The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-13 00:00:00

DICISION O► TIM COIfIIIbSIONLB.

Conirnissionor----NeSton tie;;;;;;elei—tO deliver the
decisices of the wart. Having complimented the counsel as-
signed for the defence for the able manner in which they
had advocated the cause of their client, he mid—i am not
at loss to see, after carefully looking over the testimony
and weighing it in my mind, that there is sufficient testi-
moo, for me, sitting in the capacity of a committing magis-
trate, to commit this man for trial. My simple duty
is to determine whether there is 'sufficient probable
cause, from the evidence that has been produced to
that effect, which would canoe me to remand him that he
may have an opportunity to be tried at the place where
the crime was committed, and there proving his inno-
cence, or being found guilty, to be punished for his
crime. Itrs not necessary for me to determine abso-
lutely that he is guilty of the crime. The fact to determine
is, has a crime been committed! If it hag been committed,
is there probable mum, from the evidence, to show that
the party accused is the party who has committed the
crime? Now it appears to my mind, looking at it la the
light of probable cause, that my duty is very simple and
very plain. Ido not desire to sit in judgment upon this
man ; far be it from me. I wish it was in my power to dim
cover any evidence or trace of inroossoce to justify tee to
withhold the certificate of extradition. But iam free to
say, from all the combined circumstances, the chain which
seems to have been linked around this man points fatally to
him as the guilty man. So clear and distinct is the question
of probable cause that I cannot, for one moment, have a
doubt as to the proper course to pursue. Under these cir-
ournstnnoes I am constrained to grant the certificate, and the
prisoner, therefore, stands committed.
The primmer wan then removed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
DONCASTER MEETING.

ROBASS Anarvia—East Lancashire, Principal, Pupil,
Prescription, Caller On, Walloon, Wings of the Wind,
Cripple, Garotter, Suburban, Puritan, Vaindsrveldc,
Woldga, Molly Carew, Argonaut, Merry Wife, Bedminster,
My Fancy, Columbia, Mongrel, Purse, Chat, Stockowner,
Terra Tana colt, Bon Chance, Battaglia, Noelle, Sympa-
thy, Countersign, Lelio, Coastguard Friday, Noodles,
Biondi& Black Deer, General Butler, Panfraluche, BRIMS,
Ostrtgor, Lady Abbess, Welland, Figaro, Antoinette,
Le Mechanic, Alabama, Columbine, Si, r
Peon, Lord Waldsgrave, Spice, Quarantine, Rialto,
Asteroid, Diomed, Black Draught, Greenland, Gem
of the Sea. Plat., Provieor, The Little Gentleman, Magnum
Bottum, Bine Mantle, Vanessa, Barbarcsaa, Bunch, Em,
Bouquet, Gallus, Twilight, Blackbird, Defy, Exquisite,
Gleodnak, Redoubt, Wealliorten, Ely, Roes, Attaché, Cry.
theia, Siberia, Raglan, Master Richard, Syrian, Trumps,
King George, Durham, Doefoot, Usher, Coup
d'Etat, Plover, Looser, Victorious, Verdant, Practitioner,
Virtuous, Confederate, Clown, Sweet Jessie, Donny-
brook, Adventurer, Viola, Gamma, Knight of Snowden,
Lytham, Paris, Scheldt, Canzonette, Peignoir, Cam.
Mason, Revolver, Narbonne, Rapture, Lady Mazy, Pinch
filly, Caryophyllos, Gardevisure, Joker, Gs= Ladra,
Tyke, Flying Fish, Warrior, Grappler, Queen of Trumps,
Lufra, Moularly, Lady Clifdep, Lady Evelyn filly, Evelina,
Tisane, Bose of Denmark, Lady Cochrane, Jape Shore, Van-
quislase, Barter, head* Pilgrim, Black Rock, Longbow
filly, Fairyland, Farnham, Ethel, Vest colt, Archimedes,
Wild Agues, Wild P.appy, Strafford, Lauaroui, Sister to
Drake, Suter to Amhara, Rapid Rhone, Young Light Bob,
Melbourne colt (2 yin), Finesse, Reginella, Gownsman, Theo-
beide, General Peel, Banish, Claremont, Blair Athol,
Miser, Brown Breed, Dubiety, Club Queen, Clarissimus,
Edward the Confessor, Nell, Louisa Dishy, War Whoop,
Catalogue, Fair Melrose, East Lynne, Lyra, Actress, filly
by Fandango—Busy Bee.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HARDICAP.—WeIcome and Lady
Evelyn filly are scratched.

BETTING AT MIDNIGHT.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.

7to 1 mit li;;;ile tTI rieilUM rosette (1)
tl to 1 East Limeshlre I to to 1 Raglan
tt. 100 to 7 Blue Meath (I
ST. LUPO.

Dto 4 apt Blair AthaCOo .0 1.....(t)
sto 2 Geueral reel (t) 100 to 0 Combiticsa (t)
1! to The Mtoer 1) 10 to 1 EOM
. . . .

Peon was 'tract out of tbs.*: Leger on Moirdai evening.
ENTRIES FOR THE FITZWILLIAN STALES, of 5 SOUL each,
with RV added, for all ages. One mils—Adventurer, Sweet
Jessie, Argonaut, Purity, Mongrel, Plover, Minnie, Gem of
the Sea, Master Richard, Paris, Suburban, Strafford, Moni-
es,. Beaver, Twilight, Friday, Dubiety, Victorious, Clown,
and Defy.
Enmities Fos Hu Ma'am's Pun of 100 pa. Two
miles five furlonga—Figaro, Light Bob. Caller On, Ala-
bama, Finesse, Merry Wife, Realism, East LanemJaue.
Hi poly* and Edward the Confessor.
TOR Tat DONCESTIR Our, for 3-yr.olds and up-
wards. Two miles five furlongs.—Clown, Fin Rapid
Rhone, Noelil, Adventurer, Plover, Blue Mantle,
General Peel, Caller Ou, Hippolyta, Godiva, Bengali, Ed-
ward the Confessor, East Lancashire, Blair Athol, and
Claremont.

