The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-20 00:00:00

Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS.

Mining Offices, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London.
Market moderately active. Grenville, East Grenville, Agar,
Van, East Lovell, Great Vor, and North Crofty chiefly deait in.

Australian United, 2i, 21
Bwlch Consols, 31, 31
Brontloyd,
Chiverton Moor, 41, 51
Chiverton Valley, 4,4/
Cook's Kitchell, 21, 23
Chontales (Gold),
Drakewalls, 275, 29s
Don Pedro North Del Rey, 3, 31
East Bassett,
East Caradon, 41, 41
East Lovell, 35, 36
East Wheal Grenville, 21, 3
Frontino and Bolivia (Gold),
18s, 208
General Brazilian,
Great Laxey 181, 19
Great Retallack,
Great Wheal Vor, 91, 10
Kingston Down,
Marke Valley, 7, 71
New Lovell, 21, 3
North Crofty, 31
North Treskerby,
Pacific, 81, 9j

Prince of Wales, 16s, 18s
Providence Mines, 40, 421
Rosewall Hill and Ransom•
United,
South Condurrow. 24, 24
Tankerville, 181, 19
Tincroft,
Tan-yr-Allt,
Taquaril (Gold),
Trumpet Consols,
Van, 79, 81
Van Consols, 3i, 4
West Chiverton, 54, 55
West Frances,
West Maria and Fortescue, 24, 24
West Drakewalls,
West Caradon,
West Panty Go,
West Seton,
Wheal A gar, 24, 3
Wheal Chiverton,
Wheal Grenville, 24
Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, 7, 74
Wheal Mary Ann,
Wheal Seton, 30. 32

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Five Shilling Day, June 18.—
Admissions by Season tickets, 5,721 ; ditto, on payment,
1,514 ; total visitors, 7,235.

SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF A SOLICITOR.—
Within the last few days considerable excitement has been
caused at a village near Banbury, in consequence of the
disappearance of a solicitor. It appears that he left the
village on Wednesday, the Bth inst., as it was supposed,
with the intention of going to London, but he has not
since been heard of, although every inquiry has been made
as to his whereabouts.

COLLEOEOI-13RECEPTORS. A meeting of the
Council of this corporation was held on Saturday last,
when the following gentlemen were elected members of
the College ;—Mr. J. G. Clarke, 40a, Museum-street,
Bloomsbury ; Mr. J. A. Hailing, Croft-street, Man-
chester; Mr. F. N. Jewsbury, F.R.S.L., 23, Kensington
Park Gardens, W. ; Rev. H. M. Robinson, M.A. (Head
Master of the Chigwell Grammar School) ; Mr. E.
Western, Fullands School, Taunton ; Mr. H. Groome,
M.A., F.G.S. Head Master of the Beds. County SchooL
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THE WEEKLY PRESS.

THE REVISED EDUCATION BILL,

The Saturday Review remarks that, in spite of the dis-
guises in which Mr. Gladstone naturally endeavoured to
wrap up the fact, the impression—at all events, the first
impression—left on our minds by his announcement on
Thursday is that a virtually new Education Bill has been
submitted to Parliament. That being so, we shall not
attempt to criticise the substantive proposals of the
Government until there has been time to estimate their
real extent and purpose. A large part of Mr. Gladstone's
speech necessarily dealt with those features of the former
measure which the Government has found it necessary to
excise or modify, and the course taken in respect to these
justifies the regret we have all [along expressed that the
religious difficulty should have been thrust whole and-
entire upon the School Boards. It became evident, very
shortly after the introduction of the bill, that this proceed-
ing must result in one of three things—a schism in the Libe-
ral party, the recognition of an unsound principle, or the
construction of a more or less unsatisfactory compromise.
Whether the threatened schism would really have been
as formidable as its intending promoters chose to make
out may be doubted, but the general abandonment of
denominational principles by Dissenters of all kinds has
certainly given the.secularist faction a degree of strength
which by themselves they could not possibly have attained.
Besides this, the agitation against leaving the local
Boards free to teach religion, had, as Mr. Gladstone
pointed out, immensely increased the chances of this
freedom being turned to bad account. There can be no
question that the prediction of coming discord in the
School Boards "is one which is likely to fulfil itself."
Every Dissenter who has committed himself to such a
prophecy would have felt bound to do his part
towards its accomplishment, and the flame of
religious controversy. can be kindled by such a little matter
that a very small minority of the community might have
had the power of setting the majority by the ears.
The most important perhaps of the changes indicated by
Mr. Gladstone is the severance of the proposed connexion
between School Boards and voluntary schools. We must
reserve our final judgment upon this change until there
has been time and opportunity to examine the details of
its working. At the first glance it commands our entire
approval. If fair play is given to the system of voluntary
effort by the side of the new rate-provided schools, it is
probable that the number of the latter will not be very
great, and the sphere of their action will be restricted for
the most part to places where from various causes volun-
tary effort has altogether failed. There ought to be no
delay, however, in laying the particulars of this part
of the Government scheme before the public, and it
should be invested with the same legislative sanction
as the provisions relating to the schools to be here-
after established out of the rates. It will not do to
have one half of the educational compromise resting on
an Act of Parliament, while the other half remains liable
to be modified or repealed at the pleasure of the Educa-
tion Department.