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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING JUNE 20, 1810.

THE MONEY MARKET

ANL)
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'OLoox.
Business on the Stock Exchange was dull. Government
Stocks and Foreign Securities were a shade lower.
Consols are now 921 to 921; ditto Account, 921;
Three per Cent. Reduced, 921 to 921; New 3 per
Cent., 921 to 921; India Five per Cents., 111* ; ditto
Four per Cents., 102 to 1021.
In the Foreign Market Italian 1867 are 59 to 694 ;
Spanish 1867 Loan, 311 to 311 ; do. 1869, 311 to 311 ;
Peruvian, 911 to 911.; Portuguese, 331 to 34 ; Brazilian,
1865, 911 to 921; Egyptian, 1864, 911 ; New Peruvian,
at par to 1, are + lower ; Quicksilver, 11, to 1.1 prem.;
Turkish, 1869, 631 to 631. _ _

In the Railway Market Caledonians are 781 to 781;
Great Eastern, 401 to 401 ; Great Northern, 1231 to 1241 ;
Great Western, 73s to 731 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1331 to 1341 ; Brighton, 431 to 44 ; London, Chatham,
and
_Dover,. 151 i to 16 ; London and North Western,
1291 to 130 ; London and South Western, 91 to 93 ;
Metropolitan, 69 to 691 ; Midland, 131 to 13111
Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are 81/; British
India, 81 to 81 ; China, 2to 21 dis. ; Falmouth, n to
911.
In Bank Shares Alliance are quoted 141 to 151; Anglo-
Austrian, 15 to 17 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 30 to
31 ; Consolidated, 41 ; Imperial Ottoman, 141 to 141;
London and County, 50 to 51; London and Westmin-
ster, 63'; London Joint Stock, 341 to 351; and
Union of London, 39} to 401.
Canada Five per Cents. are quoted 99 to 99i ; New
South Wales Five per Cents., 104 to 105 ; New Zealand
Five per Cents., 991 to 991; Queensland Six per Cent.,
112 to 113 ; Victoria Five per Cents (1891), 1031 to 1041 ;
ditto Six per Cent., 1111 to 1121.
In Miscellaneous Shares, General Credit are quoted i f
prem. ; International Financial, 11 1 dis. ; Hudson's
Zay, 121 131, 121; National Discount, 111 12. 111.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are 901 to 901; Ten-
Forty Bonds, 861 to 871; Erie shares, 18i to 191; Illinois,
113 to 114 ; and Atlantic and Great Western Bonds, 28
to 29.

It has been announced by Messrs. Fruhling and Gos
then that the coupons due Ist July of the Egyptian
Government Railway Debenture Loan, also those of the
United Danubian Principalities Eight per Cent. Loan,
1861, are payable on and after the Ist proximo.
Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. announce that the Bonds
of the Chilian Five per Cent. Government Loan, 1870, for
21,012,700, are ready for delivery in exchange for the fully
paid-up scrip. _

According to the latest news from Constantinople the
accounts of the disastrous consequences of the late fire
were in no degree overstated. A Relief Committee 'was
started immediately by the Imperial Ottoman Bank, as-
sociating with them the Societ6 GentSrale Ottoman, the
Cr&lit G4n6ral Ottoman, and the leading capitalists of
Constantinople,under thepresidency of the Government. At
the first meeting £26,000 was subscribed,including2lo,ooo
from the Sultan, £3,000 'from the Ottoman Bank, £2,500
from the So ci4te G6n6rale Ottomane, and £2,500 from the
Cr6dit Ottoman, hnd various sums of from £5OO to £l,OOO
from pri rate bankers and others. Gifts of materials for
clothing for the sufferers will, it is stated, be gladly
received by the Ottoman Bank in London. The English,
it appears, have suffered much.
The prospectus has appeared of :he Honduras 10 per
cent. Government Railway Loan for £2,500,000 in bonds
of £lOO at the price of 80. The loan is to be reduced at
par within 15 years by annual drawings, by means of an
accumulation sinking fund of 3 per cent. perannum. The
instalments must be paid as follows :-15 per cent. on
allotment, 10 on Ist August, 10 on Ist of September, 15 on
let of October, 15 on let of November, and the balance on
the 15th of December.

