The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENC3.-(THIS- DAT.)

(ay Twanars.)
torpor, Await 4.—Wind at hoop, B.; sultry weather.
Orayssarp, August i. Arrived: Maria, heck Quebec.
Bailed : Ida Men, for Araddaad ; Breabay.
Duet, Awned J.—Arrived: City of MWrus, trona Calcutta;
Maabeth, Samba, for Bahia. Arrived from the river and
mailed : Maggie, for Boston ; Jerry, Philadelphia.
Poincrours, August P.—Arrived : Hope, from Gummy, for
Loudon. . _

'ham, August S.—Arrived: Wahine
.trous Quebec.
Mrs
WATlans. MPORD, August 3.-3.—Anted;Animus, trams Quebec;
,S _ .

ficsrniserros, Await : Abuts (e.), tee COlOll.
BaleTeg, August L—An4sed : Queen of the Ides, tress Bar-
bados*.

IKr.";;rairrela Annul &—Arrived Treden, from New York.
CAROM. Annie & —Baled : Valentine, for Moats Video ;
James Edward!, Rio !Janeiro.. _

IrvA7rived naroot, 2.—: Breese, from Rio Grande ;
Da Bakes ; Callao • I%m.ft Monte Video
Victoria, New Orleans ; M. Jam's, ~emidlimd. fird,
Anne, Qlmisse. Bailed, : StateSs, for Pumas ; Margaret
Robley, Rio Graeae ; Essier, Bahia ; Hansa, Beilie.
Giceassroscs,Aug. I.—Arrived Etna (enkirrom Liverpool, and
left en the Brd for Halifax, N.S. • Avg. 3, Minnesota New
Yak; Aleppo (sa.), New York, and both left for Liverpool.
DTA L, August 4.—Arrived from the river sad riled:
Sierra Leone; Wars, Galata; Cosprerick, Knernalme.
Stresses, Aussie 3.—Arrived: Zeta (es 4, Valparaiso ;
Florence, Cuba; Mary Ann, Bilbao.
August 4.—Arrived: Greenock, Trinidad; Par*
Janeiro.
Cows', August 3.—Arrived : ,Wold and /Hatfield, from Rio
Kisosoto, Angst 3.—Arrived : Antealo, frets Sullen.
Livearoot, August 4.—Revived per Mapeao Telegrqsh.—
Arrived : Amaranth, from Akyab ; Bernard, Akyab Antigua:
or the Peak, Calcutta_ ; Elias Raid, Barbadoes; Dermal".
Wallace, Cobs; Helen Clinton, New Orisons; Realsgopeal
Quebec.
CASUALTIES.
Liv aaroot., August/I.—The Mandela, arrtvedliere from Quebec,
repoeta h pared shorty, with a. staff and dark nag and some
heavy weftattached, in lat. 48 N., lon. 41 W. The Lady Have-
lock, from Savannah, which went whore in entering Fleetwood
yesterday, has sot off.
Now Vole, July 211.—A cyclone occurred at Barbados July 10,
and mach damage woe done to the shipping.
Cosevirriaoria, May 3&—The (m.), of and from
Liverpool, in entering the harbour came into oollision with an
Egyptian steamer lying at anchor and dad some damage to the
boats and upper works of the latter. The Jane, of Wert:pert,
Cardiff to Galata, has arrived here with damage to spars, having
rolled her topmast, out and sprung her foremast off the Wand 61
Skyros. She repairs to enable her to peooeed to her post of dis-
charge.

A correspondent writing from Candshar
(Afghanistan), on the 12th June, Mabee that two persons
had been apprehended that day on suspicion of being
news-writers. They were brought into the presence of
the Ameer, by whose orders they were beheaded. Their
heads, having been fastened to poles, were hung at the
Cabulee and Nakkar Khans gates for public display, and a
warning to others.

It is expected that the harvest will be completed
in the South of England by the end of this week. The
yield of wheat will be about ten sacks an acre, nearly
double that of last year, and a third more than the
average. _

Several cases of sunstroke have happened in the
county of Dorset.
SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 4. The North-Ger-
man Lloyd steamer New York, sailing to-day for New
York, takes out 30,0001. in specie; and the Berlin,
sailing for Baltimore, takes out 46 cabin and 400 steerage
passengers.

THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.—An Irish lady,
writing from the centre of India, says :—" Did you see
that article in the Saturday Review some time ago, called
' The Girl of the Period !? It was spiteful and untrue,
but Captain tells me that it has done an immense
deal of bUM out here. It has been translated into Kin.
dnatani, and the people are all saying ' Why should they
educate their women U that's the result of education on
Englishwomen.' "

LONDcar AriD 130crii WESTEaN RAILWAY.—The
directots of this company have resolved to recommend to
the proprietors, at the half-yearly general meeting, onthe
30th inst., that the dividend for the half-year ending the
30th of June bat should be at the rate of 4 per cent. per
annum on the ordinary capital stock of the company, carry-
ing forward a balance of 11,1081.

