The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-17 00:00:00

THE ETCPIIFSS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1866.

'Potting Intettignut.
HARROW STREPLiOHASEB AND FLAT

*nttaigente.

0017 NT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Fas. 16.
6ZOOND ODITST.
BMWs at Nisi Pettis is Loados.—(Be NE. Julia)
Smith Lad a Ooonnia Jury.)
ammo= V. IMATIL11:14
This was as 'Woo to reeo►er a Winos du for medical
!harass, sad also far pules( the dedeodant dux* in

RACES.—F3Mar.
The weather small, associated with this meeting was I
superheated on the excluding day, rein falling heavily
ham an early hour in the morning till the =WI, d the
afternoon, readerieg it a most uacomfotieble journey from
the station to the course, as the meadows were so boggy
that it was a difflonit matter to extricate oneself in many
parts. The Middlesex Open Steeplechase was the attractive
event, and the bookmakers bad • good tam by the moose.
of Primes. Deemer, as Arieseott sad Agnes were
hitsupported. Arieecott, in clearing a hedge, staked •
when looking all over a winner, and meld net be we've
with. The business arrangements were most efficiently
carried as The following is a return of the day's sport:
A HANDICAP 312/.1110 &Ana of 3 sows. each with 20
added, for all ages ; the wiener to be sold foe 40 som
About 5 furlongs. (5 subs.)
Mr. J. Itighltopll's Benanav, by Hobble Irobie—The
Belle, tyrs, es lab (John Nigh 1
Mr. 8. J. Bond's nasals, 3 yrs, ital (00119M) t
Mr. England's Duchess of St. Albans, $ yrs Tst 9lb
(J. Smith) t
Pripet D. Boltykoffs Leah, 3 yrs, lid (Jarvis) 4
Betting : Even on Banana, 2 to 1 apt Duchess of St.
Alban's, and 4 to 1 apt Leah.
• HUNTIOIIe Braun of 6 pays. each with 20 added ; 12st
each ; viewers 71be extra ; selling sameness. About
titres mtVea. subs.)
Mr. B. Walker's g by Bolingbroke, eyed (501.), list (Inc.
71b ex)
Mr. W. F. litebblngs King Arthur, aged OOP, '1 One. ) 1
ib ex;_ I 2
Mlr. Barker's Bracknell, eyed ;1000, 124 fib (lac. lib
ex) (Mr. Muratori!) 3
lark" and Wood oleo ran.
: 7 to 4 as the Doi ke ge/dieg 6 to 1 apt
Hite Arthur, 7 to 1 mob apt airlop and WOodpigeon.
THZ MEDD:VIRE GRAND OM HANDICAP BIZIPLICHAINI
of 10 som. each, 3 ft, with IC3 added. Winners extrs.
About three miles and a half. (17 subs., 10 of whom pay
3 bora. each.)
Mr. Summer's Princess Desonar, aged, list QD (O. Holman) 1
Lord Clarks tones Kees Johnnie, aged. 110 lab (Owner) S
Mr. Hawkins' The Rogue (late Toe Orphan), aged, I let
et)4lb
(Pick
The following aka ran : Rochester, Ostrich. Agate, and
Arloroott..
Bottler : 2 to 1 opt Agnes, 3 to 1 apt Arlescott, 6 to 1
each apt The Bogue, Ostrich, and Rochester, 10 to 1 apt
Priapus De:mar. 100 to 8 apt Johnnie.
A Smarm HANDICAP fitrzzimacHarsi of 3 sows. sech, with
25 added. About two miles and a hell.
Mr. Tnglaatex of o' her Days, by John CrOsont—
(J. Reeves) 1

