The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-26 00:00:00

IHT 511.61, LONDON, SATURDAY, N ovr,mffic, It 26, 187 C.

THE MONEY MARKET.

[CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.]

LOSS OF FIVE LIVES,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The collier brig George and Jane of Shields, bound
south, put into the Humber, wind-bound, on Thursday
night. Yesterday mqrning. at five o'clock she was run
into by the Edina, of Leith, bound for Hull. The brig
was at anchor,but her lights were not burning at the time.
She foundered immediately she was struck. One hand of
the watch was saved, but the other five of the:. crew asleep
in their berths went down with the vessel.

On the Stock Exchange to-day there wag almost a
cessation of business owing to the uncertainty that exists
with respect to the. nature of the answer received from

Russia.

Consols shewed no recovery from last night, being 92a
to 92 for money and account.
There is no change in Foreign Government Securities,
except that Turkish 1869 Bonds are better by per cent.
than they were last night.
French Loan, dis. to par.
The Poonah, for the East, took out to-day £10,450 .in
gold, principally for Alexandria.
The Court of Directors of the Bank of England. have
arranged to nominate Mr. George Lyall and Mr. Ben-
jamin Buck Greene for Governor and Deputy-Governor
at the election in April next.
As Christmas Day will this year fall on a Sunday, the
following day will be observed as an almost universal
holiday. In the present state of the law, however, the
banks must be open on the latter day, thus compelling
the attendance in the City of a large number of persons
whose occupation throughout the year involves much
hard work and responsibility, accompanied 'in many cases
by inadequate remuneration. A bill introduced in the
House of Commons in 1868, to render the day after Christ-
mas Day a bank holiday, was read a second time, but
allowed to drop. It is to be hoped that the matter will be
taken in hand in the forthcoming meeting of Parliament.
The report of the Bombay Gas Company (Limited), to
be submitted oil the 15th of December, states that during
the past half-year there has been a steady increase in the
consumption of gas over the corresponding period of last
year, while the cost of production has decreased. The
directors declare an interim dividend at the rate of 61 per
cent. per annum.

THE ASSOCIATED CAMBERS OF COMMERCE.
At yesterday's sitting of the Associated Chambers of
Commerce at Bradford, it was resolved to petition Parlia-
ment iu favour of Captain Sprp's route to Western China,
and to memoralise the Postmaster-General on the subject
of the pattern-post and telegraphic delays. It was also
resolved to petition Government for a revision of the
Spanish and Portuguese tariffs. A motion to repeal the
Statute of Frauds was rejected. The advisability

of certain clauses which were proposed being added to the
Merchant Shipp.ng Acts way generally conceded.

THE BISHOP OF MAtiCHF,STER, ON THE
EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

IThe Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Fraser) presided
yesterday morning at the first annual meeting of the
Manchester Society for Promoting the Higher Education
of Women. His lordship, in his opening speech, remarked
that he had been called a Radical bishop, but he assured
the meeting that his Radicalism hid a very Conservative
element in it. On tLe subject of female education, for
instance, he was perfectly prepared to welcome
everything that would make the education of women
more sound, more deeply cultured, more ranging
over all her faculties than that hitherto offered ; but he
was most anxious to keep the proper functions of men and
women distinct, ankl he therefore could not sanction with
any satisfaction the attempts being made to intrude
women upon functions which did not belong to them.
When he saw women thrusting themselves into the domain
of politics and medicine he was reminded of the
ladies in one of the plays of Aristophanes, who
sat in council upon affairs of state, and found
they " made a mess of it." If anyone looked
upon a school of anatomy, containing mixed classes of
male and female students from 18 to 25 years old, as an
edifying spectacle in the midst of Modern civilisation,
then their notions of what was right and becoming were
very different from his. What they wanted was to lift
women from frivolity, and so to enrich their characters
that they might redeem young men from fast life. They
hoped thus to substitute public spirit throughout the
country for dissipation and selfishness. But
there was, he thought, something worse than
the frivolous woman. She was bad enough, Heaven knew,
but the fast woman was simply odious. She was bringing
society to the ground. Several subsequent speakers re-
plied to his lordship. They upheld that education pur-
sued even further than by the society wolld not divorce
women from, their home duties, would, indeed, have the
opposite tendency to that of making them fast.

At the meeting of the Scottish Australian Investment
Company (Limited), no dividend was declared on the
ordinary stock, the balance being only £2,766, which it
was resolved to carry forward.
The mectine of the Panama and South Pacific Telegraph
Company (Limited), has been adjourned to the 30th
instant.

Petitions for the winding up of the Parcels Convey-
ance Company (Limited)., McQueen Brothers (Limited),
and the Devon and Cornwall Granite Company (Limited),
are to be heard in the Court of Chancery on the 3rd of
December.