The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividead Amount
Name of Company, per , of Paid. i Price
Annum. Share.
-------
X s. tl. X 8. 0 1
Bank of Scotland - 100 00 1 170
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 , 154
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 209
Commercial Bank ...• 6/. per cent. - 100 00 j 165
National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 00 j 131.128
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr sent. - 50 0 0 90
Western Bank • ••••• • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 83
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 71(
Clydesdale Bank.- -• • 61. per cent. - 10 00 j 12%
Eastern Bank 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 12
Caledonian Bank ...• • 7%1. pr cent. 3r, - 210 0 j 41. 9s
Edinb. Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 50 0 , 6/. 13s
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 10 00 j 12%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1238. i,cl
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. ,100 0 0 10 0 0 '
13%
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd • • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9N
Korth British Insur..• 5% /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 223%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin • 4,lasg. Railway 1/.los. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71
1)11'74 i Shares •• • . 7s. 60. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 17%
Ed .^ pith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 21
Glauw & Ayrshir Rail. 77. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 62
'Glasgw&Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 .211 paid. 163{
Gls,7,w & Garnkirk Rail. Al. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39%
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent.' 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard Llfe_lssarnca.J 51. per cent. 150 0 0 210 0 9
DOCKS.
Dividend Amount 1
Name of Company. I per ' of I Paid. I Price.
1 Annum. Share. i
Commercial ••..• • . • • 31. per cent. Stock. - -
East and West India - _
EaA Country -.• . • • ' li. per sh. 100 0 0 - -
t =den . - 107
St. li atharine ........5 per cent. ' Stock. - -
Southampton •••• • • • • U. per cent. .50 0 0 50 0 0 I 30

- -
50 0 0j 3O

WATER-VVORIES

-Name of Company.

Dividend
per

Amount
of Paid.
Share.

Annum.

East London.... • • • • • • 81.
Grand Junction • • V. 103..
Kent ••• • • • 21. 10s.
Vauxhall .......• •• 51. per cent.
West Middlesex . . . 51. 10s. pr

a. d.
100 0 0 --
4113 4 --
100 0 0 i
100 0 0 .-
63 12 9 /

COURSE OF EXCIU
Amsterdam .. ....C.F. 12 3%
Ditto, at sight 12 1
Not terdam 2U. 12 4
Antwerp........ .... 25 85
liamburgh ALB. 13 10%
Paris, 3 days' sight .. 24 50
Ditto, 3 months...... 25 60
Marseilles •. •• •••.. • • 25 90
Bourdeaux ... • • 25 83
Frankfort oa Maine.... 121
Teterstargh, 3 Us ..
Irleritu . .........

.NGE.-(THIS DAY.
Gibraltar. ..... -

Leghorn ........ • • •••• 30 30
Genoa •• ...• •• •• •. 25 90
Milan ............

Naples ...... • • . • • • 40%
Palermo, per oa l2l
Lisbon...... . •
Rlo Janeiro
Buenos Ayres ..
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OP BULLION, PIE oz.
Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
New D 0110.1.8 • • . • . 0 4 1016
Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars.•. • • 0 S O3g

-Vienna, effee.flo
Trieste, ditto
Adadx id • • ...... • 36 14
Cadiz .. •.. : ~. 36
Bilbao
Barcelona •• • • • • • -

SevtUe.. ..

THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF
EDUCATION.—(THIS DAY.)
A public meeting was held at the London Tavern,
Dishopsgete-;treet, to consider the propriety of peti-
tioning Parliament against the scheme of education,
cnutained in the minutes of the Committee of Council of
August and December, 1846 ; George William Alex-
under, Esq., in the chair. The meeting was held in the
large hell of the London Tavern, but the attendance at
the hour appointed for taking the chair was very scanty,
Indeei, could not have exceeded fifty ; which had in
creased to something more than double that number
about half-an-hour afterwards, when the Chairman
entered.
The CIIAIR3IAN said he had been requested to state
that sufficient care had not been taken to make the
meeting known ; indeed that the bills had not been
placarded till that morning, which, coupled with another
tact, that a general meeting of the Society of Friends was
being held that day, accounted for the thinness of the
!meeting. He said he would not occupy the meeting
long with any remarks on the general object; but he
'must say that he had been slowly led to a conclusion
which was adverse to the Government scheme of educa-
tion. He was a member of the British and Foreign
School Society, and had been one who admitted the
propriety of Government grants in aid of exertions
in favour of education, such as for the erection
of schools. Thus far he went in reference
to Government aid. But that was a very different thing
From a great scheme of national schools, which ought to
be called Church of England schools.—(Applause.) Ile
denied that sectarian principles or ways were taught
in the British Schools. But it was very different in
the National Schools, so called, where the Church
catechism was taught, and National Church tenets
inculcated; in proof of which he might refer to a
-volume of documents published by the Government,
where a letter from a clergyman states, that if he had
had the National School sooner, by that time there
would not have been a Dissents r in the parish.
Indeed, the scheme hrd been originated by members
and dignitaries of the Church of England ; he believed it
might be chiefly attributed to Dr. Kay Shuttleworth. He
regretted much the originating of such a scheme at that
time, as it was but throwing the apple of discord among the
liberal friends of education. But he for one should never
cease exerting himself to defeat it.—(Applause.)
The SECRETARY intimated that the central com-
mittee bad written to all the Metropolitan Members of
Parliament, who had all acknowledged the invitation by
written answers.
The Rev. Mr STOVELL said, he was of opinion that
the education of the children of this country was far
too important to be committed rashly to the hands
of Government, and not at all to be committed to hands
already too full with husitte.s which perhaps had not
been very well discharged as yet, too full of difficulties
were jive ere at to
adjustmentb otptirunted. These difficulties
ettffairs of Ireland, of the
affairs of Scotland, of
of colonial goveremene, of ~
ecivil jurisprudence,
ties which did not encouttna poor-law—difficul-
unaher case sufficient of iteeff
e them to add
question
undivided attention. But there was_ anotr"
toes this
. scheme to
which burdened the consideration. as
Vas
comprehend all England; or no part of it? For it must
Ee adopted uni%ersally, or at once fine entirely reit etee.
But education was necessarily religious. It included the
development, ix. all the powers and capabilities (tithe hu-
man mind, of which the prime ruler was the conscience. But
he contended that morality could not be followed out
into habit unless the conscience was enlightened by the
revealed will of God. How, then, were the Government to
set on a matter so clesely appertaining to the religious
life ? In one of two ways—either they would adopt all re-
ligions equelly, the negativeand the positive, and founding
their scheme in infidelity they would establish it. in
law ; or they would engage the teachers of religion,