the
pocketbook of the prosecutor, containing the bills of ex-
change, was found. The prisoner was soon after taken
into custody, and lodged in a cell at the gaol at Brad-
ford by himself. On his removal from that cell it
was searched, and in the water-closet were found two
51. notes of the Bradford Commercial Bank.
Mr. DEARSLEY having addressed the jury for the
prisoner,

His LORDSHIP summed up, and
The jury retired, and after an absence of throe
hours found the prisoner Guilty.
His LORDSHIP sentenced him to be transported fa
ten years.

(Before Mr. Baron MARTIN.)
John Bayley and Robert Mahon were indicted with
stealing a watch and other articles, above the value
of al., from the dwelling-house of Sarah Isherwood,
at Leeds.

Mr. Overend appeared for the prosecution ; the pri-
s mers were undefended.
It appears that the prosecutrix, who lives in Cross-
street, Leeds, on Sunday afternoon, the 3d of No-
vember last, went out and left the key of her house
with a neighbour, who, about 6 o'clock, put the shut-
ters up and locked the doors. The two prisoners
were observed soon afterwards loitering about, and
being watched were seen to open the door, and enter
the house. Information of what had been seen was
given by a boy to the neighbours, who, to the num-
ber of a dozen, or more, turned out and surrounded
the house, and succeeded in taking Bayley into cus-
tody. Upon him were found various implements of
housebreaking, and some lucifer matches, with some
of the stolen property. The other prisoner succeeded
then in making his escape, but was after wards
arrested.

Bayley pleaded " Guilty"; the other prisoner was
found Guilty.
His LORDSHIP sentenced them each to be trans-
ported for 15 years.

Liverpool, Dec. 12.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice
TALFOURD.)
THE QUEEN v. SMITH AND CASSON.
_

It appeared from the additional evidence which was
given after our report left, that on the Wednesday after
the fire Smith went to the house of a man named Ed-
win Rowe, who had formerly worked for him, and
where Casson, the other prisoner, lodged, and having
sent Mrs. Rowe on a trifling errand to some distance,
proceeded, with the assistance of Casson and Rowe, to
empty a large box which was in Rowe's bedroom. A
person named Lawrence, who lived next door, shortly
after saw a cart arrive at the door of Rowe's house,
and a large box having been placed in it, it was driven
away. It further appeared that on the same day
Smith took a lodging for Casson at the house of a man
named Hardcastle, and in the course of that day a
large and apparently very heavy box was brought
there. The following day Mrs. Hardcastle, in at-
tempting to move the box, broke off a piece of the lid,
and she saw that it contained cloth. Casson was told
of this when he came to the house again, but he sa'd
it did not matter. Very shortly after, however,
he came, along with another person, and took
away the box. This was on the 19th of July,
and upon the same day Casson, Edwin Rowe,
and a man named William Rowe, took a lodging at
a Mr. Taylor's, and left in the room they engaged a
large and heavy box. William Rowe remained at
Taylor'a with the box up to the second of August, on
which day he left and did not return. On Sunday
the 4th, Casson went to inquire for Mr. Rowe, at
Taylor's, and was told that he had gone away two
days previously, and had sent for the bolt tilse evening

FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1850.

