The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-04 00:00:00

TDB RITUAL JUDGMENT..

MR. S. MILL ON WORKING-CLASS
REPRESENTATION

1..!°

VEIV-YEAR'S TREAT AT THE CH.TLDREA"S

HOSPITAL.

On Saturday the little patients in the Children's Hospi-
tal, Great Ormond-street, Queen-square, enjoyed a New-
Year's juvenile fete. A more touching sight there can
scarcely be than a company of sick children, and nearly
one hundred such little ones were gathered together on
this occasion. Kind and thoughtful friends had provided
for their enjoyment and amusement, and the hearts of
those present were gladdened by the merry shouts of
laughter that rang through the wards where the patients,
except those seriously ill, were collected to witness the
wonderful exploits of " Mr. Punch " and his obedient
little dog " Toby "—the latter being a clever animal eight
years old, belonging to Mr. Cremer, jun., of Regent-street,
who, as in previous years, kindly provided the entertain-
ment gratuitously. Some of the children were lying in
their neat little cots, which were ranged across the ward
so as to command a view of all that was going on ; other
little ones were placed on couches near the fire ; others,
again, were held in the arms of the nurses, who really
seem to love the children as they would their own ;
while the low seats in the foreground were
filled with convalescent children and others who
came to visit them. One R.- or little fellow, suffering
from St. Vitus's dance—scarcely able to remain still a
minute—attracted much attention and sympathy. After
tea and some singing of Christmas carols came the
distribution of presents. The allotment of toys, dolls,
puzzles, waggons andiliottes, boxes filled with all sorts of
good things, books, and knickknacks of various descrip-
tions caused unqualified delight. The name of each
recipient was attached to the gift he was to receive, and
the eyes, full of eager expectancy, directed to Mr. Clement
D kcs, the house surgeon, who discharged the duty of dis-
tributor, told of the interest excited by this part of the treat.
Many of the poor children who had been under treatment
during the year and sen thorn e well were invited to the fete,
and every one of them carried home some memento of the
visit. The wards were gaily decorated with evergreen;
worked into festoons and suitable devices by the willing
hands of the ladies who kindly superintend the nursing
department. A considerable number of the subscribers
and friends of the charity were present, and all joined
heartily in singing the National Anthem, which, with
three cheers for her Majesty the Queen and the Royal
Family, who have always evinced much interest in
the hospital, brought the children's New Year's treat to a
close.

THE ARCHDEACONRY OF WESTMINSTER.—Dean
Stanley has conferred the Archdeaconry of Westminster,
vacant by the preferment of the Venerable C. Words-
worth, D.D., to the bishopric of Lincoln, upon the Rev.
John Jennings, rector of St. John the Evangelist, West-
minster. Archdeacon Jennings has been rector of St.
John during the long period of thirty-six years.
THE MURDER OF A GIRL NEAR WIGAN.--011
Saturday, at the Sessions Court, Wigan, before Messrs.
Lamb and Knowles, county magistrates, Thomas Jones,
a collier, who bad been apprehended at Halifax on
suspicion of being concerned in the murder of the little
girl Annie Houghton, at Ackhurst, near Wigan, on the
15th ult., was brought up on remand. As there was not
gufficient evidence against him he was discharged.
TESTIMONIAL TO SIR DANIEL GOOCH, M.P.—
The officers and brethren of the several lodges of Free-
masons in the province of Berks and Bucks have raised a
handsome fund for the purpose of presenting a testimonial
to Sir Daniel Gooch, M.P., who was recently chosen Grand
Master of the Province. It has been .arranged that the
presentation shall take place at the Swindon Lodge, and
it is anticipated that there will be a large and influential
assemblage of Freemasons on the occasion.
HOLBORN VALLEY IMPROVEMENT.—At the top of
Holborn-hill to the south of the new street leading from
the New Market to Holborn building is being actively
carried on. The abutments of the viaduct, which will span
the middle of the valley, are being raised to their proper
height. On the edge of the foot pavement, which the via-
duct will cover, lofty massive pillars of highly polished
granite will be erected, of a handsome and elegant appear-
ance. They will be constructed with single blocks of stone,
and will taper towards the top. The effect will be deci-
dedly pleasing.

