The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1870.

SHARE LISI.

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Closing
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Business
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at Blistil and Exeter...... 100 78 80
at Caledonian. ..... ......... 100 754 77
S Ca:aerials
2) Cornwall. all 21 3i
Dublin ,ic Belfast June lco
et Dtin„Perth,S; Ab.Juue.„ OOO 70 72
2 ) East London all 4 6
,0 1)0 i 5
21 Do 10
st Glasgow st S. Western lO3 107 - 11.0
st Great Eastern ..
st Do. E. Angi. No 2.. ICI.; G- 74
st tircut North of ~...:cotlitu,l lOO 15 10
et Great Northern lOO 1114 1124 116
at Do. A stock...—. lOO la 112
et Do. il stock lOO 127 120
at GIS, and W. of Ireland lOO 48 100
at (it. Western —Original lOO 6:31 634 64
st Do. South WaleS IUO 6i 60
a; Do. W. Mid.—Oxford... 100 46 42
st Do. Newport lOO 3i :;6
et Laucashire a. ieritsnira lOO 128 1285
at Lon., lirigh.,3t S.Coast lOO 44 444
Do Scrip
at 1.0 u., Chat., and Dover.. 10u 15 154
st Do. Metrop. Ex. A.... 160 11 14
st Lou. 3; Notch Western.. IOC) 1234 t 244 .
st Lou. a South Western.. 100 V 3 84
Man., Shei., 3; Lincoln..
1100 - 114 52
dt Metropolitan .. •• • OO 784 784 Tat
at Do Extension ..
6 Do. New rd. .• • all
st Metropolitan District. ail 135 06
10 Metrop. at. John's NV s.od
at Me isud
st 1.: 9, dirtnin. 3s Derby
st North British
st Vo. Ed., I'th., at Dun lO6
at Nor Eastern—Bervvica lOO 127 128
25 D.,, G. N.IL purobase 16.13,1
at D Leeds ... ... •... 100 79 80
st D oYerk .........••••• 100 121 1214 1264
at D oCarlble .... • lOO
st D oStock. & Darling HO 167 169
st North Loudon .. lOO 122 124
10 Do New 1868
at North Staffordshire .... , .
at North ant' S. W. Junction 100 00 191
10 Do Now £lO shares 7 ... ..
st Rimney
fr
at Shropshire Union lOO 694 604
at South Devon'..
at South Eastern lOO 764 76i
st Staines, Wok'ham, 3.; Wok all 13 14
st Tart Vale lOO 154 158
-, Do. C
Waterford & liDkenny lOO ---
l 0 Waterloo & Whitehaa 6

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Btisinetts
Share NAME. Paid. Price done
10 Agra Limited, A all 111 in 111 12
10 DO 13 lO 41 5
50 Albion lb 10 8
00 Alliance. Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lint all 211 25 21;
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited le 3 , 2
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 15 16
20 Do issued at 2 pn._ , 5 31 21
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia all 3'21 331
50 Bank of Vietcria, Austial la 25 37 30
.10 Bank of New Zealand all 15 16
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, and China all 181 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India,
London, and China all 52 31
20 City lO 11 111
100 Colonial '2s 41 43
10 Consolidated, lim.
50 Delhi and Loudon, lint
50 East London, liin
20 English and American, lint 10 .• •••
20 English Bank of 'Rio de Ja-
neiro. lim lO 1 ~11P
24 English, Scottish, and Aus.
tralian Chartered ...... ,: all 171 181
281 Hon, Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 37 9
281 Do new lll 41 51
100 Imperial, lira 2O 3 2
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 3 121
25 lonian all 2J 22
25 Do new 5 6 5
Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 31 31
100 Do ip. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 76 80
100 London Bank of Mexico
and South America, lim. 23 5 4
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 JA 7'.1
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 11 13
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 241 231
20 London and County 2O 491 501 501
50 Do new. iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll
London Joint Stock
London and South African al
100 Loudon &S.-Western, lint, '2O 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, Bin_ 121 ••• •••
100 London and Westminster. 20 6J 61
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lint 25 61 5i
10 Metropolitan, lim all 71 71
00 Midland, 1im..... 2O 'ld 1
b National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lira l5 3d •1p
00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... •••
10 Do
, 30 National.. 3O
20 New South Wales all 41 13
20 North-Western
26 Oriental Bank Corporation all 48 41
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., Km. 10 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 85 87
10 Do new. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 14 1.1
100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 46 43 46
100 Union of Ireland, lint
50 Union of Loudon ...

