The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-31 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT DIANCHISTER.—FILIDATNIONT.
(By mmol Kingdom Tafarstsll.)
LIVERPOOL STESPLICHABE.
100 to 7 apt Mesh* Dept (t)
20 to 1 Makes (t)
TWO THOUSAND.
4 to 1 apt Hoepodar (t)
14 to 1 Prattle* (t)
CHEWER CUP.
IS to 1 re The Said (off)
90 to 1 apt Weak D(t)eer (t freely)
33 to 1 Mew •
50 to 1 Rea Webster (t)
DERBY.
26 to 1 apt Otreival (t)
25 to 1 Tan Fool (t)
WATERLOO NOME'S)) CUP.
100 to 7 opt air. =sr st=teel)
16 to 1 Mr. (random
16 to 1 Mr. Weasere Websi=and off)
33 to 1 Mr.
33 to 1 Mr.Bucit rooktm=ioa (t)
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CLIMBIDEM Jai. 30.

„lerinit ! islol of HONOURS AT TUB 43/0111:113,04 91 AP.TB
man, JAN. 31, 1863.—Ioderators.—Thomee
=ilL J., Pembroke Collage; Predict& Chaim Woos,
X.A., St. John's B2Camisfrers.—Jesmilt Woken-
-11.A., Christ's ; Nome Macleod Fenn”
Orville and Cake
la all ream of equality the dIIMIS are teaaketed.
tr•
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TrinitY•
Trinity.
St. John'Christis.
ITAit Set.Ctses.
ri!itT.

Ra..Jtmer. Glawitle and Catua.
CotierilL John'i
Dopes, Trinity.
Le bumf'. Pembroke.
Darien, Trinity.

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wrnidtair. & Cala.
Warn*, lano7 NAM
lataidueaussex.
••=l,7Thin.birist
loieVna,.= lad
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Snowden, M. suis
Young, Gonvtlicand Cam
gale Sabra 19114
Tancock, Sidney Scam
, Emmanuel.
Turner, Sidney Sass=
Clarke, Gonsille and Cslorn
Hewitt. Corpus ChristL
18edspack,Ounalle & Caine.
B• 7011, SL Jones.
Gouville, and
C Cato.
Young, King's.

Stoma, nt. John'.
Motown, Don. and Collin
Budd, St {oho's.
Allison, :gamy Salmi.
Beebe, Mounannel.
Duna, comes Christi.
Banken, &
Wood, Unity.
Elderton,=. Christi.
WNW*

.'ll.o7lit 417•715741, i7.7,7b17,.
Hawkins, Trinity.
Siciprick, Trinity.
Lafonirdue, St. John's.
(((Alexander,
Trinity.
(Nirtwright, Si, John's,
Hardcastie,Trinity.
Metcalfe, St. John's.
Stephen, Christ's
Hamilton, Trinity.
ITattershall, Queen's.
Da./Crewdson, Trinity.
Fison, Gonville and Caine.
1K night, Gonville and Cain
Stevens St. Mazy Magda.
Dent, Trinity.
I Peel, Christ's.
1 Richards, Sidney Sasser.
Hulbert, Oonvtlle & Cetus.
Wilkins, St. John's.
Brown, Trinity.
Brown, Trinity Hall.
Campion, nonlinear Caine.
Buckell, St. John's.
{Carrington, St. John's.
Clarke, Pembroke.
Lush, Trinity.
baiter, Clare.
Marton, Trinity.
f yAndsnon, Trinity.
IWon, Corpus Christi.
Taylor. 'ninny.
Crampton, Trinity.

JUNIOR

Ds. Luckoek, Corpus Christi
kierett, Trinity.
Buchanan, Trinity.
(Jeffery, Trinity liall.
1 Prance. Trinity.
i Boyd, Cluisea
''( Connor, St. Catharine's.
Lee, St. John's.
(Clarke, Christ's.
iDe Montmorency, Trinity.
Green, Trinity.
Holland, Trinity.
Stephenson, St. lazes.
Rust, Pembroke.
Brown, St. John's.
Palmer, St. John's.
i (Mel, Trinity.
-/ Ransford, (lam.
Alexander, (Zriat'a
{ °union, Trinity.
ltraborne, Trinity.
Dixon, Lionville and Caine.
Moonom, Trinity.

