The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-13 00:00:00

THE RNPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAX 13, 11,62 e

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(11Y ILICTSIC 1711COILLPH. )
CHESTER MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

GROSVENOR STAKES. About one mile and & quarter.
Pe.lsidro, Allen-y-Iteudemont, Sawcutter, Fauwater,
Cada, Caller Ou, and Dusk are here.

CHESI'ERYIELD STARES. Seven furlongs.
Pilot, Allez-y-Roademeak Tim Whiffler, Inches*
Leon, Jung Frau, Real Jam, Livingstone, Egyptian,
Ophelia, and Melody are hem.
PAID Foavarr.—Hereulaneum.

WYNNSTAY HANDICAP. Three-quarters of a mile.
Passim, Lord of the Manor, General Her, Fig, Eidolao,
Doeceater, Raga Avis, Dictation, .Juliet, Prophet, Voltella,
Hetty, Alohymist, Tim Whiffler, Leonora, My Mary, Pilot,
and Maydoiver are here.
Pau) FOlllifft.—Cosmopolite and Phantom.
MOSTYN STAKES. Three-quarters of a mile.
Valentine, Rudiments, Hugh Lupus, Middle Watch,
Croydon, Blitheeld, Erin-go-batiks, and Carrsival are here.
PALAILVE STAR fr.Z. Mile and a half.
Royallieu, Vest c, Leonora, Duak, and Tommy Jones are
here.
PAID Foartrr.—Fielande, Monte, and Rubicon.
£5O HANDICAP PLATE. Half-a-mile.
Miss Julia, Eidolan, Abron, Juliet, Hotly, Fig, and
Pstressonse are here.
PAID FORYZIT.—Mir PeonelL

DORSET CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)

An extraordinary special general meeting of thin
company took place to-day, at the Westminster Palace
Hotel, for the purpose of considering and approving a bill
now pending in parliament for the amalgauation of the
Somerset Central Railway Company and the Dorset Central
Railway Company ; Mr. GROWL Rum in the chair.
A resolution in accordance with the object of the meeting
was proposed and agreed to, it appearing from explanations
given that the bill provided that the capitals of the two
companies should be amalgamated upon equal terms, whilst
it contained a clause using the date upon which such amal-
gamation should take place.

There were 170,156 marriages celebrated in Eng-
land during the year 1860, of which number 137,370 were
solemnised according to the rites of the established church.
The proportion of marriages by banns to those by license was
5/4 to one. Of the bachelors who married, 139,440 chose
spinsters, and of the widowers who married 8,260 selected
widows. The number of widowers who entered wedlock
was, to that of widows, nearly Bto 5. Among persona who
married, the proportion of those who did not marry for the
first time was 11 per cent.

ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREM.—The number of chil-
dren born out of wedlock, in England, during the year 1860,
was 43,693, being 6.4 per cent. of the whole number
of children born. In Cumberland, where the pro-
portion rose to its maximum, it was double that
amount ; in Norfolk it was 10.7 ; in Westmorland, 10.6 ; in
Shropshire, 9.0; in Nottinghamshire, 9.1. It was also high
in Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Herefordshire, Lincolnshire, and
the North Riding of Yorkshire. The Registrar-General
thinks that the proportion of illegitimate children born in
London-4.2 per cent, in the tables—is very probably un-
derstated. "There is much greater facility for the sup-
pression of facts in large cities than in smaller towns and
villages."

VISIT or THE JAPANESE TO THE BANK OF
ENOLAND.—crMS DAY.)—This morning, shortly before 12
o'clock, the members of the Japanese Embassy visited
the Bank of England. They were met by several of the
directors, who took them over the building—the various
departments in connexion therewith being explained to
them by the interpreter.
THE COMMON LAW COURTS.—The Court of Com-
mon Pleas will hold its sittings in Trinity Term in Middlesex
on Wednesday, May 28, and Monday, June 2. The
court will sit in term in Loudon on Friday, May 30, and
Monday, June 16. The after-term sittings will be is
Middlesex on Wednesday, June 18, and in London, on Mon-
day, June 30. The muses in the list for each of the
above sitting days in term, if not disposed of on those days,
will be tried by adjournment on the days following. The
Court of Exchequer's sittings will be in term in Middlesex
on Wednesday, May 28, Monday, June 2, and Wednesday,
Juice 11 ; and in Leaden on Friday, May 30. and Monday, Jane
16 (one day). The court will sit in Middlesex after term on
Wedamday, June 18, sad in London on Monday, June 30.
The court will sit in Middlesex at nisi prius in term by
adjournment from day to day until the muses entered for
the Middlesex sittings are disposed
SUDDEN DEATH TROY THE EFFECTS OF A
Beowmt-Bere.—Michael Mills, civil bill offioer at Dm-
mom, consulted an eminent physician on Tuesday last, and
in addition to other thing., wee ordered by him to havethree
moduli of cold water poured on his head every morning.
The first time the poor men tried it the shock was so severe
that btu:weld Dot bear the quantity ordered. This (Friday)
=ruing, after he got up, having walked about a little in
his usual way, he determined to have the full complement
poured on him ; but, after receiving the mooed =full, he
become suddenly faint, was mrried ,to bed, and died in a few
minutes.—lforthent Whig.