The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-18 00:00:00

IfiNCHICErrER MEETING.--(Tms DAY.)

TRIAL HANDICAP. Oae mile sad a quarter.
Wyoostay, Col. Crockett, Gaily, Wisdom, aad Auat Jud 7
are kers.

CHESTERFIELD HANDICAP. OM mile.
Twilight, WyssMay, 'Wisp, CoL Orval" sad Tinge
am ban.

UNION CUP. One nine aad a quartir.
Twilight, Dome* Not tomeahire, Thin*, Calaway,
Kis( of Utopia, Loafer, Oardind. aad Altai Juidy are here.
PAID Foarar.—ltosafteher, Paretra, The Hoare, Costa,
aad Surat.

SAPLING STAKES. Six bylaws.
East Lyng, Sprin Gas, and Similo44* are ham.
PHILIPS' HANDICAP. About live furious..

Betsy Oopiased sad Gold's Drop en ban.

Awn:D.—Lady Comdata. Wild Aguas, HiEmmy,
rof TIMID Haim, Froodsur, LAM Dachau,
ta.h.i. a, Dermot AMorN Peg I. Cutler, Tommy
Joon, Edward MI Cookson, etb Operator, Wm.
lay 1, Kanter, Brows Broad, Dr. Rooks, Hemet John,
Trust, Inheritor, ()Manisa, Parmaios. Rysaattue.

SINGULAR DIATH.-ALLEGED MISCONDUCT
AT MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.

This day Dr. Lankester held an inquest at
Middlesex Ifeepitel, is the be ty of a Mead aged three yeses
sad a half, named Alfred Pearce, who dir d under singular
cinsuenstaarea. On Tuesday week the mother of the child
left three cbildrea in bed (be being the youngest) at their
lodgings in Cievelad•strees, and went to mesa the father,
a tailor. They reached home about 9 and oft open-
, lag the door the room was found so be full
of smoke, sad the bed btu ping. The little
fellow had got the !artier matches, and had struck several
and set the bed on Ire. He had called to the other children
is the adjoining room, but they did sot coma Ms was im-
mediately brought to the hospital, and one of the manes
reamd to let him be emit by a medial man, bet dressed
the barn oo hie foot, and mat the patient away, behaving
in a rude manner. He WY taken wane is t►e sight, sad is
the nest morning was admitted. He died eve afterwards, not
from the bare, as proved by Mr. Kekingtou, the hones surgeon,
but from billammetion of the bums, from the smoke from the
Ire. Several of the juror said the some at the Middlemea
Hospital were in the habit of seeding persons away without
letting them me a medical man. Yr. Kukiegtow said the
some in this ernes had been reprimanded. The jury related
several mesa, and hoped the subject would be inquired into.
The coroner bad so doubt the matter would reach the board.
Verdict, " Accisteatel Death."

A STITMLICEASZ BT MOONIIGHT.—DCIADAIJ.,
NAT 16.—Last sight, immediately after the clock Week
12, several offeerept the gallant 4th Diego= Gaerds, pla-
ta:iced here, started off for Dowdalbill race coarse to witness
a moonlight steeplechase of three miles, which Lieutenant
Farquhar undertook to perform with his favourite race
mare Lad y Aaoie. Liesteeant Farqular name iu unscathed,
sad had 15 minutes to spare, bendier he not his faithful sag
being much the worse of their midnight steepleeheer. I
understand that chasms were considered so much against
the gallant rider that several bete were offered, by which he
Dotted 1001. The race was an impromptu one, and arras at
the mess table a few minutes before it was undiertakeo.
Dublin Evening Mail.
Sr. CROM floarrrai..—Tbe chancel of the church
of St. Cross floopital, sear Winchester, is being restored,
sad in doing the neesesary work, some socket mural paint-
Jags hare bees discovered, which have bees aracealed for
centuries.

STEAM PACKET COM 103/fICATION WITH THE ISLE
OF Wicur. —The Lady of the Lake, a steamer dtted up
like the American Inver steamers, kas commenced running be-
tween Cowes and Southampton. There am sow so Nee
then use steam whet communioatiom between the Isle of
Wigbtsai the roam land, air., between the raked sod Little-
hampton, Portsmouth, Stokes Bay, Southampton; mid
LyminAgton.
A Nit,: SHEEP AHD LIMB FAIR. —An attempt
is makiog to establiali a sheep and lamb fair at Droxford,
in the south.east of Hampshire, far the cooveeisoce of the
farmers of an extensive neighbourhood round about that
Part-
THZ lEwFOßEST.—Measures are about to be
takes to encourage an improvement is the lined of homes
sad cattle in the New Forest, which an at s very inferior
kind. . . _

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Tar HAY Caor.—The hay crop in the south of
Peg Lied is likely to ha • magaificent use. A great deal of
grass is sow at to coot.
Tim Fit. Aare in Arwrnacia.—The following
announcement. interesting to artists, appears in the Mel-
bourse Gazette :—" The governenect of Victoria ham deter-
mined to offer these= of 2001. for the partition of • piloting
paintings by an artist or artiste residieg in Austral*
provided that such painting or paiatiegs poison sidllehert
merit to qualify it or thew to empire favourably with the
works of eminent living artists in Europe. Such painting or
paintings to be placed is the Public Galley of Art of Vie.
toria." Every picture submitted must be painted end
finished in oil, re our* peel, ur other suitable materiel,
or is water colours. The subject of the picture is left to
the taste awl jedgment at the artist. The pictures will be
publicly exhibited ea and after the Ist December, 1864, for
one mouth. Before the **ration of that period the judge'
appointed to determiee upon theme to be puroluned will
decide as to which. if any, be so pushased.
New AND lIRILLIANT PIANOMILTI Ptscme : WOl-
- Styrienne. es; Wollenbauss Maras lloegroles.
dedicated to Yr. Paean. : Mors SOrapbine, 4A. These three
nor composlaloos bare been played with barman races • by
Mr. Otto Fleenor, at the Crystal Pekoe. sent free for 24
Nampa each.—Zoer and IT, Repatstreet, Landers.—(Ad.
vertinament.l