The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-04 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S GMR. Two miles.

Helen, Nightwstch, Retrousse, Honesty, Three per
Nut., Dart, &amender, War Dance, Chessman, Fitzroy,
Lidy Vane, Hoprine, Jura, Miss Haworth, Was Williams,
and Chronometer are here.

BEDFORD MEETING.-{THIS DAY.)

TRIAL STAMM!. One =Re.

Skirmish, Mineral, iirim7tone, iii;iiiiiriett, Indigos-
goo, Caprioe, and Beng. All are here.

TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Malta mile.
Satyr, Sweet Horne, Moonbeam, and Bounceeway are
Lae.

TOWN STAKES. Three quareas of a mile.
Angelica (1501.), Elba, Maberal (501.), Sisyphus, Barney,
Body, Stud, Tribute f, Manche f, and Halcyon (mold for
401. each). All are here.
_ BEDFORDSHIRE STARES. Two miles.

Dr.
Pas de Charge, Wild Dove, and Pinchbeck are here.

SOUTHILL STAKE& One mile.
Vocaust is here.
Anaroan.--Etkiff, Dement, Vigilant, Qui The, Trouble.
some, Menai, Nakano's, and Lairs.

LONDON BETTING.--(THIS DAY.)

Two o'cLoca P.M.

A thin attendance and not much doing. Pro-
merpine Hort 'favourite and very firm. La Favorite has a
coming appearance. Nothing else of 000 sequence doing
The quotations are sa follows :

CESAREWITCH.
9 to 1 apt Proserpina (t)
100 to 9 Braciamante (off)
100 to 8 Lecturer (t)
100 to 8 Dubiety (off t 100 to 7)
100 to 8 Jollity (off)
100 to 8 Chepotow (off)
100 to 5 La Favorite (t and w)
25 to 1 Potomac (off)
25 to 1 Ethelred (off)
100 to 3 Rama (t)
50 to 1 War (off)
1000 to 10 Comae (off)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
8 to 1 on the field (off).

The Manchester City Council have declined to
join in the invitation of Lord Derby to Manchester to
Icaugurate the Albert Memorial. Thls decision had already
been come to by the General Purposes Committee, and
after some discussion at the council meeting yesterday, the
resolution was confirmed.

The Manchester papers state that, upon reconsi-
deration of the subject, Captain Andersen, the commander
of the Great Eastern, has decided to accept the honour of
knighthood, offered him by the Queen, for his services in
connexion with the Atlantic cable.

The Times urges that as the prohibition against
smoking in railway carriages is universally disregarded,
the companies should at once cancel their obsolete regula.
tion, recognise what they cannot prevent, and control
what they cannot abolish. In other words, they should
provide separate carriages for smokers and non-smokers.
The new arrangement might cost the companies a little
trouble, but as it is established in Germany, where there
is more smoking than in England, it cannot involve any
insurmountable difficulty.

M. Prevost Paradol, criticising, in the Deba's,
from a conservative point of view, the speeches of Mr.
Bright, adds :—" What is to be said, however, of those
French journals which, in narrating the occurrences at
Manchestei, think it right to deplore more than ever the
oppression which weighs upon the English people? When
these journals have secured for all French citizens the
right to discuss in open air the constitution of the country
before 200,000 persona—not to speak of a number of other
rights, more precious, more useful, and more convenient
practice—it will be time for them to institute compari-
sons with England, and to d'rect our neighbours in the
path of progress."

The ultramontane journal the Monde professes to
be quite of opinion that the Pope sill leave Rome. "It
may be," it says, " a trial for the Holy Father to leave the
tomb of the apostles, but the certainty of returning on an
early day will soften for him the bitterness of exile."
One of the most curious sights on the coast at
Fatretat (Seine-Inferieure) was the Chaudron du Diable.
Tbis was a kind of shaft running down the cliff, and open
Atha bottom. At certain stages of the tide the wind
forced the water in to the lower opening with such a vio-
knee that it was projected to a great height above the top.
A landslip of the cliff has just filled up the shaft, and put
an end to the phenomenon.

Amongst the curiosities now exhibited at the
fair of 'lt. Michel, at Havre, is a Prussian, who, with the
spike helmet (sKM:center) on his head demonstrates to the
curious the manieuvres of the famous needle-gun, for the
snail charge of Id. The crowd is always excessive, and
the showman is making a little fortune.
A letter from Prague, to the Fremtlenblatt of
Vienna, says :—" A deputation of burgesses waited on the
superior of the Jesuits to express to him the discontent
caused in the minds of the people by the presence of the
order amongst them, and to urge that he and those under
him should leave Prague and Bohemia as soon as possible.
The superior replied that they had been introduced by the
archbishop, and that they could only withdraw on an
order from that high dignitary.
The &eolo of Milan says that General Menabrea,
whilst negotiating the conclusion of peace at Vienna, has
also been treating for the marriage of Prince Humbert
with the daughter of the Archduke Albert. The Princess
is named Mathilda Mary Aldegonde Alexandrina, and was
born on the 15th July, 1845. She is said to possess great
personal attractions.
Madame Ristori made her Nbut at the French
Theatre, New York, in Medea, on the 20th ult. The audi-
ence included the French and Russian ministers, and
prominent American authors, divines, lawyers, and poli-
ticians. The New York journals are enthu-
siastic as to her performance, though they
here little to say in praise of the rest of the company.
The Nes, York Herald devotes no less than three
columns and a half of closely printed type to
the subject, divided under headings of this kind
" From our Critic in the private box ;" " From our Critic
in the dress circle ;" " From our Critic in the parquet
" From our Critic with the promenade ticket," Sec.
Madame Parepa had arrived out.
ANOTHER " ROB ROY " VOYAGE.—Mr. J. Mao-
vegor sends to the Times an account of a voyage just com-
pleted by him in another Rob Roy canoe (made of oak), in
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. He began at Kongo-
ringer, on the beautiful Glommen river in Norway, which
is there about the size of the Rhine at Cologne. The voyage
included a three days' cruise in the Baltic. " Here," says
Mr. Macgregor, " I had, happily, line weather, and coasted
all alone beside grand cliffs with strange sea birds scream-
ing. I lived well but roughly all the journey, sometimes
rocking my dinner on a desert island by lighting a huge
fire of wood, or making soup in a lone fisher's hut, or sleep-
ing on straw beside my boat. Once I passed the night all
alone in the lantern of a lighthouse, which was warm
and lively, and where I could read and sketch." He
was received everywhere with hearty hospitality, and
was often " an honoured guest " at marriage 18 tea, school
treats, and rifle meetings of volunteers. Eight times he
had to reach steamboats in open water and haul the boat ,
CO board; twice he did this at night. During the last two
months Mr. Macgregor 'travelled in this canoe
More than 1,000 miles, of which about a third was done
miler sail. He also went nearly 1,000 miles in 25
steamers, and 500 on six railways, the whole ex-
, Pense of the trip being 451. " I venture again," he writes
" strongly to recommend this mode of travelling to all
lien who desire to hare healthful exercise of mind and
body, an intimate communication withall classes of foreign
People, and a thorough enjoyment of scenery quite inaci-
tangible by ether mean, and I can only hope that the
other members of ' The Canoe Cub' who hams paddled the
wormer hours in more homely waters, have been equally
41)PY and comfortable, and have returned as sale as
their captain."