The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-03 00:00:00

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self to be hurried away into a war which would be a crime
against herself. Ws hope, we fumly beings, that on her
aide Germany will not refuse to civilisation and to Europe
what an imperative injunction would not obtain from her,
and that she will abandon her pretensions when she sees
that France puts forward none that can cause her any
uneasiness.

The Temps also publishes addresses in favour of
peace which are being signed in other parts of
France.

*parting intelligence.

CHESTIER RACK/S.—THURSDAY.
The excitement attending the Chester Cup is invariably fol.
lowed by the greatest apathy among racing men, and the
attendance of the general public renders the day following
the
great race an " off " one in the literal adaptation of the word.
At the Ronne on Wednesday evening members were principally
occupied In discussing the phases of the great race, and it was
not until a late bour that any speculation took place. There
were, however, some heavy bets laid sto 2 was taken about
Vauban to several hundreds, sod after 1000 to 300 had been
betted about The Bakst at 7 to 2 be was entrusted with a large ;
amount. The heaviest wagers, however, were on the two
coupled ; a thcemand pounds nee was laid followed by smaller
amounts, and eventually 000 to 600 was betted on the pair.
Vauban with a start was also hacked for close upon flee thousand
pounds to two bets, 1400 to 700 and 7000 to 4000, but the latter
price was offered afterwards. There was an attempt made to
speculate on the BL Lager, but sto 2 only was offered
Achievement, a price her friends declined to accept, against
i,
backer of Plaudit wished toinvest £5OO, but could notbe accemmo-
dated with 30 to 1, the lowest price he would take. The boat ran
between Chambers and Kelley was also made the medium of
wagering, the northerner being slightly the favourite. This
morning was brilliantly fine, the air being as warns as
summer, but by two o'clock, the time the sport commenced,
the sky became overcast ; nevertheless the afternoon was very
enjoyable fur racing. Before going to the course, at the sub-
scription rooms The Rake was hacked for C2OO for the Derby at
7 to 2, while Dragon needed still further in the mega-
tious, 100 to 6 being offered against him. A meeting of the
grand stand proprietors was held during the morning, under
the presidency of sir W. W. Wynue, when it was unanimously
resolved to discontinue the deductions which have hitherto been
made in the came of winners, except in the Chatter Cap. It was
also agreed to vote £1,700 for the races next year. The card of
the day contained no less than eight races, commencing with
the Ceatalan Handicap, for which half a dozen of the fifteen
entered were started. Conundrum was made favourite,
5 to 4 being freely accepted, while Diamond was backed
at sto 2 for good money. The result was a reversal of the judg-
ment of the backers, as Diamond, after a rattling fialah, de-
feated the favourite by a neck. The AU-aged SeltiVtaes,
with five runners„ produced a hot favourite in Lady
the betties, opening et 2to lon her, her coiner. the Marquis of
Hastings, laying 1000 to 500 in one bet. The fielders. however,
would not be daunted, and before the flag fell freely accepted 11
to 8, while Diadem received e large amount of sapper' at h to I.
In this instance the "talent" were correct, as the ran wes re-
duced to a match between the pair, the favourite winning cleverly
by a neck. fate realised £2OO when pat up for auction, £l7O over
her entered selling price, her purchaser beteg Sir Frederick
Juhnstosie. The rename fur the Dso Stakes dwindled down
to hat three, so that 100 lOTA. Instead of 200 son. were
added according to the conditions of the nee. Although
the field was so small betting was very spirited between
Van Amburgh and The Rescue. The former opened favourite
at even money. but the followers of Lord Coventry's
colt were so persistent In their investments that as much as 7
to 4 was laid against Mr. Pryor's representative. The Benue
made the running till reaching the distance, where the moment
thalioner called upon " Vaa," he beaded the ere of Lifeboat
and Whiteleg, and won in a canter by a length, amidst tre-
mendous the es from the bookmakers. The success of The
Rake's stable companion caused several investment' to be made
oo Mr. Ilyer's colt for the Derby; bat, although several hue-
drab of pouodswere laid out, the horse remained at 7 to 2. On
the strength of Van Amburgh's victory he was backed for the