31i 32

15 351 361

TELEGRAPII COMPANIES.

10 AngiC)-American all 114 191
10 Anglo Medan* Tel., Ulu.— 10 201 21 211
at Atlantic Telegraph lO 14 10
et Do. S per cent.
at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lint lOO 182 40
at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 262 267
10 Do. New 8 12 13p
25 Indo-European Tel., Um— all 23 25
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lint all :I 4
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all
10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lint. all
25 Beuter's Telegram all
20 Societe Trausatlant., Um— all 17 181 17
at Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all i If
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lint all 7 g
5 Do. 10 per cent. Prof all 41 oi

9 10

MISCELLANEOUS.

10 Anglo-Mexican Mint
25 Australian Agricultural 204 16 17
Austn Mort Laud and Fin, L 5 5d pr
10 Baugparah Tea Estate, Lim all 4 5
10 Berlin Water Works, Lim
5 Bombay Gas, Limited all 5 54
5 Ditto, New 4 pr 4 pin
50 British American Land
20 British Indian Tea, Limited all 1 2
27 Canada Company all 63 65
20 Ceylon Company, Limited... 10 4 3d
20 Ditto, A shares
25 City of Loudon Real Prop, LlO 6 5d
30 City of Milan improvinent L all 4 5
50 City Offices, Limited
50 Colonial, Limited 2O 2d pr
50 Commercial Union (Asso)
10 Corn of African March, L
20 Continental Union Gas, L
25 Copper Miners of England,
Pref 71 per cent all 5 7
100 Corp of London Bonds, 1877,
44 per cent all
100 Ditto, 1879, 4f p3r cent
100 Ditto, 1882, 41 per cent
10 Credit Folic of England, L all 24 24 3
50 Credit Fouc of Mauritius, L.. 10 24 14
St Crystal Palace
St Do, Preference lOO 94 99
St Do, 6 per cent Perp Debentloo 105 110
50 E India Laud Credit & Fin L 7 5 4
32 Ebbw Vale 271 10 95
100 Egypt 9 p et Viceroy's Loan
gua by Egyptian Gov
20 Egyptian Com and Trading L 4113
3 English and Austr Copper, L 21 1 4
15 Eng and Foreign Credit 7 54 41
10 Ear)pean Gas all 17 18
10 Do, new.— 5 4 41
6 Eairbairn Engineering 5 i 5 p
20 Fore-street Warehouse, L 13 34 44p
100 Foreign and Col Gov Trust
and Leau 6 per et Bonds... all 93 97 974
10 Gen Credit and Discount, I, 74 4 45
15 General Steam Navigation... 14 20 30
50 Home and Col Marine Ins, L 5 1(1 p
20 Hudson's Bay (Governor and
Co. of Adventurers of Eng
trading into) .01 12 12}
50 Imperial Continental Gas.... 434 134 136
50 India Rub, Works, L... 45 57 59 654
10 International Fivan Soc, L... 5 14 lid 31
20 Italian Irrigatou Canal, Cav all 4 44
LOO Ditto, 6 per cut Bonds, red all
18;0
50 Land Securities, Limited 5 2 ld
25 London African Trading lO
50 Lond Financial Assoc, Lim 3O 18 17d
4 Lend Gen Omnibus, Limd all 24 2f
50 Lond & Glasg Engin, Limd 25 18 16d
20 London and Prey Marine 2 par 5p 21
St Madras Irrig & Canal, guar 100
spc by India Gov lOO 103 105
50 Merchant Shipping, Limtd all 32 37
10 Natal Land and Col Co., Lim all • 34 41
25 National Discount Co, Lim 5 111 114 111
10 National Steamship Limd -. all 131 14./-
1 Nerbudda Coal & In, Ld
10 New Consolidated Dis Ld 4
5 New Quebrada, Limited 4/1224 4i 44e1
25 N Zealand Ln & Mere, &c 11)
25 N Zealand Trust & In, Ld 5 14 11P
10 North Assam Tea, Limited...
all 7 5,1
10 Do, B all d
St N British Austral, Limited 100 60
701
50 N British & Mercan lusnce 6l '23 235
25 Ocean Marine insurance 5 15 16P
5 Oriental Gas, Limited
5 Do, New
10 Otago Sr South Invest, Ld 2 ,•,ccii 4P
5 Ottoman Gas, Limited 2 -zit
St. Peel Riv Lnd & Min, Lim —lOO 31 33
50 Peninslr & Oriental Steam all 45 47 46
50 Do., New, 1867 lO 31• 2id
all 27
50 Rhymney Iron
15 Do, New all 8. 81"
2520
RRiioo Jjaanneeiirroo
GCaitz
Lira eLdr t.
d all
11
100 Royal Mail Steam
1294 23:10 20
14
St. Scot Aus Invest, Limited lOO
20 Societe General de l'Enapire
8 24 34
Ottoman

