The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

BETTING iN LONDON.-(THIS DAY.)

HALF-PAST Two o'CLocs.
Very few members present, and but little doing.
Quotations as follows :

CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Dolby (t)
20 to 1 Newland (t)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
12 to 1, apt Vauban (t)
V) to 1 Van Amburgb (off)
DERBY.
9 to 1 eget D'Estoumel (off, tloto 1)
9to 1 The Rake (of►)
'lO to 1 Marksman (off )
1000 to 3.S Juliu■ (t)
1000 to 30 The Palmer (t)
4000 to 30 ForeMght (t)

DISCOVERY OF TREASURE AT HARTLEPOOL.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.

An extensive and extraordinary discovery of trea-
sure trove has been made on the sea-beach, midway between
West Hartlepool and Seaton Carew, opposite to a farm
known as Carr Howie. The recent severe weather and
heavy sea has been the cause of all the surface sand being
washed from the beach at this locality, and for upwards
of a mile along the shore layers of peat and pebbles
alone form the surface of the coast, and it is in
the midst of the pent that the singular discovery
has been made. It appears on Sunday afternoon some
working men were walking along the beach, and being
astonished at the extraordinary appearances of the beach,
by the deposit of such a quantity of peat, curiosity caused
them to dig a portion of it over with sticks that they were
carrying, and they turned up several coins which, were
embedded in the peat. They were quite black, but, on rub-
bing them, they found that they were Spanish dollars, about
the size of a ss. piece. They renewed their search, and
found a large number, but the tide was approaching and
they had to desist. A report was soon spread about the
town of the extraordinary discovery, and when the tide
receded hundreds of people were on the sands in search of
treasure. During the whole of the night the people were
working with lamps, and some of them got as many as 90
of these coins, which are worth about 4s. 6d. each. Alto-
gether some hundreds of coins have been found, but no
estimate can be formed of the exact number, as people who
find them 'decline to acknowledge the number they get.
Besides these coins, which are of the reign of Carolns the
Third and Fourth, dated from 1720 to 1804, some gold
coins have been found, a gold crucifix, and sonic gold rings.
Yesterday morning the scene nn the beach was almost in•
describable. Some thousands of people were assembled
as though it was some gold minethat had been discovered,
andmen, women, and children wereengagal in searching for
the treasure. People were armed with all kinds of spades,
rakes, picks, shovels, and the women and children had even
stripped their fire-places of the coslrakes, and were engaged
in the general search. When anyone made a " find" they
generally rushed from the crowd on to the banks to analyse
the contents of the piece of precious peat. Some pieces of
peat were taken up covered with the coins, and one man is
said to have got as far as 6f. worth in a single lift. When
persons were lucky in picking up the coins a general cry of
pleasure was given by the crowd, and it appeared to make
each person work harder in his search. The deposit of so
many coins at this place is accounted for by the fact that in
the year 1829 a vessel called the Duck, of London, came
ashore at this particular spot. The wreck was purchased by
Sheraton and Co., and when it was broken to pieces about
300 f. worth of Sranish dollars were found concealed in the
timbers of the ship. The vessel had formerly been a slaver
belong to a Spanish port, and was captured by the
English and sold to a gentleman in Woolwich. There is no
doubt that these coins had been also secreted in the vessel,
but had been washed out when she became a wreck, and
had been covered over with sand from that time until now
this stormy weather has removed the sand and exposed
them to view.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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