The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1868.

running by winning in • common canter from IMS. 1004 Rim
Returned got third ; Ookletreani, who warn backed beuly by Yr.
Brayley, the bin but one, the &Darien lath being Verna
Creeper, the winner. A tleld of seven went to the post
or the Plate contributed by the member. for the My, and after •
gond twee between Action and !melts it fell to the former, •
well rained daughter of Young Melbourne and glen Tree,
on whom .Yeffery PfteUrrfl hw rewind winning mount of the
day. The Welter Race brought out half • deem runners, of
whom the half-bred Maid of the Mill was made favourite, Ada
being more fancied than Gunn% who had the service. of
Mr. ThOlllllS. Mr. Olrele, mare won pretty cleverly at the think
nulling eft Ma, who came with a groat nen, and obtained
noted place b • short head from Tavietealr. The Lori Bate-
man's hate fell l to The Returned, wa.;# frtijelathe:,Lith, 4.11
benaad Sop .1••••••• •-- •
. warn cssoy beaten for Hereford-
shire Stokes ; and the liandiesip Hurdle Rare wound up the day's
awe by bringing two to the post, of whom Maid of the Mill had
it all her own way.
Tua lie STAMM. NIAINUET 0( 6 WS. each, with tio
nldeal ; gentlemen radius : nelnm extra. Three mike.
Mr. Trent's Wanton, by Menninent —Miss Teesdale,
aged, 11.4 nets
Lord Coventry's Ste:unbent, 6 nu, Rich Mb (inc. alb extra;
(J. Adam)) 2
Weytilan's The Colonel (b-b), 6 yre, flat nib
r. Italforill
Adnetbeintnt, Sentinel, and Morsel (late Foreign Stamp)
On ran.
Setting: tee 1 agst Stimulant, 4 to 1 eget Stanton, and 6 'AI
" bar two."
Maven Inbrove One mile.

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Mr. coning% Moe Melt. by Xiiimilipill, OK (0 w ecr) 1
Mr. Davo's (law, Pat (Kenyon) I
Petting: It tot(' es Rue Den, who made the who 6 of the
rn oy ._ awl woo in • meter by two .
Tor Timmer HANDICAP PLATS OfiergrOVlL TllllPhiptlnelll

of a mile.
Mr. Well's Mathilde, L 7 Thormanby—Clotilde, est 113
(Jeffery) b 1
Mr. Bazoa's Adolphus, 7st (French)
Mr. Beverley's Abyssinia, bat Fab (ear 6t bib) (Butler)
The tailwind! also ma :—Avonoourt, Ilhaftworth, Ben Block,
Oipsy, and Daylight
ue Love wan stork out at 1.15 p.m. on the der of the race.
Betting: I to 1 west Avosavairt, 3 to 1 aid e, and 5 to
reek sod Gipay and the Daylight colt.
To. Hrasinsosnias arises of 10 sour. each, 6 ft, with 100
added ; second raved Rake. Mile and a half.
Mc. J. Taylor's Tribune, by Ancient Briton—Oddity.
M:yoi, net alb ((7®®t, 1
.Adaw's Lute, 4 yrs, 64 121 b. (J. Watkins) 2
Mr. Beverley's The Returned. 3 yew. Ost 121 b ..._ .. (Butler) 3
The following also ran :—Bantabo, Virginia Creeper, Cold-
stream, Ada (late Bouvenaure), and Veils.
Betting: 9 to 4 swat Voila, 4 to 1 Not nildittream, 11 to II and
Late, 6 to 1 eget Barnabo, and 100 to la spit any other.
Till Wei 1331.11110 9rsaaa of 3 sows. inch, with HI added;
weight for ; with selling allowances. Three-quartere cit • mile.
Kr. Riae's Arabia, by Ambrose—Once. 3 in, Est 71b (LIO
(Kenyon 1
Mr. E. Green's Brontia, 2 yrs, add 12Ib (L 30)! (Vinell
Mr. Hill's AWOL 3 yrs. 7e4 7117 (230) le. &VP 3
The following also ran:—Robert Lozano, Harrogate, and
Violet "nit.
Betting 6to 4 agst Brontla.s to 1 each wit Arabia and
Harrogate, and 10 to 1 wet Airrll.
Tees 0171 Pura (Handicap) of 60ams. Half-a-
Mr. Heene's Action. by Young Melbourne—Ellen Tree
yr., 64 alb (ear. eat 6110 (Jelteryi
Mr. Brook's Lutrtla, Spa, 7st 13lb . (Cannon 2
Mr. Beverley's Abyssinia. 2 yrs, Sat 71b (Fox 3
The following also ran .—Bearentie, Chateau Manteauz,
Montego, arid udine.
Betting : to I spot fueetta, Sto 1 apt Aetreay, 4 to 1 and
Bra:cruise, and 6 to 1 agst Chateau Ms:roux.
Tut Wi. rca Rant of 3 Mei. Mil, with 15 added; gentlemen
Tidily.. One mile and a half.
Slr. Green's. Oulnarc, by Masjid -Roardincl, 4 yrs. 11.4 2lb
(Kr. Thomas) 1
Hr. Fiction's Ma (late SOUTCII3IIW, 3 yrs, 11st
(Mr. Halton! 2
Mr. Brayley'a Tavistork. 3 ym, lOat (Mr. Edwanb.! 3
The following also ran :—Needle thin, Maid of the Mall, and
Carta. . . .

