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making trade to Australia, for which she was ori-
ginally intended.
The report was then unanimously adopted, and
the directors were authorised to raise on a second
mortage £23,000 (the lowest debenture to be £2O),
at 10 per cent. interest.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman.

POLICE IMELLIgENCE, Nov. 8.

BOW-STREET.—CURIOUS DISCOVERY OF A
POST OFFICE ROBBERY.—SamueI Raw, a Post
Office letter-carrier, was brought up on remand
charged with stealing a letter containing a half-
sovereign.
He was defended by Mr. Lewis of Ely-place.
Edward Vian, a lad of about 13 years of age, de-
posed—l live in Stephen-street, Tottenham-court-
road, and am an errand-boy to Mr. Alwright, a
cheesemonger in Rathbone-place. On Wednesday,
October 30, at about half-past two o'clock, I was
standing, with two other boys, Frederick Mill and
Henry Rowe, at the corner of Gresse street, when
I saw the prisoner about six houses from me. I
knew him front seeing him deliver letters in
Stephen-street, and at my master's shop in Rath-
bone-place, and also from seeing him in the streets.
He was dressed in his postman's uniform. I saw
him tear up some paper which he threw away, and
some money with it. He stooped and picked up
the money, which he put in his pocket. As he
passed me I saw him take a half-sovereign from his
pocket and look at it. Afterwards I went with
the other boys to the place where he threw the bits
of paper away, and we picked up all the bits. They
were bits of yellow paper and of white card, with
writing on them. They are the same now pro-
duced. I took them home and gave them to my
brother, who is also a letter carrier.
The two other boys referred to, Frederick Wil-
liam Mills and Henry Rowe, corroborated.
Henry Sparry, of Alresford, Hants, gasfitter,
deposed that on the morning of the 30th October he
posted a letter to Messrs. Cumming and Bone, glass
manufacturers, of Tottenham-court-road. It
was posted in time for the morning mail, which
left Alresford at ten minutes before eight
o'clock. He enclosed in that letter a half sovereign
fixed in card. The fragments produced by the lad
Vian were portions of the letter and card.
A clerk from Messrs. Cumming and Bone's proved
that the letter had not been delivered.
Mr. Hallett, inspector of letter-carriers, stated
that in the ordinary course the letter would have
been sorted to the prisoner, His delivery on that
occasion commenced at 2.10, and was finished, ac-
cording to his own return, at 2.35.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
HOW TO WIN MONEY BY TOSSING.—john
Gregory, hawker, no fixed residence, and William
Collins, labourer, no home, were charged with con-
spiring with two others to defraud William Ball, a
seaman, of £B.
The prosecutor deposed—l met a man in Holborn
who asked me the way to Pimlico, and I told him.
We got into conversation, and he said he had just
come into an estate in Lincolnshire, and bad come
to town to settle some business with respect to the
will. We went together to a public-house in New-
ton-street. They then got tossing, and induced me
to bet a sovereign upon their tossing. I did so and
lost the sovereign. I then bet three sovereigns in the
same manner, and lost them, and afterwards four
sovereigns, which I also lost. Gregory won the first
bet, the sovereign ; his friend and the man from
Lincolnshire with the large estate won the other.
After this, Gregory offered to bet him £2 that my
chain was not gold, and asked me to go to a jewel-
ler's shop to have it tested. I went with him, but
when we got to the door of the jeweller's shop he
attempted to run away. I then seized him and
dragged him back to the public-house, when we
found the others wero gone. I then said, " You
have robbed me, and I shall give you in charge."
The prisoner Collins was at the door of the public-
house, and I asked him to fetch a policeman. He
told me he could not find one.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l had only eight
sovereigns and some silver when I went there, and
I lost it all. I was not tossing. The prisoner
Gregory tossed and lost all my money for me. He
only won £l. I did not ask him to return the £l.
I did not want it back, but when I found that I had
been cheated I wanted to get back all my money.
I did not offer to withdraw the charge if he
would return my money or part of it. I know
they had been cheating me, because Gregory ex-
plained to me that it was not fair tossing, that the
other man had two halfpence, one in the palm of
his hand and the other on the knuckles. If " head"
was cried he showed the one in the palm, which
had the " woman" up. If " woman" was cried, he
showed the other, which had the " head" up. I
never tossed before ; indeed I did not toss this time ;
but I never before had anything to do with tossing.
Policeman 142 F deposed that when he was taking
Gregory into custody, Gregory handed some money
to Collins, who was standing close behind him.
Witness knew it was money, because he heard it
chink. He attempted to intercept it, but before he
could lay hold of Collins's hand he passed it to a
woman, saying, " Here, Jenny, take this home to
my wife." At this moment there was a crowd of
30 people round them, and witness could not get at
the woman, who escaped. He took prisoners in
custody,
Mr. Lewis said there was no evidence that any
fraud had been committed. Supposing that prose-
cutor had lost his money, he had been trying to get
money from the others.
Mr. Henry said the charge was that of conspir-
ing with others to obtain money by false pretences;
i.e., by pretending that they were playing at a
game of chance, when in point of fact it was a
game of cheating. The difference between their
conduct and that of the prosecutor was, that the
latter was trying to get money from the others by
fair tossing, not by any trick. •
Mr. Lewis—That is if you believe implicitly the
evidence of the prosecutor. Mr. Lewis then pro-
ceeded to argue that the statement of the prosecutor
was improbable.
Mr. Henry. said that was a question for a jury.
Mr. Lewis would submit that it was not a case
to go to a jury.
Mr. Henry said it was certainly a case for further
inquiry. He should remand the prisoners, so that
the police might endeavour to find out who they
were, and what was their previous character.
Neither of them had given his address.
Mr. Lewis, after a short consultation with Gre-
gory, said he would give his real name and address,
which he had only concealed from an unwillingness
to give annoyance to his friends, His name was
Jones, and he lived at Hackney.
Mr. Henry said the address could be given to the
policeman, in order that he might make inquiries.
Collins persisted in saying that he had no fixed
residence.

