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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1866.

MISS RUSSELL'S ANNUAL BENEFIT
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secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

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Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. cuirri.
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AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL. 1862.
Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, dm Ito.

£7,000 WORTH OF STAMPS STOLEN.
Yesterday morning another robbery at the Stamp-
office, in Cross-street, Manchester, was discovered.
About ten years ago the same office was broken
open, the thieves on that occasion entering through
the door in Cross-street, which faces Market-street,
on which occasion about £2,000 worth of stamps
were stolen, Since that time great precautions have
been taken ; the doors have been lined with iron,
and every spot which was thought to be vulnerable
had been protected in the same manner. The mode
of attack on this occasion was different from that
on the first occasion, and one which displayed con-
siderable planning beforehand and toil in its exe-
cution. At the rear of the Stamp-office is a passage
communicating from a door in Cross-street to the
offices of several firms which occupy the block
bounded by Cross-street, New Market-street, and
Robinson street. It is believed that the thieves
secreted themselves in some part of the building on
Saturday morning, and waited until after business
hours, at least before commencing their work. The
officials at the Stamp-officeleft at 12 o'clock atnoon,
and the occupants of the other offices in the build-
ing left at an early hour. The only tenant who was
was Mr. M‘Lachlan, the photo-
late in the building
grapher, who called about six o'clock, and found
the porter who is employed by the Stamp-office
engaged in cleaning one of the rooms. On the first
staircase are the offices of Messrs. Garnett and
Horsfall, cotton spinners and manufacturers. The
lock of the front office door was forced, and from
that room the thieves passed through another door
to a store room or warehouse extending to the rear
of the building. Here they found a number of
bundles of printing cloth, which they subsequently
turned to account. Going to the extreme rear- of
the building, they passed down a temporary flight
of wooden stairs which led them to an unoccupied
warehouse on the ground floor. Along the Robin-
son-street wall of that room runs a fixed table, and
it was from beneath that table and through the wall
separting that room from the Stamp Office that the
thieves obtained their entrance to the office of the
lion. It. Howard, the distributor of stamps for this
city. Working in a confined space, they cleared
away a sufficient portion of the brickwork of a nine-
inch wall to allow a man to pass through easily.
That their work was done with the utmost delibera-
tion is evident from the fact that all the drawers in
the desks belonging to Mr. Howard, and to Mr. B.
J. Last, the supervisor of the newspaper stamping
department, were opened, and the contents, consist-
ing chiefly of letters and official documents, care-
fully examined, but—so far as can be at present
ascertained—not removed from the room. The
thieves next forced the lock of a door in the parti-
tion which separates this room by a narrow passage
from a door communicating with the Cross-street
lobby. From that passage the outer or public
office was separated by a door, which was sheathed
on both sides by strong iron plates. The lock
of that door was forced open, and then the
thieves had to work upon the large Milner's
safe which contained the stamps. This safe, which
is quite a modern one, was sent to the makers
about twelve months ago to be made thief
proof, and when returned was supposed to be im-
pregnable. It stood on a low wooden framework
in a corner of the room at the angle facing Mount-
street, and near the first window in Robinson-street
stood a large desk. That desk was removed to the
middle of the room, and then the bundles of print-
ing cloth (of which previous mention has been made)
were put in its place, so as to form a bed for the
safe, which thieves succeeded in overturning. By
this means the safe (which is between four and five
feet high) was placed upon its side, and the work
which the thieves had then to do was rendered much
easier. Indeed, it is questionable whether without
that removal the safe could have been forced, as
owing to the door of the safe opening from the wall
towards the office there would not have been suffi-
cient space to enable the thieves to use that great
violence which was required. A hole was drilled
in the top of the safe, and wedges were inserted
along the edge of the door. Several of these wedges
were subsequently found in the office. The safe
contained from £6,000 to £B,OOO worth of stamps,
including about £l,OOO in postage stamps, the re-
mainder consisting of receipt stamps, foreign bill
stamps (impressed and adhesive), inland bill stamps,
r
court
tatfeee and administration
and
dstsrtaatmiopns stamps, common
descriptions., common law
All the stamped paper and parchment was marked
with the word " Manchester," and the date of
stamping in a circle. It is estimated that about
half the stolen property may be convertible ; and of
course it is very portable. Secreted in the safe was
about £3O in money ; but, although the thieves ap-
pear to have taken considerable time to do every-
lnot ebd. Every drawer and desk
einginany
drawer but in
at every-
thing, no
recess, was
this money,ole ookr
in this office was carefully searched, but no money
(except the small sum secreted in the safe) could
be found. The porter had the duty of calling at
the premises every Sunday morning, and did so on
Sunday, at about half-past eleven o'clock. Ile heard
no sound. He had access to every part of the Cross-
street premises, including the cellars where the
stamping presses are kept, but was not allowed to
enter the Stamp Office premises, and could not do
open
the door of Mr.
every drawer
so. The thieves did not confine their operations to
the Stamp
privatetattTpOflicroom,
Office, but
forcedand
ransacked
s
cked
in his large writing table. They, however, only suc-
ceeded in finding a small quantity of stamps, and a
little sum of money which was in a purse in one of
the drawers. Probably to their finding nothing valu-
able in this part of the premises may be attributed
the fact that they left untouched two iron safes, in
which, however, there was nothing more than a little
loose money. The manner in which the thieves had
provided for their esclpc was charac...tcristic of the

