The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TituRSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1866.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE

On ammo Tzumours.)
NEWMARKET MEETING. -(THIS DAY.)

SWEEPSTAKZEL

Emma won by 30 'tollgate::
P'LLTE.
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Dalemma ... ... ...
KaliPiga ... ..- •-•
7 rail.
BREPBY STAMM.
Salaaiaaaoa filly ... ...
Ravioli ... ...
... ... ...
6 rail.
HANDICAP PLATE.
Pommes ... ... ...
Kingslei ... ... - •
11 rail.

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOVS. T.Y.C.
Terceira, Bst 101 b ; Pirate Chief, Bst 101 b ; Python,
Bst 71b ; Magpie. Bst 71b ; Jasper, 84 4lb ; Land Tax,
Bst 41b ; Maul of Meehan:, Bst 21b ; Sweet Home, Bst ;
Blinkhoolie, Bst ; Easby, Bst ; Heiden, 7st Lilb ; Red
Shoes, 7st 101 b ; Scipio, 7st 101 b ; Claymore, 7st 101 b ;
Novioe, 7st 911); Charles the Second, 7st 61b ; Bandmaster,
7st 51b ; Court Card, 7st 31b ; My Love, nit 121 b ;
Trembler, 6st 71b ; Arcadia, Est 51b ; Arohereas 1, Est ;
and Escort, bat. All are here.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 BOYS. T.Y.C.
Brimstone, Berkdale, lon, and Slieve Cann are here.
Winner to be sold for 100 f.
NEWMARKET OAKS. T.M.M.
Mane. Cleopatra, Labia, Rappel de Elnan, Hobe,
Penelope Plotwell, Mineral, MM.. de Varaville, Vaga-
bonds, Simonette, Minus, Wild Briar, Gaunt's, Nersili,
Masurka, and Quick March are here.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 SOUS. T.Y.C.
Ostreger, Bst 121 b ; Pantaloon, Bet 71b ; Troublesome,
7st 12tb ; Janitor, 7st 51b ; Flatus, fiat 111 b ; Queen of the
Isles, bet 51b ; Kingsley, sst nb ; King of Spades, sst 71b.
All are here.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. T.Y.C.
Ethelred, Flying Jib, Satyr, Tribute 1, Strathclyde,
Canard, Monitor, Goodfellow, Gaiety, and Phantom SaiL
All are here.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. T.Y.C.
Novice, Bceeleaf, Domestic Bliss, Purchase, Dishy,
Duchess, Beanolerk, Caleb, Heretoline and Soiled Dove
are here. The winner to be sold for 1501.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOVS. D.I.
Ostreger, Bst 12Ib ; Troublesome, 7st 121 b ; Janitor,
Ist 51b ; Queen of the Isles, &t 51b ; and King of Spades,
Set 71b. A.ll are here.
PAID POSPlST.—Pantaloon, Plutna, and Kingsley.

