The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-28 00:00:00

WARWICK MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

(BT ZLECTIIIO TELZGRAPFI.)
WELTER CUP. One mile.
Twilight, Libellous, Rockily, Corouet, Gleam, and Bar-
ham lass are here.
No steeple or hurdle racing to-day.

THE POLITE. FORCE. AND THE STREET ROBBERIES,
—Lord Robert Montagu thinks that the numerous street
robberies in the metropolis are due 1.) the smallness of the
police force and of their pay. " Without the pl.
sistance of parliament, however, it is imposaib e
to remedy these defects. The pay of the police force is by
law limited to std. in the pound. Of this sum tel. is levi:l
in parochial rates; the other quarter is paid by the Treasury
—that is to say, it is voted by the house ; but the propor-
tion has always to be preserved. The lsw, by restricting
the fund, limits the number of constables and stints their pay.
Yet this is not all. When this law was passed it was never
contemplated that the superannuation and retina; allow-
ances would come in, and still further reduce the niggardly
fund. These alone amount to upwards of 50,000/. per annum.
If, therefore, this appallin; evil is to be removed, or if the
rapid iocrease of the mischief is to be checked, it must be
by the interference of parliament. As soon as parliament
meets a committee of inquiry ' into the condition of the
police force and the police requirements of the metropolis'
should be moved for, unless her Majesty's government
should previously state their intention to bring in • bill to
remedy the evil!'
NARROW ESCAPE OP A HALL FROM DESTRUCTION
HT Flat—During the trials of the prisoners at the ad-
journed sassier), on Tuesday last, in the Shire.hall, a smell
of sulphur was perceived in the courts, which caused an
apprehmssion that there was something wrong connected
with the Hues. Mr. T. M. Gepp and other geutletueu im-
mediately prcoeeded below to the furnace, and the cease
of alarm was at once apparent. Several hundred
weight of coke had been carelessly placed upon the
flues at the Lack of the furnace, the heat from which bad
ignited the coke, and it was almost a mass of fire, the top
of the pile being within two feet of the ceiling. Mr.
Wood, Jun., and several of his men were sent for and
promptly attended, quickly dispersing the burping heap,
and putting out the tire with buckets of water. The danger
was hap v soon over, but had timely discovery not been
made it is feared that the consequences would have been
very serious.—Chchaaford Chronicle.
A LEAP IN THE DARK.—A few evenings since
a young man bailing from Great Hale, and suffering from
the effects of strong ale, left the Red Cow lon, Bargate, on
his road to the Queen's Head, Skirbeck, and feeling re-
markably light in his head and heels ran and jumped over
a fence near the house of Mr. Slight, builder. Unfortunately
for him the fence served as the boundary between the read
rod 'laud-foster drain, and instead of alighting on the
ground he was horrified to find himself liouoderiug in the
waters of the drain, surrounded on all sides by high brick
walls. His cries were hand by some men on Bargate
bridge, who ran to his assistance, and with sane little
difficulty succeeded DI rescuing him from his perilous
position. He Was much sobered by his sudden immersion.
and vowed never more to take • leap in the dark.—Scam.
ford iferrurn.
• BIOOTRY IN TASTE.—Art and science have also
their intolerance. Hear the orthodox pbysican talk of his
innovating brother. Nn coarser libels have been written
than those in scientific journals against • professor of
science. In art an artist forms his theories and his school,
and has an entbusiast'e faith in their indubitable supe-
riority ; the artiste( • different school he regards as a Gotb.
One of the mildest poets I ever knew, who had nurtured his
own harmless muse in the meek Helicon of Wordsworth, never
could hear Lord Byron praised, nor even quoted, without
transports of anger. I once nearly lost one of the dearest
friends I posses, by indiscreetly observing that the delinea-
tion of passion was essential to the highest order of poets,
simply because he had formed • notion, in the rectitude of
which be had the strongest good faith, that perfect poetry
should be perfectly passionless. I am not sure, indeed
whether there be oot, nowadays, • more vehement bigots
;
in matters of taste than in those of opinion. For so much
has been said and written about toleration as regards opi-
nion, that in that respect the fear of not seeming enlight-
ened preserves many from being uncharitable. But; on the
contrary so much is every day said and written which
favoursintolerance in matters of taste, that it seems en-
lightened to libel the whole mental and moral composition
of the men whose taste is opposed to your own. I have
known language applied to • difference of taste on the
merits of a poet, a novelist, nay, seep an actor, which the
Bishop of Exeter would not venture to apply to Tom Paine.
—sir E. B. Lytton, in Blackwoo.fsilagarine for December.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.—It IS stated that from
70,003,0C3 dole. to 130.00,000 doh of counterfeit Confede-
rate roomy is in circulation in the South. The Charleston
banks have six or seven millions of the stuff received as
good money. —American paper.
The following is a remedy much used in the
Federal army for the cure of amp diarrheas :—To one
ounce of alcohol (or brandy) thickened with wheat flour
Edda teaspoonful of balsam of fir ; shake well together ;
take • teaspoonful in a spoonful of water or milk every
four hours.