The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

SPORTING•

TVITERSALL'S--31..N t. AT.
was a Isms alkalise* of sabeeribers, but. as our
0 rim ~ amid " Win show, the betting was not of * very
important chars:ter. the Keriensl feeling in the part of the
heeler- being to belJ Lad " until the publication of the
Tug I.l%ritroot. tvvrtrtnrvi.t%R.—Anatie, backed in the
the morning, erne with a nab, and 1,000 to GO was
tales twue Al)..at Ler, the closing price, 15 to 1, being also
n,,,A ,Iw to G each was betted a -Ainst The Emperor.ewahniasi, Jealousy. Liethsa. anal' ..ohismith, all of whom
10.111.1 11.-10, supporters. 30 to Ito money was Lid a;*inst
Tattle' *ad Cockatoo, the latter being in great demand.
Xialwing was hitched at 25 to 1. The Huntsman at 3.1 to 1,
and Mr. Angells nouunation tridegrouni at 1,000 to 30 to
upwards uf 151.1/.

ritr,rza (re.-11lawat•Anng, after a liberal out.
lay. era. in great dmaand at to I. but tomoda
she titre .truie, who appeared to sulfur frum the sup
port nimm to h..r %table companion, earns a‘ain, awl left off
as good a hst ourite ; the Lawyer waa backed is good .iu tr•
ten to I I odustrious was asked after, but AO to I wa.
flu hiiihrst offer ; 33 to I was taken to small sums shoal
Xil:igrew. 40 to 1 Wild Ruse, aod to 1 each about WM-
Los and Herne; In to 1 to 30'. was betted against Satellite
sad Umpire molded.
Tus Two THOUSAND (;ratan was only It diced sow and
MM.

Tut DESST.-Ths highest ..der spier! DIII1.6! VW
Mlo I. but a fractioa ',you,' that Inc. would hare hoot
take" to some owner ; 11 to I to a "posy" was secured
about BL Bea, and It: to 1 spirt Diorhaness ; 1.01.10 to 60
was betted asteinat Kettledrum, and to 1 melt to a like
sum s. out Klarikoti and Dictator. York Wester was in
dem aid at 10 to 1; similar Wile tieing laid 24a154 The
Kuight of the Thistle. Preerptress, tad Botaledier,
sad 1.(010 td.l7. amiost AOn Will.
The followinc is a list of the closing prices:
THE LIYMPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
17. to I sgst Attalla
lob to K The Emperor (t)
100 to tt • - Prialtniaa It)
100 to 6 - Jeelessy (t)
100 to S - Intakes (t)
Inn to - Goldsmith hill)
to .- Tattler It)
2') to - • Cockatoo It freely)
25 to - Redwing It freely)
23 to -- Bride/trope. It freely)
XI to The Ilentarnsus (t)
THE CH &ITER
T.l to ag.t 'std. Little's Man at Anus (t)
25 to - II r. I :oldie(' Chem Ansi, (t)
25 to •-- Mr. Coekto s The Lawyer (1)
30 to - Mr. W. Goatees lednetrities (off)
33 to - Mr. smith's Killigrew (I)
40 to - Mr. Itipold's Wild Row (t)
fin N - Mr. Glide', WIBIPP
re to Hems (t)
16 to - Satellite and Umpire (coupled)
THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAK
6 to apt Col. Zanier. Kettledrum (t)
7to - Mr. Henry's Klarikoff (t)
12 to - Mr. Merrilleilil's ()verbs (t)
THE DERBY.
It to apt Mr. Merry's Made* (off)
11 to - Mr. F. Swiedell's Big lieu (I)
16 to - Lord Stanifortfs Diopbaotus (1)
Mt to - Ccl. Totality's Kettledrum (t)
22 to - Mr. Heary's Klarikoff (t)
22 to - Mr. Thomas's Masten (t)
60 to - Lord (317's The Drake (1)
60 to - CAL 'Town 's York Minster (t freely)
60 to - Lord Esete e Knight of the Thistle (t)
60 to - Mr. Gratwicke's Preceptress (t)
00 to - Mr. Diesey's Boruhadier (t)
1.010 10 1. - Ni. W. Gester's Aurelian (t)

Faun).—ln our lid of quotaticoo pablithed ea Mon.
thy last. Overton an returned as the property of Mr. C.
?pare. lastes4 of that of Mr. Morribra

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ATIMILALTT, JAS. 28 —PROMOTIoNS MID Ar.
eocrorms.—Lenteneata F. L. Weed, to the Narcissus;
and C.rrin& to the Prince= Royal
&coed dee J. O. 011Sozooll, to the Cumberland. fur
sorrke in the Griffin.

