The Express.
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CRICKET.

DIFTIDLESTIC CLUB V. ANONIALIIVL —This was only a one dor s
match, and wasbrought off, so far as time would permit, yes-
terday, at the Middlesex County Grouud, Islington, the weather
being beautifully fine, and the wickets and other surroundings
In harmony. The Anomalies went In first, and gut a long In-
nings—NO—the top waver being Mr. Burnett with 61, and the
next highest Mr. Ewhank with 42. The wickets fell as under:
One for at, two for 100, three for 10r, tour for 182, live fur 1:18,
MX for 2:18, seven fur 260, eight far lid, nine tar 274, sad ten
for 200. The Middlesex lluh began their batting with Mown..
Macpherson and Rood, and things went on smoothly enough till
Mr. Daniel got in, and then some of the mod terrific hitting
ever witnessed took place. Mr. Daniel actually hit the ball out
of the ground no leas than sin times, and In his ,not outi In-
nings of 75 were Included eve sixes, one five, four fours, four
threes, three twos, ttc In one over alone he got two sixes and
two fours. The Middlesex wickets fell thus: One for 7, two for
56, three for 52, and tour for 175. When time was railed the
match was drawn, Middlesex having lost four wickets fur 186
runs.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The coming few days are
likely to be the busiest and most varied ever experienced
at the Crystal Palace. The Dramatic College fetes and
fancy fair will be held on Saturday and Monday. The
fete* last from 12 nntil dusk. On Tuesday the palace will
remain closed until 2 o'clock, to gain time for preparing a
great combined fête by Royal command, in honour of his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan, who, with the Prince of
Wales and other members of the imperial and royal fami-
lies, will be present on the occasion. There will be a grand
concert by the artistes of Her Majesty's Theatre, which
theatre will be closed for that evening. The first part
will consist mainly of an operatic selection, and the
second part will comprise a Turkish hymn complimentary
to the Sultan, set to morie by Signor Arditi, the" Na-
tional Anthem," and other selections of music, by a vast
festival orchestra of nearly three thousand performers. iße-
sides the artistee of Her Majesty's Theatre, members of
various choral societies, the band of the company and
military bands will help to swell the numbers. A special
display of the great fountains will take place at about
half-past six, after which the Sultan and other royal and
distinguished visitors will promenade the building and
fine art courts, and dine in one of the corridors of the
Palace. The second part of the concert will take place
soon after half-past eight, the orchestra being lighted up
for the occasion. A display of fireworks and illumi-
nation of fountains will take place as soon as it is
dark, about half-past nine o'clock, and special fea-
tures introduced for the first time, will add vastly to the
brilliancy of this display, which in itself will be unique.
Full particulars of this great combined fete are
announced. Season tickets holders will be admitted
admission
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on
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tickwetntledle'rariceasa
Cing Tn. On the day of the fete, the price of admission
will be doubled, both to the public and to season ticket
holders. Wednesday will be a great popular day, when
the fountains will be again illuminated for the Belgians,
who have accepted an invitation to be present on that
afternoon and evening. This will be a truly national fête
available to all at the usual rate of admission, Is. Special
and appropriate illuminations will also be displayed on
this occasion. On Thursday and Friday the archery fêtes,
which are on a mere extensive scale than hitherto, will
take place ; and on Saturday the last of the series of opera
concerts will be given.
THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—Tho half-yearly
meeting of this society was held yesterday afternoon at
the offices, No. 4, Trafalgar-square ; Sir Walter Stirling in
the chair. The society's silver medal was awarded in each
of the following cases :—To Lewis Edmund Wints, mid-
shipman, her Majesty's ship Terrible, for saving the life of
Walter Raybolt, who fell overboard in the Atlantic July
14, 1866; to Miss M. A. Wright, for endeavouring to
save the life ofW. G. Aylmer,jun.,who fell through the foe
at Stratsett Lake, Norfolk, January 14, 1667 ; to the Rev
C. Cobb. for saving the life of V. D. Maniere from a
vessel wrecked at Dymchurch, Kent, January 8, 1867 ; to
A. Thomas, for saving the life of Robert Colman, who fell
through the ice at Regent's-park, January 15, 1867 ; to
Dr. Henry Obre, for profesaionalassistanoe to the sufferers
at the ice accident in Regent's-park ; to W. F. Streader,
for saving the life of Robert Wabey, who fell through the
ice whilst skating on the old Eedford river, Whibech,
January 16, 1867 ; to Thomas Albiston, for saving George
Stevens, who fell into the water at Runcorn Ferry,
February, Feb. 25, 1867 ; to John Gray, R.N., for
saving the life of Lieutenant J. H. Arbatar, who
was in danger of drowning at the Straits of
Magellan, February 2. 1867. It appeared from the
financial statement that the receipts from all sources dm,
ing the half-year had been 1,8831. 3a. 3d., and that the
expenditure for the same period amounted to 946!. 3s. 9d.
The report included the usual statistical return, which
we. as follows: —General cases, 91; successfully treated,
2i4 ; beyond recovery, 5; attempted suicide, 5 ; cases re-
ferred to general court, 9; park cases' including Regent's-
park, 26 ; successfully treated, 17 ; found drowned, 3 ;
attempted suicide, 4. The number of bathers in the Ser-
pentine during the half-year had been 212.191. The se-
cretary reported that as the Duke of Cambridge considered
the society's medals were too large to admit of their being
worn by soldiers, smaller ones had been struck for the
army, and his royal highness had been pleased to express
his approval of them. A vote of thanks was then
to the chairman for presiding, and the business concr:Tdeed.

