The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

Y EAR OLDS.

Half a mile.

Perdition, Princess Thyra, Cromwell, Miss Fanny, Dun-
dee, Whirligig, Verdi, Stewardess, and Cannon Ball.
All are here. To be sold for 100/.
ADDITIONAL SCRATCHINW4 FOR JULY STAKF.S.—Arundel,
Feodor, Celhue, Kidderminster, Sir Oliver, Libertine,
Rake, Verulum, and Van Amburgb.

CARLISLE MEETING.--(THIS DAY.)

TRIAL STAKES. T.T.C.

Grafton, Breeze f, Louisa, Honesty, and Minna aro here.

MAIDEN PLATE. T.Y.C.

Miaaile, to be gold for 401. Soda Water, Little John,
Ward in ('hancety, Maggie, Yarrow, and Rater, all to be
cold for 30/. each. All are here.
CORBY CASTLE STAKES. T.Y.C.
Coleraine f, Maggie, Prelate, lona, llonebty, and Slap
Bang. All are here.

CUMBERLAND PLATE. Two miles and a quarter.
Lady Durham, Privateer, Holstein, Selim, ntzroy, Flat.
catcher, Elpha, and Dart are here.
PAID FORFZIT.—Dark Apra.
GRAND STAND HANDICAP. One mile.

Lozenge, Gayous, Madras, Buccleuch, Yarrow, and
Shamrock are here.

AN ADROIT THIEF.-THE MASTER OF THE SITU-
Arum —At half-past 10 o'clock last Friday evening,
Police-constable Croon, 819, while on duty in King Wil-
liam-street, saw a stranger coming out of the premises of
the London Anuoury Company, and at once walked
up to him, placed his hand on his shoulder, and said, as
an intimation of arrest, " What did you want in here ?"
The stranger, gravely turning his spectacles upon the officer
replied in a tone of mild surprise, , ' I am the master !"
The constable who was in the act of turning the " p.O 4"
towards the police-statiou re-examined his capture more
critically, and found him to he a staid, respectable look-
ing personage, dressed in black, and wearing spectacles—
evidently he was not a burglar, but a commercial gentle-
man of position—and a serious mistake had been all
but consummated. The policeman therefore let the stranger
go, and asked him Ito show concum for his interests)
"Is all right within ?" "Beautiful." answered the mtranger,
slowly walking down King William-street. The next
morning it was found that the London Armoury Company's
premises had been rubbed of various silver and other
articles, and money, to the value, fortunately trifling, of
10/., and beyond all doubt the individual who had got out
of the clutch of the policeman by his adroit ruse of passing
himself off as the " master" had then the stolen property
in his pocket. The police are still engaged in searching for
him.

DEATH FROM LIGHTNINO.—During the after-
noon of Thursday last a thunderstorm passed over Oran-
brook. At Hightilt Farm a man named Thomas Relf
was killed by an electric explosion, and a lad
named Wheeler was for a time completely pant-
lysetl. It appears that the deceased had been
cutting grass for Mr. Honess, at Hightilt, when he went
into the oast at the back of the farmhouse for shelter,
in company with several other men and the lad above
alluded to. While there the storm raged with much fury,
and Relf, who has always been timid about thunder and
lightning, sat down against the wall on a sack, and close by
him sat the lad ; the other men were sitting down in the
laace some distance away. Opposite where Relf and the
d sat was an open window, and a flash of lightning
appears to have been attracted to the window by come
pitchforks which stood close under. and passing into the
building struck Hell on the back of the head, and
then 'soiling down his body, killed him instan-
taneously. The lad screamed out that his anus and
legs were broken, but he was merely paralysed for
a time by_ the shock, and is now better. The build-
ing on the roof was slightly injured, end one of the
oak rafters was shivered in pieces. The hair on the head
of the deceased was much singed, his body fearfully dis-
coloured, and a strong smell of sulphur pervaded the place
at the time of the occurrence. The deceased is bl years
of age, and has left a wife, but no children to mourn his
loss. Two sheep at ('hittenden Farm, belonging to Mr.
Judge, were killed by the lightning at the same time.--,
Sussex Adrertimr.

CHILDREN ASLEEP AND AWAKE.—How wonder-
fully similar are all children to one another when asleep
The same rounded half.formed features, the same gently
closed eyelids, the same slightly parted mouth, are com-
mon alike to high and low, to good and bad, before passion
or education has begun to draw those harder and more
decided lines which sleep cannot obliterate, and which only
pass away when once the first calm look of death is gone,
and dust returns to dust. No such lines mar or alter the
face of a sleeping child, or give a clue to the daily history of
the soul within. Look from young Seymour the lord to
young Dickson the shepherd boy. Look at the mendacious
and fierce-tempered Johnny, destined to break your heart and
ruin you, lying with his arm round the neck of his gentle,
high- ouled brother Georgy. They are all rely nearly
alike. Rut awake them ; see how the soul, still off its
guard, betrays he truth in eye, in mouth, nay
even in gesture. Well was the wise Mrs. Chisholm
accustomed to say that the time to judge
of a girl's character was when she 'was first
awake. Cannot we conceive of these four ideal children,
that they would betray something to a close observer as
their oonscionsne-s of the real world returned to them?
Would not the Fttle nobleman have a mdm look upon
his face—a look careless, because he had never
known care? Would not some signs of weariness and
dissatisfaction show themselves on the face of the shep-
herd boy, when be first found that his pleasant dreams of
the sake and of the fine new clothes were unreal, but that
the bleak, wild morning, the hard, cold boot to be thrust
I on stockingless feet, and the poor dry bread were most un-
mistakeably real' while .Tohnny will wake with a scowl,
and Ggrgy with a smile.—Mr. Henry Kingaley:s New
Story, Siloote of &looter," ia Mamma' lases Mapattose.