The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-29 00:00:00

25 }Med ; weight for age ; winner to ho so'd for 100/. ;
sl.g and other alloy/mice" ; second to save stake. Once
round.
lir. -DairsOn's nasty Miller, by Knight of Avenel—Lady
-Paramount, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Cameron) 1
Mt. W. Cowen's Gayous, 5 yrs, 3st 21b 121.)) Martin) 2
Sr. Coventry's Kish, 4 yrs, Tat 9lb ,S2O) (Maidment
The 1011(m:tug also ran :--Cottage Girl, Antique, Contract.
Setting : 5 to 4 agst Dusty Miller, 100 to 30 apt Miele,
and. 6 to 1 apt Gayoui. Won by three-quarters of • ,
length ; a length between second and third, and half a
length between third and fourth. The winner was bought •
in for 76 guineas.
PHE VoLUSTEZE PLATE (Handicap), of 100 mom One
mile.
Mr. Johnstone's Rhymer, by King Tom—Pairy, by Or.
'Undo. 2 yrs, est shi
Mr. T. V. Morgan's Feemy, 2 yra, Eat 12Ib ,l2adoek) 2
Mr. Dawson's King of the Fairies, 2 yrs, 7st 71b J. small) 3
The following also ran :—Fairwiud. War Dance, 'Three per
CeSt, Chessman, Prince of pertness, Stiff, Shamrock. Moralise.
Betting : 5 to 2 apt Rhymer, 7 to 2 apt Three per
Cent., 4tol wt Feemy, and 6to 1 apt Chessman. IN on
by half a length ; four tenths between second and third ;
two lengths between third and fourth. Three per Cent.
was left at the .
Halt MAJESTYpost'S PLATE of 100 guineas. About two miles
and a half.
Mr. John a, 3 y
stone's Lady Vane, by Bandy--Camiolrs,
ast 31b (Morris) 1
Mr. Masternan's Honesty, E yrs, Sit Sib (If aldment) 2
Mr. Barber's Helen, yrs gat 131 b (Thorpe) S
Monitrees also ran.
Betting: 2 to 1 on Lady Vane, who won by a length and
• half ; five lengths between second and third. Monitreas
was a bad fourth.
The Buccumcit HANDICAP of 5 sows each, 2 ft, with 50
added ; gentlemen riders winners extra. One mile and a
half.
Mr. Statues b c Dart, by Lord Fauconberg—dam by Net/-
tanner, 3 Jr', list 41b IJ Arnull) 1
Mr. John Watson's ch c Nothing More, 4 yrs, (24 OW
(Mr Laurance) 2
Mr. Derley's b c Applecross, S ra, lOst 121 b (Mr. Crawshaw)
The following alio ran :—Arbutus. Stiff, Camperdown.
Betting : 5 to 4 apt Applecross, 4 to 1 agrt Nothing
More, and 6to 1 each apt Cauiperdown and Dart. Won
by two lengths ; a bad third ; Stiff was fourth.
The FAasernm. HANDICAP of 30 move, added to a sweep-
stakes of 2 sows each ; penalties and allowances. About
three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. Barbm's b I Contract, by !Stockwell—Fandango 4 yrs,
lalb tor.pe) 1
Major stapylton'a ch g lairwind, 9 yrs, Sit Mb ..(J n) 2
Mr. Smith's b f Prenes Garde, S yrs. Sit 1116 (Bumby) 3
The following also ran :—lteparation, Soda Water, Dark Agnes,
Three per Cent., Miss Shafto, Sabrina.
Betting : 6 to 4 apt Three per Cent., 4 to 1 apt Con-
tract, 5 to 1 asst Fairwind, and 10 to 1 apt Dark Agnes.
Won by three lengths ; a bad third.

TRAORDIPARY CHARON OF ROBBERY
,•,. 404LNST A BANK CLERK.

