The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE

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WARWICK MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

TRIAL STAJCIO3. One mile.
Sacebarometer, Uneaa, and Volunteer are here.

STAND HANDICAP. One mile.
Under-the-Cloud, Salamanca, Mouehoir, and Feodor
are here.

WILLOUGHBY HANDICAP. One mile.
Beadle, Buckfuot, Steckinger, lndigeatiun, Plover,
Brick, Nukuheva, and Black Prince are here.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 23 SOB'S. Three furlongs.
Lady Barbara, Eau do Vie, Africaine, and Wino of a
Dove are here.

HANDICAP PLATE. Five furlongs.
Volunteer, Clphwi, Blackbird, Causal, Adiunanthea,
Chibisa, and Mouchuir are here.
HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. Two miles.
Shidopeare, Fortunatus, Pearl Diver, flea King, King
Arthur, Nukuhevs, Forester, and Watchbox.

FARMERS' PLATE. Two miles.
Lady .Sandford, Surveyor, Dlalceshift, Maid of the Mill,
Annie Lisle, Conscript, mid Imogene are here.
ARRIVED.—SIyfox, Huntsman, Regalia, Clatford, Fund,
Knave of Trumps, Violent, and Variation.

GARIBALDI AT LEGNAGO.—A journal of Legnano
cites a curious scene of which Garibaldi has been the hero
in that town. He was called out several times by an im-
mense crowd, and in reply to repeated cries of " Long live
Garibaldi, Son of God !" he said—" You give me a name
which would serve the priests to calumniate me. The title of
Son of God does not suit me. lam the eon of the people,
ready to match up a sword or a gun. No other title suits
me. (Applause.) I am not of the religion of the Pope.
( Voices : " Nor arc we.") The priests condemn eight-
tenths of the hum in family to helL I am not with the
priests. I am with the gospel of God, which loves all men.'
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The itaiirt of Naples has received from Castro_
Retie-Barcelona a despatch announcing that the Bishop
of Lipari excommunicated the electors who last week
voted for 31. Setteuibrini against Baron il'Ondea Reggio.
TIIE CABINET AND THE REFORM BlLL—Not-
lealistantling the apparent solidarity of the cabinet, con-
segment upon the expulsion of the three obstructive., we
have reason to believe that its members are not fraternally
agreed upon the most novel and most objectionable part
of their plan, viz., the scheme for dual voting. Lord
Derby is said to be personally opposed to it. We shall not
be surprised at witnessing further transformations.—Man.
thrum EXtthliner.

RE-ManitianEs.—The Registrar-General has ad-
dressed a letter to the Rev. J. Carne, vicar of 3ferther,
Cornwall, requesting that its contents be made public in
order to remove mischievous and erroneous impressions
concerning the marriage law. It appears that four per-
sons, who were married at the register-otee at Truro in
1862 were persuaded, in order to have all doubt removed
as to the legality of their contracts, to be re-married in
Jlerther Church on Christmas-day last, by the vicar of the
parish. The ceremony was accordingly gone through, and
the matter was brought before the notice of the Truro
Board of Guardians a week ago, when payment for the
certified copied of the second marriages was objected to.
The Registrar• General was, in consequence, communicated
with, and he 111111 written to the vicar requesting him to
lose no time in making it distinctly understood that the
reading of the marriage service in the church on Christ-
mas-day was altogether unnecessary, and that the only
legal entries of the marriages in question are in the regis-
ter of the registrar who married the parties at Truro ; the
vicar is referred to the Act 19 and 20 Victoria, cap. 119,
which expressly declares that the reading over the mar-
riage service in one of the churches of the establishment
does not supersede or invalidate prior marriage in the re-
gister-office.

..—MELANCHOLY CASE OF SUICIDE AT HASTINGS.—
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Saturday morning
last Mrs. Barton, an aged and well-known resident, com-
mitted suicide by hanging himself at East Beach-street. It
appears that the servant of the deceased, who had been
with her during the morning, was absent from the house
for a short time, and during that time the deceased went
upstairs to her bedroom, and there committed the rash
act. When the servant returned she found the door
locked. One of the eons of deceased was called in, and
upon the door being broken open the poor old lady was
found suspended from a water-pipe at the upper part of
the wall, by a piece of cord which was fastened around
her neck. Life was then extinct. The melancholy event
created much painful excitement in the neighbourhood.—
Bus,ex Adrerhaer._

