The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-21 00:00:00

HANDICAP PLATE. T.Y.C.

Sunny Treks, Sstioib; Gretns,l7Bl6,76lpsy Queen,
Bet 41b ; Gentle Kitty, 7st 121 b; and Veni, let 121 b. All
are here.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 PAYS. Bretby Course.
Grall Duke, Musa, and Paris. All are here.
100/. PLATE. R.M.

Van Amburgh, Silentts, hissisans c, King Victor,
Longchampa, Lord Ronald, Challenge, Dalesn,an, and
Jasper ire here.

CRITERION STAKES. Three quarters of a mile.
Franchise, Bab at the Roseate? f, St. Ronan, Inspiration,
Wardour, Courtmantle, Makeshift c, Leonia, Naiveté, Real-
crucian, Blue Gown, Bel (Homo, Rabiean, Ouragan, The
Demon, Choral, Restitution, King Alfred, and Ironmuter
are here.
All others paid forfeit.

HANDICAP PLATE. Cambridge Course.
Breadalbane, 9st ; Lord Ronald, gat; Knight of the
Garter, Rat 10lb ; King Charming. 84t 10Ib ; Beecham-
meter, est Rib ; Challenge, fist Mb ; Treason Trove, Bstilb ;
Artesian, Rat 21b ; Mount Palatine, Rat ; Vespasian, est ;
Feu Follet, Rat ; Repulse, 7st 121 b ; Dragon, 74 121 b ;
Blinkboolie, 7st 101 b; The Peer, 7st 1016 ; Jasper, 7st Rib;
Kirg Victor. 7st Mb ; Pintail, 7st alb ; Claverhouse, Tat ;
S"enus, 7st Montgoubei t, Tat ; Montagnard, 7st ; Pirate
Chief, ist ; Maid of Usk, rot 131 b ; Porter's Knot, Est 121 b;
Ravioli, 6st I llb ; Priest. gat 91b ; Miliora, Est elb ; Violent,
Rat 71b ; Leap Year, 6et 71b ; Dulcimer, fist jib; Valorous,
6st Mb; Lady Tredegar, fat Mb; Water Cure, 64 bib;
Ganymede, Get 21b ; Little Treasure. Est ; New Guinea.
oat 1216; Distaff, Sat 101 b; and Coalition f, Set nb. All
are here.
PAID FORMIT.—The Pier.

BETTING IN LONDON.-(THIS DAY.)

2.15 P.Y.

Very few members present and not much doing ; the
features of the day were the retrogression of Honesty, and
the advance of Laneret and Harty Brailsford. Puce, as
follows:

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
6to 1 eget Honeety ft & off)
9to 1 Lettaret (t)
10 to 1 Aches. (t & off)
10 to 1 Knight of the Garter (off)
100 to 7 Blinkhoolie (t)
100 to 6 Lozenge (off, t 100 to 5)
100 to 6 Wroughton (off, t 100 to 5)
20 to 1 Julius (off)
T 2 to 1 Harry Brailiford (t)
40 to 1 La Dauphine (t)
200 to 2 Ulphus (1)

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
THREE CHILDREN SUFFOCATED.