At the Mansion-house, yesterday, James Wil-
liam Woods, a tall, gentlemanly-looking man, who was
stated to be only 22 years old, was brought before
Alderman Lust, M.P., who presided in the absence of the
Lord Mayor, in custody of Michael Hayden, the detective
officer, charged with stealing a 100/. Bunk of England note,
the property of Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, and Co., the
bankers, of Lombard-street.
Mr. Mullen., the solicitor to the Bankers' Association,
attended on behalf of the prosecution ; Mr. Weatherbesd,
from the office of Mr. T. Beard, appeared fur the prisoner.
The mum appeared to create a good deal of interest from
the eiromentanoes connected with it, and also from the
fact that the prisoner, who has been for some time in the
service of the bank, is moat respectably connected, and his
father, who is an extensive farmer in Kent, has been for
many years a tenant of Mr. Hoare, one of the partners in
the firm.
It appeared that on the 14th of September • sum of
185/. 10s. 6d, was paid into the bank of Messrs. Barnett
and CO., by a firm who kept an account with them,
Messrs. Fauntleroy and Co., ivory and hard wood mer-
chants, in Southwark, which amount was composed of a
Bank of England note for 1001. and cheques, and in due
course this note should have been placed to the credit of
Messrs. Fauntleroy and Co., in their banking account. At
the close of the day the balance was foumd to be 100/.
short, and after an investigation had taken place into the
amounts, it was ascertained that the deficiency amounted
in the loss of the 1001. note that had been paid in by
Messrs. Fauntleroy, and further inquiry led to the die.
coiery that on the same day the note had been changed
for gold at the Bank of England, and that it then bore
thaendorement "George Robson," King's Head, Borough.
The matter was then further investigated by Mr. Mullina,
who placed the inquiry in the bands of Hayden, a most
experienced detective offioer, and in the result the prisoner
was taken into custody, and the evidence that was obtained
to support the charge of having stolen the note in ques-
tion was of rather an extraordinary character.
Mr. Grayy, one of the principal cashiers in the bank of
Barnett, game, and Co., spoke to the ordinary course of
duty being, when notes were paid in, that they were I
marked with the name of the customer and placed in a
box, and were afterwards entered in • ledger, but this
• particular 1001. note never seemed to have been so en-
tered. He said that in the beginning of the month of
September the asked to be permitted to have 101.
' as a loan for • few days, and he produced • letter purport-
. ing to be signed by a Mr. Farman, residing at Padding-
ton, and which represented that he had sold • horse for
the prisoner for IV. 10s., and that he should have the
money in a few days. He allowed the prisoner to have the
money, believing that he would be in a position to repay
it when he received the money for his horse, and at the
time he did not pay particular attention to the hand-
writing of the letter, but having since examined it more
carefully, he was of opinion that it was written by the

