The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-29 00:00:00

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Paris and Lyme, 610 ; lours and Nantes 868 73; Yon.
916 sae Troyes. 171 33; Dieppe sod Foamy, 238 73; Borden.
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SW" MAY 26.—Voluntary Loan, 1021; New
Lose, Four-and-a-Half per Cent. (1850), 103; ditto
(1862), 103; National Debt, 907 • Commercial Ma-
rine &dety's Premium, 124; ; Bank Shares, 1024.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—The anniver-
sary was held at the society's apartments, 3, Waterloo-
place, on Monday the 24th instant—the president, Sir Rode-
rick I. Murchison in the chair. The council, in their
annual report, congratulated the society upon the prospe-
rous state of the finances, and upon the accession during
the put year of no less than fifty new members. To till the
vacancies caused by the deaths of the Baron do Walkenaer,
the Padre Inghirami of Florence, and of Professor Schouw
of Copenhagen, the Grand Duko Constantine, president of
the Imperial Geographical Society of St. Petersburg, Field
Marshal do Skribaneek, president of the Imperial Geogra.
phical Institute of Vienna, and Henry Grinnell, Rsq.,
president of the Geographical Society of New York, had
been elected as honorary members, and Don Pascual
Mules, author of the " Diecionario-Geografico-Estadistico. 1
Historic de Espano," Professor Herman Ahich, of the I
Caucasus, and Prince Emmanuel Galitsin had been added
to the list of corresponding members. The list of public '
institutions, die., to which the transactions of the society are '
sent had been augmented. The accessions to the library
had been most important, amounting in number to 693 books
and pamphlets, and 732 maps and charts. The president
next proceeded to the presentation of the Founder's Gold
Medal to Dr. John Rae, of the Hudson's Bay Company,
and the Victoria or Patron's Medal to Captain Henry
Strachey, in the Honourable Est India Company's service.
In the place of the members of the council retiring in sue-
cession, the Earl of Ellesmere, Ralph W. Grey, Esq., !ill',
Colonel Sabine, R.A., the Bishop of St. Asaph, the Earl of
' Sheffield, E. Osborne Smith, Esq., C lonel Sykes. and Sir
Gardner Wiikioaon, were unanimously elected. The pre-
sident finally read his address on the progress of geography
during the put year, when the Earl of Rosso proposed and
Lord de Manley seconded a vote of thanks, which was
' unanimously tarried, to the president, for the very full and
able statement just read.
A Itait.war TRAIN STRUCK RY LIGHTNING.—
The Moniteur de Loire! states that during the recent then-'
derstorm the electric fluid struck the luggage waggon of the
train proceeding from Orleans to Paris, and after having
made an irregular hole in it, passed through the articles of
i luggage without doing them any injury, and then ran along
the iron chains which unite the waggons together. The
conductor, who was seated on the luggage waggon, experi-
enced a sharp electric shock, and all the passengers in the
train one of a slighter description.