The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-21 00:00:00

BANQUET TO THE FOREIGN COMMISSIONERS.

Yesterday, the Metropolitan Local Commissioners
gave a dinner to the Foreign Commissioners of the Exhibi-
tion, at the Castle, Richmond. The council also got up a
regatta on the river, giving prizes fora double scullers' race
(with three heato—one at half-past four, one at a quarter to
five, and ono at five), and an outrigger race art half-past five,
with a final heat of double sculls at a quarter to six. In the
garden, before dinner, a deputation from the town presented
thenisAvas, and delivered an address from the inhabitants
to Lord Ashburton, the chairman or the day, and his distin-
guished guests, to which his lordship replied. Among the
speakers, after dinner, were M. Von Vielnihn, M. Van der
Weyer (Belgian atiaister), M. C. Dapin, Earl Uracville,
the Chevalier de Barg, and Mr. Paxton.

Ye.terday the receipts at the building from Gs.
entrance fees amounted to 3,11601. 15., which, with the
proceeds resulting from the sale of season tickets (3504.145.)
amounted altogether to 3,711!. 9s.

Lectures are to be delivered in the Glass Palace,
early on Fridays and Saturdays, by Profe,sor Anstcd, in
explanation of the mining processes, mineral products and
mineral manufacture forwarded for exhibition from various
parts of the world.

Up to the present time there huts been no percep-
tible increase of passengers by the steamers from the
Cinntinent beyond the oriliniry arrivals at this season of
the year.