the Railway Company at Euston-square. When he
went in Sirrell was standing close to the counter,
and he saw the parcels handed to him. He looked
at them, and then gave them to a person be called
" John," whom he directed to pay 2s. for eke carriage
of one of the parcels, and told him to sign the de-
livery-book, which he did accordingly, and handed the
book back, with 2s. to the porter, and placed the par-
cels on the counter. Sirrell then went to the count-
ing- house, and at that moment Kehoe entered, accom-
panied by two sergeants of the London detective
force. Witness then leaned over the counter and took
possession of the two parcels, pointing out to Belioe,
at the same time, where Sirrell had gone. He told
Sirrell he must be present when be opened the
articles, but he said---" No, no. I'll have nothing to
do with it; one of my young men will do." Witness
insisted on his being present when they were opened,
and Kehoe then fetched him back, and the parcels
were opened. He identified the two parcels. The
witness then spoke to the production of the letters, in
reference to which Sirrell said, "I don't know the
party, but I dare say I have had 20 transactions with
him." He was then apprehended.
On cross-examination by Mr. BODKIN, he said it
was previously arranged between him and Kehoe that
they should act in concert. There was a stock of
great value on the premises, which were very exten •
sive. He heard the railway porter say when he came
in that there was 2s. to pay oa one parcel ; the other
was paid for. This witness heard Sirrell say, "I'll
call in the police," and said there seemed to be some
roughness between Kehoe and Sirrell. There was
not the slightest hesitation on the part of Sirrell to
produce the letter. He also desired his people to
give every facility in removing the rest of the stook,
which was taken possession of by the police.
Ann Smith was called to identify the articles taken
from her master's house, and spoke to those which
were missed out of the kitchen. The articles tetken
from the chapel were identified by Mr. Fisher.
Mary Jones was called to identify some spoons
which she had lent to Ann Smith on the 28th of
September.
Patrick Brown, railway porter, proved taking a
parcel out of the late parcel-box on the morning of
the Ist of October: last, which was directed:to Mr.
Sirrell, London. There were no others in the box
that morning.
John Garland, railway clerk, spoke to receiving the
parcel from the last witness on the morning of the let
of October, and, on looking at a cover shown to him,
said, he believed it to be the same address as was on
the parcel in question. A book was produced in
which an entry of the parcel was made of the same
date. The parcel would reach Lonelon early on the
morning of the 2d of October.
George Sleigh, clerk in the Money-order-office,
Post-office, Liverpool, produced three money-orders
of the date of the Bth Aug., amounting to 11/. 2s. 2d.;
two of the 13th of September, amounting to 71. 2s. 4d.;
and one of the 27th of September, of Si. 9s. sd. They
were signed in the name of " William M'Cauley."
George Stafford, silversmith, proved the handwrit-
ing of M'Cauley.
The case for the prosecution was proceeding when
our reporter left, but was drawing to a close.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
The trial of Sirrell and M'Cauley concluded shortly
after seven o'clock. Sirrell was Acquitted, and
M'Cauley was found Guilty.
Sentence deferred.

