The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-24 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

(at Zt!CTRTO nisei Are.)
BIRMINGHAM MEETING.-(TIIIS DAY.

MILITARY GOLD CUP. Three mile,.
Clear•the-Way, Goldemith, 'Young Magnet, BallinAiloe,
Mannion, Balaclava, Horniblow, and Spencer, are here.
111:1T CUP. Three milts.
Dandy Traits,. Knew* Gipsy King, Border Chief,
Livia Trireme, Whaley, Heeds and TAds, Chlf Pigeon,
Premier, Minna, Paymaster, mud Odiham, are hcra.
ERDINOTON PLATS. Two miles and a half.
Stine, Odiham, Oilton.ta, Throdlue, Mahridta, Sports-
man, Heade end Talk., Harry of lisreleed, Adlsanaro, May
Day, Firefly, Young Ragman, Topsy, Do.tor, and Maria
Agnes, are hew.

Lord John Russell was amongst the members who t-
weed last evening for the second reading of the Edinburgh, st
de, Annuity Tax Bill (the " &etch Church-rate Abolition a.
Bill," is it hue been called). No member of the conserve- es•
tire party voted for the bill.
Mr. Gregory will renew his motion for a select
commit.m or inquiry a.to the space in the British Miscue, t
on Monday seat.
Mr. Tollentsche, M.P. for South Cheshire (con-
servetive), has Issued ea address to his constituents, stating
hie intention to von against Lord John Ruesell's raeolution;
bat also to oppose the second reading of the government re-
term bill.
The Bishop of London was elested a Governor of N
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the Charterbouse in the room of the late Earl of Ripon on 111
Tuesday kit. Another vacancy has occurred among the
Governors of the foundation, by the demise of the Earl of •
Davos.
The Earl of Derby has presented the Rev. Hugh g
!Rowell Gill, M.A., curate of Lamy, to the vicarage of it
Rushes, near Castletown, in the Tale of Men, rendered tit
vacant by the death of the Rev. William Conlin, M.A.
The rectory of Petworth, Sussex, has become va-
cant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Beckett, Y.A. The
benefice, which is worth nearly 1,0001. a year, is in the gift
of Colonel Wyndham, M.P.
Thq Dublin Freeleass, reporting at greet length the
interview which a number of Irish members and ethos have
had with the Chancellor of the Eachequer, makes the
following cowmen's :—"A very general treprseeden pee
veiled that the prevent govern:neat would not mist an ap-
palatial to place the catholic nalvenity on the same founda-
Oen ea the Queen's colleges. There wee something in the
antecedents of the government to justify this impression.
In the army General Peel had done much to attach popular
confidence to his department. Unlike Lord Panmune, be
listened to and restelied well-founded complaints by placing
catholic chaplains, if sot numerically on the seine level
with protestant chaplains, at least in adopting the principle
of equality be °genet the way to its future exteneint. '
Yesterday the first of the spring exhibitions of the
Royal Botanic) Society took place in the gardens, Regent's-
pert. The number of visitors during the afternoon
amounted to about 2,000, there being amongst them her
ilighnest the Duchess of Cambridge, her Royal High-
ness the Princess Mary, Ladies Namara, Codringtoe,
Phipps, Reit, Macfarlane, Thompson, Believes, sad others.
The &were end plants were very elegantly Nagel
in this connevatory. Among the more noticeable
floricultural favourites were sans exquisite rose sad
carnation-downed peach trate, &banana of Chink
Near to them was a somewhat rombnelooking bat
curious horticultural elate, vb....adore! forefathers decorated
the lawns of the Malayan Archipelago, with noble tropical
keen, and a flower that seamed the form of a crest string
round and about with extraordisery•looking stigmata The
specimens of cieerarkie, including the bellimima, *las, ex-
celsior, and others, wore among the finest flowered of them
beautiful productiona. V» group of camellias, with Basle
pore white clustering Tonnes on groundwords of dark green.
and ocossissay in other colour'', elicited mach admiration.
The Newcastle CArosielc says :—" Oar readers
in the west will Ned with peculiar pleasure that the pulls-
mintbary easiititts• bare reversed the decisi,in of Mr. George
Ctile and hit wafters, lent year, and declared the preamkise
of Os North British and Border Counties Railways peed.
Let Mr. Washington Wilke rej. ice, and Carlisle make ken
self glad, while all the towns and villages Interested set timir
bell/ tinging and dinriteste good obese."
LONDON
ps GIUMSAL OMPMII7II COMPANY (I.IIITTED)
twel for the week swam March 20, 10,4211.
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