The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1867.

KING'S MEADOW STAKES. Three-quarters of a
Mile.
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Wortior, Crown Prince, Monitor, Vampire, Vigilant,
Rustic Beauty, La Mute, Heliotrope, Cromwell, and
Mexico are here,

STAND PLATE. Half-a-mile.
Mn. Stratton, Alberta, Dick Turpin, Cromwell, Lute,
Elegance, 'Thermometer, Lictor, Lord Paramount, Bessie
Dixon. and Mignonette are here.

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.-/THIS DAY.)

The camp this morning presented a more ani-
mated appearance than it has done any day during the
progress of the meeting, in consequence of a considerable
acquisition to the numbers of volunteers in camp, who
have come in for the purpose of shooting for the Queen's
Prize. This prize, as is now well known, draws
together volunteers from every part of the kingdom, and
every corps or battalion of importance is here represented,
and send their best men to endeavour to obtain the coveted
honour. This prize is shot for in the first instance by the
whole body at the respective ranges of 200, 500, and 600
yards, which determines certain minor prizes, and from a
considerably reduced number of the best marksmen are
taken those qualified to shoot in the second stage and
ascertain who is really to become possessor of the Queen's
medal. The number of entries for the Queen's prize is
2,050 against 2,190 of last year.

Soon after 9 o'clock the different corps were paraded
in front of the Council Tent, and then they were
marched off to the different firing points, 26 targets being
used for the competitors for the Queen's Prize. The shoot-
ing then commenced, but had made but little progress
when this was despatched from the Common.

DEATH 01 MR. BCHOLITIZI.D, M.P. BIR-
MINGHAM, TOMMY Esininta.—lntelligence was received
here from London this evening of the death of Mr.
Scholefield, M.P. for this borough. He was first nomi-
nated on the death of his father, in 1844, but was de-
feated by Mr. Spooner, the nomination of the late Mr.
Sturge h►ving caused ► disunion amongst the liberal party.
At the election in 1847 he was returned in conjunction
with Mr. Muntz, and has been returned from that time
uninterruptedly to his death. Mr. Scholefield was highly
esteemed by all classes in the borough, irrespective of
party. The Birmingham Post of to-day says :—" The hon.
member expired at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at his
lodgings in London. For • considerable time pest Mr.
Scholefield had been in failing health, suffering from general
debility, complicated by heart disease ; but, though his
condition occasioned much anxiety to his friend', this sud-
denly fatal termination was not anticipated. Only afew days
ago the writer of these lines saw him at his lodgings, and
again in the House of Commons, when be spoke of himself
with some cheerfulness as being stronger than he had
been. On Thursday last he was reported seriously ill ; but
so recently as Saturday • letter was received from him by
a friend in Birmingham, in which he said, ' Though still
ailing, I am better.' On Monday he attended, as
usual, to his parliamentary duties, and presented a
petition from Birmingham. L►ter in the evening,
he wrote to his partner, Mr. J. D. Goodman, saying
that his health was more favourable than it was a few days
previously. Yesterday morning, however, • sudden and
alarming change took place. Shortly before two o'clock, a
telegram was received stating th►t Mr. Seholefield was
dangerously ill ; and so rapid was the progress of the
attack that at about three o'clock yesterday afternoon he
died."

A few days since there was a rural fete held in
Wilton Park, by permission of lady ilerhest of Lea.
8,000 persons were present.

The Owl says that the wet of the entertainment
to the Sultan will cause a charge on the revenue of India
of 10,0001.

The harvest has commenced in Hungary and in
the southern provinces of the empire, and promisee to be
magnificent. The weather is exceedingly favourable.
The Triestcr Zeitung %Was that during the last few days
considerable orders for grain had arrived from England,
and the agents sent by the corn merchants to Hungary in
consequence bad already bought up more than two mil-
lion of metzen—nearly four million bushels. The French
have been making large purchases, chiefly in Hungary,
for some time past.

The Viceroy of Egypt has accepted an invitation
from the President and Council of the Royal Agricultural
Society of England to be present at the opening of the
show ►t Bury St. Edmund's, on Monday, the 13th inst.,
and will leave town by an early train, so as to reach Bury
in time for breakfast in the ahowyard at noon. As the
Viceroy takes deep interest in agriculture and has done
more than any other foreign ruler in introducing English
machinery (he has more than 100 steam ploughs) into his
country, it is fortunate that his visit should occur at a
time when the largest cmUectioa of agricultural imple
meats ever made can be seen.

Lymington, in Hanta, has ceased to be a salt-
producing place. Bakeries have been in existence there
for nearly 900 yaws. At the commencement of the present
century upwards of 5,000 tons were produced there in one
year.
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Raphael Semmes, of Alabama notoriety, ie ad-
vacating female suffrage.

Nearly all the batt'e geld/ around Richmond, in
the United States, are now sown with pain.