The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-01 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(it irascnue miourn.)
CROYDON MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

CROYDON STAKES. About three miles.
Joe /kiwi Light of Other Days, Freak, Agate, loiter-
ers, aad Iroems are here.
ENTRY FOR THE RAILWAY STAKES. About two

miles.
Telegraph, Killeen, Vulture, Harriet Watts, Sunbeam,
and Strikes.
ENTRY FOR HUNTERS' STAKES. About two miles

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and a half.
Molly Hawn, Convict, Tipple, Cider, Old Squire, Bravo,
Valenthio, The Prior, The Duffer, and AlciMades.
INNKEEPERS' PLATE. About two mile' and a ban.
Light of Other Days, The Doe, Harkaway, Charley Grey,
lakerniaa, Speedy, Mies Maria, sad Harriet Watts are
here.

SHAMUS PINES LAST NIGHT.

NARROW ESCAPE OF HESSE& WHITBREAD'S
BREWERY.

The vicinity of ChTsiedeTriea thrown into estate
of commotion last night y the outbreak of • fire among
the Manchester warehouses is Bread-street, whisk
threatened the most serious results. It coromenoed
at No. 1, Star-court. Breed-street, on the first floor
warehouse, occupied by Messrs. Barrow and Co., shawl
woollen manufacturers ; the other (loon being tenanted by
various firms. The moment the discovery wee made the
people hurried off and called out the engines and brigade
force from the chief station in Watling-street; the doors
leading to the warehouse being kept closed till
the force came up. The engines were instantly pot
into operation, and in the course of • short time the
firemen succeeded in confining the ravages of the
fire to Messrs. Barrow and Co.'s department, though
sot until it had sustained very great damage, ape.
chilly to the stock. The warehouse underneath, of
Meseta Grey, tea agents, received much damage from tha
water which through the psalm from the floor above.
No ean be given as to the comae of the fire. The
pieties are ted to be folly issued.
War in the night there was another outbreak of a fir!•
which for • while lighted up all Loudon. It originated in
the manufactory of Messrs. Grimes and Oa, cardboard-
makers, situate in Dye-house-yard, Lamb's-passege,
Chiswell-street (a building three *miss to Week
with a frontage of nearly 80 feet). By the time tie
brigade engines arrived the whole Log* and
breadth of the premises presented oafs Ms" rid the be
threatened Messrs. Whitbread's *kasha brewery is
Chiswellatreet, which partly abutted on Wawa °tiros's
premises. The firemen observing the danger, conveyed the
hose of one of the land steam-engines into the moping* et
I the brewery, which bad the effect of stopping thefts ie that
quarter. By midnight Masers. Grimm's memsfaciory was
totally destroyed.

VICTORIA (LONDON) DOCK COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)

A special general meeting of this oompsny trus
held at 1 °Week, at the Leedom Tavern, Bis
for the purpose of oonsidering a pro sale
Insofar of the works, property, and
of the empay to the WOMB or other pith; ad
likewise of sanctioning the neceseary applieettea by
the empsy to parliament for power to awry sat emir
sale and trassfer, or other aora gumw wish the lessees of
' the dock" the London mad St. Dock °meanies,
or with the Cheat &Mere Railway Company. The chair
was lakes by Mr. 0. Mommorr.
The MaIIIMAN mid the shareholders had been called to
▪ for the pm• of emoting to ordissestag from as
apmeneat with Zellers. Porto, Breasay, tad Pepe. For
some years past, negotiations bad been envied en for some
arrangement betimes the Vista& DM Cheapay sod the
old dock campanise ; but natal remedy the letter sever
showed a dispolition to eater into equitable teems. Their idea
for • longtime was that there should be ma amalgamation
and so Magas that was the case it was not likely that the Vie-
, torts Doss Company would gave up the MGM of War gm-
mains, and of soosom, of construction. A Mass was also
spokes at, but the terms offered to the board were
ost Most, At LA the loosen Hamm Pets,
Dewey. and Bette) expend their wily.. .to
maim a radios is order that the matter might be =tiled
eatideolarily. The armagonent ultimately made was that
the Mereheldies of that empany should be pid
ai 1071. 10s. per 1001. Meek. that being the bed price the
beard mid obisia ; added to which the.. was to be
premium ef Mb. on the am sham. This arrange-
meat required She emetics et pediment ; bat there
wee no moon to believe that thet would be refused.
Part al the arrangenteat wee that, kr welds forthe am of
perlimentszy motion hang rofsesd seat maim,
the three companies Muhl undertake to apply to
peliamet I. the two moseding sesaims. Tim
epoitiore wow to be determiaed, thee, was whether what
had bees dem so far wee for the interest of the shus-
h olden. It the meting and prliameat should sanction
the t it would be carried out at the
middle of nest year, when the lease of 51
per oeat. would. in the oontrary event, have
111 pars to run. It was of course important to coo-
Misr what, in the eclat of ritual to made to what was
am premed, would be the position of the company at the
aspiration of the km. That was a question which
et mars did Roe oda& of a positive mower, but
It wee a fact that the net osmium of the dock
bed hitherto not bees sufficient to pay the enarentee, and
that s large lam had fallen every per on the lessee.—[A
SMAREMOLDIM—HON mob is it!}—As they were not OK.
tain to mese& in parliameat, it wee not dmirable, he
thought, to diadem everything. (Hear hear.) It was
..emery to slate that there was a Loge drAehmeff,
and„ indeed, he bad Mated that at previous meetings. The
lees wee shout Mtioaary, but ea the whole there bad hem
Mier • Memo though malaialv eat from a faille( of is
bream Of deem that Mate of thiege might it.. materi-
ally width' the east 12 yems—Orear, hear)—eoproially as
the simples lid meld within the seat 12 years some
into greater demand. BIM there wee the feet that at the
end et eight years there wee • deoreme—a feat which wee
•i 1 fteppMtment to Mime es well m the limes, arid
which wee Mefbatable solely Selma empatitkra Wpm the
different esmpasMe. The west of us uptown home mild
be • peat disedty at the end of the imam. the Steelyard
dalebeen disposed of, and it would be astemery to lay
rge sena to improve the dock itself. Ceder all the
aireurestances, he thought the mistime would set wisely in
sanertioaise the agreement whirls had bees provisionally
entered into with the leered. Hs comiedsd by moving a
resolution for that wpm.
tins CHAIRMAN edded that mom than half the capital
had resented by proxy to the arrangement.
[A diamites arms, whirl had not inland when our
report MIL)

NORMA PCINJAYIN, AND DELHI .84. Z.
(THIS DAY.)

This afternoon, at the first ordinary general
meeting of the shareholders is this easepasy, held at the
Larks Tavern. Mr. W. S. ARDILKW in the chair, the report
of the director@ was usaaieteedy adepeed, aid the auditors
ted. There will shortly be a tall es the new
=al to equalise them with the old.