The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-01 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S. -TxUR4DAY.

A more than average number of subscribers present for
the "off day," 'Thursday ; but business was extremely dull.
In fact, it was with some difficulty we were enabled to com-
pile the following " price current :"
TUB LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. •
6 to 1 opt Baron de la Motto's Irmo Booed (off,
t 7 to 1)
7 to 1 Mr. D. Bnggs's The Emperor (off.t Bto 1)
8 to 1 Mr. Capers Anatis (off, t9to 1)
12 to 1 Mr. W. Briscoe's Old Ben Roe (t)
20 to 1 Mr. Gooderluun's Cockatoo (t)
33 to 1 Mr. Dowbiggm's Riloeck (t)
40 to 1 Mr. Capers Tom Moody (t)
THE CITY AND SUBURBAN.

33 to 1 opt Dover (t)
33 to 1 Past Sheen (t)
THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. •
7 to 1 opt Mr. Marry's Hanley (t)
7to 1 Mr. Henry's Klarikoff (t)
12 to 1 Mr. MerrilleliTs Overton (t freely) '
16 to 1 Lord Cf• ow's Knight of the This& (t)
20 to 1 Mr. Mery Sweet Hawthorne (t)
THE CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 apt Mr. Oodding's Chars Alltie (06,t 11 ta 1)
30 to 1 Mr. J. Holmium's North Liumashire (t)..
40 to t Mr. Stevenes Butterfly (t)
THE DERBY.
30 to 1 agat Mr. Henry's Morita( (t)
40 to 1 Mr. T. Pares Kildooaa (t freely)
1000 to 15 Ear J. Hawley's Nautilus (t)
1000 to 10 Mr. Merry's Sweet Hawthorne (t)

INSTITUTION Or NAVAL ARCHITECTS.—Yesterday
a morning meeting of the members of this institution was
held at the hall of the Society of Arta, John.street, Adel.
phi • the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Hart,
president of the institution, in the chair. The
secretary read a paper of Sir Howard Douglas, which went
to thew that in his opinion wooden camels as ships of war
were preferable to iron-built ships ; at the same tune, that
if France continued to build these iron-clad ships, we must
do the same. Mr. D. A. Samuda read a paper on the con-
struction of iron vessels of war, iron cased, in the coarse of
which he referred to many erperinients which he had
made by the union of wood and iron. Mr. J. Scott
Russell, F.H.8., V.P., gave a long and lathe.
rate address " On the professional problem presented to
naval architects in the construction of iron-cased vessels of
war." -In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Charles Langley,
the Secretary read a paper by that gentleman "On a new
mode of coestructing shot-proof vessels of wee—Cap-
tain Cooper Coles addressed the meeting at soma length in
explanation of his improved system of carrying the gnus of
a shim—At seven o'clock, the Rev. J. Woolley, LLD.,
V.P., took the chair, in the absence of the president, Sir
John Pakingtoe, and the meeting was addressed at great
length by Captain R. P. Halsted, R.N., Admiral Sir Merge
Sartain, Captain Shoran' Osborn, R.N., and Captain Scott.
—The meeting adjourned till eleven o'clock this day, when
the discussion will be resumed, and an evening meeting will
I again be held.
Tits 31ustsss Haas RTDIL —The farther pro-
ceedings in this case were resumed at Ryde on Wednesday,
before a full bench of magistrates. John Lacy, the bus-
bead of the dromeed woman, and who has been in custody
of the police since the murder of his wile, Jane Lacy, at
Old House Farm, on the IGth ult., and during that time
has been suffering so severely from an attack of delirium
Menem es to render it impossible to bring him up earlier,
was ansigued, together with Susan Wilder, the niece of
the dreamed woman, who resided with them at Old House
Farm at the time of the murder, the lirstnamed one charge
of having murdered, on the 17 ult., Jane Lacy, and the
woman Wilder with being an accessory after the fact.
Some other witnesses were examined, but their evidence
amounted merely to a recapitulation of the statements
already published. When the evideuce wan concluded, the
having been duly cautioned, the man Lacy said,
ritrillneeent of the murder." The woman Wilder merely
mid, " reserve my defence." Both prisoners were then
formally committed to take their trial at Winchester,
Lacy on the capital charge, and the woman Wilder on the
minor aim The eeeueed Lacy is a powerfully-built man,
about 50 years of age, with strongly marked features, and
was under great nervous excitement during some portieres of
the evidence. The woman Wilder, the niece of the
is apparently upwards of 40 years of age. The dS:Zi
was stated by the family surgeon, Dr. 011ard, tube quite 70
years of age.
Sass or Laws .—The first allotment foot& ninth
year of the Conservative Land Society took Atm at the
amuse yesterday, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand,when th
mood mails of the Woodbury-park estate, Tunridge!
wells, the Old Ford, Roman-road, Wood- and Totten-
ham estates, besides pound rents on the L t's and
Battersea estates, were offered. As is usual on rir me occa-
i Mem, them was eseneffilas for favourite sites, and the
. oressarsussat if this sale proved satisfactory.

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