The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-17 00:00:00

THE VNi"RiSS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1866.

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THE NIULBEST STAILS (Fla.ndicap) of 10 moos. each. h ft,
with 40 edited, fur 9-yr-olds ; winners after September 10,
at ten *Am, 71b extra. Five furlongs. (6 subs.)
it lb at
'Moonbeam b 10 Itlibterpest 4
r atthi/1/088
17-
7Recompense
6 6
THoll FIRST Ylal or THII THIRD 81110021 BIERNIAL
Spam of 10 !cove. each, with 40 added, for 4.yr-olds ;
oohs, Sit 101 b ; fillies and geldings, Sit 71b ; winners
extra ; maiden allowances. Thre•-quartan of a mile. (9
sobs).—Rinderpeat (31b), Vendetta (31b), La Miudito, f by
Brooket—Terms, Whirligig (31b), Stapenhill (31b), Macs.
gwatha, Dragoon, Lady Rose.
Homo Aurvan.--Stockinger, Man of Boss, Illother-of.
Pearl, Ischia, Lord Ronald, Whirligig, Sweet Anne,
Foreign Stamp, Quirina, Vioeroy, Bitter Sweet, Mountain
Maid, Mountain Buck,
_Moonbeam, The Guide, Neroli,
Recompense, Texana filly, Antoinette, Corporal
Little Ellen, Chance, Hominy Needle Gan,
Moueboir, Flora, Rona, Champagne, Menace, Spangle,
Rupene, and Overton.
*ape:o is struck out of the Breoonshire Handicap'

PROGRAMME OF CANTERBURY RACES.

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TUESDAY.
TEE BARRAN DOWIDS STASES of 3 ISTS. 0110h,_ with 25
added ; weight for sge ; belling and other allowanoes.

Five hirionis.
with 25 added
Tun Belmar HANDICAP of 3 soya. each,
the winner to be sold for 301. Half a mile.
THE TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES of 5 sous. each, with 30
added ; colts, Set 10lb ; fillies Set 91b ; winnersowed 31b'
extra •
horses that have run twice without winning all
Five furlongs. (11 sobs.)—Knight of Downediamon
Plantago, Plunder, Lend Tax, Zest, Tortuga, Fellow,
Salamanca, Millie, Sea Mew.
THE EAST SENT HANDICAP of 10 sou. each, 5 ft, with
100 added ; winners extra. One mile 7 furlongs. (32 subs.)
Aga st lb Age st lb
Degas 4 9 2 Brimstone 3 6 2
Tormentor S 712 Loaf Sugar 3 6 0
DeerfOot 6 712 Douro 3 6 0
=
4 T 5 Mischief 3 612
4 612 Pas do Charge
te:Lton it 611 Domino
4 619 Pinchbeck 5 610
3 6 9
Fonder 4 6 8 Labelle
Black Prince, by
ini JOSISMIRO
Ot of Kars. r.. 3 6 4
A HANDICAP PLATE of 40 DOVE ; winners extra. Three-
quarters of a mile.
Age st lb Age st lb
Lord Waklegraws.... • 7 6 Tom Coke 3 010
Olivia
Puebla 4 7• Isabella
Voillynia
0
0
Kingsley 3 7 3 Kinghorn
Hop Lea 3 7 0 Longdown 4 drawn
Jessie
Tun NI:BHERY STAKES (Handicap) of 5 sous.
each, with
30 added, for 2-yr-olds ;
sublb sub
Plantago
saismanca 8 0 Ambitious (paid)
Lady Yam
Knight of Downs 7 6 maid
WEDNESDAY.
THE QUEEN'S PLATE of 100 guineas. Two miles.
A Brunt° HANDICAP of 3 son. each, with 20 added ;
the winner to be sold by auction for 401. Bound mile.
A Siu.Ltrua STAKES of 5 soya. each, with 25 added ;
weight for age ; selling and other allowances. Half a mile.
TILE CANTERBURY FLATS of 40 soya ; winners extra.
Threequarters of a mile.
THE MILITARY STAKES of 3 SOUL each, with 15 added,
for horses bond fide the property of officers ; 1 Ist 71b each ;
winners extra ; gentlemen riders ; professionals, extra.
Onemile and a half.
THE WELTER CCP (Handicap), value 50 10`78. (the sur-
plus in specie), with 30 added ; winners extra ; gentlemen
riders • professions* 7Th extra. One mile and a half.
(12 swim.)
Age st lb Age et lb
The Turner (A b) .. 4 11 6 Brimstone ...... ... 3 10 10
lovtugton
Mazurka
Zeloo 6 U 0 Domino 3 10 4
Black Prince (Mr. Pas de Charge 3 10 4
Angel's
Discretion