BETTING AT MANE
GREAT YORCBII
100 to Beget East Unmet**
(t freely)
8 to I Canomette (Wen
10 to 1 Revolver 9:0,7
100 to 9 Raglan it)
WO to 7 Merry Wife (t)
100 to 7 Welcome 'A)
BT. L
I to 2 agat Blair Athol (001
S to 1 General Peel
sad off)
15 to S— Inner it)
190 to 9 Iteraph

:MESTER.— MONDAY.
MU HANDICAP
13 to 1 oast Blue Hardie (t)
100 to 6 Clown (of)
20 to 1 Ttplw :t)
23 to 1 Edward the Con-
fessor (t)
30 to 1 Gratitude kotI)

20 to 1 opt Quabloom
ioT
80 to 1 Cositguard t
*Mat)

erSARERII
I'l to I on the field kottl
1000 to Su apt Fentreluehe ;t;

:H STAKE&
1000 to 10 sgst Fiatsll 0)

_
CAIIBILIDOIOII
1000 to 20 apt Stockinger t)

HIRE STAKES.
11000 $e 25 spa lime ;off;

THE EXTRAORDINARY FIRE AT BILLINGHAT,
LINCOLESHIRIL—FuIIer accounts hays since been re.
wised of this disaster. The fire was occasioned
by the sparks from a foul chimney falling upon
the thatch of a shed thirty yards off. Owing to the
loot dry season the thatch immediately buret into
flames and spread with alarming rapidity to • couple of hay-
stacks, • stack of eats, for which the owner had gives 301.
only a few days before, • crewyard, and • pigsty. contain-
ing • pig, the whole of which were utterly destroyed. From
these buildings and stacks the flames were carried to the
roofs of a couple of sheds and ugstyes belonging to John
Bee and Samuel Rakes, both of which, with all
they contained, tools and agricultural implements,
were speedily consumed, and yet the distance be-
tween these buildings and those from which the fire
was brought by the wind was fully 80 yards, the
space being occupied by • large orchard. The fruit trees
iii this orchard, and others in the track of the firs, presented
a very strange appearance. Some of them were nearly
coaramed to the roots, others were denuded of their
breeches, the naked and charred trunks standing as wrecks
of the destruction which had raged so fearfully the day
before, whilst others were covered with apples literally
roasted, and some even burnt to cinders. From the out-
buildings belonging to Ruud Rules the dames leaped on to •
stable, sheds, sucks, and two houses belonging to • carrier,
earned Newton, allot which, except tbestable, were consumed
with:part of the furniture and some fowls in an outhouse.
The next object attacked was • cottage tenanted by
Abraham Flatters, which was burnt to the ground in the
course of a few minutes, together with • considerable por-
tion of his furniture, and all the outbuildings attached
Tbe Runes then bounded across a wide street, and fixed
upon • couple of cottages, roaring through them with •
rapidity perfectly startling, and preventing the possibility
of any of the furniture being rived. Immediately behind
these were several buildings belonging to Franklin Benton,
all of which were destroyed, the flames literally clearing
atowaarzzginot in the counutrintic,:yercaombernsdte thhe equal
street, over which they leaped, and alighted on a large farm-
house belonging'. to Mr. T. Gilbert. This they entire)ygutted,
sod destroyed the barn, stable*, sheds, crew, and • great
many implements in the rear, the total value of which is
estimated at more than 5001. The following are also suf-
ferers:—John Stevenson, house destroyed and part of
furniture ; Robert Wilson, house consumed, and all his far-
niters except two bedsteads; Abraham Gilbert, house
destroyed and some of the furniture; William Giselsby,
house, and part of his furniture, ditto ; George Woods,
house and furniture, and all his clothing, ditto; Charles
Croft, two stables, two sheds, out hon.., pigsty. and pig,
tube, tools, and three apple trees and fifty pecks of apples,
destroyed ; William Botts, cottage, and part of furniture
consumed; John Wilkinson. kitchen, two sheds, and pig-
gies destroyed ; William Wilson, pigsty. and two pigs,
valve at St., destroyed ; James Creasy, two sheds and a
quantity of tools consumed ; Mrs. Petchell, a waggon-hovel,
ditto ; Wm. Sharpe, II stack of wheat ; 1 ditto eta, pig-
sty., lie., ditto; John Swinton, 2 stables, cartabed, crew.
yard, (seeing, tools, ditto. The fire broke out at 10 o'clock
is the morning, and in spite of • couple of engines sad all
the buckets in the pariah it continued to rage until searly 8
o'clock in the evening, sod was not, indeed, considered
wholly subdued anti! 2 o'clock the next morning.
Scarcely had the villagers seen the smoke of this terrible
calamity die away, when another tire broke out in the
' pariah. On Saturday afternoon, whilst our informant was
collecting the particulars narrated above, • fearful beret of
flames was seen to issue from • core stack on the farmstead
of Mr. Jim. Sharpe, of Billingbay Fen, about half a-mile
from the disaster of the previous day. In the course of •
few minutes the whole of the stacks, all fresh gathered
grain were io • blaze, as was also • wooden building close
by. The wind was not nearly so strong as oe the preview
day, or the *woes might have been equally terrible,
u other farmsteads were very near. An abundance of belt,
was soon at hand, and everything wan done that weld be to
suppress the fire, but the stacks and shed were destroyed.
Mellows however was preserved. The sufferer is this ass
is brother to one of those whose house war communed the
day Ware.