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under . the shadow of the street referred to. The
Magdalen Hospital was about to be removed in
consequence of the mortality amongst the inmates,
which had increased 97 per cent. Complaints were
made by the householders, for the liquid refuse
passed into the drains forced up defective traps ;
and the governor of the Queen's Military Prison
had repeatedly complained to the War-office, the
stench getting inside the high walls of the prison
and there lingering.
After a very long discussion his Grace said that
the powers of the Privy Council applied only to
order speedy interments, institute house-to-house
visitation, establish dispensaries, and take precau-
tions to guard against disease. He doubted whether
the latter clause could be construed so far as to sup-
press a nuisance, so to speak, licensed by Act of
Parliament ; but an inspector should visit the spot,
and then, if given in.a memorial by the vestry, he
would lay the case before the legal advisers of the
Crown. With regard to a case reported in the daily
papers of that day there appeared to be no summary
power to punish persons who refused to destroy
clothing. The parochial authorities would have to
appoint an officer for the purpose,
neglect of whose
regulations would be punishable as a misdemeanour.
The deputation then withdrew.

Yesterday at 12 o'clock, the members forming
the committee appointed by the City Commissioners
of Sewers to take such measures as might be deemed
necessary under the Nuisances Removal and Dis-
eases Prevention Acts, in order to prevent the
spread of cholera in the City, held another meeting
at the Guildhall under the presidency of the chair-
man, Mr. De Jersey.
Mr. H. BLAKE, the clerk to the committee, stated
that in accordance with the resolution come to the
day previously, he had written to the chairmen of
the boards of guardians of the City unions inform-
ing them that the committee would be glad to co-
operate with them in any measures which from time
to time might be found desirable for the prevention
of nuisances and diseases, and he had also re-
quested their attendance before the committee to
confer upon the subject of supplying chloride of
lime to the poor gratis, and upon other matters.
Mr. GEORGE CUTHBRT, chairman of the East
London Union, attended in pursuance of the above
invitation, and stated that the special committee of
that union would meet the next day to appoint four
assistant medical officers to assist Dr. Simpson, the
chief medical officer of the board. He also said that
accommodation had been provided for the, casual
poor at the workhouse at Homerton, and that the
houseless -poor wards in New-street, Biffigsgate,
would be fitted as a temporary hospital for the ex-
clusive accommodation of cholera patients. The
medical officers of the union had been invested with
power to use any disinfectants, stimulants, and
warm clothing, and in fact everything necessary
for persons who might unfortunately be afflicted
with the prevailing epidemic. He also said that
chloride of lime was provided, and might be had
gratuitously by any poor persons applying. (Hear.)
The clerk was directed to write to the guardians
of the City and West London Unions requesting to
know what steps had been taken by them, and after
dealing with various communications, one of which
referred to the death of two persons in a court in
Houndsditcb, the committee adjourned.

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND
11 GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Offices—l, Dale-street, Liverpool; 20 and 21, Poultry;
7, Cornhill, and Charing-cross, Louden.
Invested Funds VI 177,1(16
Fire Premiums received in 1865 739,33t
Life do. *.c6
The last year's Fire duty paid by this office amounted to
Zit 2,.:81 9s. lid , exceeding by upw.rda of £31,00,) the amount
paid by any other country office.
The duty is now reduced to is. 6d. per cent. on every de-
scription of property.
In the Life department policies are issued with Liberal
conditions and guaranteed bonuses.
Claims are payable in thirty days after admission.
Whole world leave to travel granted on reasonable terms.
JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary,
LONDON and CO
_COMP.

UNTY BANKING
'ANY.
ted 1836.
, in 37,500 Shares of X. 50 each.
Reserve Fund £250,000. •

Establish,
Subscribed Capital X 1,875,000,
Paid up Capital .£750,000,
DIREC

Nathaniel Alexander, Esq.
John Edmund Anderdon,
Esq.
Thos. Tyringham Bernard,
Philiph Patton Blyth, Esq.
John William Burmester,
Esq..
Coles Child, Esq.

John Fleming, Esq.
Frederick Harrison, Esq.
Edward John Hutchins,
Esq.
Wii nm Champion
• Esq.
William Lee, Esq., M.P.
William Nicgl, En.

