The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-21 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CDT SLUT/0C TILIOILLPI.)
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.

THIS DAY.

L6O HANDICAP PLATE. Bretby Stakes Course.
Theodore ..
Flyaway ..
11 ran.
ENTRY FOR f6O PLATE. R.M. For 3-yr-old oohs,
flat 71b: Allies, Sat 41b.
The Ceerlor, Flying Deka, Advil., Harry Bluff, King of
Sardinia, Harry &entry, The Gourd, Penatoner, and Kate-
grew. All are Are.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Winner to be sold for
2001. Sabi Ab. M.
Greenwich Fair, 3 yra, flat 101 b; Polly Johnson, 3 yrs;
11M 7th ; Lady Aintree, 4 yrs, 71b; Admiralty, 3 yrs,
Tst 121 b; Mackie! Maier, 3 yrs, Tat 12111 Little Sam, 3
yrs, 7M 101 b; Oasil Gelding, 3 yrs, Tat 101 b ; Lady Nel-
son, 3 yrs, 7st alb. All are hers.
MATCH.
Pavilion and Beacon. Both are here.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SON'S.
Tasmania, South Western, Blue Devils c, and Gilliver are
here.
PAID FOIFEIT.—Trator and Athlete.
ENTRY FOR JOCKEY CLUB PLATE.
Van Ihuick and Amer. Both are hare.

LATEST BETTING.
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
6 to 2 art Horeb. (6)
7 to 2 Perbotice (t)
6to 1 Gomm. (t)
7 to 1 Be 8
to 1 C (t)ksoto (t)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 8 agst Physicists (t)
26 to 1 Kelpie (t)
35 to 1 Botany (t)

DERBY.
13 to 2 apt Fitatroland(t)
7 to 1 Toxophilito (t)
11 to 1 Longrange (t)
16 to 1 Happy Load (t)
2$ to 1 Annent Briton (I)
26 to 1 Eclipse (t)
26 to 1 Clydesdale (t)
1000 to 30 Physician
40 to 1 Wilton
40 to 1 Cock-a•doodladoo
100 to 1 Coxwold

Da. HfiluvAßD.—Last night Dr. Bernard WAS pre-
test et Wyld'a heading-rooms, Letouter-square. He was
received with very warm congratulations, and made • 'puck
on the occasion of his health being drunk. Ha sold:
Oeselswes,—l thank you for, there demonstrations. You
de sot eh& ay health, but the haskh of your own country.
You drink to Liberty. But my =oafs shut until after my
last trial. I must not 'peek. Yet I mum eapnms my gra-
titude to you and the jury who tried me. I relied firmly on
• jury of Englishmen. I must speak no more. I thank you
from my heart."