.e; s
Yr. J. J. Powell, Q.C.. and Yr. H. James, appeared
for the qytifr ; sad Mr. Rigby Seymour, Q. and Yr.
Butler • for the defendant.
The pi tiff is this eau, a gentleman 85 years of age,
was an Italian doctor of medicine, sow resident in London,
and the defendant was a settee of Chill, where he sou by
profession a barrister, and had been for five yams pro-
fessor of moral philosophy eta eallegest Santiago. In ADVIS
last the defeedant tame to this orionto7, and he uat that
time 'mitering' honk 000gestioa of the beak a disease which
he said had been brought on by driakiag strange wines
and other things on board the steamer. The
cue was, that be attended the defendant, with some inter-
miasions, down to the Bth January, and that he informed
him that, according to the custom of London plumb:Cum,
the charge would be a guinea sash visit. The ddesdant
at intervals paid the plaintiff 311., sad the balance now
claimed was 1011. 9s. for medical attendance. and also 121.
for a nurse. This nurse was a young woman in the curios
of the plaintiff, whom, it sou said, the defendant bad autho-
rised the plaintiff to employ to attend on him. It was
added that defendant, when applied to for the balance,
wetted, as a reason for not paying, that his ry was
due, not to the doctor, bat to the intercession of the
Nary. (Laughter.)
The defendant, however, denied that be bad made any
such amertioa. He also said that most of the visits which
the plaintiff charged far were visits not of a professional
bat of • friendly and social character. On these cum
they discussed matters of religios, philosophy, colonisation,
and the solar system ; and they dined together, and also
went to see the sights of London. The Mil whisk bad
been paid was sufficient to cover all reasonable deseande is
rimed of the plaintiff's services, end, is oddities, tie do.
fesdant bad given him a barometer, a tilessr, same
books, shirts, cravats, and drawers. (Laughter.) As to
the servant, he lad gives bee about 30a., and also a gold
chain. The woman hermit when questioned upon
this subject, prodGecd the chain, and with grast animation
declared that It was brass, and not worth sixpence. The
plaintiff also denied that say articles of clothing had been
gives to him.
The jury expressed their opinion that the plaintiff bad
bees eaWmtly paid, and they found for the defendant.

io-lliltopklis and Idiot Wm rut.
Hotting : 5 to 2 on Idiot, 4 to 1 agst Light of other
Days, 6 in 1 agrt Pony Hopkins.
Tin Bum rLATZ, • handicap of 40 soya., antennas 2
mom each. About three miles.
Yr. J. Bead's Banyessey, by Hermit, sled. lest /lb (Barton) 1
Pantaloon and Tool* also ran.
Hatong: sto 4 on 11,11yoaniy, 5 to 3 apt Pantaloon,
100 to 15 sgst Took.

POLICIMEX IN PLAIN CZOtHIB.

