The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-22 00:00:00

LTEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

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THIBIDE msBrum.—(THll3 DAY.)

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ta KERS' CUP AND SILVER CUP.
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WINDSOR MILITARY AND NATIONAL
STERPLIOHASE.-(THIS DAY.)

WINDSOR, SATURDAY.
Ibis morning, with such glorious weather, and
tM pop= of more exalting sport than even that of jester-
thy ire cro
day, wds of visitors to this meeting were larger their
• lk and the tram on the Ong Western and
sair Western Railway brought numerous spectra= to
tiocial borough, and these rapidly made their way to the
mas.grosed at dpital. In order to increase the facilities of
,iiiage the authorities of the South sad Great Western
by 'Oa nu special trains from Waterloo and Paddingtoa
sl o'dedi sad 20 minutes to 12 respectively, and which
fors 'plows shortly after the conclusion of the noes this
▪ sad as these will so doubt be brought to a close
50.15 ceded, the numerous visitors will be enabled to
or the metropolis at or early hoar.
plc= Bulkeltr, who acts to-day as starter, has an-
gered that the eteepleoltree will commence at 215
dr diatom, a quarter of an hour earlier than yesterday.
go =wards ere Lord Girlies, Colonel Bathurst, Major
peabwell, Colonel Wilson Patton, Captain Brand, Cap-
Seymour, Colonel Ewan, C6Olll/1 Bulkeley, lea., Mr.
gershall being the clerk of the acmes.
flee programme this 'Kennon includes four exciting
or for heavy stakes, and which, from the great number
d citric; are likely to be keenly =tasted. The races
piss follows :
115 r.r.—The Castle Steeplechase (handicap) of 30
▪ added to • sweepstakes of 5 son. each, with eer-
ie" conditions. About 3 miles. 13 sae. Thirteen
jeer bays entered for this, viz.—lronsides, Sir Bobby,
Woe, Aggressor, Simpleton, Who dare m 800, Charity
jay, Old Windsor, Supple, Antelope, knightsbridge,
palsy, and Pam.
3 ya.—The Hunters' Stakes of 3 eon. each, with 25
O,a added, for horses the property of gentlemen, farmers,
id trader= nsi.mg within 25 miles of Windsor, with
edraws. About 3 miles. 6 subs. There are six
ours, the horses befog—Sanoebox. Almeria, Miss Dodger,
grey Dunbar, Good Lad, and Odds or Evens.
545 val.—A Military Sweepstakes of 5 move. each, with
5 we. added, for hones the property ol officers on full pay
itheirmy, with conditions attached. About 3 miles.
iej,‘ The entries include—Bran, Benedict, Who dare
gi Boa, and Bell's Life.
4.30 r.x.—Tb• Windsor Open Handicap Steeplechase of
111 eds., added to a sweepstakes of 10 son. each, with
reiffiess• About 4 lam 15 subs. There are 15 tr-
im the honer being—Elly Fox, Ircesides, The Old Squire,
gaine,Agnes, Faller Gal, Jerusalem, Rbcebus, Romeo,
Dedises, Contralto, Supple, Morocco, Bolero, sad Ag.
poem
yba spectators from the surrounding country and the vi.
airy of Windsor are docking to the =aground, sad there
it so &fat tat that the lad day of the meeting will be more
weerfal than the first

DIOS or MIL WILLIAM ARTHUR WILKINSON.—
ire wet to hers to inform our reactors of the death lot
the atom platinum on Thursday, the 13th inst., in the
lleh al his ego. At one time Mr. Wilkinson npceesnbid
Labathin parllentent, but tem better known as the former
donnas of the Croydon Railway! and from its oosnmesios-
mat, magi/man el the Metropolitan. or, as it is sometimes
died, the Underground Railway. In private life Mr. Wil-
helm vas much esteemed for probity and kindly feeling,
red es nig earnest and energetic io whatever he engaged.
Hh pseitiveasse sad extreme candour were, however,
lather against him in public life. It was said that these
colitis. lost him a return for Lambeth, and it is pretty
mina that they sometimes led him into disputes with
ssighbouring companies in the Bonne of his railway career.
—Herapoth.
Tin LASE Ma. SAMUIL Lt cia.—The funeral
of the lite Mr. S. Lome took place yesterday, at about 1
(kiosk, in Highpte Cemetery. All the gentlemen con-
sorted with the establishment of which the demand was
=proprietor sorrowfully followed his owes and,
tly of the immediate members of his family
many friends were gathered round the grave. When ell
were as embled a solemn Dense eerued. Mr. Bevan Braith-

member of the Society of Friends, delivered a
short and orwt address, after which the coffin was
lowered late the pave. The silence which followed wee
Wakes by the low and patio tones of a female minister of
60 moiety, a relative of the deceased, and thee all, with
tee lest look, quietly departed.
WISMINSTILB ABBEY SPECIAL SUNDAY EVENING