Derby, in several bets to win about C 10,000,4 100 to 1. The Mar-
quis of Westminstees Plate was a very Interesting race, with
Woolsey and Lecturer in ft, as It was looked upon as cal-
culated to afford a sifting of . the Chester Cup run-
ning. Moutsey by the slight scrimmage that occurred.
in the rate on Wednesday was deprived of a great deal of his
jockey's assistance, by Orimahaw's stirrup iron being ton from
his foot, so that toolay the race was looked upon as • test of
Moubey'e real merit ex a place Investment for the ('up. Moulsere
carried a Mb allowance, according to the condition, of the nee
for not being one of the first three la the great race, and this
feet, together with the mishap above alluded to, made hen
flnarlte. The result proved an easy victory for Lord Bateman's
horse, es he came away at the distance, and won In a canter.
The Two-year-old Plate afforded another proof of Ludy High-
thorn's excellent quality, but It was anything but a bloodless
victory for her, as she only just managed to win by •
neck. A Handicap Plate of e sons fell to the lot of
Captain Christie by the aid of his useful colt Onse, the winner
again passing the post only a neck to front of his antagonist.
The Welter Cup was reduced to • match between etemnimat and
Fanelte first-named winningetully Her Majesty's brought on the
large field, for this Undof race, of 'eight runners, Wm Havelock,
who slatted as rank au outsider as though she were minium/lite
fame, securing the royal prier In • canter. The betting that
took place on the Derby in the coulee of the day presented no
remarkable feature. Vauban crept forward to 9 tee, while 7 to
was taken freely shout the Bale. At one time O 101 was accepted
about Hermit, but he subsequently receded to to to I offered.
Dragon did not Improve hie position much, and Marksman could
boast of but one investment of& " pony." Van Ansburgh and }Ma-
lvin each met with good support at 1000 to 10, while the long
shot of 1000 to 3 was fired against The Rescue. Appended Is •
return of the day's ruuning
Ciente', HeetsicaP of 6 son. each, ft, with 100 added, for
3.yr-olds and upwards; winners extra. Six furlongs. (..a subs.;
Mr. A. Heatheote's Diamond, by Knight of Owymte or
Defiance—Opaque, 3 yrs, bat elb (Wyatt)
Lord Wilton's Conundrum, 4 yrs, 75t (Kenyon) 2
Mr. Johnstone's Holstein, 5 yea, 7st 41b (Cameron) 3
Three others also ran.
Betting :Ito 4 apt Conundrum to *Pt Dian 10114,76 WI
apt Holstein, and 6 to 1 apt Combed
ALL-AGED 8.141.11,10 Free& of 5 sore each, with 30 added ;
penalties and allowances. Half-smile. (7 subs.)
Marquis of Hastings' Lady Berbera, by Lainbten—First
Fly (030', 2 yes, fist rib 'Butler) I
Mr. R. C. Naylor's Diadem (C3o', 4 yes, gat Chalioner) 2
Mr. Lonoghan's Mellon 'e:10", 2 yrs, 64 Sib (Wyatt) 3
Two others also ran.
Betting : 11 to 8 at first 2 to 1) ou lady Barbara, sto 2 apt
Diadem, 6 to 1 apt Mellon, and 10 to 1 " Ur three."
DEI STAILIMI of 10 soya. each, with 100 added, fur 3-yergds :
colts, est 10lb ; lilies, 84 nib; winners extra; second to save his
Make. °manner Course one mile and • quarter). (21 subs.)
Mr. Fleeing s Van Amburgh by Van Galen—Cantina,
Bst 101 b (T. Challooer) 1
Lord Coventry's The Roseate, eat 1011) (J. Adams) 2
tor. J. Bowes's Wild Wind. Bat 10Ib (Carroll: 3
Betting opened at even on Van Amburgh, and closed at
to 4 on The Rescue and 7 to 4 apt Van Amburgh.
MARQCIS or WOTNINATIP.'S Men of 5 SOYA each, with 100
added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ; penalties and allowances,
Groeveoor Course ;26 subs.)
Lord Bateman's Itoulsey. by Teddington—Salwa, 6 yrs,
tat Slb (Gr)mehaw) 1
Marquis of Hastings' Lecturer, 4 yrs, Mt Iftb .. (Cannon: 2
Mr. Barber's Bedford, 5 yrs, let lib (Oradwell) 3
Three others also ran.
Betting : t to 1 eget alouleey, sto 2 eget Lecturer, sto 1 art
The Prelate, and 10 to 1 eget, Foresight.
Two-Tusk-OLD PLATE of 200 son : colts, Bst 101 b; fillies and
geldings, Bst oth; winners extra. Five furlongs. 135 subs.)
Mr. NayleFs Lady, !lighthouse, by Stockwell—Lady Eliza-
beth, Bst Illb (in. sib ex.) (T. Challouer) 1
Mr. Harrison's Thearu, eat Olb (Cameron) 2
Lord Stamford's Idelia, est sib Morris) 3
Four others also ran.
Betting : Even on lady Highthorn, 3 to I agst Idaho, °to 1 opt
Tlmaru, and 100 to 8 apt any other.
HANDICAP PLATE of 5 son. each, 2 ft. with 50 added, for 3.yr-
olds and upwards ; winners extra. Once round and a distance.
(13 ,ults.)
Captain (hrixtle'sOrne, by Penick Khan —Princesse de la
Pals, 3 yrs, 7st (Canseron 1 I
Lord Westmorland's Clown Prince. 4 yes. est elb
51aidment, 2
Lord Westmerland's c by Leamington—Annie Laurie,
3 yes, Oat Alb (Kenyon) 3

