The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-06 00:00:00

STEWARDS' PLATE. One mile

Queen of the South, Eardrop fielonTca, Simpleton,
Pri chum the Second, Subterfuge c, Palm Leaf, Kileby, and
Eltham Beauty, are here.

LATEST BETTING.
CKBAREWITCH.
12 to apt Emma Cm& (t)
14 to Yale= (,)
14 to Primus (t)
16 to Happy Lind
30 to 'talk (nE) (t)
40 to Janet (t)
1000 to 10 Hydnotal (t)
2000 to 20 Samoa (t)

THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH AT RUNCORN.—Yeater-
day, the inquiry touching thodeath of Frances Judos was re-
sumed, before Mr. Cobb, deputy-coroner, at the New fen,
Runcorn. Mr. Cooper, elingeoo, said he had made •
post ettorkm examination of the body, and, though he
had found several bruises in different parts, he was of
opinion that they were of long standing, sad that deossesd
bed died from apoplexy. In reply to • juror Mr. Coopersaid that if the heed et the deceased had bead; bumped"
whist the floor =mesa Parka would have been found.
The jury returned • verdict it imoordanos with this evidence.,
said the two prisoners, having been taken before the magi,-
treles, were discharged.
Ova Arcipzers.--On the 25th ult., Mr. J.
Woods, jun., of Moulton, while shooting in the parish of
Classley, Cambridgeshire, was loading the mooed barrel of a
double-barrelled gun, when the other barrel, being on the
halt tuck, went off, I:hattering his hand In • dreadful man-
ner, and rendering the immediate removal of the thumb and
forefinger neceessry. Mr. J. Woods, sae. and father of the
young man, writes to the Cambridge lastipeadeat, warning
sportsman of the danger incurred by • too common
negligence in reloading one barrel of the gun without
fully %mocking the other, and urges parents never to allow
their MM.' when commencing shooting, to omit It. The
practice of drawing the gun through the hedge by them:Luis
is one from which even more and mere writing sextielenta
have occurred, and against which young sp-irtsmem should
be moat impressively warned.—A fatal and most ditreeelag
balsam happened on the 23rd ult., to Mr. John Yew,
Meer, at Nepal. Mr. Maosr, while out wW o
two friend., having plead from one field to asodear
' a hedge, was drawing his gnu after him, when the heerwer
wee caught by a twig, and the contests of the barrel were
discharged into his stomach, and entered the heart. His
friends, who had referred entering the field by a gate, were
scarcely Oile to roach him before he wee dead. The deceased
has left • widow and three ehildnm.

Solna KENSINGTON Moe=N.—Daring the week
ending 22nd October, the visitors have been se follows:
Oa Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, fret days, 3,997; on
Monday and Tuesday( tree e 6,670. On the three
student.' days (eduirelon to the public 64.), 862; one stu-
dents' evening, Wednesday, 114. Total, 10,613. From the
opening of the Museum, 623.191.
MODE.RN Novels.—The old steady-going novel-
waders must find themselves hardly used ; their author
now insist on dealing with all tandem a tf they were in
their second childhood—no aratmeumnt without instruction.
The writers' main °ldea, in half the one, two, and three
volumes of fiction which are poured fresh upon .am every
math, is to melts connete to sort pet theory, uniteed of
weaving scenes of "breathier interest' sad "striking
catern,phas." The dense I. 'try considerable, and not
altogether for the balm We mime the tower, and are
mot much the better he the nietregtion ; which, Indeed,
most cossolentions nowd-reelonijohoionely skip as far as
poseibis. Sere years sue.~ it wee thought part of a wise
rarer to keep arm& either entirely oat of young
people's way, or at all tram to exercise a very strict
sad asalises right of seletdra ; and certainly the eqie of
some el the snob of thee day abundantly jamiied the
preereths. It these penes days we have (Mall we say a
pier ~aeM, or ad, a men sessiuve propriety?) shin oar
sad her writers of action waive to *Sod
suelaet decency awl acuity. Bull, the dotards ounsierebh
has sot expired. Idasztuma and KOVININIIINNI, and Other
authorities, still feel it incumbent oa them to visor the pretty
std sad blue volume which now court youthtul resins with
a doable attraction, the fair outside giving hopeful promise
of whet masts he within. There are now high-church,
low-eharelt, sad no-church novels, not to be chstinguished
by their eseddee ; and seek elms, according to cirento-
straor, riled irgerous le the pease of &nabs.; for these
pe
nny w mobs mere aesverta than any popular
. It It be tame, ea Herbert as" that

"• mess nosy each him wham a sermon flies,"
!t Is gabbro Mee that ► novel will catch men? a 'May sheep
tale mead l 7 a serums. Bat each convert., se may well
bs supposed, generally .how more enthuoisom than wisdom ;
sad, on the whole, we incline to pretor pare /01:1111111011, as
food for the 7,14,00 intellect, to rtlioioue or political con-
*rover:l.—Bled rood. Alva:me, for October.