The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-08 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEWTON MEETLNG.-(THIS DAY.)

WARRINGTON HANDICAP. Five furlong..
Wynnstay, Zisca, Persuasion, Be'grave, Radcliffe,
Locket Lucy, Countess, Beguni, King of Spades, Hidalgo,
and Court Milliner are here.

SELLING HANDICAP. One mile.
Radcliffe, liranch, Gleaner, King of France, Jolly Boy,
and Countess arc here.

SOUTH. LANCASHIRE TRADESMEN'S CUP. One
mile and a guru-ter.
Lord Conyngham, Helen, Arkansas, Lady of Coverdnle,
Contract, Conundrum, Dannebrog, Countess, and Edg-
baston are here.

LYME PARK STAKES. Five furlongs.
Fandango c, Deceit, Rejoinder, Dybbol, Knight of St.
George, and Lady Rosehill are here.

HAMPTON MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

WOLSEY PLATE. One mile.
Lytham, Vixen, Juliet, Arabia, Signet, and Black
Tulip are here.

BUSHY PARK PLATE. Half a mile.

Stud (to be sold for 60/.), Young Melbourne c, Sister
Mary, ltose, Carnizette, Ad. Wagner, Gulnara, Virtuous,
Vixen, Soapstone, Northill, Master Shutt, l'elerin, Hop-
tine f, and Practitioner (to be sold for 40/. each). All are
here.

VISITORS' PLATE. Three-quarters of a mile.
Vixen, Knight of St. Michael, Papoose, Vision, Var-
nish, and Black Tulip are here.

HER M-AJESTY'S PLATE. Two miles.

Bitter Sweet, Tormentor, Exeter, Flatcatcher, Frolic,
Hourfield, and Black Prince are here.
Sc HATCH El ). Breadalbane.
NURSERY STAKES. Half a mile.

Stokeley, Orpheus f, Verdi, Vicious, Mermaid c, Master
Robert, Stud, Ambitious, Nursery Girl, Ibis f, Bonne,
Fortune, Elburg, Challenge, and La Sorrentino are here.
RAILWAY PLATE. Five inflow...,

War Cloud, Victoria, Clyde. Bay Dayrell-, Nevenham,
Moss Rose, Carnitette, Bonne Fortune, and La Sorrentino
(to be sold for 50!. each).

SCURRY STAKFS. One mile

Soapstone, 13et ; Colleen, list 121 b; Ronald, list Mb ;
Miss Grinistone, list 41b ; Melinda, lOst 131 b; Guildhall,
lOst ; Kinghorn, 9st 121 b; 9st 71b ; and Isabella,
9st 5.b. All are here.

Sheep-shearing and haymaking are in progress
now in several parts of Donetshire. _

ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL.—A very handsome altar
cloth, which it is understood has been partly worked by
the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley and other ladies, now decorates
the altar in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
FRENCH WORKING PEOPLE.—Just remember
these two things when you judge French working people;
there is not a union in the country, and almost all the
artisans and all the peasantry have laid by enough in
youth and manhood to provide for old age.—Maemillon'..
Magazine fur June.

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THE. EXPERIENCE OF GERMANY.—Anyone who
has lived in a garrison town will recollect changes of regi-
ments as involving a few days of not very serious but not
very pleasant disorder ; it is within our recollection that
soldiers on the move in England would come into a yard
and lead off n waggon and team for the day's march, and
it was lawful so to do : but they were in their own
country, where they spoke the language, at least, of the
people they disturbed: if they were ever so " jolly" and
riotous, all remionable people would allow for some irregu-
larity when men rest from a long march. We remember
a testy commodore replying to a clergyman who remon-
strated with him on the behaviour of sailors allowed leave
ashore when the ship came into harbour. " I'd like to
know, sir, if you'll expect two hundred and forty parsons
to keep order if they came into port after a cruise." But
if soldiers and sailors (and " even parsons") are likely not
to keep up the strictest discipline when they are on
the move in their own country, what is likely to
' happen in a foreign neutral if not hostile place,
when regiment after regiment, cannon after cannon,
come through : regiments that struggle through hedges
and over fields, cannon whose drivers no more
respect gardens than Peter the Great did Mr.
Evelyn's yews ; over the young corn in the spring, among
the tempting apple-orchards in the summer, through,
straight through, the tangled vineyards in the autumn.
Villagers frightened leave their houses to the strangers ;
the rich think wiser to open their gates and dispense un-
willingly hospitality to guests who receive and repay it in
kind, and the work and the pleasure of years is annihilated
" all for a famous victory." All this, and over and over
again, Germany has suffered within a hundred years of
this time. From this it has recovered to be the prosperous
land we see ; through all this it has preserved its curi-
ously-simple habits, and now all is over and the old ways
become dearer than ever, national character and national
customs rise up north and south and mat and west, like
strong shoots from the outstretching roots of an old tree
that has been lopped in time. —Comtill Magazine for June.