! after he left, but it had not been given up. It then
i appeared that Mrs. Taylor and her husband, having
'some suspicion that all was not right, opened the box,
and on discovering the cloth and other goods which
it contained, gave information to the police, and
within a few days the prisoners were apprehended.
The two Rowes were also taken, but afterwards dis-
charged. Smith appeared, previous to his appre-
hension, to have gone by his own accord to the
police-office to inspect the box, upon which occasion
he produced the two invoices previously alluded to,
and which the police detained. Smith declared,
when at the police office, on the box and its contents
being shown to him, that be knew nothing about
them, and that the cloth did not belong to him, yet
they turned out to be the identical goods sent to him
by Messrs. Lewis and Ellis, as appeared from the two
invoices, and entered by Smith in his claim against
the company for loss by the fire.
With this evidence the case for the prosecution
closed, and at seven o'clock the court was adjourned.
Immediately on his Lordship taking his seat this
morning,
Mr. JAMES addressed the jury for the prisoner,
contending that the conduct of Smith had through-
out been that of an innocent man, and urging that
the box and its contents were not at all satisfactorily
identified, and strongly reprobated the conduct of the
prosecution in not putting the two Rowes into the
witness-box ; and he could only account for it by the
supposition that, had they done so, their evidence
would have tended to show that Smith had nothing to
do with the transaction about the box. With regard
to Casson, even though he might have been concerned
in it, unless the jury thought that they both acted in
concert, neither of them could be convicted of a con-
spiracy. He commented also upon the fact that the
prosecution had given no evidence, as it was usual to
do in similar cases, of the actual state of the stock
just previous to the fire, such evidence having been
easily obtainable. It was not improbable either
that property bad been abstracted, as was fre-
quently the case, either during or after the fire.
With respect to Smith's statement that the value
of the stock was 1,6001., he could only say that
it was not correct, and if this circumstance should
tell against the prisoner in the result, bitterly would
he have hereafter to rue the fact of his having, for
some purpose he could not explain, swerved from the
plain and simple truth. He did not ask the jury, were
they satisfied that the prisoners were innocent, but
were they satisfied that they had conspired together to
defraud the insurance company ? Were they satisfied
that there was not property on the premises previously
to the fire amounting to 8701. ?
The Learned JUDGe summed up, remarking that
the case must be looked at under two aspects, the first
being that of a conspiracy, in which only both pri-
soners could be convicted ; the second, as a case of
false pretences, in which either both or one might be
found guilty. His Lordship then went through the
evidence at considerable length, and on his con-
cluding,
The jury retired, and shortly came back into court
with a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners on the
whole charge.
Sentence was deferred.
THE PLATE ROBBERIES.
William M'Cauley, 40, was indicted for burgle-
riously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
James Fisher, and stealing therein various articles of
silver plate; and Thomas Charles Sirrell, 59, was in.
dieted for receiving the said property, well knowing
it to have been stolen.
Mr. Blair and Mr. M'Oubrey appeared for the
prosecution ; Mr. Pollock and Mr. Simon defended
M'Cauley; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Bodkin
(specially retained), and Mr. Aspinall defended Sirrell.
Mr. BLAIR, in opening the case for the prosecution,
told the jury that the charge against M'Cauley was a
double one of stealing and receiving ' • that against
Sirrell of receiving only. He begged them to dis-
miss from their minds all that they had previously
heard of this case, which had created very great in-
terest, and to confine their attention strictly to the
facts proved. It appeared that the burglary in ques-
tion was committed on the night of the 29th of Sept.
last, at the house of the Rev. James Fisher, Catholic
priest of Great Crosby, to whose house was attached
a small chapel, whence, as well as from the house,
some of the property was taken. The house was
locked up on the night of the burglary by the person
who had charge of it, and no one slept there upon that
night. On going to the house on the following
morning, it was discovered that an entrance had been
made by the back of the premises, by means of holes
cut in the door, through which an arm could be in.
troduced so as to allow of the bolts being pulled back.
Part of the property taken was missed from the kit-
chen, and on Mr. Fisher going to his house and mak-
ing an examination of the chapel, two silver pixes
and some holy oil stocks were gone. The next
place in which these articles were heard of was
Sirrell's shop in London, where they were found
on the 2d of October. They were traced there by
the police, and indeed they were seized by them
even before Sirrell had had time to examine them.
It would also be proved that on the same morning
upon which these articles had been received at Sir-
rell's, Sirrell had got a letter bearing the Liver-
pool postmark, and dated the 30th of September last,
which would be proved to be in the handwriting of
M'Cauley, informing him of some silver to arrive.
On further inquiry a number of letters in 111`Cauley's
handwriting were found on a file on Sirrell's pre-
mises, and it would be laid before the jury to say
whether, looking at the relations existing between
the prisoners and the nature of the articles received,
so rarely in the market, they could come to any other
conclusion than that Sirrell must have been aware of
the person from whom the parcel was coming, and of
the suspicious nature of the transaction. It would
also be shown, in addition to this evidence, that a por-
tion of another robbery, in the neighbourhood of Li-
verpool, which had taken place about the same time,
was found on Sirrell's premises.
The first witness called for the prosecution was,
Ann Smith, who proved that she was, on the 29th
of September last, a servant to the Rev. James Fisher,
who lived at great Crosby. She fastened up the house
on the night in question, about six o'clock. She left
the house soon atter, and no one was left within. She
had fastened the back door, and the cellar door also
was shut. She returned about half-past seven on the
following morning, when she found the back door
open, and the panels cut out. The cellar door also
was open. She afterwards examined the house, and
found the drawers open in the kitchen, and she missed
five silver spoons, three being teaspoons and two
tablespoons, from the kitchen cupboard. She had seen
them safe about five minutes before she left the house.
The tablespoons had been borrowed from Mr.
Maury's house. She saw those articles yesterday.
The Rev. James Fisher, Roman Catholic priest of
Great Crosby, recollected the night of the 29th of
September. He left the house about half-past four,
and returned on the following day. He found two
large circular boles in the back door, large enough
to admit a man's hand, so as to allow the bolts being
drawn. There was a chapel attached to the house,
the door of which was usually locked. It was open
on the Monday when he went, and, on examination,
he missed from a drawer two silver pixes, some holy
oil stocks, and from the house a silver incense- boat,
and some copper, in addition to the silver spoons.
By the JUDGE.—There is an interior communica-
tion between the house and the chapel.
Lawrence Kehoe, a detective officer of the Liver-
pool police, went to London on the night of the Ist
of October. Sirrell's place of business is at 54, Bar-
bican,:whither he went between 11 and 12 o'clock on
the day after. He saw a man, apparently a railway
porter, with two parcels, go into the shop. In-
spector Lund went in after him, and the witness
followed. He saw on entering two brown paper parcels
lying on the counter, or on the desk of the counter ; he
could not say which, but they were on the further part
of the counter. Witness went into the counting-
house and saw Sirrill there, and told him two parcels
had come from Liverpool for him that morning. He
said he did not know whom they were from. The
parcels were afterwards shown to him, and opened in
his presence. Sirrell said " You can open them
yourselves." He asked him if he had any letters.—
(A brown paper parcel was here produced, and the
address, " Mr. T. C. Sirrell, 54, Barbican, London,'
was on the paper. It contained nine spoons, two
pixes, two holy oil-stocks, and some other articles of
silver.) Sirrell asked what witness wanted his pri-
vate letters for, and said, " You shan't come here."
He told him he must be quiet, and, after the parcels
were opened, he asked him if he could account for the
property. Sirrell said he could not; he did not know
the men, but if he were to see them he might know
them. Witness asked if any one in the shop would
know them, and they said " No." Witness then
produced a letter which Smith had given up to the
police, dated the 30th September, 1850, from 4, Hope-
street, St. Jude's, Liverpool, and signed by M'Cau-
ley, informing Sirrell that he had forwarded some
silver to him, and begging his attention, as usual.
Several other letters were produccd, which were taken
from a file in Sirrell's counting-house. A post-office
order-book was ;also produced. The lftters were from
APCauley, and all related to transactions in business
between the prisoners, and contained various memo-
randa as to the mode of payment by Sirrell t
M•Cauley for the goods forwarded.
On cross-examination by Mr. Sergeant WILKINS,
the witness said that four other officers, two of them
in uniform, came into Sirrell's shop shortly after him.
He produced a card be was in the habit of carrying
about him to Sirrell, to inform him who be was. He
heard Lund ask for letters, and he produced them.
On re-examination, Kehoe said Sirrell was very
rough, and wanted to put him out.
John Lund, an inspector of the London police,
proved that he went to Sirrell's shop on the morning
of the 2d of October. He had previously seen a per-
son going in whom he knew to be in the employ of

