The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-21 00:00:00

INNKEEPERS' PLATE. One mile.

Sherborne, Weasel, Buckley, Dominic, `Sampson, Vesper,
Suasion Hall, Colonel Crockett, Pinkepos, Paresseme,
Churchman, Lo bury, Blackbird, and Acton are here.

HURDLE RACE. Mile and a half.
Yorkshire Mum, Bumph&kw The Miller, Pa Pourri,
Jacob, Colonel thoekett, and Alba are here.
Anmszn.—Gameboy, Saracen, Captain Knight, Violet,
and Jesuista.

INDIAN CARRYING COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.)

This day the first annual general meeting of this
company was held at the Loudon Tavern ; Sir MACDONALD
ararnessom in the chair.
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In their report the directors congratulated the share-
holders on the satisfactory nature of the communications
they hid to make. The whole of the first issue of shares
was taken up immediately on the publication of the
company. The unemployed capital was profitably em-
ployed, and the securities in which it was invested were
worth considerably more than their original oast Managers
were despatched to Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta in March
last, and since then another bad been sent to the important
town of Anaheim& Their exports confirmed in every respect
the anticipations with which the comperry was formed. The

goverrimeitt authorities in India promised every aid and as-
genuine, and the railway authorities without exception
showed the utmost desire to aid in promoting the esta-
blishment of the company. General business in the
Madras presidency commenced on the 18th of August, and
would have commenced about the same time in the Bombay
presidency, but for the illness of the manager. It would
commence in October at Calcutta.

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which
was agreed to.
Auditors were appointed, and the outgoing directors were
re-elected.

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY AT BONNY.

The following (says the Liverpool Mercury) is an
extract from a letter received by a gentleman in Liverpool
from Captain John Finley, of the ship Faith, which, at the
time of the horrible occurrence below detailed, was lying in
Bonny river :
We had a fearful tragedy here last week : one of the na-
tives killed what they cell a creekman (that is a man who lives
some eight or ten miles from Bonny, and who was at Bonny
selling yams, as the creekmen are farmers in a way). The
Bonny men wanted to kill this native, and at a meeting it was
they should kill him. But first catch your hare is an
agreed
maxim. When the fellow heard that sentence of death
was passed upon him, he shut himself up in his house with all
his slaves, wives, and children, loaded all his guns, large and
small, then dug a trench round and about, and filled it with
small kegs of gunpowder, and set the chiefs at defiance.
Things remained in this state for two or three days, nobody
daring to venture near the house with hostile intentions. At
Wt the chiefs offered two puncheons of oil to anyone who
would fire his house. A slave took the money,fired the house
to windward, and the sparks falling upon the house of the be-
sieged, soon set it on fire. When the murderer of the creek-
man saw this he gathered all his slaves., wives, and bairns
within the trench, applied the mach, and in a second more
nothing was to be seen but mangled bodies amidst the ruins
of their former home. There were 35 in number altogether.
They lay exposed for three days, then were pat into sacks
and thrown into the river."