RAGGED SCIIOOL UNlON.—Yesterday morniag the
seventh annual meeting of the promoters of this institution
took place at Exeter-hall, Strand. Lord Robt. Grosvenor,
M.P., to thelhair. In the evening another meeting was
held in the 'Erie place, Lord Ashley, M.P., presiding. The
second meetiureas considered necessary in consequence of
there not having been sufficient space on the het occasion
to accommodate the largenumber of persons who desired to
gain admittance. At both meetings a report was read tram
which it appeared that Ike inercare in the society's opera-
tions durinjt the year had been as follows: In the number
of schools, s ; Sunday scholars, 421; week slay scholars;
463; evening scholars, 220. In the industrial school, 286;
unpaid teachers, 13. The total number of schools at the
present time was 102; Sunday scholars, 10,861 ; week day
scholars, 6,021; evening scholars, 6,572 r industrial, 2,062 ;
paid teachers, 180. During the year three girls and 81
boys had been enabled to emigrate by the mutual
efforts of the union and local schools, making a total
of 307. The committee had expended 6001. for this pur-
pose during the year. The industrial classes continue,' to
increase in numbers and efficiency. The committee had
much pleasure in noticing the receipt of a grant
of Bibles from the Bible Society, and also the
sum of 131. from the Emigration Fund, as well as
various grants front the British and Foreign Bible So-
li ciety.. The committee had, moreover, received assistance
from the London City Mission; and they next referred to
the magnificent building in Lambeth erected for a ragged
school by 11. Beaufoy, Esq. The receipt. for the year
amounted to 3,1871. Ids. Ild., and the expenditure to
3,0761. 16s. 5,1. leaving a balance of 2101. 15s. 6d. 'the
emigration fund amounted to 9511. 145., and after deducting
the expenditure of 6371 10e., there win a balance of
314/. Is. It further appeared that, while the general ex-
peruses of the society remained the same, the hicome had
decreased, and the committee had been compelled to appro-
priate 5001. of the funds of the institution to meet present
demands.—Lord Ashley, in opening the preeeedings of the
evening meeting, said the Itatmed School lasion, from its
principles and fruit., claimed the sympathy and support of a
Christian public. These schools had effected great things;
nut indeed so great as they might have wished, but more
than sufficient to call forth a large measure of thankfulness'
and rejoicing. In 180, when these operations were tint
systematised and promoted with real energy, they had sonic
seven schools with 717 scholars. In 114,1 they bad 102
schools with 10,861 scholars; of these, 6,021 were week-lay
scholars, and 2,062 were enrolled among the industrial
classes. The example had been followed, and lie was happy
to say that many schools had been established in different
places which were not in connexion with this society. They
had enabled 350 children to emigrate, and from many of
these, letters had been received giving the met gratifying
account of their moral and social improvement. A boy who
emigrated iu 1803, had recently remitted to his father his
earnings, amounting to 101.; and a little girl bad
forwarded to her mother the aunt of 5/. The bops
sent from the Grotto Passage schools, and who had
emigrated to Australia, hail paid back in full the
amount of money which had been advanced to them. The
noble lure! concluded by observing that this society had
devised an organised system fur the prevention of crime,
and he called upon the meeting to assist in the promotion
of so expellent an object —Mr. Baxter moved and the Itev.
G. Smith seconded, the adoption of the report, which
having been unanimously agreed to, various resolutions
were passed and several gentlemen tuldressed the meeting
in support of them—The business then terminated.
'fug niACE SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting
of the Peace Society was held last evening in Finsbury
chapel, Aloorfields, and was very numerously attended;
a large proportion of the audience consisting of members of
the Society of Friends. Many foreigners, French, Ger-
man, and Americans, with a few Italians werewerealso present.
Mr. C. llindley, M.l'., presided. The chairman, in opening
the business of the evening, said that this society, esta-
blished for the purpose of disseminating and promoting
the principles of universal peace, was now in the 35th year
of its existence. He trusted that no-one then present
would ever forget the fundamental principle of the society
—the sinfulness of war. (Hear, hear.) Let it ever be
remembered that it was contrary to divine command, and
all cobweb arguments must fall. They were constantly
told that their views were Utopian and unpractics
ble. Perhaps there were times, looking to the darker
pages of history and to the many wars which have
scourged mankind, when it would almost seem as
if it were hopeless to expect the triumph of the
principles of universal peace, but when he turned
to the Word of God, and touud the promise of a time when
universal peace shall reign throughout the world, when
swords shall be turned to plough shams, and when man
shall uo longer war with man, if they had any faith in
that word, which they professed to hold as the standard of
their belief, they could not refuse to believe that the time
is coming when nations will war no more. (Cheers.) But
they were also frequently told, that in order to accomplish
this it will be necessary to alter the principles of human
nature. But, indeed, that was the very aim of the Gospel.
lie could offer a pleasing illustration of the practicability
of carrying out the scriptural injunction of peace,
which occurred to hint in the course of a recent
tour in the East. Ile was making- preparations at
Cairo for a journey into the desert. Ills dragoman came
one day and inquired how many pistols and guns he should
purchase at the bazaar. " What are we to do with them ?"
'l' he dragoman then made a woeful representation of the
danger they should run in trusting themselves unarmed
amongst the wild Arabs of the desert. lle (the chairman)
replied that he had only once fired a gun in his life, and
they would take no arms. Ile went into the desert amongst
the rosining Bedouins, and he never heard u threat, never
receive& an insult or an uncivil word from them. Trusting
alone to that Almighty' power who Protects time who
lean on him, he performed his journey and returned
to his native land in health, peace, and safety. (Cheerio.)
If any man, therefore, told him that the principles and
views of the Peace Society were Utopian or mapcssible, he
would only say, " I have tried the experiment." The
society were actively diffusing their principles by means
of lectures and tracts, fur the great object was to convert
the people rather than governments.—The report (read by
Mr. Richards; the secretary to the society) stated inter alts
that the next congress would take place on the 22nd of
July, and there was every reason to expect that it would
be the most important meeting held. The society had
prepared tracts in the continental languages for distribu-
tion during, the Exhibition, and a special fund of 450/. had
been raised for this purpose. Mr. I,lihu Burritt, the Rev.
J. J. Steinitz, and T. Spence, Mr. Joseph Sturge, Mr. J.
S. Buckingham, Signor Ferretti, and M. Garnett (a co-
loured clergyman from America), subsequently addressed
the meeting. _

