The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-28 00:00:00

BETTING IN LONDON.-SATCRDAY.

There was a large muster at the clubs this after-
noon, but the betting was not all in keeping with the
numbers present, for notwithstanding the persistent efforts
of 1101.:E of our largest bookmakers to transact business on
the two great three-year old races and the spring handi-
caps. backers responded but faintly to the numerous offers
made. The Cluster Cup was, as a matter of course, the
main object of attraction, and the proceedings opened by
an offer of 21 to 1 on the field, which no one appeared to
consider sufficiently tempting to accept, while 1,000 to 30
about Bracken—who was in some force on the pre-
ceding day—went begging. The first and most note-
worthy transaction was the backing of Weather
Star, aphid whom 4,000 to 100 was laid, but the
colt met with no further support beyond this single
outlay. Tarmentor was also entrusted with 1001. at 50 to
1, and these were the only two actual negotiations that
came under our notice. For the Lincoln Handicap Bat-
thyany was in some request, and after 20 to 1 had been
laid, he found friends at 100 to 6 ; Christman Carol was
supported for a small amount at 20 to 1 ; and some two
or three others were made the mediums of trifling invest-
ments. For the Northamptonshire Stakes 100 to 4 was
offered on the field without a response ; while for the City
and Suburban, the only two horses we saw backed were
Thalia and Jollity at 100 to 3 each. The most notice-
able feature in connection with the Two Thousand
was the decidedly unhealthy appearance of Plaudit,
against whom there was a manifest anxiety to
lay, offers of 9 to 2 coming front several quar-
ters, and failing to find takers. Two or three specu-
lators, however, professed their willingness to accept 5 to

1000 to 40 apt M0u447;7-
1000 to 40 Rama .oft
1000 to 90 Bracken ,off,
4000 to 100 Weather Star
(t)
40 to 1 NlisaHarriette

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9 to 2 apt Plaudit (off,t 5
to 1'
to 1
10 to 1 Julius Coll, t
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100 to c Marksman (t
and off;

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11 to 1 Plaudit tuft
14 to 1 Lrrndt tuff, t
16 to 1)

5000 to W egg Tormentor (t
1000 to :4.0 limnera t
(1000 to 15)
1000 to 20 The Duke (0)
1000 to S 0 Redcap (off)

AND GUINF.AS.
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fly 'off;
1000 to 15 The General ft
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25 to 1 Master Butter•
fly ,off, t 200
to 7
5000 to 30 tall toff)

Cabal anti /Within.

ADMIRA LTY A PPOISTMENTA. —The following ap-
pointments were made on Saturday :—Masten Joseph B.
Doyle to the Vestal; Silos H. Liddell (additional) to the
Indio, for the Vixen. Sub• Lieutenant Nathaniel Cotton
to the Vestal. Surgeons George W. J. Sutherland to the
Vestal ; Dr. M. E. Wallin to the Cambridge ; C. F. A.
Courtney to the Donegal. Assistant Surgeons Dr. Adam
Robertson (additional) to the IVellealey; Dr. John Hor-
rooks (additional) to the Cumberland ; Dr. I:tigress°
nines to Greenwich Hospital ; Paymaster William -Noble
to the Vestal. Assistant-Paymaster Alfred Smith to the
Flora. Midshipman A. H. Zephron to the Vestal. Chief
Engineer John Scar to the Galatea. Engineers George
Booth and George Lucas to the Galatea. First-class
Assistant-Engineers James Nelson, Wm. T. Bray, and T.
Ray to the Galatea.

lintbersittp intelligence.

CAMBRIDGE, J.ur. 26.

B.A. COMMENCEMENT. —At a congregation this
day the whole of the gentlemen whose names have been
previously published as having achieved university honours
(with five exceptions only), proceeded to their B.A. degree
in the presence of a large assembly of the public, in the
' Senate-house, including, as usual, a considerable number
of ladies. The undermentioned also proceeded to the
B.A. degree:—From the Natural Sciences Tripoo—Walker,
Sidney ; Ralph, Caius ; Wollaston, Clam ; Semple, Caius.
From the Moral Science. Tripoo—Scott, Jesus ; Scarlin,
John's ; French, Trinity.
The undermentioned ((rom the Law Tripos) proceeded
to the degree of ILL. :—Griffiths, Trinity ; Lawrence,
Trinity Hall ; SowerbTrinity Hall ; Collier, Trinity ;
Wood, Emmanuel ; Burfield, Trinity Hall ; Jammett,
Trinity ' • Abraham, Trinity ; Boyce, John's ; Agabeg,
John's ; Gurney, Emmanuel.
EsQuiss BEDZLUSHIP.-11r. Besant, of St. John's, has
withdrawn his resignation of his office as Esquire BedelL