THE CHANCERY VACATION CHIEF CLERIC.—TO-
morrow Mr. Peake, the Chancery vacation chief clerk,
will conclude his sittings and be succeeded by Mr. Hall.
The learned gentleman has been during the vacation
busily employed in public companies, frequently sitting to
late hours to dispose of the numerous applications and
cases under the winding-up acts.
LOaT AMONG THE HlLLS.—Great excitement was
caused in Clova and neighbourhood on Sunday evening by
the report that a woman named Mrs. Wilson, from
Glasgow, who had set out from the Kirkton during the
afternoon with the intention of going to Loch Brandy, had
not returned. The mist, which was on the hill tops all
day, grew much denser towards nightfall, and the woman
being a perfect stranger to the hills, great fears were enter-
tained for her safety. About nine o'clock three parties of
men, provided with lanterns, proceeded to the loch, and
searched until about three in the morning without success.
At daybreak the search was renewed, and the mist having
now cleared off • little, every one was sanguine of
success. But up to nine o'clock no trace of the woman
was found. The company then set out from the Parkha4
and divided into two parties, one of which proceeded
to the Earl of Dalhousie's forest. The other beat the
southern slope of the Clove hills. The former, happily, were
successful in discovering the object of their anxious search.
It appears the unfortunate woman had never got to Loch
Brandy at all, but getting bewildered in the mist had wan-
dered several miles into the forest, where she had passed
the night amid the darkness and rain. It was about four
o'clock in the afternoon when she was discovered. She
was not so much exhausted as might have been expected
from the exposure, want of food, and her thin attire, but
she bad almost given up hopes of ever getting back to her
friends. The few friendly sheep who had kept beside her
all night were gone, and she had written on her watch the
last words she ever thought she would write on earth.
After • little refreshment, Mrs Wilson was conducted back
to the Kirkton, and having got a night's rest was conveyed
to Kirriemuir the next day.—Dundee Advertiser.
A SCOTCH TOWN COUNCIL ON THE BRITIBII Asso-
CIATION.—The Glasgow Herald contains the following nor-
' rative of some curious proceedings at the meeting of the
Brechin Town Council on Wednesday last. The clerk read
a letter from the local secretaries of the British Association
1 at Dundee, requesting the co-operation of the council in
order to make next year's meeting • successful one, and to
appoint a committee for endeavouring to insure that object
The Provost—They are looking for a sum of money, that
is quite clear. Mr. P. Guthrie—l think the money
might be spent in • better way. All that I know is that
at the meeting at Nottingham this year they have propa-
gated infidel principles, and that is the only thing I know
they have done. The Provost—Yes ; I think that on some
other points, again, they have given us some additional in-
foination. Bailie Craig—There is one thing to be said ; if
men spread infidel opinions, there is sufficient information
in the public press to put it down ' • and I believe that re-
ligion will never collapse by any attack of so-called science.
Mr. P. Guthrie—l quite agree with you. The question is,
are we to encourage it! Bailie Craig—l would not en-
couruge anybody to propagate and disseminate infidel
opinions, but I believe that science, properly so called,
meat always be consistent with religion, and what is in
the Bible; and there are sufficient defenders of the faith
to refute any charges that may be brought against the
truths contained in the Bible. There are so many much
abler defenders of the faith than those who attack it, that,
in my opinion, the truth will come out untarnished. My
motto is—" Mafraa est amigos et preevalebit." The Provost
—There is one thing I am very glad to see, that Bishop
Forbes has prepared and published • letter encouraging all
parties to study, in order to be able to meet these infidel
opinions at Me next meeting, when there will be • fair
battle. Mr. P. Guthrie—l quite agree with you but I
don't see that it is necessary for us to encourage such an
association. Bailie Craig—We don't encourage anybody to
propagate heretical opinions. We rather encourage indi-
viduals to defend what we call the doctrines of the faith,
which will be done at the subsequent meeting, I have not
the slightest doubt. I see • very great deal of discussion
has taken place upon Grove's speech, and very able argu-
ments have already been brought forward against it. I
don't think we need at all be discouraged. Mr. P. Guthrie
—I don't believe but that these people will be driven down
very shortly ; but if that association is for the purpose of
inculcating infidel doctrines, I don't see what necessity we
have to encourage it. As I have said already, I beeve
these men will be thoroughly driven down. Mr. Mill—
The association takes all and sundry It is just as well that
their opinions should be ventilated and exposed. Mr. P.
Guthrie—lf you like to encourage that sort of thing—
Mr. Mill—l will encourage the association, but not infi-
delity. Mr. P. Guthne—Very well; if you will en-
courage it, just do it, Mr. Mill. Mr. Mill—But you
cannot help it. The Provost—lt is but a small section of
the association. I don't know how many sections there
may be. I was just in • small section. Mr. P. Guthrie—
It is the section that bears upon the truth of the Bible.
The Provost—Grove, being president of the association,
should never have led off with that sort of thing. If he
had confined the subject to his being the convener of a
section it would not have been so objectionable. But it
is rather • question we should not enter into jest now. I
move that the letter lie on the table till next meeting.
This was unanimously agreed to.
EDZICILAIS AND LITTLE BYTHAM RAILWAY.

