The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-01 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

NEWMARKET MZETI3G.-(rm9 DAY.)

HANDICAP PLATE.
Vasiaa • • •
Thespe Palmer ... . . .
Amour Props . .
13 ran.
. MATCH.
Hinton boat Horoary.
HANDICAP PLATE. T.Y.O.
King Victor . .
Adrunantlwa .
Xi
Ferti4:l .

313

15 ran.
NEWMARKET STAKES.
Earl walked over.
SWEEPSTAKES (Two-yr-olds).
Cyclamen ...
Sandboy
Pero ... ...
4 ran.
SWEEPSTAKES (Three-yeara and upwards).
Claymore
Paulin* ... 2
Adman ...

6 ran. .. .
HATCH.—BIue Gown and St. Ronan off.
NEWMARKET STAKES. D.H.
The Etri, Athena, Itedivivus, Blue Gown, Ritualist,
end The Sph)nz are ben.

TILE CONDUCT OP BUSINESS IN THE
ROUSE OF COMMONS.

On the meeting of the house, on Monday, Mr.
Gladstone will move that the standing order of the sth
day of August, 1853, reserving the right of her Majesty's
ministers of placing government orders at the head of the
list of orders of the day, be suspended ; and that the other
orders of the day be postponed until after the order of
the day for the committee on the Established Church
(Ireland).

Garibaldi sent the following reply to the invi-
tation given to him to attend the anniversaryfat in honour
of the departure of "the Thousand" for ItarsaLi :
" Caprora, April 14,1861.—My dear Friendt,—Accept a
cheer from the bottom of my heart for your honourable
memory of the sth of May. The people have, indeed, need
to honour the great facts of the revolution, but especially
to shut up the shop of the priests, who are more despotic
than tyranny itself.—Yours for life, G. GARIBALDI."

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 1. —The Hamburg-Ameri-
can Company's steamer IiaIIIIDOIIia, from New York,
passed the Needles at 11.10 a.m. to-day.

QuEENSTOWN, MAY I.—The National Steamship
Company's steamer Pennsylvania, from New York, ar-
rived here at 8 a.m. to-day with 84,000 dole. She landed
passengers and proceeded for Liverpool.
GRAND TRrlf R RAILWAY or CANADA.—At the
meeting of this company yesterday, the result of the poll
was that the report of the director' was adopted. It will
be remembered that amidst much excitement the chair-
man's motion to adopt it was lost by a majority, and a poll
was demanded, nod for that purpose the decision was de-
ferred. It transpired, however, that at the poll no hos-
tile votes were recorded. During the tumult Mr. Hart-
ridge shouted a request that all who were against the
directors should leave the room, in oonsequence of their
disagreement with Mr. Watkin's riding on a previous
wotiou. Some did leave, but a large portion of the mal-
contents rem►ined, although they took no part in the
poll.

THE DUKE OF EDINBERGH.—To the medical
profession, which is never backward in its loyalty,
the case of the Prinoe is of especial interest as an
example of a somewhat rare, though not by any
means unknown, fortuitous occurrence—the panne of a
ball along a rib for a considerable distance without
any injury to the viscera of the chest or abdomen. Thai
Guthrie, in hie " Commentaries," speaking of this accident
says : " It is a rare exception to ageneral rule, dependent
upon the ball being reflected from something solid
Which it cannot penetrate—such as a button, a piece
of mosey, a rib, hc." The ball in all probability was
fired somewhat obliquely, and this favoured its course
around the chest. It was, perhaps, fortunate also
for the royal patient that his cowardly assailant at-
tacked him behind, since the tissues of the back
would offer more resistance than the thin chest-
wall in front. It may be remembered that the un-
fortunate bandsman who fell a victim to Fenian hatred
last autumn was fired at directly in front, and the
ball passed between the ribs, and traversed the lung,
finding an exit behind. As the latest accounts pronounce
the Prince convalescent, we may hope that, though inju-
ries of the chest-wall are not without some danger to the
important organs in the vicinity the good health and
youth of the patient, combined with the solicitous oars he
has received, will have fully restored him to health before
he reaches these snores—Lancet.

We are happy to say, the Lancet remarks, that Sir
James Clark is recovering steadily, thoutislowly, from
his late severe illness. This was a a attack of
bronchitis, accompanied by great prostra , which,
with the feebleness of heart consequent on ad-
vanced age, at one time caused considerable alarm.
Now, however, his medical attendants, Dr. Sieveking and
Dr. Rough of Bagshot, consider him to be making progress
towards recovery.

