The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-25 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(NT man= TILIGILLPIL )
NEWMARKET MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

SWEEPSTAKFiI OF 50 SOY& A.F.

lite and Privateer are here.
?sin FORFElT.—Columbine.
ENI KY FOR M. HANDICAP PLATE. IL M.

General Her, aged, Sat 121 b; lchicipel,Tym,ll;3lb
Bertha, 5 yre, Sat ; Columba, 4 yrs, let 121 b; Master
Richard, 3 yrs, ist nb ; Deception. 4 yrs, Tat Ilb ; Alger-
sue, 3 yrs. ist 31b; Myrtle, 67n, 7st 21b; Emilia, 3 yrs,
7st : Antoinette, 3 yrs, 74; Amazonian, 4 yrs, Tat; VOL',
Bells, 4 yrs, Gat 131 b ; Jessie, 3 yrs, Est 11Ib ; Zetno, 4 yrs,
list 91b ; Gordian Knot, 3 yrs. Est 71b ; Fastreluabs, 4 yrs,
Est 71b ; Poetess, 3 Ms Get 51b ; Truest, 4 in, bet ; 11•60114
a yrs, sst 10lb; Mirage, 3 yrs, 3et 710. All an USIA

SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 BOOS, First half Ab. X.
Puritan, Rialto, Towle:ells, Britannia, and RattAs I are
here. . _

PAID Foarerr.—Prinesms Dagmar.
ENTRY FOR 504 MAIDEN PLATE. Last R.M.
Capucine f, Sis to Alabama, 'Fisiphona, Siberia, Zaphyr,
Protectionist, Auditor, Il Re Oalaatuomo,
Prairie Heu c. AU are here.

PRINCE OF WALES STAKES. R.M.
suburban. Vivid. King of the Vale, Marigold, St. Alexis,
Fantail. Despair, Blue Mantle, Flying Fib, Cadiz, Tajo,
Newmarket, Dr. Syntax, Nebula, Stockinger, Black Lily,
Sonimerside, Evekris, Lady Superior, Durham, Ausszoeitin,
Nebuchadnezzar, Gleodosk, Sir Roger, Voltiptas, Bonus,
Bacchus, Beadle, Highland Piper, Lucky Star, Wandering
Minstrel, The Sea Boy, Hawkakaw, Confederate, and
Bittern are here.

PAID FORFFlT.—Doneybrook, Union Jack, Trap, Kemp.
town, Horse Marine, Templer, Adventurer, Coup &Etat,
Lytham, Leonora, litre&lla, Hospodar, Dolphin, Merry
Hart, Muezzin, Amelia, Midnight Masi, Caryophyllua,
Bangle, Lady Emma, Dispute, aad Rigolochs.

ENTRY FOR 501.PLATE._13.11.

F►retra.Woe Aggie, Depute, iirlib7.l Hue. are here.

FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. D.M.

Deseret Her, Suburban, and MisiArmstrong eve hero.
FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOVE.
Last mile and • half of B.C.
C;rauboro, The Knave, and Revolver ere berie.
1.‘11) FORFKIT.—Tim Whiffler, Asteroid, and Adven-
turer.

ARRIVED. —Waveoey, Lord of Liana, and Stockowner.
LATEST BETTING.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
9 Co 4 apt Fills de I'Air (olf)
7 to 2 Genoa' Peel (off)
4 to 1 Copes hapa (off)
12 to 1 Para (off)
100 to 6 Sir Roger (off)
THE DERBY.
12 to 1 apt General Peel(t freely)
PRINCE OF WALES STAKES.
No betting.

SHOCKING DEATH WITH A PITCHFORK.
CHARGE OP MANSLAUGHTER.

CORONERS' INQL'EST.-(THIS DAY.)