THE DEPTFORD AND GREENWICH RD./TN.—OR
Saturday night there was a threatened renewal of these
riots, and to meet which a strong body of police was held
in reserve to meet any emergency that might arise.
During the afternoon the number of applicants at Mr.
Patte's, the relieving officer for Deptford, were most
numerous, and a very large amount of relief was dis-
pensed. A notice was then given that no more relief
would be given and the constables on duty cleared the
office, which, however? was surrounded for some time
after, • rumour prevailing that the tradesmen's shops
were again to be plurdered. At this time, however, the
rain set in, and the streets became quickly cleared, the
services of none of the police held in reserve being
required. In reverence to the distress prevailing in the
district, it may be mentioned that the Lords of the
Admiralty, through Mr. Trill, police magistrate, have
granted gratuitously five tons of biscuits, Weed at the
Royal Victoria Victualling-yard, Deptford, and which
have been distributed among the several clergy of the
district, and the managers of the several soup kitchens.
THE AMALGAMATED ENOINEERN AND THE WAGES
QUESTION.—The wages agitation in the iron trades has ex •
tended to Blackburn. The whole of the Amalgamated
Engineers—comprising engineers, smiths, mechanics,
dressers, joiners, &c., and the iron-moulders employed in
Blackburn and its immediate vicinity—have all, with the
exception of those employed by Messrs. Yates, Canal
Foundry, and Messrs. Clayton and Goodfellow, Park-road,
received notice that on and after the 2nd and 4th of
February next those earning 25e. per week will have their
reduced Is. per week. The earnings of the rest
wages
be for the present interfered with. On Thurs-
day evening a meeting of the Amalgamated Engineers
was held at their club-room, when the whole question
was entered into and deliberately considered and die-
cussed. Eventually • resolution was agreed to, to the
effect that if the employers persisted in making the reduc-
tion proposed, the operatives would as a body refuse to
work more than four days per week so long as that reduc-
tion was kept in operation. The iron-moulder also met at
their club-room the same night, arid pulsed a resolution
similar in its effect to that adopted by the Amalgamated
Engineers. The latter form part of the National Amalga-
mated Engineers, who are said to have an accumulated
fund of 120,0001. for the defence of their body, while the
iron-moulder are said to have a fund of 300001. for • like
object, so that all feel certain of support should a strike
result. It is calculated that there are from 4,000 to
4,500 men engaged in the iron trades of Blackburn and
district, whose average earnings are about 2is. per week,
though • majority of the artisans get 325.
THE SUCCESSOR OF HEAD CENTRE STEPHENS.
The New York papers give the following account of the
successor of Stephens :—" General Gleason, the successor
of Stephens, is a young Irishman, remarkable for his tall
stature. He Ix about six feet six inches in height, slightly
stooped, and has just entered his 28th year. He was born
in Fuihmoy, near Borrisoleigh, in the county of Tipperary,
and from his early youth he was connected with the insur-
rectionary movements in his native country. In the year
le6o, during the Italian war, he raised a company of one
hundred and nine men to defend the Papal dominions,
and was complimented fur his bravery in action by General
Lamoriciere. Subsequently he was taken prisoner at the
siege of Ancona by the Sardinian troops, and released after
a captivity of six months. Ho then returned to Ireland, and
on the day he arrived in his native town the sheriff of the
county dispossessed him of his estate, his lease having
expired. Subsequently he came to New York, and at the
beginning of the war joined the 69th Regiment, and parti-
cipated in forty-two general engagements of that °rpm's-
tier). On his return he joined the Fenian Brotherhood,
and went back to Ireland on a special mission • but while
there he was arrested for ' treason,' and lodged in the
Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, where he was incarcerated for
six months. He Mlle back to New York immediately
after his release, and was a prominent member of the
Brotherhood up to the moment of his appointment as its
chief. During his career in the army of the Potomac, as
an officer of the 69th Regiment, he received the rank of
brevet brigadier-general."
FENIAN DENUNCIATION OF HEAD CENTRE
STEPHINH. —Lad night • meeting was held at the Masonic.
hall, in Thirteenth-street, avowedly for the purpose of
denouncing the Head Centre of the Fenian Brotherhood,
but really for the purpose of supporting Mr. Roberts.
The hall was crowded to suffocation. Mr. James Mona-
han was called to the chair. He said that he knew no
more of the object of the meeting than what he saw in
the public prints. He thought it very proper that the
moat gigantic, unparalleled and wicked fraud ever perpe-
trated should be denounced, and that the perpetrator
should be held up to public acorn. Colonel
Byrnes was then introduced, who denounced Ste.
phens as a trickster, and assured his andienoe
that if they would only stick to Roberts, Canada
would be in their possession before another year had
passed. A gentleman from the West said that all at-
tempts to carry the war into Ireland before taking Canada
would be futile, and that those who desired to bring the
Irish peasant into contact with the trained British moldier
were guilty of • grievous wrong. All their energies must
be given to stirring up discord in England, and preparing
an army here for an invasion of Canada. Mr. Archdeacon
said that he had only lately arrived from Ireland, and he
assured them that gigantic as were the frauds practised
hers, they were nothing to what had been done in Ireland.
He believed the whole of the Fenian leaders there to be
traitors to the cause, and in the pay of the British govern-
ment. Men the most incompetent, some of them even
imbecile, were at the head of affairs. All the Fenian
brotherhood had to hope for lay in themselves. The meet-
ing, which was a very disorderly one, broke up at a late
hour.—. New York Tints, Jan. L%