CHURCH EXPENSES.—The Bishop of Rochester
has given his opinion that the best course to adopt in the
matter of Church expenses would be to follow the old
rule of making an offering on entering the church. The
collection should he made in a bag, so that the gifts may
not be exposed to criticism. This plan answered at Kid-
derminster, for £9OO a year was collected in three churches.
As an average the sum has never varied, from 7857 to the
present time. The bishop is against the system of seat
rents, which he thinks tends to appropriation, and keeps
the poor from contributing their share.

TUE SoTan ENVELOPE.—The sea of fire round
the sun is subject to great changes of apparent level and
abrupt irregularities ; but whether these changes argue
the transmission of actual matter from one height to
another, or whether they only argue irregularity in a heat-
producing agent, is still an open question. Probably,
however, we cannot go far wrong if we imagine that this
sea of fire is frightfully tempestuous in the ordinary sense
of the word. This is confirmed by the photograph of one
of the red flames taken by Major Tennant during the late
eclipse, which exhibits traces of a structural and even
spiral form, giving the idea of an actual carriage of
matter.—The Engineer.

TELEORArIIS IN .RUSSIA.—The first telegraphic
lines were established hi Russia in 1853, and ran from St.
Petersburg to Moscow, Cronstadt, Warsaw, and lia:nigs-
berg. With the establishment of this last, for which a con-
vention was signed with Prussia, began the international
correspondence with the other States of Europe. Since that
time the network has united the most important towns of
Russia to each other. In 1865 there were 61,450 versts
(five-eighths of a mile each) of telegraphic lines, with
323 stations ; in that year 1,647,375 telegrams were s n .
Among the lines which are not yet terminated that
which is to go to America, through Siberia, and which
cannot be finished before Ik7o. In the year 1865 a tele-
graphic communication was established with Persia, and
this is now continued to India. A telegraphic sta-
tion is established at Pekin, and is beginning to over-
come the aversion felt by the Chinese Government for the
telegraph.

The roilowing is the reply sent by the Rev. 4. h.
Mackonochie, to the letter received from the Archbishop
of Canterbury on the subject of the late decision of the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

St. Alban's Clergy House, Brooke-stieet, Holborn,
"E.C., Feast of the Circumcision, 1869.
"My clear Lord Archbishop,—l beg to acknowledge;
with many thanks, your Grace's very kind letter of
December 29, which has since appeared in the Times
newspaper. The subject of it is one which deeply
concerns many, both clergy and laity, and not
myself alone ; it is, moreover, at this time the
matter of their most serious deliberation. Under
these circumstances, I feel sure that your Grace willexcuse
me from entering into any detailed discussion of the
question. I cannot, however, close this letter without
specially thanking you for the great personal kindness
and consideration which I have received from your Grace
during the last ten years.—Believe me, my dear Lord
Archbishop, yours very truly and respectfully,
" ALEX. IIERIOT MACKONOCHIE."

The following correspondence has passed between Mr.
G. Howell, who unsuccessfully contested the borough of
Aylesburyat the late election, and Mr. John Stuart Mill :
" Dear sir, be pleased to accept my warmest thanks for
your generous contribution of £lO towards my election
expenses at Aylesbury. The fact that I polled nearly
a third of the constituency proves how thoroughly Libe-
ral the borough is. I was only able to go to the poll
through the kindly help of those friends to Liberal
movements who are always ready to aid every good and
useful cause. I wish I had been successful, to have had
the honour of placing the seat at your disposal.—l am,
dear sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE HOWELL. To J.
S. Miil,Esq."—Dear sir, I cannot leave unacknowledged
the concluding sentence of your letter. If you had been
returned for Aylesbury, and had made the public-
spirited offer of retiring in my favotr, I could not
possibly have accepted it. I attach far too much im-
portance to the representation of the working classes—in
same cases, at least, by the elite of themselves—to have
consented to put myself in the place of one of them if he
had been fortunately elected. The defeat of all the
working-class candidates, and of most of those of any
other class in whom • the working classes take especial
interest, would have made my presence in the House
of Commons of far less use than it might perhaps
have been if I had been one of a phalanx of men of
advanced opinions. I hope the working classes will
learn from their resent failure a lesson of organisation ;
and, as the Liberal party can never succeed at a general
election without their active support, will henceforth make
such support conditional on being allowed an equal voice
in the selection of the Liberal candidates, so that where-
ever a constituency returns two members, one of them may
be a man designated by and specially acceptable to the
Liberals of the working classes. I am, dear sir, yours
very truly, J. S. MILL—To Mr. George Howell."