Rims= —Te-merrow evening, at 7 o'clock, the special
Sew* craning EIRTiOBB will commence in the nave of
Widadaster AbbeF. when the Very Rev. Dr. Stanley,
Dam of Westminster, will preach the opening sermon.
The following are the other preachers for April sod May :
tail 30, the Rev. T. Carter, rector of Clamor ; May 7, the
la. Daniel Moore, incumbent of Camberwell and golden
irchaer„- 14, the Rev. Canon Conway, rector of St. Mar-
pot's, Westminster ; 21, the Bishop of Oxford ; 28, the
Arabiabop of Dublin. The only entrance to these services
it at the door at the wed end of the abbey.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ISMS WEIL Monday— Antiquaries, at 2, Anniver-
nry ; Actuaries, at 7, " Graduation of • Table of Mor-
tality." Mr. Berridge ; " Government Insurance Rata and
legalatioes," Mr. Adler; Architects, at 8 ; Geographies],
e 830 " Bayonne River, Isthmus of Panama," Mr. Lau-
naesOliphant ; "Journey from Chimborazo to Bogota
woo Central Andes," Mr. Cross ; Royal United Service
latitidies, at 8.30, " Migustion of Iron and Iron-clad
Site," Commander Evans. Tuesday—Ethnologied, at 8,
"National Pronunciation a Mesas of Treeing Origin,
if Natalie," Rev. J. Brodie ; Engineers, at 8, ' Festiniog
Railway ;" " Uniform Stress in Girder Work," Mr. Cell-
ed Reilly ; Zoological, at 8.30, " Rare Mammals of West
Africa in Lisbon Museum," Dr. Barbosa do Borg, ;"
"Systematic position of Genus Platacionthomys, Dr.
Peres. Wedseaday—Literature, at 4, Anniverrery ; Geo-
kers', it 8, " Cephalopodous Fauna, South Indust Ore-
awes Rocks," Dr. Stoliczka ; "Floe Ferri, or Corallodial
Arsgedte," Mr. Wallace; "Notes as Specimens of Clay
is Regular Rhomboids," Sir J. F. W. Herschel ; Society of
Arts, 8; Archwolodkel Association, 8.30, " Brasses, TAG*.
well Church, Derby," Mr. Goldsmid ; "Earl of Ckeford's
1158. relating to Suffolk." Thursday —Zoological, 4 ; Royal
8.30. Friday—Royal United Service Institution, 3, " Clan-
dottier of Climes of War," Colonel Shafto Adair. Was-
hy —Zeologiad, 1, Annitemary.
BELLEROPHON.—During the put few weeks
wend hundred shipwrights, mechanics, and other work-
men have been employed in working on board the iron-
need frigate Bellerophon, 14, 1,000-horse power, building
at Chatham Dockyard, until a late hour each evening, in
eider to complete the arrangements for the launch of that
noel, which is intended to take place on Wednesday next.
lectlidity with which the Bellerophon has been con-
k' altogether without a parallel, it being exactly 12
mouths since the first piece of iron for the keel of the
Nate was lowered into the dock in which she now lies.
The entreat is the more marked whoa the length of time
the Achilles, Minotaur, Agincourt, and others of our iron.
Sited friptes were under construction is taken into coital.
tuiLion. Little more than four mouths have elapsed since
the Ent armour.plate was bolted to the side of the Belle-
rophon, and yesterday afternoon fully one-third of the
nasal which will encsae the sides of the vessel from
Oa
to stern had been fixed in its place. Unlike most of
or iron-plated ships, the Bellerophon will be launched
with a considerable portion of her armour.plating attached
to her, and a comparatively brief period will therefore
mike to complete her in all respects for sea.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE FOREST HILL RAIL-
ry STATION. Yesterday afternoon a fatal accident
termed at the Foreathill railway station. A porter
mined Jame, Heywood, who had been in the employ of
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company
fat 23 year, was crossing the line from the up to the
Oat Platform, to attend to the Crystal Palace train due
at 4.51. Be crowed in front of a South Eastern up ;rain,
honkle epped from the main line down platform immediately
n of the South Eastern down train, leaving Loudon at
t4O, which knocked him down and killed him on the spot.
lie was followed by Stanford, the ticket collector, who saw
the danger, and in eedeavonriog heroically to save the poor
hilee's life, only narrowly escaped the same fate. Heywood
ens properly attached to the London station, but had
hex sent to Forest-hill on relief duty, ea an old and steady
errant, well acquainted with hie duties.
DESTRUCTIVE AND MYSTERIOUS FIRE AT PRESTON.
—Yesterday morniag• very destructive fire broke out in
the lame manufacturing warehouse of Messrs. Rude and
irtu. Church-street, Preston. Immediately after 8 o'clock,
red whim the workpeople had just gone to breakfast, smoke
"a seen Wein from one of the rooms of the warehouse,
tibia contained a very heavy stock of cotton goods. The
Ire brigade wee sent for, and on their arrival all the higher
Art ef the buildiog was in Baines. The warehouse is five
*Ways high. The two top rooms, which extend along the
'hole building, were gutted, and a deal of machinery and
arterial was damaged io the other rooms. A ladder on which
three firemen were standiog broke, and they were thrown
hem the third stay to the ground. Luckily they were
cot hurt. The dames were got under about 9 o'clock, bat
the fire was not completely extinguished WWI about norm.
The ranee of the fire is entirely a mystery. During the
teeming there had been no fire to the room where the co.
commenced, no gases had hese lighted, no one had
"le MO with a light of any sort, and there was no ma-
&beer about to cause by frictioe, 1111 is sometimes the
cue, the emission of • spark. The damage, which snot
at Pealed be accurately estimated, is very considerable,
out it will be recovered by insurance. The fire will,
Mired', or indirectly, throw about 500 people out of Ger
Ployment