The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-16 00:00:00

THE "DEBBY" AND ITS PROPHETS.
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By the returns of the horses under orders from
the various stabler for Epsom, it would mem (says Ede.
Life) that the held for the Derby will be nude up some.
what se follows:

Trainer. Jockey.
Lord CUMen E. Parr 0 Fordham
Macaroni J (kidding Chalon..
tiaccharosoner ....Chmtnell A Edwards
Oink. W. Day .1 Adams
Banger W. Closter I floater
Tem Fool Stanton
King of the Vale.... Hayboe Mitall
National Guard ....Watson I Snowden
Boa War T Jeonhtp Watkins
Fanank Goodwin Custance
(Maths Fled J Scott E. Sharp
Early Puri I Scott W. Boyce
Light Bob T Dawson Alderat
Donnybrook Watson il Rogers
Or Idea ?lodge I Osborne I Osborne
Blue Mantle Harkok J Daley
'Prolamin Wadlow
Santander T Oliver
Safeguard T Mbar
*Tajo T Taylor
'Overdone Tram Drew
Avondale May J Mann
Coultas Prinks Midair,
•Flibustier T Janalap Pratt
King of Utopia ....Lye
Tambour Mayor...J. Dawson.
•Jarnicoton T Jawing; -
Baldwin IL Gager .r 1 Adams
'Avower J Dawson -
'Moonstone Woolcot --
• Doubtful starters.

.Covey
.Cowley

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Should this. all come to the post tlas field would be eon-
classed to be a good average one, but although the French
trio have each bees backed for a sulicient sum to warrant a
probability of their being at the poet, still a ample of nomi-
nations is almost as much as can be expected wider existing

Bea's Life names Lord Clifden as the wiener of the
Derby, and Lady Auguste of the Oaks.
The Ere places the that three el the Derby u follows :

siocharereeier, 1 ; Lord adds", 2 ; King of the tale, 3 ;
and of the Oaks—Old Orange Girl, 1; Lady Augusta, 2;
Mir Armstrong, 3.
The Field believes that its readers may see the sinner
of the Derby is Macaroni, while next to him will be Lord
Clifden and Gillis. As to proosedinga of Friday, ledy
Auguste. is "the most promising OW winner that has
appeared CM the paper for some yam."
Th. &admit Times admits that it argues some temerity
to leave out from one's calculation two prominent termites
as Lord Clifden and Macaroni for the Derby, but "we
mast take our chance, and place the first three thus :
Baccbarometer, 1; The Gillis, 2 ; King of the Vale, 3,"
For the OW : Miss Armstrong, 1; Old Orange Girl, 2;
Flying Fish, 3 ; regarding Fantail as the best outsider.

The Rev. William Oke Cleave, M.A., Fellow and
Tutor of Jeans College, Cambridge, ham been elected Prin.
eipal of Victoria College, Jersey.
In the Rouse of Commons, on the 29th inst.,
Viscount Rainham wOl move, that, "in the opinion of this
house, Great Britain, by having been a party to the Treaty
of Vienna, assisted in placing a portion of ancient Poised
in subjection to Russia, under stipulations favourable to
Poland, which Ws been grossly and systematically vio-
lated by Ramis, who ham thereby forfeited all claim tinder
the treaty to that country."
The result of the concert given by Madame Lind-
Goldschmidt at St. James's Hall last week, for the beast&
of the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney, is a ma.
tribution of 5261. to the funds of that charity.

Last evening kiendelssohn's music to the Athalie
of Racine wee gives at Exeter Hall, with the ewes artists
who sang it recently at theerrital Palace, sanely, Madras
Balaton-Dolby, Mies Martin, and ilatllle. rarely; bat with
Mr. Henry Nicholls, hutted of Mr. Phelps, rear of the
illustrative verses.

Maclaine Puzzi gave her annual matin& musicale
palm*, at the Hanorer•eyuare Rooms, to a niunerona
and fashionable audience. The programme onwieted thirdly
of extracts from the repertory of the Italian Opera.
The Marchioness of Gaetani (Piooolomini) left
Florence on the Ilth inst., and is expected in Load= to-day
(Saturday).
Dr. Bennett's overturn, " Paradise and the Peri,"
composed for het year's Jubilee Concert of the Philharmonic
Society, is to be repeated at the concert of Monday next.
The concert is to De honoured with the presence of the
Prince and PASO= of Wales, and the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse. Mdlle. Miens is to sing, this being the
only occasion on which she ma appear at a concert during
the present season.