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Two enterprising shoe-blacks located beneath one
of the portals of the Ludgate-hill Railway Station, have
made their art a luxury to those whose pedal envelopes
they operate upon. They seat their patient in a comfort-
able arm-chair, hand him the day's newspaper, place his
feet upon two elevated blocks, and each devoting his
energy to one boot, brushes away with a vigour that seems
to imply that he means to "outshine" hi■ companion.
The charge for all *kis, civility included, is one penny.—
Guardian.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 10. —APPOINTMENTS. —Still-
Lieutenant R. F. Orton, to the Daphne : Midshipmen L. H.
Bum and W. L. Merriam, to the Lord Clyde.

IL ate intelifirence.

EQUITY COURTS.—Jumr 10.
(Before the luster of the Bent)

IN az EARNED'S using° COMPANY (maize CAail`.

The facts sufficiently appear in the judgment.
Lord Komilly-1 entertain no doubt that Mr. Barnes is
a contributory for the full number of shares which appear
in his name in the books of the oompany. I am not quite
sure that I at first understood it very fully, perhaps from
some west of attention in the beginning, but the state of
the caae is this. Mr. Barnes applied for 200 shares in
duly, NM, and on the pith July, 1866, 150 shares were
allotted to him, and they were duly entered in the books.
lie sent the form of application, asking for the allotment
in the usual manner ; the allotment was made, and every-
thing appears accordingly. That he was aware of the
allotment II certain, because he executes a transfer
in blank of those shares, which he puts at the disposal in
point of fact of Mr. Morley. The only explanation of the
whole use is this, that he did it an the nominee of Mr.
Mosley and at Mr. Mozley'e request and by his sanction ;
and accordingly, by the agreement between them, Mr.
Morley received all the circulars. Mr. Mosley also received
the dividend, and he was to be the person entitled. But
an between the other shareholders and creditors of the
company, Mr. Barnes is the shareholder, for be applies for
the allotment, the allotment is made to him, be reoognises
the allotment, and all the rest is merely this, that it is
part of the arrangement by which he waste take them for
the benefit of Mr. Morley. But as I have repeatedly
stated (and I believe there has been no opposite opinion
expressed, though I do not know that my view has been
confirmed by any other court)' I sin of opinion that
makes no difference whatever, and though the person who
takes them for another may have a right of indemnity
against that other person, that does not prevent him from
being a shareholder, and, accordingly, I must put Mr.
Barnes on the list of contributories for 150 shares. Was
this a representative case ? . . _

Mr. gaggallay—There are several other cases in the
same position
Lord Roruilly—Then I think you must have your coats.
The costs of both parties will come out of the estate.
Mr. Banenay, Q.C., and Mr. C. T. Simpson were for
Mr. Barnes ; and Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., and Mr. Kekewich for
the official liquidator.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart.)

DIXON T. THE LLANELLI* RAILWAY AND DOCK:4 COMPANY.

Mr. Bacon, Q.C., end Mr. Roxburgh, Q.C., appeared
for the plaintiff in this suit, a debenture holder of the
company, and moved for the appointment of a receiver.
They consented to the nomination of Mr. Gaacoigne, the
secretary of the company, to fill the office.
Mr. Methold, for the daendants, did not oppose the
motion.

The Vice-Chancellor then appointed Mr. Gaaeoigne to
be the receiver.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before Baron BrazowelL)
THE BI'CCHI'EAT•HILL THAGEDT.

