The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing astness
Share; NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra, Limited, A all 101 115 115
AO Do B lO 35 35 41
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 201 211 211 1
20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 11 2 95
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 51 41
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia.. all 10 It
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lint.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 16 17
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, ind China all 18 19
25 Chartered Mere, of India,
London, and China
20 City l9 11 12
100 Colonial 25 38 4 )
10 Consolidated, lim
50 Delhi and London, lim
50 East London, lint 5 25 15
20 English and American, lint 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. llm lO pr ip
20 English, Scottish, and Aus-
tralian Chartered . all 61 17
281 ]Jong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 38
281 Do now 5l 21 21
100 Imperial, lim 2O 13 14
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 25 21 121 1
25 lonian. all 10 22
25 Do new 5 6 1
Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 5 I
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 76 , 0
100 London Bankfof .11 exico
and South America, lim. 20 - 7 6 13
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 97
20 Do new 71 6 41
100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 215
20 London and County 2O 491 504 51
50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. 11 •• •
Loadon Joint 5t0ck......... 1 • 311 .34
London and South African al 8: 9 i
100 London &S.-Western, lim, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, lint l2l •••
100 London and Westminster. 20 Cl. 62 591 1
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10pm. 2O
100 Merchant, lint 25 6 5
10 Metropolitan, lint all 75 71 81
00 Midland, lim 29 11 1
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 3d 1p
00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do . . 42
50 National.. 3O
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western 7l
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 411
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim. 10 61 35 31
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 to ;04
10 Do new. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 11 14
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 48
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of London l5 37; 381 37
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Do. 1893, Feb. & Aug lO 106 100
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1867-75, 0 per cent ICO 100 100
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Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1890... 100 984 994 981
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Tasmanian 6 per '3.1895 064 1074
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*SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JouRN,,Ls,

The Tunes, after r•eterring to the two last changes
effected by the Lords in the Irish Church Bill, says that
disestablishment is again complete. So much will be
allowed by all to be an unmixed gain. Lord Stanhope's
successful amendment will be received with divided senti-
ments. That it was successful, in spite of a vigorous pro-
test from Lord Granville, and of an elaborate argument
from Lord Cairns, is a striking testimony, if testimony were
needed, to the power of reason and equity. Even those
who will most quarrel with the amendment must acknow-
ledge that, following those already adopted by the Peers,
it was an act of justice, for it gives to Roman Catholics
and Presbyterians what had been given by a previous
amendment to Protestant clergymen. We are equally
satisfied that it is a victory of reason. This is not denied
by the members of the Government who opposed it, and
when we attempt to analyse the arguments of the Ministers
we find them crumbling beneath examination. There is, in
fact, no argument heard from Liberal lips save this—that the
opinion of many popular constituencies is not sufficiently
enlightened ~n the subject. We know very well that argu-
ments, however sound, are no match for popular prejudice,
when once excited ; and that the cry of "Concurrent
Endowment" will be sufficient to stifle this last appeal to
reason and common sanse ; yet we may assert with the
utmost confidence that, as far as the 'influence of the
amendment goes, the bill offers a better approximation
to religions equality in Ireland than when it came from the
Lower House. As the measure now returns to the Commons
it demands serious debate. The clauses respecting disesta-
blishtnent arc intact. The reservation of the Ulster
glebes is clearly indefensible in principle and policy, and
must be repudiated. Lord Carnarvon's amendment
embodies no novelty of principle, and, indeed, follows the
Government precedent in dealing with Maynooth. The
limit of fourteen years is probably too high, and should
be reduced to thirteen or twelve, but it is impossible to
contest the change on other grounds. Lord Stanhope's
amendment and the postponement of the uses of the sur-
plus remain, and it is not unlikely that the question will
be which shall be accepted.
