The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-29 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

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TUNBRIDGE MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

LADIES' PLATE. Five furlongs.
Killarney, Volhynia, Hopleaf, Prima Donna, Variation,
Dutch Admiral, and Bonnie Doon are here.
TUNBRIDGE HANDICAP. One mile and a half.
Nutrition, Dayrell, Her Ladyship, Palaita, Knight of
Downs, and Pevensey are here.
TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Five furlongs.
Sultana, Beautiful Star, Election, Miss Thompson,
Merry Andrew, and Peninsula are here.

LICHFIELD MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

HASTINGS PLATE. Six furlongs.
The Squire and Fredericia are here.
CHAMPAGNE STAKES. Half a mile.

President Lincoln is here.
BEAUDESERT WELTER HANDICAP. One mile.
Life Guardsman, Bird of Paaaage, and Gay Ned are
hare.
ACCEPTANCES FOR STAFFORDSHIRE STAKES.
One mile and a quarter.
Loral Ronald, 10st ; John Davis, Bst 10113 ; Janitor, Bst ;
Redcap, 7st 121 b ; Life Guardsman, 7st 51b ; Dulcimer,
Est Blb ; Mrs. Allan, fat 816 ; Nuneaton, Est 71b ; Black
Prince, fist; Orne, 6st; Havannah, sst 131 b; Caucasus,
sst 131.
Life Guardsman and Nuneaton are here.

TAMWORTH PLATE. Three-quarters of a mile.
Lady Liman, Bird of Pamage, and Fredericia are here.
Anarran.—Torpedo, Lord Ronald, Black Prince, Red-
cap, Red Ritand, Cuckoo, Lady Hester, Roe 1, King's
Cross, and Weather Isle.

SUICIDE OP ♦ ENTLIMAN AT DOVER. —An
inquest was held on Saturday at Dover on the body of
Thomas Haffenden, aged 60. The deceased was at Dover
for the benefit of his health. He bad, while in the West
Indies, contracted the habit of drinking brandy in large
quantities, which it was considered had much impaired his
mental powers. On Saturday morning the deceased was
seen sitting outside the window of the apartment he occu-
pied at No. 2, Douro-place, as though engaged in cleaning
the windows. He suddenly fell backwards on to the pave-
ment below, striking in his descent the sill of a window on
one of the lower floors. Death was occasioned by fracture
of the skull. It was shown that the deceased bad, since
the death of his wife, been in a very desponding state of
mind, and that latterly he bad frequently complained of a
pain his head. The evidence satisfying the jury that de-
ceased was of unsound mind, they returned a verdict ac-
cordingly.
FALSE WEIGHTS AND ME♦BUREE.—At the
half-yearly petty sessions, held recently at the Vaster-
hall, Islington, 106 persons were fined for having in
the'r possession defective weights and measures. Li-
censed victuallers, as usual, head the list with 35; beer-
shop keepers, 17 ; greengrocers, 12 ; general dealers, 5 ;
obeememongers, 4 ; oilmen, 4 ; marine-store dealers, 4 ;
butchers, 4 ; confectioners, 3 ; bakers, 3 ; corudealers, 2 ;
grocers, 2 ; pork-butcher, 1 ; leather seller, 1; cost.--
monger, 1 ; coal dealer, 1 ; plumber, I. The fines inflicted
varied from 51. to W. 12s. 6d., and they amounted to Mt
2s. Gd. The weights and measures confiscated are esti-
mated to realise about 70/. No less than 26 persons were
fined for having weights and scales in favour of the pur-
&Amer.—lslington Gazette.

THE CONDEMNED CONVICT BILITTON.—A reply
has been received to the memorial transmitted to the Home
Secretary on behalf of George Britton, now under sentence
of death in Taunton Gaol for the murder of his wife, in
which Mr. Secretary Hardy states that be can see no suffi-
cient ground to justify him in advising her Majesty to
Tote-fens with the due course of law in this case. The
announcement was received by the criminal without any
apparent signs of emotion. The time of execution is at
present a secret, and will remain so until the day on which
it will take place.

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DISRUPTION OF THE NOTTINOHAM ORDER OP
ODDFELLOWS. —For some time past, as is well known,
amat dissatisfaction his existed with the management of
the Nottingham order, particularly in respect to the
funeral fund. The Sheffield chapter, which has led the
disaffection, has now taken the decisive step of finally
breaking away from the Nottingham order, and founding
1 a new order. Last night, an influential delegate meeting
was held at the Pack Home Hotel when Dr. J. C.
Hall was in the chair, and amongst the business to be
transacted were the following resolutions :—" That in the
opinion of this meeting the time having come for the
formation of a new order of Odd Fellow.. itbe resolved-1.
That a new order be and la hereby established. 2. That
this meeting recommends to the first annual legislative
council that the name of the order be The British Order
of Oddfellows.' 3. That it be founded on the representative
system. 4. That every lodge have the entire control of its
sick funds. 5. That every district have the entire manage-
ment of it. own funeral fund. 6. That all laws and ahem-
Mona of laws for the government of the order be made only
by the annual legislative council."
M. DUM 411 AND THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.—
M. Alexandre Dumas. desiring to give to one of his novels
—" Les Blanca et In Fileus"—• tone of historical accuracy
in the details, applied to one of the public libraries of
Paris to have communicated to him all the documents
connected with the 13th Vendemiaire. His application
was refused, on which he addressed the subjoined
letter to the Emperor Napoleon III.:—" Illustrious
Confri•re,—When yon undertook to write the ' Life
of the Conqueror of the Gouts,' all the libraries
were eager to place at your disposal the docu-
ments which they contain. The result is • work
superior to others, in the circumstance that it brings
together the greatest number of historical documents.
Engaged at the present moment in writing the life of
another Caesar, named Napoleon Bonaparte, I require docu-
ment. relating to his appearance on the scene of this
world. In brief, I should • e to have all the pamphlets
which the 13th Vendimiaire brought forth. I have asked
for them at the library ; they have been refused. There
remains to me no other mean. than to apply to you,
my illustrious confthe, to whom nothing is refused,
to beg you to ask for these works in your own name, at
the library, and to be good enough, when you shall have
received them, to place them at my disposal. If you will
be so kind est° grant this request, you will have rendered
me a service which, in a literary sense, I shall never forget.
--I have the honour to be, with respect, illustrious author
of the We of Cesar,'
_your very humble and most grateful
confrere, ALEX ASTMS DTMAR."—The next day the writer
received through M. Duruy the pamphlets asked for.
The New York papers announce the death of
the Honourable Mr. Isaac Newton, who held the govern-
ment post of Chief Commissioner of Agricolture for the
17nited States. He was • member of the Society of
Friends.

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