14 tting: sto 2 apt Maid of the Mill, 100 to 30 apt. Ada, 4to I
apt Unlnam, and 6 to I apt Taidatork.
14no R 'a Mara (Handiesp, of 30 mom rtve furlongs.
Mr. Beverley', The Returned,by Lambton—PayehP. 3 my
Cot ISb (Butler 1
Mr. Broulnea blotto, 3 yra, I l'ran(rk)
41.abl'a f by Ather.taae—lone, 2 yr., 54 71b
(I. Within.) 3

Ain]rir and Archduke al.o ran.

Bettina. : 2 to 1 and Ineetta, • to 2 'gat the lone Ally, and 4 to
1 each Rest The Returned and Airdrie.
Tea Rayon**, It, aoir RAelt of 3 inv each, t ft, with 40
added. Une mile and a halt, over lux flight* of hurdle*.
Mr. Inadon'y Maid of the Mill, by Trumpeter, .Lou l'y
tin Talton (h-b). 4 yr., 11.1 1011 (Mr. P. 111,rtort, 1
Mr. Brayley',Taviatock, 3 yry, ]Oat 411, ;Ward) 2
Bettina.: 5 to 4 on Maid of the Mill, who mode nearly all the
Tanning, and won in a canter by its lenirtna.

CRICKET.

St'RRZY (I.UB v. ABORIGINAL BLACKS.

The forty-el-tenth match (and not the thirty-ertrenth, as erns-
nioualy stated in our Thusailay'. impression), which will poe-
tic, I) he the brat appearance of the Marls " in England, was
commenced yesterday at Kemnsigton Oval. The weather, con-
trasted with that experienced in the previous inatcli at (Metal-
=was dull, the tempenture much lower, and the win.l
, which circumstances combined affected the attendance
collard. rally: As usual, Surrey bad and together a strong team
to far the Macke," who, by the way. have woadesfully im-
proved during their summer cainpargn . mid the latter barns(
son the toss, eonuneneed the batting at half-post twelve with
t'umms and Twopenny, Moors. Abeuluin and May bearer the
bowlers, and Mr. Hither! behind the wicket. Mr. Ahaelom
clean bowled (arena in his third over, when half a dozen runs
were booked. After Bullocky had joined Twopenny, the latter
made a slashing on-drive for dye to the fen... which was much
eheerul, as it diner mid. His wicket snocurnbed with the acme at
10. Tiger appeared in gent hitthig funs, hut after making 9by
a three, two two. he., he was very timely caught at asid-on
(low down) by Mr. Bs Lawrence, who followed, was finely
taken off the fled e received from Mr. Mayo at the wicket
four and flee for W.; The sixth wicket went focal, the eevent.6 for
49, and the eighth for 50, and then blocky who Lad gene in first
we ket down. and played a really floe " cricketer'. Marv, "rat
24, was very cleverly stomped by Mr. Ilibberd. Thus hie (the
ninth and Charlie'. 'the tenth), who followed, loth mat when
the total was at 50. The innings concluded just beforo two o'elo.k.
Surrey sent in )le-ere. Baggallay and Mayo, the bowler. being
Cozen. ,Invilion end ' and Twopenny. " Jobany's " third ball
wa. so, ha' beauty" that it sent Mr. Bewirallay'e lay:stump clean
out of the ground, for which Cozens got a hearty 'leer. The
store was then increased to when Mr. Mato played
a tall of ruaria's "on" When it was bit up to
45 by M'seirs. Gregory and Juliet, (*wen. dioniased the latter,
letting in Mr. G. 11. Jupp, who, after =dung four, gave a dial-
, alt • Lame to Tiger (on-side., whirl, the. "dark*" 'seminal ad-
mirably. Mr. Gregory had hit so freely and well that 60 ap-
peared against his name when the stumps were drawn at half-
past four, and the total for four wicketwas tit. Subeecluently
there war acme boomerang throwing, whet., as &seal, much
delighted the speitators. We are requested to state that on
Saturday afternoon the whole of the children at the Limn/sal
Veturillers' Schools will be admitted to see the sports, and that
the same privilege will be conceded to the scholar of any ',Millar
institution upon applieation bring made to the hon. we. of the
Surrey Club. The following be therri::