25 South Australian Land ...... all ...
20 Tel Construe & Maintenance
Um and reduced) ............ all 89( 39( 441
20 Thames & Mors Mn Ins, b... 2 21 2IP
St. Tobacco (Ital 6p c Loan)... all 86 88
10 Trustand Agency of Austra-
lasia, (Limited) ............ 1 1p
20 Tr Sr Ln Co of Up Canada... 5 * 113
50 Union Marine Liverpool, 14 5 6 GiP
20 Union Steam Ship, Ld . .... all 21 23
15 United Dis Corpora, Lmtd 6 2 ld
20 Uuiver Mar (Ins), Lmtd ...... 5 41 SIP
10 Upper Assam Tea, Lmtd all 1 1
30 Van Diemen's Land. ...... 281 7 9
100 Viceroy of Egypt Mort Ln. all 801 811 81
50 Warrant Finane,Limited 12 8 6d
50 W I P Steam,c LimLitmed ... 20 4 3d
4"

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times thinks there could, be no doubt of the deci-
sion of the House concerning O'Donovan Rossa, and yet
the debate was as earnest and formal as if the majority
had to be won by argument. There are a good many
people who will rather take a pride in such a technical
discussion. It exhibits the English as a severely law
abiding people; it shews the historical and antiquarian
spirit which prevades our institutions, and the intimate
connection between the reign of Queen Victor
h
and time immemorial. The discussion turned principally er
the necessity of attainder as a: disqualification. Om
readers, even though unlearned in the law, may follow
the arguments, and we think it will be their opinion that
the reasoning of the Solicitor-General and of Sir Roundell
Palmer was unanswerable. In this discussion we cannot
but feel that there was a foregone conclusion, and that,
whatever the legal arguments, the House knew how
it must of necessity decide. It is always so in such cases.
and this shews the futility of such dispuisitions.
We find in the courts of law every day that
the judges decide in favour of the party who
has quite the worst of the technical argument, and base a
substantially just decision on rather weak and shifty
reasoning of their own. This is not necessary in the
present case, for the supporters of the motion were, as far
as we can judge, legally in the right; but, had the case
of Mr. Moore and Mr. Matthews been far stronger, it
would not the less have been the duty of the House of
Commons to declare the election of O'Donovan Rosso.
void. It is monstrous to suppose that any law or
custom could ever give the right of retaining a
nominal membership to a man who is unable to
perform a single act appertaining :to membership, who is
not a free agent, who cannot enter the House, who cannot
communicate with the House or his constituents. The
circumstance that he is debarred from fulfiiling the func
tions of a representative, and will be so debarred for an

indefinite term, which may extend over his whole natural
life, forbids him to be accepted as a member, land the only
question is whether the House shall expel him or declare
his election void. The latter course seems the more
obvious and just, and we cannot doubt that in taking it
the House did in no way set its own Privilege above
the Law.

