The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-21 00:00:00

TO TER EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS.

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RiAe—Goodwood,. which brought us into the
mouth of Amps; was rich in two-year-old prizes u ever, ,1
and it is somewhat singular that all of these events, with
she exceptioe of the Molecombe were won by horses who
bad IWO/ shown fame before, if they had been in public.
For the Haim • filly by Saunterer, out of 31 ceetanims,
beat the moderator Lau Welton sod Mirage easily ; for the
Levant, If asterism mend Durham, Crytheia, Knight of
Snowdon, &atria, Audacieuee, tic. just about as cava-
lierly • for the Fusion, Paris and Linda were far before
Master Richard, the Doctor, the Plumy filly, Wel-
hock Tomato, he. ' • and for the Bannock Me-
morial, Lady Hylda beet Kigalboche' Goldylocks,
and others. Now, ail Durham, Tomato, and Goldylocks had
shown themselves occasionally cos a par almost with the beet
jingo/les that had bees out, Historian and Paris may be said
to have eclipsed everything that was in the Derby ; and
stew Fills de l'Air beat Scottish Chief with such ridiculous
ease for the Mulecombe, there was nothing to feel surprised
at in such • state of affairs, the filly's being after all the better
porton:apace, although there is no possibility of calculating
how easily Histories and Paris woo, and to handicap thew
with the French " flyer " is • very difficult matter. It is
• certainty Linda had been highly tried for the Findon, and
when Paris beet her so easily the Scottish Chief we, eclipsed
for the time. Historian, too, woo like a race-home, said it
appeared on paper that if the Darby swimmer had
is gale to this ara, w Ile
"be lotilia for in—u one Viati be
pair. Parisee woo
the Nursery, besides the Finders, but beat few
"on their merits" beyond Linda, who of course had no
chance with him ; and se his stable companion, Idler, who
no The Chief very close for second place to Fill. de l'Air
the day previously, was second, be must not take too much
credit for having stayed the mile, it being on the cards Idler
would have beaten him had it been necessary, with the
81b between them. Lady Hylda did nothing better than at
Newmarket (for Goldylocks rare a thorough jade), and the
Momtbsima filly's performance was no feat ; nevertheless
the softer ea: still carried away the palm, in despite of
Tomato and Cipher having bean so easily disposed of, for
Pile de l'Air, to make auseads, improved in her Epsom
triumph over Molly Carew, and certainly did more than
either Historian or Paris. Brighton and Lewes betrayed the
good qualities of Madame Walton, who had been " worked"
so wall that she easily carried off the two Nurseries, said
both the Clown sad Attraction improved vastly on their
previous exhibitions, tbe Clown proving himself A 1 on one
occasion, when he carried Set llb over the severe six fur-
long. at Brighton, and cleverly defeated, among others.,
Cuss de Liu, who stamped himself one of the beet of his
year at Stockbridge. The latter may not have been in the
form displayed there ; but the Clown is entitled to every
credit for his disposal, with 121 b the worst of the weights,
of fair horses (at that time) like &ahoy, Rigalboche. and
Police. Feetinioster, who could ooly get a bad third to
Molly Carew and Hengist at Winchester, gave them both so
excelleot character when he beat Olivia • bead at Lewes,
the latter been( in the previous month shown almost an
equality to Faith, Crisis, led the like class ; and when Faith
beat Persuasion at Wolverhampton • great many others were
brought into the string of second-class juveniles that were
"all together." °poised to this pair, Acolyte came out fit
to run for the first time, and he was backed also; but he
cut upp unaccountably bad, arid Lord Stamford was content
with 's and carrying off the chief eveot, which she did
toe style that made her Stamford performance not long pre-
'Mealy look strange, at the same time smarmed her excel-
lent form at Epsom. At Reading lace was not sudiciently
trained to compete on the first day with Crisis, who on
the second day ran out of all form, u she must have about
beaten the winner, Eastmiuster, through Olivia, for Fast.
minder had not so vastly improved as his defeat of Garotter
likewise would make out, the latter having lost his spring
form, and he ran gradually worse and worse
from this time.
Another of the second-raters, Verbena, showed in her true
Dolours for the Nursery, which she won easily
from Attraction. Barer, and Signalman; and if
the three named did not all try, there was something
in the defeat of Attraction. At York, lady
of Ooverham was is the beet of form when she ran so well
in the first race, a mils handicap, tat there were several
in the chief event of the first day who were not quite
themselves, or Clareniout would set have beaten Appen.
nine and Coast Guard for the Convivial. He we, un-
doubtedly " m form" himself, and hence • pretty correct
measure of him was obtained when the Phemy filly ran
him to half • length, which was nothing to his credit, nor
was the defeat of Durham and King George, looking at the
heavy penalties each carried. Apennine os the second
day improved his reputation, „po far as concerned the
Thorny filly, who was only a bailfourth to his second, with
Primo Arthur third. Bat Linda beat the whole trio very
early, and showed Paris to be far superior to all the
York performers at that time. Syron was within a head
of Coast Guard in the mile Gimcrack, with Eastminster
an indifferent third, which was an improvement on the
filly's part, mid at the earns time another indirect certificate
