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about two miles ; 22 sub;
Tho highest weight accei
raised to Bst 121 b, and the (
Age st lb
Doctor Syntax ... 6 812
Ethelred ... ... 5 8 4
Neroli (pd) 3 8 3
Flateat cher (pi) ... 3 8 2
Jevington 4 7 11
Mazurka 3 7 11
Emigrant ... 3 7 10
The Two YEAR OLD STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50
added ; colts Bst 10Ib, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of 100 sovs
in stakes or plates 31b, twice 71b extra; maidens allowed
71b ; about half a mile ; 11 subs.

9 of whom pay 5 sovs each.
sting being Bst, it has been
)thers in proportion.

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The SOUTHILL STAKES (handicap) of 5 sovs each, 2 ft (to
the fund), with 50 added; the second to save his stake;
winners of a handicap value 50 soya after Sept. 27 (at
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one mile; 17 subs.

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Overture 6 8 9
Alice Lee ... ' ... 5 8 7
Jack o'Lantern ... 4 8 6
Indigestion ... 4 8 6
Mongrel ... 1 8 2
Salliett ... 4 8 2
Steamboat ... 3 7 9
Skiff ... 5 7 2

Age st lb
Nnkubeva... ...4 6 12
The Lizard ... 4 6 11
Dooford (lib) 4 6 9
Vigilant ... ... 4 6 7
Black Prince 3 6 4
Bertie ... 3 6 4
Nimble ... 3 6 0
Vocalist ... 3 5 12

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Bst 81b, five, six, and aged Bst 131 b ; mares and geldings
allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 150 sovs if de-
manded ; winners once in 1866 31b, twice 51b extra. To
start opposite the Stand and go once round.
The gaiVitltkrE of 1.00 gs; three-yr-olds Bst 6113,-fout
9st 71b, five 9st 131 b, six and aged lOst. Three miles.
The TWO-YR-OLD SELLING PLATE of 50 sovs, added to a
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b;
the winner to be sold for 50 sovs ; if entered for 40 sovs
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5 sovs each ; three-yr-olds lOst 41b, four 11st 41b, five
list 81b, - six and aged list 101 b ; mares and geldings
allownd 31b ; the winner to be sold for 400 sovs ; if en-
b, 200 121 b, 100 211 b, 50 281 b.

tered for 300 sovs allowod 7]
About ono mile.
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sovs each, 3 ft; winners of
(at ten a.m.) 71b extra. A
subs.

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f any handicap after Sept. 27
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Cedric 4 8 9
Salliet 4 8 8
Qui Vivo 3 8 2
Lady Valentino ... 4 8 2
Catalogue ... • ... 4 8 0
Steamboat 3 7 11
Proscription ... 5 7 11
Novico ... 3 7 8
Zisca ... 4 7 8
Flying Jib... ... 3 7 '7
Virtuous ... ... 4 7 7
Tesano ... 4 7 31

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Birkdale ... 3 7 2
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Spokesman 3 7 2
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The Stamp Office Robbery.

William Douglas and Thos. Henry Douglas, the two men
recently apprehended at Doncaster on the charge of being
concerned in the robbery at the Manchester Stamp-Office,
between the-26th and 28th May, were brought up an re-
mand at the city Police-court on Thursday. LMr. Bonnet
objected to proceeding with the case, as Mr. Cottingham,
the counsel he had engaged for the prisoners, was out of
town. He applied for a remand. Mr. Jacobs, for the pro-
secution, opposed the application, as he had about a dozen
witnesses present at a considerable expense. Mr. Fowler
said counsel ought to be present. Mr. Bennet—He will be
hero to-morrow. Mr. Fowler —I cannot grant an adjourn-
ment. Mr. Beqnet—Then I ask that the case may be put
back till 2 o'clock—[lt was now a few minutes past 11.]
Mr. Fowler—l'll give you an hour. Mr. Bonnet—Very
well. At the expiration of an hour Mr. W. P. Roberts,
yb instruction of Mr. Bennet., appeared in court for the
prisoners. Mr. Bennet objected to the case being heard
against Batt and Leeson ; and Mr. Jacobs said that, as
they were already committed, he should proceed with
the cases as against the Douglases only. Batt and Leeson,
who had been brought to the court under a writ of
habeas corpus, were consequently not placed in the dock.
The case was then proceeded with, the evidence already
given by the several witnesses against Batt and Leeson
being road aid confirmed in the presence of the prisongrs,
and the fresh evidence taken afterwards. '