1311L&NOZ CAB= OF SIIICIDE.—Two strange oases
of suicide have just occurred at Milan. A woman named
Antonia Cozy, 30 years of age, the wile of a coffee-house
keepw precipitated from the front of the
cathedral and-was killed instantly. A young man of 18,
a lithographer, who to be pemang at the moment,
immediately entered the rug be wished to see
the spot from which she had herself. And ex-
claiming :—" There is a woman who has freed herself from
all sanoyanos !" he ascended the tower. Having written
• few lines to his brothers on the stone parapet with a
pencil be Jumped off, and, of course, met a sudden death.
In falling he 'mocked down and seriously injured a Prus-
sian Major, Count Henkel, who wee passing at the time,
and who was obliged to be taken to the hospital with
several severe 'bruins and a rib broken. Hopes are enter-
tained that his life is not endangered.

A PARSEE DISASTER.—The following appears
in the Bomday Gaatte :—"Sir,—ln the fire-temple at
Chundunwaddy, known as Hormusjee igadia's Fire-
temple, are kept two white bulls, called ' Vurusias,' for
obtaining their urine for religious purposes. Their
skin is said to be perfectly white and free from
black hairs. It is with considerable difficulty
that these animals are obtained, for a single blot
on their surface, or a single black hair, makes
them unit for the performance of the great
religious ceremony of the 'Nirungdeen.' They are kept
in a separate apartment, without any work or labour, and
the greatest care is taken of them regarding food and
drink for the preservation of their general health. A few
days ago a severe fight took place between these two
animals, and the consequence was that one of them
was killed on the spot in the scuffle. This death has cast
a cloud of deep gloom and sorrow over the Parsecs in
general, and the • Moho& ' and ' Dustoors' in particular.
Perhaps among the so-called religious conservatives a
severer and a more dire calamity was never ex-
perienced. The extreme importance which the ifobeds
attach to the death of the ' \Tunisia' is testified by the
fact that the • Sarosh' ceremony, daily performed in the
name of the dead, is not, and will not be performed in
any one of our fire-temples,. till some one, man or beast,
volunteers to become the heir-apparent of the • Vurusia.'
Lastly, I have come to understand that the • Vurusia' was
buried after he was 'baptised' in the Zoroastrian fashion
with the sacred or shirt, and the Custi,' or the
sacred thread. I postpone making any remarks for the
present. -LPAaszn. Bombay, 2nd July."

THE H•nvErsT.—Mr. Meehi writes to the Times :
As wheat harvest progresses the evidences of first-
rate quality and condition and ample yield become more
and more apparent. We know also that almost every
fanner has an extra breadth of wheat, the high price and
fine autumnal condition of the soil having induced and
favoured the operation of sowing. I have just threshed
the produce of 30 acres of white wheat (sown with one
bushel per acre in November) ; the yield is 190 quarters,
weight per bushel 631 b., amount realised 6701. Some very
fine and closely-dressed white wheat weighs over 661 b.
per bushel. The wheat crop generally has been so
thoroughly ripened and dried by the intense heat that all
is in first-rate order for the miller, and there is no need
for the addition of either old or foreign wheat, both of
which are neglected. All this presents a great and pleasing
contrast with the harvests of the last two years. Wheat
has fallen in price 10s. per quarter within the last
ten days, but we can hardly expect it to be
much lower, for the potato crop in cottage gardens
and generally is, so tar, a failure ; vegetables are
also very scarce and dear, and we have a long year
before us, unless the next harvest should be as early as
the t one. The quality of the wheat straw is as
ect as it could be, and its quantity abundant. This
will be a very bad year for grassland farmers, whose stock
is immensely depreciated in value and demand by the ab-
sence of cattle food. Half the kingdom is in pasture. Let
us hope and reasonably expect that when rain does come,
;I=with a long accumulation of ammonia and other
re, its effect on the deeply heated soil will be to
produce an abundant and rapidly grown vegetation."

THE NATIONAL AILITLLER ASiOCIATION.
The Artillery Corps represented are the Cingne Ports,
Ist A, let B, and lst C, the 2nd, 4th, and sth C, the let,
3rd, and 4th Durham, the 2ud and 3rd Ease, the Ist
Hants, the Ist, 2nd, 9th, 10th, and 12th Kent, the let
Lanark, the tad Lincoln, the lit and 2nd Middlesex, the
Mid-Lothian Coast Artillery, the lit and 3rd North-
umberland, the let Shropshire, the let Stafford, the let
Surrey, the let, 2nd, and 3rd Sussex, the 2nd Suffolk,
lit Tower Hamlets, 4th Emit York, and 4th, 6th, and ith
West York. As in former years the encampment has
been placed close to the Artillery Barracks, in what is
known as the Waterworks Meadow, and there are nearly
200 tants, which will be occepied by about 760 men.