for Paris, as it made him, through Linda, Apeman., Coast
Guard, and &seminars, a " lump" of weight better than
the last named, and • lot like Persuasion, Faith, Crisis, and
Olivia, of about the same fort:. After Krug George had
given the vaunted First Flight 71b and his beating matters
looked better still, fur George was about the equal of Coast
Guard in their race, with Claremont. Prince Arthur beat
the good looking Brindisi, as Saragossa did Vanessa,
Procella, and Alcyone, iu a couple of the minor events ; but
Harvest Hell did not show in his true colours for the
Nursery, se he proved at Stockton the week following,
'disrobe, Apennine, Syreo,lady:of Coverhem,PrinceArtbur.
and Saragossa, ran just as might have bees expected frost
their York doings. Outlaw's sad Land of the West's in-
different performances at Eghani were the only
noteworthy incidents there; but at Oxford there was some
respectable quality, Mulberry proving the best of the
numerous lot performing, as one she beat, Glendusk, after-
ward. ran • dead heat for the Nursery with • heavy weight,
and for • plate another of her opponents, Usher, ran
through • lot more. Gordian Knot was second to Mul-
berry, as she was to Procella at Wolverhampton, and thus
the two fillies were about on au equality. Except for
Dawdle beating the ',neonate Practitioter at Lic Id,
and Outlaw beating the Mozatiesime filly, Faith, said
Hengist, at Exeter (besides Agatha, who, with 101 b the
but of the weight., afterwards beat CASs at Weymouth),
there would be nothing to dwell upon mail reaching Warwick.
Here the Phony filly beat King George, the Clown,
and Union Jack, which she wee bound to do, seeing
she received from 12lb to 15th from them, ad Jack
had not recovered from a recent trip to Irelend • but
we had no right to expect that Calls would afterinirds
beat King George and toe Clown at 2ilb for the year, and as
he did this very truly it was all the m.o. am prising and the
has to be relied upon. At Leicester Light ran in her spring
form for the last time this year, as she neat Cranbury
the greatest ease, so that we had no light to expect Pet-
suasion could beat her, as she did, at Dounister. She.
however, won very easily when meeting l.er, Midnight Masa,
Crisis, Lady of Coverham, Harvest Hell, and the 3-yr-old
Livitignone, a sudden improvement, almost unaccountable,
supposing all the above to be trying, for Lady of Coverhsiu
ran well with Carona end Johnny Armstrong in the mile
Fiuwillism " triel," and Harvest Hell and Crisis were first
and second for the Nursery, • long way ahead of
I their opponent., nearly all of whom received weight ;
and I can ooly account for Perenasiou'a triumph by
supposing she slipped her opponents at the start.
Prime Arthur exhibited Coss de Lion in a sorry
light, by beating him in a canter for • match ;
Saragossa in the fillies' race showed a still further fin-
pronment by beating Syron and others said in soother
' match we got asight of • splendid colt, by Young Melbourne
Koowsleyn dam, who is good-looking enough to be the
best of Lord Olsegow's Derby lot, about which eo much
Wine is made; bat the leasation piece of the Mentilh: was
Ely's overthrow of Fill,, de l'Air and Linda for the Chain-
Me% ead he looked tbe Derby winner ail over, until he
earns out again two days altarwardio, when the judge could
only piece hinn fourth le a mile nos to Coast Gaa.W, Prime
Arthur, sad Vino d. l'Air, so that the suspicion ludulged
in that be only best the two Mel through their having
" cut ,their own throats"—running the race as though it
were • match—we& partly verified. Co.ist Guard's victory
was, however, a good per fornianc.e, supposing he only
beat Prince Arthur, who was four kerbs behind
him and as there me be en question be had im-
proved vastly since J. Oaluterla disposal of him at York,
that worthy mut not be too coolideut the Prince is the
superior of the two, however he may hays tried them when
they wire together, far it is herd to et over this public
race. At Richmond, SanSmat Hell, after the
latter had given 71b ad • • to the anoint Little Stag ;
then we had some farther in- out doings at Tunbridge
by Wild Hurries overthrowing Faith ; and matters after-
ward, west very smoothly until the October sports at New-
market commenced. The first meeting was rot aerated at
by tray new lights, and there was but a sorry lot in the
half-mile Hopeful, with the exception of Fills & l'Air,
who, brides earning a Sib penalty, wanted a longer
IMO supposing she had recovered the form she ape=
to have lost at Dorcaster. Yamoua, the winner, is so
Oyer, for Tomfoolery finished at her bead, and although the
latter " akar errand in nearly all her engagements,
whether the company was good or bad, it seems strap
how she got there, with Olivia, Crytheia, sod Breeze in the
field. It 0.8 only be accounted for by Olivia being in the
suer interest, and the other two having gone off, which
their sunsequent doings made apparent. Olivia showed is
very different oilcan when getting third to Ely and Tomato
for the Trieenial, a contest that showed Elf a Chanaposse
victory to be a fluke, for Tomato was up with him, with
Midnight Maas among the placed. Still, the latter appeared
set Donessier suable to eta T.Y.C., and as he beat Eiria-
Mei here shelf mile almost as pearly as Preece Arthur did
is .the seeth, there is so lira to be draws ; sad the least
said abort Cleranout's defeat in the Retied the heifer.
The hest feria of the meeting was that displayed by
Oahu Jack whir be beat Linda several lengths, sad by
Canberra when, is ea refit state, he rea away from
Durham, for Canibuscan thus showed her superiority to

