The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-20 00:00:00

WARWICK SPRING MEETING.

The following telegram was received from our
turf reporter at 1.30 p.m. this day :—" Races again post-
poned until 2 o'clock tomorrow (Thursday). The snow is
very deep, but at present is thawing rapidly, and there
appears every probability of the races coining off to-
morrow. Many people have gone away."
ARRlV6l).—Wandering Minstrel, Queen of Trumps
Gordian Knot, and Elegance.

BETTING IN LONDON.-(THIS DAY.)

HALF-PAST Two o'CLock.

The attendance not very numerous, and the
business transacted limited. There is no noteworthy
change to record, and the hones mentioned in the quota-
tions were not supported for any great amount. Closing
prices :

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
100 to 8 agst Wild Agnes (t)
100 to 6 Longdown (t)
100 to 6 Aldcroft (off)
20 to 1 Ostreger (off, t2sto 1)
20 to 1 Vespazian (oft, t2sto 1)
40 to 1 Sea Mew (t)
50 to 1 Weather Star (off)

METROPOLITAN.
100 to 15 apt Duniany (off)
15 to 1 Tonrmalin (t, 100 to 6 eft. off)
100 to 6 Tormentor (t, 100 to 5 aft. off)

CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 apt Moulaey (t)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3 to 1 apt Plaudit (off, t 100 to 30)
100 to 11 Julius (off)
100 to 8 Vauban (t)
DERBY.
10 to 1 apt D'Eatournel (off)

Last night, a numerously attended meeting, con-
vened by the young men's committee in co-operation with
the Liberation Society, was held under the presidency of
Mr. J. Spencer Bell, at Radley's Hotel, New Bridge.
street, Blackfriars, to hear an ultimo; from Mr. Charles
Roundel!, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, on
ecclesiastical testa in the universities and grammar schools.

THE HEALTH OP LONDON. appears from the
return issued by authority of the Registrar-General
that in the week that ended on Saturday, March 16,
the births registered in London and twelve other
large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,479 • the
deaths registered, 3,403. The annual rate of mortality
was 'Z.) per 1,000 persons living. In London the baths of
1,098 boys and 1,048 girls, in all 2,146 children, were
registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks
of ten years, 1857-66, the average number, corrected for
increase of population, is 2,226. The deaths registered in
London during the week were 1,572. It was the eleventh
week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for
the week 6, with a correction for increase of population,
1,579. The deaths in thepreseotretura approximate closely
to the estimated number. The effects of the north-
easterly winds and the low temperature on the public
health, arc again exemphffed by the increase in the number
of deaths in London frem 1,425 in the week which ended
March 9th to 1,572 last week. In the same period the
(baths from bronchitis increased from 175 to 710, the
deaths from pneumonia from 78 to 103, and the deaths
from diseases of the heart from 70 to KI. The number of
persons who died under 20 years of age increased from 679
to 723, and the number of persons who died at the age of
60 and upwards increased from 281 to 310. The deaths
from zymotic diseases last week were Ng. Thirty-five
deaths from small-pox were registered ; 2in the West, $
in the North, 3 in the Central. 13 in the East, and 9 in
the South districts. The deaths from typhus were 31 ;
the mortality from typhus is greatest in the East districts,
where II deaths were repented. Sixty-four children died
from whooping-cough, 13 from scarlatina, and 4 from diph-
theria.

THE BRITISH LoDGER. —Once more is the Lodger
conspicuous for his absence from parliamentary reform.
The procession is long enough, and a good many make at
least halt a dozen appearances in various fancy dresses, but
the Lodger, the man of every class, and the best represen-
tative of every interest, is not to be found there, unless he
comes in some strange disguise. Indeed, what disguise
here would fit the average Lodger ? He has not house and
land, otherwise he would not be in lodgings. He seldom
keeps a horse ; his landlady objects to a dog ; he has no man
servant ; he shows no armorial bearings ; it is seldom
indeed that be has 501. in either the funds or • savings
bank ; he has very rarely either a degree or an educa-
tional certificate ; only a small proportion of his class are
clerical. Yet the lodger is universal, übiquitous, and
welcome everywhere. eis the coming man of all classes.
The cottager with a third room, or the village shopkeeper
with a parlour, has a Lodger if be can get one. Ground-
floor fronts and backs, first-floor fronts and backs,
second-floor fronts and hacks, throughout whole
streets and quarters of our large cities, are like
the tiers of vast pigeon-houses, or the cells of
• beehive, to flocks and swarms of Lodgers. Not
that they are so volatile and migratory • race a. this would
imply, for there are few people more closely tethered than
the British Lodger. Mansions are bought and sold, banks
start and stop, companies swell and burst, while the Lodger
remains. All his days are spent out, and he is glad to get
home in the evening, and rest or enjoy himself, without
thinking of a change. Yet he is an absolute necessity of
British social life. The quiet sort of folks who entertain
in • cheap way once or twice a week, or are at home
most evenings, think the world is frowning on them
if one or two Lodgers don't drop in. The Lodger
is the Arab of the social desert. Life is indeed drear
where he never shows himself. The truly domestic hus-
band never leaves his fireside, and the sacred fire is apt to
smoulder and smoke a little. It is the Lodger that pokes
it up and supplies a modicum of intellectual fuel. But
there are lodgers of all grades. There is a hierarchy of
Lodgers, seraphim and cherubim, literary and scientific
Lodgers, affectionate and witty Lodgers, who go the round
of an admiring or loving circle, linking firesides together
as comets were once said to do suns, and bringing into the
very corners of society small currents from the mighty
tide of human life. What would London be without
Lodgers. What would England ?--Tiaiss.