The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-19 00:00:00

DONCASTER RACES.

DECIDING HEAT.
Voitigefet
Rumborouga

1

Bto4 on VoDiver. Reseborough aide all the running
to the distance, where he was joined by the favourite, who
headed Ma kar way up sad woe cleverly by a length. The
ant heal was nut fe 3 ale. 2$ sae., the deciding in 3 sale.
24 sees.
The Maeda, file the hone, Ms noble lamer, and the
jockey, lasted for ten 112111114111, bed m4ght have been heard
foe sales. Thh Is the third year to summon that the ems
hens has won Derby end Bt. Legg, sad the second time •
dead heat has been run for the letter.
LATEST BETTING.
DONCASTER. WZDNINDAY.
Tat CUP.
11 tel lan Montan Dubin= I 20 to 1 opt Mnlgrave
II to I opt Ruenboronolt 10 to Bon Mot
le lo I Mooktaitas 10 to 1 Cdatrey
c.uassmczanum MAKE&
IS to I oat 11unno to to I salt MIND Ann
IS to I The MU= SO to 1 Loodcone
10 to 1 Senna 23 to 1 Pugleain
DEBBY.
14 to 1 opt Prime 111 rater I 23 to 1 eget tam

THIS DAY.
[By Electric Telegraph.]

HANDICAP of 10 Bove. each.
Pirouette .. . • ..
Brother to Ellerdale ..
HANDICAP. Mile and a quarter.
Mediae .. .. ..
Cantab .. .. ..

CLEVELAND HANDICAP.
Woolwich .. ..
&thyroidal .. .. ...
TWO YEARS OLD STARES.
Storm .. Azeth ..

SCARBOROUGH STAKES.
Voßigour .. .. walked over

LATEST BETTLNG ON THE CUP.
4tol on Dutchman I sto 1 eget Voltigenr.

TOURS AND NANTES.—An extraordinary general
meeting of the shareholder of the Tours and Nantes
Railway Company was held oa Tuesday, in Hers's great
room, !toe de Is Ifictoirt, for the purse of taking into
consideration the law of August 6, by which the cononsica
granted to the company is extended from 31 years to 50.
After a report from the secretary, setting forth the advantages
tat the proposed changes, the meeting by acclamation decided
tlialitlecceptel:the said law, giving to the board of directors
full pacers to arrange with the Minhter of Public Ws rim
on the modifications in the statutes which the measure
would reader necessary. In the course of the report it
was stated that for the year 1851 not more than two
, calls of 25(r. each would be requirA ; the first of which
the shareholders would have to pay probabli in January.
The meeting also approved of the part which the board had
takes, in the name of the company, in the establishment of
the Bcus•Comptoir des Chemins de Fer, after which the pro-
eeedioos terminated.
NATIONAL bIATITUTE OF MEDlClNE.—Yesterday a
meeting of the council of the National Institute of Medicine.
Surgery, and Midwifery, and other members of the u.sdical
profession, was held at their rooms in Hanover-square—Na-
thaniel Clifton, Esq., the president, in the chair—for general
business, sad to take measures to ensure the parsing into law
the bill introdoesd into the House of Commons, at the sad
of the lot session, by Mr. Wyld. M.P., for the incorporaiica
of general prectitiosen in medicine, surgery, and midwifery.
The report of the outwit exhibited a man of important
documents bearing upon the ease of the general practiti mere,
and the measures which bad been already adopted by the
institute for seeming medical reform.

UNNATURAL QUARREL AND FATAL TERMINATION.
An inquest was held yeeterday at the Union Tavern,
Bogen-street, Redbank, Manchester, before Mr. Award,
the borosgtt coroner, touching the death of Rebut Brooks.
an ostler, aged 60, who has left site children. Deceased was
of very intemperate habits, and on Friday evening week,
about 10 Velo.k, he went home intnzicated. He had mated
himself by the fire, end was drinking some tea, when Jona-
than Brook,, one of his sons, entered. The latter wee pro-
' median to batter a cake which he had brought In with him,
using some of the deeewed's butter for that purpose, whielt
ezelvd the old man's wrath, aid he eommeaned abusing hie
son. The young man asked once( his mown to fetch bim some
beer, which he Lad been ordered by the doctor to take. De-
ceased, however, forbade her to bring any beer into the house,
upon which his son acid he wautd fetch It himself, and
sectrdingly went oat for that purpose. The old man then
watt to the door and held it is his hand, determined, if
parable, to prevent his son re-entering with the beer. When
the latter returned deceased took him by the arm, spilled
the beer, and cracked the jag. The son was going to get
another jug, but the father seised him by the throat, and
they *unsold together fora I in4utes. The cracked
jug was still In the ma's hand, and during thn struggle it
ume in violent contact with the deceased's head, and was
smashed to atoms, at the same time inflicting a serious wound.
The son thee left the house, and did not return till the nest
day. The deceased got his wound dressed, and appeared
not to have been much injured. Re was again intoxi-
cated on the following night, and on Sunday com-
plained of being very ill. Mr. Overton, assistant to
Mr. Holroyd, sumacs, was sent kr, end found deceased
suffering from erysipelu In the head, caused by a lacerated
wound in the back of the scalp. The symptoms gradually
Increased until dremead's death, which occurred on Mon-
day afternoon. The surgeon said tha symptoms were much
mom aggravated than was usually the case, but this was
probably owing to the deceased's intemperate habits. The
jury found a verdict of "Accidental death."

