The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-01 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(sy imicraio TILZORAIH.)
GOODWOOD MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

HANDICAP PLATE. T.Y.C.
G&W, Maple, Verbena, Queen of the Isles, Caprioe,
SOW, Medina, Confederate, Boss Nem, Nukuheva,
Python, Troublesome, Ostreger, Queen of Trumps, Acme,
and Lord Waldegrave are here.

DRAWING-ROOM STAKES. Craven Course.
Langhani, Penelope Plotwell, Magician, Torephilite c,
Centaur, Marlh, Selim, Charmette, Measinate,
Neroli, Lucifer, See ikin, Chibiaa, and Ulphua are here.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 30 SOVS. Craven Course.
Ischia, Hebe, Maid of Mash= f, Mineral, Wild Briar,
Sultana, and Lam of Gowrie are here.
HANDICAP PLATS of 100 SOVS. Craven Course.
Guinevere, Verbena, Ambition, Medina, Provisor,
Brahma, Ulphus, Mensmate, and Broomielaw are here.
GOODWOOD DERBY. One mile and four furlongs.
War, Wentwick, Centaur, Marlborough, and Chibisa
are here.

FINDON STAKES. T.Y.O.
Splitvote o, Charade, Lochaber, Lady lambton, Alen
ander, Nutbourne lad, Amanda c, Prodigal, Marksman
Friponnier, and Aerolite are here.
GOODWOOD STAKES. Two-and-a-half miles.
Ischia c, Archimedes, Bradamante, La Fortune, Lucifer,
Forester, Aches. Potomac, Jollity, The Special, Bro. to
Guerilla, Black Prince, and Slender are here. is
SWREPSTAICRS OF 300 SOVS. Craven Course. 84,
Jack-in-the-Green, Rapid Rhone c, and Maid of Masham !k
o are here.
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COWDRAY STAKES. T.Y.C.
Mephistopheles, Ooldylocks, Promised Land c, Indiges-
tion, Bigots, and Musa are here.

/iATCIL Half-s:mila..

Claymore against lio.ii:e at Sat nb each.

LATEST BETTING.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
5 to 2 art Spedal
7 to 2 Bk Prince
4 to 1 Midis
8 W 1 L Fortune
No other change.

THZ MURDER IN Sr. MEWS.

1141Q1JEBT (THIS DAY). ea
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This afternoon Dr. Lnnkester opened an inquiry 10
at the King's Head publie house, Broad-street, St. Giles's, too
into the circumstances attending the death of Richard MO
Arthur Jeffries, s boy about six years of age, whose body
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was found hanging on Monday morning, at 15, Great Earl.
street. at.
The Coroner and jury proceeded to view the body I is
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which lies in St. Gilesi's. workhouse, and subsequently Si.
went to house where the poor lad was found hanging. eft.
No evidence was taken up to time our report left. Si.
The father of the boy has not yet been made amenable. rs.