SERIOUS FIZZ AND LOSS OP LIFE. --(TH IS DAY.)
This morning great alarm was caused amongst the aged in-
mates of the Marylebonealmahouses, St. John's-wood, by
the noise of a policeman's rattle. The poor people rushed
out the best way they were able ; some almost in a state of
nudity. A few seconds showed that the fire had commenced
in the house numbered 9. in which resided • female
named Mary Smyth, aged 82. For anyone to attempt to
enter the place was then an impossibility. The fire men
were unable to get the fire extinguished until the building
and contents were destroyed, but fortunately the fire was
prevented from reaching the adjoining honest. As soon as
the ruins were sufficiently cooled search was made for the
wor woman, and after some time her remains were found
by the firemen. How the catastrophe occurred at present
remains • mystery.
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COM PANT. —The
award of Mr. 13arstow, the arbitrator in the long-pending
suit between the late Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus
Company (Limited) and the London General Omnibus
Oompaey (Limited) was delivered yesterday, and was in
favour of the latter company.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AND CLEVER C•PT URE.
Oa Friday afternoon last detective officer Labium, of the
Lincoln police force, saw three women in the streets of the
city whom he suspected to be thieves. He determined there-
fore to keep his eye upon them,and watched them into several
shops where they offered combs for sale. They afterwards
went to the postoffios and obtained a post-office order for
31., and then went to the top of Water-lane. Here one of
the women, whose name is Waterhouse, left the others and
proceeded down the lane, and was absent • few minutes.
On her return the three women went in the direction of the
racecourse, Lilburn still following them, and on reaching •
bye-lane they stooped down and. commenced to break open
a cashbox. Lilburu at once obtained assistance, pounced
upon the women, and took them and the cashbox to the
station-house. Shortly afterwards Mr. Hiley, currier, of
Water-lane, entered the office and gave information th;., a
cashbox' containing 501. and papers which he valued at
5001., had been taken from his office, and on the cashbox
found in the possession of the women being shown to him
be at once recognised it as his property. It would appear
that the woman Waterhouse entered the office during the
time her two companions were at the top of the lane, and,
seeing no one about, made off with the cashbox. On Satur-
day morning the three women, who gave their names as
Mary and Margaret Montgomery and Eliza Waterhouse,
were charged with the robbery before the city magistrates,
and were committed to take their trial at the sessions then
being held. They pleaded " Guilty," and the recorder (the
Hoe. G. C. Vernon) sentenced them each to three years'
penal servitude. The recorder awarded Lilburn two guineas
for hie clever capture, and Mr. Riley also made him the
" liberal" present of one guinea.
BEAGLES KILLED BY A TRAIN.—A floe brace of
beagles, the property of Mr. J. Caffro, was killed on Satur-
day by the Horsham train, the Whet-green crossing ; the
roads being on a level, and the train being ekes at hand, a
lad, wham the dogs were following, had the precaution to
take a puppy up in his arms, thinking the older ones would
take care of themselves, but probably, their attention being
drawn away from the approaching danger led to their de-
struction.—Sussex Express.
SINGULAR UPIIEAVING OF PART OF A MEA DOW.
The heavy embankment, which, in carrying on the works
of the Mid-Sussex. Railway, is forming at the foot of the
Arundel causeway hill, for the turnpike-rani traffic over the
hoe, has been attended by the singular occurrence of its
weight raising bodily up some six or eight feet, part of a
meadow near, and five large elm trete. The trees, which,
as might be supposed, have lost their equilibrium, are
standing at all recta of angles, and will, doubtless, soon be
uprooted altogether.—Sussex Express.
EXTRAORDINARY EWAN!. —OE Sunday morning,
as the ten o'clock fast train on the North Kent line was
nearing Frith station on the way to Stroud, the eogine-
driver maw a boy, of about 12 or 13 years of age, being pur-
sued by a bull from the adjoining marshes. The boy got on
the line, calculating that the animal would not venture on
the metals. He judged wrongly, however, for the animal
dashed over the fence, and had just reached the down
metals, when the noise of the whistle caused it to hesitate
for a moment and incline its bead towards the engine, and,
at the instant, it was struck on the right shoulder by the
near buffer, and the guard-iron in front heviag entered the
body, tore it up in a manner that death must have been
instantaneous. The engine passed on uninjured, and the
boy had been fortunately delivered from his danger.
AN UNFORTUNATE ACTREEt —The Nourelliste de
Roues announces that Mn,.. Defreysoles, well known as a
clever actress, and who was performing at the principal
theatre in that place, was on Friday soddenly seized with
madness. Shelled played the night before in the Testament
de Cesar Gimlet, and was greatly applauded. Some
time after her return home, at about two in the
morales, she went down stairs,. and, proceeding to
the post of the suspension-bride, asked for me-
aid, saying that she felt ill. The dicier de
sand on service perceived at mos that her mind was
wavering, and had her taken home. The unfortunate lady
I then barricaded herself in her apartment, and opening the
I window spent her time in alternately approaching it and
. drawing hack, so that several persons of the neighbourhood
who had collected on the news of her madness, were afraid
; she would precipitate herself ou the pavement from the
third story. At last, the police being informed of what was
going on, ordered a carriage to be brought, and succeeded
caryiog her off to a lunatic asylum. Her fixed ides, it
appear', was that she was to be poisoned by the emelt of
' flowers, and all her efforts were made to guard against such
I I a death, but what determined her sudden attack of mad-
sem is not known.