Frederick 'Alexander Walkina, 23, a diminutive looking
young man, was charged with feloniously wounding
Matilda Griggs, with intent to murder her,
Mr. Streight conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
was defended by Mr. Itibton.
The learned counsel for the prosecution, in opening the
case, said that the charge against the prisoner was one of
a most serious character, but he was not in a position to
produce the prosecutrix. Ile said, however, that the pri-
soner appeared to have himself admitted that he had
wounded the probecutrix, and he believed that the jury
would, in the result, entertain no doubt of that fact. He
then proceeded briefly to narrate the circumstances under
which the charge was preferred, and the following evidence
was adduced :

Mrs. Sarah Griggs, the mother of the prosecutrix, de-
posed that she resided at Chigwell, and that about eight
o'clock in the evening of the 73rd of April the prisoner
and her daughter went oat together, her daughter being
at this tune perfectly well. She did not see her
again until the following morning, when she was covered
with blood and wounded in several places.
Cross-examined—The prisoner was on very intimate
terms with her daughter, and she believed they were
going to be married. She was aware that he used to carry
• dagger about him in • sheath. She never heard of any
garotte robberies in the neighbourhood, but the prisoner
told her that he carried the dagger about him for protec-
tion. She had not seen her daughter since she left her
house with the prisoner's mother, and she did not know
where she was now. She believed her daughter was re-
covering
when she went away.
Mr. W. Patterson, superintendent of the Essex con-
stabulary stationed at Epping, proved that about five
o'clock on the morning of the 24th April be was called up,
and found the prisoner in the office. He said, " I stabbed
• young woman last night." Witness cautioned him that
what he said might housed as evidence against him, and he
said he did it as they were oat walking on the
previous evening at IlitcliburstbilL Witness asked
who she was, and he replied, " Miss Griggs."
He then said he was sick, and asked to go
into the yard, where he dranki some water. He
then said he bad taken something on the previous
night he ought not to have done, and he added that it
was acid he used in his business. Witness inquired how
it happened, and he said they bad a quarrel, and that
he did it with a dagger, and he added that he could not
say exactly, but he believed he bad stabbed her in two or
three places, and lie said he had left the dagger behind at
the place where the affair happened. There was blood on
the prisoner's bands, but none on his clothes. _ _

John Fry, a police constable, who received charge of the
prisoner at Leighton, proved that the prisoner told him
that riding in the train had shaken up what he bad taken
over night, and that he felt very sick. He afterwards
went to • place called the New Freehold, at Buckhurst.
bill, which had been indicated by the prisoner, and
he there found a piece of load tied to a string,
with a dagger and • sheath. There was • quantity
of blood near the spot, and the grass was very
much trampled and trodden down. The place where he
found these things was an enclosed place, and any one
who was there must have seen them. He afterwards took
the prisoner to the bedside of the prosecutrix, and after
she had been examined he said that all she had stated
was true. As he was conveying the prisoner to the gaol
at Ilford he said that he struck the prosecutrix twice on
the head with the lead, and the string broke, and then he
used the dagger, and he forgot that the sheath was on at
the time. He also said that it was through jealousy, and
he inquired of the witness whether he had ever felt jealous,
and he told him he had not. (A laugh.) The prisoner
also told him that he heard the proaecntrix holloamg after
he wounded her, but be thought she would not do so very
long. _ _

Dr. Horne, the surgeon who examined the prosecutrix.
described the injuries she had received, which were of
the most serious character. There were eight wounds on
the back, three on the inner part of the left breast, and
two on the thumb of the left hand. One of the wounds
had penetrated the lung. In one of the wound■ he found a
piece of brass, which was apparently a portion of the sheath
of a dagger, and the whole of them might have been caused
by such ► weapon as the dagger that had been produced.
There were two contused wounds on the head of the pro-
aecutrix, which might have been caused by the piece of lead
that bad been produced. The prosecutrix had received
altogether 15 wounds, and when he first saw her he
thought she was dead. and she was in such a condition on
the following day that he suggested that it was advisable
to take her deposition.
Cross-examined —The proseentrix had nearly recovered
when he last saw her, which was in May last.
Mr. Streight, in summing up the case for the prosecution,
said that from the line of crass-examination adopted by
his learned friend it was clear that he did not intend to
dispute the fact that the act bad been committed by the
prisoner, and that he would only endeavour to show that
he was not actuated by the more serious intention im-
puted to him. He said, however, he should submit that
upon all the facts it was impossible to oome to any other
conclusion than that the prisoner really intended to murder
the unfortunate girl, and that he decoyed her to • lonely
place for the express purpose of carrying out his object.
Mr. RiSton made a most feeling and eloquent appeal to
the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and after remarking
upon the extraordinary and mysterious nature of the ease,
he said that there was no doubt that previous to the affair
the prisoner had exhibited the utmost affection towards
the prosecutrix, and on this particular night when they
went out together, there was nothing wha'ever to show
that lie entertained the slightest feeling of anger or ill-
will towards the proseeutrix. With regard to the absence
of the prosecutrix, all he could say was that he would
rather have had the prosecutrix in attendance, because her
evidence might very possibly have been favourable to the
prisoner, hut at present they were entirely in the dark as
to the circumstances under which the melancholy affair
actually took place. The learned counsel then proceeded to
argue that it was exceedingly probable that a quarrel had
taken place between the parties, and that the injuries
were inflicted by the prisonerm a fit of rarision, and he said
that if the jury should think that this was not the case,
they would be justified in acquitting the prisoner upon
the more serious portion of the charge, which alleged an
intention to commit murder.

