The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-12 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

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DERBY MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

HARRINGTON STAR Km. About halt a mile.
Wild Dick, Neater Arlon, and Brahmin ars bete.
NURSERY HANDICAP. Throttle's:term of a mile.
Mamie, Peaks, Cutler, Forester. Grasshopper A:, Old
'fowler, and Keane are here.

ATSWORTH STAKE:4. Ose
Maid of Chesterfield, °dinner, Wier On, Gabourdine,
Itrivaia, Jingling Johnny, Petra, Mir Eleanor, aad Zodiac
are here.

TR.% DESSIEN'S PLATE. Mil,. sod hat.
Aston, ochiltrre. Jumbo' Jobany. Shipwreck, Petra,
7.odise, and (SUer Os are bore.
INNKEEPERS KATE. Ono mile.
Maid awsterlield, Oclailtree, Jiogling Joluany, aad
!tosses nre bore.

Onuat AuarvAL..- Pia* Rajah Brooke, imeirrr, Cam-
%avian!, !4ercatter. Prince Imperial. Corueet, Diamond,
Der, Mimi Emma. and Callipyge.
AN 'PI PLATI.--thbat Ou =skived.

8.1.VN OP 11VULAND.-(17118 DAY.)

Thie day the half-yearly general court of diemforge
of the flank of England wee hell in the Hank Parlour. It
wee also one of the quarterly court, held pu-snant to the
charter. Mr. .‘l./10.1, LATHAM, the gnvcrmw, presided.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
The co. vevon .-evi I hove now to acquaint the court
that this ia one of the general quarterly courts appointed
by the charter, and that it in also are of the
half. yearly meeting. irritated by the 1111111 bye-law
formiking a divelead, and that the pet profit. of the half.
year ending the 31st Afloat have bee. 750,38111. 4e. 104.,
making the amount of the rest nn that day 3,751,4154/.
Is. , and after providing a dividend of 3 per cent., the
..,„,kll.3.lecositste. :•vt. The court of dirertionithere-
h.re pr0p...4. that a lull', earlyilividend of interest awl profits
lie mule no the liali of fletober neat, of 5 per inst. without
duction on snot of income tan. I have therefore to put
the question that this court do order a dividend of interest
soil progita of :I per cent. on the 10th cif October neat.
without deduction on account of income tar.

The 'notion having been pot and carried,
TAn trot euwa &aid I have now to acquaint the Mari
that the iliehlenil warrants will he made payable on Friday,
the, 11th aft October nest.

Mr. .tiltrliNlM MALMIONA, H. Y., said that, at the bat
half in/1y meeting, a question arose as to an
early publicatioo of the Hank accounts, and be
was happy to ear tbst the court had met the
wishes of -the proprietor. and the public iii that respect.
(War, hear.) All those who were inter, idol in the welfare
of the Hook of Eiixlsnol and in the mooetary concern, of the
city of Loudon appreciated the resilinese with which the
court acoeiled to the propuitiou of giving the exact state of
the Beak at the earliest poasible period. (Hear, bear.)
flu might also add that the proprietors were gratihed
at the divwkod AtIIIOUDetd. (Hese. hear.) He begged,
th,,for,, to move that the best thanks of the proprietors be
given to the governor sod directors, for the manner in
which they attou.led to the geueral interests of the cot-
poratioo.
The motioo having hero pat soil carried,
The ;9% mum returned thanks no behalf of himself and
~.Uagues., and said the proprieton were aware that they
had a public duty to perform, and when that fell in with
the interests of the proprietor, they were, of course, ex-
cJedinely glad, ss he hoped they bad cause to be ou the
preo.nt occaaini.
The court then adjourned.

EXTKAOI:CINART AND DIABOLICAL AITLIIPT TO
yens Kii•Exar Cou,scit.—The Ki(kens" Moderator te-
porta at great length a mysterious attempt to burs this in-
stitution. On Monday night one of the misters was
awakened in the middle of the night by a noise like this
smashing of sticks., and on getting up to ascertain the cause,
he towel the Kdscoi-room in dames. The pupils were at
once alarmed, and brought out to the lawn in front of the
Prompt aaai.tanee and a good supply of water
eveutuolly overcame the flames before any 'ennui damage
was done. The masters then proceeded through the other
apartmeuts of the college, when, to their astooishment and
alarm, they found another lire in the usher's room on the
ground flew. A box containingclothes was consumed ere the
discovery was made, and tie walls blackened by the
ascending flames. This fire could not hare been originated
by the clue in the schoolroom. On further investigation,
another lire was found sn'oulderiog under a staircase. A
quantity of matches, half-consumed pieces of pa par, and
ignited sticks, showed how deliberately the incendiary had
set to work. By this time the schoolroom was in a stow to
be examincil, whim it was found that the fire had brthen
out at both extremities of the room, and that in the two
desks, in other portions of the apartment, half-consunied
matches and paper had been placed tonal the cootisgrat'oo.
Altogether, in live places, Ours were found preoszatMes
for effecting the destructioe of the building. Tbe=h
nmgistlates are waking actin inquiresinto this e
earaitair.
AND REOOTIBILY 01 A LARGE SUM OF
MONTT.-0. Monday evening last money and paper repro-
amities no lees a tom of money than 10,0e51. wu lost at
Stirling by • gentleman of Regent-street, London, who, with
• friend, bad arrived from Aberdeen by the 7.30 train. On
retiring to his bedroom, at the Golden Lion Hotel, one o:
the gentlemen made the ',tertian discovery that the above
large amount, which had been deposited in the side
of bisms ',:XIM, was miming. In the meantime, about hripsest
aiclerk, one of the housemaids of the hotel, named
Marrone Fisher, while engaged in sweeping out the lobby,
found the bank notes and papers and immediately placed
them in possession of Mrs. Campbell, hostess of the Golden
Lim. The gentleman, on finding from the landlady that
his property was safe, Mrs. Campbell • if. note to
reward the girl who had found the money for her honesty.—
Seamans.

