The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

EXETER MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

HALDON PLATE. Half a nolo
Peignoir, Jackin-the-13ox, Swale, Biotite* Hill, Sweet-
lips, and Dictator are here.
DEVONSHIRE STAKES. Two miles and distance.
Knuteford, Vinegar Hill, Sycophant, Paul Clifford,
Bloodhound, Don John, Vesper, and Breechloader are here.
DAWLISH STAKES. One mile.
Nativity, The Greek, Quicksilver, Swale, Jack-in-the-Box,
and Surbiton Hill are here.
EXETER STAKES. Half a mile.
The Dictator, Bateman, Mrs. Trimmer, Countess, end
King of Utopia are here.
The Stamboul Staked and Nursery Plate are run to-
morrow.
Several others expected this morning.

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An extraordinary general meeting was held at ilt• 1100: I
noon, at the Bank, 75, Dornhill, Mr. PEIIIIJP ANSTRUTHEII, M.,00
deputy chairman. prv.iding. The meeting was convened gs. 100
simply to confirm resolutions pared at the extraordinary 1111. 100
meeting on the 15th of July last, for the purpose of vary- IS. 100
ing, cancelling, and making additions to some of the K aOO
regulations of the company. A resolution for this purpose u. h`Z
wail passed unaainionsly. M, ltO
The CHAIRIUS4 said he could not allow the ahareholden Ss. Igo
to separate without conveying to them, on the part of A, 100
himself and the directors, the assurance that the business 01. 100 .
of the bank was progreuing in the moat satis- 9 011
factory manner. They had received an amount of leak lOO
support from the public which had exceeded their moat 100
sanguine expectations. They were daily getting new ac- N. 100
canoes, and everything was going on in a way that must lb ■ll
tend to the speedy realisation of their hopes. W. 1011
The meeting then separated. a tll4l
St. ICS

METROPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAL BANK.
(THIS DAY.)

REPRESENTATION OP STOKE-ON-TRENT.

On Saturday Mr. Serjeant Shoe commenced his
tour of the borough, for the purpose of personally addressing
the electors and non-electors on behalf of his own candida-

Lure.
Mr. GRENYELL addressed the electors on Saturday after- 111•.,,
noon from the window of the Town-hell. Thomas Polka, IC
Esq., ex-Chief Bailiff of Tunstall, presided, and introduced N.
Mr. Grenfell to the audience outside. His speech was in N.
substance the same as be delivered on previous occasions. N.
It ass listened to without interruption. At the close Rome
person among the crowd called out, "Are you a teetotaller"
Mr. Crenfell made no reply. He was proposed as a fit and N.
proper person to represent the borough in parliament by Mr. se.
Enoch Wedgwood, seconded by Mr. Jas. Hancock, and the
proposition was received with some applause.
Mr. BERESFORD Hors addressed meetings at Hanley and
Buralem on Friday night, but was not well received at
either place. At the former a resolution declaring he rik•
" was not a fit and proper person," &c., was passed with et
enthusiasm.
Mr. Pope arrived in the Potteries on Friday evening, *
and proceeded at once to the Mar ketequare, Hanley, where le
an immense assemblage, presided over by Mr. Joseph Wit- N
Ironton, had been awaiting his advent for several hours, u
listening meanwhile with manifest delight to a mastic ig
dissection by Mr. Raper, Mr. Pope's agent, of the address le
delivered by Mr. Hope, in the Town-hall, that evening. 4I
Mr. Pope's speech was frequently applauded ; it was also 24
now and then somewhat noisily interrupted by a knot of op- g
ponenta in the upper part of the crowd, whose dissatisfric- st
Lion Mr. Pope attributed to the influence of the beer barrel. s;