MARKETS.-Tx IS DAY.

THIS MORNING'S NEWS,

THE DEATH OF LORD ARTHUR
CLINTON.

As announced in a Central Press telegram on Saturday
Lord Arthur Clinton died on that day at Muddeford, near
Christchurch. Mr. Roberts, solicitor to Lord Arthur,
writes to say that on Friday he was summoned to
Muddeford. On arriving he found Lord Arthur suffering
seriously from an attack of scarlet fever. His lordship
gave Mr. Roberts the necessary instructions for preparing
by instructing counsel and otherwise for his
defence at the Central Criminal Court, saying that
he was anxious to court the fullest inquiry upon
the charge. brought against him in connection with
Boulton and Park. At Lord Arthur's request Mr.
Roberts prepared a letter, in which his lordship entirely
denied the grave crime imputed to him, and stated that
the only thing of which he had been guilty was the folly
of impersonating women by way of amusement and love
of theatricals. After this letter had been prepared Lord
Arthur had become so weak that he was unable to sign it.
He was, however, perfectly sensible, and solemnly asserted
his innocence of the graver charge prior to his death, which
took place at five minutes past one on Saturday.
Mr. Roberts incloses in his letter a copy of the letter
which death prevented Lord Arthur from signing. The
communication was intended for publication in the news-
papers. In it Lord Arthur gives most unequivocal denial
to the graver offence alleged against him, and pledges to
surrender himself to the jurisdiction of the court at the
appointed time, a course which he would have pursued
before but for his illness, and asks the public to suspend
its judgment.

DEAN STANLEY ON CHARLES DICKENS:
An immense congregation Sssembled on Sunday after-
noon in Westminster Abbey to listen to the sermon
preached by the Dean of Westminster on the death of
Charles Dickens. The doors were opened at half-past
two, but the people gathered about the doors as early as
half-past one, and as soon as the gates were opened every
seat was filled. The family and relations of Mr. Dickens
were seated in a gallery in the south transept. Unfor-
tunately, Dean Stanley was suffering from severe in-
disposition, and preached with manifest effort. He apo-
logised for the Weakness which prevented him from
making his voice sound as far as he could wish, and this
was the greater loss to those beyond its reach, from the
beauty and appropriateness of the sermon. The Dean
found a singularly apposite text in the Gospel of the dry,
the parable of Dives and Lazarus. He said if the Scrip-
ture of the day and the incident of the week directed
their minds to the same thoughts, and naturally illus-
trated each other, the attraction became irresistible, and
the lesson which they gave was doubly strengthened. The
parable of the rich man and Lazarus was the parable of para-
bles. It was atale of reallife—so real, that they couldbelieve
that it was not history ; but nevertheless Dives and
Lakarus were as much imaginary beings as Hamlet or
Shylock. The parable showed the sacredness and value of
fictitious narrative, and it were well we should see how the
Bible sanctioned that particular mode of instruction,
which was, in a special sense, God's gift to our own age.
No works were so penetrating as those of the novelist.
They reached those who never read history or
sermon. A was this that gave them their power.
Coming to the consideration of the particular gifts of
Charles Dickens as a writer, the preacher continued,
"This was not the place to speak at length of those
lighter and more genial qualities which he possessed, such
as render his death, like that of one who rests beside him,
almost an eclipse of the gaiety of nations.' Let
others tell elsewhere of his brilliant, delicate
satire, of his kindly wit, of his keen and
übiquitous sense of the grotesque and ludicrous,"
The great lesson of his writings was represented in the
parable of the day. The moral which the parable intends
us to draw is the very same which is drawn with unex-
ampled and unrivalled force throughout the writings of our
lost instructor. Dives and Lazarus wereprototypes of those
classes so vividly pourtrayed by Charles Dickens. It is of
the vast outlying mass of unseen human suffering that we
need to be so constantly reminded ; of the contrast be-
tween things as they are in the sight of God and in the
sight of man. It is the difficulty of realising this which
makes the parable of Lazarus as vitally necessary for our
society as it was for the men to whom it was first spoken.
It was the part of him whom we have lost to make the
rich man, faring sumptuously every day, fail to see the
presence of the poor man at his gate. The
suffering inmates of our workhouses—the neglected children
in the dens and caves of this great city—the starved,
ill-used boys, in remote schools, far from the observation
of men—these all felt a new ray of sunshine poured into
their dark prisons, and a new interest awakened in their
forlorn and desolate lot, because an unknown friend had
Pleaded their cause with a voice that rang through the palaces
of the great as well as through the cottages of the poor.
After speaking of the tenderness with which the master
hand of the departed writer drew the pictures
of the virtues and affections hidden in dark places,
the Dean concluded by reading a touching pas-
sage from the will of Charles Dickens, dated
May 12, 1869. After the most emphatic injunctions re-
specting the inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly
private manner of his funeral—injunctions that have
been carried out to the very letter —he thus
continues :—" I direct that my name be inscribed in
plain English letters on my tomb. I conjure my friends
on no account to make me the subject of any monument,
memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claim to the
remembrance of my country on my published works, and
to the remembrance of my friends m their experience of
me in addition thereto. I commit my soul to the mercy
of God, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; and
I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide them-
selves by the teaching of the New Teseament, in its broad
spirit, and to put no faith in any man's narrow con-
struction of its letter here or there." In that simple and
sufficient faith he had lived and died, and bade them live
and die, and the best memorials they could raise to him
were the works of purity, of kindness, of unselfishness, of
which he had showed them the value. After the beautiful
anthem " When the ear heard him" had been sung, and
the service concluded, the congregation dispersed, nearly
all passing out by Poet's Corner, to look at the last resting
place of Charles Dickens.

