The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-10 00:00:00

SPURTING.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.
Business to•dy was on a limited scale; the only new fea-
tures were a strong feeling in favour of Pharsalus for the
Metropolitan and the introduction of Aurifer, a new fa-
vourite for the Derby;' he was basked (or 100!. at 46 to 1,
and at the close 40 tv 1 was Masa. Lord of the Isles is de-
cidedly first favourite for the Two Thousand Guineas. For
particulars of this and the other spring events see below ;

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 on the field (uffd)
12 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray (off to t)
16 to 1 Dalkeith (off ; t2oto 1)
200 to 6 Abdel Kader (t)
GREAT NORTHERN.
14 to 1 agst Crown Pigeon and Nell
Gwynn coupled (t)
25 to 1 Venda (t)
METROPOLITAN.
650 to 100 agst Pbarealus (t)
12 to 1 Fandengo ( if)
100 to 7 Redlands (t)
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 on the field (off )
90 to 1 ogot Rothe:am (off)
($6 to 1 Nabob (t)
2000 to 20 Dr O'Toole ()
DERBY.
8 to 1 agst St. Hubert (off; t9to 1)
40 to 1 Anrifer (t)
60 to 1 Vexation (t)
2000 to 30 Pugnater (t)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEA&
3 to 1 eget Lord of the Isles (t to 251)
7 to 2 Bt. Hubert (t to 204)

YORK SPRING MEETING.
NOMINATIONS PON Till LONDEBBOROUOH Cur, value
100 sun. in specie, added to a handicap stakes of 6
sous each. Certain winners mitre. The second to receive
10 eon. out of the stakes. One mile.
The weights to be published on the let of April.
34, e Age
Deereteater
I Lord Alfred
Homl.y
The Medway 3 Sabin Hood 4 Midsummer 4
Eerly bird 4 Nell, Hill
Jack the Glint. Hoddans 3 Grand Inquisitor... 4
Killer ....... „...... A Adelaide 4 Twinkle
Bracken 4 Charmian 3 Duke of Hamilton 3
Leybarn Lam
The Tore (b 0) 4 St, Hark 3 Julia
Sylvia 3 Velour 5 Gamete 3
Jack Sheppard , ... 3 Sabers
Snowdon Dunhill— 4 Home Musa
Melton 4 Vindex
Columns 4 Van Winkle 3
NOMINATIONS 1011 TIM FLYING DUTCHMAN'S HANDI-
CAP of 100 sow, added ton sweepstakes of 20 son each, 10 ft,
and 6 only if declared by the first Tuesday in March.
Certain winners extra. One mile and a half. Weights to
be published on the 21st of February. If the highest
weight accepting is under Bst 71b it will be raised to that,
and the others in proportion.
Freddy Age S
Leneewood .. 3
Neville
Homily
Early Bird 4
Bracken 4
The Tree (to b) 4
Spiels 3
Brame 4l
MontaSteelyard
Kin of Trumps
Slicidlaborough 4'
Athenian 3
WOL'

Ap
Bc7thian 4
Excitement .. 3
klarayse 1
Thetis 3
Epansinondas 4
Crown Pigeon $
Calamus 4
Bt. Clue 4'
Ivan
fl 4
unteman
Weer 3
HunoaMunea
EMI* of Erin 4
BioilGamekeeper
3
Van Winkle

Gamelad Ar 4
Spencer 3
Jonathan Martin 4
Grand Inquisitor 4
Scipio S
Mary
St. Michael
Julia
Defiance S
! Radcliffe Hero 3
Fmk:eaten. 4
Lady Palmerston 3
13:1111167F 3
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AND BNNWOOD STIEPLI CHASID.
—ln consequence of the continued seventy of the wealth's
these steeple chasm are further postponed until Monday the
19th inst.

DERBY RIOES AND SIIIIPLB CHABIL—Owing to the
severe treat the Stewards have postponed this meeting
until Thursday the 22nd inst , being the dsy immediately
following Nottingham Rases.
LINCOLN RACES.—The newton:able state of the weather
has rendered it necessary to postpone this meeting until
farther notice.
SALISBURY Rich.—Tbe Salisbury Attila being fired
for the 7th and Bth of March, the rage are postponed to the
15th and 18th of that month.

SNOW STORM ON THE HUDDERSFIELD AND MAN-
CHESTER Limn.—The railway of the London and North
Western Company between Huddersfield and Manchester
was stopped np on Thursday, in consequence of the heavy
fall and drifting of snow in the deep gorge through which
the line runs near the Manchester end of the Marsden
Tunnel. The Leeds train due at Manchester at 5.25 p.m.
did not arrive 'until 5.50, and the train due at 6.25 was
detained 60 minutes by the accumulation of snow. The
two succeeding trains on Thursday night did not make
their way through at all, and had not reached Mancheater
Teeterday until 4 p.m , when the up-line only was set free.
he Lancashire and Yorkshire line was open, and
to proceed to pia -ma along the London and North Western
shdmee,tobeforr.w.farl
course,the p"through"erso nsps s
wishing
SNOWDRIFTS ON THE SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.—
Owing to the heavy fall of snow on Thursday, this line was
line were egrentelatlbwyreinthecaomtnvenienced.
blocked up by drifts on Thursday night, in the cuttings
between Hadfield and Woedhead. All the evening trains
arrived in Manchester, though late; but the night goods
bedded in a snow drift between Torside and the Woodhead • •`"
et
anovrof several engines were moving Irak—
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