Passenger traffic will be discontinued on this line next
month by order of the trustees of the estate of Lord Wil-
loughby d'Ereaby. Goods, cattle, and mineral traffics will,
however, be continued as hitherto.
HOSPITAL FOR DisaAings or THZ CHEST, VIOTOILIA-
PARIL—The number of patients relieved at this institu-
tion during last week was 1,130, of which 263 were new
eases.
LAdvertisement. I—Hou.ovrAy's Omni arrr AND
MSc oanteract most diseases—Camas which determine the
health or sickness of large communities should be carefully in-
. , and when peseible, they should be removed. Where
thia=racticable their baneful effect' should be mitigated by
wash well-known purigers and healers as Holloware Pins and
Ointment. They prove in the hands of all sufferers the greatest
boon when health is the object of search, and When immediate
restoration Is the only safeguard against continued indisposition.
Holloway's remedies will succeed under the most unfavourable
circumstances in casting out all impurities, strengthening every
weakness, and regulating any disordered function. No medicine
can equal them fur advancing the public health and protecting
I delicate persons from UlllloCellity pain.

atnli antittxrp.

PORTSMOUTH, Sm. 16.
Vice-Aihniral Sir T. S. Parley, Bart., nom-
mender-in-chief at this port, arrived from the Channel
Wands yesterday afternoon, and re-hoisted his flag on
board the Victory, the hag of Rear-Admiral Wellesley
being then transferred to the Asia.
The Dart, 5, screw vessel, Commander Marcus Lowther,
is expected to sail to-movow for the West Coast of Africa.
An American screw gun vessel passed through Spithead
yesterday afternoon, proceeding westward.
The Medea, 6, danaloop, is to be brought forward for
Channel service, be employed as a tender.
The Orontes, 2, irokscrew troop ship, Captain H. W.
Hire, was appointed to leave Queenstown on Thursday
last for Quebec, having on board the 61st Regiment, under
the command of Colonel Redmond, consisting of 33 officers,
750 noncommissioned officers and men, 80 women, and 125
children. She left Plymouth on the Saturdayt neafeternoon
previous, and was within thirty miles of nstown
at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, when a fog came
over, and the ship was hove to. Just after 3it cleared off,
but as the Orontes was unable to make the harbour before
dark, she was hove to until daylight on Monday morning ;
but in the meantime a tremendous gale set in, and she was
kept outside until Tuesday evening. The gale was terrific,
and the sails were split and spars snapped, being utterly
unable, strong as they were, to resist the faros of the wind.
The engines steamed easily a-bead to keep steerage way on
the ship, but everything moveable was displaced, the chests
taking license to turn over as by their own will and
p'essure. Green seas tumbled over into the ship fore and
aft and great quantities of water found their way into the
stoke hole through the gratings, but the ship behaved ex-
tremely well, and established her reputation of a first-rate
sea boat. Two or three boats were smashed, and it was
neoessary to get one on board to prevent it from being
carried away. Several of the crew, we understand, re-
ceived alight injuries during the violent rolling of the ship
as she plunged from the top of the seas into the trough
beneath, and one petty offiser had his wrist broken.

