The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-01 00:00:00

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cloci.

There is not much business doing in the mining
market to-day. East Grenville shares are firm at
7f to f, and Wheal Grenville are in demand at 71,
buyers. Wheal Seton, on the other hand, are
weaker, at 2074 to 2124.

COMMENCESIENT OP PARTRIDGE SHOOTTNO.—
(Tuts Der.)—This morning the season of partridge shoot-
log commenced all over England, and long before this CM4I
many thousands of unsurpecting birds have fallen before
the sportsmen's gyms. The law emphatically decisive that
no partridges shall be shot before the Ist of September,
and consequently none can be sold before that day. At
many London shops, however, the owners of which are
licensed to sell game, partridge* were exhibited at • very
early hour indeed this morning, leading to the inference
that the sportsmen molt have been out extremely early,
and that they must have found their game very near Lon-
don, or to the uncharitable suspicion that in some eases
the law has cot been strictly adhered to. Fair sport is
anticipated during the present season.
Daicrttoolt.—The Forest of Dartmoor," as it
was anciently called, is being cultivated and colonised in
various Arts. Around the coovipt prison at Princetown
hundreds of acres of land have been reclaimed and brought
into cultivation, chiefly by means of convict labour. Barley,
oats, and root crops are most successfully cultivated, and
reports this year are satisfactory as to the quality and yield
thereof, notwithstanding the long drought. As mash as
two tons of hay per acre, it is said, have been produced this
year on the prison fere". Efforts are being made to obtain
the advantages of railway accommodation on the moor.
A BOY'S HEAD TAKEN OPP BY • TRAIN.—Last
week, • boy, nice years of age, the son of Mr. Cooke, station
master, of Furness, near Bakewell, was killed by a passenger
train from Buxton as it passed the Farness station. The
boy was returning from school, and in his anxiety to arrive
home before soother boy, rail past a stationary luggage train,
the engine of which was blowing off steam. The noise pre-
vented him from hearing that another train was eppreach-
ing. A projection of the eosins struck him, completely
severing his head from his body and hurling him • distance
of 15 yards—Manchester Courier.
THE SOLDIER AND THE GRNERAL —A shorttime
ago, while • regiment was moving by Sherman'. head-
go:eters—a tent, fly, and fence corner, near Kemper,
]fountains—one of the soldiers observed • major-general
lying asleep by the roadside. He spoke very loudly to his
comrades, raying " There's the way we are commanded—
offloered by generals who get drunk and lie in the fesoe
earners." Sherman heard him and sprang to his feet. " Not
drunk, bays "he said, " but I've been up all night, end I'm
very tired slid sleepy." He got on his bone, and, followed
by his staff, rode away.—New York Standard.
The latent novelty is a negro newspaper corres-
pondent. The Philadelphia Press has mat • veritable
darkey scribe to the army of the Potomac, with the credeo-
tials of its editors. He was received with ell the honours
by Gemini Butler, and permitted the ran of the camp by
permission of that Aloes What new form will this negro
mania take, we woods, !—New York World.