The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-23 00:00:00

WITCH,

3IANCHF.STER MICEUNCI-BAtuRDAT.

THE IliamiliThs PLATE of 40 wee.; winners extra. Halt
a elle.

Queen of Tlounpe, by King of Tnimps—
Catherine Parr, aged. fist (Kenyon) 1
Mr. 8°"1" The NMI% 4 yrs, Tat vs: 7st 14 Walloner, 2
Abr. Green's Vulcan, 3 yrs, eat 711 in. alb ex.) 0:1. Walker) 3
Wild Poppy and Wads.... Posen also MIL
Betting : sto 4 eget itneen of numv.,:, 50 2 art Vul-
c.o., 9to 2aget The Squire. Won by a length and a half ;
two lengths between second and third.
THE cl:111tY PLATE of 40 soya. Half a mile.

Cli:Amd.437;f Nr..:ll7•rni;lll;,liilt: W 614 211.

%liiitirr• I
Mt. IL. Oshorne's Festivity. 2 )t. 7st Mb.... Walkrr
Sir 11. de Tratforirs Nligniiiirttr, i fni. Get 12111.. Kenyon) 3
The following also ran :—liruther to itelgrare, Tho squirt.,
Admiral. and Past.
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Betting : 2to 1 Kat filignonette. 7 to 2 agst ngbtfit
fillyrd. . Won by four lengths; a bead between second and
thi

THE NORTHERN METROPOLITAN PLATE of 100 sovs. ;
wipxere extra. Once rowed and a distance.

Mr. X. e1ti110u'5i...147it..47.1;; Tiiirr;l7oo7)o7:l ) rs. :et 11b
hO.l 1011) extra
Captain Chrlittar's Orue 3mt fit Mb

tiouallooao.' Enoprcom..e loodia. 4; yrs. 74 illo ..,Sellars;
Deceit and Merry Harp abo ran.
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Betting : 11 to 10 eget Capitols, 10 to:lo4st Orne. 6to 1
ngst Merry Harp, 10 to 1 apt Deceit. Won by a length ;
a head between wooed and third.
THE ClitANI) STAND PLATRof GO sovs. Five furlongs.
Mr. T Oaltos kanuy, by Drogheda—Bay Shirley. 3 3
7at Cit
Me. Smith's Rumen, 3 yrs, iirt 1111. ,Browo, 2
Hie 11. de Trationrs Mignonette, I yrs, eat bib ..(Kenya's! 3
sylph also ran.
Betting : to 4on Frew, sto 2 apt Mignonette, and
5 to 1 apt Romeo. Won by three lengths ; the same
between second and third. . _ . _ _

Tun TIL EFORD lI.t.NI.ICAP of 5 aovs. each, 3 ft, with 50
added • second to receive 10 torts. One mile.
Str Pratwoooll's Ito:Joinder, by Kettledrum—Repartee,
3 yrs.sst 13Ib (111tholk.); I
Mr. Memusler's %Try Harp, 5 yrs, 7el Mb Atutler) 2
Mr.Wudlusisquyen of Trumps, aged, eat 121b..:K.eu30u

Betting : Even on Queen of Trumps. 7 to 4 ags t Re-
joinder, and 4to I sgst Merry Harp. Won by ten lengths ;
the same between second and third.

THE PARIS RACES.
PARIS, SEPT. =.
The Paris races were run today with the following
results:

THE GLATIONT PRIM

Nnirmandle

....

Ta■ FRAME Pain.

Confederate

1

THE MADRID PRIZE.

Fen Follet
THE GRAND PRIZE OF THE PRINCE ImPEHIAL.
Patritien
Temadero 2
Ferracquaß
Worn essily—a bad third.
THE Avrtaix Plaza.
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THE LONDON CO-OPERATIVE CLO'FIIINO SOCIETY
(LINITED).—A meeting of the above society was held at
the Franklin-hall, Castle-street, Oxford-market, on Friday
evening last. Mr. Newbury occupied the chair. The pur-
pose of the meeting was to explain to the friendly and
trade societies of London (many of whom were represented)
the principles of this society. and to impress upon them
the necessity of seeking employment for their labour and
capital direct from the public, instead of relying upon
others to provide it for them. The society had commenced
business upon a small capital in 11. shares, subscribed by
weekly payments of 6.1. per share. The profits would be
divided between shareholders, workmen, and customers.
They had already done a considerable amount of trade,
and there was reason to expect that they would be very
successful in procuring more. Many of the members are
engaged in soliciting orders in various parts of the metro-
polis, and meet with great encouragement. Mr. Coxwell,
of St. John's-wood Co-operative Society, and Mr. Wolfe,
of Lee's Mews Horse-shoeing Society, addressed the meet-
ing, denouncing in strong terms the present system of
trade, and urging upon the trades generally to adopt the
principles of co-operation. The speakers were listened to
with marked attention, and were rewarded with a vote of
thanks, which brought the meeting to a clam.
Wong Mrs OF THE New MARRIAGE RF.GFLATIoNs.
—The recent warrant, which was believed to secure
numerous advantages to the married soldier, is working in
just the contrary direction at Aldershot. One clause of
the warrant lays down that married soldiers shall be
entitled to two gets of bedding, that is, to two bedticks,
two bolsters, two blankets, and two rugs ; and as these
articles are of the same size as those issued for single beds,
the two sets are only sufficient to make one double bed.
Prior to the promulgation of the new warrant it has been
customary both at Aldershot and other stations to issue as
many sets of bedding as each family required, but no sooner
bad the warrant been published than the barrack authori-
ties at Aldershot called in with questionable promptitude
all bedding in excess of the quantity sanctioned. The con-
sequence is that throughout the camp each family, often
consisting of five or six children, and some of these not
infrequently over 14 years of age, must sleep in one bed,
which is large enough to contain two persons only ; that is,
unieas the husband wraps himself in hi, great-coat and
sleeps on the floor, to make room for his children. This
decision of the War-office authorities cannot but lower the
mural tone of the soldiers' families, and will do anything
but foster their ideas of decency. The efforts of the sani-
tary boards to secure cleanliness will doubtless also be ably
seconded by this arrangement. It is difficult to conceive
the amount of misery that must result from the want of
bedding when the winter has once set in. At that season
the single men are allowed what is termed "a bad weather
blanket," but unless some provision is made for the mar-
ried people they will have to huddle together on their one
bed without undressing, or there will be no possibility of
sleeping warm. The local authorities are not to blame is
the matter. We have learnt that the lieutenant-general
commanding submitted the matter to the War-office, but
his request was not favourably entertained.—United Ser.
rice Gazette.

