The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY

BEITIICG IN LONDON.—(Tifia W.)

11.10 •.r.

The atten(ituwe at the Victoria °lab war far
below the usual Saturday average, but there was some
animated betting on the nor Handicap. Tabouret re-
mained eery Arm after 3 to I bad been taken about him,
110 to 40 was accepted. and 6 to 2 was the highest offer
at last. For a long time The Spy wai friendlum at 7ti 2,
but en 4 to 1 being offered that price was immediately
taken. Mandrake and Fervacque4 were both in force at
7to 1. 100 to 10 was laid against Taraban several times.
Buttercup was frequently inquired after, and on layers
declining to concede 100 to 6, 100 to 8 wax at last ac-
cepted. Fair Wind went back to 20 to (off), 4 to 1
bring taken about her for P place. Strabconan was
backed at 100 to 7 with a nat. 20 to 1 being offered
against him outright ; 6 to I was laid on
the following flee :—Tabouret, Spy, Mandrake, Far-
moque* and Tarsban. For the St. Leger 6 to 4 was
wanted about The Bari, and at 9 to 2 King Alfred would
have been hacked, but only 4 to I was offered. Green
Sleeve receded to 33 to I, taken, 2 to I being off need
against her running. Closing prices :

GREAT EBOlt HANDICAP.
5 to 2 agst Tabouret (off, 110 to 401)
4 to 1 The Spy (1. and s 4
7to 1 Mandrake (t)
7to 1 Pommies 04
10 to 1 Taraban (1)
•
100 to 8 Buttercup (t►
20 to 1 Pair Wind (off).
20 to 1 Strathoonan (off. MO to I with
a run, taken)
100 to 80 T. Dawson's lot (off) •
4to 1 Fair Wind I, 3 (t) •
ST. LEGER. •
5 to 4 agat The Earl (off, 6to 4 wantod)
4 to 1 King Alfred (off, 9 tot wanted)
to 1 Formosa (off)
1;60 to lb Green Neese (t and off)

NAir.l4,,yon • 7

(6111031 iAST GAZIIIMS.)
AJITESINIAN PROMOTIONS.
omtha&L. ORUER.

Horse (beards, August I t.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleural to command
that Colonel Sit Charles W. D. Slavishly, K.C.8., be pro-
moted to the rank of major-general in the army, in re-
cognition of his valuable services as second in command of
the Abyssinian expoditionary force. Also, that the under-
mentioned medical officers be promoted to the ranks spe-
cified, in consideration of their valuable serrioes with the
force in question, via. :—Deptity Inspector-General of
Hospitals Samuel Currie, M.D., C. 8., to be inspector-
general of hospitals; Staff Surgeon-Major Thomas Guy,
M.D., to be deputy inspector-general of hospitals; Sur-
geon
Charles Dodgeon Madden, 4th Foot, Surgeon Neil
Stewart, 3rd Dragoon Guards, and Surgeon James
Sinclair, 33rd Foot, to be surgeous-major.—By command,
W. PAULFT, Adjutant-General.

ADMIRALTY, Arrotrer 14.
The following promotions in her Majesty's fleet, dated
this day, have been made for senioes rendered during
the recent expedition in Abyssinia :--Commanders :
. Thomas Houneom Butler Fel/ovres, Thomas Barnard-
Won, to be captains. Lieutenants: John Fiot Lee
Pearce Meeker, Edmund Lyons Green, Charles Searle
Cardsle, to be commanders. Acting Sub-Lieutenant
: Mr. Oeorge Lambart Atkinson to be an acting lieute-
nant. Navigating Lieutenants: Daniel John May,
Thomas Pounds, to be staff commanders. Surgeon Mr.
James Nicholas Dick to be staff surgeon. Assistant-
Paymastee Mr. William Edwin Boxer to be paymaster.
Engineer Mr. William Henry Grose to be chief
engineer.

ADMIRALTY, Auover 11.
Lieutenant Lumley Woodyear Peyton has been promoted
to the rank of a retired commander under the provisions
of her Majesty*. Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860;
9th July, 186 f ; and 24th March, 196 E; with seniority
from 2th August, 1868.

ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 12.
Mr. John Dingwall has this day been promoted to the
rank of engineer in her Majesty's fleet, with seniority
of sth August, 1868.

CHATHAM, Auousr 14.
This morning the shipwrights and mechanics at
this dockyard commenced laying the keel-blocks in the
third dock for the new powerM turret armour-clad ship
Glatton, which is ordered to be built at this establish-
ment from the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, chief constructor
of the navy, who has been requested by the Admiralty to
furnish the drawings and plans for a powerful ironclad
single turret ship for coast defence. The Glatton will be
of 246 feet in length and 49 feet in breadth, with a burden
of 2,700 tons, and a mean draught of water of 19 feet.
She will be furnished with one turret, protected by
armour-plating 14 inches in thicknees, and in which will
be mounted two guns, each of 25 tons—the largest yet
placed on board a vessel of war. She is to be completed
and ready for undocking before the close of the next
financial year.
The whole of the officers and men of the A troop of the
Royal Engineer Train have arrived at Wouldhem, near
Rochester, from Aldershot, for the purpose of going
through a course of pontooning instruction in the
Medway.

MEDICAL OFFICERS IN THE NAVY.—The Army
and Navy Gazette says that the dearth of medical officers
is still severely felt throughout the navy, and, unless the
Lords of the Admiralty shortly adopt some conciliatory
measures, the consequences will, at no distant period, be
found to be very inconvenient. The candidates at Somer-
set-house are not the bed specimens, and perhaps the
idea of a naval medical college will crop up again.
WANT OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE EAVY.—The
same journal points out that the introduction of armour-
plated ships into the service is beginning gradually, but
slowly, to produce effects which, probably, were not fore-
seen. As fewer of these formidable veesels, in compa-
rison with our old "wooden walls," will be required for
the defence of the country, so, in proporfion, will a less
number of officers be requisite, and the consequence is
that already do lieutenants and even sub-lieutenants find
difficulty in obtaining active employment.
THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY.—The
United Streire Gazette regrets to hear that Mr. Corry has
been ordered to Germany to recruit his health, it being
feared that he will he unable to resume the duties of his
important office.
MILITARY MEMEL —We believe that Field-
Marshal Sir Hew Boee will be the new Lieutenant-
Governor of Chelsea Hospital, in the room of Field-
Marshal Sir Alexander Woodford, who' as we stated last
week, succeeds Sir Edward Blakeney in the governorship.
Lieut.-General Sir George Bell, K.C.8., now colonel of the
32nd Light Infantry, will succeed Sir Edward Blakeney as
colonel of the /Loyale, the regiment in which be long served,
and one of the battalions of which he commanded.
The colonelcy of the Royals, heretofore worth 1,5001. a
year, is now
.placed on the same scale of pay as the other
infantry regiments, viz., I,OOW. a year. This arrange-
ment was made some time back to be carried out upon the
occurrence of the next vacancy, and a similar reduction is
likely to take place as regards the colonelcy of the King's
Dragoon Guards, the next holder of which will only re-
ceive the ordinary 1,3501., instead of 1,800/. a year.
The colonelcy of the 32nd Light Infantry, vacant by
the transfer of Sir George Bell to the Ist Royale,
will be filled by Major-General Lcrd Frederick Panlet,
C. 8., who stands next on the list to Major-General J. F.
Glancairn Campbell, appointed lately to the 79th High-
landers. The good service pension of 1001. a year vacant
by General Campbell's appointment to the colonelcy of
the 79th, has been given to Colonel the Hon. C. D. Plun-
kett, commanding the let battalion of the Royals.
Colonel Plunkett has 35 years' service.—Army and Navy
Gazette.

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ADMIRALTY, AIJOUST 14 . —APPODFIVENTB.
Comnuinder E. S. Mears, to the Nymph°, vice Barnar-
dieton, promoted; Chief-Engineers Thomas F. Simmons,
to the Asia, for Wivern ; John H. H. Srnale, to the
Scorpion ; and Robert Moore, to the Royal Oak; Engineer
Joseph L. Restrict, to the Scorpion; and First-class
Assistant-Engineers Thomas Andrewaytha and Henry
White (B), to the Scorpion.

