The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS. Frs. 20.

The Moniteur of this evening, referring in its
bulletin to the account of the situation of the Em-
pire recently presented to the French Chambers,
says :—" Sufficiently powerful herself not to desire
the weakness of any of her neighbours, and con-
vinced that the principle of solidarity ought every-
where to be substituted for the spirit of egotism
and exclusiveness of past ages, France is of opi-
nion that the progress of one nation benefits all
others, and that general interests should predomi-
nate over individual ones. It isby this fertile and
civilising thought that the Imperial government
is guided in its relations with foreign powers."

PARIS, Fzs. 20, EvrxrNG.

The Senate has not authorised the interpellation
proposed by MM. Bouet and Willaumez, relative to
the insufficiency of the credits demanded by the
government for the conversion of the artillery of
the fleet.

THE PARIS BOIJRSE.
PARIS, Fas. 20, 3.30 rm.
The Bonne has been inanimate. Rentes closed
at 69.55, or sc. lower than yesterday.

TURKEY AND GREECE.
PARIS, FEB. 20.

The Paris journals publish intelligence from
Athens on the 14th inst., rid Marseilles, an-
nouncing that the Panhellenion, on her eleventh
voyage to Crete, was pursued by a Turksh frigate
and took refuge in the port of Cerigo. The frigate
had threatened to sink her if she attempted to re-
turn to Syra. The same intelligence asserts that
King George had sent the brig Salaminia to escort
the Panhellenion, with orders to repel force by
force. The Greek government had informed the
foreign legations in Athena that these instructions
had been given.

AMERICA.
(By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, FEB. 20, NOON.

Gold, 137 ; Sterling Exchange on London,
108 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 111} ; Illinois,
115 ; Erie, 554.

NEW YORK, Feu. 20, EvEir NC.

Closing prices : Gold, 137 f. Sterling exchange
on London, 106 g. 5-20 United States Bonds,
111{ ; Illinois, 116; Erie, 55i.

THE OPENING MUSEUMS ON WEEK-DAY EVEN-
INGM.—Last evening a public meeting was held in the !
National Schoolroom, High-street, Peckham, to pconote
the opening of museums on week-day evenings, as recom-
mended by a parliamentary committee which sat in 1814.
Mr. Allen occupied the chair. Mr. Gaster moved the fol-
lowing resolution, "That owing to the great success
which has attended the early clueing and Saturday half-
holiday movements, the great majority of the working'
classes could occasionally or habitually visit the museums
on week-day evenings, as proved by the large attendance
in the evenings at the South Kensington Museum and the
industrial exhibitions held in various parts of London, and
that the petition to parliament read be adopted." Mr.
Hill seconded the resolution, and said that
2,210,000 persons had visited the South Kensington Mu
seam in the evenings since it had been opened three nights
per week,.and at the recent industrial exhibition held at
Islington more than 500,000 persons paid for admission
10 weeks, the great mass of whom were of the working
class who attended in the evenings. The resolution was
carried, and the proceedings closed in the usual manner.
We have been requested to state that there is
no foundation for the statement which appeared in our
columns to the effect that the church of St. Mary's, Kil-
burn, has been closed by order of the Bishop of London.—
Adrtieer.