(From the Landon Review.)
A cane was brought before the Greenwich police
magistrate last Saturday which involves eonaiderationa of
great importance to all who are obliged to be oat late at
night. At about • quarter-past 2on the manias of that
day, • palestina asaned thiddeck was standing, is plain
clothes, spinet the Crystal Palace at Sydenbam, when be
heard steps on the path. He Wooed sod washed, and
by-and-by saw a man coming along with a bag in his bud.
He let him pass, sod then followed him at a gentle walk.
The stranger Warmed his speed; the policeman did the
same, and the other then begia to run. On metal Vl* ill*
policeman also rim, and, coming up with the fugitive. said,
" I want to speak to you." A hurried parley rainted,
la
the officer, without stating hie authority to act la
nth a manner, said be wanted to know where the way-
farer had rams from, and to see what be bad got in his
bag. The man thus challenged thought, ant
that be wee menaced by a footpad, sad drawls:6ra
out of his pocket, stood as the defereira. The
thereupon seized him by the collar, and, for the CT=
produced his staff, asking, " Are you aware who I am?"
A more timely exhibition of the trundmois, Of • verbal ex-
planation by Maddock of his right to stop and interrogate
the pedestrian, might have prevented any rain/kis! • but
when • man Ands himself roughly wooded by • stringer
on • lowly suburban road, between two and three
o'clock in the morels& he is very_ likeliimtgut
excited and alarmed, and to be rumble to
between • policeman's staff and a protter's bludgeon.
It was so on the preeset comeices. A deadly struggle
commenced, sod the officer was so severely wounded in the
arm, chest, and abdomen, that it was found
during the day to take his deposition at Guy's EL=
The pedestrian ultimately broke from the clutches of his
exigent, and, still evidently thinking that be was in the
hands of a robber, threw his watch on the pavement, saying,
" Take that if you wed it, bat doe's do anything to ma.'
Being immediately afterwards arrested by two other police-
men in uniform, he turned out to be • pianist who had
been playing at a party is the neighbourhood, and was then
returning to his home in Upper Norwood.
The sera is a very grave ore in may respects. A
officer who, however injudicious hie action, sea
probably doing nothing more than what he orectsived to be
his duty, lien in danger of death ; and • repeatable man I.
committed to Maidetoo• Gaol on one of the most maims of
charges. The chief blame, however, lies, we conceive,
with the pollee authorities, in sending a constableout OD a
lonely read in the middle of the night, disguised, so to
speak, as a private individual, with instruction to waylay,
questioe, and physically obstruct any one who might seem
to goatee to be engaged in an unlawful calling, though,
as in the case of Ferguson, the unfortunate pianist,
he may be going about his legitimate badness. The
plain clothes system is becoming a dangerous nuisance.
One might parody the words of • celebrated motion in the
House of Commas in the reign of °eerie IIL, and my
that it " has increased, is incresaieg, and ought to be
diminished." It covers a large amount of espionage, such
as English people have always found particularly digaste.
fel ; and it pieces the policeman in • poste= which de-
prives him of the tounetakeable right of exeraises his de-
legated authority, and almost entitles those whom he coal.
ledges to resist,. while it leaves the consequeneat of their
resistance just the same. Ferguson was not likely to guess
that the man in the " grey top-coat and low-crowned
deer-stalker's bat" who pursued him on the road
from Bydenham to Norwood, and ultimately collared
him, was a policeman ' • the more probable supposition
waa that be wee a thief. That such was Firrgeaon's
idea there can be no doubt ; and it was certainly •
conception which the facto, oa the face of them, emceed to
warrant. The mischief is of wider application than may at
first eight appear. Every eight there are a large number of
honed and worthy people staking their way, at • late (or
rather an warty) hoar, from the heart of town to mamba
more or less remote. To my nothing of pleasureeraken
and others, the newspaper of of Logsdon tarn out • very
considerable body of late workers—editera, writers, re-
porters, and compositors—who, it seems, are at the mercy
of being seized by a constable who gives no outward
visible sign of his office, if they happen to be curlier
• bag. We do not see what is gained by such a system ;
we do see that it may lead to •• vast amount of
terrorism. POIiCOLOSII in plain clothes are no doubt very
useful in a large crowd, where there are pickpockets to be
watched ; bat we fail to perogye what they can do is •
solitary rood at night which would not be much better done
in uniform.
On the other had, we are not blind to the fact that of
late years there km been too great a properties on the part
of private Lidividnals Maury about deadly weapons, and to
use them precipitately. It is a custom which we believe
animal the time of the last prate panic, rather more than
three years ago, and we are sorry to fled that it sootiness.
The knife and by Ferguson is described as " • long-bladed
inatrament, the opening being secured by • spring at the
beak of the beadle," and it appears that the man also
threatened to shoot the countable, though whether or not
this was a mere threat is not clearly made out. A gentle-
man writing to the Fines, with respect to this very affair,
says :—" I am an amateur musician, and, being in the habit
of returning home several evenings of the week at a late
hour, hare always carried a weapon to doffed myself
against the possibility of an attack by profiles;" and he
afterwards describes this weapon as a revolver.
The very people who are the most disposed to " protect"
themselves with revolvers and diggers are, owing to their
nervousness and apprehimaion, the likeliest to um them
rashly. The case of the eurgeeni who rscuatly shot • poor
drunken fool who bed wondered into his garden at night is
a proof of this. if our " late birds" go about with an ar.
moury on their persona, and our policemen are often mis-
taken for garotters we may have a DOW department of well.
inteetioeed manalinghter imported Into the records of Old
Bailey trials.

