The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-09 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

Lrranroot., SEPT. B.—There has been very little doing
in shares to-day, and prices are the MOW as on Saturday.
The transactions are:—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire (late Chester and Birkenhead), 15 c.—East Lanca-
shire,l3l—Lancashirc and Yorkshire, 49 81 9—London and
North Western, 113 I—Ditto (new shares), 11 9 p—Ditto
(1 shares C.), 11 p.—Midland, 434 c.—Ditto (half shares),
20 1-10 d —South Eastern and Dover, 191.
BIHMINOIIIM, SEPT. B.—There was rather a better
feeling in this market to-ilav, and prices generally improved.
Midland (Birmingham and Derbys) were clone at 29.
MANellefiTeß, Seer. B.—There has not been much busi-
ness, but prices are well maintained and close firm. East
Lancashires, 131; Leeds, 49; Sheffield,, 241; Midlands,
431; South Easterns, 19 9-16.

BERRA, SEPT. B.—We have had a much le.; buoyant
market this morning on 'Change. The chief transactions
have been in Midlands at 43}, and in North Westerns at
13, die., which are about the closing quotations of Saturday.
BRISTOL, PErT. B.—The market was firm, but pur-
chasers were indisposed to buy at pro.ent rates. The only
transactions were in Great Western Stock (original), which
were done at 77.

NUMBER OP GENES XL OFFICF.I49.—The rated
Service Gazette states that up to the 4th inst. the Palming
was the number of general officers in existence . Five field
marshals, 37 generals, 91 lieutenant-generals, and 149
major-generals—total, 235 ; of these, 154 are colonel* of
regiments or battalions, and one field marshal, seven licutc-
nant-generals, and 30 major-generals are actively em-
ployed.
THE COLONELCY OF THE 15TH INPANTRY.—No-
thing has yet been derided as to the successor to the late Sir
Henry Watson. Major-General Aitchison has beers talked
of as likely to become the new colonel.
THE Sioux INDIANS.—The New York Tribune of
the lith ult. contains a report of an interview of the United
States Commissioners with the chiefs of the Sioux !ethane,
the object of which was to conclude a treaty for the pur-
chase/ of their lands. The Indians struggled bard to obtain
the payment of an outstanding balance of 30,000 dole. before
the ratification of the treaty ; but eventually they were con-
tented with an engagement on the part of the United States
Commissioners, that the matter should be immediately
attended to. The treaty provides that—" There be per-
petual peace between these Indians and the United States;
that they cede all of their lands, but have a reservation for a
home ; that the United States pay them the sum of 1,410,000
dole. ; that the chiefs receive 220,000 dols. on the ratifica-
tion of this treaty; that they receive 30,000 dols. for the es-
tablishment of school-houses and other buildings; that tho
remaining sums remain in trust with the United States at
five per cent. interest, for 42 years, and that the principal
then revert to the United States. That they receive the
following annuities:-12,0(0 dols. agricultural fund; 8,000
dais. educational fund; 10,000 dole. in goods and provi-
sions; 30,000 dols. in cash. The money left to be expended
by the provisions of a former treaty, at the discretion of tho
President, is by this made payable in cash.
THE AMERICAN REAPING NIIICIIINE.—Mr. M'Cor-
mick's reaping machine, which has been making an experi-
mental tour of the country, was, on Thursday, tried on the
Manor Farm, in the occupation of :Mr. Gardner, at Much
Wymondley, about two miles from Ilitchin, in this county.
Although the arrangement to give the machine "a day in
Hertfordshire" was entered into rather suddenly, Mr.
Perkins, of !litchi's (the local agent), took such effective
steps for announcing the fact that the whole neighbourhood
was astir, and as early as eleven e'clork en Tliiirsday mortis
lag Manor Farm presented a more lively and interesting
aspect than it had done for many years before. Country
gentlemen—some of them well known as practical agri-
culturists; and a large number of farmers--many of them
very extensive holders of land—were on the spot, waiting
anxiously for the commencement of operations. The field
selected for the trial was tolerably level, and bore a
good standing crop of the bearded or rivetts wheat.
The soil, however, was clayey, and that, as well as the crop
being saddened by the recent rains, the machine was called
upon to exhibit its powers under very disadvantageous cir-
cumstances. Certainly nothing but a reluctance to disap-
point the many agriculturists who had come from a dis-
tance to witness the working of the new "implement "
would have induced those who had it in charge to set it to
work. The trial of the machine commenced about twelve
o'clock. The field contained about twelve acres, four of
which had been reaped with the sickle, consequently right
remained to experiment upon. The sodden state of the
ground presented, as we have before hinted, considerable
difficulties, but the energy of the American conductors over-
came all difficulties, and the giant reaper pursued its way
triumphantly up the sides of the field, making a complete
circuit of it, and only occasionally stopping to give time to
remove the accumulation of clay and straw from the bread
wheels, or to remonstrate with the crowds of spectators,
who, in their eager pursuit, trampled down the fresh-cut
sheaves so vigorously that, at one time, we were under con-
siderable apprehension that Mr. Gardner's crop would be
totally destroyed. Of the general succew of the experiment
there can, however, be no doubt. There never was an agri-
cultural implement which, on its first exhibition, obtained
the approval of practical farmers so generally as this has
done. Everybody wonders that a piece of mechanism so
simple, effective, and useful, was never invented before.—
Hereford Mercury.
HORSE RACING IN FRANCII.—The autumn races
at Chantilly are fixed for the 12th of October. The principal
I stake, the Omnium, is of 10,000 f. The I'aris races are to
take place on the 19th, 23rd, and 26th of October. The Go-
vernment Stakes are to be run for, and the principal of
them is the Grand Prix National of 14,000 f. The number
of horses in training in the vicinity of Paris is unusually
great (about 200), and capital sport is expected.
A GIGANTIC UNDERTAKING.—We have received
a letter from Mr. S. B. Rogers, of Nant-y-Glo, who solicits
patronage for carrying out ccrtaia plans for the erection of
a magnificent granite bridge, above two miles long, across
the river Severn, at Black Rock or New Passage, to connect
Monmouthshire and South Wales with Bristol and the west
of England, by a double line of rails and a common carriage
road ; such bridge to be 140 feet wide, with bazaars, shops,
&c., and a covered colonnade occupying 50 feet along the
entire of its centre ; and with arches of 324 feet span, rising
120 feet above the highest spring tides, so as to allow ships
of the largest size passing at all times ; the piers and abut-
ments (the upper parts of which to be habitable) to have a
casing of cast-non up to high-water mark, by which means
all serious damage to the masonwork would for ever be pre-
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the piers would be dry for about four hours every tide. The
eat of the bridge and its approaches would of course be
very great, but the projector does not fear raising the sum
required, and that a dividend of 10 per cent. would be cer-
tain on the capital obtained. When we see the promised
"rough drawing" of the proposed bridge, we shall be happy
to return to the subject ; meantime we give Mr. Rogers's
concluding observations :—" This grand structure would bo
a durable monument of human skill and labour, unequalled
for utility and magnificence throughout the world. The
shops, bazaars, and colonnade (with open and well-fenced
promenades on their roofs at an elevation of 200 feet above
low water mark), may be constructed principally of glass
and ornamental metals, after the manner of the 'Crystal
Palace,' so as to afford conveniences for the display, and sale
of artistical, manufacturing, and natural results of all kinds,
thereby constituting a sort of permanent' Great Exhibition'
of the products of all nations, and for monuments and curi-
aides of every description; and the bridge itself—like the
' Glass Palace,'—would be the greatest monument -
rlosity of the whole !"—/lercford Journal.

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