The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, rEBRUARY 9, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing
Share NAKE, Paid. Price.
10 Agra Limited, A all 11 114 11}
19 Do B lO 4 41
50 Albion l5 6 4
100 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lira all 1 10
20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 2 3
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 5
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 19 13
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lian.
25 Bank of South Australia all
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25
10 Bank of New Zealand all
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, i nd China all
25 Chartered Mere, of India,
London, and China
20 City .... . ................. .
100 C010nia1..... 25
10 Consolidated,
50 Delhi and London, lira
50 East London, lira 5
20 English and America; lira 10
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. lira ...... .
20 English, z•cottish, and Aus •
tralian Chartered
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all
281 Do new SI
100 Imperial, lira
20 Imperial Ottoman lO
15 lonian.
25 Do new........ .
20 Lnd Mortgage of. India, lira 4
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lBG4, 30 all 76
30 London Bank of Mexico
and South America, lira. 20
100 London and Brazilian, lira. 45
20 Do new 7
100 London & River Plate, lira. 40
25 Do new 10
20 London Chart. of Australia all
60 London and County 2O
20 Do new.issat 20 p.m, iopd ll
50 London Joint Stock 1
20 London and South African al
100 London & S.-Western, lira, 20
50 London & Venezuela lira l2l
100 London and Westminster 2O
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lira 25
10 Metropolitan, lira all
100 Midland, 1ina.....
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim l5
100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42
10 Do . 42
10 National. 3O
20 New South Wales all
20 North-Western 7l
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lien lO
100 Provincial of Ireland 25
10 Do new. all
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, Urn 25
100 Do issued at 6pm lO
25 Union of Australia all
100 Union of Ireland, lira
50 Union of London

Lusiuess
done

39 41 40
5 4
31 31
37 30
17 19
49 51 51 11

201 211

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29 301
11 121
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MISCELLANEOUS.

10 Anglo-American Tel., lim all 221 221 221
10 Anglo-Mediter. Tel., lim 10 13 131 121 13
10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 161 171
st Atlantic Telegraph lO 34 36
st Do. 8 per cent. lOO 80 8 t
25 Australian Agricultural
25 Australian Mort. Land and
l'inay.ce, lint.
10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lim 9 7 ,d
10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 13k 14/ 141
10 Do. New 6 3 31
100 Bolckow Vaughan, lint.
5 Bombay ats, lim.
5 Do. New fl 11 ld 3
5-' British American Land 44 16 18
st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lint lOO 166 17 t
20 British Indian Tea, lint all 2 3
20 British Ship Owners 7l
29 Canada Company all
10 Canadian Loan and Invest-
ment, lim 2l 21 1 Icl
20 Ceylon Company, lint.
20 Do. A shares
10 City Discount, lim 5 41 3;
25 City of London Real Pro-
perty, lim 8 41 00
30 City of Milan ltnprov. lim all slO
25 City of Moscow Gas, lim all 2 3
50 City Offices, lim 25 23.1 221 1
50 Colonial, lim.
Do.
... ..
50 Commercia: Union (Assn') 5 I 1.1
10 Company of African Mer-
chants, lira. 3 la p
20 Continental Union Gas, lim. all 18 19
25 Copper Miners of England,
_ _
__ pref. 71 per cent.