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE-SHOW
This exhibition has been crowded with company
during the past two days, and was even more thronged
last evening than on any previous occasion since its
opening. Notwithstanding the enormous enlarge-
ment that has taken place this year, so great has been
the increase of visitors that the committee of the club,
at their annual meeting yesterday, unanimously agreed
to a resolution requesting Mr. Boulnois, the proprie-
tor of the Bazaar, to add considerably to the present
area occupied by the show before the next exhibition,
I some such arrangement being absolutely necessary for
the accommodation of the spectators. The show was
visited yesterday by a large number of
.distinguished
visitors, among whom were—His Excellency the
Russian Minister, his Excellency the Minister for the
Netherlands, the Austrian Chargé d'Affairs, the Duke
of Richmond, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of
Leicester, Lord Feversham, Major-General Wemyss,
Sir Walter Stirling, Colonel Francis Seymour, &c.
At one o'clock the adjourned annual meeting of the
club took place in the committee-room. Lord Port-
man (in the absence of the Duke of Richmond) took
the chair, and was supported by a very numerous at-
tendance of members of the club. The various notices
of motion given on Tuesday came on for discussion in
due course, and terminated in the appointment of a
committee to take into consideration the revision of
the prize-sheet, with the view of ascertaining how far
an arrangement of the animals according to breed,
instead of, as at present, according to age and weight,
would meet the wishes of the members of the club.
A suggestion on the subject of en enlargement of the
exhibition befotb next Christmas was unanimously
carried, and the proprietor of the Bazaar having been
appealed to, that gentleman informed the committee
(that, if necessary, he could increase the present area
nearly as much again. It was also resolved, for the
convenience of visitors, that for the future no artists
should be allowed to sketch the animals after twelve
o'clock at noon. A resolution limiting the weight of
all implements admitted to the show to one ton each
having been passed, the proceedings terminated.
Among the animals which have excited more than
ordinary observation on the part of the visitors, has
been the cross-bred heifer belonging to his Grace the
Duke of Wellington. This animal, which is between
a Scotch Highland cow and the Bramah bull, is one
of a small herd of the same description of cattle of
which the Noble Duke keeps at Strathfieldsaye.
They are excessively wild generally, and the herds-
men has great difficulty in keeping this one under
control, the more so as the crowd are continually
pressing around it. This beast is not sent for the
purposes of sale, but merely as a curiosity, the Noble
Duke, in giving permission to his steward to send it,
having added strict instructions that the animal should
be brought back to Strathfieldsaye. Several very
tempting offers for its purchase have been made ; but,
as a matter of course, all are refused.
The sale of the stock has proceeded very languidly
during the past two days, and in some cases the
owners have exhibited the prices upon their cattle
with the view of enticing purchasers—a plan never
before adopted at this show. The country butchers
have mustered rather strongly again this year, and
several of the finest animals in the show are destined
to travel long distances, as will be observed from the
following list of sales :—Mr. Aldworth's Hereford ox,
fed at Frilford, Berkshire, has been bought by Mr.
Thompson, of Peterborough; Mr. Chamberlain's
Hereford ox, fed near Liecester, by Mr. Holmes, of
Newmarket; Mr. Brown's Durham ox, fed at Derby,
by Mr. Bailey, of Derby; Mr. Stewart's cross-bred
steer, fed at Aberdeen, by Mr. Aintre, of Barnett ;
Mr. Bond's Devon steer, fed at Taunton, by Mr.
Waite, of Teddington ; Mr. Timm's white Durham
ox, fed at Farnborough, by Mr. Farrar, of Reading ;
Mr. Cacel Banbury Leigh's short-horned steer, fed
at Pontypool Park, by Mr. Naish, of Maiden..
head ; Mr. Harvey Combe's short-horned ox,
fed at Cobham Park, by Mr. Alder, of
Esher; the Earl of Radnor's short-horned and
Hereford steer, fed at Coleshill, by Mr. Brain, of Ox-
ford ; Earl Spencer's short horned ox, fed at Althorp
Park, by Mr. Fitshugh. of Northampton ; Mr. Strat-
ton's short•horned steer, fed at Salthorp, near Levin-
don, by Mr. Ferrer, of Reading ; Mr. Hurst's short-
horned steer, fed near Aylesbury, by Mr. Elliot, of
Bicester ; the Hon. H. W. Wilson's short-horned
steer, fed at Keythorpe-hall, near Leicester, by Mr.
Stafford, of Leicester; the Earl of Radnor's Hereford
steer, fed at Coleshill, by Mr. Brain, of Oxford ; Mr.
Stewart's cross-bed ox, fed at Aberdeen, by Mr.
Withers, of Guildford ; the Earl of Leicester's North
Devon ox, fed at Holkham-hall, by Mr. Gates, of
Chichester; Mr. Knowles's Aberdeenshire and short-
horn cross ox, fed at Aberdeen, by Mr. Lambert, of
Croydon ; Mr. Tucker's pure North Devon ox, fed at
Stratford, by Mr. Elphick, of East Moulsey ; Mr. C.
11. Leigh's short-horn cow, fed at Pontool Park,
by Mr. Benny, of Maidstone ; Mr. Browns Durham
heifer, fed at Derby, by Mr. Mauples, of Ashbourne ;
the Earl of Radnor's Hereford and long-horn cow,
fed at Coleshill, by Mr. Wilson, of Newbury, &c.
The exhibition finally closes this day.
M