In the evening the Rev. B. Jowett, Regius Professor of
Greek at Oxford, preached. He said :—He whom we
now mourn was the friend of mankind, a philanthropist
in the true sense, the friend of youth, the friend of the
poor, the enemy of every form of meanness and oppres-
sion. I am not going to attempt to draw a portrait
of him. Men of genius are different from what we
suppose them to be, they have greater pleasures and
greater pains, greater affections, and greater temptations,
than the generality of mankind, and they can never be
altogether understood by their fellow men. We do not
wish to intrude upon them, or analyse their lives and cha-
racters. They are extraordinary persons, and we cannot
prescribe to them what they—should be. ut we feel that Si
light has gone out, the world is darker to us, when they de-
part. There are so very few of them that we cannot afford to
lose them one by one and we look vainly round for others who
may supply their places. And he whose loss we now
mourn occupied a greater space than any other writer in
the minds of Englishmen during the last 35 years. We
sad him, talked about him, acted him, we laughed with
him, we were roused by him to a consciousness of the
misery of others, and to a pathetic interest in human life.
The workhouse child, the cripple, the half-clothed and
half-starved inhabitant of a debtors prison found a
way to his heart, and, through the exertions of his
genius, touch to our hearts also. Works of fiction would
be intolerable if they attempted to be sermons directly to
instruct us ; but indirectly they are great instructors of
the world, and we can hardly exaggerate the debt of gra-
titude which is due to a writer who has led us to sympa-
thise with these good, true, sincere. honest English cha-
racters of ordinary life, and to laugh at the egotism, the
hypocrisy, the false respectability of religious professors
and others. To another great humourist who lies in this
church the words have been applied that the gaiety of
nations was eclipsed by his death. But of him who has
been recently taken I would rather say, in humbler
language, that no one was ever so much beloved or so
much mourned. Men seem to have lost, not a great
writer only, but one whom they had personally known.
And so we bid him farewell.