64 44

.. all 5 7

.00 Corporation of London
Bonds, 1877, 4f per cent. all 104 105
LOO Do. 1879, 41 per cent. all 1041 1051
110(9) 1:: 1204:
100 Do. 1882, 41 per cent- all 1031 104 i
alDob.
10 Credit Fon. of England, lim all 21 21 21
100 1 I 21 201
100 94 99
all
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CrystalCrDe do.i t F
ppo.
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ao
Preferencec
Palace
er u re
tiut
61 -•-
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50 East Indian Laud Credit
and Finance, lira.
22
26?
20 East India Irriga, & Canal all 17 18
32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and
2SI
00t EasternDaDre6l Darjeeling,
s min 1i m . .
Coal, lim.
100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy
Gua. by Egypt. Gov all 921 931 23 1 4
st
t 0
10 Do. New 8 10 12p
3 Eng. & Austral. Copper, lim 21
EElgypectrtliacn&ClTtet TTerlaedgriaipmh. 1006
15 English and Foreign Credit 71 5 44
100 Eng. and Scot. Marine, lim 8 ui
10 Fairbairn Engineering 5 if lld
20 Fore-streetWarehouse,lim l2 pr 1p 13
100 For. & Col. Gov. Trust and
Loan Scrip, issued at XB5 all 86 88 83
50 Gellivara, Um. 2O
10 General Credit & Dis., lim. 7
,11 11 51 2
15 General Steam Navigation 14
China 50 Horns &Col Marine In. lira 5 old
10 Hong Kong and Gas all
48 29 29 ,
20 Hudson's Bay all 131 131
20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar-
seilles, tins
25 Indo-European Tel., lim lO
20 Interim. Financial Soc. lim 5
20 Intern% Land Credit, lira 6
50 Italian Land 5
20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all
100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem
1870, issued 30.,,,,,,,,,,, all
50 Land Securities, 1im..,,,,,,,, 5
25 London African Trading._ 10
25 Lon. & Caled. Marino, lira. 6
10 London County Land and
Building, lira 4
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent, all
50 Lond. Financial Asso., lira 30
4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lini. all
50 Lond. and Glasg. Engineer
and Iron Ship, lira ..
20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2
at Madras Irriga. & Caul. Gua.
5 p. c. by India Cloy. lOO
10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and
Agency, lim.. .... ...... 11
10 Mediterra. Eaten. Tel., inn. all
50 Merchant Shipping lint, all
50 Dlillwall Iron Works, lira, 121
10 Natal Land and Colonisa-
tion Co., lim. ............ 9
25 National Discount CO., Ib.o 5
25 National Prov, Marine, Um. 4
10 National Steam Ship, lim. all 20 Nerbudda Coal & Iron, 6
10 New Consolidated Dis, line. 3
5 1.% ew Quebrada, lim .. ... . „4.4.0
25 New Zealand Loan & Mar
cantile Agency,lim
......... 2
Loa li 1
25 New Zealand Trust and
n, m. ......... . ....... .. 10 Northern Assam Tea, Rm. 5
10 Do. B. . ....... . ..... all
at North Brit. Austral., . lim.„ 100
50 North Brit. & Merca.n. 1n.,, 61
25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5
50 Oriental Financial, 1ine,,,,,, 11
5 Oriental Gas, lim. ... all
5 Do. New .. . ... ........... 1
10 Otago and Southland .
vestment, 1ine.,,,.. 2
5 Ottoman Ga 5,.... ..
. ...... all
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian R. Mail line all
5 Do. do. ....... .... all
st Peel R. Land &Miner', lim 100
50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all
50 Do. New 1867 ...... 10
25 Reuter's Telegram ......... all
50 Rhymney Iron
......... all
2515 Rio dpeanall
ojNeierwo City ................... .
......
20 Do.
all
100 Royal Mail Steam ....... . . 60
all
at Scottish Aust. Invest., Um% 100
st
Societ Do.e
Fin. 6 p.
d. Guar. Pref. 100
20 'Egypte, .
20 Societe Gen.de l'Empire O lim
t. 10
8
50 S. African Mort. & Inv., line, 6
25 South Australian Land all
at Submarine Telegraph /100
1 Do. Scrip. all
20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,llm all
20 Thames and Mersey Marine
(Insurance), lim 2
20 Trinidad Petroleum, lim Bl
10 Trust &Agency of Aus.,lim
10 Do do. do. all
20 Trust & Loan Co., U. Canada; 5
50 Union Marine L'pool, lim. b
20 Union Steam Ship, lim all
15 United Discount Corp., lien. 6
5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim. all
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref. all
20 Universal Alarine(ln.),llm. 5
10 Upper Assam Tea, lim.. all
30 Van Dieman's Land ..... 281
00 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per
cent. (Mortgage) Loan-. all
50 Warrant Finance, lina. l2
50 West India and Pacific
Stea l
20 WestLonm, donim Wharves and 20
Warehouses lO