THE FATAL Fllll-ENOINE ACClDENT.—Yesterday
Mr. W. Pales held an inquest et Huy'. llsapital on the
body of Alexander Dupree Henning, aged 16 years, a son of
the drill-muter belonging to the Royal Ordnanoe School,
Caminito°, who weenie over by one of the fire-engines be-
longing to the Loud n establishment, whilst proceeding to
render aosutance at the disastrous explosion whieh occurred
on Monday last in Spitathelds. It appeared that whilst the
engine from Watling-street station was proceeding along the
Poultry tower's the scene of the late explosion, the de-
ceased, whilst in the act of crossing the road towards the
Mansion-house, ran against the pole of the engine, and
before the driver could pull his hones up, the wheal cf the
heavy mashies pused over him. He wee immediately
pl :cod in a cab, and removed to the shove hos; ital, where be
died from this effects of the injuries received. It wee clearly
proved that neither the driver of the engine nor any of the
firemen was to blame, and the jury returned a verdict of
e Accidental death."

THE SUICIDE IN THE SETtPENTTNE.—Yesterday
an Impala was taken by Mr. Longhairs, at the Riming fitin,
Charles-street, Orhsvetior•square, on the body of Harriet
Pigeon, sired 22, who committed suicide in the Serpentine
river. The demand was a dressmaker, and cams Iron
Clift.n, near Bristol, last year, and resided at 46, Brindle,-
street, Hanover road, with her cousin, when she h.d been
about • week. Al she had an engagement in the Mgt ve-
rsa, she said on Saturday morning, when oho went out,
that ohs should take lodgings so as to be near there, but ohm
I was expected home that ni,tht. She was usually in good
spirit., and nothing was known that could at all have
alerted her mind. She went as usual to Miss Whiting's,
22, Edgware-road, on Saturday, and left IN on after 9 in the
avowing until Monday, but on Sunday morning her body war
*Mg nthe Serpentine, near the east end, by Knight, ono
of Ornament flicietee men. &adobe appeared to have been
dead ems hours. None of the witnesses were aware of soy
sitselmait she had formed, but she had written some wren
In her picket-book which were in a very dasoondinf. tone.
?le jury returned a verdict of Temporary

TM* INDIVIDUALITY OP LOOOIIOTIVEB.—It I. a
rmerloshie ensely and, well applied, it might be profitable
ks weds brigifsi nate aria fair allowasse for the differenoes
between the empenvegests of different mein, that every ineo-
- 1111 running ea a railway hasa distinct individu-
ality and asmeaft, of its ewe. It ice perfectly well koown to
szperieneed rustled engineers, that if a doses different
locomotive **lags were made, at the sung time, of the
same power, for the same purse', of like materials, in the
Name bonny, sack of those locomotive engines would emir
out with Its own peculiar whine and ways, only swertain-
able by impariersee. Oise engine will take a great meal
of coke aid water at Dam; wither will sot hear of such
a Wag, bat will insist
pasettti2 coaxed by sindeafiill
and backetchelL One is d to start off, whoa re-
quired, at the Op of hies • anothir must have a little
time to warm at his work, and to get well into it. Then
peesliarities are so accurately mutated by skilful driven,
that only particular men can pomade particular engines to
do their best. It would seem as if ems of then ff 'ugliest
monsters" declared, on being brought oat of the stable,
We Smith who is to drive me, I wont rm. If it's my friend
Stokes, I'm agreeable to anything !" All locomotive engines
are low spirited In damp and foggy weather. They keys a
pest satirisation la their work when the air is crisp and
testy. At eildi a dos they are very cheerful end brisk; but
they * wMt is hese and Ba•tch mists. These are
Pry *which they are all united. It is in
the* *it varieties of dimmer that they are moat
railway company who should consign all
litekkessuatives to one uniform standard of treatment, with-
out ear albinism, of varying shades of character and opinion,
via men fell se mark behusdhand in the world as them
geeriesigoirecaments are, and ever will be, who pursue the
same source with the deer
_piece of work called man.—
Dickens's " llousehold Wards."
Sono BELOLtN SAVANTS were engaged the day
before yesterday in asking asteccologial observations on
the heights of Belleville. 'Having raised to a certain height
some kites furnished with pointed needles, they drew from
the &oda although the weather woe perfectly sirens at the
time, flubs of electricity similar to those of lightning/ in a
storm. Suddenly one of the gentlemen, says the Petrie,
was struck by a dash, and thrown to the ground, in a
state et insensibility. He lad,. it appeared neglected to
hold by the glum bandit, whick served se a nemondnetcr,
and the fluid, desosadi by, the 'ord. struck him. He was
soon after reskand to hut his eight am remained
Calt and them is a drain whether he will me mow
ls:sis el 11.