The Daily News remarks that the transfer of the tele-
graphs from the companies to the Post Offiee has not been
aocomplished without some little difficulty and disap-
pointment. The curious accident of Monday night, by
which the whole north and west of England was cut off
from communication with the metropolis, was not the only

difficulty which has accompanied the change. The
telegraphs are put into the hands of the Govern-
ment in order, that they may be so fully manned
that all emergencies shall be provided for. To

attempt to work them with a minimum staff will
be to lay up many disappointments in the future; it is
essential to the satisfactory operation of the new system
that the staff of officials should be kept permanently up to
the maximum of the requirements of business. This will
of course not be done if the telegraphs are to be worked
solely for profit ; it must be done if they are to be
worked for the public convenience. We have much confi-
dence in the wish of the department to justify the public con-
fidence by a very efficient administration of the system, and
in the desire and ability of Mr. Scudamore to make the
change universally fratisfactory. But the ablest admini-
strator will be fettered if he is expected to attain a double
object. He cannot serve two masters—and if he is to
serve the public efficiently ho must be allowed to put
revenue in the second place. We, in the metropolis, have
a local grievance to complain of, which looks like a too
great desire for profit on the part of the Adminis
tra-
tion. In carrying out the principle of uniformity of
tariff the cost of our local messages has been doubled.
Hitherto we have been able to send a despatch
from most parts of London to places within the
metropolitan area for sixpence—we are now charged a
shilling. Nothing would be more useful to the thousands
who every day pour into this City from the suburbs, than
to be able to communicate with their homes by a quick,
cheap, and certain medium. A sixpenny telegraph, worked
as the Post Office could work it, would provide this cora-
lmunication for us ; and the public will never feel that
they have got one-half of the convenience they expected
from the transfer of the telegraphs to the department till
the old tariff is restored along with greater speed and
certainty than we have been able to reckon upon under
the old system. ;

The Bishop of Exeter, says the Standard, 'has withdrawn
his contribution to " Essays and Reviews," and by this
tardy but satisfactory concession to Church opinion, has
spared Convocation a painful but inevitable duty. We do
not care, under these circumstances, to insist upon the
injury and damage which have been occasit nod by Dr.
Temple's protracted obstinacy. While earnestly protesting
against the appointment as a scandalous affront flung at
the Church by Mr. Gladstone, ~ we have
always given the Premier's nominee the f all est
credit for being actuated by conscientious motives,
and we have made every allowance for the delicate
scrupulosity, carried to an excess as we think it was,
which impelled him to keep back the avowal which he ha s
now tendered. It is to be hoped that the step thus taken
by the bishop, which is certainly equivalent to a repudia-
tion of complicity with the rest of the Essayists, will be
accepted by the diocese of Exeter, and churchmen gene-
rally, as a full assurance that the new bishop has finally
broken away from the harmful associations which
disqualified him for the Episcopate, and which
so fatally compromisd his prospects of usefulness.
It is his duty, as he told the Upper House
of Convocation, by his whole course of life, and by
his work in the diocese to which he has been called, to
justify his appointment, so far as strength and light are
vouchsafed to him, and we are glad to believe that he
enters upon his labours with the sincerest desire to dis-
charge that duty as well as in him lies. At the same
time we must repeat that nothing short of some such
declaration as that involved by the withdrawal of his
essay would have warranted Convocation in keeping back
its judgment upon the whole transaction. Not merely
had he brought down upon himself, in common with
his brother Essayists, the indignant protest of 12,000 of
the clergy, and the censure of the whole body of the
Episcopate, Convocation itself had condemned him in the
most solemn and formal manner. If it had remained
silent when he was thrust by the secular power into one
of the Church's high places it would justly have been
branded with the stigma of cowardice and imbecility.
The Church Parliament, which is too indifferent or too
timid to speak out boldly the mind of the Church at all
hazards is a mere sham, and the sooner it is abolished the
better.