An inquest was taken by Dr. Lankester this
forenoon at the Middlesex Hospital, touchin4 the death of
Jobs Henry Carter, 12 years old, an oc-asionsl helper at
some stables in llopertetreet. St. James's, who was kiUed
by a pitchfork penetrating his brain.
lbe evidence showed that last Thursday week the de-
mo:Nl was making a bed for • horse with • pitchfork, and
that while doing so • few words arose between him and a
youth about his own age named Simpson. During that
altercation Simpson mad* use of an odious expres-
Flne towards Carter, who long the pitchfork at
Simp:on. The latter took it up and aimed it
at the deceased, who avoided the intended blow
be stloping. The handle of the pitchfork stuck
in the ground, when deceased, on raising up, fell back on
the fork, which penetrated the posterior pert of his head.
Upon cetting ou his feet he exclaimed to Simpson, " I am
hbod." The blood flowed profusely from the wound, and
deceased seemed in • dangerous state, Ile was taken to a
surgery, and was afterwards removed to the Middlesex Hos-
pital, where he died about half-past 9 o'clock on Wed-
zie.lay morning.
A post-mortem examination was made by Mr. Shaw, one
of the principal Gumless of the institution, who attended on
him, and who found that the prong of the fork had pawed
through the occipital hone, and penetrated the brain. The
effect of the injury was that inflammation of the brain set
in, which led to his death.

ertiet, •'That the deceased died from acute inflamma-
tion of the brain caused by the injury."
The learned coroner cantionea Simpson azainst using in
future such a dangerous instrument in self-defence.

THE MAY MvrriNns. —The anniversaries of the
religions societies, known as the " May Meetings," although
some of them are held in April and some in Jane, have been
fixed. The following are the principal, with the names
of chairmen and places of meeting : April 23, Baptist
Missionary, Exeter Hall, Lord Radstoek Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel, St. James's Hall, the Archbishop
of Canterbury : Revision of the Prayer-book, Willis s
Rooms. Lord Dairy ; Melton Protestant College, Willis'.
Rooms, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; April 29, Christian Ver-
nacular Education, Willis', Room., the Duke of Argyll ;
Church of Ernelasd Scripture Readers, Hanoverequare I
Rooms, the Bishop of London ; May ? Wesleyan Mis-
sionary, Exeter Hall, the Right Hon. 'J. Napier ; Pro-
testant Refotmatioo, Hanoverequare Rooms, Lord Cal-
thorpe ; May 3, Church Missionary, Exeter Hall, Earl of
Chichester; May 4, British and Foreign Bible Societe,
Exeter Hail, the Earl of Shaftesbury • Systematic
Beneficence, Exeter Hall, Earl of Shaftesbury ; May 5,
London City Mission. Exeter Hall, Mr. Joseph Hoare;
Church Pastoral Aid. St. Jetnes's Hall, the Earl of
Shaftesbury; sundae School Union, Exeter Hall, Hon.
Arthur Kioneird, 3( P.; May 6, London Society for Jews,
Exeter Hall, Earl of Harrowby ; Governesses Benevolent
Institution, Hanover-square Rooms, the Earl of Shaftee.
bevy Religious Tract Society, Exeter Hall, Lord Bseholme;
May 7, Royal iNaval Female School, United Service heti-
intim), the Earl of Shrewsbury; May 9. British and Foreign
Sched, Borough-mad, Earl Russell ; Ragged School Union,
Ecet, HAI, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; May 10, Irish Church
Mission., St. James's Hall, Mr. J. C. Colquhoun ; Soldiers'
Friend and Army Scripture-readers, Willis's Rooms, Arch-
bishop of York ; British Society for Jews, Willis', Rooms,
Lord Calthorpe ; May 11, Colonial sod Continental
Church Society, St. James's Hall, the Marquis of Choi-
moteleley ; May 12. London Missionary, Exeter Hall,
Lord Ebury ; Foreign Aid Society, Haeoverequere
Rooms, Marqnis of Cholmondeley ; May 17. Peace
Society, Finsbury Chapel, Mr. Pease, Y.P. ; May 19, British
• Foreign Sailors' Sailors' Institute, Stedwell, the Earl
of shaftesbury ; National Temperance, Exeter Hall, Mr. S.
Morley ; May 24, Preireation of Cruelty to Animals, St.
James's Hall, the Earl of Harrovrby ; Ragged Church and
Chapel Union, Exeter Hall, Mr. It. Baxter ; June 1. Field-
lane Ragged Schools, Field-lane. the Earl of Shaftesbury •
June ti, 'Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Willis's Rooms, Lord
H. Cholmondeley ; June 7, Lord's Day Rest Association,
Exeter Hall, Mr. W. Morley, ; June 24. London Female
l'enitentiary, Peotooville-road, the Earl of Chichester.
THE WRECK OF TILE STRAM ER CITY OF NEW YORK.
—clue result of the recent interview between the President
of the Board of Trade and several members of parliament,
merchant captains, and others connected with the shipping
Meerut, relative to the inquiries now being carried on by
half.psy nasal captains as to the conduct of merchant cap-
tile who may have lost or damaged their vessels either
threigh negligence or from zeroes of weether,has been shown
in the transfer of the Board of Trade inquiry into the loss
of the City of New York from Liverpool to Cork. Although
this it but a slight deviation from the ordinary rule of bold-
in: !.eve inquiries before two naval officers and a stipendiary
• ini:tr.te at a great distance from the scene of the disaster,
hefo e whom, we presume, the present inquiry will take
hi ~e. vet it is apparent that the President of the Board of
Trade ha, in the preeent instance accepted the desire of the
''p and also the representations emanating from
in Kr nosily soil Messrs. lama's and Co.. and trans-
ferred the ioq iiry from Liverpool to Cork- The Practice
of sending down gentlemen to Liverpool, or any other port,
relFelicato upon the condi:et of accomplished navigators,
when it is w, led known that these naval assessors know little
or colling of Atlantic navigation, as blue been so reeently
rianifestel in Liverpool and London, is, we hope, about to
teroim..te, and the only proper and much desired change of
teal by a jury comimeed of merchant captains to be sot:e-
ditJed in Be stead.