THZ BISHOP or NORWICH AND THE HARVEST.—
'"). Bishop of Norwich has issued the following pastoral
letter to his clergy:—' Norwich, Sept. 2. Rev. and Dear
Brother, —A harvest given and preserved to our use is
always a subject of grateful ackaowledgment. The dream.
stances of of nations so well as the state of our own land
make this great benefit of peculiar value to us in the present
year. Moreover, if lam rtghtly informed, the counties to
which the diocese extends have been favoured, both as to
the crops and the weather for their in.gathenug, more than
souse other parr .f our land. I fear we have too much ma.
son to acknowledge that oar iniquities might justly have
tamed away these good things from os. Lot, then, the loaf.
suffering mercy Red considerate bounty odour God lead ut in
our hearts and lives tory, ' Let us sow fear the Lord our tied
who reserved) unto us the appointed weeks of harvest.' rue
circumstances of each parish will best suggest an appro-
priate day, and the most suitable method for giving a real
expression to the grateful feelings with which I trust all
dames amo mus will acknowledge the goodness of God. I
refrain, therefore, from earning any particular day, service,
or object of thank offering, but will only express an earrest
I e that you will by the word of God instruct the minds
and stir up the trusts af your parishioners to praise and
thankagirrag be Him who gives us pease is war
and fills us maths finest of the wheat. —I remain,
your faithful brother and sermat, J. T. Noawmff."--In
sceuidanoe with hie lordship's Mehra and suggestions
sermoos earwigg appropriate feelings of gratitude for the
tsreatoes bounty have bees very generally delivered from
Norfolk sad Outtalk pulpits daring the lest few days : and
" harvest homes" have haw place in almost every village.
Trig Penni° or BLArlidrina.—You feel a blank-
wee is the landscape when a tree is gone that you hare
known all your life. You are tonatioue of a vague sense of
masething Main' when even a poet is pulled up that you
remember always in the centre of a certain field. You feel
this yet more when some fanlike pieee o 4 furniture is taken
away from a MOM which you know well. Here the: clumsy
easy-eliror used to stead ; and It is gone. You feel yourself
an interloper, steadies in the mini where it stood 40 loos.
It touches you still more to Wok at the empty chair which
you remember so etre filled by ass who will never fill it
more. You stand in a large railway statics : you have come
to see a train depart. There is a great bustle on the plat-
form, aid there Is a great quantity of human life, and of the
iatenste sad area of human life, in those twelve sr four-
teen carriages, and filliag that little mace between the rails.
You stead by sad watch the worm interiors of the
looking so large and so full, and as if they had me=
them. There are people of every kind of aspect. children
and old fotk, mnltitudes of railway rap, of carpet begs, of
portmaateaus, of 'amis, of newspapers, of books, of maga-
lines. At length you hear the bad bell : then omen that
Weak reedy pull. which is always striking, though seen
ever so ones. The tram glides away—it is gone. You
stand, and look vacantly at the place when it was. How
little the 134:111 lOok•-110.• blank the air! 'There Sr. the
' two rails, at four feet eight and a half inches apart : how
elms toge r they look ! YGQ can hardly think that them
was so much of life, and of the interests of life, iu so little
nom. You feel the power upon the avenge human being
of the simple, commonplace fact, that something has bee.
here, and is goo. Theo Igo sway, in thought, to a beer.
tabs pier : a pier of wooden piles, running two hundred
yards into the ma at a quiet spot on a lovely civet, where
various storm vessels call on a summer day. You staid at
the seaward end of the pier, where it broadens into a coo-
siderable platform ; and you look down on the deck of a
reamer lying aloophlt. What a bustle : what a hive of
human beings, and their children, and their baggage, their
hopes, fears, and schemes, fills that space upon the water of
r. hundred ad fifty feet long and tweotylve feet wide !
And what • deafening noise, too, of escaping steam fills the
air! Men with baggage dash up against you; women ehnliv
vociferate above the roar of the steam ; it is a fragment of
the vitality and hurry of the great city carried fora little to
the egret country Owe. But the last rope is thrown off ;
the piddles turn ; the steamer moves—lt is goes ! There is
the blank water. churned now into foam, bat in a few
minutes transparent green, showing the wooden piles, is..
crusted with shells, and with weeds that wave about below
the surface. There you stand, and look vaguely, sod think
•aaggooeely. It is a curious feeling. It is • feeling you do not
usdermtud except by experience. And ts • thoughtful per-
e= a thing doer not become commonplace because it is re-
prated hundreds of thousands of times. Frueer's Mayaziftt,
for `September.

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