THE Ftalx LOVE-LASE.—INQUEST.—Loaf night
Mr. Payne held an inquest, at the Coal Exchange Tavern,
St. Mary-at-Hill, on the bodies of the four unfortunate in-
dividuals—Richanl Harvey, Abraham Clark, Elisabeth
Gray, and George Hare—who perished by the fire at the
Rae and Crown Inn, Love-lane, City, on Sunday morning
last. The jury having viewed the bodies, which presentW
a shockingly charred and mutilated appearance, the evi-
dence was almost exclusively a repetition of facts already
known to the public. Trinder, the policeman on duty
when the fire was first suspected, detailed his ineffectual
attempts to arouse the inmates of the doomed house, the
impracticability of using the escapes, and the great progress
made by the tire before the water could be applied.—
George King, of the White Hart, stated how he
saved the young woman whom he found faint
and bleeding by pulling her through the window.—
Bradley, of the fire brigade station in Jeffrey-square, said
when the engines arrived the house was blazing from top
to bottom. The fire burnt about two hours. He found
the bodies shortly after four o'clock. The first was a
female lady, which rested cornerwise on the foot of the bed,
as if she bad been awoke and endeavoured to escape. On
the third floor he found three bodies of men lying on their
faces in the front room. He knew nothing of the cause of
the fire, but it was his opinion that it began in the back
room of the first floor, from which it had burnt upwards
and downwards. The beds were entirely consumed on the
third floor; and the man, who was a lodger, had evidently
been out of bed, as he was lying near the window. The
Coroner said that the young woman who had been saved
was in St. Thomas's Hospital, but would, he thought, be
able to give evidence in about a week, and it would *ro-
tor* be advisable to adjourn the inquiry until she was in a
position to attend. The inquest was accordingly sdionnooll•

BAIL WAYS.
THIS DAY.
Two o'CLocx.
In the share market to-day there has been quite a
panic. Soon after the opening of business a perfect
rush of sellers took place, disappointment as to the
result of the traffic returns making many persons
desirous of getting out of their stock, and the con-
sequence was a serious fall in every lino on the list.
Great Westerns went rapidly down to 78k, Lanca-
shire and' Yorkshires to 52/, London and North
Western stock to 119, Midlands to 52, and other
lines in proportion, the fall amounting in some cases
to full 51. per share. The market has been very
unsettled all day, but the tone is now decidedly
steadier, and prices are recovering, some of the
heavier descriptions having rallied as much as 21.
per share.
The South-Eastern Railway traffic for the last
week, as just made known, amounts to 12,2561., or
1,2771. more than in the corresponding week of last
year. The average return per mile this year is 46.95/.
against 46,911. last year.

MONEY MARKET.
THIS DAY.

Two o'CLoci.
Business in the English stock market has been
languid to-day, the attendance of the members of
the Stock Exchange being limited, as usual on
the Derby-day; and, with the exception of
another investment in the Reduced Threes on
public account, the transactions call for no notice.
Prices have been fairly supported at yesterday's
range. The only department of the " house " that
occupies any large share of attention is the
railway share market, which has been cha-
racterised by very serious depression, the
pressure of stock tor sale at a time when so
many dealers are absent having led to a consider-
able fall, from which only a partial rally has since
occurred.

Consols have been steady all day at yesterday's
quotations, of 97; to 1 for money, and 07 to fur
the 10th of June. The official report of business is :
Three per Cent. Consols, 971, 1 • ditto for account,
971, 1; Three per Cents. Reduced, 961, I; Three-
and-a-Quarter' per Cents., 971, 1; Long Annuities,
1860, 71, 3-16; ditto thirty years, 1859, 7 1-16 ;
South Sea Three per Cent. Annuities, 1751, 961.
Bank Stock, 211, 210.