First elms Amistant Engimer T. &gar, additiooal to the
ClauMrland, for service in the Chameur.
Ji• —COUIZOADditr C. W. Wane, to the Primate
Xoal.tana
Ma E. St. G. Dani,l, to the Victor Emmanuel ;
B. T. Mandela, to the 111.ander ; T. K. Hueco. to the
Immortalite ; W. 1.. Marcia, to the London ; N. B. II °dip
nett, to the Racoon ; C. H. alorphy, to the Cressy ; and
W. .1 . Walker, to the queen.
Chief F.iaginem E. bulk. to Princess Royal-
l'avmoster C. A. Shapeute. to be additional to the Indus.
Eal;rioeer A. Means, promoted to the rank of grat.elem
aessAant engineer, and oppressed to the Asia, seal perett-
iwr try W. It. Unsaid, promoted to the rank of Int-clam
win mt engineer, sod appointed to the llnprd, for service
in the &lire ; and W. P. t.uyer, promoted to the rank of
eareod-aimi mumaiit engineer mid appointed to the Nar-
a...as.

y,r.t.,:lame .tiaistaat Digie•er J. flooll, to tb• Prism=
Bua!
Arcood,. laws Aseiateat Engineer, J. G. Barrow, to the
Yrircear Royal.
Thu•l-cl.ou Areistant : W. Harris, to A. Fie.
pml, for .orrybce rn the Idustfor S. Judd, to the Jim, for
servo.. rn the Bluer ; Lash, and W. R. Polley, to the
Prirte“a Royal.
Areitaaet l'Aymeater G. V. Gruzelier, to the Victory, u
ispenrinie rary.
N..vid Cadet G. B. Bedford to the Arholae.

CIIATIIAN. Jan. 24.
The first instalment, amounting to the rum of
1.77,0(. ordered to I. paid to the parochial authorities of
Ilhatlaim by the goverameot. in lieu of poor and other rates,
hew bele received by the overseers of the pour from the
iterretary of *at* for War. The parishes of fit. Margaret
sad Udiusgliam, adjoining Chatham, will each receive a
large sum from the government indeed of ratan the crown
),sowing comiderable property In both them parishes.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 24.
7.. e Carad..c, 2, iron paddle stem-vowel, Lieu-
tenacc. Commander Charles Y. Badde. arrived I. harbour
Ibis trim the lts,Lonsessa MM4 sad is ordered to
be elvi.ated into the bur 611.111111T0W to strip and return
star.. preparatory to being paid el at title yard. She was
commisaioued at Woolwich is latt'f, and has once been em-
ployed as a despatch vessel in the Mediterranean.

By a circular memorandum addremed to the army
at home and abroad by Sir James Yorke &Arlen, the
adjutant-general, it is announce.' that his Royal Highness
the Get:send Commanding.in.Claet desires, that in uture,
when soldiers are discharged liy purchase, the board will in-
variably state by whom the ruouey has been received, in
addition to the amount paid.

THE SWORD OP LA TOUR DAUVERONE.

The swonl of L Tour d'Auvergwe, the celebrated
}'reach grenadier, having born presented to Grribeldi by ito
ponkesor, the latter received the following letter of thanks:

" Caprers, Jan. 2. lAGI.
" I have received the swonl of La Tour d'Auv.rlne, that
sword which the Consuls of the Republic decreed to the
brave.: man of the I rench army—to the bravest man of
as army that trampled under its gigantic steps and
buried 111 the dust the throes* and tyrants of Europe. This
honour surpasses all that the aspirations of a military matt,
af any man, can dream. I accept it, not only with all the
gratitude I am capable of feehag, bat in ad,htiott an a sign
af the sympathy of humanitarian France for oppressed
nationahtim. The initiative of the peat reforms that are
to consecrate the fraternity of peoples pertains still to
/rano'!"

