The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-03 00:00:00

READING GRAND OPEN MILITARY AND

HUNT 31EETING.—TUUDAY.
A SELLING STEEPLECHASE of 3 move. each, with 25
added ; 3-yr-olds, 10st 71b ; four, I Ist 101 b; five, 12xt
51b ; six and upwards, 12st 71b; winner to bo sold ; selling
allowances. About two miles.
AN OPEN HurrEits' STAKES of 3 sovs. each, with 20
added, for hunters ; 13st each ; any previous winner of 50
soot 101 b extra ; winner to be sold ; selling and other
allowances ; gentlemen riders. About two miles and a

half.
The Military Steeplechase not having filled, the follow-
ing stake has been substituted:—
A STEEPLECHASE B.7WEPBTAKES of 5 love. each, 2 ft
with 30 added ; weight for age ; any previous winner
50 soya in 1866, 51b extra; winner to be sold; selling allow-
ances. About three miles.
Age
Fairplay (2100) .tea
Lincoln (Lloo' .te
a... Valour ~1100) .... 4
Lisette ~Z 100) ... 4 Zephyr (L 200... . 4 Orontes :4:100) .. 4
Robin Adair. £100) a SerionsCase £100) a Hunan, .2100;.... 6
THE WHITLEY STAKES (free handicap) of 5 soya. each
(in case of acceptance), with 30 added ; entrance, 1 soy.
each. About three miles.
Age et lb Age It 1
Cortolvin
llyfisher
Columbia 6 12 2 Tartar
Mario 6 12 0 Keunburton... .... a 10
Globule a 11 12 Sea King 6 10
Daisy
Sir Bobby a 11 12 Fairy King
a 11 12 Confusion a 10
a 10
Comberton
Lady Douglas
Patience
Reporter
The Cutler
Pine Apple
The Rogue
Marengo
Carus 10 10 Oold
Triumpher
Ington of the Hills .. a 6
10
10
•
Meerschaum
A 501. PLATE ; winners extra. About three miles.
Age Age
Red Deer 6 Lady Douglas K.C V I Sir Bobby a
Robin Adair .... a Merrimac not to Cutler
filyeine j 1 b) .... 4 In sold) a
Flytisher
WEDNESDAY
A HANDICAP MILIrARY STEEPLECHASE of 5 NOM each,
with 25 added, for horses to be nominated and ridden by
officers in the army ; winners after the publication of the
weights, 51b extra. About two miles and a half.
A HANDICAP SELLING STEEPLECHASE of 3 soya. each,
with 25 added. About two miles and a half.
THE BERKSHIRE OPEN HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE of
10 sovs. each, 3ft if declared, with 70 added. About
3 miles and a half
Age st lb
Astrolabe
Cortoleta
Columbia
Mario
ilenazet
Philosopher
Daisy
Merrimac
Globule
Little Frank
Thomas.own
Sprite
Meanwood a 10 10 Fairy King ...
t:onsi.erton a 10 10 tioldinaton ....
Exporter
THE INNICZEPEr-s' PLATE (Handicap) of 40 Non.; en.
trance 2 sous. About two miles and a half.
Age st lb Age st 1
Flytisher
Sir Hobby a 12 2 Vindicator
Lady ',oughts 6 11 9 Queen Mary 5 10
The Cutler a 11 7 Confusion
Pine Apple a 11 4 Whitehall 6 10
Triumpher .... ..... 6 11 2 Pirate
Li st...n
The Tartar
THE BEItIrsIIDIE HUM CCP, for hunters ; 13at 7M each;
winner to be sold ; penalties and allowances. About two
miles and • half, over a fair hunting country.

Age et lb
a 10 10
.. a 10 7
. a 10 7
a 10 7
a 10 7 ,
a 10 4
a 10 4
a 10 4
6 10 0
5 10 0
5 10 0
0 10 0
10 0
6 10 0

THE POACHING AFFRAY IN NORFOLK.—With
reference to the poaching affray in Norfolk, it may be
stated that Lord Chelsea's keeper, whose name is William
Smith, is not yet out of danger. On Friday evening his
condition was indeed so critical that it was deemed advis-
able to take his deposition. Smith, who had Robert
:arwood, his under-keeper, with him, appears to have been
assailed by three men, who up to a late hour on Satur-
day were still at large, although Lord Chelsea has offered
a reward of 50/. for such information as may lead to the