Exchequer Bills are again offered to-day, and the
price has fallen Is. Bargains are recorded in the
11,000/. and 500/. bills, at 445. and 435. prem. ; ditto
small 455. and 435. India Bonds, 1,0001., mark 475.
and 51s. prem.
Scarcely any business has been concluded in the
foreign stock market, and in prices there is no
general change. :Mexican Bonds arc a shade weaker,
and spanish Actives show a sensible decline, being
marked as low as 201. The official statement
reports transactions in the undermentioned stocks
only, viz. :—Dutelt Twcrand-a-Half per Cents., 591.
Meztean, for amount, 30th May, 34Z, 33. Peruvian
Five per Cents., 1849, Mt. Russian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 1001. Spanish Active Five per
Cents., for account, 201 ; ditto Passive, O. Vene-
zuela DeferrA, 12!.
Pursuant to a notice from the Paymaster-General's
office, Exchequer Bills dated June, 1850, must be
sent in for payment or renewal on the 12th of June
next. The new bills, which will of course bear in-
terest at the same rate of 1 td. per cent. per day, will
be receivable in exclusuge on the 13th of June.
Advises from Piedmont speak of a loan to be ne-
gotiated in London, the amount to be about
3,000,0001. The previous loans have been contracted
at Paris, and are negotiated on that exchange. The
loan of 1831 is in four per cent. bonde to the amount
of 10,800.000/. There is a sinking fund which will
redeem the whole in 1871. and which is drawn half-
yearly. Besides the simple repayment of the
loans, there are, as is common with motley loans
circulating on the Paris and other continental ex-
changes, premiums or prizes of 4,000/., 3,0004
3.20/11., 2,8001., &c. The bonds are of 401. each.
The last qtr./Mien at Paris is 99. On the 30th of
April 333 bonas were drawl' ut Turin for repayment,
and live prizes were given, one of 2,0001., one of
0001., one of 4001., one of 320/., and one of 411.
The other Piedmontese loan was contracted in
1819, at 4 per cent., and the dividends arc payable in
April and October. The amount of the bonds is 40/.,
and the last price 91. This is likewise negotiated on
the l'aris Bourse. Rumours are again revived of a
Prussian loan to be negotiated in this country, but
without, we believe, any satisfactory authority.
A further rise took place, in several instances, in the
foreign exchanges yesterday, the demand for paper
on the continent not being great. Paris was a shade
higher, being done at 23 exactly, for short, and at
25.21/ for three months. The rates on I luiland again
advanced considerably, Amsterdam leaving off 11.17;
to 18, and there was likewise a marked improvement
in the (potation ou Hamburg, which closed at 13.8.
The pnccs of Frankfurt, Petersburg, Italy, Spain,
and Portugal experienced no change; but the appre-
hensions expressed by us in our last notice, with
regard to the exchanges on Austria, were
fully realised, there being a reaction of nearly 20
kreutzers as compared with the rates of
last Fri:lay. Vienna, which found takers hut
poet at 12.35, was not saleable under 12.33. At the
beginning of change, one house purchased an amount
on Trieste at 12.14, but the rate afterwards rose to
12.30 to 55.

The preliminary essays hating been suceemful. the
i electric telegraph s to be laid down from Amster-
dam to the I fader.

ENGLISII FUN 1151.—Tat+ MY.
Bank Stock. 51011 , L.ll An.,etiLic..
3 per CI liteducol. 944 i 11,1i.1 bt. ek.
3 per et. C0n...01.. pit i Iwo It, tit —.
t I,er CL ConmeL,tl;l i atehtgour Ittlle. 41s. to 44.5.
Can a. for the Act*, :fit I

.611E10.

per (:t. 1104 i tn. % 2
kw, Cl. lintsslLut, Si 0)
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• FUNDS.
5 per CL '4;
4i per CL Peruvian. d2l
5 itirti'CLlV.',rt'ut,"•42l. 3.74!47
5 122 r Ct. kuk.lau, a l 13
41 NT Ct. 1tt0n4a21.121 140/
61. r Ct. ,^temlah. Acute. Mt
per Ct. 4122•14 b. 3.4 401
u. 52 6
21 141 Ct. Vevemela 11 4
Ito. Dtfarrel, 12 13
N EXCHANGES.

6 per Ct. Buenos Ayrag, 66 7
6 Pee !-'.L.!;I! P 3.•

3 Wr ;•:14.
3 per Ct. I.4fini4h, 76 II
24 per Ct, Putch..:.)
4 pa Ct. Dutch, 6.01•0
Equidor. 34 4
13 per Ct. Grual4a, Hi 17