CULTIVATION Or COTTON IN ACITRA LI A.—What
ls required to bring the cotton lands of Amarillo into cul-
tivation is capital and labour. Of these two important
emirutiala, the men of Manchester have nu lack. They
marbly subscribed a hundred thousand pounds when the re-
peal of the Can Laws obtained for them cheap bread fur
their factory hands, and procured then, sew markets for
their manufactures in exchange for the corn and dour which
would Le imported. The sine sum judiciously applied
would have gone far to have obtained foe then. a supply of
tattoo from Qesendand and other parts of the Britiiih
poseesions. With respect to the supply of labour, that
is • difficulty which might hare been, sad would have been
ova ono!, had the neemsary capital bees forthcoming, by
the importation of coolies and lAinese into the new cuttoe-
growing districts. With such unignidcent colonies as we
possess ; with lands suited in every respect for the culture of
cotton. which may beginnings! fur • merely nominal nun;
with all our manufacturing skill fur producing the too
Implements ; and with abundance of oapitalateardispoml
with facilities for obtaining laboLr from India sad from
Chino under the sew treaty, it will be • cry* shame and a
&apace to the iteastry if we continue muds longer in our
Rate of pmeartoes dependence upon the cotton growing
Mated of Amines. Whatever may be does in directing at-
tention to sew gelds of peoductivenses, we hope that the
unoyalkal facilities of Queensland will sot be overlooked.
We ant glad to learn that tbecoloeide are fully alive to the
importance of providing edditiocal labour. end a memorial is
is course of preparation to the aathoritise gerayini fee some
relsaatioe in the present regulation remedies the 'stream-
eke of coolie emigrants. Now that the treaty of Pekin re-
maims the right of einigistioa on the part of Chines%
there ase he so do catty is affording lammed facilities to
fish homing the coustry and settling ia Australis.
adeerrelies end Nor Zeeland Gazette.
0111111 t“ PAWS Ong SHILLINU Day.
3kenialt, Jas. —Aieinicee ca payment. OM ; dale
bly amen Saab. 741; total virtues. 1,00.
Mr. A. Bannon, Wine and Spirit Merchant, of
=lertee. ores MGM Ile plea eitereire with the Wane
et the wino Moth& Ile Is sew excellent Peel
ea/ Num
_al Ust gee arm ea/ • seed estme es Us. per
ppopa Wks lideall.—Odueibmwal

THE NOETH A7L,LVTIC TELEuR4PH.

