The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-23 00:00:00

THE HORSE SHOW.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning the horse show was again visited
quite as numerously as on the previous day by a highly
respectable company, including a very large number of
the aristocracy.
Amongst the earlier visitors were the Duke and Duchess
of St. Albans, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Tredegar and
family, &c.
There was throughout the morning a very spirited
competition amongst several noblemen and gentlemen
to secure some of the most valuable hunters and
hacks, which wero notified as being for sale. Gene-
ral Count Fleury has purchased for the Emperor of
the French Sir George Wornbwell's very beautiful
chestnut hunter, Hawkaeye, 15 hands 31 inches, aged 7
years, by the Hawk, by Irish Birdcatcher, for 500 guineas ;
as also Mr. Chas. Symonde's, of Oxford. Fire King, 6 years
old chestnut, bytbe Horn of Chase, darn by Birdcatcher— Ist
prize of 20/. in Class 9, " Park Hacks and Ladies' Horses," for
150 guineas. The Duke of Marlborough's splendid dark brown
stallion, Blenheim, 16 hands 1 inch high, realised 150
guineas. There were a very large number of sales effected
in spite of the financial crisis, and at sums which have
astonished those who are acquainted with the value of
horse flesh.

The festival of the Hampshire choirs is to be
held in Winchester Cathedral. The choirs will number at
least a thousand individuals.

The lovers of oysters will be glad (says the Owl)
to hear that a bill to regulate the cultivation of this
luscious mollusc is shortly to be introduced in the House
of Commons by Mr. Milner Gibson. The main object of
this measure will be to enable the Board of Trade to give
permission to oyster breeders to obtain grants of the fore-
shores for the purposes of oyster cultivation.
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Two men have already fallen victims to the war
fever. They were Italians, of the Austrian regiment of
Haugwitz. Finding themselves stationed near the Saxon
frontier, they deserted their colours, hoping to find their
way to Prussia. Their capture was quickly effected, when I
military law had its course. The Haugwitz regiment has
been withdrawn from the border and stationed at Prague.
THE LATE ATTEMPT ON COUNT BISMARCK. —A
letter from Germany mentions that Dr. Maschka, Pro-
teaser of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of
Prague, has just given two lectures on the attempt made
by young Blind on the life of Count de Bismarck. The con-
clusion he arrived at was that the Prussian minister must
have been saved by a coat of mail. As professor of legal
medicine Dr. Maschka showed that to suppose that a shot
from s pistol, the muzzle of which was pressed
against the object fired at, would be deadened
was absurd. Either the firearm would burst, or
the body aimed at would be regularly traversed by
the charge. If the muzzle of a pistol is screwed
against a plank the barrel will bunt. But if simply
pressed against the board, the hand which holds it will
receive a very violent shock, but the plank is nevertheless
pierced. The same professor also examined the death of
young Blind. The wounds he made were not of a nature to
cause death, unless the knife which he procured, notwith-
standing the vigilance of the police who searched him with
great care, was poisoned. To M. Maschka that is the only
possible explanation.
An open-air meeting of the friends of parlia-
mentary reform was held at Birmingham on Monday even-
ing. The following resolution was passed :—" That this
meeting firmly believes in the honesty of her Majesty's
government in their dealing with the reform question, and
accord them their earnest support ; and it can regard no
measure as final which falls short of registered manhood
suffrage, with the protection of the ballot."
THE CATTLE PLsous.—We are glad to be enabled
to state that no further case of the cattle plague since the
one which occurred at Cahn has come within our know-
ledge. The farmers generally, notwithstanding the pro.
fessional opinions which have been given, bold to the
belief that the cows which have lately been the subject of
so much comment were not affected with the rinderpest.—
Northern Whig.