SeIIoLASTIG REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION.—The
Rev. William Haig•Brown, LLD. head master of Char-
terhouse, has been elected president of this association.
which will be made the basis of a periodical educational
congress.

i'ELLovr FEvea.—During the last twenty-seven
years 1,524 persons have died from yellow fever in the
island of St. Thomas, in the West Indies ; 2,435 from
cholera, 35 from small-pox, and 12,193 from other dis-
eases. Cholera first made its appearance in the island in
18,13. It chiefly rages amongst the black and coloured
population. The resident population of the island is
12.500, and the floating population who touch at the
island annually is 30,000. 20 of the largest steamers in
the world often enter the harbour of St. Thomas in one I
day. The average number of ships which visit St. Thomas's
in the course of the year is 2,184, the tonnage of which
is 451,600.
THE CANARY TRADE.—The German steamers
which touch at Southampton import into New York an-
nually about 20,000 canaries, valued at 80,000 dollars.
They are bred by the poor miners in the Hartz Mountains.
About 30 per cent, die on the voyage. They are impel ted
in the winter, as they lose their voice and plumage in
warm weather, and would not be saleable. At a canary
store in New York 2,000 of these feathered musicians may
be seen and beard. Many of these are prima donnas, and
very valuable. They sing from dawn until dark.
(~ABRAOE VOTES AT TOTNES.—As the subject of
electoral qualifications is at the present moment an im-
portant one, and as parliamenta7 agents and their
familiars must even now have begun to speculate on the
practical working of the a sensed tax franchise of If.
annual payment, it may be as well to point out how such
a process as the creation of votes has been carried on at
Totnes even under the difficulties of the present law. The
power of creating votes was largely increased in this
borough by the quantity of meadow land brought
within its limits by the Reform Act. Sheds of
a better and more expensive character than had hitherto
existed were erected on the ,lifferent fields, and a manu-
factured 10/. qualification for " buildings with land" was
thus obtained. In 1863 a new method of manufacturing
votes on altogether fictitious occupations sprang up.
The account of this, as given by the commissioners,
is so interesting, the process at once so simple and
so ingenious, that we cannot refrain from quoting the
description in full. It must be premised, in justice
to the neighbouring borough of Ashburton, that the ex-
pedient was first adopted there, and, having been found
to answer, was quickly transferred to Totnes. "It can-
not be better illustrated," says the report, "than by the
following example:--Six persons of Wend politics living
at Dartmouth, had their names placed on the rate-book
of the parish of Berry, as the occupiers of some fields
rented and occupied by the landlady of the Seymour
Hotel. A resident in Totnes, the liberal registration.
agent, was named manager, and prepared from time to
time an account, in which were set out the earnings from
the fields by the depaaturing of cattle, horses, &c.,
thereon. As a matter of fact, all the cattle and horses
were the property of the landlady, and the six voters
never even went there themselves or placed any animals
of their own on the land. On the annual settlement of
the accounts • dinner was given ; after which
dinner some one of the party was accustomed to
go and cut a cabbage rowing in a piece of
garden which forms a portion of the property, as
an assertion of the joint occupation of the six
voters. This system of manufacturing votes was
tried by both parties, and by both parties successfully,
until the over-anxiety of the Conservative party to fabri-
cate votes in the end led to their own discomfiture. A
company was formed the object of which was to
induce the surrounding clergy of Conservative
politics to allow themselves to be made voters in
the way above-mentioned; but, as they did not substan-
tiate on oath the qualification set up on their behalf, their
names were struck off the list by the Revising Bar-
rister." Thus it will be seen what devices will be
imagined and what difficulties encountered in • small
borough with parties somewhat equally divided in order
to gam the victory, or at least to encourage rich can-
didates to • contest. How much was habitually
spent by the candidates themselves of late years we
can hardly tell, but a Mr. John Yabbicom who has been
for nia.rly thirty years connected with banks at Totnes,
told the commission that for the last fourteen years ke
had, in opposition to his ordinary practice, purposely
omitted to take the numbers of notes paid out of or into
his bank at the time of an election, in order to prevent the
notes being traced, should it turn out that they had been
used for the purpose of bribery.—Times.
GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALIDONIAN-ROAD,
Iscritorow.—Number of patients for the week ending
March 16, 1,006, of which 189 were new cases.