BetUng 6to 4 neat Red Rtbsod, to 1 apt Orne, and 100 to 15
apt the Annie Laurie colt.
Winne CU. i Handicap', of 5 sows wish, 2 ft, with 00 added.
Gentlemen riders. One rude and a half. (17 mile..
Mr. F. Dark's Steamboat, by Lifeboat—Whittle& 4 yes.
list sib (Mr. (rawshaw)
Mr. Harbor's Fan, 6 yrs, list 214 Mr. Edwards)
Betting: 6t04 on Steamboat. Mon easily by a length.
Hen St adman's PLATS of 100 Guineas Twice round (rather
over two miles.
Mr. J. IV.sters Mir Havelock, by /Latvian—Qui The,
4 yrs, fixt 7th
Mr. J. Oodiling's colt by Itstaplan—Amanda. 3 „vie,
7st Illb (Hoitable) 2
Mr. Graham's Regalia. 5 )rs, 10•4 'Heantleld, 3
Five others also ran.
Betting : 9 to 4 agst Regalia, 4 to 1 apt Troedale. 9 to 2 east
Whirligig. 5 t. 1 :List ilonettlab, 7 to 1 agst The Peer, and
100 to 12 apt Miss Havelock.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
DERBY.
0 to 4 next Vauban t' 9:1 to 1 agst Marksman 3to
7 to 2 The Rake 63.1
10 to 1 Remit ~,after 1000 to 15 Van Amburgh
900 to 100 had (off, 1000 to 10
Inca taken. t freely)
100 to 8 Dragon t and 1000 to 10 Fits Ivan ft)
off, 100 to GC 1000 to 3 TLe Rescue (t)
AiilTED.—Monitor, Sweet Home, Troubadour.
BETTING AT MIDNIGHT.
Nothing was dune to call for any remark, the prices appended
being sufficient to Indicate the extent of business transacted.
DERBY.
9to 4 apt Vauban Ct 01 25 to 1 apt The Painter 'wl
1100 to 400 The Rile 5.5 to 1 IlEatournet
9to I Hermit ,t' SD to 1 off
1000 to Grand Crime (0.1 1900 to The Corporal
20 to I (off,tloooto
Considerable difficulty won exnerlenced Immediately after the
race fur the Chester Cup in arriving at the exact odds laid
against Endsleh. Her ~t,rting price may be set down as 23 to
I. but oho was not backed in the ring except inclusively with
Mr. Brio les.' lot, shout which 20 to I was accepted.
Archimedes was struck out of the IlsrquU of Westminster's
Plate at 9.0 a.m. yesterday ,Thursday).
•

A deputation of the East India Association
waited on the Secretary of State for India on Wednesday,
to protest against the interpretationgiven by the Governor.
General of India to Lord Cranborne a despatch, granting
compensation to officers of the Indian army for the
loam they had sustained by the compulsory abolition of
the regimental bonus funds.

[TWOPENCE

Sint Arts.

THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT SPECIAL EXHIBITION
AT SOUTH KENSINGTON.