SHO'CRING DEATH AND MUTILATION ON THE
MIDLAND Re ILwAr.—Yesterday morning CrOSOdalitan
ecekkat eta Ireland shocking character *muffed to rs.
Simms, wife of Mr. &mine, station-master at the Stratton
station of the Midland Railway, about sit mike south of
Chesterfield. Stratton is • small station, at which only two
or thaws trains stop daily. There is • creasing on the line
skeet forty or fifty yards north of the station. The station
sad platform are shout three feet above the level of the
rags, and the semaphore signal is on the up side of the line,
sad it is usual to signal the trains which do not stop at that
station, to indicate that they may pass without obstruction.
About twenty-five minutes to eleven yesterday morning
Mrs. Simms, hearing a noise, and believing that the pas-
senger train between Leeds and Derby was corning up,
ran actor the rails just at the time the Leicester anal train
with empty waggons was paring, and was knocked down
by the engine, and the wheels of the carriages cut the
body into numerous pieces. The engine-driver of the train
sew • plate layer on the line making the signal for the
train to stop, bat It wee toe late. What is still more Inert-
reading is the fact that Mr. Simms, the station-master, was
standing on their thank:soar near the station, and seeing
his wife's danger be signalled bat without avail, and wee a
painful spectator of his wile's unhappy and untimely death.
Mrs. Sienna wee • young woman, and has left one child.
The body was removed into the station to await the corener's
brte LERWICK TiAGIDT.—The survivor of the
recent tragedy at Lerwick—the eldest boy, who, it will he
reenernbered, made his crepe front the house seriously
wounded —k prostrating favourably towards convalescence.
Ills wounds ere healing satisfactorily, but the throat-cuts
being of a very desperate character some time must elapse
I before the pens can be completely restored. A very trying
circumstance to those around him is the fact that he is still
In ignorance of the awful fate of his family. Evidently sup-
posing that his father attacked him alone, perhaps in • fit of
Latecomer madness, and that when he escaped be wee
brought into the house of Mr. laureruton for the porpoise of
keeping him out of the way, he seems to think that every-
thing is going on again as formerly. Hearing the medical
gentlemen strictly forbidding any one but the inmates of the
house and his attendant seeing him, he does not wonder at
the circumstance of none of his own people visit-
ing him ; and, being naturally a shy, quiet boy,
and knowing, as be has confessed, by whose hands he
was wounded, he avoids speaking on the subject—being
doubtless grieved, and conjecturing that those around him
know all as to how be was injured. It is now ascertained
that, on the morning of the murder, he must have run
straight down from his own room to the kitchen, without
either geeing or knowing anything of the tragedy beyond his
own share in it. The report of his having entered his
father's room during the fatal attack upon his mother, and
straggled fir her rescue, is without foundation. He knows
nothing of any of the deaths. He occasionally Like for hie
brothers, and hiss more than once requested his attendants to
convey messages to one or other of them. Speaking of
something he wasted a few days ego, he acid " his father
would send It up if be was asked for it." So of the rest of
the family, ell of whom he lives in the hope of seeing.—Dohs
o'Greet

THE LATE ACT Or ASSASSINATION AT MADRID.
—The Madrid journals of the 16th state that the sensation
caused by the attempted ruseasinaiion of Genend Verdugo had
not declined. The assassin is a police spy by profession, and
in 1834 be wasoperislly charged to watch the movements of
the Vicalvarist generals. They diacoverod this end threat-
mad to kill him, but General Verdugo, one of them, inter-
fered end saved hie life. He went to Paris, and subse-
quently to London, and there published violent pamphlets
against the Count do Lucena (O'risnoell) and the other
Vicalvatist chiefs. On the day of the crime, meeting in
the "test General Verdugo, against whom, notwith-
standing the service lie had received at his hands,
he appears to have entertained peculiar animosity,
he said, "DJ you know me? " The general answered, " I
do know you, sir, se everybody else does, and I request you
to quit my presence. On that Rivera, drstrlng forth •
long triangular poignard, plunged It deeply into the general's
side, and task to flight, throwing away his weepon as he did
es ; but the spectators of the deed pursued and arrest,cl biro.
As to the general, his wound woe found to be f such
gravity that the last sacraments were administered to him.
On the 16th, the general wee not dead, but his condition re-
mained extremely serious. The general only uttered a few
words after being stabbed, and they expressed comer n for
his wife. AU the notable personages of Madnd, and a vest
crowd of people of all class, were flocking to the house in
which the general I.ty, to inquire after him.
FLOATING or FIREWOOD.—The annnal floating
of firewood in the river Murg, In the Grand Duchy of Bsden,
took piss • few days ago. The valley through which the
Murg flows is deeply sunk between two chains of mountains
which are covered with pine-trees. The trees cut down in
the course of the year are, in the winter, drugged to the brake
of the river. At the beginning of April, the owners of the
wood establish a barrage in the upper part of the Murg,
above Furbach, towards the meeting of the Murg and the
Bchwarzembsch ; there, the valley becomes narrow, the
mountain* rive suddenly, and • cascade is formed, below
which is an immense twin. When the waters have risen to
a height which indicates they are about to overflow, the
barrage is suddenly thrown ones, and the veinale of water,
dashing downwards, retries with it all the wad collected.
Below Gernsback, the wood is sorted and formed into
IinIINIDIO Boars, which, at little cost, are Pell' down the river
to the sawyards of the lower Murg, the Rhine, and of If illand.
CRYSTAL PALACE. 041111 tiiILLIMO DAT. wo
Tv near, Aran. 20. Adair/woe as payment, 9,113;
dine by mason ticiete, 602 ; Mel, 2,290.