REO I STRAR•GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN. ..
This return exopriaes the births and deaths registered by
2,199 registrars to all the districts of Eogland during the
autumn quarter that ended on December 31st. 1862 ; sod the
marriages in 12,603 churches or chapels, about 4,721
tared 0111001 of worship unconnected with the established
church, and 639 superintendent registrars' dikes, in the
quarter that ended on September, 30, 1862. Though the
marriagerate was fairly maintained in London and some
other parts, it was so much depressed is Lancashire that the
general result was lower than the average. The growth of
the did not suffer by failure of the natural
we
y,
21:pulation
far births wars numerous in the last three menthe,
as were during the whole of last year. But the deaths
wen also numerous. The rate of `mortality was above the
avenge ; and apparently the principal cause of this excels
was the cold weather of November, which carried off many
parsons in all parts of the country. It has been stated that
Ashton-under•Lyne stands at the top of the scale of
pauperism ; and if marriages are expected to be fewest
where distress is greatest, the returns fully justify that expire.
%Minn. In Ashton the decreer on the two previous summers
I was no lees than 38 per cent. Next in respect of decrease is
Stockport, where it wee 31 per cent. The cos rrii of 1
Rochdale decreased 28 per cent. ; of Charley, 28 ; of Ugh,
25 ; of Blackburn, 25 ; of Oldham, 21; of Bolton, 20 ; of
Bury 19; of Manchester, 13; of Salford, 11 per cent. In
Beraingden, Preston, Burnley, Wigan. they decreased 101
per cent. Chorlton showed a slight increase. The births
in the quarter exceeded the deaths in the same period by
57,59. Part of the accumulation ia constantly lost in the
stream of emigrants. In the three months 25,284 emigrants
left port in the United Kingdom at which there are
government emigration off,cers, and of these about 10,000
were of English origin. The average price of wheat in the
lest quarter of the year was 48e. 2d. per qr., which is has
by Be. 7d. then the corresponding period of 1860, and lam
by lls. Id. than in that of 1861. The average price of the
heat potatoes was U. per ton, which is Ism by a pound than
it was in the last quarter of the two previous years.
The total mamber of death' in the three months that ended
31st December, was 114.542. In the corresponding season
of 1860 it was nearly 103,000 ; in that of the following
year nearly 105,000. Though the last of these autumns was
not as • whole colder than those which preceded it, the'
sudden invasion of cold in November and the abrupt sue.
cassias of beat account for its having been the most fatal.
The death-rate was 2.226 per cent. against an average of
2.171. In the principal towns the rate of mortality in the
quarter would have carried off 233 persons in a year out of •
population of 10,000 (spinet an mange of 947) ; and in the
' small towns and country parishes it would have carried off
192 out of • population of equal amount (against an average
of 190).
IBRUCEINO COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—THREE MEN
KnAnn.—Yesterday a SO accident occurred at Pagete-croft.
Collie , near Bilston. Early in the morning, as three men
were desceediog the shaft is a skip, the rope broke, land
the skip descended with a violent concussion. ' Two of the
men were killed on the spot, their bodies being frightfully
mutilated ; the other died soon afterwards. They have
left large families. The cause of the occurrence is not
known.