131tDER IN PLYMOUTH.—,A reward of 501, with
the promise of a pardon to any aecomplice who shall give in-
formation other than the actual perpetrator of the crime,
bias been offered by her Majesty's Government for the appre-
hension of the persons by whom a young man, 25 years of
age, named William Brown Ambrose, a builder, was mur-
dered on the night of Saturday, November 16. The deceased
had risen from bed to accompany a friend of his named Wil-
liam Thomas, with whom he remained drinking in a public-
house till nearly two o'clock in the morning. On passing the
end of Stonehouse-lane, a part of the town inhabited by the
migratory population, Ambrose and Thomas were both
struck by two men. The blow given to Thomas felled him
to the ground and stunned him. The blow given to Ambrose
resulted in his death on the 2Sth of November. The deceased
obiected to making the police or magistrates acquainted with
the circumstances, and when they were in attendance he was
incapable of making a declaration. At the inquest a verdict
of " Wilful Murder/ agairtet, some person or persons un-
known," was returned. Three men—named Bartholomew

Harrington, James Mahoney, and Timothy Donovan, all
Irishmen—have been apprehended, but nothing positive has
yet been brought against the prisoners, who were on Wed-
nesday remanded till Saturday next.
Pomsu AnDuEss.--The Lords of the Treasury
having received an application :fronqa Noble Lord, repre-
senting the circumstances under which an address of the
Literary Association of the Friends of Poland to the Poles
has been printed abroad, there being no opportunity of get-
ting it printed in London in the Polish language, and re-
questing that the duty chargeable thereon may be remitted,
and their Lordships being of opinion that this request should
be granted on the ground of the necessity which existed for
printing the work abroad, and of its being intended for a
charitable object and not for sale, and fer circulation not
only in this country but also in different parts of the world
where Poles may be resident, have granted permission for the
admission of the work under the circumstances free of the
duty which would otherwise be ohs igt‘thereou.