The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-13 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS,

Lrvaroot, Acorn 12. —Bales today :—Caledonian stock, 1004
—Zaatern Counties stock, big >K }—(meat Western stock, 68 81 g
f f S—lancashire and Yorkshire, 1074—London and North
Western, 664—Midland stock. 123/ 30 sot 1 I—North British
stock, 624 4—South Eestern, 86k cx n.—Antwerp and Rotter-
dam, 7 5-16—Buffalo and Lake Huron, 6 8-16—Great Luxem-
bourg, 145-16 6461—Great Western of Canada, 121 6.16
Sambre and Meuse, 105.16—Turin and Savona, II d.—Alliance
(limited) 5 41
MAsetizeruir, Ancint It —There was a good market, but
the sales were of a general character. Caledonians, 1041—
E Mein Counties, 664—Great Luxembourg, 144—Great Ship,
is, 6d.—brand Trunk of Canada, 211—Great Western, 654 (I 4
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1071—London and North Western,
a6—Manchester. SheMeid, and Lineolushire, Redeemable Prat,
I p.—Mitliand,l3o—North British, 624—North Eastern (Berwick),
081—South Eastern, 1361 f f—Great Ship Prof., 14 —Michi-
gan Sterling Eight per Cent. Bonds, 02—Antwerpsad Rotter-
dam, 74—Bank of Wneheeter, 1.10 p.—Union Plate Glaaa,
Ei—
Oxford, let Pref., 1301—Chatham Five per Cent., 1024.
BIRXIIIOIII3I, AVOMrr I2.—There were sales to-day In
South Staffords at 104, and Birmingham Joint Stock Banks
bLiinitedi, 14 p. Of Stour Valley Guaranteed Stock there were
uyers at 564: Birmingham Guaranteed at 79: and Birmingham
Preference at 104 Birmingham Canal closed at Wy to ;
Birmingham Gas, la, buyers; Staffordshire Gag, 101, buyers;
Britannia Mills, lls. 3d. to M. AI. dle.: Birmingham Waterworks,
B, 21 p., buyers.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION OTPICERS.—There are
in the United Kingdom 16 government emigration officers,
who act under the immediate directions of her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners; in London there are four,
Liverpool five, and one at each of the following places :
Southampton. Plymouth. Glasgow, BeWest, Loadooderry,
Limerick, and Cork. They procure and give gratuitously
information as to the sailing of ships and means of ac-
commodation for emigrants; and whenever applied to for
that purpose they see that all agreements between ship-
owners, agents or masters, and intending emigrants are
duly performed. They also see that the provisions of the
Passengers' Act are strictly complied with—viz., that pas-
senger vessels are sea-worthy, that they have oo board •
sufficient supply of provisions, water, medicines, &c., and
that they sail with proper punctuality. They attend per.
socially at their offices on each week day, and afford gra-
tuitously all the assistance in their power to protect
intending emigrants agaMst fraud and imposition, and to
obtain redress where oppression or injury has been practised
on them. lu the colonies there are immigration agents who
afford gratuitously to emigrants every assistance in their
power by way of advice and information as to the districts
where employment can be obtained most seedily, and upon
the most advantageous terms, and also as to the best mode,
of reaching such district,
HARVENT PROSPRCTS IN THE Wrivr. —Reaping
commenced in several districts of Sommeetshire and
Devonshire. The wheat crop has not suffered much from
the rain and wind, and the yield promises to be an average
one. The reports of the probable crops of barley, oats,
peas. and beans are also hopeful, and nothing seems wanted
hut fine weather to render the harvest of 1862 generally
satisfactory.
Mr. John Hogg, who has hitherto occupied a
respectable position in Preston, was tried at Lancaster
Arises, yesterday, on a charge of forgery, and sentenced
to three years' penal servitude. The prisoner's offence was
altering a 5/. cheque which be bad received to 651. The
alteration wee at news detested by the beak dark.