A second collection of national portraits is now
exhibited at the same galleries which last year were filled
with so large an assemblage, brought together from the
many private houses ci the country where they have been
preserved as family tremens, as well as from the various
libraries and colleges to which from time to time the pic-
tures have been presented. The originator of this ex-
ceedingly interesting exhibition was, it will be remem-
bered, Lord Derby, who contributed himself no small
number of his own ancestry. The last section of the na-
tional portraits was brought to • close with the beginning
of the reign of William and Mary, the present one takes
up the historical series and brings it down to the end of
the last century. A vast number of pictures has been dis-
played, in all no less than 866 portraits, but altogether the
interest of the exhibition is very much lost by the great
excess of the works of Sir Godfrey Kneller, who was
at best but a heavy though a vigorous painter, and
by the repetition of portraits of but very small
artistic merit by the really great men of our school—
Hogarth, Reynolds, Oainaborough. However, to those
who are more concerned with the biographical side of the
subject than the art that these works display, there is an
abundant cause of study of very varied and constant
interest in paining amongst this vast company of per-
sonages, all more or less distinguished or notorious. The
portraits of Sir Isaac Newton and Locke, by Kneller, are
singularly coarse in execution, but they have a rude force
in them which seems to bring out at least the more obvious
points in their fine countenances into strong relief ; yet it
Is difficult to accept these rough hewn portraits as giving us
the true men in all their profound and subtle thought.
Sir Godfrey himself had not enough in his own head to
put any intellect into his portraits, and so it is that his
faces rarely do justice to the original. Sir James Thorn-
hill's portrait of Newton is still worse. Kneller's portrait
of Sir Richard Steele (111) is more refined, but we get a
more favourable opinion of his powers as a painter in
the portrait of Thomas, first Marquis of Wharton (118),
which is remarkable for freshness and good colouring. It
is strange, however, to observe how little influence the
fine style of Vandyck left upon the race of tasteless
painters who followed that great man in England. Indeed
the predeoesaors of Ley and Kneller—Walker, Dobson,
Riley, Greenhill, and Michael Wright, painted with far
greater taste for the nicer beauties of the art, and have
left us much truer records of the men. In Hogartb,
however, we meet a painter inferior to none when he
chose to occupy himself thoroughly with his work. There
are several very admirable examples of his genius in the
exhibition, all marked with his power for seizing character
in a head, and some painted with much more finish than
is generally noticeable it his works. We must confess,
notwithstanding, that some of the best examples of por-
traiture are by foreign painters at the time staying in
England, as for example that of "The Countess of Albany"
(308), by Raphael Menge, and that of " John Gay," the
writer of the Beggars' Opera," by Ferdinand 8011, the
follower and imitator of Rembrandt. Hogarth, however,
may be said to hold his own against all in his portrait of
Bishop Hooper (229), which is the property of Christ
Church, Oxford.
The portraits by Reynolds and Gainshorough are un-
questionably the most attractive and beautiful in the ex-
hibition. There are the lovely ladies Waldegrave in •
group of three; and the noble Maria, who became Duchess
of Gloucester ; Anne Luttrell (Mrs. Horton), afterwards
• royal duchess also ; and Lady Charlotte Fits-
william (afterwards Lady Dundee), a very lovely face ;
not to mention the two charming pictures of Kitty
Fisher ; one—that with the doves—which belongs to
Lord Crewe ; the other—as Cleopatra dissolving the
pearl—which comes from the Earl of Morley'a gallery.
The Nelly O'Brien is another exquisitely delicate por-
trait, differing from the picture in Lord Hertford's col-
lection. This is lent by Mr. Wynn Ellis. Sir Joshua is
still more amply shown by the two capital pictures in which
be has introduced portraits—the well-known "Garrick
between Comedy and Tragedy," which belongs to
Mr. William Angerstein ; and (594), "The For-
tune Teller," from Lord Lanadown's, Gainaborough
is not nearly so fully represented, though there are some
fine examples of him, especially in the head of Gains-
borough Dupont, and his own portrait unfinished, which
is lent by Mr. C. Richmond, R.A., awl the well-known
portraits of William Pitt and Oliver Goldsmith. Sir
Thomas Lawrence appears to greater advantage than
would be supposed, and there is one portrait by him,
William Eden, first Baron Auckland (9W), which has
touches of life and colour in it worthy of Vandyck. The
exhibition is not one to be dismissed with one visit, it
abounds in curious interest, and richly deserves all that
can be said to recommend it as a most instructive illus-
tration of national character, although from an art point
of view it is too much expanded and too much wanting in
selected examples to show effectively the features of Eng-
lish art at the time.

