The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-16 00:00:00

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RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

TWO MONTHS OF THE SESSION.

Closing Business
Paid. Name. Quotations. clone.
St Bristol and Exeter l9O 77 79 78
St Cal, donian 1.00 751 76; 75
St Ca M briau
20 Cornwall all 21 34
St Dublin and Belfast Junction..loo
St Dun, Prtll, and Aber. June...loo 70 72
20 East Loudon all 4 6
20 Do
20 Do
St Gla,gow and S.Western IUO 11 l 113
St Great Eastern lOO 371 091 394
.St Do East Anglian, No. `2 100%- 61 7*
St Great North of Scotland 100. 13 16
St Great Northern 100 119 120 120
St Do A 100 126 127 1261
St Do B 100 126 128
St Gt. So. and West (Iretand) 100 98 100
St Great Western - Consolid 100 684 694 694
St Do South Wales 100 68 70 •
St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45
St Da do Newport 100 36 38
St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 1254 1271 1291
St Lond, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 431 461
St Lond, Chatham, and Dover 100 144 154 164
St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11
St London and North Western 100 1264 1274 1271
St Loudon and South Western-100 88* 89* 904
St Mauch, Shef, and Lincolnsh.loo 51 511 52
St Do New. issued at £5O die 3O
St Metropolitan lOO 791 80 784
St Do Preferred... lOO ••• •••
St Do Deferred 100 ... •...
10 Do Redeemable %11 94 104
St Metropolitan District 100 37 38
St Midland ...100 1244 125 1264
St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94
St North British. lOO 31 35 341
St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde.loo 13 15
St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1261 1271 1351 5
St Do Leeds 100 841 851
St Do York
St Do Stockton and Darlingts 100 - 178 180' 1811
St North Loudon lOO 116 • 118
10 Do New, 1868 6l 11 14
St North Staffordshire 100 59 61.
St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105
St Rhymney lOO 52 54
St Shropshire Union 100 62 63
St South Devon 100 46 48
St South Eastern 100 764 774 781
St Do Preferred ...100 109/ 1104 111

The Irish people, says the Saturday Review, cannot
really doubt that the present Ministry and the present
House of Commons mean very well to Ireland, and are
sincerely anxious to pass a good Irish Land Bill. But if,
as seems only too probable, the Irish Land Bill proves a
failure, and its merits are frittered away little by little in the
process of desultory legislation, this very goodness of inten
tion, coupled with the feebleness of the result, will seem, it
may be feared; to impetuous Irishmen the most convincing
of all proofs that good legislation for Ireland at West-
minster is beyond hope. If the Parliament failed from
want of good will or from want of sympathy, it might be
hoped that free discussion, and time, .a,nd changes of men
and Ministries, might give a better chance some day of
securinr, good legislation ; but if Parliament fails because
with the best and kindest intentions, it goes on flounder-
ing and vacillating and theorising until good legislation is
hDpeless, then the prospect seems very dreary, and the
thoughts of men will turn instinctively in some other
direction. If after Easter the House goes on with the
Land Bill as it has gone on before Easter. it will be almost
certain, after abandoning all the other work of the session,
to pass a bill that will make Irishmen regard it and its
efforts with amiable pity and good-natured contempt.
Perhaps the most encouraging feature in the past history
of the session is that the shortcoming we have to notice is
not only that of the House of Commons itself, but is also
decidedly that of particulamen. If this is so, we may hope
that those who have disappointed us hitherto will begin to
arouse themselves and to satisfy onr expectations. Mr.
Gladstone has not guided the House enough, for the
simple reason that he has not had in his own mind any
clear notion of what he wanted and why he wanted it.
And he has received little or no assistance from his col-
leagues. It is impossible not to surmise that the history
of these two months would have been different if Mr.
Bright had been in full activity and vigour to take part in
the counsels of the Cabinet, and to impress his views on
the House. At the present crisis, with a chief given over
as a prey to petty refinements and hair-splitting on a
great subject, he would have been peculiarly fitted and
tolerably certain to insist on the paramount necessity of
keeping some general aim clearly and steadily in view.
We trust that after Easter he may soon be restored to his
place in the Government and the House, or, if that is not
to be, that Mr. Gladstone will, during the recess, reani-
mate himself with something of the vigorous spirit in
which he and Mr. Bright and all his colleagues originally
set out to deal with Irish affairs.

St Do Deferred... lOO 41 414
St Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok'g. all 12 131
St Taff Vale - 162
10 Do C 6 3 6
et Waturfoid and Cent. Ireland 100
10 Waterloo and Whitehall

THE SUN, LONDON, , SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1870

MR. SPOFFORTH.

Mr. Spofforth has resigned his position as agent
of the Conservative party. He has fulfilled the
duties of that important post since the autumn of
1859. That he has done the work well
the admirable election management on the
Conservative side, and the frequent victories
gained against long odds, sufficiently testify.
Spofforth has long contemplated resigning,
bat" deferred the step in accordance with the
wishes of the leaders. The Standard considers this
loss a very severe ono. "To those who know how
much knowledge, tact, and discretion, and what in-
cessant toil are required for the clue performance of
the very delicate functions of the post which Mr.
Spofforth has filled for so many years, it will be
needless to say one word as to the zeal, ability, and
high principle with which that gentleman has con-
ducted the electioneering business of the e)onserva-
tive party. Suffice it to say, that his resignation
will be regarded with very great regret by all those
who have the best interests of the party truly at
heart, whilst by its leaders it will be felt to be an
almost irreparable loss."

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meeting in question worshipy. delivered himself
as follows :—" Mr. Aundella came as a friend.
Indeed, I may say that ' he that dippeth with. me
hath betrayed me.' J:le has betrayed us. Mr.
Mundeila has insulted my common sense in
doing as he has dono4 I charge him with
having disregarded his constituents in order to repre-
sent the gas company. 1.",. shall spew you Mx.MuncieHa's craft. It was no perhaps, a direct lie
that he told me, but it was tl same thing. He said
he was going to the Reform Club to dine with some
of the Lords. No doubt ,was, but he did so fre-
quently
execu-
tive committee on the subject' f this charge, and a
t 4
quentiv ; he had no specitiv-^ ngagement to do so."
Mr. Mundella has had a cont( ence with his
communication has been sent t the Mayor, who has
acknowledged it and promised'aqull reply.