COnRACTS. FOR: SALT PORK: •
Contract Department, ..A.cimiralty, Somerset Houser
Atig. 25,4866.
THE COMMISSIONER 4 for. EXECUTING
a the OFFICE of LORD Hrolr ADMIRAL' of the
,UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
.- LANII DO ,HEREBY, GIVE NOTICE,'.That on MON-
DAY, the Ist of' October next, 'at twelve o'clock at noon,
they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be
willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into
her Majesty's Victualling Stores at the undermentioned
forts the followi ~no• quantities of SALT PORK, all of the
cure.-of the present season. viz.
NAVY PORK.
Deptford 3,600 tierces 3.600 barrels.
Haulbowline 1,800 ~ 1,800 „
Each tierce of Pork to contain 75 pieces of 41b. each, and
each barrel 50 pieces of 41b. each, instead of the number of
pieces formerly contained in the tierces and barrels.
The Pork to be delivered into the respective stores as
follows, viz.:—One-third of each quantity for each place
by the 15th day of January, 1867 ; another third thereof by
the sth day of March, 1867 ; and the remainder thereof by
the 30th day of April, 1867; or any greater portion,' or the
whole, at any earlier period, if preferred by the party ten-
dering, and to be said for by bills at three days after date,
which will be sent to parties as usual.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole,
or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection in accepting tenders.
Every tender must specify the name of the person by
whom the meat is intended to be cured, the brand of the
meat, and the place of cure.
Tenders for Pork of the cure of the United States of
America will not be admitted.
Persons tendering for more than one port must give a
separate tender for each port
Persons tendering must give a reference to a banker for
each surety proposed; and they are desired to take special
notice that the use of wooden hoops is abolished, and that
iron hoops only will be required for the casks in accordance
With the condit'ons of the contract.
A forin of the tender may be obtained, and the conditions
of the contract, to which particular attentionis called, may
be seen in the lobby of the Department of the Controller
of Victualling, Somerset House ; at the Victualling Yards
at Gosport and Plymouth; or by applying to the Agent
-Victualler at Haulbowlino ; or to the Collectors of- her
Majesty's Customs at Bristol, Limerick, -Belfast, Water-
ford, and Newry; or to the Secretary to the Postmaster-
General at Dublin ; or to the Commander conducting the
Packet Service at Liverpool.
No tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 100
tierces or 100 barrels.
No tender will be received after twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
Printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be
necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed
by him, should attend, as the result of the offer received
from each person will be communicated to him and to his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the'Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner of the envelope
the words, "Tender for Salt Pork," and must also be de-
livered at the Department of the Controller of Victualling,
Somerset House.
The contractors will have to pay half the amount of the
stamps on the contracts and bonds.
By order. ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