MR. Isaac Barr, Q.C.—The following is an ex-
tract of • letter received by • gentleman in Belfast,
from his son in Dublin By the way, another dis- ,
tinguished and popular Irishman, and who is one of 1
the ablest members of the Irish bar, a 4.C., and 11
formerly Professor of Political Economy in Dublin P
University, and late M.P., for • once famous,
though now obscure, southern borough, and author
of several works, pamphlets, Sus., has crossed the
Rubicon and gone over to Rome. In plain English, the
person I allude to is Mr. Isaac Butt, whom I saw at mass
in Westland-row Chapel yesterday (Sunday) ; and the
catholic priest who officiated on the omission announced
the fact in his (Mr. Butt's) preeence, withholding, how-
ever, the name of the learned gentleman. He merely
said that a " leading member of the Irish bar, and a
Queen's Counsel, had been received into the bosom
of the catholic church." Mr. Butt, I have reason to
know, is at present engaged in writing a pamphlet, in
which he will state his reasons for becoming a catholic.
Some of the MS. is in the hands of the printers ; and,
as it would be unfair to give any extracts from it just
now, and as, moreover, it will create a great sensation,
from the scholarly, masterly, and even convincing style
in which it Is written, I prefer waiting until it appears,
which will be in a few days. This is strange news—at
least it will be to some, though those who know the learned
gentleman, and enjoy his intimacy, have no hesitation in
telling you that it is not strange at all—that years ago he
had a notion that way, and that it is not at all a re-
markable event.—Northern Whig.
YARMOUTH ExEcrioN Commtssiow.—ln con-
tinuation of the evidence reported yesterday, Mr. Watkin,
M.P., said that the statement that he had required 5001.
from Mr. Mellor for the " goodwill "of the borough, was
in every sense untrue. The amount which witness paid
from August,lBs6, to the spring of 1858, was about 1,3001.;
this included payment for shares which he took in a local
paper, subscriptions to local charities, registration, testi-
monials, Sce. A portion of the money wee paid on Mr.
M'Cullagh's account, and witness thought it would have
been squared, but some difference arose in the 'batter.
The ground of Mr. M'Cullagh's refusal to reim-
burse witness was that he had spent a great deed of money
between 1352 and 18.57 in getting the register into a state
which led to their return ; and he thought what had been
paid should be set off against a portion of what had been
paid at the election. He (Mr. Watkin) thought Sir E.
Lacon'a brewery a great evil in Yarmouth. If the com-
missioners looked at the register, they would observe that
there was a larger number of persons who sold drink in
Yet mouth than in almost any borough with 1,500 electors.
Mess liked power, and this was purchesed in Yarmouth by
the beer-selling influence. Ho thought that undue use
was made of Sir E. Lecon's brewery influence. Sir H. J.
Stracey, who WAS a candidate at the last election, was next
examined. He made a point of not inquiring what the
election of 1359 cost him, and he had not a single docu-
ment which related to his expenditure in Yarmouth. He
believed that about one-fourth of the voters were venal,
but his impression WAS that at least three-fourths of the
boroughs of the United Kingdom were as venal as Yar-
mouth. Mr. Young, late M.P. for Helston, was also
examined, and his evidence was mainly corroborative of
that given by Mr. Watkin. The commissioners again
adjourned.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—At an inquest
held on the sth inst., at Bradwell, Bucks, before Mr.
Worley, the district coroner, on the body of Elizabeth
Walters, a child aged five years, and who died from
hydrophobia, evidence was given of practice almost in-
credible in a civilised country in the 19th centu. A
witness, Sarah Meekness, stated—" I live at Bradwell,
and am wife of Thomas Meekness, a farm labourer.
I saw the deceased child after it was bitten by the
dog, which was about nine weeks back, and was re-
quested by the father of the child to give her some of the
liver of the dog, and he was to get some from the dog, which
had this been killed and buried. I accordingly went to the
house—it was either the day after the child was bitten or
the next day. The mother cut off a piece of the liver,
weighing about an ounce, or an ounce and a half. I
frizzled it before the fire on a fork for wine minutes, till
it was well cooked and dried up, and then gave it to the
child, with some bread. She ate it freely, about two
mouthfuls, and hail sonic warm tea after it." The grand-
father and parents of the child were anxious for the
liver to be given, thinking it would prevent the bite of the
mad dog taking effect, as formerly an uncle of the child
had escaped hydrophobia after having been bitten, and
haring taken some of the liver of the dog which bit him.
It that case, it is stated, the carcass of the dog had been in
the water nine days before the liver was taken out.

In a sleeping-car recently a man in one of the
berths became greatly annoyed by a crying child, whom its
father was trying in vain to quiet. The irite individual at
last shouted out, " What the devil is the matter with that
young one?" And soon again, " Where is the mother of
that child, that she is not here to pacify it?" At this the
..r gentleman in charge of the chill stepped up to the
rth and said, " Sir, the mother of that child is in her
coffin in the baggage-car." The grumbler immediately
arose and compelled the sfflicted father to retire to his
berth, and from that time until morning he took the little
orphan under his own care.—/Y tie York Tribune.
The Hon. John O'Shannasey, formerly prime
minister of Victoria, was entertained at a banquet on Mon-
day evening in the town of Tipperary. 3lr.O'Shannassy
left Tipperary when a very young man, and, having risen
to wealth and eminence in his adopted country, he has
now re-visited his native land after an absence of
nearly thirty years. Mr. O'Shannassy stated that lie re-
cognised a great change and marked improvement in Ire-
laud since the time when he quitted it to seek his fortune
at the antipodes—an improvement indicated by the pro-
gress made in agriculture, the increase in the rate of wages,
the opening of railways, and the decrease of crime.
PRISONERS SITTING TOR THEIR PORTRAITS.—
Some treat the attempt with open defiance, resolutely re-
fusing to sit still during the operation ; others, with a
mock air of submission, sit perfectly quiet during the pre-
liminary arrangements and focussing operation, but move
sufficiently at the vital moment of exposure ; others, who
pretend to have no objection to be portrayed contrive to
produce such an amount of facial contortion by squinting,
twisting the month, Ice., as will effectually destroy iden-
tity in the portrait. In some cases this cunning is met
with resolute perseverance, and in others with stratagem,
so that in all oases a sufficiently characteristic likeness is
obtained. One governor informs us that he generally con-
trives that the operation shall take place just before dinner,
and refractory sitters are informed that no dinner will be
dispensed until the portrait has been obtained, a practical
argument, the force of which is generally recognised. In
another gaol, after the sitter has, by movement or contoe'
tion, baffled the portraitist, he, or still more commonly she,
is handed to a seat in a well-lighted p 1 ice to rest awhile
I and watch the operation repeated with the next criminal.
The sitter just rejoicing in the cunning which has defeated
the attempt of the photographer, generally sits perfectly
still, watching with eager interest the operation for which
another is sitting. In the meantime, a concealed camera,
within range of which the first victim had been placed, is
; I doing its work, and a natant' and charactericliehlseneu is
obtained of the unconscious criminal, who had apparently
I retired, master of the situation.—British Quarterly Review,
new number.