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lirara itevint.—Firot
Curets b Ala°lom .... . . :1
Twomony 'mauve , b Mayo . . . lo
Hullotky ,brown„ A Ribbord, b Aboolum . . . 21
Mullagh b Mayo
Ireirronoe, e Hibbeni, b Mayo
moo (pink ,e IS gallry, L Mr)u . 9
Rodi (11a. b Alogoloin . •• ••. •
lorkoL-Looll (Yollood, 4 Ribbon!, b Mayo . V
l'otor (gnonj, wt Ribbon!, b Mayo .... I
eliarbe (maron b Mayo . . . . .
Illoaquito (=quits" run out .

Gear Leers .—Fu balms.
Mr. T. W. Bogie y, b Cuomo .
Mr. H. Mayo, b Cumin
Mr. J. C. Cingory, not out
Mr. C. Jelin., b Csmens
Mr. 0. M. Jupp, e Tim b Lawrence .
b 14 3, w 2
Total

SINGULAR NIGHT POACHES° CASE. —At the
Banaley Court-house on Wednesday. two respectable-
looking men, named Henry Kaye and Joseph Poulter,
were charged with night poaching at Ardsley. Francis
Heighten, keeper for Mr. Micklethwaite, said that about
nine o'clock on the night of the lUth of September he was
out watching, when be saw a man named Wilkinson in a
lane, and saw him look over several gates. Wilkinson
was then joined by the two defendants and another man,
and they went into a field occupied by Mr. Sellers. lie
saw them, whilst in the field, dragging a net from one end
to the other. With his two assistants he went towards
the men, who left the net and ran away on seeing them.
He came up to Nailer, and struck him on the ann with a
stick. He struck rotator for no particular reason,
except to prevent him from stnlcing first. The
evidence of the last witness having been corro-
borated by other keepers, Mr. Whitfield com-
mented in indignant terms on the brutality of the keeper,
in striking an elderly man with a stick without the &light-
est rovocation, and ridiculed the idea of a man like
l'oulter, who was newly blind, going out poaching. Ho
called Joseph Wilkinson, who said that on the night of the
lOth of September he was walking out with Mr. Nailer,
who left him co go into a field for a minute, Poulter had
not been away from him more than three minutes when
be saw him led out of the field by the keepers, his head
bleeding at the time. Kaye wus reA with them, but wallow
saw him just after, putting up some bedsteads in his own
house. Corroborative evidence having been given, after
consulting together the chairman said the magistrates
considered the case proved, and sentenced the prise:lens to
one month's imprisonment, and to find sureties for their
good conduct. A murmur of astonishment ran through
the court on the sentence being pronounced.—Leeds
lierewry.

FATAL RESULT OF PRACTICAL JWCINO. A
shocking occurrence, fatal in one case and likely to be so
in another, took place at Bolton Oil Wed seamy evening.
Mr. William Brierley, book-keeper at Messei. Day and
builders, on leaving the yard of the establishment
in Crown-street, took up ono of the appreaticse, mulled
Nathaniel Morris, and for a joke held him over the wall
of a bridge clime by, under which flows the river Creel.
In the struggle Mr. Brierley seems to have lust his balance,
and both fell o%er, a distant*: of from 40 to :all feet. Tlit3
bunks and bed of the stream bad recently been paved,
and falling headlong upon this stonework they sustained
very w rinus injuries. Mr. Brierley wan taken to the in-
firmary, but died in about twu hours:after the occurrence.
'I he youth Morris Cron in a very dangerous state, both his
thighs being broken.

