The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-19 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(NY Lamm TILICGRAPH.)
STAMFORD MEETING.- (THIS DAY.)

STAMFORD ST. LEGER. One mile and a quarter.
Mina Harriette, Hobe, Cranford, Salving, and A.ctes are
here.

BWEEPSTAKIM OF 50 SOVS. T.Y.C.
Vauban, Anatomist, Lissioon, Pussy, and Oddfellow are
here.
BI7RGHLEY HANDICAP. Two miles and a quarter.
Pearl Diver, Pintail, Wild Poppy, rads!nigh, Tormentor,
Miss Harriette, Trapeae, Cranford, Brother to Guerilla,
Aetna, and Hebe are here.

WELTER CIIP. One mile. ;
Warrior, Historian, Overture, Trapeze, and Thalia are 14
here. 14

WELLAND STAKE& Half a mile.

Knight of St. Michael, Qui Vivo, Miss Roland, and
Young Lord are here.
WESTMORLAND PLATE. Three quarters of $ mile.
The Warrior, Pantaloon, Skirmish, Confederate, Acts-a,
Her Ladyship, Kingmaker, British Tar, and Helm are
here.

BOROUGH MIOLBERB' PLATE. Half a mile.
Ceerops, Qui Viva, Norma, Him Roland, Lady Valen-
tine, and Her Ladyship are here.

LONDON BETTING.

Two o'CLocK P.M.

There was not an over-numerous attendance at
the Clubs to-day and the badness transacted was insig-
nificant. The following are the quotations :

GOODWOOD STAMM.
7 to 2 eget The Special (off)
sto 1 Midis oolt (off t6to 1)
Bto 1 Potomac colt (off tloto 1)

SUSPENSION OF THE PRESTON BANKING
COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.)

PRESTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Preston Banking Company, which was eeta-
bliahed in 1844, suspended payment this morning. The
following notice appeared upon the ontaide door about
9 o'clock :

" It is with extreme regret that I have to inform the
public that, owing to temporary difficulties, the bank is
compelled to suspend payment.

" JOHN Gruorr, Manager."

—Tinto (Second Edition).

The Duke of Nassau, who ran the risk of being
detained in his duchy by the Prussians, has escaped towards
the south. Thia is the sixth sovereign amongst those who
have declared against Prussia, who have been obliged to
leave their States. The others are: the Kings of Hanover
and Saxony, the Elector of Hesse, the Duke of Saxe-
Meiningen, and the Grand Duke of Hesse.
General Kalik, who commanded the Austrian
brigade in Holstein, and who was taken ill at the moment
of the departure of that corps, has just died at Altona.
The Prase of Vienna speaks of successful essays
of the needle-gun in the army.
Lieutenant-General Grant is to visit Niagara the
latter part of July or the first of August. Rooms have been
secured at the International Hotel for him.
The disastrous tire at Portland originated from
a fire cracker, discharged by a small lad in the north-
eastern part of the city, which set on fire some shavings
scattered upon the ground, and the high wind prevailing
at the time carried the fire into a cooper's shop near by,
igniting the combustible material therein ; the adjoining
buildings were soon seized, and the flames speedily passing
beyond all control, embraced a large portion of the city in
their grasp. Within twenty-four hours the fire swept over
200 acres of territory, ravaging thirty streets, destroying
1,500 buildings, and ejecting nearly 3,000 families from
their homes.
THE PROPOSED REFORM MEETING IN HYDE-
PARR.—Sir Richard Mayne has issued a printed notice
pointing out the illegality of political demonstrations in
Hyde-park, such meetings being inconsistent with the
purposes for which the park is thrown open to, and used
by, the public. Sir Richard, after alluding to the pro-
posed reform gathering on the 23rd inst., intimates that
no assemblages of persons in large numbers will be allowed
to take place in the park, and that all necessary measures
will be adopted to prevent any such meeting, and effec-
tually to preserve the public peace.
MIDDLESEE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, FELTHAIT.—
The annual inspection of the boys in this school (which
was established to make provision for the care, reforma-
tion, and education of juvenile offenders in the county of
Middlesex), took place yesterday at the institution.
Amongst the visitors were Lord Ebury, Lord Eustace
Cecil, Lord Ernest Bruce, and Mr. Henry Pownall.
Under the management of Captain Rowland Brooks, the
superintendent of the school, a programme of arrange-
ments was prepared for the occasion, and these were of
such a nature that the visitors were enabled to witness
the regulations under which the school is conducted, and
to form a general conception of the manner in which the
boys are trained ; thus the company present had an oppor-
tunity of inspecting the inmates in the exercise of
their industrial occupations, which are of various kinds.
There was also a small exhibition of articles made by the
boys open for inspection. But perhaps the leading feature
of attraction was the ceremony which consisted in the
christening of a model brig recently erected on the pre-
mises under the supervision of Messrs. Green and Co., of
Blackwell, its purpose being to enable a certain number of
boys to be trained and prepared for a seafaring life. The
rigging of the ship, as far as it has yet gone, has been
effected by the boys of the school, under the instruction of
boatswains. The model ship is fixed in one of the lame
open spaces surrounding the school building, and it is in
all respects an object of much interest, its outward form
presenting every appearance of a vessel afloat upon the
waters. It was christened on the present occasion the
" Endeavour," and the lady who discharged the duty was
Mrs. Glossop, the wife of the chairman t.f the committee.
BUNFITIL-FIELDS BURIAL GROUND. —The public
will be gratified to learn that the preservation of this
classic ground, which holds the dust of so many national
worthies and historical celebrities, is likely to be secured,
GREENWICH. upon terms which are liberal on the part of the Eccle-
BSINGING A POLE FROM RM3BIA As • " STOWAWAY," siastioal Commissioners,and creditable to the Tod manage-
AND ROBBING HIE. meat of the committee appointed by t e corpora-
Doc Sparka, a seaman on board the British steamer lion to negotiate this matter. We believe we are
Cossack, trading between London and Russia, was charged not premature in stating that the commissioners, having
remand with unlawfu bringing from Crmastadt offered to convey the ground to the corporation, as
loofi llanek, a Pole, and robing him of a watch, three trustees for the public, for five sixth parts of the sums
WT. and articles of wearing apparel, value 15f. paid for the purchase of vaults, the corporation has
From the evidence of the prosecutor, given through an to aloes with the commissioners on thaw terms
ter, it appeared he was introduced to the prisoner agreed
amount
',board the Cossack, at Cronstadt, and understood at the about 9701., a sum which will be cheerfully. ooutrikuted
tam that he was the captain of the vesseL An agree- by the corporation. This arrengement, while it will be
'wet was entered into with the prisoner that he wasto be gratifying to every student of history and to the relatives
....,,veYed to En4tand for 26 roubles, sad this sum was and descendants of those who fie busied in the ground,
tthhee voyage he was kept below, "either will also tend vary materially to morosoe attachmrnt. to
et on dock by day or night, and on the steamer the church of England, represented by the Ecclesiastical
kat "'mos on Friday last the prisosserreactli Commimiormws. corporation agree to keep thug:grill
it would be nomaary that psristmt* ”s■ to Ow public asa Pinw °B6ditics' and,
7'4 he had brought from Orsastodt, sad which con- this, Vas coma will revert to the ommiiimsosseir
tumid his watch and clop and other property, should Press.

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