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[TWOPENCI

THE WEAR' AND THE STRONG.
(From •• The Morel Phileeephy of GerAtisig." by • Bann
Practilione of the Hann, In 'reser.)
Solitary confinement is a chain oppoetwatl for
reflection. I carefully considered onellisliss of so-
ciety, and became more and more coo Osioleilindfon
is • nom, and reepeetability • ensile. BINDOS, (ADM
Hann downwards, hare bed a sale easideneo in the
direct appeal to physical feral. Mind scent MOIL Louie
Napoleon. the beet modern maple of a great use, !Eckel
the swag of the Boyireutroludgmennat tborribbe, and
France was - by allot wimp'. in
the Coupiritat. The law of Nature is, that the Meng shall
take from the weak, the bold from the timid. The growth
of etvilimatioa is • reeler program Aran Woken $ enn-
uis& Among *TIPP the illnalent swage rules. An be
waxer old he Me ON nellang streagth by policy. He
Invents plait mon why what he has got by force
should not be Wan mai by hues. Hence law, relines.
roceality—ell cimiathas kunst cunning to Imam
cowardice. The of amaldnd are cowards. Go-
veromint by i 5.... intention of the nobb in-
*nada of the fns by combination of )he
muttomlivared nay, Thep will always be a eafficsent
=aftof stank &position that prefer to Wod
dailedrelpey et Mese for • seantv pittance,
rather than risk Na aloe in adwisture. Nothing so
imitates me se fin snag for public safety. It is a
martisatortnitne oninninfon that Ike world vu ever in-
to be • ode neoa of all. Safety is • comparative
Ingendatatioa wk 4 end it is fighting spinet Nature to try
to make it se &Web ormatoe.
so •
WHT BIILWNE VISITED 501`se.--
At the banquet given to him at Alesimibt Sir
Henry Hahne thus amusingly eznained bit wen ia
ailing Egypt :—" There is • tendency to think that pe*
that men are men political amnion, eating, drinking, tad
▪ politically ; and as to diplomatida, their paths.
am held to be paths of Invent*, and their feet
to be shod with Machiavelian inwetione. No
then that when I somewhat muldady apnoea s=
&aria, my arrival was attributed to all sorb of mini-
owe political motion. ' What.' said people, con the ling-
liab Ambassador at Constantinople havenpm!- for? Now
as lem amongst triads, I will reveal fie ten the sweet of
my journey, and ewe tell you in strict confidence who was
the author and promoter of it. It was se other, I same
yes, then a gentimena who, whatever env ages, wenhe
friend and contemporary of all our boyhood,. I mean •
certain Captain, Gulliver ! This great traveller &wonted
• plank which gentlemen were dressed by tenors wholind
• plat way off from them, bet who ton their wenn on
scientific principles by mew of maihenetisel intruninte.
Oaptain Gulliver, h , observer eat though lane
tailors were very learned and scientific men, they were
not altogether good tailors, and that somehow or other
their clothes never exactly fitted. Well, I =dent it
has often struck me thetas ambassador may loony
and studious man (I am bound to believe amber:melees aro
this), but nevertheless le may not be able to takilip.od
measure of countries • thousand miles (11, andel Penes he
has ewer been acquainted with or bad neetht opportunity
of seeing. In short, though the idea is • very ruler one, I
allow that having eyes I like to nee them ; mod bin Ma.
• jesty's government agreeing with mein thin restfree, I came
with its sanction to Egypt just to leek aboneast"
TN E BULTOIDLENT BIGHTS AND BLOCKADE
QDEETION. —The result of the watieg by donikral the
members of the Liverpool Chamber of On ewewas
announced yesterday. The report of the sorneners showed
• majority in favour of Mr. Spence', ameildifeht not to
interfere with the present laws of blahs& of ME von,
and a majority in favour of Mr. Spend* gnsoillest mat
to alter the laws of capture at on of talf velem '
that of the 609 members °Wyoming the ellenfelFl=llso
voted at the meeting to din= the het that by
the circulars 264 votes of members were
Ma. ArroarzystN, M.P., AT A
numerously' attended puha al the electors of the
borough of Greenwich. readint a,114 oed and Maichani.
was held last sight at the • Institution, High.
street, Depth:ed. to hoar au address 7 ram Mr. W. Anger-
eine, M.P., esplanakey of bimetal's ea panic Whin. The
Alm as
wiepipi,braia 7.. Ab if, who- Wok ellivied
:le the pat' miss a Mr. nipmite as on of the mem-
bers for that boreont. Mr. Anger.tein, who was well re-
ceived, reiterated has bailments relative to various impor-
tant public questions, as at previous meetings held at
Greenwich and Woolwich, and protested against the ticket-
of-leave system as at present carried out. He considered
that emigration would be • valuable means of alleviating
the distress is the cotton districts, and that the Night-
nothing Act was a blot upon the statute-book. which
ought to be expunged. Go the motion of Mr. Norfolk,
seconded by Mr. G. W. Masters, • resolution expressive
of continued confidence in Mr. Angerstein was unanimously
adopted, and the meeting separated.