Tl. fifth or.hnary meeting of the light Geogra-
phied sn,citty fur this session was held yeatenlay evening at
Burlington house. A numerous and fashionable company
was there amembled, and Lord Aeseuerrom, president of
the society, occupied the chair. The route of the proposed
" North Atlantic Telegraph" was the subject to be con.
sidereal. liars and charts of the ocean, of the Faroe isles,
of Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador, were suspended on
the walls, anal as many stands were erected with an elec.
trice' apparatus awl an assistant at each of them, to
operate through a wire stretched around the room, and to
represent the several stations of this projected line of tele-
graphic communication from the northern extremity of
Scotland to our British American colonies. The noble chair-
man, however, remarked that, although the }loyal Geogra.
phical Society would receive and record all such physical facts
as might have been olmerved by the persons employed in special
investigations, to prepare for this gnat and beneficent
scheme of the North Atlantic Telegraph, vet the society
would not presume to judge of the value of that scheme, or
t a compare it with any other schemes, but would regard
the geographical and other mientific details thus brought to
their knowledge with philosophical impartiality and calm-
The first paper which was read was one by Sir Leopold
11111intock, Prime a brief account of the observations he
mail. when commanding her Majesty's ship Bulldog,
despatches' by the goverment in July last, at the request
of the North Atlantic Telegraph Company, to take the
deep-sea soundiap between the Fame Isles and Iceland,
between helmet mad Greenland. between Greenland sod
Hamilton Inlet ea the coast of Labrador. In the fiat por-
tion the greatest depth was about :OW fathoms, and the
bottom was fine wady mud, with broken shell ; it would
be an easy matter to lay down the cable between Faroe and
Iceland. Many interesting particular were mentioned by
Sir L. M'Clintock with respect to the eenntry, which is
larger than Ireland, and has a population of sixty thousand,
with a chief town and harbour. Reikjavik, on the Fsußay,
exempt from drift ice and open to vessels all the winter.
Between Iceland and the south coast of Greenland the
greatest depth is 1,572 fathoms, but very regular ; the bot-
tom is of ooze and fine mud, pertly showing organic remains.
The temperature of the water at a depth of 100 fathoms
was from 44i to 39 degrees. The Greenland shore was
blockaded with ice. The distance being 530 miles thence to
Hamilton Inlet, in Labrador, the greatest depth was 2,032
Whom, ; the bottom was ooze ; the &tweet duns at tho
depth shove mentioned was 40 degrees. Hamilton Inlet he
found 120 miles long, and varying in width from :Xi miles to
half a mile. Its depth was very irregular, anal seldom oath-
cent to secure au immersed cable from disturbeme by
iceberp ; but the rucks and islets at its mouth, and the
current going past, would perhaps prevent the icebergs
from entering there. From the merchants and fishermen
frequenting that place, and from the Moravian mis-
sionaries residing there, Sir L. 311.1intock has obtained
rather a favourable account of it. Ho had no doubt
hut with the requisite skill and precautions, the difficulties
of landing a calale both in Greenland and somewhere in
Labrador might be overcome.
The second paper was written by Captain Allan Young.
who commanded the steam yacht Fox, on its expedition
last summer tO SWIM) the telegraph landing races it was
mad in his shoelace by Sir Charles Bright. n his opinion
the cable should be laid beginning from the east coast of Ice-
land towards the Faroe Isles, because the fogs and easterly
winds prevailing in the summer on that side of Iceland
would make it difficult to land a cable there. From Ice-
laud to Greenland the length of cable required would be
about SW miles ; he thought it would be impracticable to !
atm it acmes the interior of Greenland, and the best
landing place would, therefore, be near Juliaushaeb, on the
south-western shore. The third paper was read by Dr.
John Ray, giving a very entertaining account of his jour.
ney by land scrim the largest al the Faroe Isles, and after-
wards from the east side of Iceland to the town of Rea.
javik, to see how amity a telegraph cable might
tie carried on the becks of ponies, and
along the road. He described the people
both of those remote insular Danish provinces aa being the
moat kindly, cleanly, intelligent, and hospitable race of
natives that he had ever met with, praising especially the
simple maniere end morals of the Femme. The natural
weeders of Iceland—with its volcanic beds of lava and its
louiling mudetreanis— were also referred to. It appeared
that, the extreme of cold felt in Iceland is far less severe
than in Canada, the temperature being seldom lower than
13 to 18 der. of Fahrenheit. With regard to Greenland,
Dr. Ray mid he was prevented by heavy snow storms from
thoroughly surveying the ice of the interior, but he be.
lined it would not be passible to take the cable across it,
for it was full of deep crevasses. That inland ice lay
stretched out as level as a vast lake or ma yet, like the
glaciers ea the declivity of the Swiss mountains, it had a
gradual motion outwards, which he could only explain.
when there was no slope to descend, by supposing that
the ice contracted and cracked in winter, sad that the
cracks became filled with snow, giving rise afterwards to a
lateral pressure. There would, however, be no necessity
fur the telegraph going overland there at all. Mr. J. W.
Taylor, who had lived for seven years in South Greenland,
this rend the fourth paper, which warn one of the most
interesting of them all. He pv• a short historical sketch
of the early Scandinavian settlements there, as too( ego se
the 'kith cesium, which are celebrated in the old Ice-
landic Saps ; he compared the maritime adventures of
Eric the Red and his hardy companions with the now in-
tended triumph of modern engineering skill • he =is
• graphic ikecriptioa of the milliner though
Isle scenery of the fiords, with their precipitates
mountains, their glaciers, the amity vegetation el their
shores, and the enormous depth of their waters ; he spoke
of Jultanshaab and the other Greenland towns, their civi-
lised inhabitants and the Emtumaux of the wilder regions.
He expressed an opines that neither the ice nor the con-
figuration of the emit would offer any impediment to the
successful laying of the telegraph cable in use of those
fiords. The Wt paper was by Colonel Shaffner, from the
United States, who explained, and showed by using his
electrical apparatus, the working of the telegraph circuits,
from Scotland to Faroe 225 miles, then from Fano to Iceland
250 mi es, then 800 miles from Iceland to Greenland, and
330 miles farther to Labrador. It would not be necessary
to repeat the messages, but a signal being given to the in-
termediate stations, they could open the circuits beyond,
establish direct communication between Scotland and Nova
Roods, or eLmewbere on the Americo continent.
As the papers were not finished reading till half-
peat 10, the noble president adjourned the discussion upon
them to the society's next meeting, when some further
statements made by Mr. Baker, respecting the Australian
exploring expedition, will aloe be received.