The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. tl dditicsal.) (TWOPENPE.

Tits BILLING STALIN CI 3 son. each, with 30 eon.
added , 3.yr-olds, Bst ; four, 9st 21b; flea, tat 916; Nis and
aged, 94 1316. area and geldings allowed 316. The win-
sir to be sold for 100 son. ; if entered to be sold for 801.,
allowed 41b ; for 601., 81b; for 401., 12Th; for 301., 161 b; and
for 201., 2116. One mile To clan this day (Thursday).
Tlii CITY HANDICAP PLATS of 60 sun., for all arc
The winner ot any ranvalue 601 after the publication of the
weighta to carry 51bs ; of 1001., 716 extra. Ball a mile.
Age et MI et
Mary Copp 1 810 Moodi Agee
3 lb
6 2
Augury
Madams Clicquot. 3 7 3 Thistle 3 6 0
Berle 6 7 01 Intarcidona 2 6 0
Special Lianas .. 3 7 0 Jane 3 612
aby Touchstone Polly Johnson
—Diphthong .. 3 613 HespentbusaDvh) 2 511
&Win
- . -

Ohiks
Pees 4 6 6
Prism's Mixture
Pyrrhus ths Se-
cond
Robin
6 6 421
Red

Bredley
Chtenvrich Far
Julia 2 6 2
Convict
Trabut o

SATURDAY.

Till NORTHERN 311TROPOLITAN HANDtCAP PLATT of
100 wove, for all ages; the whiner of any race rake 501.,
attar the publication of the veleta, 81b; of two, or of the
Wilke Weadicop, 7lb extra. Ose mile.
Ccm'PolmoodaZ Age et 1b 1 Age it lb
5- 8 7 Red White and
4 8 0. Bine 3 6 6
Commotion 3 712 Losileney 3 6 4
Undwheed 3 7 9 The Attorsey•Oe-
-3 7 9, nand
Racially 47 7 14t114 c°b
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3 6 ICkureltlangtou.. 3 0 2
Lard Nelson
Alma
AuSur7
Apathy
Mysterious Jack 3 0' Game Pullet .... 3 610
Rad as a 0 lady Emily 3 6 6
rdrcialtiesasa 3
4 0 / Sir Humphrey .. 3 5 6
01171tdet Pane (h b) 3 5 2
Pam 4 8 Mk 3 5 2
ILM.
Same 3 7 sister to Ito-
=taw 3 7 mane (b b) .. 9 6 0
6 6 Goland WWII= 3 paid
Leo
Narks..

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TEN Two Tux OLD SELLING eraiEll Of 6 NOM mow,
with 30 added, for two-yr-olde ; cam, Bet 10lb ; to
Set 71b. The winner to be gold for 100 sou ; if entered to be
mold for 80 eon., allowed 41b ; for 50 eon., Blb ; for 40 eon.,
1216; for 30 Bova., 1616; sad for 20 ern., 2116. T.Y.C. To
close on Friday.
THE SCVEZT HANDICAP of 3 score each, with 30 TOM
added, for all nes. Half a mile. To close on Friday.
Tun GRAND STAND PLATE (A..lr of 60 mom, for
all ages. A winner of may nice value ~ after the weights
7:4Sad alb; of two, or lOW., 71b ; or of the City
H Fla*., 101 b extra. Half a mile.
Ade A lb Au at
Mary Copp 4 810 Attorney-Gateral 3 lb
4
Madams Maio* 3 7 3 Red Robin a 2
Beede 6 7 0 Amorous 80y.... 3 0
ftiKki:ue ai
c Tomblike,— Magnolia 3 13
.... 3 7 0 Jane 3 13
3 6 12 Sunbeam 2 9
Skye:utter
Perm
Mika 4 6 6 Julia
R.M 5 6 6 Dubuc. 2 0
Pyrrhmetheeoced 3 6 4 pinvict

Piirsco's Miriam 4 6 4
THE HALF HOLIDAY
for 2-77rr•01d.. A winner of a
puthabed, value 60 soya., 51b ;
cap, 71b extra. About half a
at lb

Lot Time
Isar HANDICAP of 70 sore.,
ty race, after the ta wen
or of the MANIA Nandi.

PAACIII/ Royal
Dispute
Sunbeam

st
Lay Elisabeth
Mnos Trod 7
7
Thornhill
Lot Throe
Trance
Comiet
Lay Ana 7
T. P. Cooks
Deride 7
Atradals 6 1
Ablatuer 6
Dot

16
Yallw Gal 8 6
Intaniima. 8
&timbal'

Hasprithrs_o9.) .. ! 12

FiThigb-a-lralliik-' i a
8 0
lger 7 181
7 10
C
Oresawklt Far 7 7 18
Joan of Are 7 7