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Robbery at the Manchester Stamp Office.

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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
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SHIP.

WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

j_f OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
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WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
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n ly
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psts,,iratrseagreivaednmgirattetdu,ittohuesloynley conditionr week. The poorve being that
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adroitness which was displayed throughout their
proceedings. At the rear of the building, in New
Market-street, was a door opening into the room on
the ground floor where they worked. That door was
secured from within by a large iron bar, which was
fastened to a padlock. That padlock was broken off,
but to provide for the apparent security of the door
in case it should be tried bya policeman, the thieves
screwed on the door a catch lock, and secured it with
a staple. Probably they were in and out of the build-
ing, for attached to the bolt of their own lock was a
long string, which was passed through a broken square
of glass, and through the iron wire grating, which
covered the window in the door. In order that this •
string might not be perceived from without, a pin was
carefully inserted, which was seen this morning rest-
ing between two of the wires. A pull at this string
instantly and easily opened the door, which was other-
wise secure. A reward of £4OO has been offered for
the detection of the thieves, or such amount as may
be proportionate with the value of the property re-
covered.

day.

STAMPED

i banks, the party was taken on by Lieutenant Gar-
Iforth, R.N., to a fine harbour north of the Rovuma,
where they were about to land when the letter was
despatched. As the people of that tract are under
the control of the Sultan of Zanzibar, with whose
protection Dr. Livingstone is fully provided, he
wrote in the full persuasion that he will not only
reach the watershed between his own Lake Nyanza
and the Tanganyika of Burton and Spoke, but also
be able to settle the question as to the elevation and
drainage of the latter. If he can reach it, and, after
building a boat on it, is able to proceed to its
northern end, he will at once set at rest the dispute
as to whether this lake be really the ultimate
southern water basin of the Nile. If it should prove
to be so, it will prove that the altitude of Tanga-
nyika, as given by Burton and Spek very erro-
neous, for by their measurement it e,was more than
800 feet below the level of the Albert Nyanza, as
fixed by Baker. Sir Roderick paid
tribute to the great services which Mran eloquent
. Baker had
rendered to the cause of geographical discovery in
Northern Africa, and then referred to a project to
explore the northern coast line and interior of
Greenland which called for the hearty good wishes
of the society. One of its youngest associates, Mr.
Whymper, already distinguished by his courage and
self reliance in surmounting the highest peaks of the
Alps, has conceived the bold idea of penetrating
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valleys and recesses. Mr. Whymper believes it is
also possible to trace by land the extent of Green-
land to the north, which was one of the main
geographical objects of the late projected polar
expedition. He would be accompanied only
by a well-trained Danish guide, who was ready at
Copenhagen. A preliminary trip would be made
next summer. This enterprise Sir Roderick con-
sidered as truly the ne plus ultra of individual
British geographical adventure. The researches of
Russian geographers in Central Asia and Chinese
Turkistan were dwelt upon in the address. The
whole of the mountain range which formed the
boundary between Little Thibet and Turkistan has
been defined. The altitude of the peaks for 450
miles varies from 21,000 ft. to 28,300 ft., a very
much higher range than that of the Himalayas to
the south of Ladak and Little Thibet.
At the conclusion of this address Sir Roderick
was most warmly applauded, and the meeting then
proceeded to the election of officers, the President
being unanimously re-elected by acclamation. The
other members of the Council, Vice-Presidents,
trustees, &c., were then chosen, and the proceedings
terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to the
chairman.