CAPITAL PrNIEIRYINT.—Capitia punishment has
just been abolished la Saxony. A remarkable fact is
that the principal defender of the bill in the Chamber
of Deputies was the Procureur-Oensral, who in the
course of the die:tendon gave the following de.
tails as the result of similar measures in other
countries:—" In the Duchies of Oldenburg, Achelt, and
Nassau the penalty of death was suppressed in 1849, and
there has never been felt any necessity for re-establishing
it. The first-named of thins states, in afterwards
adopting the Prussian code penal, did away with
that punishment. In Tuscany it was revived in
1849, but no capital execution has taken plate
in that country since 1831 ; in Austria also it
was restored, but at the same time the admission was made
that during its abrogation the number of capital cases had
not increased. In Wurtemberg, on the other hand, where
the punishment of death had been abolished from 1851 to
to 1853, crimes were said to have increased during that
period; but the assertion is open to contestation.
Various trees are now cut into a certain size and
shape, and strips are shaved from them by machinery, as
wide as rolls of paper hanging. The shavings are wetted
and placed on walls with poste and brush like paper. One
room can be finished in bird's-eye maple, another in white-
wood, cherry, chestnut, &c.—New York Paper.
At Orchard Portman, near Taunton, a gigantic
ask tree was struck by lightning a few days ago, and every
limb was torn off and carried a distance of 20 yards. The
trunk was stripped of its bark, and was split from top to
bottom. A man who witnessed the circumstance was
struck down with the lightning and remained unconscious
a whole day.

Tie-N-110;ring is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house
for the week ending Wednesday, April 29 :

A correspondent of a San Francisco paper
writes :—" A curiously mixed race 1/1 growing up in Cali-
fornia owing to the intermarriage of Yankees and Digger
Indians, Irish and Chinese, Mexican and Malays, Portu-
guese and Sandwich Islanders, Engliah-Canadians and
mimeo, French and Apache, and the English language—
ibis lienage of Milton and Shakespeare—has suffered
immutably in consequence. I entered a bootmaker's shop,
mad said to the shopkeeper, ' Yon speak English ?' He
easwered promptly, ' Si, Senor, oertainment you bet.'
Here was • mixture of three lanin I found that the
bootmaker prided himself on epasrng English like a
native." 07,636,000
A Fix WooD.—A fir wood—one of the grandest, I GEO. DERBYSHITZ, Chief Inspector.
gravest, loveliest, most solemn places to be found in this Bankers' Clearing-house, April 30.
world. To enter it is like entering • cathedral ; the The total was raised by the Stock Exchange settle-
bronzed and slender shafts are like the ppoolisbed pillars of a ment on the 29th.
temple ; the curved and pointed ea overhead, with
their solemn depth of shadow, are like its fretted roof. The weekly return of the Bank of France shows
Under foot the earth is brown and soundless, with • the following changes :
carpet of fallen needle-like kaftan, which have died away can mad bullion
from their places, as we do, unrnineed in the eternity of me dwceunted lnc ease 1,800,000
the life of which they formed an undiatin. Note. in circulation
guishable part. There I. seldom the chirping of Private deposits Deems* 120,000
birds, or the hum of insects to be heard, but Advances
always • low, shivering, awe-stricken murmur Treasury warm
running through the topmost, trembling breaches. They
used to tell me, before I had ever stood upon the sea-
The principal feature is the large increase in the
shore, that the sound of the waves was Ike that oseedeue discounts and note circulation. With the present
ripple of sighing in the tops of the pine-trees ; but there increase of 136,0001. in the coin and bullion, the
le no liquid splash here, such an the water rings out total in raised to 46,606,0001.
musically, none of the rhythm and rhyme of the sea, but The return of the Bank of England for the week
in its stead a euppreased, almost breathime, sacred tone of • viedneeda
awe, which fills one with a profound quietude of spirit. y, April 29, compared with that for
There: is no other sound like it ; no eoppise like a Sr. the previous week, shows the following changes :
coppice. The yew-tree is too gloomy and too ghostly, Ghcralstice isme 04,387,470 Increme g 71,905
the beech too earthly and sensuous ; one is almost a Oiresdation motive 24,151,105 lacrosse 211,086
heathen among either of them • but in a fir-eoppice, Public deposits 4,800,103 Increase 550,934
silent and subdued, one is a Christian in a Christian tem- Other napes&
pie. And the silence is ma ailed ! All about on stand Government securities in
those unnumbered shafts which support the e roof banking department 13,277,696 No change.
above, and there is no crackling of branches, or rustling of Other securities in booking
dead leaves, as you walk to and fro along its aisles. If department 18,083,775 kerma, 260,937
you listen very closely, you may bear the very faint, tiny Qin sad bullion in both
map with which the 6r-Dona unloose their sealed soaks, departments
to est free the winged seed within them. But there le no gem day and other bills— 465,748 Decrease 7,149
other sound ; and your own voice ggrocowe sorter if you The gem 3,107,502 bermes 3.901
Moms to disturb the almost divine by say weir& Notes to reserve
al human speech ; until, with a el* answering te the Tehdreesno (seine a coin)
derma sigh through the trees. You tan' ewer b bles in Inushiss deaseat••• 11•4.8473/ Peereeme 106489
soothing level and calm, and set year fees ANN mere . . ,
toner& the chattering wane you left mg an beer me._ Notwithstanding the withdrawals of private de-
Army for May. 1 posits, the deposits have increased on balance, but,