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COLONIAL GOVZILNMIANT SECURITIXS

British Columbia, 6 per
0ent.,1872.... ••••.....••• 100
- Do. 1895 llO
Can.Gov.6p.o.Jan.,AJuly
1877-84 ... lOO 105/ 1061 105 f
Do. 6p. o. Feb. & Aug.... 100 104 106
Do. 5p4 0. Mar. & Sept.. 100 lot Ica
Do. p. 0. Jan. A July.. 100 95
VO
Do. sp. o. Insoribed et.. 100 go 9.2
Cape (},Hope, 6 p. 0.1873.• 109 102 104
Do.AplatOot 1890-1900.. 100 111 113
Do. do 1880-90.. 100 107 109
Do. Jan.&July, 1891 .... 100 108 lie
Do. 5 per cent. 15 April
and 15 Oct., 1900....... 100 100 102
Cejlon, Nov 1878, 6 p.c.. 100 108 110
Do. 1872, d 0.... 100 105 107
—ll Mauritius, 6 p. o, 1873,..
Jan. and July
Do. 1878 .• • •.. 1')0 106 108
Do. 1882, May and Nov... 110 106 108
Do. 18954 Feb. & Auz...• 10 106 los
31i:bourne Corporate,..
1867-75, 6 per cunt • • Iro 100 100
N.11.G0v.6 p.o.JadzJul)'•• 100 104 105 1041
Natal 6 p cr, Apt a Oct... 10)
Do 6p C. 51,y & No/ 1 0 ICG 108
N. S. W. 5 p.c.' '7l to '75 lOO 96 1 1
Do. 5 p.o. 1888 to 1896 133 99 lob 991 9
Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to '75
.Zealand, 6 p. ct. 1891 ICO
Do. 5 per cent....
DoJan,Ll prl,July, 0 t 1(0 931 I'4l 94
- Do 6p o. Mar & Sept '9l lOO 108 110
—Do Juue & Dee , 1-91
-- IDo l'rov. 1 Auckld. 1 1 0 -
tc rie A 2, It9o ..j
boys. Scotia 6p. o.Jau...
and July, 1875
Do 18:6..
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- m.

Queenalnd. ip. C. 'S- 5 100 106 iiii /co
Do 189, •••••• ..
Do. 6 p 0.186%.
Dt, do. A 2 .. 100 108 110
Do rd. if 91 .......... .... 101 107 108
-- Victoria GA3.0.1.391..,.... 100 111 Ili

LE/IT2'ILY PASTORALS.