Mr. Henry—The policeman heard you tell a
woman to take the money home to your wife.
Collins—That is wrong, Sir. I have not got a wifo.
They were then remanded.

IPSWICH LIFEBOAT FUND.—A general collection
is to be made on Sunday, November 10, in the churches
and chapels of Ipswich, and an auxiliary public meeting
will be held in the council chamber on Monday, November
11, for the purpose of raising a fund to purchase a lifeboat,
to be presented by the town to the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution. About £lOO has been already subscribed, and,
from the great sympathy shown by the several ministers
and people, there is no doubt that the requisite sum will be
raised, an example which we trust will be speedily followed
by other towns of equal importance, whereby the funds of
the Royal National Lifeboat Institution may be greatly in-
creased. Lords Rendlesham and Henniker, Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, M.P., J. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., Hugh Adair, Esq.,
M.P., C. Austin, Esq. (high steward of the borough), the
Mayor, E. Grimwade, Esq., the Hon. F. De Grey, John
Berners, Esq„ A. Arcedeckne, Esq., George Josselyn,
Esq., Robert Ransome, Esq., C. Tyrrell, Esq., and many
other influential gentlemen, are patrons of this benevolent
project.

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OFTEN TOO TRUE.—A minister, travelling where
the road was difficult to find, requested a man by the way-
side to direct him, naming the place whero ho wanted to
go. " Well," said tho hedger and ditcher, " keep on just
as you are going about a mile and a half. There, at the
cross roads, you will see a minister who will direct you to
the left a couple of miles, and there; at the fork of the road,
is another minister, who will direct you to the right about
three miles ; and so on at every fork and cross of the road
is a minister to tell you which road to take." " Ah," said
the parson, "what do you call ministers?" " Why," said
the other, " those things which stand up at the cross and
forks of the road with something like a hand on them."
•‘ Fingerboards, you mean," said the preacher ; " why do
you call them ministers ?" " Because they ars always
pointing the way to other people, but never go themselves.'
TRUTH THE BEST POLICY.—A merchant at a
country sea-port becoming alarmed on account of a vessel
richly laden which had not reached its destination, sent to
an underwriter to effect (if it could be done) an insurance
on the long-missing vessel; before the policy arrived, the
merchant received information of the vessel, and imme-
diately despatched a note to the underwriter, saying, " If
thou hast not insured the vessel, thee need not, for I have
heard of it." The man had not effected the insurance,
filed
being unwilling to lose so large a premium, instantly filled
up the policy, and returned for answer, "The withdrawal
is too late, the insurance has been effected, and the premium
must be paid." To which message ho received this brief
reply :—" Friend, I am sorry for thee, for thee will be a
great sufferer ; I have heard of the vessel ; vessel and cargo
are both lost." Here we see how the vices are united
covetousness led to falsehood and to au intended fraud.—
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