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MONEY MARNE

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENi:I

CITY, Two oCLoca.
Business to-day was active, and Consols improved
a further rise of both for money and the account.
The improvement extended to the Foreign Market,
and Railway Shares also partobk of the favourable
turn. There was a fair demand for money in the
open market, but it could not be obtained under 2i
to 3 for first-class paper.
Collet!)ls are 921 for money ; ditto, for Ac-
count, 921 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 921 ; New
Three per Cents, 924
India Stock, 10} per Cent., April, 1e74, shut ;
ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1024 ; ditto En-
Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent., 914 ; ditto Bonds
£l,OOO, 15 prem. ; ditto under £l,OOO, 20 prem.
In the Foreign Market business was on the
improve. Turkish Five per Cents. and Greek
Bonds are better, at 404 and 13 respectively;
Mexican is 151; New Spanish Three per Cents.
at 301 to 31 ex div. ; and Italian at 54 to 541 ex
div.

The Honduras Loan is quoted at 8G to 87 ex

c oupon.
Egyptian Seven per Cent. Loan is firm at 741..
Italian Scrip is 3f prem., and the last Russian
Loan, 1 dig., par.
In the railway market the following stocks have
have improved :—Caledonian it, Great Western +,
Great Eastern 1-16, Metropolitan f, Midland it,
Sheffield f, North British k, London and North-
Western, f, North Eastern f, South Eastern
k, Metropolitan Extension f, Great Northern
Original Shares are f lower. The prices are :
Caledonian, 751, 6; ; Great Western, 48, f ;
Great Eastern, 401 j ; Great Northern, 1051,
1061 ; ditto A, 1071, 8 ; Lancashire, 128, 1 ;
Metropolitan, 105, 1 ; Midland, 114, + ; Shef-
field, 47, f ; Brighton, 421, j ; North British
33 f ; North Western, 1121 13 ; North Eastern,
100 f ; South Eastern, 791 1 ; Chatham and Dover,
171 I ; Metropolitan Extension, 99f 100 f.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per
Cent. Debenture Stock is 94 95.
American Five-Twenties have risen f, to 741
741 ; the Bonds of 1885 I, to 73f 731 ; and the
10-40 Bonds are firm at 711 711.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are 411 424, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
431 444. Eries have improved nearly Ito 25+ 251,
and Illinois Central Stock is I better at 951 951.
Iu Bank and Miscellaneous Shares prices are as
last quoted.
The sum of £25,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank on Saturday.
The Oneida, telegraphed at Lisbon from Brazil
and the River Plate, will bring £45,817. The Pera,
from Alexandria, has £37;000.
The assumed pacific tenor of the Emperor's ad-
dress on New Year's-day has created increased con-
fidence. It is now universally believed that the
Turco-Greek question will be adjusted without a
resort to hostilities, and therefore all ground for
apprehension is removed.
A general meeting of the shareholders of the
City Bank is convened for the 19th inst., to receive
the directors' report, and declare a dividend.
The report of the London and Brazilian Bank
(Limited), to be presented on the 14th inst., shows
a loss from the lat of January to the 30th of Sept.
of £38,953, which will absorb the reserve of £11,645,
and leave a deficit of £27,308. This has been
caused by exchange and gold transactions during
the nine months at Rio, where the directors have iu
consequence just appointed a fresh manager, Mr.
Gordon, hitherto manager at Bahia. The portion
of the bank capital locked up is in process of im-
provement and recovery, a reduction of £6,000
a year has been made in the expenditure, and no
call is eith?r required or contemplated.
It is understood that the directors of the City of
London Brewery Company are about to convene an
extraordinary meeting of the shareholders, for the
purpose of limiting the company's reserve fund to
£50,000 ; which amount, if further augmented by
£l,OOO per annum, is considered sufficient for all
purposes intended.