Mr. J. Alton, chief clerk to the Hon. Mr. Howard, stamp
distributoi, Manchester, said ho had been employed in the
, Stamp-office 21 years. He had never known bill stamps to
be supplied to the distributor on any other paper than the
large size handed to him. (The stamp tendered by Batt at
Somerset House.) Cross-examined—Witness had the con-
trol of the safe key. Whenever the safe was locked the key
was in witness's charge. In the daytime, when the safe was
unlocked, the key was in witness's drawer. The bill stamp
produced had been cut of a sheet and trimmed with a pair
of scissors. There would be seven other bill stamps on the
same sheet. Witness had cempared the stamp, but it did
not agree in size with any stamp in the office. The stamp
was one of the lot received in Manchester on the 19th
May. He thought no stamps out of that lot were sold.
Batt's peculiarity, spoken of by witness, was a boasting
air.—James J. Thompson, inspector, of the metropolitan
police, said he apprehended the two prisoners on the 13th
inst. in the betting ring on the Doncaster racecourse. He
told the prisoner William that he was taking him into
custody for the robbery at the Manchester Stamp-office.
Ho made no reply. Thomas Douglas was standing by at
the time. Witness then took both to the police station,
where he formally charged them. Witness next searched
the prisoners' lodgings in Doncaster, where he found
" Wright's Racing Turf Guide" for August. The number
of the same publication which witness found at the Stamp
Office was for May. Witness learned that Thomas Douglas
lived at 51, Roman-read, Islington, London. He therefore
visited that house, and he found there the papers and sot
of tools produced. He afterwards visited 33, Alfred-street,
in the same neighbourhood, the house in which tbo pri-
soner William lodged. He there Sounkother tools, certain
papers, a little jewellery, about 40 stones which had been
taken from signet rings, and four or five crucibles. Cross-
examined—The prisoners refused, when taken, to give any
address in Doncaster, Witness discovered their address in
that town' from a paper he found in the possession of Wil-
liam. The tools (which Mr. Roberts had taken from the
box found at the house of Thomas), were, he believed, or-
dinary tools. But would Mr. Roberts take out the two pair
of American pincers which were in use by thieves for
opening hotel doors ? (Laughter.)—Witness found in the
house in the Roman-road seven of the prisoner Thomas's
children.
Selim Cohen, who took the Jewish oath after carefully
opening the Bible at the beginning, said ho was a tool
factor and licensedappmiser forth° trade, in Waterloo-road,
Lambeth. Mr. Fowler—What is Mr. Cohen to prove ? Mr.
Jacobs—The use of the tools found. Mr. Fowler said he
had always thought that there were in Manchester some
of the cleverest mechanics in the world. He did not un-
derstand why they must send to London for such evi-
dence. Witness said he had examined the tools, &c., found
at the prisoner's houses. Amongst the articles were five
crucibles, which were used for melting valuable metals,
and a box containing scales and troy weights. Following
witness's inference the crucibles would be for unsetting
the stones of rings, &c. Mr. Fowler—We don't want your
inferences. Witness—A man who has these tools would
not want gold weights. Mr. Fowler—I have some. Wit-
ness—But you have not housebreaking implements ? Mr.
Fowler—l have. They have boon given to me by persons
in this Court. Witness—Well, that accounts for your pos-
session of them, your worship. (Laughter.) Among the
tools, witness continued, were also a hand vice, steel
wedge, stool pike, broken screw driver, gimlet, gouge, and
American Worm centre bit. Any of these articles separately
might be for a legitimate purpose, but the whole, collec-
tively,couldoen
not. There was also a plug tap, which would
b
any lock in the world. The plug tap was
reak open
never used for a lawful purpose. Most of the robberies
which had been committed at the London hotels had been
committed by means of pincers similar to those produced.
Mr. Fowler—Might not a locksmith have such pincers ?
Witness—Yes; but he would not have troy weights.
(Laughter.) He would not, however, have such pincers ;
he would open the lock by lawful means. I went to
seven of the largest shops in London yesterday, and I
could not got a pair. Mr. Fowler—They have been
known for some time? Witness—Yes; but they aro not
employed legitimately. Tho tools found in Manchester
and London, the witness added, were of the same descrier
; they were 4, home made," the work of some
lful
person. Cross-examined—He (witness) had never been
convicted of, or charged with, any offence. Ho had boon
ienmspaloehyeidnlbuyirtihees Commissioners
present f
for
rf
nearly
rl
2 o metropolitan
years. Wit-
hout .
e
any egotism, he was an honest, respectable man : and
as the
he had been in business since 1836. The history of his
connection with the present case was this : Inspector
Thompson recently sent for him, showed him a carpet bag
containing the tools produced, and said, " What is your
opinion of the owner of these tools ?" Witness replied
that he was a first-class housebreaker. Witness would not
swear that the tools produced had been used for opening a
safe of the description of that in the Stamp-office. They
might have been so used. No person but a goldsmith or a
jeweller required crucibles and troy weights, and taking
those articles in connection with the vice and largo files he
should say that the whole were never used for legitimate
purposes. He would as 50011 expect to And that file (a

