The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-23 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(BY ILICTIIO TILIGRAHL)
MANCHESTER MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

TRIAL STAKE& Mile and a quarter.
Wynostay, Edinburgh, and Vagrant are here.

PHILLIPS HANDICAP. Five furlongs.
Lucy Long, Edinburgh, The Count, Eaat Stanley, Per-
cussion, Caithness, Sylph, King of France, Lady Touch-
stone c, and Wallet are here.

UNION CUP. Mile and a quarter.
Lozenge Clown, Stoctinger, Empress of India, Wild
Poppy, Cutaway, East Lynne, Irritation, Castanet, Dart,
Gundrede, Saucy Boy, Dannebrog, Lady Touchstone c. and
Wallet are here.
PAID FORFEIT.—Inca, Wild Bee, and Isabella.
SAPLING STAKES. Five furlongs.
Magpie, Ireland, Mary, and Premier are here.
CHESTERFIELD STAKES. One mile.
Queen of Trumps, Exceller, Arkansas, Selim, Perms-
skm, Alberta, Retrousse, and Duty Free are here.
PAID FORlZlT.—Success.
ENTRIES FOR THE MAIDEN PLATE. Mils and a

quarter.
Dannebrog, Carperby Stafford, Influence, Reparation,
and Bachelor. All are here.

WYE KEEIING.-(THIS DAY.)

WYE HANDICAP. One mile three furlongs.
Jack's Alive, Domino, Fortunatus, Brimstone, and Moss
Rose are here.
OLANTEIGH TOWER STARES. Three quarters of a

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mile.
Lady Pam, Challenge, Young Lord, and Court Card V
are here. lc

LADIES' PLATE. One mile.
Jack's Alive, Ethelred, and Brimstone are here.

FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—(THIS DAY.) Is;
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(BY ZLECYRIC TELY.ORLYII.)

MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY MORNING. ;25
This morning two of the warehouses of the g:
London and North Western, and Great Western Railway st
Companies were destroyed by fire in Liverpool-road, 2
Manchester.

They were chiefly stored with cotton, grain, oil, and i(
madder, and burnt for some hours with great fury. The 11
principal warehouse was saved. The loss is estimated at s
over 100,0001., and some estimates go as high as a quarter
of a million.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT THE WEST-END.
(THIS DAY.)

The neighbourhood of Well-street, Oxford-street, S
it
was this morning visited by a used serious fire. It broke SI
out soon after 3 o'clock, at the premises in the occupation II
of Messrs. G. Merrell and Co., coach builders, &c.,
No. 45, Well-street. Their manufactory was in the rear,
abutting on a number of premises of a similar class.
The outbreak first became known by the flames suddenly
shooting forth from the roof of the manufactory work-
shops, and lighting up the surrounding houses, and ere a
quarter of an hour had intervened, some eight or ten large
steam fire engines belonging to the brigade, with
about 50 firemen, were on their way to the scene.
The fire made extraordinarily rapid progress, arising
chiefly from the construction and situation of the
adjacent property—three ranges of workshops be-
longing to different parties had ignited, and the
flames were seizing upon the backs of nearly a
dozen dwelling houses in Well-street and Charles-street,
producing the greatest alarm and terror among their in-
mates and the inhabitants around. The various steam
engines as they came up found ample supply of water
from the water mains in the street, and after much ex-
ertion this fire was got under. The extent of damage
may thus be enumerated : Manufactory of Messrs. G. Mer-
rell, coach-builders, three flours in length, and stables
beneath destroyed ; three horses burnt to death ; work-
shops of Mr. R. Grey, cabinet-maker, 30 feet
long by 20 feet broad, two stories high, nearly
destroyed, insured in the Union Fire office ;
workshops of Mr. W. Gordon, tin-plate worker, seriously
damaged and roof off ; workshops of Mr. Minoggio,
jeweller, seriously damaged, insured ; workshops of Mr.
Green, carver and gilder, three floors high, burnt out, and
front residence nearly gutted, insured in the Sun, and
houses Nos. 46, 44, 43, 42 and 41, Well-street, back
windows partly burned out and contents damaged ; two
houses in Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital, similarly
damaged. No information could be obtained regarding the
origin of the lire.