It is stated by the captain of the Bavaria, now at 14
Southampton, that the man who died on board yesterday Li
from cholera ate 18 eggs and two pounds of cherries on a
Sunday before he was taken ill ! 10
Tile ATLANTIC CABLE.— A. requisition is in Salt:
course of signature to the Mayor of Bradford, requesting st.
hint to convene a public meeting of the inhabitants of that St.
town to adopt an address to the President of the United BL
States, congratulatory of the completion of the Atlantic It
Able . St.
St.
Natiorrai. Anvn.taaw ASSOCIATION. —The an- so
mud prize meeting of the National Artillery Association EL
oommenced yesterday at Shoeburyness. Over 800 men are
located there. The growing interest felt in the progress of
the association may be seen from the fact that there are 7;
detachments present from Aberdeen, the Cinque Ports, at,
Durham, Essex, Manta, Kent, Kincardineshire, Lancashire,
Lincoln,Middlesex, Northumberland, Sheffield, Shropshire,
Surrey, Sussex, and the Tower Hamlets. The detach-
ments generally consist of ten men each, but several
counties have increased that number. The Cinque Ports
send eleven deteclunents, Sheffield three, and many others 11-
a similar number. The bell tents are ranged in long lines 2°
according to military regulations, with five non-commis-
lo
stoned officers and gunners to each tent. In the case of 100
officers a tent is occupied by two pawns only. The
camp is under the command of Colonel Fisher, 8.A., di- Si.
reedy appointed by the War-office, and the council have et
appointed Lieutenant Colwell, of the Cinque Ports Artil-
lery, to be brigade-major; Captain }Mown, camp &din- et
taut; Dr. A. B. De Lisle Allen, lit Middlesex Artillery, lit
surgeon ; the Rev. Dr. Cram, chaplain ; and Captain toe
Beveridge, 12th Kent Artillery, and Lieutenant Starkey, 100
4th Cinque Ports Artillery, commissariat 'officers. The 100
prizes are named after the Houses of Lords and Commons,
the Duke of Cambridge 'a, the Prince of Wales's, the Duke i'Z",
of Wellingeon's, the Marquis of Harrington's, and Her 100
Majesty's. Other prizes will be given in the form of badges too
by the association. The prizes will be distributed by tivz 100
Under Secretary of State for War. The National Rifie As- Si.ciation have intimated their intention of giving a prize of L.)
50/. The targets were moored out at MS, at 1.2..% and 1,500 ;"0
yards range, each competing detachment to tire five :It
rounds. Nothing could be more unfavourable than the St.
tempestuous weather throughout the day, for the rain St
poured down in such torrents that the targets at sea ?2,4
could with difficulty be seen. The business of the day was
confined to shooting for the Lords and Commons prize too
at 1,230 and 1,500 yards. There were about 500 compe 10
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titors, but in consequence of the late hour to which the st
firing was prolonged the results meat be deferred. One St.
of the Brighton detachments made 28, the highest on St
the list when our report was despatched. SL
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NEW ACT ON THE CRIMINAL LAW.—An im to
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portant act on the criminal law has just been printed, and W
can now be enforced. Hitherto the law only allowed the IC
expenses of prosecutions to be paid when a committal took SI.
place, but by the new act the examining magistrates can ;Z:
grant certificates of expenses for compensation of trouble t 0
and loss of time to witnesses in eases of felony and in at
I certain eases of misdemeanour, although the witnesses St
were not bound over, and although no committal took
place. This beneficial alteration is made by the act 29 and
30 Viet., c. 52, which received the royal assent last week.
' Further, the clerks of petty sessions are to he allowed fees
OD depositions. The certificates of the magistrates are
to be forwarded to the quarter sessions, and they may
wholly or partially allow the expenses and order payment.
The act is only to apply to England, and to continue in
operation three years. It is to extend the former acts on
prosecutors' expenses—the 70eo. IV., c. 34, and 14 and 15
Vick, c. 55.
The first sod of the Lancashire Union Railways—
• scheme intended to open up more fully the mineral dis-
trict. of South Lancashire—was cut yesterday in the town-
ship of Haigh, near Wigan, by Mr. Richard Moon, the
chairman of the directors of the London and North
Western Railway Company.
The LATe MINISTRY.—During many years it has
been a standing charge against the public men of England
that they none of them took their stand on a principle or
fixed limy : that they acted with exclusive reference to
expediency or (as the less charitable did not hesitate to
my) to place. At last, we have had a Cabinet who fairly
staked their ministerial existence on a great measure, and
honestly kept their pledge to stand or fall with it ; yet all
sorts of reproaches have been heaped upon them, especially
by friends and followers, as if they had wantonly sacrificed
both the interests of the country and the prom:meta of their
party to false notions of honour, pique, wounded self-love,
or pride. We regard these reproaches as in the highest
degree unreasonable and unjust. Mr. Gladstone's epeech
in announcing the definitive resignation, was a
complete answer to all of them. It was no less
remarkable for argumentative tome than for becoming
seWassertim and appropriate dignity of tone. He
proved clearly that the vote on Lord Dunkellin's motion
not only went directly to break up the framework of the
Franchise Bill. but that, following clam on so many other
combined attempts to defeat the =Name, it established '
the hopelessness of further perseverance for the present,
and left the government no honourable alternative but to
resign. To say that they resigned on a mere question of
detail, is preposterous. As well my that Hampden con-
tested the claim of shipmoney for the sake of twelve
shillings, the actual amount assessed upon him. Did the
tories or the Adullamitea consider it a mere question between
rating and rental They notoriously employed it as a
means of getting rid of the government and the bill
together ; and they would speedily have been ready with
another motion for the purpose, if this had failed.—
Fraser's Magazine for August.
IGNORANCE OF CRIMINAL Won sw.—Of course
these women are grossly ignorant—ignorant of what is
mere A B C to a child brought up in a national school,
and altogether incapable of instruction, apperently. They
seem unable to make a mental effort—(the cunning we
spoke of, be it remembered, is common to the lower order
of animals)—to grasp a single truth in morals or religion.
We remember to have asked a woman if she had ever
heard of the Saviour : her only reply was a vacant stare.
The question was repeated. Prmmtly she answered, " 1
beg your pardon ; I'm not a lensed woman." "Do you
mean to say that you have lived all these years and never
heard of Jesus Christ ?" "Oh ! Jesus Christ. Yes—oh, I
yes; I have beard of him." Her manner indicated pretty I
clearly that one name had as mach significance to her as
the other. Such women are sot of course, as a rule,
ignorant of the Saviour's acme. It may be doubted, how-
ever, if they understand a word of teaching by parable.
Take the parable of the Prodigal tha--explain it clearly,
as you think, and then ask them what you have been talk-
ing about. Either there will be no answer, or they will
sneerer in a way which shows that they have only a literal
understanding el what they have beard. The hist time
the writer tried this plan the answer was, " You have been
talking about killing a calf sad making a good sapper."
Avis, " What do ion undaunted by the Good Shepherd?"
A pause. "You don't, perhaps, know who the Good
Shepherd is " Oh, yes, I do. I have seen him driving
the sheep to market in the steeds over and over again.
A woman who bed been emelt to read, and could learn an
easy hymn, mid that by the tam " Lamb al God," she
supposed a sheep was Jfaiprzine for
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