conviction of the offenders.
SHUCKING DEATH IN A TUNNEL.—At an early
hour on Friday morning Robinson, a shunter employed at
the Ipswich station of the Great Eastern Railway, ilk-
covered the mangled remains of • man near the station
end of the Ipswich Tunnel. The corpse proved to be that
of John Strickland, a detective policeman employed by
the company ; and, when found, the poor fellow had pro-
bably been dead about two hours. No conjecture can be
formed as to the precise manner in which the deceased
met his death, but two light engines and one train had
passed through the tunnel between the time that the de-
ceased was last seen alive on the platform of the station
and the discovery of his body ; and it is supposed that he
was knocked down by one of the light engines, and
that the wheels passed over his legs, which were
nearly severed from his body and terribly mangled.
How Strickland came to be in the tunnel re-
mains a mystery, although it is possible that he may
have stationed himself in it in order to observe
what was going on at the station without being seen him-
self. It is singular that he could not save himself when he I
saw the engine coining by which he was knocked down ;
but it is supposed that he mistook the line of rails on
which it was running. An inquest was held on the re-
mains of the poor fellow on Friday by Mr. S. B. Jackman,
the borough coroner. The body of the deceased, whose
face was but little hurt, was identified by his wife, who
stated that he was 47 years of age, and that he had left
live children. The jury, after hearing further evidence,
returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased was
found with both legs smashed and severed from the body,
with the appearance of both wheels of an engine having
pissed over them ; but whether such injuries were caused
before or after death we have no means of knowing."
C.ILLANT LIFE BOAT S ERV Ic E. —DUNDEE, Nov.
30.—During a strong gale from the S.S.E. (re-
ports Mr. James Hunter, jun., of the Trinity-house)
intelligence reached Broughty-ferry that a vessel
was ashore on the Gaa Sande, at the mouth of the
Tay. The lifeboat Mary Hart!ey,of the National Lifeboat
Institution, wasthereupon ininiedistely launched, manned,
and taken in tow by the steamer Auld Reekie, one of the
railway passenger boats, between Broughty-ferry and Tay-
port, which took her to the edge of the bank. After
great didiculty, there being a considerable sea on the
sands, the lifeboat succeeded in rescuing the crew, num-
bering live men, of the stranded vessel, which proved to
be the schooner Tay, of Dundee, bound here frosn Myth,
with a cargo of costa. It appeared that the buy weather
deceived the captain as to his position, and in attempting
to change his course the vessel missed stays, and went
ashore. She is likely to become • total wreck.
EMIGRATION FROM LIVE RFooL . —The monthly
returns made up by the government officials at Liverpool
show a very considerable falling off for November in the
present year. as compared with last, the total decrease on
the month being 3,406 passengers. There sailed under the
act tai ships, with 5,496 passengers, of whom 386 nett
cabin, and 5,109 steerage. Of the steerage passengers
1,534 were English, 170 Scotch, 2,053 Irish, and 1,007
foreignets. 23 shins, with 4,:r2 passengers, sailed to the
United States ; 1 ship, with 153 passengers, to Canada ;
one, with 235 passengers, to Victoria ; and one, with 199
passisigers, to Queensland. Of the ships not under the
act, there sailed 2'2, with 956 passengers. The total emi-
gration for the month was 6,451, against 9,857 in the
I corresponding month of last year.
RAILWAYS AND THE NATIONAL DEBT. —We are
afraid that we cannot congratulate our readers on any very
clear prospect of the payment of the national debt by
means of the purchase of railway stock. The plan sub-
mitted by Mr. Dudley Baxter, in his paper read at the
recent meeting of the Statistical Society, appears at the
first blush a very feasible one, but when examined more
minutely it is seen to present difficulties of no ordinary
character. The principle embodied in the plan is that the
government should tax one particular branch of industry
for the purpose of finding the means of investing in it,
and then apprspria'e the profits to the extinction of the
national debt. Let us suppose that the proposition bad
been applied to souse other enterprise than that of railways,
say that of cotton manufacture, for instance. What
would be thought of a scheme to impose a tax on looms
and spindles, or on the yarn or cloth produced ; that the
proceeds of the tax should be invested by commissioners
or ethers in the purchase of mills for carrying on the cot-
ton manufacture ; and that the profits should be applied
as a sinking fund for the payment of the national debt.
It is only sufficient to mention such a proposition to ensure
its instant rejection. And yet in principle this is pre-
cisely what is proposed in the case of the railways. IN ith
one hand the government is to receive the taxes, and
with the other its share of the profits of railways. The
principle is altogether unsound in its character, and utterly
opposed to the spirit of industrial enterprise of the pre-
sent day.—Railway Ners.
CRYSTAL PALACE. - HALF-A-CROWN DAY. -
SATURDAY, Dar. I.—Admissions on payment, 2,524 ;
ditto by semen tickets, 6,169 ; total visitors. 8,693.
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