MALTA, Sze?. 10.
The squadron tinder the orders of Vioe-Admiral
Lord C. Paget, comprising the Victoria (flag-ship),
Gibraltar, Prince Consort, and Royal Oak, are now
amin .m off the south-east coast of Sicily, prior to return-
ing to Malta for the winter. The despatch boat Psyche
returned to Malta on Friday last from Tripoli, whither she
had conveyed Mr. Drummond Hay, the British consul-
general in that regency, and she is now the only man-of-
war now in the port. The gunboat Assurance, 4, took her
departure from Malta on Saturday morning with des-
patches for the naval commander-in-chief.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamship Surat arrived
this morning, having on board the light portion of the
China and India mails. She leaves this day at noon for
Marseilles.
The Poona'', with the heavy portion of the above mails,
is hourly expected.

ADMIRALTY, SEPT. I.s.—APPOlNTMENTS.—Lieute-
nants Dudley C. Stuart, Henahaw Russell, Arthur F.
Gresley, and Victor E. J. B. von Donop, to the Duncan,
81, flag-ship, on the North America and West India
station ; Pelham Aldrich, to the Sutlej, 35, gag ship in the
Pacific ; Arthur Blossom., William B. Lee, William H.
Henderson, and Edward S. Bothell, to the Victoria, 102,
flagp in the Mediterranean, as supernumeraries for
dispmiL Masters Thomas Steel, to the Clio, 22, in the
Pacific ; James W. Ashton, from Pendeen Cove coast-
guard-station, to Noss Yaalm. Staff Surgeon Matthew
Burton, M.D., to the Zealous, 20, armour-plated .14,
at Devonport, fitting for the Pacific. Surgeon Benjamin
Browning, to be additional of the Victory, in lieu of an
assistant-surgeon. Assistant-surgeon John Simpson,M.D.,
from the Fisgard, to the Zealous. Acting Aasistent•Sur-
goons Alfred Southby Crowdy, to the Zealous ; Denis
M'Carthy, to be additional of the Fisprd, for service in
the Woolwich Marine Infirmary. Sub-Lieuteoanta Thomas
Suckling, to the Zealous ; Charles B. Wood, to the
Pallas, 6, armour-plated corvette, Channel squadron.
Paymaster John Kiddie, to the Battler. Paymasters'
Assistants John Carlisle, to the Cumberland Jo 'in C.
Sabben, to the Victoiy, as supernumerary. Midshipmen
Henry H. Jauncey, to the Zealous ; Charles E. Wood, to
the Gladiator.