Mr. Baron Bramwell having summed up, the jury, after
a short deliberation, found the prisoner guilty of wounding
the prosecutrix with intent to do her grievouebodily ha4n.
The learned judge, addressing the prisoner, said that the
jury had taken a very merciful view able ease, and he had
very grave doubts whether he ought not to have inflicted
upon him the full punishment fixed by the law. lie had,
however, consulted the learned Recorder, and the conclu-
sion he had arrived at was that the sentence he should
pronounce upon him was that he be kept in penal servitude
for the space of twenty years.
The prisoner, who did not exhibit the alighest manifesta-
tion of feeling during the trial, or when sentence was
pronounced, was then removed from the bar.
Before sentence was pronounced, a letter was handed to
the learned judge, written by the proeeeutrix. and ad-
dressed to the prisoner, in which she stated that she was
keeping out of tbe way because she thought it would do
him good, and that she freely forgave him all that
happened, and hoped that when she next raw him he
would be at liberty, and that they should be happy to-
gether for many pan

(Before the Common Rerjannt
.)
Jobs Smith, 23, labourer, and Jot* Crawley. 21
labourer, were indicted for a robbery with violence of
Richard Bolan, and stealing from him his watch mil
chain.
The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
Mealy sound both the prisoners.
The prisoner, John Smith, was again indicted far a
robbery with violence committed under precisely sing.,
circumstances on a gentleman in New thrniond-street.
queen•square, and upon this he was also found Guilty,
The Common Serjeant sentenced Smith to ten years soil
Crawley to seven years' penal servitude, with the ad h.
tion that each of them should receive 2if lashes with the
cat prior to the first part of the sentence being carried oui.
Samuel Hawaey, 18 labourer, was indicted fora robber,
with violence on Charles Thingate, and stealing from hue
a watch, his property.
Kr. Daly prosecuted ; and the evidence disclosed that
the prosecutor, a builder, was driving through Baueos it
his chaise cart on the evening of the 26th June, when thee,
wen beset him, 000 seizing the horse's head, south.;
Jumping in at the back of the vehicle, and the third
(the prisoner) mounted the front of the vehicle anti struck
the prosecutor a violent blow in the face, by which the
bridge of his nose war broken. He became insensible, Led
in that state he was ejected from the cart by the three sea
with violence into the raid. These proceedings were witnessed
by a young man named Konuten, who at first thought the
parties were friends, and were larking with each other,
until he saw the prosecutor thrown out of the vehicle into
the road. He then with great courage rushed fonrar.l
into the midst of the three, who at once ran away, hat
Kounten having seen that the prisoner was the person
who had inflicted the blow, pursued him, and after a
chase of a quarter of a mile succeeded in capturing and
bringing him back to the spot just as the prosecutor wiz
recovering from his state of insensibility, and when 10,
watch, which had been broken away from the chain and
dropped on the ground in the conflict, was handed to law
by a female who had picked it up.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Common Serjeant said that this was one of eta
most impudent highway robberies that ever had been
brought under his cognizance. The sentence was that be
be imprisoned with hard labour for 18 calendar month.,
and that he receive ten lashes with " the cat" in the
course of that sentence. _ _
_ _

Mr. Daly drew the attention of the court to the
courageous services of the witneu Kounten, but he
whom the prisoner would not have been brought to
justiu.
The Common Flerjeant, after consultation with Mr. Alder.
men Salomon', called up the witness, and st►ted that the
court awarded him 51. as a recognition of his courageeeg
and meritorious conduct on this occasion.

Henry Ca irndiakl63, a person of aristocratic appearance,
was indicted for feloniously intermarrying with Georgina
Mary Knapp, his former wife being still alive.
Mr. Daly and Mr. Straight appeared for the prosecution,
and the former learned gentleman was about to open the
case when

The Prisoner interposed, and said he would retract his
plea of not guilty, and plead guilty, but he wished to
reuse • point before sentence was paned.
The Common Serjeaut told the prisoner that he would
read the depositions and see if any point in his favour
could be raised. In the meantime the case must stand
over until this (Thursday) morning.