The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-16 00:00:00

(BY IILSCYBIO IILBOBILYIL)
SHREWSBURY MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

MATCH.
Tarragona best East Sheen.
ACTON BUItNEL STAKES.
Harrah
Princess Degmar
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKE&
Lad Bohan
5 ran.
CALDECOT HANDICAP.
Mealsey
My Mary
5 ran.
1110NEMOOR HANDICAP.
Dawdle
Tomfoolery
6 ma.
COLUMN HANDICAP. Ons maa arid a quarter.
°laminate; Gennri, Mantis, Balhiun, Turn of Lock,
Leonora, Trap, Maiming Woman, Jack o' Newbury,
Motasey, Gaily, Queen of Trumps, Grosvenor c, Physician,
Tiptoe, Diankeld, Temeriffe, Odine, Jessie, Nucletri, Pro.
cella, and Greenland are hers.
ENTRY FOR THE LONGLEATE HANDICAP. Three
furlongs and a quarter.
Hyper, flit 10lb ; Biondella, Rat 10Ib ; Gipsy Girl,
Bet 41b ; Practitioner, Sat 21b ; Video, 7st 10Ib ; Colleen,
Tat lib ; 114,e, lat 61b, Land of the West, 7st 41b ; Lady
Warwick, Ist 41b; Joss Stick, let 41b; Lady Caroline,
7at 21b ; Foxholes, 64 131 b ; Don't.oonie.late, rat l2ib ;
Imog et Illb ; Teesdale, tilt 91b ; and Mins, Gut Sib.
All geneere.
ANGLESEY NURSERY HANDICAP. About Ere

fur
Catalogue, Set 121 b ; Belle, Sat 31b ; oounazioo, 7st 121 b ;
Na, 7st 121 b; Viola, let 121 b ; Viceroy. 71b; GainiochT,
7st 7lb ; Czarina, 7st 71b ; Flageolet, Tel 51b ; Misterton,
6st 121 b; Nabob, Est 121 b ; Jack J akar, 6st 91b; Lily
Lye, fiat 91b ; Sans Men s.at elb ; Lord Ronald, Est 91b ;
St. Mary, Sat 9lb ; Naplel, Gat 7lb ; Scheldt, Get Glb ,
Teesdale, Sat Sib ; Princess llagroar, Gat 41b ; Fravolina,
Est 41b ; Gat 21b. All are here.

HLNDICLP,

About !kW ma..

Vesper, ia 131 b Faith, Sat 61b ;
Moulaey, 7410 lb; T 7st 71b ; East Rhea, 7d nb
Forester, ist 41b ; Gipsy G. , 74 31b ; Usber, 74 ; Land
of the Week 6d121b ; Colleen, Est 11Ib ; Foxhole,
fist 91b ; Lady Cardin., fist 7lb ; Hope, 6st 71b ; Flageolet,
Gat 71b ; Cil Blaa, Get 61b ; Imogene, 64 21b ; Czarina,
Gat 41b ; De Clare f, Gd 21b ; Hecate, 6et ; Lord Ronald,
Get. All are here.

The disputed Hurdle Race le not yet decided. The ease
will be reopened at Mom Weetherby's office.

BAPS OP QUEENSLAND (LIMITED).
(THIS DAY.)

The second onlinary general meeting of the
shareholders was held at 2 o'clock, at the offices, 26, Old
Brcad•atreet, Sir JOSHUA Rowe, in the chair.

The ',semi said that the dialoged' profit for the Ulf-
year ending June 30 amounted to 8,0601. ss. 7d. Out
of this sum the directors had applied 5661. 10s. in
reduction of preliminary expenses, and had placed 1,0001. to
reserve fund, and they recommended that 5,725/. 3a. 9d. be
applied in payment of a dividend to the shareholders (free of
income tax) of 14s. per share on the shares issued prior to
31st December, 1863, and of 4s. 9d. per share on M 3 of the
misread shares issued since 4th May last, being at the
rate of 71 per cent. per annum on the amounts paid up on
their respective shares; and that the remainder, 6V.1. 13a.24.,
be carried forward to profit and loss new account.
" The progress and future prospects of the bank are (says
the report) most encouraging. A branch was established at
Ipswich on Ist February last, and is now in active and pro-
fitable operation. Arrangements have been made for open-
ing • branch at Dally, where it is expected • profitable
business will likewise be secured. It is also the intention
of the directors to extend the sphere of the bask's
operations to several of the other principal towns,
from time to time as may seem desirable and
expedient. The trade of the colony for the
first six months of the year has been active, and
the imports and exports respectively show • considerable
increase over the corresponding period of last year. Owing
to the high price of wool, and to the very favourable season,
pastoral pursuits have been successful. The government
returns just published show that the stock of sheep has
increased during the year to nearly 6,000,000, equal to
shout 25 per cent., thereby adding to the general pros-
perity of the country."
The report was adopted.