PERILOUS ADVENTURE IN THY SOLWAY.---The
storm-tossed Solway Frith has often, and recently, been
the scene of dangerous adventures ; but it may be doubted
if any of them surpassed in perilousinterest a voyage made
on Monday and Tuesday last, in a little boat. About ten
o'clock on Monday morning a crew of four persons started
from Silloth for Annan. Their names were Captain John-
eon, Mr. George Stodart,
and ayoung man named Proud,
all of Silloth ; and Mr. Thomas Johnson, relieving officer,
of Carlisle. The object of the voyage was to bring back
the hull of a large boat belonging to Mr. Stodart, which
is intended for a yacht, and the sail was expected to be
a pleasant one. The morning was fine, and with a
favouring wind, the little boat scudded away to the
Scotch aide, and right up the river to Annan. But in
coming back the troubles of the voyagers began. The
wind was now against them, and the difficulty of drag-
ging the hulk behind them became at once apparent.
The wind and tide drove them at will, and it was not till
• fishing boat came to their help that they were able to get
fairly away from land. Drifting, rather than steering,
they toiled along the Scotch aide, keeping as far as possi-
ble the boat's head pointed towards Skinburnesa ; but sail
nor oar could oope with the wind and ebb tide. Towards
four o'clock in the afternoon they found themselves being
driven upon the great sand bank opposite Silloth and
about midway in the Frith. " Pull Tom, pull Captain,"
shouted the helmsman, but all the pulling at command
was unavailing, and the hulk grounded. There was
nothing for it but to make the best of the situation, and
the party quietly resolved to wait till the tide flowed
again. The• position was observed from Silloth, and
a boat, with provisions, &a, was sent out. The men left
the boat, on the edge of the hank, stripped and crossed a
big channel, and handed the necessaries to their tide-
bound friends, with the intimation that, as soon as the
dock gates were opened, Captain Matthew Irving would
come out and bring the boat and the hulk over with the
ettamtug. So the party dropped anchor, made merry, and
awaited their deliverance. But darkness came on, and
with it a rough tide, a high wind, and a downpour of rain.
In a short time the sea was rushing with • roar over the
sandbank, and preparations were at once made to start
sail. A light was carried from the hulk to the boat,
with the intention of hoisting it on the mast ; and Captain
Johnson and Proud got into the boat for that purpose.
They had no sooner set foot on the little craft than
she broke from her moorings, the tow rope snapped,
and away she flew with lightning speed back towards
Scotland. The light was seen for a moment, like a
star, and then disappeared. Mr. Stodart and Mr. John-
son were left together in the hulk, but in pitch darkness.
She tossed and plunged in the heavy sea, threatening at
every lurch to drag her anchor. There was nothing to
make a light of, except pocket handkerchiefs, when the
thought struck them to unravel some of the rope and set
fire to it. Several bits of rope were teased, but in at-
tempting to strike a light, both men were over and over
again pitched from side to aide of the vessel. At
last • light was got, and 0,0 after another the rope
ends were fired. They waited long and anxiously
for the coming of the tug, dreading every moment
being cast loose without oars or sails. Towards eleven
°Week they saw a light twinkling out of the harbour, but
whether it was that of the steam tug or of the steamship
going to Liverpool, theyjeould not tell. Another suspense,
and they fancied they heard the noise of the paddle wheels,
when up went another fiery rope end, which was responded
to by cheers, which in turn were answered by the two
forlorn adventurers. After* good deal of trouble, on so-
want of the force of wind and tide, the tug got round,
threw a double hawser, and the hulk was safely
fastened. Then the wrecked pair had a long pull to
get up the anchor, which being done, tag and hulk
est cif to find] the little boat. After a long cruise a
dipping light was seen in the direction of Annan, and
the boat was found at last. Fortunately a second anchor
bad been found, which was let go, or there is no knowing
what might have been the fate of the little craft. It was
two in the morning before the rescued adventurers were
safely landed at Silloth, thoroughly drenched and worn
out. The greatest praise is due to Captain Irving and his
craw for their try in facing such a storm for the
rescue of men who, notwithstanding the assurance of Mr.
Stodart that, if the bulk broke her moorings she would
tarn up somewhere, had, to say the least, passed six or
eight hours in the extremest periL—Carlisle Examiner.
SINGULAR PROSECUTION IN IRELAND. —A prose-
cution has been instituted by the sessional crown solicitor
of Pomeroy, in the county of Tyrone, against a number of
Roman esthetics, for—in the phraseology of the indictment
—" unlawfully assembling with arms, to the terror of her
Majesty's peaceable subjects, in that town on the 12th of
July." About eight o'clock in the evening the chapel bell
was rung, when nearly a thousand of the Roman catholic
population from the surrounding district, most of them
armed with guns, assembled in Pomeroy. Tbey were
evidently well organised, for they marched in regular order
to the beat of drums, instantly attended to such military
instructions as " Right about face," and fired about 500
shots. They offered no violence, however, to any one ;
and the defence made by their counsel, after en ineffectual
attempt by the parish priest, the Rev. Mr. M'Kenna, to get
the proceedings quashed, on the ground that no occurrence
of thekindliadevertaken place in the neighbourhood before,
and the prosecution would engender • bad feeling between
the protestant, and the Roman catholics, was, that Mr.
M'Kenna had received an anonymous letter, ostensibly
from an Orangeman, indirectly intimating that his chapel
would be destroyed on the 12th, and that it was solely to
protect it they had assembled. Mr. M'Kenna, on being
erose-exemined, admitted that. he did not believe the
threat in the letter would be carried out, and when asked
why be did not communicate its contents to the magic-
trace, added that "be did not want to raise any alarm."
He could not account, he further said, for such a large
number of persons as a thousand collecting in the town,
as he only showed the letter to two persons. The magis-
trates sent nine of the prisoners for trial.
BOYLE FREE HoartrAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Sept. 15 was 3,035, of which 988 were new
01111118.

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msraorouTAN COUNTY COURT.
(Sitting days appoialed for the preeent week.)
WYSTIIIIIHTIII. St. liarthre-Los—Tateday. Sept. 18; Wed-
giegday, Thunday, 29; Friday, 21.
CZNISAL CILLIWILL 01117M—Monda7, Sept. 17.