The Standard says that it was hardly to be expected
that the Church Plunder Bill would be allowed to pass
the third reading without some kind of protest being
recorded on the part of that not inconsiderable section of
the Conservative peers who object to the principle of the
bill in toto, and who do not feel themselves at liberty, or
called upon to waive their objections on any grounds of
expediency, in consideratiOn of the vote of the House of
Commons, or in deference to what is alleged to be the
judgment of the country. They take up their stand
against the bill on abstract grounds of justice, equity, and
constitutional principle, and they absolutely decline to
be swayed from their convictions by arguments to which
responSible statesmen cannot afford to be inaccessible.
The amendment of Lord Stanhope afforded the
House a final opportunity of deciding upon the
proposal of the Duke of Cleveland. It provides
that houses and glebes to the extent of ten acres
shall be given alike to the Protestant Episcopal, Roman
Catholic, and Presbyterian clergy, and houses of residence
and lands to the extent of thirty acres to the Protestant
and Roman Catholic prelates. These terms were more
advantageous to the Irish Church in that they would
have given her clergy glebe lands as well as glebe-houses,
and they would have won support in the House of Com-
mons from quarters hither t o hostile to the doomed Establish-
ment, while they would have brought the Roman Catholic
clergy in closer and more responsible relations to the State
a gain which the staunchest 'Protestant would hardly
be likely to undervalue. We are not a little thankful
that, after such ample deliberation upon three separate
occasions, the House has adopted a proposal which so
importantly strengthens its position in insisting upon its
amendments.

The Daqy News-observes that if little people will under-
take, unbidden, to represent great causes, they must bear the
ridicule of inevitable failure. For a fortnight before last
Saturday we were promised a grand 14ttional Protestant
Demonstration on Blackheath. It was a disputed point
among its promoters whether the number likely to as-
semble was 50,000 or 100,000. Every part of the kingdom
was to be represented ; but the heaviest contingents were
to come from the North, and for the accommodation of ex-
pected myriads trains were to run every five minutes. For
a real demonstration cf the Protestant feeling of the
nation these preparations would not have been excessive.
After all that we have heard during the last two years,
Protestantism remains not only the greatest moral and
religious interest, but the mightiest political power in the
nation, and whenever it is imperilled it will be easy to
collect the public in numbers which will leave the
estimates of Saturday last far behind. Should the Pro-
testantism 9f the country ever be in danger, the lead of
public opinion is not likely to fall to Sir J. Eardley
Wilmot and Ma;or•Gcneral Beatty. One reason for
failure was that the conveners of the meeting assumed
without warrant to represent a cause which isnot rightfully
theirs, but that of their opponents. This Irish Church
lu 11 is called for and is tieing pressed forward in the
interests of Protestantism, which the Establishment prin-
ciple every year places more and more in danger. The
public takes note of the quarter from which proposals to
endow the Church of Rome coin'. Invariably they pro•
ceed from the d, fenders of the United Church of England
and Ireland. It is the d‘ fenders, not the assailants of the
Irish Church, above all its episcopal defenders, who are
imperilling the Protestantism of the nation ; and the nation
knows it. hat is the great fact which is growing upon
the public apprehension, and is educating the country in
sound Church principles with a rapidity which is really
startling.

The Post remarks that it can scarcely be expected the
successful laying of the French Atlantic Cable will excite
the same astonishment as when just eleven years ago an
English company first bridged, though only for a few
short hours, the Atlantic Ocean. Since then the science
of submarine telegraphy has been carried to a degree of
great perfection, numberless cables cross narrow straits
and broad seas, and, save where oceans intervene, man
has with facility and despatch succeeded in extending a
slender and unbroken wire from coast to coast. In 1840
Professor Wheatstone drew the plans of a projected sub-
marine telegraph between Dover and Calais, and seven
years later a similar scheme was submitted by Mr. J.
Watkins Brett to King Louis Philippe, but without success.
When Prince Louis Napoleon became President of the
French Republic the suggestion was renewed, and the requi-
site authorisation being given, the experiment of laying a
cable across the Channel was made in August 1850. An
E'nglish steamer left the harbour at Dover for the
French coast, dropping the wire over the stern as she went.