BETTING AT MANCHIEITER.-FRIDAT.
CERAREWITeIf.
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& olf) 10 to 1 Jollity !off)
100 to 8 Cheystow(t&O 25 to 1 Zenobla
100 to 8 Lotharlo (off. 33 to 1 Actea 'OM
100 to 7 Potomac (t d: o) I 50 to 1 burns, (off)
100 to 6 Ilathildo (off,
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prisoner.
Some further evidence was then addiseed, the effect of
which was to show that the prisonerlreceived the IW. and
that he did not repay it at the time he had prom
that he
sold a horse and would pay the money he had borrowed
when he was paid for it. On the 14th of September, the
day the note was stolen, the prisoner asked for leave of
absence for two or three bon's, saying that he was going
up to the west end of the town to receive the money for
his horse, and he left the bank, and it appeared that very
shortly afterwards the note was changed for gold at the
Bank of England. When the primmer returned to the
bank he appeared to have banded the cashier who had
advanced him the IW. a post-office order for that amount,
and at the same time asked him to change another for
4!. 10s., representing that he had received the two money
orders as the price of his horse. It turned out that on the
day the note was changed at the Bank of Mislead some
person had obtained the two money orders in question at a
post-office in the neighbourhood of Oxford-street, in the
name of Farman, and the usual post-office form for these
money orders was filled up in the handwriting of the pri-
soner. It was also proved that the Mr. Farman referred
to -by him knew nothing of the prisoner, and there was
no truth in his statement that ho had been engaged in
selling a horse for him.
Michael Haydon was then examined—He said that in
consequence of a communication that he received he went
on the 20th of September to the bank of Messrs. Barnett,
Hoare, and Co., and found the prisoner in a private room
with Mr. Mullens, the solicitor, and Mr. Barnett, one of
the partners. Mr. Barnett, when witness went in, ad-
dressed the prisoner, and said he was sorry to tell him that
he was suspected of having stolen a 100/. note, and he
added that the circumstances were so suspicious that the
matter bad been placed in the hands of Mr. Mullens, the
solicitor, in order that he might investigate thew, but no
one would feel more pleasure than he should if the prisoner
could clear himself. Mr. Mullens then addressed the pri-
soner, and said that the matter had been placed in his
hands, and that it was necessary he should at once
tell him that he had been assured that he had
stated that he bad gone to Oxford-street to
receive the money for a horse be had sold for
141. 10s., and that he was paid in two money-orders, one
for 10/. and the other for 4/. 10s. The prisoner bowed,
and said " That is so." Mr. Mullens then proceeded to state
to the prisoner that he had procured the forms when the
money orders were applied for, and produced them, and
said it was his duty to tell him that the filling up of those
forms, and the endorsement on the back of the 1001. note,
when it was cashed at the Bank of England, appeared to
be in his handwriting. The documents referred to were
then shown to the prisoner, and after looking at them he
said " If anyone has been copying my handwriting I can-
not help it. I never had the money, and I know nothing
about it." Mr. Mullens then said that it would be his
duty to charge him with stealing the 100/., and witness
took him to Bow-lane police-station, where the charge was
read over to him, and he made no reply. The prisoner, at
' his request, wrote the address of Mr. Farman in his
pocket-book, and he produced it.
The entry referred to was shown to the bench, and the
writing appeared to entirely correspond with that relating
to the alleged sale of the horse. There was also this
remarkable coincidence that the word Paddington ter-
minated in both document. with "don" instead of " ton."
Mr. Mullen!' said that this was all the evidence he was
in a condition to produce on the present occasion, as the
witness from the money order office could not attend on
account of illness. He asked that the prisoner might be
remanded in order that he might be enabled to bring for-
ward additional testimony.
Mr. Weatherhead asked that the prisoner might be
admitted to bail, itging that he was most respectably
connected, and that securities to any amount could be
obtained.
Alderman Lust remanded the prisoner for a week and
refused to accept bail.

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SINGULAR ATTEMPT AT SELF-STARVATION