LECTURE 02f NAD3II4. \

BY ran arty. A. Z. D. n'eassr, OILLPLaDI TO TIN
=OMR CBVRCH, BIODD Sae ADJLANHAB, rverczat.
This gentleman, after a residence of five years ill
the above islali, lee returned with renewed health and
vigour ; and, anxious that the benefits reaped breetteelf
ahould be confined upon others, he delivered a ca
Tuesday enable in the Merchants' Hall, to nearly 500
ladies and gentlemen, upon the position, physical characters
meteorology of the Wand, and the mode of life of its visitors
and invalid,, which the fanos of he restorative powers has at-
tracted. The lecture wan under the auspices of the director.
et the Athenwom, and Mr. Thomas Kennedy, chairman of
that institution, presided on the occasion.
Mr. IPC:quire, who at once familiarly yet eloquently pro-
ended to his subject, mid Madeira is the largest of a group
of five islands, geographically African, though belonging to
Portugal, 550 miles from Lisbon, 1,325 from Southampton.
It is in form • second Arran, only grander and wilder, forty-
live miles 1 thirteen broad, and about ninety in circure.
fauna. It is girt around with precipice., riming perpendi-
cialsrly from 200 to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea-level,
while the central peak Is 6,000. These cliffs are interrupted
every here and there by deep splits or gorges, giving to the
circumference of the Wand a crimped appearenos. Its bota-
nical production., like those of mountainous regions in all
southern countries, present near the sea a tropical lnourance
and as you ascend you observe fresh eon. of vegetatiori
which terminate in the scant herbage and gores of Alpine
regions. The vine has failed since 1851, though old aae
of the first clam is still to he had. Besides the ordinary
farm, the island has nearly forty species peculiar to Welt.
There are no fierce specimens of natural history there; nor
ate the birds, though plenteous, remarkable either for
bleary of pining@ or song, lila. ne mist, sleakkaa, and,
duet, or smoke. Only 65 days out of the year's 366 are wet,
and diving only 20 of those days can the rain be said to be
severe, but then it mine actually cataracts. This is in
sprinand autumn. Provisions of all kinds are vary cheap
on the Wand, fruits marvellously so. Clothing, especially
silk, is expensive. Musical instruments and plate are free
for 18 months, Wier which they are chargeable with duty.
The contrutmiesnon between Madeira and this country con-
sists of stem and sailing veseels, which sail on the 4th, 9th,
and 24th of each month. Voyage six or seven days, faze
161. to 22!. children half. celerity is required, steam
is beet ; where the advantage of a sea voyager is desired the
sailing mewls are the best and cheapest. The captains are
all kind and attentive to invalid passengers. When you
near Funchal Bay, you can scent the luxurious vegetation
are you me it, laden as le the glowing Air with richest
perfume. Funchal, the principal town of the Wand, and
the invalid's resort, population 20,000, is situated in a bay of
the same name, which, facing the south, and surrounded by
• perfect amphitheatre of hills, is at once as admirably pro-
tected from adverse winds as it is open to the gentle gales of
the south. The city itself has narrow, though clean streets,
and very plain churches. The merchants and invalids' mei-
dences and the hotels are however furnished with great
poem= and pewees all the concomitant, essential to
society. The invalid paye for board and lodging 10!.
per month (which includes everything), and this is less than
at oar watering places. For a house of five bed-rooms,
dining and drawuog
room, &c. you pay 60!. to 1001. per
nr. Your medical attendant has 11. la. for hie first, sad
iIL for his record visit. English servants, except old and
iced ones, are useless in Modena. The Portuguese make
excellent servants and rooks. All religions are tolerated
by the Portuguese, as far as foreigners are concerned. It le
tiny heretics amongst their own subjects who are persecuted.
Them are three churches supported by British tabjects-1.
The Colluder Chapel, whose chaplain is paid partly bv sub-
scribes, of all creeds, and partly by government. All Ftritish
subjem.Lint• ping 201. have a right to vote in the election or
of the chaplain, whether members of the church of
England or not. 2. The English church, Becco doe
Arrenhats, protesting against regulations which empower
any British 'object," Romanist or Mormealte, to buy a
vote in Church ann. 3. The Scottish Preishytenan

Church. The last two elect their own cle hive rata
money aid from government, but are protected. There an
also educational establishments, including the Portuguese
C° the English Collegiate School, and several ladles'
schools. Mat of these receive boarders in delicate health.
There is • Htmuy of 4,000 colonies; a reading-room, with
French, English, German, and Portuguese papers and pe-
riodical.; • club; occaaional matches at wicket; yachlinf,
pie-nice, lunches, dinner parties, lectures., concert& public
and private, dm. The lecturer concluded by stating that
ba behoved he had given a statement which, though MOM.
eerily Me, was accurate, and urged on all consumptive
patients to go at once, or not at all.
During Oa lecture several effective drawings were ex-
hibited; slew, specimens of needlework of en exquisitely
beautiful eiwescesr, the produce of the bland. The lecture
laded two haven. At ho Mom a eordlel vote of thanks sw•
swede' to M. D'Oewty.—Glospow Oithea.

