The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-20 00:00:00

JPHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1869.

SHARE LIST.

onDII,TABS allAltiflS AND STOCKS.

PI" cririoeing. suaine."
here itailwaye.

et Bristol and Exeter 100 70 72 72
ss Caledvxian Leo 80f 81 bug j 1
st Canit,riso lOO 15 20

2) Corn wall •
it Dublin , Belfast June... 100 - -
st Dun„iferthok Ab.J unc... 100 70 72
2J East London all 64 74
10 Do 15 -
29 Do 10 - -
st Glasgow &S. Western lOO 103 195
st Great Eastern ..' XOl 364 371
st Do. E. .Angl. No. 2.... 100 ...
at Oreat North of Scotland.. 100 15 16
et Great Northern lOO 106 108 107
at Do. A stock...-. lOO 104 105 105/ 41
at Do. 11 stook lOO .•
st (30S, and W. of Ireland lOO 97 v 9
st Cit. Western-Original lOO 56 561 561 1
et Do. South Wales leo b 5 57
st Do. W. Mid.-Oxford lOO 33 15
t Do. Newport lOO 30 32
bt Lancashire .a Yorlehire lOO 124 .141
st Lou., Brigh., & S.Coast lOO 441 45 441
03 Do Scrip - -
at Lon., Chat., and Dover lt.t. 10,4 174
st Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO 12
st Lou. & North Western lOO 117 1171 118 1
st Lon. & South Western lt/0 89 el 114
Man., Shel., & Lincoln lOO 53 131
dt Metropolitan . lOO bet 10 871 7
st Do Extension lot) be 84
.5 Do. New rd all - -
at Metropolitan District. all 34 35
10 Motrop. st. John's 11 00,.1 6 -
at Midland
st Do, 13irraiu. & Derby lOO :t5 87
at North British
st Do. lid., Yth., & Dun... 109 - -
st Nor. pastern-Berwick lOO 115 116 118
25• Do. G. N.E purehuse 16.13,4 - -
st Do Leeds. 731 741 784
at Do York lOO 1101 1111 1154 16
et Do Carlisle . - -
at Do Stoex. & 100 149 151
et North London .. lOO 11/ 121 1511
10 Do New 1868. 4 11 2 p
et North Staffordshire lOO 54 16
st Northane Jnnction 100 99 101
10 Do New .010 shares 7 ... .•
st Rl,:ymney
st Shropshire Union lOO 574 581 sil
st South Devon:..
et South Eastern lOO 774 78
at Staines, Wok'hain, & Wok all 13 14
st Tan v ale lou ISO La
-- Do. C -
Waterford & Kilkenny lOO -
16 Waterloo & Whitehall 0 - -

RAILW AYS-PREFER ENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.