ALARMING ACCIDENT TO AN EXPRESS TRAIN.—
A very strange and alarming accident is reported to have
occurred to an express train • few miles from Preston, on
the East Lancashire section of the Lancashire and York-
shire Railway. The train which met with the mishap is
timed to leave Preston for Liverpool at 11.30 a.m., and it
only makes one stoppage between the two places. On the
flay of the accident it was 23 minutes late in starting.
There were, luckily, very few passengers in the train,
which consisted of two virriages and a guard's van, and
was driwn by a tank engine. As the train was approaching
Creston, on a straight length of line, the engine, which
was running at 40 or 4i miles an hour, suddenly got off
the rails. It drew the carriages and van off, and after pro-
ceeding for 90 or 100 yards, the entire train left the road,
and fell sideway against the base of a cutting. The rapid
speed at which the train was running, combined with the
suddenness of the engine's divergence from the metals,
gave the driver, John Landless, of Preston, no opportunity
of checking the force of the disaster. The rend was torn up
considerably, and great confusion and alarm ensued. The
passengers were thrown about in the carriages in all direc-
tions, and if the train bad been shot off the line by bitten.
Weans form it could not have occupied • much more
isolated and singular position. All the passengers were
very much shook, and several were bruised. Mr. W. Par-
kinson, veterinary surgeon, of Preston, who was in the
train, seems to be the worst hurt. He sustained a concus-
sion of the brain and the spine, and had to be conveyed to
one of the inns at Croston, where he is still confined. The
guard of the train, Thomas Drake, of Liverpool, was also
conies rably hurt. The driver and the fireman were not
much, if at all injured. As soon as possible after the acci-
dent assistance was obtained, and the wants of the pawn-
gers were as well attended to as circumstance, would per.
mit. Some of the carriage buffers were broken, and the
guard's van was numbed from Its connections with the
frame. About eighteen hours elapsed before the carriages
and the engine were got upon the line again.
SHOCKINO RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —Oll Saturday,
at the Colney-hateh station of the Great Northern Rail-
way, three children belonging to one family were cut to
pieces. They were upon one side of the line, and as a train
Lad passed they ran across the railway just as the 11.:s
a.m. express up Midland train passed through. The
result was that the children were ilieniembered and
'meshed, their blood and brains being scattered over the
engine. Their remains were collected and conveyed away
to await an Mcleod. No blame is attachable to the coin-
piny, as, although it is a level crossing, a bridge has been
erected for the convenience and safety of the public.
loiter in the day an engine and train ran off the lino at
Hornsey, but nothing beyond a delay of about three hours
occurred-

SINGCLAR CASE OF POISONING RY LACDANFx.
A somewhat remarkable ease of death from poisoning
occurred in Dury St. Edmund's on Sunday last, the
victim being Miss Lucy Went:owe, an elderly maiden
lady, residing in St. Mery's.square, in that town, and
who wait formerly a resident at Ipswich. It wilts that
Miss Dlencowe had for 40111 P time past suffered from
chronic rheumatism in the head, which rendered perinft-
nrnt medical attendance necessary, and she was under
the care of Dr. Macnab. In consequence of the severity
of the pain composing draughts were requisite, and she
was supplied with them IT her medical attendant ; but,
having somewhat curious ideas upon the ouhject of
medicines, she made up her mind that the draughts she
had from Dr. Macnab were of no use, and that she would
prescribe in future for herself. Acting upon this deter-
mination, she obtained some landanutu from a chemist in
the town, and, paying no rnanl to the instructions upon
the bottle as to the quantity to be taken, she decided upon
taking some just before retiring to test on Saturday night.
The consequence wan that she took too mash, and was
found by her companion the next morning in an uncon-
scious state. Dr. Macnab was called in, and under his
treatment she recovered sufficiently to be able to converse
rationally, and to give an account of the circumstances
under which she took the drug, but expired a few hours
afterwards. An inquest was held on Tuesday evening,
before Mr. Hinnell, deputy coroner, when a verdict of
" Death from taking an over-dose of laudanum" was
returned.—Serail Chroxiek
CRYSTAL PALACE. HALF-A-CROWN DAY,-.
SATURDAY, SEPT. :I.—Admissions on payment. 1,123 ;
ditto by Kama ticket', 4,564 ; total vinton, .4677.