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Charles Batt, who had been remanded on snepicion of
breaking into the Stamp-office, Manchester, an.l 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. Woutner,
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 spcill
stamps (to whole the prisoner tendered a £1 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 Pensholine, Man-
chester, and am clerk to the lion. Richard E. Howard, dis-
tributor of stamps at Manchester. On Saturday, the 2Gth
of May last, I was at the office in discharge of my ordinary
duties till half-past twelve, the office having closed that thy
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--llow 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 due. 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 something was
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 liad been removed, and some bundles of cot-
ton placed there instead. The safe was turned over. It
-Was not a safe fixed in the wall.

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under the shadow of the street referred to: The
Magclalen 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 agaiL.,t di;ease. Tie 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.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.---GuILDFoRD, Aug. 2.

Sir T. Henry—Do you mean to say that it was loose in
the office ?
Witness—Yes. I found the safe had 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 had been consigned to Mr. Howard from
the Stamp-office in London on the 19th May. I produce
the invoice. There wore 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 ?
One
office.ee
the day auy
He asked
the robbery bfeerrya Ihabifelcierveewn
stamp I
saw h
would do for a certain sum of money. I replied that unless
he told me what it was for—half crown stamps being used
atipt,nee whichsprisoner
Witness,—Yes.
e I s.suppliedatth to him. He then asked me if it
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 me to noticehim more particularly
than I should have done. The part at which he looked was
the wall which I found broken open on Monday morning
»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.

Both courts proceeded to business this morning at
10 o'clock, Mr. Justice Willes presiding on the civil
side, and Mr. Baron Channell in the Crown court.
The cause list contains 169 entries, a larger number
than was ever remembered at this place, and 70
special jury cases are among them.

THE GUILDFORD MURDER.
Mr. Ribton, who is instructed to defend the pri-
soner Longhurst for the murder of Jane Sax, at
Shire, near Guildford, applied to the court to fix a
day for the trial. He said that since he had received
his original instructions the prisoner had been com-
mitted for the more serious offence of wilful murder,
and some of the witnesses he proposed to call were
not in attendance. Any day after Friday would be
convenient to him.

Baron Channell said that Saturday had been sug-
gested as a convenient day, but after what occurred
in the case of Charlotte Winsor, he should certainly
not fix a trial for murder on a Saturday. He had
been blamed for discharging the jury in that case
on Saturday night, and he was quite sure they would
not have been very well pleased at being locked up
all day on Sunday.
It was then arranged that the trial should be post-
poned to the beginning of next week.
The criminal business is nearly concluded, and it
is expected that to-day, or at all events on Satur-
day, both courts will be occupied in trying civil
causes. It has been arranged that the special jury
cases will not be taken until Tuesday morning at
10 o'clock.

Sir T. Henry—Did any one sleep on the premises ?
Witness—No. I fastened the doors myself—locked and
barred them. The windows wore fastened by the porter
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. Wontner—J 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, in spector 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, he went down to Manchester to inquire into
a robbery at the Stamp-office there. lie found the office in
a block of buildings forming the sides of four streets, and
that it had been apparently entered from the adjoiningpre-
liaises of Messrs. Garnett, drapers, soul% of whose stock of
cloth had been disturbed. The 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 bad 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.*
Racing Guide, for May, 1866. There were 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 had purchased the only other .£1 stamps (fourteen in
number) 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 one 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 THE PROVINCES ON THE 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 ancdomuLumewaiguti unwise,
and nads thatdignified he c
ando d uct of
prudent,th resolved
—That
hereby expresses its sympathy with Mr. Edmond Beales
and
the rights his associates
ghtsof h
tinethpsecoopuler,sean ;,hey
to obtainheyare ta
eikitnhgtro vindi-
cate
st;ee
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 Hyde-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 present Minis-
ters. Mr. J. Thompson, one of the vice-presidents
of the Leicester Parliamentary Reform Association,
presided. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. J.
J. Goadby, Mr. Councillor Charlesworth, Mr. G. R.
Searson, Mr. F. Hewitt, and several working men"
of . Reso-
lutions condemnatory of the " bludgeon policy the
Government, and expressive of continued attachment to
the cause of reform, and of a want of confidence in the
" review the conduct of the Government
peoa
ar k
Tuesday
proceedingsd em ons t r
werea
evening.tio n
meet-
ing, called to
present administration, were uanimously carried.—A
stic
000
relative to the
p
in praise of Mr. Gladstone and his reform measures, and
unanimous in denouncing the Government. Theßristol,Hyde-park
majority
present were working men.
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