Later in the evening the Fellows of the Society,
with a number of invited guests, dined together,
according to custom, at Willis's-rooms. Sir Ro-
derick Murchison presided, supported by Lord
• Stratford de Redcliffe, Viscount Dufferin, the Earl
of Enniskillen, the Earl of Sheffield, Lord Blantyre,
Lord Houghton, Lord Strangford, Sir Henry Raw-
linson, M.P., Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir Francis
Grant, P.R.A., Sir Henry Nicholson, &c. Among
others present were Sir A. W. Waugh, Admiral
Colliarson, Mr. Baker, M. lu Chaffin, the secre-
taries to the Chinese Commissioners, General Crau-
ford, Dr, Rae, Captain Wills, Mr. Glaisher, Mr.
S. Canning, Mr. S. W. Silver, Captain Blakely,
Dr. Hooker, M. de Candolles, &c. In all about 150
gentlemen sat down to a dinner which was excel-

lent and most admirably served. Except in its
numbers it was almost a private entertainment,
as there was no music, and the few brief

speeches that followed the dinner had no
manner of scientific or political significance,
but were purely of' a festive and complimen-
tary character. In fact, the business of the day is
done at the meeting in the morning, and the dinner
which follows is, as it should be, merely a genial
wind up to a good day's work. After the cloth had
been drawn and the customery loyal toasts done
honour to, the chairman gave " The Healths of the
Lords and Commons," coupled with the names of Lord
Dufferin and Sir Henry Rawlinson. Both replied in
the briefest terms, his lordship saying that if the
House of Peers had the arrangement of the monetary
affairs of the kingdom, he thought he could promise
that as far as his exertions went he would do his best

to secure for the society a very much larger annua

grant in aid of their efforts than the small sum of

£5OO which was now given them by the House of
Commons. Sir Henry, in replying for the Lower
House, created much laughter by saying that he
wished more of its members would join the society,
for, whatever other information the House might pos-
sess, it was very weak indeed on the subject of geo-
graphy—so much so, that when the Fenian raid across
the Bay of Fundyin Canada was first spoken of he did
not believe there were many more than a dozen mem-
bers in the house who knew where the Bay of Fundy
was. Lord Stratford proposed " The Health of the
Secretaries of the Chinese Mission, and Prosperity
to China," tnd while he deprecated many parts of
our dealings with that great empire, said it at least

had had one good effect—that of making the two

nations better acquainted with each other, and so lead
ing them to appreciate the value of the peaceful corn.

mercial relations which now subsisted between them

and the bonds of which were strengthening every

The Chairman then gave " The Healths of

:he Medallists of the day," and after that of M. de

Candolles of Geneva. In a short but humorous

speech Lord lloughton gave " The Health of the

President," to which Sir Roderick replied in a very few
words, stating that that day was the twelfth anni-

versary of his annual address, and he hoped when
another year had run its course he would have the
great pleasure and pride in seeing all the guests
around him after he had delivered his thirteenth.
" The Health of Sir Francis Grant" and " The
Scientific Societies of London" followed, and a very
pleasant evening was brought to a close soon after
10 o'clock.