--•
lt't is 14,4:A.—The Ines of the Marine Insurance
cnmpaoirs in the state of If sasaehusetta. in the United
Statoa, amounted last year to 5,416,8`.1.1 dole., of which more
tliso a million of dollars &retitle to war risks.
it or A ONCE CELEBRATED MAN—The
Exater r.pen. record the death, at the age of 70, of Abraham
( no. at one time the champion wrestler of England. His
t contest with Polkingnorn, the Cornish wrestler, 40
ago, exelted national interest. Lord Palmerston and
otitrr noblemen and gentlemen subscribed 200/. three years
tw the I)evonahire athlete.

Antiwar, or BRITISH Bacon.—The Hants Adrer-
.-, ceatiottee to chronicle the arrival of birds in the neigh-
Lourbood of Southampton. The cuckoo and nighting►le
wrra, it appear.. beard for the first time this season on the
11•11 test. "We have bad," says a writer in that joarn.l,
'• for more than a fortnicht in oor possession two of the
hesittifully and wonderfully artistic nests of the lout-tailed
one on a branch of holly, the other in a dead
hunch of a maple tree. both of them taken on Soathamptoo-
.ll,ll,n thin early in the season. The, are bespangled
wish tiny epe.•imena of silsereoloared lichees."
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOS DISSANER or
Tru cur.vr, VICTORIA PARR. —The number of patient■ re-
at this institution daring last week was 1,104, of
which f 1 were new cases.

Po .Y AL FREE HOSPITAL. GRAY'reiIYPI-ROAD.—The
climber of waists reliosod at this hospital daring the week
saline Apnl 23 was 3.3%, of which 1,046 ware saw caws.
CRYMTAL PALM'S,. ONE SIILLLINO DAY. •••
SAT-RDAS, APRIL 23.—Admiswoos ow payment. 6,533;
ditto by season tickets, 5,024 ; total, 11,56 L

WARR 1.182'8,-(77118 DAL)

Two o'Ozooz.

The railway market is inactive to-day, and the
alteration in prices generally are few and unim-
portant South Eastern and Great Eastern stocks have
risen I per cent, while Metropolitan has declined 4.
London and North Western stock is now
quoted 1U to ; Great Western, 66 to 4, ex
div. ; Midland, 1304 to I ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1091 to 110 i ; South Eastern, 904 to I ;
Eastern, 46i to 47 ; London and South Western,
98 to 99 ; Metropolitan, 1141 to 1151 ; and Cale-
donian, 118 to 119.

Bombay and ii;z:oda and Great Indian Peninsu-
lar stocks are tirm, while Sande has declined.
Grand Trunk of Canada is dull. Foreign lines are
quiet.