- .
THE Mr:mesas Ton Hirazronn.—A public dinner
waggles° to the two members for Hereford ma Thursday 11•011
lag. About 200 pawns were present, and the chair was
taken by B. Hereford, Fog. Both the members, Colonel
(Mord and Mr. Clive, late under-secretary for the home
department, were moot, sad spoke upon the topics of the
day.
THE ELECTION OF ALDERMAN FOR THE WARD
or L ANGBOVILIL —At the close of the poll, yesterday, the
numbers stood as follows :—Watertow, 126 ; Capper, 74 ;
majority for Waterton, 52.

iin7ao9ol.l2XN Fab HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE.-
SOARS, BIBROPIOATE-RTEELT.—Aa interesting ceremony
teak plan to this soishliiihmhnt on Thursday, in the pre-
emies of • large and influential assembly. Thencesion was the
opening of two New wards which have been prepared for the
reception of Jewish patients. At three the Rev. the Chief
Rabbi, attended by several of hie reverend oollesenes, pro-
ceeded to hapset the several apartments, including the
wards (male and female), the kitchen, and receptacle for
the dead, with all of which all present expressed their en-
tire atisfaction and approval. 80030 appropriate psalms
were then intoned by the Rev. A. Barnett, of the Great
Syaegogue, and the responses by the choir of the same
place, after which the Rev. the Chief Rabbi offered up •
most beautiful and impressive prayer for the peonerity of
the institution, and for the blaming of God tepee all con-
nected with it ; and after partaking of some slight refresh-
ment in the board-room, the company emanated.
BENEVOLENT FUND OF THE SACRED HAIMONIC
Soctrrr. —On Thenday, 29th instant. the annual meeting
of the governors of the above charitable institution was
held in Exeter-hall. The chair was takes, by J. N. Harri-
son, Esq., president, who was supported by Moors. Bosley,
Black, Sims, Huebert, HOL Penick, Stewart, and other
directors and patrons of the Sacred Harmonic Society. Mr.
J. F. Puttick, honorary secretary, read an interesting re-
port of the progress and state of the charity and its opera-
tion during the pest year. From that document it ap-
peared that the invested fund amounted to 2,3001. console,
the interest of which, being • permanent source of revenue,
was disposed of in small pensions, and the proceeds of the
subscription lie, neenserily of • fluctuating character,
were appropriated to casual relief. Allusion was made to
individual -cases of deceased recipients, and more particu-
larly to the case of the late Mr. Joseph Welker, well knows
as a leading chorister and imogregational precentor. He
wan also for many yens conductor of the Cecilian Society.
Latterly, having become paralytic, an asylum was provided
foe him, when Mr. Walker received needful can and in-
testine until his decease. The report concluded with as
earnest appeal for Manned support in the benevolent
operations of the fend. Mr. B, Hill, treasurer, submitted
• financial statement exhibiting • balance at the comensece.
remit of the year of 43/. 18s. 40., and a receiptof sub-
seriptions, ke. amounting to 178/. 13. Bd., together 222/.
inclusive of 171. 17s. received by the Sacred
Harmonic Society from charities for the use of the mien
On the other hand the disbursements were 243/. 13..
leaving a balance due to the treasurer of 211.75. llid. At
the dam of the proceedings • ,liberal subscription was en-
tered into, and votes of thanks having been tendered to the
president and officers, the meeting separated.

- - -
THE MURDER IN LEICERTIMARTRE.—The inquiry
touching Chides& of the man, named William Harvey, who
was shot at the farmhouse of Mr. Thomas Haven, Ashby
Lodge,asterda atbYthaT4Rovillayaf 07k Spuunitcy.bouselaik, wesreetrisuDalmbedy.
The whole of the evidence for the prosecution having been
taken, the prisoner Buswell, after being duly rationed as
to whether he bad anything to my, replied, " I have
nothing to say." The coroner then summed up the evidence.
and the jury retired at 25 minutes past one, and at 10
minutes to two they returned a verdict of wilful murder
rat the prisoner, who was conveyed to Leicester Gaol
same night, to await his trial at the spring assizes.
A FORTUNATE PAUPER EMIGRANT. —ID a blue
book Piet issued, relative to the education of pauper chil-
dren, the following anecdote is recorded:—Five or siz
years since sizteea young girls were sent from the work-
house school in the Portirea Island Union to Australia,
where they were all soon comfortably mottled, and turned
out well. One of them had the good fortune to marry a
man of considerable property, sud on her returning to Eng-
land a abort time afterwards one of her first acts wasto call
in her own carriage at the workhouse for the purpose of ex-
pressing her gratitude to the schoolniistrms far these Mad
offices which had enabled 'her to achieve so favourable a
position in life.
Messrs. Whitney and Hathaway have purchased
at New York the steamers Scotia and Anglia, formerly em-
ployed is the Quesnetown and Holyhead wail usrvies. The
I price paid was an average of 2,1801. for enele vessel. whereas
each originally and 'boat 12,000 f.