"The delay attending the production of the new
comedy at the Haymarket," says the Press. " is not to be
attributed to either authoress or manager, but rather to
one of those contretemps to which the ruler of the destinies
of a theatre is constantly exposed in the distribution of
parts. In this instance so many proofs of waywardness
have been evinced by an actress that it really has become •
question whether the old play of Know Your Olen Mind
would not be • more imitable entertainment than the sew
comedy by Lady Gifford. "

The Pugin Memorial Committee having raised
a food of 1,030/. Lave resolved to place it at the disposal
of the hietitoto of British Architect., in trust, for the
establishment of a Student's Travelling Fluid, under certain
conditions.

The president and council of the Pharmaceutical
Society bare issued cards for a convenatioa party, on Taw
day evening next, in Bloomsbury-square.

Commander Thomas E. Symonds will on Monday
evening deliver, at the United Service Institution, a lee.
ture on the use of ,broadside guns, chiefly bearing on their
value in armour-clad ships.

Messrs. Longman and Co. have in the press a new
volume of Bishop Oolenao's "The Pentateuch and Book of
Joshua Critically Examined," containing the Book of Den.
terouoray. It ie to appear in June.

Accounts from Hereford represent the suspension
of payment of the Old Bank in that town as attended with
the iIiCODIOIIIOI2CO and the distressing circumstances which
always accompany an incident of this kind. The failure I
said to be owing to the heavy defalcations of a clerk
who had been twenty years in the bank.

A report from Liverpool very confidently asserts
that a Meter ship of the Alabama will sail from the Clyde
ow Howdy.

The Ramsay, an iron tank-ship, built for the
Petroleum Trailing Compsay, ailed from Liverpool for New
York yesterday. This vassal will carry about 400 tow of
petroleum in tanks, and an equal quantity in barrels, and
the system is so much approved by the underwriters that
issuances an be effected on her at less than half the
usual rates.

It is said that " Deerfoot" has at last quitted our
shores, carrying with him upwards of a thousaud poauds
as the fruit of his running labours.

In the Federal array there are 74 major-geuer.ll6,
whose pay is 5,080 dole. each per annum. A major-geveral
is allowed three aides-de-camp, shah pay is 1,:',/du dolt.
each. There are 284 brigadier-generals, whose pay is 4,000
dole. each per annum. Every brigadier-govern has two
aides Ale-camp ; their pay is 1,500 dole each.—line lurk
Tribune.

It is estimated that there are 30 tone of American
diver accumulated in Toronto, Hamilton, mod Loridon
Canada. The following placard is hung up in the Cicadae
merchants' stores--viz, American silver takes at 5 per rent
discount—Canadian paper.
WRIST AM. CMGSS.—Yet misguided people are
found, even in these days, to set up Whist signiori her ass
rival. Eut there is no use attempting it. Whist caned
bear the comparison. On one or two points she may, Per"
haps, claim equality ;on the rest she is nowhere. She has
Nothing like the inexhaustible resources of chess, or the
chances she gives of escape by subtlety and desperate Ter
tore. She has nothing like her unmeasured depth, or the
infinite variety of her combinations. She has nothing likebee
delicate Aarhus off of acientilic certainty into chance—for
chance doss enter as an element into chess, though it is Del
generally thought so. Then what are the " antecedents" of
Whitt! Where is tho history of her famous battle*, bee
tournaments, her line of sovereigns or roll of warriors Wss
she ever named in China, or sung by Homer, or honoured
in sunny Ithaca, or painted in Egyptian tombs, or graved oe
sternal pyramids? We should be loth to make insioaations
*bout character, especially having figured her grimiest!'
ally as a lady. But her kith ea kin, what can be nod
for them, and for her belongings generally ? Does not bet
very name spontsneouely call up visions of taverns, Ps'
light, swindling, suicide, vinegsr.faosd dowagers, end back-
tatiog ? Is there any grave or reverend 'rigor who would
chives to be seen in her company in daylight' Rs&
Cairn, as all men know, is a spirit of another sort. DLe
Outer* she is of a " holy c ld and still conversation." Re'
tirerneat and the mute silence are the things she loves ;
but she can came out is public, and not ashamed to be we°
there neither; and kings era not ashamed to be. sees
by her side. If she doer. cousume the midnight oil—!s
eerily she does—yet her lamp is a sober lamp, a rises
lamp, fsmiliar with books, and busts, and library Dr" "11_,
coffee ; the sort of lamp men burn when waking to
watch the Bear or unsphere the spirit of PlataColloid,
Matiazira ter May.