Scottish Chief as plainly as he did in the July, and there
was eo " Derby fame like it. At the Second Meeting
Tomato proved her running with Ely to be so mistake, as
the beat Light sully over the same course, and mach
mar than did Persuasion at Doncaster, betraying her
superiority
over the lot running for the rich Cleaterell.
Crab, with a 31b penalty, managed to win, with
Planet, a newcomer, second ; as the latter afterwards
obtain,' the same position in tie Prenderian to
First Flight, Crisis was the beet that showed in
the two race., which says little for them, although
the French Beatrix and Souchamp may do much
better next year, and Fir.t Flight is certain to improve.
The minor events showed Attraction, Young Rapid (who
ought to have beater Crytheis on the first day), Wenn-
floc, Linda, Land of the West, Antoinette, Ism, and Frani-
timer, in their brightest colour, and Signalman preformed
is earnest, but only to get defeated a head by Beadle, who
was miaow up for the Prendergast that Signahnan,who gave
him slb, must be put co a par with Crisis. In the fieuotou
week, Fille de ('Air regained the prestige lost at Dosimeter,
by carrying home Ler bib penalty in the Criterion without
any difficulty. and from such cattle as Prince Arthur,
&reline, Ely, Lied., and Coast Guard ; the latter of whom
ran disgracefully bad, and I may say out of all form,
his position being so little in keeping with that he
obtained at Doncaster when running with Prince Arthur
that it would be madness to take cognisance of the
performance. At the same time, Fill. de ''Air deserves
every credit for her overthrow of Entine, Prises Arthur,
and Ely ; for Prince Arthur, with Set 10th, afterwards ran
eseond fur the First Clam Nursery to Sheridan, fist 6th, with
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the beet of her year until Ireton Jaek, with Bst 1311), in the
Second Clam Nursery, ran away from Wandering Minstrel,
78 2lb (well up is the Ca way
Young Rapid, Set rib,
Faruhunt, Set 71b, and others, when our own fly waved
quite ea proudly as the Frenchmen's, although there was
so OLIMIIIIIIAOII of Union Jack's mouth. Claxton, Counter-
sign, Ascham, Attraction Ely (a sister to Ace of Clubs), and
O s 'men did all the workl in the chief of the other events ;
and, with the exception of Clinton, Ely, and At-
traction, they showed in their true light for the
first time ; but Ely confirii_ed be indifferent doings
here by his inability to beat Beatrix more than a
head, giving her but 71b. The minor ineetiags at the close
of the year have little to do with the juveniles i and but for
Seumise's appearance at Bedford, and the improvement
manifested by Birkenhead, Cutaway, and Bockland at
Liverpool, where Persuasion ran badly, in.,, would be no-
thing further to note beyond the startling doings of the
Irish importatime,iCaroline and Blarney, at Shrewsbury ;
and so creditably dd they perform that, although the com-
pany was not good enough to afford a este Hoe, it was easy
to believe they were each equal to Union Jack, as sawerted
by the party.
Thus, if the Newmarket meetings introduced us to no
very great sue beyood Unice Jack, the less important
meetings in the autumn were more prolific than usual.
Caroline doing sufficient to rival Fille de ''Air asßlarney did
Union Jack ; and this quartet must stand almost by them-
selves at the top of the tree. From the Goodwood meet-
ing up to the close of the season not many other" came fresh
upon the scene to take first-Maas honour., as out of Idler,
Linda, Ely, Apennine, Paris, and Historian, only the latter
bad nut been seen out before, although they were searcelz
merited, and either totally usfit to run, or "not wanted.
First Flight, the half-brother to Knowsley, Plamt,Bentrix,
Soumise, Countersign, Backlend, Yamnna, the Mining=
filly, sod Lid, were fresh comers but the best of them did
not take much higher honours than the improved Clare-
mont, Madame Waltoo, Verbena, Selman, Eastramster„
Harvest
Mell, Antoinette, Wild unwell', Ostentation,
Attraction, Syron, Saragossa, lady of Coverhem Outlaw,
Land of the West, Mulberry, Omani, sod Olendusk ; and
when handicapping the of this year's two-yr-olds in
my sett letter, I shall have very few to put near the top of
the tree, in company with such as Fill. de l'Air, Caroline,
Cambuscao, Union Jack, asd Blarney.-1 am, Itc..
METEOR.