The two new volumes of the "Memoirs of Vern-
began von Ease," the sth and 6th, have just been seized by I:
the, police of Berlin.
American letters state that Mr. Thurlow Weed I
has recently had several interviews with President Lincoln, I
and has been charged with an important mission from the
United States government to that of her Britannic Ma-
jesty.
A N Kw REBEL STEAM ER.—By a letter from Nassau,
N.P., we learn that a new steamer, the Ovate, under the
command of Captain Semmes, had arrived there from Eng-
land, and was intended to cruise as a rebel privateer. She 1
is said to be a splendid vessel The captain, officers, and 1
crew of the sunder, which was condemned and sold, had
arrived at Nassau in the British steamer Melita.—Panacea
Star.
COTTON' AT PANAMA. —We are glad to see that
attention is being turned to growing cotton on the Isthmus
of Panama, and we trust it will meet with success. The
plant grows wild in these regions, and there is no reason
why it cannot be improved by cultivation. Mr. Joli de
Sable has just returned from his estate, near Charm,
where he has planted six acres as an experiment, and in a
couple of weeks he purposes planting about a dozen 'scree
more. We may look for the result of this experiment
about next February.—Panama Star.
THE HOP-PICKING EXODUS. —(THIS DAY. )—The
hop season may be said to have now fairly commenced, and
notwithstanding the unfavourable accounts that have been
received of the probable yield, several hundreds of per-
sons made their annual exodus from the metropolis
this morning. The steamers for Graveseed were thronged
with hop pickers (men, women, and children), whose desti-
nation is the northern districts of Kent. Those who
work in Mid-Kent proceeded by the South Eastern
Railway, whilst the Farnham and other Surrey
pickers travelled by the South Western line. In
addition to the above, numerous bodies of working
people who have not any particular engagement wended
their way on foot to various hop-growing districts. Several
carts laden with bacon, herrings, eggs, and other necessaries
preceded the exodus, and the proprietors are always cer-
tain of reaping a tolerable harvest by the sale of edibles.
PROSPECTS OF THE Hoc CROP. —Ais regards Sussex
we can do little more than repeat the report in our last,
simply adding that the past week of favourable weather has
exercised its natural influence. and that where plantations
had been " slack " they am looking and doing better, end
I that whore they have been in good plight the premeds
have become still more favourable. No disease,
no attacks, no enemies, an I last not least, no
fear of the exciseman! If fine weather leant
for the picking, the samples must be "full of condi-
tion." From Kent the accounts are somewhat improved,
and in certain districts some first-rate samples will be
obtained. But in others the mould bas done damage which
carmot be retrieved. Worcestershire and Herefordshire appear
to have suffered past redemption. and North Notts predicts
that its plantations will be "very deficient," quoting '2 cert.
per acre as the probable produce of some gsnlc"s, and
asserting that the picking will be a month later than usual
—a circumstance not likely to increase the condition of the
sample. The Worcester report estimates that instead of
2,000 or 3,0e/0 pockets being brought to the great hop fair,
and " all the warehouses choked," there " will probably not
be NO pockets on ale."—Susses Advertiser.
ANGLING IN PERTHSHIRE.—During the past week
there has been pretty successful rod-fishing on the lakes
and rivers throughout the county. Owing to the dry weather,
the waters had grown smaller up to Thursday, but the fish-
ing, notwithstanding, was good. The fall of rain on that
afternoon was partial, but filled several of the best fishing
waters, and tempted anglers out in considerable numbers.
Mr. Edmunds and others have had some fine days' fishing
on the Earn, and been successful in landing some fine
grilse and salmon, weighing from 81h. to 161 b., together
with basketfuls of fine trout. On the Lower Earo rod-
fishing is expected to be more successful since the nets
have been withdrawn, for the waters adjoining the Tay
seem to indicate an ahundance of fish. They will now
get up the rivers unmolested by the nets at the
mouths of the tributaries. The grilse caught by the rod
are very fine ones this WelSoll, and weigh from 81b. to 121 b.
each. On the upper waters of the Tay the fishing has been
very good. Several of the anglers have got from two to
four splendid grilse nod salmon. On the Stobliall waters,
Lord Willoughby landed three salmon, weighing together
about 401 b., one of the fish being upwards of
201 b. On the Almond some grilse were got. and
trout fishing /me been very productive. One angler on
Thursday had fourteen doz-sn in hie creel. On Monday one
angler had two fine salmon on the river near Loch Tay.
On Friday three grilse were landed, weighing from 71b. to
fob. each. Trout fishing here has been also successful, and
fine baskets got. On the Lyon, Tumid, and Garry, some
excellent fishing—the best this seasoe —has been got by
several sportsmen, who, for the sake of variety, exchange
occasionally the gun for the red.—Edinburgh Courant.
ILLEGITIMACY IN &cert./aux—ln the spring
quarter of this year, for which the retails' have recently
been issued, there was, upon an average, an illegitimate
chill born every hour in Scotland. Yet the entire popu-
lation is not much above 3,000,000, little more than
1.600000 of them are females. about half of these are not
of an age to bear children, sod from those who are must of
course be deducted all the married women.
Souvu KENSINGTON Mussow.—During the week
ending August 30 the visitors have been as follows ;-00
Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days. open from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m., ; oo Wednesday, Thursday, and
Fndlir, students' days
(admission to the public &hi, open
from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m.. 5,953; total, 39,037. From the
opening of the museum, 3,194,228.

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