at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 80 88
at Caledonian Qrs., Nu. 2 lOO ... ..,
st Do. Scot. N.E., 41 per cent lOO ... ...
at Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO ...
st Do. do. 7 per cent lOO ... ...
st Do. du. Ordinary lOO 78 82
st Do. Midland
st Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 ... _
20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all _ „,
atj Dundee, Perth, and Aber-
deen J unction lOO 105 107
at Do. Ist Class preference lOO ...
st Glue. & S.W. gua. 5 per ct lOO ... _
st 'lt. Eastern, E.O Ex. No.l 100 98 103
st Do do N 0.2 100 90 90 98 /
st Do du 6 per cent 100 110 113
at Do East Anglian Asp. c. 100 ... ~,
at Do de B 6 do. 100 _ ...
at Du do C 7 do. 100 ... ~.
at Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 .., ~,
st Do E. Union 4p. e. gua. 100 63 72
at Do Norfolk 5 p.c.Ex.1846 100 „, „,
at Du do 5 p.e.Way.Va1.1547 100 ..„ ..,
st Great Northern, 5 per cent 193 „, ...
at De 5 p.c., rd at 1 p. c. pm.
Du 41 do du
do 100 ... ...
at Do 5 do at sp. c. pm. 100 „,
...
st Do Leeds, Bradford, and
Halifax, 6 per cent lOO _ ~,
st Ct. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 ,„
~.
at Great South. and
ce Western
(Ireland) 4 per nt lOO 94 96
BC Gt.West.—Orig.&Jnt.-ltent
chg., per ,na.s p.c lOO 104 106
at Do. Orig. (B 7& U. Ex). 5 p.c 100 95 100
st Do du 41 per cent. 1650 100 87 89 9i4
"at Do do 4 do do lOO 78 8,
at Du do 5 per cent. redem 100 96 US
st Do do Birmingham gua 100 66 70
at Do do du pref... 100 .
st Do du Chester gua lOO so 9 j
at Do do do S per cent lOO ,„
...
st Do do do 5 do 100 93 10t,
st Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 „,
...
st Do do 44 Ihe lOO ... ...
at Do do 41 1659 lOO „,
...
st Do do 5
at Do West Mid. Oxford Istg. 109 112 115
st Do du 2d gua. 100 107 111
at Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c. 100 ;Jo 92
st Do do 21 do 100 97 100
at Do gua. 51 per cent. 1803 100 ,„
...
00 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all .. .
at Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1;; ..133
st Du Barnsley, £5 3s 10d p.c. 103 ,„
at Do 6 p.e. (East Lancashire) 100 130
.1..
35
at Do 41 (Blackburn purch). lt) 98 100
sti Loudon & 130;litua, 5 P.C.
guaranteed, No 1 lOO •
do do lOO ~
st/ Do 5 per cent. gua. No. 2. 100 ~ ...
st Do 6 ••• •••
at Do 5 do No. 4 loo
at Do 7 per cent lOO
st Do 6 do (W. 1,1 & C.P.) 100 ...
... ...
...
st Do 4 du 1850 lOO
... ...
at London, Chatham, & Dover
5 per cent lOO ••• •••
stj London and U.N., C. and
Nuneaton 5 per cent__ 100 110 112
at Do Bedford & Cambridge lOO
at Do Shrewsb'y & Welchp'l lOO ••• '"
•••
at London and S W. 7 p,c
late 3d shares, lOO 140 150
a Do (Portsm.perp 3.1111 '2s6(l) all
..•
•••
a Mau., Shef., &Liuclu. 6 p.c lOO ••
Do £8 all par Ipm
a Do 31 per cent lOO 60 65
1 Do redeem. 6 percent. 5
st Slid. Consolidated., 6p. c lOO 130 .1.:I5
a Do Bristol& Birm., 6p. o. 100 1 1 133
EI Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO ‘S 100
a Do 41 per cent. irredeem lOO 96 13.)
a Do Leicester & li'ehn,4 p.c 100 89 91
at North British, 5 p.e. No.l lOO ... „.
at Do E. &U.4p.e. S. & D lOO ...
at Do N. 8., No.'s, 5 per cen.t lOO .
...
at Do Border Union, 51 p.c lOO .:
....:
et N.-Eastern—Cons. 4 p.c lOO 87 89
ousl
at Du 41 per cent. redeem__ 100 97 99
st Do G N.E. 4 per cent., lOO
17 Do Berwick capital 8.13.4, ,„
Do York, 11. &S. purchase lO 10 1.01
D w, au Stektt,
li
r&tle Dpiolo 711 an iul
'..
p.c ASd 110000 18077
t
at Do
20 North Staffordshire all 201 21)
lOs 8. Devon Annuities, lia all 9 10
lOs Do Tavistock Anus., 108 all 81 91
lOs Do Fixed 41 per cent all S 8
10.6. S. East. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23
at Do 41 percent lOO .., „.
at Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO
at Taff Vale No.l ••• ...
100 150 155
at Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc 100 43 45

RAILWAYS.—PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
With Dividends contingent on the Profits of Bach separate year.