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uovzirr GARDEN.
Tuts It Erred, RITE BLAB. Ileolra W. Harrison and &antler ,
Yla L Pyuc.—And HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
—Conductor, Mr. A. Haltom —Commence altos minutes to 7.

RAYMASIZT.

Tsui VIEW. OUR AILBRICAN COUSIN. Maury. gothern
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PRINCISErS.
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TH ITEMEE. • SUDDEN ATTACK. Mehra Widdlcomb.
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TIM Et-Erma. the Pantomim—S,W(lN HASSAN. Mrs. Lane
Masers. grans, Louts. Newham, and Mae Celeste Stephan :
Torn Sayers and his two performing Mules,—And MARY
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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31.

THE late accident by fire at the Princess's
Theatre has been brought into painful prominence
for two reasons : first, because of the lamentable
death of one of the sufferers ; secondly, because it
occurred at a place of amusement. Accidents are
unfortunately too common in every walk of life,
and scarcely an hour or a minute panes without
some poor creature being maimed or killed ; but
when the mishap occurs on a brilliantly lighted
stage, in full view of a laughing and delighted
audience, its horrors are sensibly increased. It is
impossible to regard the theatre as a mere factory
or workshop where certain labour, surrounded by
attendant dangers, is performed by certain la-
bourers for a fixed reward. The labourers and
their employers are brought face to face ; they see
and know each other, and exchange sympathies ;
and the humblest performer on the stage, as well
as the highest, comas iu for his share of public
friendship as long as he strives to deserve it.

A death by fire on the stage is naturally ie-
garded with more horror and pity than any other
form of accidental death. Apart from the pro-
longed physical suffering which it entails upon the
unhappy victim, it appeals with painful force to
the eye of the spectator. The sudden puff of
flame, the rapid flaring rap of a gauze dress with
all its graceful trappings, the wild darting run of
the bewildered sufferer, the panic of the by-
standers, the hurried shouting of excited men and
women who are mad drunk with a sense of danger,
and suggest a hundred remedies ; the fixed, hope-
less gaze of a closely-packed audience in pit and
gallery, the overhanging bodies from the side-
boxes, the suddenly hushed music, the leaping up
of the performers in the orchestra, the flopping
down of the swaying curtain, the scuffle of feet,
the smothered shrieks of the victim or victims,
the trembling speech of a pale-faced manager, the
gaps made in the audience, and the melancholy,
mechanical routine termination of the play of the
evening, are only some of the prominent features
of these sad occurrences. To avoid such a spec-
tacle, a theatrical manager would make almost any
sacrifice, not only from a feeling of humanity, but
for palpable trading reasons. That a variety of

well-considered precautions are taken by all
theatrical managers to avoid accidents of this
kind is proved by the small number of deaths by
fire on the London stage, It is some years since
the town was shocked by the death of poor CLARA
WEBSTER—a death, by the way, which was caused
by the foot-lights. We shall probably be within
the mark if we say that at the present time,
spread over all our London theatres and places of
dramatic entertainment, there are at least two
thousand women and girls employed nightly in
the Christmas pieces. All these performers, like
all ladies in society, wear inflammable dresses,
yet it is happily rare that we are called upon to
record a death like poor Miss Smiles, or a serious
accident like Miss Humes. Theatrical property
is notoriously in ill-odour with the insurance
offices ; we can hardly boast of a theatre which has
not been burnt down once or twice--twenty years
being probably a fair average time for a theatre to
escape total or partial destruction from fire. This
state of things produces a determination to
exact high premiums for insuring this class
of property, and many lessees consequently
prefer to be their own insurers. The greatest
care is exercised in almost every theatre to pre-
vent accidents from fire. The most stringent
rules are drawn up for the guidance of the stage
servants ; watchful firemen are on duty night and
day ; guarded lanterns are carried about to help
the men in their work ; smoking is strictly pro-
hibited, and a lighted candle is not introduced on
the stags to be used in a piece without being
watched by a fireman.

All thee. precautions are taken to guard the