Thursday, April 23 - - 09,921,000
Friday, April 24 8,710,000
Saturday, April 25
Monday, April 27 8,093,000
Tuesday, April .28 9,774,000
'Wednesday, April 29

owing to the revival in the demand for money, as
indicated by the increase of 250,9271. in the
advances on private securities, the reserve has
declined 106,2991. In the coin and bullion there
is an increase of 106,788 i., which corresponds pretty
closely with the amount of gold sent into the k
from abroad during the week.

BANK OF .
As Aooount pm t to the Act
week ee Wednesday,

111.1711
Noir laud £31387,4701

£31.3i7.47.)
BANKING DI
=dal Capital 414.141.000
S. 07,
PQM:. Davoslts On-
eluding Exam.,
Say. Beaks, Own.
fula. of National
Debt. and MY
Sot:aunt& • 4,900,109
Other DaPO4da 12,1016,y93
Soren da) and other
111114

M1..14.1,152
April 3J. 1363.

"NOLAND.
i 7th and Sth Vie., e. St for the
, the Nth day of April, laNi.
PAA7IIII(7.
007.1ratnali debt 411,01:1,10
Other se:uritiee— 1080100
Gold coin end bul-
lion 13,347,470
Silver bullion —

4114,3117,470

PLETWIIIT.
Govortunont Som.
rlO.l.
Other Sectai tin
vows
Odd and ether
Coin 1,246,416

511913;:.52
O. FORES.I. Chief (Awhile.

THOLSDAT ZVI:NMI.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 94 " buyers,"
both fur money and next Tuesday's settlement,
opened this morning at 94 to h, and closed at 93k,
" sellers." The Three per Ceuta. Reduced and.
New Three per Coate. were last quoted 9212
to showing a rise of k ; Bank Stock, 243 to
245 ; Exchequer Bills, 12a. to 17s. prem. ; India
Five per Cent. Stock, 116 to k, being lower ;
ditto Four per Cent., 101 k to 102—a fresh rise
of ; ditto Bonds, 225. to 275. prem.—a decline
of Is.; and ditto Five per Cent. Debentures, 105
to k. The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 94, k, 3k, 4;
ditto, for account, 94, ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 921, ;, k ; New Three per Cents., 923,
k, k ; Bank Stock, 243 k, 5 ; India Five per Cent.
Atock, 1161, k, ; ditto Four per Cent., 1014,
k, ; ditto Five per Cent. Rupee Debentures,
1872, 103;.f, 4 ; ditto 1877, 109 ; ditto Five per
Cent. Debentures, 105 i ; ditto Bends, 275., 22a.,
23a. prem.
In the foreign stock market the transactions
consisted almost entirely of purchases, and the
course of prices was very favourable. Brazilian
bonds of 1852, 1853, 1360. and 1865 rose to 1
per cent. ; Egyptian of 1864, k ; the Viceroy's
Seven per Cents., 1 ; ditto Nine per Cents., k ;
Chilian of 1866, 1 ; Greek Bonds, k ; ditto
Coupons, ; New Grenadian Three per Cents.,
"ex all," and Deferred, as well as Peruvian of
1865, Turkish Six per Cents. of 1865, and the
Nicolai and Orel Vitebsk Railway loans, I ; and
Spanish New Three per Cents. and Turkish Five
per Cents. of 1863, k. Italian of 1361 were excep-
tionally dull, and declined k.

ifINES.-(THIS DAY.)

ONE O'CLOCK..

Both the Stock Exchange and Mining Exchange
are shut to-day, and no transactions are going for-
ward in mining shares.
The Port Philip and Colonial Gold Mining Com-
pany announce a distribution of Is. per share on
account of the 11th dividend. This will absorb
4,8751., and, after making the usual addition of
457/. to the reserve fend, 1,740/. is left to be
carried forward.