TILLAGI DEB27tOYED BY L HURRICANE.
The Milwaukee Sentinel of August 25 contains
the following account of the damage done by a tornado
" The new village of Woodland, a elation on the La Crosse
Railroad, this aide of Horioon, was on Friday noon as nice
and thriving • little place as could be found, but the hurricane
of the evening tore it to pieces entirely, and almost literally
left not one stone upon another.: The track of the hum-
cane was only Rome 300 or 400 yards in width, but within
that apace everything is destroyed. The violence of the
wind, from the account that we have heard, was almost in-
credible. It not only lifted buildings bodily, but tore them
apart like shreds of paper, so that ecarcely one stand. in •
recognisable shape. A number of freight cars, standing on
the track, were lifted up—trneks, wheels, and all—and de-
posited on the top of • pile of wood, 60 or 70 test distant.
Pieces of scantling were hurled through the air as if abot
from cannon, and some were found thrust into hard wood
stumps so far that the strength of two men could scarcely
extricate them. .

People wen at tea se the storm came upon the place,
ands train of can were approaching at the same time. Mr.
You the depot master, started for his house, fearing that the
wind would do injury to the dej6t. He was struck by the
bleat, and thrown upon the track. The hurricane drove the
train forward with prodigious speed, and before Mr. Fox
mold rather himself up, the reel were upon him, and he was
instead, killed, his bead being ttearly severed from the
trunk. At the same moment, the wind raised the depot
building from its foundation and carried it 400 feet, when it
fell into ruins. A telegraph operator was seriously injured.
At Columbus, in the same region, the hurricane did greet
damage, and one life was reported boat."

From the officers of the steamer Ohio, No. 2, we learn
that during her last trip upward, on Friday, 21st, when 12
mile. below Gallipolis, she encountered • heavy storm, at-
tended with an exceedingly high wind, amounting to a tor-
nado, end the moat terrible thunder and lightning. For •
few minutes it seemed an if nothing could withstand the
raging tempest ; large forest trees were proetrated like reeds,
and a number of barna and out-houses were blown from
their places by the sheer force of the wind. A man driving
a hay waggon, named Wm. T. Harrison, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed, as were four horses at the
same time. A farmer, named Wibon, was also injured and
stunned by the fluid, but not fatally, and 14 sheep were de-
stroyed. The violence of the storm expended itself in leas
than an hour ; but there must have been much damage
done in the vicinity, if not elsewhere, in that brief period.

EXPLOSION IN A STONE I'IT.—A dreadful explo-
aim, which was attended with the imruediste death of two
and the serious injury of three others, occurred on
°'w
Thursday, Ina Mons pit, at the Rough Hay Colliery, of
Messes. Addenbrook, Smith, and nista. The explmion
was one of a very unusual occurrence. It did not occur in
the workings, but in the shaft, to which its effecte were con-
fined. From some tusesplaino4 cause, gas had generated
behind the brickwork of the shaft. and hued escaped through
a fissure in the masonry into the shaft. Not suspecting
any danger, for the mine had been worked twelve years
without the presence of gee being detected, seven persons
entered the skip on Thursday morning at six o'clock,
taking with them a lighted candle in a rough wooden
boa, with a tin covering. They had descended about eighty of
the 100 yards, which was the depth of the shaft, when the
gas coming into contact with the light occasioned an ex-
piation, and Enoch Taylor, aged over 60, and Thomas Bay-
ley, • boy, wore so much burnt that they fell front the skip,
and their lifeless bodies were shortly afterwards picked up
from the bottom of the shaft, the boy very much burnt, tad
the old man only slightly. The other five persons, although
suffering severely, maintained their presets* of mind in their
horrible position, and continuing a firm hold of the skip
were aimed. The gas did not reach to the workings, as
shown by the fact dud the cendlei left down on the previous
night were unmelted. An inquest upon the bodies of the
deceased was held on Saturday, when the facts above stated
was deposed to in evidence before Mr. Hinehliffe, the
°sonar, and the jury. The principal witnesses were the
five survivors, on. of whom in particular was very sadly
burnt. A verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded
WWesehosit_pfes Miromek
MIL'E-END NEW-TOWN Fail READING ROOK
AND LT A correspondent writes —The first male
ververy al this institution has just been held to the Free
Church, King Edwardmmet. Mr. J. A. Illerrinikeds, the
chairman, opened the banner of the meeting, by remarking
that moat of the movements in exiatence, having foe theirob-
ject the intellectual improvement and physical comfort
man, bare originated with religious roes, and in privation
to the completeness of a man's character as a ChiSthin, wM
be the efforts which he will make for the whole nature 01
man. Mr. Speaks, of the Operative Women' fleshly thew
tad the anal report, which, among oast alms, stated
that the number of volts paid to the reeding room, which is
open to the poorest in the meghboorhocd, etiolated to epp.
weeds of 8,000 in the isit year. The Rev. W. Tyler, Mr.
(lithe, Mr. Debymple, and other gentlemen addressed the
emeting, and dwelt reach on the value of good to
all classes of society. The proceedings e f the were
very eatisfaseroy sad interesting.