A general meeting of the New Consolidated Dis-
count Company (Limited) is convened for the 18th
inst., when a dividend i 3 to be declared.
It is understood that owing to the extraordinary
delay of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
Company in putting in their answer to the bill of
the General Credit Company, filed nearly two years
ago, the General Credit Company have felt it neces-
sary to take tho extreme step of sequestrating the
property of the Chatham Company, and that the
writ of distringas issues immediately.
In recent statements at New York it was repre-
sented that the shortest time in which the passage
eastward to Japan can be made is 60 days, while
on the opening of the Pacific Railway it will be
performed westward in 35 days. The calculation
was inaccurate. '1 he Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's time is—from London to Hong Kong 41
days, Shanhai 46 days, and Yokohama 52 days, in-
cluding all stoppages and intervals for tranship..
merits, which occupy about seven days. The stop-
pages and transhipments on the San Francisco route
do not seem to have been taken into account,
although it way be assumed they will quite equal,
if they do not exceed, those by the Eastern line.
According to the New York Journal of Commerce
it is rumoured that Mr. Vanderbilt has made an
offer to the Great Western Railroad Company of
Canada to lease that road for ten years, with the
right of purchase at the end of the lease, and that
should his offer be. accepted the Great Western
Railroad will, to all intents and purposes, become a
part of the New York Central Railroad.
Certain persons in Germany who style them-
selves " bankers" are pursuing the old practice of
alloting shares in the Austrian State lotteries to
parties in England whose names they insert in
letterpress in a formal certificate without any
consent or application. It is discreditable to the Austrian Government that the annoyance should
be permitted, since there is reason to assume it
could be easily stopped by a refusal on their part
to allow these people the position of agents or sub-
scribers.

The English Scrip of the Egyptian Government
Seven per Cent. Loan of 1868 will be exchanged
for Definitive Bonds, with Coupons attached, at
the London ageuoy of the Imperial Ottoman Bank,
on and after the 9th inst.
Messrs. Townend Brothers, of 9, Mincing-lane,
intimate that Mr. Charles Bovet has been admitted
a partner in their firm, which from this date will
be conducted under the style of Townend Brothers
and Bovet.
It appears from the c:rcular of Messrs. Browne
and Eagle, warehouse-keepers, that the imports of
colonial wool into Breat Britain from all ports
showed an aggregate increase in 1868 over 1867 of
91,857 bales.

BRITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
UOTERNNIENT FUNDS.; 3 per Cent. Console 921 1 xd
IDitto for Account, ... ................ 921 A xd
Nper Cent. Reduced 92i '
ew 3 per Cent ........................... lO2/ i
Now 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — De. I per Cent. nan. 1873 —.
Aanuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan.,. 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1886
Do (Red Sea Telo‘raph), Aug., 1901
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOl, 2 per Ct —
De. £xo000
De. £llO k .£2OO
1.4.51 i of England Stuck, 4 por Cent 2411 Pal
Do. accouat
Canada 4 per Cent. It9nds
litter-Colonial Unwitint
INDIAN dOVEANMENT 61:CUltri list,
In lia stock, 10i per Cent., April 1574 Shut
Do. Opening, for Account Do. a por Cent. July, 18110
_-
Do.
4 per Cent., Oct. llss
•
Do. Eufaced Papui 4 per Cent
Do. st,- per Ot,it. Alay 1679
DJ 6 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 — De. do. 1877 —
D Do. do. 1882.........
_.. Deb., 6 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~....
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
D 0 under £lO 15
FO 00
REIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentiut Ropu bile, li per Cent ...
Do., Scrip X 45 paid •
. ...... .
Austrian Bonds 5 per cent ..
Do. 1169