The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-25 00:00:00

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Consolidated, Britol and Birmingham, 6 pee

Midland
east., 133.
Midland
x. 100;
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Fnuninco (14m.), gm. 7 per cent., 141.
South Mutt.lna and LoorbordaVenetion, 191.

S"onsolidated, 44 per ant. prof. stock, Redeem-

Tag ROYAL ACADETTY.—The Royal Academicians
have invited a distinguished party boa ceseersozMer which
is to be held to-morrow maim. The exhibition closed on
Saturday last.
MUNIFICENT Gags.—Her Grace the Duchene of
Leeds has just laid the fonadatioe storms of two orphaa-
ages at Penoy-bridge and !Witchingly, near Mayfield. The
building will contain mcommodation for 100 boys and the
same number of girls. They are both in the Gothic st,
and have been designed by Mr. E. Welby Pugin. The
children who ere received in them institutions will be pro-
vided for in every poseible meaner by her grace until they
have beet taught • trade. The met of the buildings and
endowment is estimated at about 70,0001.
DICES/OA OF CRuel IN IRELAND. The com-
minim of maize for the county of Londonderry was °pitied
lon Saturday by Baron Hughes, who congratulated the
grand jury on having oily six offences on the calendar—a
state of things whioh wee, he said, as highly creditable to
the magistracy as to the people of the county. One or two
of these were of a serious oaten, one being • charge of
murder, and it would be for them to say whether,
when they had beard the evidence, they would
consider the offence committed ender circumstemies
sufficiently mitigatiog to redoes it to manslaughter.
The other cam was foe rescuing goods that bad been
seized under • sheriff's decree. Mr. Justice O'Brien had
even a more gratifying Wender to comment on in the
county Waterford, there Wag only four or firearms before
him, sad none of them beepeekleg anything of an agrarian
desoription. This, he laid, was most gratifying, sad wee
further enhanced by the fact that he had ?seemed a rem-
municatim from the county inspector, showing that alto-
gether only twenty-eix or thirty offenses had been perpe-
trated in the twenty since the last &seism This pre.
mated a marked contrast to the amount of CAM which
formerly existed in the southern cousties.
THE STRIKE IN VIZ BUILDING THAD& —Dem-
SION or TILE /IASTCR BOILDUPAL —A nanneronaly attired«,
meeting of master-builders was held yesterday at the Free-
memos' Tavern, teethe purpose of Minn' into consideration
the circumsteaces cosseted with the strike at Meseta.
. .

Enbitt7; A favourable feeling towards the workmen wu
manifested, at the same time it was eottriderei that an im-
mediate advance of wages, giving so time for the matle-
ties of existing contracts, would muse a great hies to the
employers. A long dimension took place, lasting upward'
of three hours, during which several nosohitions were pro-
pored. Ultim►tely one wu adopted to the effect that the
advance of wages from 7d. to lid. per boar take place on the
28th of Amen next, hated of lat of January, as originally
inteedad, on 000ditioa that the strike at Messrs. Ciabitt's
be withdrawn by the 29th lost., sad time shores:rived that
twines should he posted that those men who continue at
work after the 29th lust. should be considered as weeding
to this arrangemeat. The amount of dividend paid to the
men on strike yesterday morning from the levy paid in on
Saturday evening wr 15e. per man ; thou men belonging to
societies reosiviag lib. 63., or halt-wages, is addition from
their societies. The machine-men on strike receive their
full wages ►t the rate of 36e. per week. It was expected
yesterday morning that a large number of mom from the
country would have gone Into work at Cubitt's. but although
about 20 me* c►me up from various parts with that intim-
this, they were iaterespted by the pickets of the men on
strike, and the result was that only two men went in. Not
one man of the 400 who streak has, up to this lie" recom-
menced work. _ _

ABOLITION OF c! More," OH STATUTZ
At a well-attended meetieg of agramituriete at Warwick,
oe Saturday last, Lord Leigh in tie chair, the fallowing
resolutioes wore agreed to:—" Thai it is desirable to
abolish the Wilms of servants at statutes, aid that registra-
tion be rabetituted for it ;" and " that circulars he sent by
• committee to every landlord, to be signed by hie tormatry,
promising to hire is future from register-offices, sad sot
from Metal's, which have hems the mum of mash Wary to
the you; nun and women aesearling times, without twins
any booelt to the employers at the tradespeople generally."
An opinion was =premed by several at those present to the
seed that the abolitioc of the statelm would rob the
country towel of a considerable mons% of coder • and
thai the employer themselves would %towline& give sitheir
ho iday ; be: it was thought the letter objeehm Imola sot
offset the preposition it as amiaal holiday without hiring
well allowsl by the employers.