-3ones,

GENERAL MANAGER.
William McKewan, Esq.
CHIEF INSPECTOR.
W. J. Norfolk, Esq.
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER.
William Howard, Esq.
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT.
James Gray, Esq.
INSPECTORS OF BRANCHES.
H. J. Lemon, Esq., and C. Sherring, Esq.
SECRETARY.
F. Clappison, Esq.
HEAD OFFICE.— 21, Lombard-street.
At the Half-yearly General Meeting of the Proprietors
held on Thursday, the 2d August, 1866, at the Lonion
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, the following Report for the
half-year ending the 30th June, 1866, was read by the
Secretary :
WILLIAM NICOL, Esq., in the Chair.
REPORT.

The Directors, in submitting to the Proprietors the
Balance-sheet of the Bank for the half-year ending the
30th June last, have to report that, after payment of all
charges, interest to customers, and making ample provision
for bad and doubtful debts, the net profits amount to
£85,440 178.8(1., this with £14,527188.101, brought forward
from the last account, Produces a total of £99,968 16s. 6d
They had declared the usual dividend of 6 per cent. for
the half-year;with a bonus in addition of 5 per cent. (equal
to 22 per cent. per annum), which will amount to £82,500,
and leave £17,468 16s. 6d. to be carried forward to Profit
and Loss new Account.
Mr. John Edmund Anderdon has been elected a member
of the Board.
Mr. Hugh C. E. Childers, M.P." who retired from the
direction on assuming the position of Secretary to the
Treasury in the late Government, being now relieved from
the duties of his office, will, at the unanimous request of
the directors, resume his seat st the Board. •
The dividend and bonus (together £2 4s. per Share) free
of income tax, will be payable at the Head Office, or at any
of the Branches, on and after Monday, the 13th inst.

BALANCE-SHEET OF TILE LONDON AND COUNTY
BANKING COMPANY, JUNE 30, 1866.
Dn.
To Capital paid up £750,000 0 0
To Reserve Fund 230,000 0 0
To amount duo by
the Bank for Custo-
mers' balances, &c £10,718,483. 16 1
To liabilities on ac-
ceptances', 2,032,490 10 1

12,750,974 6 2

Profit and loss balance
brought from last
account
Gross profit for the half
year, after making
provision for bad and
doubtful debts 348,310 10 10

14,527 18 10

362,838 9 8

CR. £14,113,812 15 10
By cash on hand at
Head Office and
Branches £2,149,216 5 1
Byancdasaht
npohtticceed .
883,396 5 9
£3,032,612 10 10

Investments, via
Government and Gua-
ranteed 5t0ck5....... 194,381 17 3
Other stocks and secu-
rities ..................... 99,308 13 11
293,690 11 2
Discounted bills and advances to custo-
mers in town and country 10,410,772 8 0
Freehold premises in Lombard-street
and Nicholas-lane, freehold and lease-
hold property at the Branches,
156,078 18 0 with
fixtures and fittings
Interest paid to customers 126,581 10 5
Salaries and all other expenses at Head
Office and Branches, including income
94,076 17 5
tax on profits and salaries '

£14,113,812 15 10
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
DA.
To interest paid to customers
To expenses, as above
To rebate on bills not due, carried to
new account 42,211 5 4
To dividend of 6 per cent. fur half-year 45,000 0 0
To bonus of 5 per cent. 37,500 0 0
To balance carried forward 17,468 16 6

CR. £362,838 9 8
By balance brought forward from last
account .... . . .................... £14527 18 10
By gross profit the . 1;11-Pear, after
making provision for bad and doubt-
ful ddbts ....................................... 348,310 10 10

We, the undersi £362,838 9 8
Ba-
lance Sheet, and have found the same to bo correct.
fined have examined the foregoing Ba-
lt. IL SAINE,
London and County Bank July
, 26, 1866.
(Signel) WILLIAM NORMAN,/ Auditors.

The foregoing
Report having been read by the Secre-
tary, the following Resolutions were proposed, and unani-
mously adopted :
1. That the Report be received and adopted, and printed
for the use of the Shareholders.
2. That the Capital of this Banking Company be increased
by the creation of 20,000 additional Shares of £5O each.
And that such Shares be issued at such times and in such
manner as may be determined at some Annual or Half-
yearly General Meeting, or at an Extraordinary Meeting of
the Shareholders called and held in accordance with the
provisions of the peed of Settlement.
3. That the thanks of this Meetingbe given to the Board
of Directors, for the able manner in which they have con-
ducted the affairs of the Company.
4. That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to Wil-
liam McSewan, Esq., and to the principal and other offi-
cers of the Bank, for the zeal and ability with which they
have discharged their respective duties.
(Signed) W. NICOL, Chairman.
The Chairman having quitted the Chair, it was resolved,
and carried unanimously-
5. this Meetingbe
for his ato William Nicol, Esq., -de and courteous conduct
in the Chair.
(Signed)
W. CHAMPION JONES,
.Deputy Chairman.
Extracted from the Minutes.
(Signed) F. CLAPPISON, Secretary.
5. That the cordial thanks