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,an assistant to 11 71/Inbroker Anew- 1
died, en the famahp presaiting it for pledge.
In consequence of trirueblielty which had been given
to the case there had been several applications by various
persons who had lest diamond rings. Two persons now
cone forwared and gave a description of their rings.
The first was Mr. John Eure, a boot and shoo-
maker, of Commercial-street, Shorediteh, who said that
he lost a diamond ring on Wednesday night week, while
riding in a four-wheeled cab from the Strand to Newington-
eansway.
In reply to the magistrate, the witness said he was not
wearing gloves. Ile also said it was a plain gold ring
with a single stone, and it fitted his finger rather leese!y.
The other person said he lost hie ring while riding in a
cab. and admitted that he was not sober at the time.
Both the witnesses were then asked to look at the ring,
which was banded to them by Inspector Aspenshaw, in
whose possession it had been all the week. Mr. Eustace
at once identified it, but the other person said it was not
the one which he had lost.
Mr. Selfe paid he should not decide the ownership of the
ring, hut should leave it in the hands of the police, who,
no doubt, would give it up to Mr. Eustace, on his satisfy-
ing them that it belonged to him. He told the male pri-
soner he suspected that he picked up the ring in the cab.
The prisoner mid he did not, but that he picked up the
ring in the mews while he was washing the cab.
Mr. Selfe said the prisoner's wife had no right to
attempt to pledge the ring, and if he had been an honest
man ho would have taken it to the station.
The female prisoner said she did not know that the
ring was of any value, neither was she aware that she
ought to have taken it to the police-dation.
Mr. Selfe reminded her that she asked to have ten shil-
lings advanced on the ring and said that showed she
thought it was of some value. Ile told both defendants
that if they picked up any property again they had better
take it to the police-station.
The defendants were then discharged.

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THE SUSPECTED MURDER OF A BUSBAND
AT LEAMINGTON.

Yesterday Mr. W. Savage Pool, the Coroner for
Central Warwickshire, resumed the inquiry, at Leaming-
ton, into the circumstances connected with the death of
Isaac Edwin Court, a watchmaker of that town, who,
after being mimed for four day., was on Monday
night found by. the polio* lying dead at the bottom of
the cellar steps in his own house, where hie wile, Laura
Court, had continued to redid, and had made various
contradictory stalemate to her neighbours as to what had
become of her husband—at one time dating that be had
gone to Birmingham on the spree, at another he had
enlisted for a soldier, and also that he was at home drunk
in bed. _ _

Mr. Overell, by the permission of the coroner, appeared
on behalf of Mrs. Court, who vin custody on a charge of
wilful murder, and has been remanded by the magistrates.
Mr. Smith, the landlord of the Warwick Arms Hotel, Re-
gent-street, deposed to Mrs. Court having pushed her bus-
baud down in his house yesterday (Wednesday) week, when
be was stunned for some time, and cut his bead against a
spittoon. They were both drunk on that occasion, and
did not have any quarrel. They were both generally
drunk when be saw them, but were always very happy
tlr.
rle. Julia Darly—the wife of a neighbour who at the
previous examination stated that the day before the police
found the body in the cellar she wanted to go there to
look for the deceased, but Mrs. Court told her it was no
use, as she had been down that morning and he was not
there—wars recalled, and stated that she saw the deceased
and his wife the night before he was mimed, and they were
thus both so drunk that she put up the shop shutters for
them. She stated that they had always lived on the must
friendly terms, and she had never known them quarrel or
tight.
In reply to the Coroner,
Mr. Over ell said he had no evidence to show that Mrs.
Court's statement that she had written to her husband's
sister in Birmingham about his disappearance was true ;
and on the Coroner saying he would examine Mrs. Court
herself if desired, Mr. Overell replied that he would con-
sider the matter, although he del nut apprehend there
would be any danger in doing so.
Joseph lain, a carman, living next door to the de-
ceased, corroborated the evidence of his wife at the let
examination, as to their having beard a heavy fall in
Court's house shortly before one o'clock on Friday morn-
ing. The fall monist preceded by any quarrel, but after-
wards the house was unusually quiet, and they never saw
or beard the deceased again.
Mr. C. W. Marriott, surgeon, deposed to having made a
post-mortem examination of the body of the dammed,
and presented a report of the results, in which Dr. Otho
Wyer and Mr. R. I3oesby, who assisted him, fully con-
curred. There were three wounds on the head—one
caused by the fall against the spittoon at the Warwick
Arms Hotel— and the other two might, and bad probably
been, caused by the cellar stairs, at the foot of which the
body was found. There was considerable fatty degene-
ration of the heart, but, in his opinion, death resulted
from the shock to the nervous system occasioned by the
fall. The injuries themselves were not sufficient to ac-
count for death. The wound behind the ear was a
punctured one, and was at first rather suspicious, but on
further consideration they were of opinion it! might have
been caused by the detachment of the facial muscle by
the violence of the fall.