FIRE IN THE. HAMIPSTEAD-ROAD.—This morning
• fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Dean a
cabinet-maker, carrying on business in Marshall's-ye:id,
Henry-street, Hampstead-road. The premises were burned
out, sod the valuable stock consumed.
A &,v KILLED THROUGH A GCT FACK.—An in-
quiry was held by Mr. Richards, deputy. coroner, last
night, respecting the death from fright of William Bi:own,
aged five years. Sarah Brown, 21, Goodlandetreet, Beth-
naliereen, the wife of • whalebone cutter, said that the
deceased was her child, and on the sth November he was
lying in bed in the front room near the window. A Guy
Faux came up the street, and was put up close to the
window. The deceased was greatly terrified, gave • loud
scream, and fall out of the bed on to the floor. His face
was cut by the fall, and he was covered with blood. The
Guy was taken away when the mischief WAS done. Dr.
ceased had only recently recovered from fever. Dr. Mass.
ingham said that he was called in to the deceased, and
found him suffering from serious injuries to the head. He
lingered until Thursday. when he died from effusion on the
brain caused by the fall. rbe jury returned a verdict
" That deceased died from the mortal effects of a fall caused
by a fright."
THE CONFEDERATE GENERALS.—The following
is from • letter, dated September 26, written by an
English gentleman who has been in the South dur-
ing • great portion of the war :—" Lee himself is worn
and anxious, but as cheerful to the eye and as indomitable
as ever. I assure you that Lee is more than ever • sight
fee gods and men. The same tranquil modesty, utter
absence of vanity, egotism, or self-seeking. and determine.
Lion to spend and be spent in discharge of his duty. It is
certainly one of the most beautiful characters I ever read of
—certainly the moat beautiful that I ever encountered. I
am sorry to say that poor Looptreet is still suffering
greatly. The ball went in at the base of his throat, just
below Adam's apple, and cut its way cut through the
right shoulder, just below the clavicle. As it passel out it
cut the nerves of sensatiou and motion of the right arm.
The arm still remains paralysed as far as motion is roo-
ftree& but the nerves of sensation are somehow involved
in the cicatriz, and are morbidly and acutely sensitive mid
irritable. He has taken oceans of morphine, and is greatly
reamed, but I fear the pain remains as great as ever.'
SHOREDITCH..---WO learn that the living of St.
Jobe, Horton. part of Shoreditch, has become vacant by
the death on Monday last of the Rev. A. I'. Kelly, M.A.,
who was nominated to it in link The benefice le yelled at
&101. per annum with house of residence. The Clergy List
gives the population as 44,079. It rests, we believe, with
the Vein. W. Hale Hale, as Archdeacon of London, to ap-
point to this most important charge.
A 3I•olt PREACHES.—Amtmg the prisoners was
an old fellow of the name of Paul. • native preacher, who
was toned lying on his back on the field of battle. Being
seventy years of age and very. decrepit, none of our soldiers
thought it worth while to give him the mit, 'lc ;mire; at
I length one more humane than the others beineattracted
by his grams, raised him op from the ground,
and found • rids concealed heoeath his body. We
often had a quiet joke with old Paul the preacher about
the rifle found ander his body. We more than insinuated
that be thought it quite consistent with his position as
chaplain-general to the rebel forces to have an occasional
shot at the Pakehas. and that he had proved himself literally
a true member of the church militant. There was often a
sly twinkle in the old fellow's eye, which showed that he
hid • certain ulnae of humour and noderstood our &Buenos.
We have no doubt that he took part in the fight—as well as
an old lady, who was seen to fire more than • dozen shots
from the remade/a of her house at our men. And yet Paul
the preacher was • man of distinguished piety, whose good
report was in all the churches. —Prayer's Magaise for No-
vember. . . .

A serious riot between the Roman catholic
" navvies" Lod the protestant inhabitenM of South Queens.
ferry, near Edinburgh, took plaoe on Saturday oicht.
Several petwons were much iejured, though happily there
have been no fatal consequences. The Irish party, on this
cecasioe, seems to have been the originators of the dis-
turbances. . . .

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Last week, one of the Earl of Iln3adalhane's
gamekeepers succeeded in trapping a splendid specimen of
the golden eagle. The bird measures eight feet from tip to
tip of the II lag.. -•-SiV4.l
A Lar.oru or Lov&—The following epitaph may
be seen in the cemetery of a parish in the environs of
Paris :—" Here lies Madame N—, wife of 51 N—,
muter blacksmith. The railing around this tomb was
manufactured by her husband."
The doctors of Hanover county, Va., announce
the following as their new tariff of fees :—Thirty dollars per
visit for all distance of five miles and under ; all distaucee
over five miles an additional fee of two dollars per mile ;
' night visits double that of a day visit ; consultation fee 40
dollars ; visit extra; obetsarioal caws RIO dollars each.—
American paper.
Sourn Kevsurcrow limo:rm.—During the week
ending Nov. 12, the visitors have been as follows:—On
Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, open from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 8,140 ; oe Wedneeday, Thursday,
and Friday, sudentat days (admission to the public 6d.),
open from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 1367 • total, 9,507. From
the opining at Nis Mossiaza, 4,,a,a0i