692_
NEWSPAPER
„. it•
The Late Emk L
ensive Robb '1-
4 -
- chqst r,Stamp 0 i?td
'll
Charles Batt, vho bad been remanded on suspicion
breaking into the St imp-office, Manchester, and stealing
bills, stamps, &c., to the value of £12,000, was again
brought before Sir Thomas Henry, at the Bow-street
Police-office yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Jacobs, from the Law Office of the Treasury, con-
ducted the prosecution for the Crown; and Mr. Wontner,
jun., defended the prisoner.
Mr. Jacobs said he proposed now to give evidence as to
the robbery, and to show that the prisoner, besides having
a portion of the stolen property in his possession, was ac-
tually seen at the office on the day of the robbery and the
day preceding it.
The evidence given by Mr. Walker, examiner of spoilt
stamps (to whom. the prisoner tendered a £l. stamp on the
19th of July last.), having been read over by Mr. Burnaby,
chief clerk, the following additional evidence was taken :
Mr. John Alton examined—l reside at Pensholme, Man-
chester, and am clerk to the Hon. Richard E. Howard, dis-
tributor of stamps at Manchester. On Saturday, the 26th
of May last, I was at the office in discharge of my ordinary
duties till half-past twelve, the office having closed that day •
at twelve o'clock, being Saturday. I keep the keys of the
office. Previous to quitting the premises I saw the stock of
stamps, bills, &c., safely deposited in the patent iron safe.
All the stamps of the kind produced were in the safe, the
total value of them being about £17,000.
Sir T. Henry—How many were there of the £1 stamps
or bills similar to the one presented by the prisoner ?
Witness—There were £2,000 worth. I produce a list of
the stamps in stock at the time. I retained the keys in
my possession till the following Monday morning, when I
went to the office about five minutes to nine. I entered the
office from the private passage in Cross-street, and when 1
got to the door leading downstairs to the newspaper-stamp
department I found it obstructed by a waste-paper basket
and a bundle of transfer stamps which were left in the safe
when I left on Saturday. I then saw a glimmer from the
front office, and immediately suspected that somethingwas
wrong. I went to the door leading into the front office, and
saw at once that the office had been broken into. I saw
that the desk had been removed, and some bundles of cot-
ton placed there instead. . The safe was turned over. It
,was zwat a safe fixed in the wall.
Sir T. henry—Do you wean L.. say that it -as loose in -
the office ?
Witness—Yek I found the safe bad been drilled and
opened, and the chief contents abstracted, the stamps miss-
ing being up yards of £lO,OOO in value. The £1 stamp
produced is one of a quire which had been deposited in the
safe, and which bad been consigned to Mr. Howard from
the Stamp-office in Londoa on the 19th May. I produce
the invoice. There were several reams of the same kind of
stamps, and I identify it from the date and from the pecu-
liarity of the paper on which the stamp is impressed. No
single stamp would be sold from the office cut in the way of
the one now produced. This is cut by a sharp knife in-
stead of a paper knife.
Mr. Jacobs—Have you ever seen the prisoner before to-
day ?
Witness—Yes. On the day of the robbery I believe I
saw the prisoner at the office. Ile asked me for a half crown
stamp, which I supplied to him. He then asked me if it
would do fora certain sum of money. I replied that unless
he told me what it was for—half crown stamps being used
for so many purposes—l could not give him the information
he wanted. He declined to say what he wanted it for. I
was struck with the peculiar way in which he looked into
the back office and seemed to survey the premises, and
turned his back upon a gentleman in the office as if to avoid
observation. This caused use to notice him more particularly
than I should have done. The part at which he looked was
the wall which I found broken open on Mondarmorning
I may say that his manner struck me so much that I men-
tioned the circumstances to another gentleman in the
office, a Mr. Smith.
Sir T. Henry—This cannot be taken as evidence.
Mr. Jacobs—Are you aware of the fact that in conse-
quence of the representations made by the Manchester
merchants these £1 bills had been supplied on larger
paper than they usually used for the purpose ?
Witness—l am not aware of the circumstance.
Sir T. Henry—DO any ono sleep on the premises ?
Witness—No. I fastened the doors myself—locked and
barred them. Tho windows were fastened by the portor
in my presence.
Cross-examined—l attend to a large number of persons
daily. Although I thought the prisoner's conduct so
strange I did not take any extra precautions. There were
very few persons in the office that particular day, as it
happened. I have mentioned to Mr. Smith and others
that I saw a person answering the prisoner's description
there on the day of the robbery. I told Mr. Smith of the
man's strange manner on the same day, and I have men-
tioned it to many others since the robbery. I first saw
the prisoner in custody at this court on Thursday last.
Mr. Wontuer—l understood you only to express your
belief the prisoner was the man ?
Witness—l can positively swear to him.
Mr. Wontner—Then why did you express " your be-
lief" only ?
Witness—That is merely a form of expression.
James Thomson, inspector of detective force, Scotland-
yard, handed in a plan of the premises, and stated that on
the 29th May, inconsequence of instructions received from
Sir R. Mayne, be went down to Manchester to inquire into
a robbery at the Stamp-office there. He found the office in
a block of buildings forming the sides of four streets, and
that it had been apparently entered from the adjoiningpre-
mses of Messrs. Garnett, drapers, some of whose stock of
cloth had been disturbed. Tho premises were all under
the same roof, and the latter might be entered by a
door, on which he found a temporary latch, which could
be raised by a string passing through a broken window by
the side. The wall dividing Mr. Garnett's store-room from
the Stamp-office had been broken, and an aperture made
sufficiently large to enable a man to get through easily, A
slight door opening to Mr. Howard's office had been forced,
and on examining the safe it was evident that it had been
broken open by means of drilling, the insertion of wedges,
and by the further use of a crowbar. There is a cellar under
the store-room, and there 1 found a book called Wright's
Racing Guide, for May, 1866. There wore several other
burglars' implements lying about.
Some formal evidence as to the distribution of stamps
from Somerset House was then given, and several witnesses
who bad purchased the only other £1 stamps (fourteen in
3umber) bearing the date of the stamp in question (May
17) were examined. It was thus sought to show that the
stamp produced by the prisoner must have been ono of the
quantity stolen from the Manchester office.
At this point of the examination Mr. Jacob applied for
another remand, and the inquiry, which had occupied the
latter part of the day, was adjourned for a week.

