The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-18 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI !MARKETS.

IrVIELPOOL. AVM= 1111.-6a4n today :—beat Northern stet
1244—Great Western sleek, MI I If if I 4—Leimmahire
Yorkshire, 107i—London sad Worth Western, 964—Midland
stock, IN!—Sonth Udall Mock, 861—Birkenhead stock, ID
Antwerp and Rotterdam. 71—Great Luxembourg, 14 5-111—
Allianoe 'Limited , 44 p —Bank of Liverpool, Mt—Union. 21—
Royal !monism. SI p. ad and b.
M daienstrean, AUGUST 16.—A good general business. Orme
Westerns still In demand. Prices steady. Birkenhead, 66
Eastern Counties, 60—Great Ship, Ba Col—Urea' Western, 65 it
Leg! 4 I—lllinois Central, 60 494 d.—all paid up), 40f—Lan-
and Yorkshire, 1074 4—London and North Western, get
till —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolnshire, 61. Pref., 4p—
kiland, 13029}—North British. 60—Di to nee per Cent. Prot
(1871), 107,—South Eastern, 864 f 4—Northern Counties Bank, 1,
—Manchester and Salford Bank. 6 p—Oswestry and Newtown
pref., 104,—Union Plate Glass, 22.
BIRMINGHAM, AtrOeST 16.—There were sales of Birmingbss
Canal shares today at 944, and of Britannia Mills at 4 did. Lon-
don and North Western quoted MIL sellers—Ditto Cori ntry ant
Nuneaton, 116 to 116—South Staffords, 10 15-16 to 10 16-16
Binninghans Town end District Bank, IS, buyers—Blrminatiallit
and Staffordshire Gas. buyers, at fair prices—Birmingham Oil
Mill, sellers, at 104. Market weaker.
Lima, Auger 16.—Great Western, 11141.

Tag HARVEST IN BERKSHIRE.—The Berke/ties
Chronicle says :--" Some progress has been made during the
week with the wheat harvest, and the earliest reaped is
the neighbourhood of Reading has been carried in =ay
instances. But reaping even yet cannot be called general,
for in the lees forward district. westward it has hardly
commenced. The worst and lightest crops have been cat
first, and these are by to means satisfactory, either in re-
spect of quantity or quality. We hope that the later
fields will give a better promise of a return, but taking the
average of the wheat-growing lands, there cannot be
anything approaching to a good, or even a fair yield.
The barley is likely to be more profitable than the wheat
crop. A large breadth was sown, in consequence of the
gradual approximation of the price to that of wheat, sad
the certainty of a good demand. The late mans, though
they have hindered harvest operations, have done good to
the root crops. Altogether the harvest season looks rather
' gloomy at present. but • few hot days would quite champs
the appearance of things."
SMALLPDX AMONG Sash.—ln reference to the
recent outbreak among sheep in the west of England • cor-
respondent of the Times, Mr. C. B. Rose, of Great Yar-
mouth, writes :—"I was situate din the eery focus of the
epidemic when it occurred in West Norfolk in 140, and I
paid some little attention to the subject. The following is
the statistical result of my experience at that invasion of
the pestilence, having. a knowledge of what occurred in
various flocks comprising 19,526 sheep :—Of the sheep
that took the dimese naturally nearly one-third died-
of 9,720 that were inoculated 345 died ; of 4,680
sheep among which the disease broke out eats-
rally, and where the flocks were vary carefully watelied—
viz., examined. and the diseased immediately separated
from the unaffected (as far as that could be judged of),
only were affected, and of those eight died. From the
above results I cams to the conclusion that separation
would be the beet plan of management on the °morrows of
• Minder epidemic, for inoculation must intensify and
diffuse the poison, as every inoculated flock would
be a fresh focus of cootagion, and vaccination, no pen
tised during the early period of the epidemic in Norfolk,
was worse than useless. I therefore advocate neither
vaccination nor inoculation, but separation, provided the
watchfulness of the shepherd can be depended on."
Six Houses Poisoxan.—Last week Mr. Mat-
thews, farmer, of Sandford, near Abingdon, sustained •
grievous loss through an act of inadvertence. Somewhere
abont his stable premises one of his men toned a parcel
which was supposed to be doctor's stuff for horses, and
under that impression Mr. Matthews told his carter he
gives little to his animals, saying it would do them goad.
doors afterwards, however' shinning symptoms showed
themselves, and six of them, worth MX, are since dead.
It was afterwards discovered that the stuff was sa
anenimil mixture for destroying vermin.—Birkskire
Chronicle.
The steamer Toning arrived at Southampton oa
Saturday from Oporto with 260 oxen. Upwards of 30 at
them were immediately sold in that town.
Shakespeare's birthday was this year celebrated
with great eclat at Ballarat gold diggings in Australia.
A new variety of the flying fish was recently
caught about 120 miles from Melbourne, is Austral I. It
was 17 inches long, the back had a beautiful nee colour.
The flappers or wings were disproportionately large, sad
variegated with irregular spots.
A flock of 96 sheep (says Gafirtani), belonging
to a farmer named Soubeyre, residing at Berrt s (Heat.-
Loire), was attacked two im. hts sines by a Lau 1 of wolves.
which killed 23, sad wmried 12 others.