Police-rondable Hunt spoke to haring heard the de-
ceased and Mrs. Court having high words about a week
ago, in their own house; aad
linpretor Horswill said that a long time ago he knew
them quarrel, and also strike one another.
The jury retied, and consulted in private. and after an
absence at 20 minutes, returned the following verdict :
" That the deceased, Isaac Court, met with his death by
falling down the cellar steps whilst in a state of intoxica-
tion, but there is no evidence before the jury to show the
muse of his falling: and that Mrs. Courts conduct us
not giving information at once is highly culpable."
The Coroner said the jury had returned a very proper
verdict, and added there was a very strong case of sus-
picion against Mrs. Court.

AN A nscomnico Homaroa.—About two months
ago a solicitor at Birmingham, named Charles Thomas
Nelson. absconded in a mysterious way. A preliminary
meeting of his creditors was held yesterday ; the proceed-
ings, o far as they went, disclosed several forgeries of
deeds and other document.. The defalcations will, it is
believed, amount to several thousand pounds ; rumour
assigns " losses on the turf' as the cause of this mis-
adventure.

AMIDENT TO A PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE.--•
On Monday night Mr. Downing, when coming from :L
meeting of his supporters held in klillstreet, met with all
accident which has confined him to bed since, Ile was on
a car, and owing to the darkness of the night it mine in
contact with another and was upset, throwing him heavily
upon his right shoulder, which was much contused, and
be himself greatly shaken. De was conveyed to the
country residence of Mr. Alexander M`Carthy„ J.P., which
is near Millstreet, and was on Tuedlay night going on
well, though he has not yet regained the use of his arm.—
Cork Examitier.

THE BEILXSUIRE HIOHWAYMAN.—Ymitorday, at
the petty sessions for the Newbury division of Burks,
the youth, William Purdue, whose exploits as a highway-
man hadthrown the inhabitants into a state of consider-
able excitement, was charged with feloniously assaulting
and attempting to rob Alfred Syndic+, being at the time
armed with a pistol. The excitement produced was such
that for fourhours yesterday the court and its precincts
were thronged with persons anxious to catch a glimpse of
Purdue, who is about 19 years of age, and well-connected,
but he bad lefthis parents several years. He made ad-
missions showing that in the previous robberies he was
the guilty party. He offered no defence, and was com-
mittedior trial on two of the charges. In the other case,
the_persons robbed could not positively identify Purdue.
DEPRESSED STATE OF TILE STRAW PLAIT
TRADE Is BEDFOlttmitiliE.—A large and influential meet-
ing was lucid in the borough of Dunstable Town-hall, on
Wednesday evening, under the presidency of Mr. Joseph
Outteridge, mayor, for the purpose of taking into con-
'detention the depressed state of the straw trade, and to
adopt sonic means for the improvement of the same. The
attendance of manufacturers and operatives was nume-
rous. The meeting was addressoil by some dozen speakers,
all practically acquainted with the staple trade, namely,
the manufacturing of hats and bonnets, and it was unani-
mously agreed that the towns of Doubtable and
Luton, and the straw districts generally, were in a
deplorable condition, more particularly the former place,
&slicing the smaller of the two. It was stated that firms
which had been accustomed to pay something like 414 W.
fortnight for wages wore not now paying one-fourth of
that amount, and that there was every prospect of a hard
winter before the population, unless the prevailing fashion
of wearing small millinery bonnets were suddenly
changed for larger head-dreams made of straw, or unless
some extraordinary means were taken to avert the im-
pending distress. A proposition to present her Majesty and
the Princess of Wales with a hat and bonnet each, through
the mayor and corporation of the town, was received with
enthusiasm, inasmuch as it is believed that her Majesty
will graciously await the straw-plait workers by wearing
the productions of their labours, and so. inducing the
general population to follow their example, in the same
manner as Coventry was helped in the time of her distress.
A committee was formed for the purpose of carrying out
this project, and the meeting adjourned for a week.
SuITTSAMPTON, OtT. 15.—About six o'clock
this evening, shortly after the workmen had left, smoke
was observed coming up from the stoke hole of the 'Loyal
Mail Company's steamer Tasmanian. Au alarm of fire
was immediately given, when it was discovered that the
lagging of one of the boilers under repair was smoulder-
ing. Assistance being readily at hand, it was extin-
guizhed before any damage was done.
Subscriptions are being raised in Now York and
elsewhere in the States for the benefit of the sufferers by
the recent South American earthquakes.
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