MEETINGS IN TIIE PROVINCES ON TIIE HYDE-PARK
PROCEEDINGS.—The Committee of the Birmingham
Liberal Association have forwarded the following to Mr.
E. Beales : —" This committee, considering that the method
taken by the Conservative Government to prevent the hold-
ing of the meeting in Hyde-park was arbitrary and unwise,
coursetheyareEdmond
to Beales
vindi-
cate and his associates
and that the conduct of the Council of the Reform League
with Mr.
takingwas dignified and prudent, resolved—That this committee
hereby expresses sympathye
th
the rights of the people, and to obtain their politi-
cal enfranchisement." The Norwich Political Union last
night adopted a resolution, urging the appointment of a
committee to inquire into the conduct of Sir R. Mayne and
his police during the late disturbances in Ilyde-park.--A •
crowded meeting was held in the Town-hall, Leicester,
on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of expressing public
opinion upon the conduct of the Government in re-
spect to the late demonstration in Hyde-park, and of
memorialising her Majesty to dismiss her precept Minis-
ters. Mr. J. Thompson, ono of the vice-presidents
of the Leicester Parliamentary Reform Association,
presided. Addresses wore delivered by the Rev. J.
J. Goadby, Mr. Councillor 'Charlesworth, Mr. G. R.
Searson, Mr. F. Hewitt, and several working men. Reso-
lutions condemnatory of the " bludgeon policy" of the
Government, and expressive of continued attachment to
the cause of reform, and of a want of confidence in the
present
administration, were usnimously carried.—A meet-
ing, called to re
view the conduct of the Government
relativeto the late Ifyde-park demonstration," was held
Bristol, on Tuesday evening.
on Brandon-hi 11,15,000
persons The proceedi
• ns were present. proceedings were enthusiastic
•of Afr• Gladstone anti his reform
in praise • measures, and
unanimous in denouncing the Government. The
majority
present were working men.
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