CHURCH PARTORAL AID SOCIETY. —The annual
meeting of this society was held yesterday afternoon in
St. Janies'whall, Piccadilly. the Earl of Shaftesbury, the
president, occupying the chair. The income of the society
for the past year amounted to 47,82 W. sa. 3d., being an
increase over the previous year's receipts of 5,588/. la. 7d.,
and the expenditure to 46,4471. th. 11d., or Zl3/. more
than in 1865-6. The society provides 636 additional public
services on the Lord's-day, 4240 n the week day, 682 school-
room and cottage lectures, and 635 Bible classes. Its
grants have led to the erection, opening, or keeping open,
of 265 churches or chapels; and in districts at present
receiving aid, 247 rooms are licensed for the celebration of
Divine service. Additional and more systematic pastoral visi-
tation is also provided fora population amounting to nearly
four millions. Within the metropolitan circle there are 5,
grants for curates and 20 for lay agents, benefiting a
population of 565,601, at a cost to the society of 6,685/.,
exclusive of those made from the Bishop of London's Fund.
During the past year 37 grants became recant, and 25
grants were made to new districts, whom aggregate popu-
lation is nearly 193,600. There are therefore now 12 grants
less than last year. The grants in each chow at
present are for 461 clergymen and 160 lay assistants.
These are made to 3411 Incumbent., whose average popula-
tion is 7,900 souls, and average income 2701. per annum,
and of whom 193 are without parsonage houses. To sue-
Min these grants an income of 53,794. is required. The
report laid great stress upon the newssity of upholding
the protestant and evangelical principles of the church of
England now that she was beset by to many enemies both
from within and without ; and the Bev. J. C. Ryle, who
moved its adoption in the absence of the Bishop of Ripon,
took occasion to observe that the apathy of working men
in the ni.itter of religion was mainly duo to the fact that
the population had so outgrown the parochial system that
it was impossible for the pastor to become personally
known to his flack. In rural dist, lets this hurler had
been widened by the clergy departing from the simple
forms of their forefathers. The meeting, which was a very
numerous one, was also addressed by the Rev. Dr. Wilkin-
son, of Birmingham, and other reverend gentlemen.

SUNDAY SUNOOL UNION. —The anniversary of
this institution took place last evening at Exeter-hall,
under the chairmanship of the Hon. A. Kinnaird, N.P.
The report dealt at great length with the operations of the
society on the continent, and referred in congratulatory
language to the progress of Sunday schools in Germany,
France, and Holland. It stated there were connected
with the union 9 metropolitan auxiliaries, with 664
schools, 14,666 teachers, and 164,:326 scholars ; and 1112
country unions, having 3,376 schools, 67,963 teachers, and
101,991 scholars. In the London schools there were
20,760 scholars, or 13 per rent. above 15 years of age, and
38,174, or 21 per cent, in those schools were in infant
classes. During the past year 7,053 scholars, or lin 85
of the entire number in the metropolitan and country
schools connected with the union, had joined Christian
churches. There was a continue.' falling off in the
morning attendance at the metropolitan schools, and the
committee believed that if the evil were not averted by
I earnest and united endeavours, the morning school would
in a few years become a thing of the past , and the best
time for religious instruction inevitably lost. Several
addresses in support of the objects of the union were de-
livered, after which the meeting iirporoteil.
1.083 OF TUE STEANIFI: FLORIDA WITII ALL ON
BOAIIIL—The fate of the screwstesnier Florida, which has
been miming for some time, bas at last been armed up,
and yesterday a piece of furniture, a chair, vrry much
damaged, which bad been picked up sonic. weeks since
Itallycottaa by the steamer Salad'''. was identified by
Messrs. Urquhart andAdarusoo, upholsterers, of Lisrpool
as pert of a shipment of furniture by that ii-111 Dr the
Florida. When she left Liverpool eke had 37 souls oa
board.