A CHURCHWARDEN'S SCRUPLES.—At the weekly
meeting of the St. Pancras board of guardians on Thurs-
day an application was received from a Mrs. Mead for
permission to take an orphan boy, named John Brown,
out of the parish school. The applicant was a nurse in a
gentleman s family, had known the lad's mother, and
had taken his sister from the workhouse, and placed her
in a school, and afterwards obtained her a situation in a
family. She wished to place the boy in a school, and ap-
prentice him to a trade. The clerk, in answer to a ques-
tion from a guardian, said Mrs. Head was a Roman
catholic, and the boy was willing to become a Roman
catholic when taken away. Mr. Churchwarden Furniss
questioned whether the guardians were justified in giving
such facilities for children being taken away to be brought
up as Roman catholics. The chairman (Mr. Wyatt) said
they allowed any one to take away a child to be brought
up as a protestant, and he didnot Nee why they should
object to any one taking a child to be brought up as a
Roman catholic. The application was granted.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM DI SALISBURY.—The in-
terest which Lady Herbert of Lea has since her conver-
sion evinced in the progress of catholicism in Salisbury
and the neighbourhood had yesterday another illustration
in the opening, and under her auspices, of a new mission
of dimity. A. house in Desaux-place, almost adjoining
the watts of the Bishop of Saliss palace, has been
taken by Lady Herbert and fitted as a Home for Sisters
ps ChOnt7 w tin Stalcirai city, The SomeSomewas for-
mally °peby the Rev. Dr. Clifford, the catholic
bishop of the diocese, and the Rev. Father Colinbier,
of Bristol, the Rev. P. Seddon, the resident priest, being
unavoidably absent. Lady Herbert and the sisters who
are about to undertake the work of this new mission of
visiting the sick and educating the children of the catholic
poor, and who arrived at Salisbury on the previous even-
ing, were also present. It is said that an effort bad
been previously made to purchase more commodious pre-
mises for the Home in the centre of the city, but the
owner refused to part with them to the catholic body.
Adjoining St. Osmond's Roman catholic church, in the
city, extensive new schools are now in progress, the work
being greatly indebted to the liberality of Lady Herbert,
who, though residing at Wilton-house, three miles dis-
tant. is a daily worshipper at St. Osmond's church.

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How TO SUPPLEMENT THE DEFICIENT HAY
CROP.—Mr. Martin Hope Sutton writes:—" The best
substitute for the natural grasses will be the Italian /3
grass, the new seed of w • should be sown immediate
at the rate of three or four bushels per acre, which w.
under favourable circumstance, be ready for feeding be-
fore Christmas (without sewage or artificial culture), and
will in April or May next present an invaluable crop. As
a substitute for red clover the trifolium incarnatum will
be usefully sown at the rate of 281 b. por acre, but the
seed of this article seems to be scarce and dear this season,
and if sown later than the end of the present month the
crop is very apt to disappear during the winter. The
leas of the swede crop may, in some measure, be com-
pensated for in the southern counties by sowing the quicker
growing turnips, as a few showers upon the fresh-sown
turnip fields, while the earth is so warm, will cause the
seed to germinate quickly, and the ' turnip fly' having
now disappeared, there is no further ground for appre-
hension of failure from that cause. Mustard and rape
seeds may be sown with advantage for autumn and spring
feed, but whatever is done should be done quickly, as one
day in August is worth two or three days in September."
A discovery of human remains has just been
made in the neighbourhood of Shap, Westmorland, where
men are engaged by the side of the London and North-
Western Railway cutting stone for ballast for the line.
One of them, as he was striking his " pick" into the stone,
came in contact with something which felt soft. On
examining it he found that it was a skull, and other bones
were found. They appeared to have belonged to a full-
grown male. The place where the bones were found was
at one time waste ground; and frequented by triple*,
hence it is conjectured that the remains are those eiWr of
some of the giry tribe or of some one who had fallen into
their hands.