She reached Cape Grisnes in safety, the remaining por-
tion of the cable on board was landed, run up the side of
the cliff, and telegraphic communication successfully
established, to the astonishment of everyone,
between England and France. Immediately after-
wards, however, the wire snapped through the want
of care, or rather of experience in laying it, and another
attempt, though on a scale of greater magnitude, was
made in the following year with complete success. On
turning to the journals of the time we find it recorded as
evidence of the astonishing results of the undertaking
that the opening and closing prices of the funds in Paris
were known on the London Stock Exchange within busi-
ness hours, and that guns were fired at Dover by commu-
nication with Calais. Since then communications have
been established between Ireland and England, between
France and Algeria, Marseilles, Malta, and Alexandria,
Suez and Aden, England and Bombay, and, most stupen-
dous undertaking of all, between the United Kingdom and
the United States.

The Telegraph advises the public not to muzzle the clogs,
but to give them water. Either strap or cage is a terrible
business, and causes the utmost possible suffering to the
dogs, while yielding the smallest possible safety to man-
kind. It is a relic of the old days of thumb-screws,
pillories, cats-o'-nine-tails, blisters, cupping, penal
statutes, and other 'landmarks of the wisdom of our
forefathers. Good, kindly, well-meaning Lord Gros-
venor has taken this matter in hand, and we ask that
he may be supported by the public. In the case
of the dogs, the noble reformer prefers water to
muzzles. If a dog is to go mad from heat and thirst, do
not try to set him right by making him hotter and
thirstier. So just now we would endorse Lord Grosvenor's
appeal, and should be glad, indeed, if endorsement of ours
could help the poor dogs. Of muzzling them we trust
there is au end. Muzzles are to dogs what prisons are to
men—never to he used except against ill-doers.. If a bull-
dog of uncertain temper will bite children, he must be
shot or muzzled. But muzzling seems to have
answered so badly in the case of human beings
that we are not tempted to continue it in their
ease ; why, then, in that of the dogs? Time
was when muzzles might have been wanted; but in
this country, and in our own time, they are wanted no
more, for either man or dog. Let the Parliament of the
United Kingdom get rid of the Irish muzzle, and let us
help Lord Grosvenor to free the poor dogs from their
muzzles. The principle is the same in either case.
The Star, in commenting on a recent case of cruelty to
a cab horse, says that Coleridge, in " The Ancient
Mariner," tells us that " he prayeth best who loveth best
all things both great and small : For the dear God who
loveth us, He made and loveth all." It would be well if
this true and tender sentiment were more constantly in
the minds of the British public than it is. Unhappily.
we live in an age when there exists alongside of a fair
amount of cant and sentimentalism on some subjects, an
equal degree of apathy, hard-heartedness, and cynicism on
others. The ignorance of the very lowest clal-sesleaves promi-
nent in the rough islander a certain savagery and ferocity
which he has always possessed, and which can only be
mitigated by special culture. Then, again, among the
higher classes there reigns a vast deal of selfishness and
negligence, a kind of laissez faire notion that if the time
is out of joint they were not born to set it right. They
appear to forget that there are correlative respowibilitie,
in all societies, and that "Am I my brother's keeper?"
was the question of the first murderer. "It is not
my business" is the conventional stereotyped
idea • and although we are far from counselling
any Cody. to. be pragmatical or meddlesome, cases
daily arise where it is nothing short of criminal to
carry on the system of noninterference. But even if the
hard exigencies of our cautious intercourse with each other
make us sometimes callous and negatively cruel, can we
not evince some gentleness and tenderness to the helpless
creatures who are the ministers of our needs? Nothing is
so demoralising as cruelty, active or passive ; and when
we neglect, through carelessness or indolence, to prosecute
a cabman who over-flogs, or over-drives, or generally
maltreats his horse, we are really guilty of a breach of