PINS IN THE CITY.

The following is the official report of the
damage done at the, above :—" Nos. 2,3, aed 4, Cie-
meet'.-lace, Milkenreet, Cbeapeide, Mama. Grant and
Co., shirt makers, and the landlords, Mews. Morley
and Co., stock in trade and buildings, consisting of
two warehouses adjoining, all but destroyed. The store-
houses opposite very severely damaged by fire, and roof
off. No. 1, ditto, C. and H. Harrison, umbrella and parasol
manufacturers, side front of warehouse severely scorched.
and cootents damaged by fire, water, Be. No. 3, ditto,
Means. flay and Co., woollen merchaata, the third floor
burned out, and part of root off. Ditto, grouod door,
Masers. Bunting and Co., flannel warehousemen, ground
door burned out. No. 2d, Milk-street, and I, Godfrey.oc,
court, Messrs. Charles and Thomas, dealers In fang
back part of warehouses very seriously damaged by fire
and part of roof off. No. 27, ditto, Messrs. Cabman and
Co., wool warehousemen, back part seoreleed and window
glom broken. Feathers-court, Masora. Barrow and Taylor,
stuff inarohants, back part damaged by fire, kc. No. I*,
Wood-street, Messrs. J. and W. Holley, wholesale baleen,
hack windows burned out, and stock in back part of ware•
houses seriously damaged by water, heat, smoke, and
romovaL"

FIZZ AT LAMBETH. —On Saturday the extensive
premises belonging to Messrs. Charles Ogleby and Co., of
Paladins-street, Lambeth, had • narrow escape of being
destroyed by fire. The "emulate cover several wires of
ground, and almost a.lj to Hodges's Distillery. The fire
commenced between teu and 'Livia o'clock in the foreseen,
iu the boiler•hoess, immediately under the press-rooms,
which cont►ined some thousand pounds' worth of property,
and could not be extinguished until the roof of the boiler-
Loose had been burned off and the prase-norms merely
damaged by water ■od removal. Sonic of the chemicals in
the press-rooms exploded by the heat of the flames, the
liquid mooing down the beck of the foreman, and serenely
scalding him.