The Sheffield Independent reports a singular at-
tempt at self-starvation. Some time ago • man named
Watson, with his wife and three children, went to live in
Gower-street in that town, and fifteen months since Wat-
son took his' three children and left his wife in possession
of the house. She commenced selling newspapers and
periodicala, but a week ago the neighbours noticed that
her house remained closed the whole of the day. As she
was heard moving about in her bedroom at night, little
notice was taken of the occurrence. For several days the
same thing was repeated, when neighbours became
alarmed, and on Wednesday evening the attention of the
police-officer on duty in that neighbourhood was called to
the case. He knocked in vain for admittance ; the woman
would neither show herself nor open the door, and it began
to be feared that either she was dead or too ill to respond to
the calls for admission. A ladder was procured, and an
officer ascended to the bedroom window, and entered the
house—to witness • most shocking and sickening sight.
Lying on the bed was the poor woman in the last stage of
inanition, the stench in the room being overpowering.
On the bed was a small teapot containing cold tea, and •
bottle filled with water. By her side, close to her hand,
was a small craw The poor woman raised her head, and
somewhat petulantly demanded what they wanted there.
6 She wished they would leave her alone ; she was ready to
die, and wished to die in peace. Surgeons were sent for,
and stimulants administered, and she was ultimately
removed to the workhouse. She was sadly emaciated,
having evidently been without food for some time; and
had a rather wild, vacant look. On her arrival at the work-
house there was found concealed between the clothes and
her body 371. 10.. inguld and two gold watches and chains.
On the police-officers entering the house it was found
that the furniture of the lower rooms, the front parlour
especially was superior to that generally found in
houses like those in Gower-street. I%ot seemed
to be very remarkable, considering the weak and
helpless condition in which the woman was discovered,
was the utmost cleanliness everywhere apparent. All the
articles in the front room, perhaps, excepting the fireirous,
were as clean as possible, and the fireirons, although very
rusty from not haring been used for some time, scarcely
showed a single spot of dirt. The same attention to
cleanliness was observable in the bedroom, for the fur-
niture was properly arranged, and the bed-clothes on which
the woman was lying were perfectly clean ; indeed, almost
as clean as if they had only just been put on. In the back
kitchen some bread which seemed to have been made
shortly before the woman took to her bed, was found in a
pan. It showed that she had not taken any solid food for
some considerable time, for all the inner portions of the
laayer had been consumed by mice, and the crust of
each was covered with a kind of blue mould.
Here the same attention to cleanliness and order
could plainly be seen. Among the many stories
afloat with reference to this singular case, the following is
among the most authentic :—Watson, the husbend, was for-
merly in theemploy of Messrs. Dsvy Brothers,machinists and
boiler makers, and he parted from his wife about 15
months ago. Since that time he has lived at Leeds, and
is still there. There are rumours that the woman was de-
serted by her husband on the one hand because she had
been guilty of ffirtations, and on the other because he had
other acquaintances. There seems, however, good reason
to believe that both these stories are unfounded. A more
probable though curious explanation given by a neighbour
who was OD the most friendly terms with the wretched
woman is this : her love of cleanliness had become a
passion. She could not bear to see about her the slightest
appearance of dirt. Her husband's occupation was not
sufficiently clean to suit her notions, and among other
unreasonable requirements on that score she required
him to take off his shoes at the door, and put on slippers.
This is but • specimen of her exactions ou the score of
cleanliness ; and Watson left for the very extraordinary
reason that he found her crotchets on that score intolerable.
She was, to use a common expression, a remarkably
" nattering" woman, and let no one about her be at peace.
Of the three children of the ill-matched couple, the
daughter, who has been well educated, is a governess in
a respectable family at a distance. The two boys,
about the age respectively of twelve and fourteen years,
are with their father. Since her husband went away,
Mrs. Watson has sold newspapers and periodicals. It
would appear that she has several times visited her hus-
band at Leeds, with a view to a reconciliation, but they
had failed to agree. It is necessary to state that he allowed
her a maintenance. Until • few weeks ago, Mrs. Watson
went about her household duties and mixed among her
neighbours as usual, and the reason assigned for her con-
duct in shutting herself up in her house is consistent with
the reason given for her quarrels with her husband.
Her landlord (accompanied by his wife) called for the
rent some weeks ago, and the weather being wet,
he committed the unpardonable crime of entering the
house with shoes that were not quite free from dirt.
Mrs. Watson was so offended that she ordered land-
lord and wife out of the house, refusing to pay her rent.
He not unnaturally cave her notice to quit, and when she
refused to comply with the notice, he gave het further
notice that her rent was doubled. She refused to pny
what the demands upon her were, and about three weeks
ago the bailiffs were sent to her house. They found her
cleaning the door step and pushing forward into •the
house they seized a handsome sofa and a valuable picture to
satisfy the demands of the landlord. From that time sbe
never opened her door or front shutters, and never cons-
muzicated with her neighbours. She once afterwards applied
to a neighbour's shop for some small article of necessity.
The last time she was seen out was on Thursday (yes-
terday) week. A neighbour who went suddenly out of
her house into the back yard, common to both houses,
saw Mrs. Watson there with a pail in her hand. Thn
neighbour went up to the disconsolate woman and at-
tempted to enter into conversation with her. Mrs. Wat-
son repelled the advances. She immediately re-entered her
house by a back window, which she reached by the aid of a
stool. She closed the window without saying a word, and
from that time was never seen or spoken to by her neigh-
bours. She is in each a state of exhaustion that her
recovery is considered to be exceedingly doubtful. She is
supposed to be about forty years of age, and IS described
as of superior education for her position in life.

THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION.—The Irish Lord
Primate baa addressed his clergy in a charge in which the
question of the Irish church is treated at much length.
His grace denies the justice of the project to endow the
established church in Ireland, with the presbyterian church
and the Roman catholic, ous of the funds belonging as pro-
perty to the first-named. He contends that the incomes
of the Irish clergy could not be reduced without injuring
the church. He stands upon the Act of Union, by which,
according to the minister who represented the crown when
it was framed, Irish churchmen were "constituted a pot-
tion of the religious majority ofithe United Kingdom."
He contends that the disturbance of the Irish
church would increase the hostility to the British I
crown, which it is imagined that it would remove. He
must regard the English church's revenues as very preca-
riously held if the Irish church was to loee hers ; the re-
gium donum of the Irish presbyterian church would perish
with the Irish church endowments. The supposed "griev-
ance" of the Irish church was, his grace added, a senti-
mental grievance—practical grievance there was none.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE GERMAN GYMNASIUM.
—Yesterday Dr; Hardwicke, deputy-coroner for Central
Middlesex, held an inquiry at the University College Hos-
pital, on the body of George Thomas Melly, aged 21, who
met with his death whilst practising at the German Gym-
nasium, King's-craw From the evidence of Thomas
Jeffrey, a friend of deceased, and Mr. George Ravenstein,
the president of the Gymnastic Society, it appeared that
deceased, who was au experienced gymnast, was exercis-
ing on the trapeze or hanging bar. The exercise which he
was performing is what is technically called " the cut
away." The performer swings backwards and forwards by
the hands on the trapeze, and at the end of one of the
forward swings throws his legs over the bar, leaves go with
his hands, and descends to the floor upon his feet.
Deceased, who was perfect in this exercise, determined to
vary it, and at the end of one of the backward swings,
instead of the forward, threw his feet over the bar, left go
with his bands, and fell upon his back. He was picked up
in a helpless state, and conveyed to University College
Hospital, where he was found to be suffering from con-
cussion of the spine. All his limbs were paralysed, and
he eventually died of exhaustion, the result of paralysis of
the respiratory organs, depriving the muscles of the power
of action. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.
DISGRACEFUL DISCLOSURES AT OXFORD.—Some
disgraceful disclosures have been made in Oxford of the
practice of sending new-born children to dry nurses, where
they die of inanition and debility from being deprived of the
natural support of their mothers. A nurse named Chard
having applied for certificates and registers of deaths more
fre9uently than usual, the case was brought under the
notice of Mr. W. Brunner, coroner, and an inquiry was
instituted into the death of a female child, committed by
ita mother to her care. The inquest was opened
on Tuesday, and adjourned for further evidence.
The adjourned inquiry was held yesterday, when the
registrar of births and deaths stated that his attention had
for some time been directed to the mystery surrounding
the birth of children in the care of Mrs. Chard, as also to
their frequent death and disappearance. It appeared that
the deceased was the illegitimate daughter of a respectable
person, the father was unknown, and the baby was regis-
tered in an assumed name in order to conceal its parentage.
The coroner's officer described the condition of the house
.to be filthy in the extreme, and the children there were
so emaciated and dirty as to be scarcely recognisable as
htinian beings. The jury /returned a verdict to the effect
that dananed was found ins house totally unfit for habita-
tion ; that it died from debility; that the practice et raedi-
eaknen reassume rag children to be sent to such a plea
was nameable in thehighest degree.

FATAL Galt ACCIDENT —A sad occurrence took
place at Sbottesbrook, near Maidenhead, on Thursday, ea
elderly gamekeeper named Messenger being accidentally
killed. It appears that • party of three gentlemen drove
over from Beading for a day's shooting, and before com-
mencing their sport Messenger gave them directions as to
the position in which they should carry their guns with
the view of preventing an accident. maenad short time,
however, the gun of one of the party,Stanborough,
by some means went off suddenly, and the contents nn-
fortunately lodged in the thigh of the gamekeeper.. The
gentlemen at once rendered every assistance in their
power, and the injured man was placed in a mat for eon-
s/Isom to the county infirmary. at Reading, bat he ex-
pired after the lapse of a few minutes. The unfortunate
accident occasioned a very painful sensation throughout
the neighbourhood, and was partimffarly lamented by these
who formed the shooting party.

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEP'T'EMBER, 29, X 1866.