st Obledouian 41 p c gua.
at Do Scot. Con. min. 7p c lOO
at Do 41 p irredeem all
at Do 4p e con., issued at 80 65 ...
st Great Eastern 41 per cent. 100 77 8u
at Do 5 du, 1862 100 86 t
at Do New 5 do, 1863 lOO 86 88
at Do do 5 do, 1864 lOO 83 86
at Great Northern, 5p c irred. 100
st Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100
at Do Boston & Sleald, 41 pe 100
st Great West., W. Midi., 5p c 100
st Du Joint perpe. 5 p e,1865 100 88 92
at Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 109 111 110 f
20 Do Vale N oath perp. 5p c all ..
st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO
5 Lane. and York New 41 por
cent till July, 1871 2 I 1p
st Loud., Brig &c., 41 pc, 1858 100
at Do do 4 do, 1860 100
st Do do 41 do, 1861 100 „.
st Do do 41 do, 1863 100
at Do do b do, 1865 100
st .Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100
at Do No. 7 sdo
st Lond , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c
at Do Metrop. Es., B e p.c
Do do C 6 p.c
at London& N Western, 5p c 100 108 110 1111
at London &S. Western, 41 p c 100 93 95
10 Man. Shef. & Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all V 91
at Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO 100 102
at Midland, it. 5 per cent pref lOO 107 109
at Do B 5 do 100 107 109
18 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to
Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 201 21/
18 Do Incony. New Shares all 19 19/
22 Do 5p c con. into Old
Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 Bl 1 2/p
at North British, E. and

No. 1, 5 per cent ... lOO ...
st Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100
Do E ,P., &Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 ...
fit Do E. & (1, No. 2, 5 p.c
st Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100
et Do E. & No. 3, 5 p.c lOO
st Do E.& (1., (Ordiry) p c 100
at North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 97 109 981
fit Do Stock. & Darl., D lOO 112 113
lit North London, 44, per cent
(Max. 5 per cent)
st North Staffordshire 5p c lOO „.
st South Eastern, 41 pc, 1859 100
st Do 5 do 1861 100
st Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100
st Do 5 do, 1864
st Victoria St. & Pimlico, 41 pc 100

DOGES.
st East and Wei;Llndiq. lOO 113 121
London and St. Katherine. 100 i 8 61 j
100 1) oDeb. stock, 4 per cent all
Diillwall Freehold Land
st Dock lOO 27 32
st Southampton lOO fiS 70
bt Surrey Conmiorcial

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
Share; .NAirE. Paid. Price done
10 Agra Limited, A all 11 111
10 1.),) B lO 31 44 34
50 Albion l5 9 7
00 Alliance, Limited - 25 121 131 131
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lint all 231 *24lp :A 1
20 Anglo-I 'taiga riau
20 Anglo-Italian 1860, limited 10 5 4 6 /
40 Australasian
20 Bunk of British Columbia all 12 13
20 Do issued at 2 pm._ , 5 5 4
20 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lint.
25 Bank of South Australia._ all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia '26 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 131 161
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, ,nd, China
25 Chartered Mere. of India.
London, and China all 32 34
20 City lO 10 11 101
100 Colonial 25 36 37 38
13 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, lim
50 East London, lim 5 '2l 11
20 English and American, im 10 ... ...
`2O English Bank of Riu de Ja-
neiro, lim lO pr Ip
20 English, Scottish, and Aus •
tralian Chartered • all 161 161 161
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 86 38
281 Do now lll 4 5
100 Imperial, lim ...... .
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 2/ 24 121 4
25 lonian all 19 22
25 Do new
Lnd Mortgage of India' Jim 4 31 31
100 Do 5 p. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 16 50
100 London Bank of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 35 30
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London & River Plate, lira. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 235 241 22&
20 London and County 29 495 501
50 Do new. iss at 20 p.m,16 pd ll ..
London Joint 5t0ck....... .
311321
London and South African al 8 9
100 London & S.-Western, lira, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, Jim._ 121 ... •••
100 London and Westminster. 20 571 581 53
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O ... •••
100 Merchant, lim
10 Metropolitan, lim
00 Midland, lira..
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 8d 1p
00 National Proviue. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do42
50 National.. 39 ... ..
20 New South Wales all 41 43 39/
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
40 Proviue. Bank. Corpo., lim. 10 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 90 92
10 Do new.. all ••• •••
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 14 14
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 46 13
100 Union of Ireland, lira
50 Union of London