REPELSENTATION OF Wohcrarrn. In comm.
quince of rumours to the effect that at the next general
election me or both of the sitting members for the city of
Worcester (Mr. Ricmdo sod Mr. Padmore) would retire, a
meeting of the Council of the Woreestershire Reform Asao.
cistioe has been held, at which the following resolution,
moved by Mr. T. Southall, end seconded by Mr. Charles
Hastings, we. carried:—" That in view of the probability
of a gams' election in the ensuing year, this council desires
to record its usabated satisfaction with the conduct of the
present representatives of this city in parliament, and pledgee
itself to use its most strenuous exertions to obtain their re
election whenever a dissolution of parliament may occur.*
HOLIDAYS AT THE LAW OFFICES.—On Saturday it
was annoanced by public notice that the °Memel thesommon
les courts would be closed on the 25th instant, sod remain
closed until the following Wedneeday morning.
Cowen or Puscreroag —At a meeting of tLe
conecil of this corporation on the 19th lust, the following
gentlemen were elected members of the college Mr. R. J.
Burnside, Adelaide-road, Hampstead; Mr. J. J. Caine,
Church-row, Wandsworth; Mr. B. T. Ellis, Cromwell.
villas. CrOydon•grom ; Rev. E. A. Green, Windom-pier?,
Usrdiff ; Mr. Hugh Hastings, University College Schoo. ;
Mr. F. Marcus, Bromerrrem ; Mr. Joseph Palmer, Wells,
I Somerset ; Mr. E. R. Shaw, 8.A., Tula.-hill School; Mr.
W. Snaith. r.sei le, slontgemeryshire.
' THI ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTER—A
eerreepoudeot writes :—" The Royal Entertainment Com-
mittee presented their report after so long deley, sod the
debate respecting the Remembrancer's salary and pension
uocuowtl so mach of the time of the late court—the kit
court of theyear —that no inquiry or examination has taken
place respecting the conduct and expenditure of that coin-
Mitten. This is matter of regret ; statements have ap-
=exciting great interest and much censure, which,
they have never been contradicted, ought to have
bees mere fully, and in a more official manner, verified be-
tore St. Thomas's.day, in order that, Mug furnished ulth
incontrovertible evidence, the citizens might have been ebbs to
express their opinions. lam assured that out et a total of
15,061/., the sum which the committee expended entirely
no themselves was 2,3001., or about sixteen per sent.
When the Queen visited the City in 1837, the total express
was 6,8701., and the charges .of the committee were then
very Meenuidersble, hardly indeed worth notice."—Cite
Prue. _ _ _

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isitual•ctory to hod that, however dilatory and oblivious the
Poet-oMosenthoritise maybe with regard to the acceleration
el the woken mails, they have made arrangements for sup-
plying a want which has beim long felt to exist iu the Three
Towns—a second daily mail to London. On and after
Monday auks Emil will be made up at the post-o2lcre of
Plymouth and Devoeport early each morning for Leaden.
It will be forwarded by the 6.45 a.m. train from Plymouth,
and at Exeter be emit on by the 10.30 express train, reaching
Paddingtaa 4 3µm. Letterwill thee be delivered the
same night in all parts of London and the suburban dis-
tricts, and in the City about five o'clock, time enough flr
• reply by the evening mail ideas( at St. Martin'a.k-Orand
at six o'clock, with extra Amp @even o'clock. Letters
from Plymouth intended for this new up-mail must be
prated before 5.55 a.m., or with extra etamp to fr
and at Devoeport by 5.15 a.m, the time at which the bee
in usually closed for the despatch of the Cornish mad.—
Week,* MOPISII4O News.

"Brother tipe—a. tins," of Clayton notoriety, lied an
oppartasity yialarday of Seedieg te his own peculiar eras.
sec the revival of soonastwieen in this country. The church
wltiolt aatinidaitie " monk " was invited to explain
hi e=ta:Larglia 'Lima to Eaglish churchmen. wee
St. Munster•equare, Rageat'a•park,
than* celehrit some time for its ultra-ritualism. A
oellasitaa 111.119 at liaised of the service for the benefit
d the " Baandiaiise Brotherhood."
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