The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1 69

SHARE LIST.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing, Business
Share NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 11% 121 12
10 Do B lO 41 51
50 Albion
100 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lira all 17 18
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 8 6
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
20 Do issued at 2 pm....., , b ... ...
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lira.
25 Bank of South Australia all 31 83 •
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 87 ait
10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 19
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, ,nd China all 201 214
25 Chartered Mere, of India,
London, and China all 29 304 30
20 City l' 111 121
100 Colonial 25 40 42
10 Consolidated, lira.
50 Delhi and London, lira
50 East Loudon, Um .5 11 Ai
2(1 English and American, inn 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio do Ja-
neiro. Ihn lB ld pr
•
20 Engliah, .7.cottish, and Aus

.., .
tralian Chartered — all lai 171 17 1
5.8 j LTong Kong an .1 Shanghai
Bank Corporation all ... ...
281 Do new 5/ 5 1
100 Imperial, lim 29 17 18
20 Imperial Ottoman lB 14 11 11 191
.5 lonian all 27 29
2.5 Do now 6 pr 1p
20 Lncl Mortgage of India, lim 4 3: 34 i
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 78 h 2
30 London Bank of itl exico
and South America, lim. 20 9 7
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 34 32
20 Do new 71 65 5
100 London & River Plate, lim. 40 7 9
25 Do new 10 11 14 111
20 London Chart. of Australia all 225 235
50 London and County 2O 491 501 595
20 Do new iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ... ...
50 London Joint Stock 1 35 36 33 41
20 London and South African al 1 12
100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 ... ...
50 London & Venezuela, lim l2l ... ...
100 Lond9n and Westminster 2O 63 65 644 4
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 61 63 611
100 Merchant, lim 25 7 5
10 Metropolitan, lim all 0 71
100 Midland, am— 2B Id pr
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 3 1:d
100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... "'
10 Do . . 42 ... ... 391
50 National. 3O 46 48
20 New South Wales all 42 43
20 North-Western 74
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 421 481 43 21 3
50 I'rovinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 6 51
100 Provincial of Ireland 25 89 91
10 Do new.. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 15 1 t
100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 ... ...
25 Union of Australia all 48, 491
100 Union of Ireland, lira
50 Union of Loadon

LORD HALIFAX ON COMPULSORY
EDUCATION

At the annual meeting of the Halifax Mechanics' Insti•
tute on Tuesday evening, Lord Halifax took the chair, and
delivered an interesting address on compulsory education.
He said that he believed that mechanics' institutes were
of the greatest benefit to the people of this country,
and that they were free from those difficulties
which beset many educational establishments. Coming
to the question of education on a larger scale, Lord
Halifax admitted that the subject was beset with
difficulties. It iwas not, he thought, more than thirty
years since any effort was made on the part of the public
even to aid national education. For manyyears after that
very little was done, and it was not much more than twenty
years since the first pupil-teachers were aided by the State.
Within the last year or two, however, those who bad made
most exertions in behalf of thevolnotarysystem had admitted
that it was inadequate to the demands of the country. Lord
Halifax was quite ready to admit that a great deal had
been done, but there were two classes that had not yet
been reached—the lower classes in the towns, and the
agricultural population scattered over the thinly inhabited
districts. The questions of compulsory rating and com-
pulsory attendance must soon be decided. lie had been
much struck by Mr. Leatham's recent speech at Marsden
against both of these principles, but he was not prepared
to admit that his arguments were conclusive. The
objection to the unequal incidence of the rating
upon property, subject to the rates, had weight,
no doubt ; but Mr. Leatham and those who agreed with
him did not consider the fact that local rates were only a
portion of the general taxes, and it was impossible to con-
sider
the question of local taxation without at the same time
devoting attention to the general taxation of the country.
Lord Halifax said that many. years ago, when Chancellor
of the Exchequer, he had a conversation with Sir James
Kay-Shuttleworth, then Secretary of the Educational
Board, on the subject of national educational grants.
The sums then voted in aid of voluntary contributions
had never been spent, and it was suggested to Sir James
that the grants should be diminished, but he refused to
adopt that course, saying that the time was not far
distant when more would be demanded than had ever been
voted. He increased the votes, therefore, year by year,
not because the money was wanted, but because he believed
it would he wanted. Lord Halifax remembered that Sir
J. Kay Shuttleworth said, by the time the votes amounted
to a couple of hundred thousand, the people
of this country would be so well convinced of the benefits
of education that they would gladly pay rates for its
advancement, and the national exchequer would be relieved
from any charge beyond that amount. Lord Halifax, in
conclusion, said he was entirely in favour of a universal
system of education, based upon rates and aided by grants
from the Treasury. He was doubtful whether the whole
country would submit to a compulsory rate, but with all
those children who depended upon State support—criminal,
pauper, and vagrant children—we had a right to enforce
it. Whatever sum was expended in conferring education
would be amply repaid by the improvement that would
follow in the morals and intelligence of the population,