Two " pastorals " are published to the Roman Catno-
lies of Ireland—the one from Cardinal Cullen, the other
from Archbishop Mac Hale. Cardinal Cullen exhorts
that prayers be offered for the Pontiff, in view of the
meeting of the General Council next December, that
those " may be brought back to the true fold who are
straying in the path of error." His Eminence adds that
" Catholics, if Freemasons, Ribbonmcn, or Fenians, can-
not be admitted to the sacraments. It is well frequently
to publish the censulcs of the Church against secret
societies, and the constitutions of the Popes against Free-
masons." Archbishop Mac Hale (Tuam) expresses a belief
that " with the just and equitable disposal of the question
of the Protestant Establishment in Ireland are intimately
connected the interests of religion, the peace of the coun-
try, and the prosperity of the people." He, as well as
Cardinal Cullen, looks to the coming General Council as
a means of restoring the "happy age" of "one sheepfold
and one pastor." " Ireland, in an evil hour," Dr.
Mac Hale says, " was forced to consent to the ruinous
compact of the Legislative Union." There is a danger,
he thinks, that the Catholic people may not be sufficiently
" watchful of the snares that may be concealed under
specious professions of an equitable apportionment
of the surplus "of the Church revenues. "This
is a pitfall on which the wisest may have cause
to tremble, lest the auspicious dawn of the nation's
hope should prove more disastrous to its religious freedom
than the darkest hour of its past religious persecutions."
In illustration of this danger, Dr. Mac Hale refers to the
fall of the Killdare-place Education Society, which was
succeeded by the mixed system of the National Board.
" The seed of mixed education, being sown whist the
husbandmen were asleep, grew and fructified into the
godless Queen's Colleges and their congenial model
schools." Dr. Mac Hale speaks of the result as a
" motley harvest ;" the schools, " bad from the begin-
ning, are daily getting worse ; inspectors, landlords, and
ecclesiastics almost all eagerly competing for the
establishment of schools, and utterly regardless as to the
character of the teachers, the religious discipline of the
scholars, and the quality of the instruction dispensed."
Archbishop Mac Hale further complains of parents and
pastors who permit children to attend interdicted training
schools under contumacious teachers, in defiance of the
solemn prohibition of the episcopacy. "In utter disregard
of the ordinary, some landlords have been vesting
schools in the board of the miscalled National Educa-
tion." Dr. Mac Hale presumes that a Government formed
on the principle of equality of the Churches cannot with
any consistency deny the same principle of equality in
respect to education. "It will be the duty of the bishops,"
he adds, "to enter again ere long on this ample and most
important subject." The archbishop finally rejoices that
the Celtic language is not " dying out." During his last
visitation he confirmed 4,500 persons, and there were " not
twenty of these who did not account in their native
tongue for the principles of faith and duties of morality;
including the commandments and sacraments."

EARLSWOOD.

The Daily News has an interesting account of a visit to
the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots. Our contemporary
describes several "characters" in the institution. There

is the historical idiot. "This man is a curiosity. 'Though
utterly incapable of acting rationally, he has a prodigious
memory, and can and does answer recondite questions in
history with extreme exactitude. He is delighted to attract
notice, and favoured us with abstracts of the lives of Julius
Cmsar, Henry VII., Charles 11., and Queen Elizabeth, all
given without hesitation, and with a gabbling volubility
which suggested a piece of rather clumsy mechanism just
wound up and uttering sounds by steam. Learning that
he bad been busying himself with astronomy, we inquired
after the planets Saturn and Jupiter, to be forthwith
overwhelmed with a torrent of scientific terms, and
an intimate description of the rings of the one
and the moons of the other. The chief confu-
sion perceptible in this idiot's answers was a tendency
to describe Julius Caesar as Jupiter, with facetious
allusions to his moons, and to dwell upon the twenty-
three wounds inflicted on the planet, which caused his
death, `as every one who's read Roman history knows.'
This we are assured was fun." Where (asks the Daily News)
is the line separating this idiot from the sane ? One youth
(continues the • writer), has the gift of mental
arithmetic, and adds sums together and multiplies
three figures by three figures, giving the product
with lightning rapidity. Another and older man
is a humourist, whose bent is peculiar. He cannot read,
but if given a newspaper will pretend to read paragraphs
from it. Out of the advertisement page of the Daily News
he read three railway accidents, each with separate charac-
teristics, and all with a specific number of lives lost and a
closely particularised variety of injury to life and limb ;
two fires with some appreciative praise from " we " on the
gallant conduct of the firemen ; some suicides, and a
variety of general intelligence of a less exciting kind.
Each imaginary paragraph was read off without a
pause, and all sounded real enough save when the
burlesque element was introduced purposely, as when
" the coroner's jury, having considered the case very care-
, fully, fOund him guilty of an interrogation." But the most
interesting case is that of the mechanic. He has con-
structed a model of a man-of-war and an allegorical
vessel which was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition in 1862,
both exquisitely finished, and he is now busy upon a
carefully-proportioned model of the Great Eastern. He
worships mechanical and scientific knowledge. This man
is an admirable carpenter, and works so many hours a
day for the asylum, using the remainder of his time
in the designing and manufacture of his models.
Elementary treatises on geometry and naval architecture
lie on the table of his private workshop, plans and
drawings adorn its walls. His face is intelligent, his
manner eager, but chastened by self-respect. Yet this
man is as incapable of exercising the commonest
faculties, out of his special calling, as any idiot of them
all, and employed his mechanical genius in laying a trap
for a former physician to the asylum, which might have
injured him for life. The doctor had offended him,
and a huge and heavy block of wood was so arranged
over the doorway that the first person entering would bring
it down upon his head. The arrangements were com-
pleted just before an anticipated visit was paid, and it
was only by the narrowest chance that the intended victim
escaped. The only other instance of spite we became
acquainted with during our rounds was in an idiot who
has_ a weakness for funerals, and who keeps a close mental
record of all the deaths occurring in the house. This poor
fellow expressed great anxiety to follow a man to the
grave against whom he has a real or fancied grievance,
adding that he would kick his coffin with pleasure.

