The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

BIaXINOTIAN. AVOUST 9.—The business reported to-day is-
eluded Chester and liol3head Fireand.a-Half per Cents. at
1201. es. 31., and 120 e : Great Western Birmingham Preference
at 10 and Birmingham Bank at 26 per share. Market steady.
MANCHlafralt, Acover 9.—The market was heavy an Jay.
Creat, Western. 64 6-111inois Central, 391 .I.—Lancashire art
Yorkshire, 1101 1 1 London and North Western,92l—Mae.
cheater, ithefilel,i, and Lincolnshire, 441 1 11 1 4-llWland,
1421 I—North titaffordshlre, 41 d.—'South Kneen 24 6-10
Ditto Five per Cent. Pref., p—Union Hank, 1 p.Lereat Shlgs
Company, Ta, 64. 9d., 71.

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THE HARVEST IN CAMERIDGESHIRE.—Harvest
operations are universal in this neighbourhood, awl up to
yesterday the weather has been brilliant. It is hoped then
; will be a good average crop and both wheat and barley bid
fair to be of excellent quality. Some new wheat has already
found its way to market, and has fetched high prices. A
'ample was left at our office yesterday, the qualityof which
was very fine, and it was quite fit for the null. The potato
disease has been partially checked by the fair weather. The
croEis prodius.--Conthridge ladeptadeat.
FEMALE EDUCATION IN INDIA.—The report which
has been honed by the government on the progress
and coo-
dition of the Bengal presidency states that little has as yet
been done in regard to female education, end there are but
10 schools in operation. attended by somewhat over 367
children. As a general rule, the people are opposed to
female education, and it must, it is feared, be a work of very
slow development, because of there not being that direct,
and tangible benefit to be derived from the education of
daughters which follows from the education of sons. In a
country where the girls many at the age of 4 or 5, and
are mothers at 13 or 14, it is not from schools that any great
sitcoms in this direction can be anticipated ; female educe-
tion must be brought within the penetralin of home. There
is reason to believe that it has at length gained entrance
there, and takes the form of vemusa teaching. The report
acknowledges that is impossible to obtain statistics of tins
mode of education, but it is stated to be quite certain that
it is spreading.
A MONSTER BLooK Svorrr- —A huge block
of stone, 26 ft. long, 9 ft. wide,and 6 inches thick, was a few
d rya heck (says Gatiinani) extracted from the quarries of
Helseohof. in Prussia, and despatched to Brussels. It
weighs 3111,5001bc. and was drawn by 18 horses. The maw
charged. with the conveyance was obliged to give security.
to repair any. damage which might be occasioned to bridges
by the meows waht of the stone.
SINGULAR AND VATAL ACCIDENT.—A CHILD TIED
TO A COW.—On Monday last an inquest was bold at
Llsnllway Church, Llaullwny. before George Thonius,
coroner, on the body of Nary Thomas, in child five years of
age, who was killed under the following singular circum-
stances : It appears that deceased and her brother aged
nine years were watching a heifer which was grazing on the
maihde. and deceased asked her brother to tie her to the
heifer • be did so. with a rope fastened round her waist to
the heifer's tail, and went away. Shortly afterwards Ewalt
Evans of Velinttri, wh was at work at his smithy, heart
the sounded a pig squeaking, and immediately after eaw Ilse
heifer coming down the road with the deceased fastened to
her, and dragging her along the ground. Evans ran out
towards a brook which crossed the road, when the heifer
I stopped, and John Thomas held deceased while Evans ett
the rope. The poor child was only alive, and was covered
with blood. She died soon after. The jury retuned a
verdict that deceased was accidentally killed in consequenee
of being dragged along the highway by a heifer, to which she
was tied by a rope. —Carmarthen Jmu.nol.
TRAFFIC RECEIPTS. —The traffic returns of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom for the week ending August :t
amounted to 603,598'.. nod for the corresponding period
of last year to 598,130/. ; showing an increase of 5,4651-
The groes receipts on the eight railways having their
termini in the metropolis amounted for the week ending
as above to 289.400/.. and for the corresponding week of
last year to 286,6161., showing an increase of 2,7841.
Theincrease oo the Greet Northern railway amounted
to 751/.; on the Great Western to 6571.; on the
London and Blackwell to 201.; on the Loudon,
Brighton, and South Coast to 4,7671 ; and of
the London and South Western to I,lB6l.—total. 7,3811.
But from this must be deducted 416/., the decrease on this
Eastern Counties 2,616/. on the London and North West-
ern ; and on the South Eastern, together.
4,6971., leaving the increase as above, 2,7541. This
receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom have
amounted to 314,1 W., and for the corresponding period et
1860 to 311.514/., showing an increase of 2,6811. in the re-
ceipts of these lines ; which must be added to the
increase on the metropolitan lines, making the total in-.
CMS.) 5,44Eit. as compared with the corresponding week
of 1860.