On Saturday an inquest was held at Moseley,
near Wolverhampton, before Mr. W. H. Phillips, deputy
coroner, on the bodies of three children who bad been
killed together under very painful circumstances. The
deceased were named John Morris, aged six; William
Morris, aged four ; and Elisabeth Morris, aged two, all
the children of • waggoner, named Benjamin Morrie, in
the employ of a farmer named James Wiggle, of Old
Moseley Hall—the house in which Charles 11. was secreted
on his way from Boscobel. which is about seven miles
distant. blorris, his wife, a eon aged eight, and the de-
ceased all lived in a cottage opposite to the hall. The father
earned 12s. a week and lived rent free, and the mother
worked in the fields at 10d. a day whenever Mr. Wiggin
wanted her help. On Friday the mother went to work at
a quarter past eight in the morning, leaving the deceased
in the kitchen and • Doing to amuse them, but with
scarcely any fire in the grate. At half-put nine the house
was supposed to be on fire by an old woman who lived
in an adjoining cottage, and an alarm to that effect
was raised. Mr. W' in and others tried to get upstairs,
from thence the smoke was issuing, but could not. After-
wards he got ill through the window, and found that some
straw had been on fire near to the top of the stairs. Pre-
sently the father was called from work, and he, at great
risk of suffocation, forced his way into the children's bed-
room. All were lying on their bed on the floor quite
dead. They had died, the surgeon (Mr. Oaths), who after-
wards arrived from Wolverhampton, said, half • minute
after they were overpowered by the smoke. The floor of
the house was much burnt where the straw bad been
placed, and Inciter matches had been found strewed about
the floor. Matches had been kept in the room ; and there
can be no doubt that the children went upstairs, used
them to ignite the straw, attempted unsuccessfully to get
through the flames to the stairs, and then ran into their
own bedroom, where overpowered by a feeling as of stupor
they lay down upon their bed and died almost instantly.
The jury returned • verdict of " Death from accidental
suffocation " and the coroner condemned the practice of
mothers going to work and leaving their children so young
and unprotected.

Mr. Thompson, the newly-elected member for
Bradford, arrived at hie residence, Park-gate, Guiseley, on
Saturday evening, and an address of welcome was pre-
sented to him by his neighbours. In reply, he stated that
he felt the responeibi'ity of the position to which ha bad
been selected, and promised that he would not neglect the
interests of Bradford or those of the place where he re-
sided.

The foundation atone of the Stowell Memorial
Church was laid on Saturday by the Bishop of Manchester.
The side he at the end of Croes•lane, Manchester, not far

from Christ Church, where Canon Stowell laboured for so
many years, and it is expected that sufficient money will
be raised to build a pare.niar as well as a church.

Messrs. Chondan and Co., the Paris publishers
of Gounod's most recent opera, Romeo and Juliet, have, by
• contract concluded with Herr von Baleen, the intendant
of the Royal Theatres at Berlin, declared themselves to be
willing to grant to all German theatres the right of per-
forming the abovementioned opera against • payment of 5
per cent. of the gram receipts. In reference to the price
for the score, which Moors. Chondan reserve to themselves
the right to supply, it has been left to the single theatres
to come to an agreement with the publishers, according to
the position and circumstances of each. For the royal
theatres at Hanover, Cassel, and Wiesbaden Herr von
Hulsen agreed upon the mice of 300 thalers.

At the Leopoldstadt Theatre, Vienna, a play
is being acted called Munk and Soldier, in which a priest,
arrayed in strict clerical uniform, differing in no single
respect from the handreds to be met with every day in the
narrow streets of Kaiserstadt, is held up to public scorn
and reprobation for lying, cheating, and malingering. Ela-
borate diatribes against " wolves in .beeps' clothing," and
allusions to the " twenty-five" (bishops sous-entendo), the
conconlat, the Emperor Joseph, and the general upset of
priest-rule, are nightly received with thunders of applause
by crowded audiences.

The Argyll steamer landed at Soutbampton last
week from France in two voyages 48 bullocks, 91 sheep, 38
pigs, 31 cages of live poultry, 11 packages of dead poultry,
and 477 cases of eggs.

A number of shipwrights have gone out to Suez
from Southampton, to repair the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's mail steamer Surat, which recently struck on
a roof about 90 miles from Suez.

A new lifeboat was launched at Bembridge, in
the Isle of Wight, last week. The boat and boat-house
cost 800/. The boat was ■ gift of the citizens of Worcester.
The Mayor of Worcester ':messed the ceremony of
launching.

The churches at East and West Cowes, in the
Isle of Wight, are rebuilding. Her Majesty's marine
palace is near East Cowes.
The Bangalore, one of the new steamers re-
cently built for the Peninsular and Oriental Company,
ran from Southampton to Gitraltar in 3 days 17 boors.
This is one of the quickest passage, ever made. The dis-
tance is 1,000 miles. She experienced boi weather, and
nearly all on board wire at one time sea-sick. One day
only four persons were able to sit down to dinner.