BITTING AT MANCHIENTIR—FRaDay.

LINCOLN HANDICAP.

4 to 1 Mut CoaMI;;;;;-(Cai 17113-iTiot lisoehorosootte
10 to 1 t (t) (off)
11 to 1 Caithness (t) 118 to 1— Proviso, (t treeryl
SO to 1 apt Pantaloon DAI)
TWO THOUSAND.
6to I apt Lord Lyon (off, I fi to 1 apt Modest (t)
DUST.
- • t

10 to 1 apt Blue ahead (Cif, 1 140 to 13 apt Imaaret (w)
1000 to SO w) f 100 to 10 DakaollYarktt)

Maid anlt Military.

(LDOM LAST suortr's sairierry.)
ADMIRALTY, Fun. 13.
Lieutenant Charles Theobrid to be commander,
with eenimity from the 16th of November, 1863.
Lieutenant Charles Compton Rising to be commander, with
seniority hoes the 26th of November, 1866.
The following promotions have this day been made :--11r.
Heory James Barber to be esgbseer is her Majesty's fleet;
Mr. William White to be earner in her Majesty's fleet ;
Mr. John Copplotoce to be first elms assistant engineer
is her Majesty's fleet, with seniority of Bth February,
1966.

ADM:SLUT, FEB. 16.--ArronlTlcins.—Captain
T. Lethbridge, to the Simoom, eommiadosed.
Commander H. Chan* to the Doris.
Liessaeosat sad Cemtuender : Lent/sant J. O. PatterAm,
to the Ors/shopper.
Masters' Amlstanta C. W. May and J. Jones, to the
Favourite ; H. Grieves, to the Tamar ; J. W. Apar and
J. H. Perches, to the Doris.
Sewed Clam Isseistsat Engineer W. Olive, to the
&mom.
Acting Snood Class Assistant Engineer O. Welch, to the
Favourite.

LONDON AND BLACKNALL Ranwat.—The re-
pal of the directors to the hail-yearly meeting on the 20th
lust bee teen issued. It states that the Issas of this *a-
dertaking to the Great Easters Railway Compasy baring
been sanctioned by the shareholders in each company, is
swordsmen with the provisions of the act of parliameat, the
lice pissed into the possession of the Great Eastern Rail-
way Compaq' on the Ist January has. Under these cis-
compliances, it becomes neer/wary that all the liabilities of
this company to the 31st December Wit. relating to rem-
DUN should be ascertained and provided for, all meets
realised and all debts collected, before a final statement of
accetuda au be prinered, shoeing the profits of the teat
half-year that are divisible unapt the shareholders. It
has not been p• alibi(' as yet to accomplish this, end the
directors therefore propose that the dividend on the foor-
end akelf per cant preference stock should now be *donde
as interior -dividend at the rate of two par coot pee annum on
the ordinary stock ; and, wise all outstanding smouota
Dave been settled, that the accounts fee the past half-year
should be placed before the proprieties, and the Wages to
the credit of revenue be divided amongst them. The divi-
dend far the future will be at the rate of 41. 10a. per emu.
per annum, commenoing from the Ist deanery last, in
accordance with the tarns cif the lean* It will he noses-
eery to continue to hold the hail-yearly mutiny of the
company, and to declare the dividends thereat ; but the
diresters will arrange that these meetings shall take place
at the earliest periods at which the act of parlianut pro-
vides that they are to be had, ma, fa the second weak of
the moths of Fehruary sad August, and that the dividend
shall be payable, as hiestefere, on the day following the
th=Ameeting. In conehision, whilst
itors ea the remit that has heat attainelseititid,
gibe= foe the rapport they have given to the
polio of the board, the directors express their gratifies-
dos that, after luny years of asizioes Weer in the ma-
segment of the minpasy's stare, they have seuseded in
plans( the property it apathies whisk In wohlestoot to
the pregoisten.