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large ono) and a watch key together on
Mr. Roberts —I dare say you might find both Abi'my . A:oss- S
ing table. Witness—lndeed? Mr. Roberts—Yes. Wit-
ness—Well, sir, I'll take your word for it. (Laughter.)
Richard Shaw, tailor, Drury-court, London, said, in con-
tinuation
of his previous evidence, that the prisoners were
the- persons whom he had already spoken of as Tom the
countryman and Bill the countryman. Cross examined—
He had been looking for evidence in Manchester. He did
not go out of his house, for he valued his life too much.
He did not know that he was wanted for anything. He
did not know that there was any charge against him. Mr.
Jacob explained that since Shaw had disappeared in these
proceedings it had been found necessary to keep him under
the constant protection of the police. Joseph S. Jarman,
potman at the Plough Brewery, Lambeth, said he formerly
lived at the Crystal Fountain beershop, Kennington-road,
Lambeth, a house which was kept by Charles Leeson
Witness left about 23d of April of the present year. Lee-
son said he wanted some one more capableof taking care of
the business, as he should be away from home a good deal
in the summer. Witness knew the prisoners in the dock by
the name of Tom and Bill Douglas. They had frequently
used Leeson's house. He used to see them there three or
four times a week. Bill sometimes visited in the morning,
and accompanied Leeson to the betting ring at Hyde-park.
The witness Shaw used to visit Leeson's—sometimes at
intervals of a month, and at other times almost daily. Wit-
ness
never hoard of Shaw betting. Witness accounted for
the long intervals between Shaw's visits by supposing that
his wife locked him up and made him work. (Laughter.)
Robert France, a commissionaire at Somerset House, said
the prisoner Thomas was one.of the three persons whom
he saw on the 19th July in company with Batt and Leeson.
The prisoners wore the two mon whom ho saw with Lee-
son on the following morning. Cross-examined—Ho had
not seen Thomaa„since. The only occasion on which he -
had seen William was at Lewes races. Witness then
pointed him out to Inspector Thompson. William Douglas
was on a booth at the time, but when ho saw he was
pointed out ho ran out of the booth by the back way.
Inspector Thompson, re-called, said he wont to the
Lewes races, together with France and Shaw, in search
of the prisoners. Witness was told by Franco that ho
had seen the prisoner William, but he did not take him .
into custody as Shaw refused at that time to give evidence
and without his evidence there was no case. When he
apprehended him witness found £l3O in notes on the pri-
soner Thomas. He afterwardsgot £250 froin his (Thomas's)
Wife, and also"-stopp7A-X309-whttirre-in the London and .
• Westminster Bank to the 'credit of Thimuis. Joseph,Powe,
New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, messenger, said
that on the 19th July, between 12 and 1 o'clock,.he saw the •
two prisoners and a short man speaking to the witness
France, who painted in their presence to Somerset House. ~
rho two prisoners crossed over the Strand towards ,the
Red Lion, and the short man went toward,s Somerset .
House. Some time in the afternoon the prisoner William
came to witness, and asked him where the commissionaire -
was. Witness again saw him near the Lyceum Theatre
the same afternoon. He thought he saw him again on the
following day. George Ranger, a' constable of the metro-
politan police, said that on the Monday or Tuesday before
Batt's apprehension, he saw him (Batt) at Leeson's beer-
.house, conversing with Leeson. On the second examina-
tion of Batt at Bow-street, witness was directed to watch
whether any one communicated with Batt when he was
taken from Court. He saw the witness Shaw place some-
thing
in the hand of Bath, and witness afterwards tracked
Shaw to Leeson's house. On the following day ho saw the
prisoner William at Leeson's beerhouse. lie was dancing 4
I ._v.
in front of the bar, and ara•:iligan was being-played prifside ."-'
Witness never saw the prisoner Thomas there. Wiii' I .
Thomas, sergeant in the metropolitan. police;- said- he- waFt--;*
on duty on' the gmna•StaiictlrDoncaster on-the--13tIftif-St;
By-direction of Inspector "Thompson he took the pris•ohet 1
Thomas into custody.- He searched him, and found in liffi.,4e,
possession notes and gold to-the value of £133. On the way- • -,
1 from the racecourse, the prisoner, asked witness whether'
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Shaw was there. Mr. Fowlerdipti'Arou mentioned Shaw? 1. -`«7-..
Warless —No sir ; I knew nothinii-a,theut him. Mr. Blir4f,„ ;, - nets—Shaw's name name had been publiirod-in the papers. Wig ',,
tress resumed—Thomas said, "Ititter-ye* ooden-legged man." ; - -
Ire added, " Ifle is hero, he's a great-liar." Mr. Fowler—
To yourneap.to toll me that going down to Doncaster you,. a •'.
did not know that the prisoners were wanted ? Witness "' ' '---- -
I did not. Had you not full information about this' Mail: ' ' :
chester robbery? Witness—l had; but I didn't know who -'4
were wanted. Mr. Fowler—That is to say that Thompson,
having all the information about these men, raVer commit-
uicated with you. Witness—Ho did nor`should I, if I
had possessed the evidence, have told InSpector Thompson.
Mr. Fowler—That is, you keep the. reward.to. Yourself ?
Witness—The:police have no rewards. Mr.Fowlei—Well,
we have got a little insight into the detective system of the
country:: Wm. Mellor, a constable of. the Manchester po-
lice, said that on the evening of May:2.6th he was on duty
near the Stamp-office. At 9 o'clock that night he Met the =
prisoner William at the corner of Cross-street rind Market::
street. He was pacing to and fro-. no -stiw him again 20
minutes afterwards at the corner of,dioss-street and Bank-
street.
-Later in the evening witness,
,looking along F...,,x7.
change-arcade .from Ducie-straet, saw the prisoner stlin.4'...
_.
-ing near the Cross-street entrato the-Ar:cade. AlteAllit
witness passedS, f.t.iines,eited`Qam I_Nint tlistinelliffii/ , '
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01,six.,tinil:' /411 W it.gc.) vo:ev?,..,9,gplivi, nu )
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at the Albert-street station while With Sev&III other Inf,iil''' •

Mr. Roberts said ho could not soo in the evidence a single
circumstance which would cause a jury to find the prisoners
guilty. There were a number of circumstances consistent
with guilt, but nothing more. There was no possibility of
a judge allowing the case to go to a jury.
The prisoners wore committed for trial at the assizes,

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