Dr. Temple, says the Pall Mall Gazette, has become the
Bishop of Exeter. We have no doubt that we shall
always be able to speak of the Bishop of Exeter as we
have always spoken of Dr. Temple, in terms expressive of
thorough respect for honesty, ability and energy. But we
have a certain slight misgiving that even Dr. Temple's
position will be more or less modified by his elevation to
the episcopal bench. He feels the more attached
to the army in which he is taking command,
because they displayed a righteous though excessive
ardour in attacking him when he really wont astray. Few
boys are grateful to a schoolmaster for flogging them
when they only deserved to be put in the corner, on the
ground that at any rate they had been really naughty.
This, however, seems to be Dr. Temple's frame of
mind, and all that is left to us is to congratu-
late him on his Christian feeling, and on the ortho.
doxy which is calculated to make him a mod&
bishop and an ornament to the Church. It is
possible, however, that the survivors among his fellow
essayists may feel themselves a little hurt. They have
kept together until now, in spite of good report and evil
report ; but the time has at last arrived when Dr. Temple,
is obliged to repudiate their company. There is, perhaps,
no real cause for annoyance. The whole tone of
Dr. Temple's utterances upon such subjects, in-
cluding his own essay, has always appeared to us
to diverge very widely irom that of his colleagues.
He may be quite justified in proclaiming that divergence
at this moment in the most conspicuous way ' • and we
hope that they will imitate his Christian spirit and for-
give what has a superficial resemblance to a desertion.
Perhaps, however, we should be grateful that Government
has had an opportunity of making an apparently bold ap-
pointment without doing the slightest harm, and that Dr.
Temple gained his bishopric without previously making
any unworthy concessions.
The Telegraph declares that barricade building is among
the lost arts. We do not acknowledge the contemptible
obstructions erected on the Rue du Temple, the Rue St
Maur, the Rue Oberkampf, and the Quai Valmy as genuine
barricades. Although the telegrams speak vaguely
regarding their strength, those barricades must have been
puny indeed which could be stormed by a few sergents de
title, with their rapiers like lark-spits. Depend npon it,
the art of building barricades, in which the French
were once amazingly proficient, is lost. Going no
further back than the famous inteutes of the Rue Trans-
nonain and the Rue de la Tixeranderie, in Louis Philippe's
time, we find records of barricades grand, imposing, and
majestic. The barricading which followed the coup d'etat
was as the mud pies of children when compared with the
gigantic and commanding structures that had been seen
during the Orleans regime, not only in Paris, but at
Lyons, where thirty thousand troops were twice
i compelled to deluge La Perruche and La Croix
Rousse with blood, before the artists could be weaned
from their beloved pursuit. Those were Homeric days,
and the artists were cast in heroic mould. We fail to dis-
cern in the few crack-brained gazetteers who have been
lately inciting to revolt the lowest scum and riffraff, the
potissons and voyous, the saute-ruisseaux and claque-sous of
Paris, any element which can claim to represent the
people. Cavroche, indeed, the typical gamin in M.
Hugo's " Miserables " may have been a representa-
tive of the unseemly vagabonds whiz” e recent diver-
sions have consisted in pulling down kiosquos, turn-
ing old ladies out of omnibuses, defying the
police, and then running away ; but the original
Gavroche would have been ashamed, we fancy, to associate
with the pit:cis-plats on whom his mantle, or rather his
ragged blouse, has fallen. He cried " Mort aux voleurs "
and was the first to demand the execution of those who
made patriotism. a pretext for plundering. The times
have signally altered since his day ; and we do not wonder
that the majority of the paltry barricades built in
February, 1870, were evacuated as soon as the police
appeared on the scene. ' Cervantes laughed Spain's
chivalry away"; but M. Piotri and his agents from the
Rue de Jerusalem are sufficient, we should say, to exorcise
the Red Spectre of the Rochefort riots.