THE QUEEN AND THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE. -
During last week a report was originated that the Eddy-
stone Lighthouse was destroyed, and the statement found
its way to Lloyd's, and thence was rapidly disseminated
throughout the metropolis. The rumour thus reached the
ears of the Queen at Osborne, who, with that anxious
solicitude for the welfare of her subjects when placed in
circumstances of peril which her Majesty has often dis-
played, at once caused a telegram to be sent, making in-
quiries. Of course it was not long before her Majesty was
assured that it had no foundation.— Western Morning News.
VICARIOUS PUNISHMENT.—TWO men, named
Pierre and Tisserand, and a woman, Blanche, have just
been tried at the Court of Assizes, Paris, for a singular
fraud. Tisserand, a greengrocer, had been condemned to
a fortnight's imprisonment, but had attempted to undergo
his sentence by proxy. Pierre, having undertaken, for a
sum of 100 f., to represent him, presented himself at the
prison under the name of the other, and was duly installed,
but before the expiration of the time the deception was
discovered, and the man really condemned was arrested,
together with the woman. They were acquitted.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY. The Oxford Calendar for
1869 has just been published. It appears, from comparing
it with the Calendar of last year, that the numbers on the
books have increased by 2M, and that the increase in the
matriculations during the past year has been 54. Christ
Church has 30 members more than at the beginning of
last year, Queen's 21, Lincoln 19, Brasenose 18,
New College 17, while there are slight increases
in most of the other colleges. There is no col-
lege in which there is any serious diminution of
numbers. Of the halls, St. Alban Hall has increassd by
20, and St. Mary Hall by 13. The number of unattached
students is 36. It must be recollected that this class of
students has only existed during the two past terms, so
that, should the matriculations continue at the present
rate, it may be expected that, three years hence, there
will be a body of unattached students numbering from 150
to 180.

ALLEGED MURDER AT HACKNEY.—The inquest
on the body of Samuel Grokett was resumed on Monday
evening by Mr. Richards, at Hackney. The deceased
was a workman in the employ of the Imperial Gas
Company, and at the opening of the inquest it was
alleged that he had been thrown into the Regent's
Canal on the night of Saturday week last by five
men. William Talby, of 13, St. Andrew's-road, said
that on the night in question, shortly after
twelve o'clock, he heard quarrelling on the towing
path, and saw the deceased with his coat off with five
other men. Shortly afterwards he heard a cry of
"Police," and saw the deceased struggling in the water.
Witness tried to get him out, but could not, and then
went for assistance. Further evidence was adduced as to
the violence the deceased and the female friends he had
with him met with at the hands of the five men, and the
jury eventually returned a verdict of " Wilful murder
sabot+ some moon or vagina unknown."