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

10 Allglo-American Tel., limj all 201 201 201 1
10 Anglo Mediter Tel., bin.— 10 17 118 IS 1
st Atlantic Telegraph lO 15 17
at Do. 8 per cent.
at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lint lOO 163 163
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 254 259
10 Do. New 8 12 13p
25 Indo-European Tel., lim lO ld pr
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all 31 .1
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all i ip
10 Mediterra. listen. Tel., lim all GI 71
25 Iteuter's Telegram all 79 81
20 Societe Transatlant., lim all 38 161
st Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 11 2
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., bin all 7 71
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 41 5 p

MISCELLANEOUS,

10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 15 lei
25 Australian Agricultural
25 Australian Mort. Laud and
Finance, lint.
10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lint 3 51
10 Berlin Water Works, lint, all 131 111
10 Do. New all 114 15
100 Bolckow Vaughan, lint.
5 Bombay Gas, lint, all 41 44
5 Do. New 4 11 id
50 British American Land 44 15 17
20 British Indian Tea, lim all 21 31
20 British Ship Owners 7l ... ...
29 Canada Company all 63 b 6
10 Canadian Loan and Invest-
ment, lim 2l .. ...
20 Ceylon Company, lim.
20 Do. A shares
10 City Discount, inn 5 _
25 City of London Real Pro-
perty, lint 9 51 415
30 City of Milan Improv. lint all o 6
25 Cityiiy O
of 'Moscow
lint sciow Gas, lim all
50 C
25 23 22 d
50 Colonial, lint.
Do.
..
50 Commercial 'Union (Assur) 5 pr s p
10 Company of African Mer-
chants, lim.
20 Continental Union Gas, lint all 24 25
25 Copper Miners of England,
pref. 71 per cent.
100 Corporation of London
Bonds, 1877, 44 per cent. all 1031 1041
100 Do. 1879, 41 per cent. all 1041 1051
100 Do. 1882, 44 per cont. all 103 104
10 Credit Fon. of England, lint. all 21 24 24
50 Credit Fou.of Mauritius lim lO 31 215
st Crystal Palace lOO 22 24
et Do. Preference IOU 92 97
st Do. 6p. c Petpetual Deb lO9 105 110
20 Darjeeling, Bin.
10 Eastern Assam, lint.
50 East Indian Land Credit

and Finance, lim.
20 East India Irriga, & Canal all
32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and
Coal, lint. 271 114 101 d
100 Egyptian 0 per cent. V'roy.
Una. by Egypt. Gov all 28 99 994 81
20 Egyptian Cons. Trail. binC
3 Eng. & Aust rat. Copper, lim 24
15 English and Foreign Credit 74 41, 391
100 Eug. and Scot. Marine, lim S
10 Fairbairn Engineering 5 3 2d
20 Fore-street Warehouse,lim l2 1 2 p
100 For. & Col. Goy. Trust and
Loan Scrip, issued at J.:85 all 88 90 90
50 (lellivara, lim. 2O
10 General Credit & Dis., lim 71 11 Id 6 5-16
15 General Steam Navigation 14 27 29
50 Home & Cul.Mariue In. inn. 5 21 2(.1
10 Hong Kong and China Gas all •••
20 Hudson's Bay all 121 13 131 14
20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar-
seilles, lim.
20 Interua.Financial Soc. Um 5 2 14 3
20 Interna. Land Credit, lim 6 6 44
50 Italian Land 5 ld p
20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 31
100 Do. 6 p. c. Bds., redeem
1870, issued 20 all 67 69
50 Laud Securities, lint 2l lid
25 London African Trading lO 7 s'l
25 Lon. & Caled. Marino, lim 6
10 Loudon County Land and
Building, lim
50 Lond. Financial Asso., lira 30 22 21
4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lim. all 2 21 64
50 Lond. and Glasg. Engineer
and Iron Ship, lim 25 21 lad
20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2 id pr
at Madras Irriga. & Canl. Gus.
sp.c. by India Gov. lOO 104 108
10 Mauritius Laud, Credit, and
Agency, 1im..... ll 11 1d
50 Merchant Shipping, lim. all 32 37
10 Millwall Iron Works, inn. 121 ..• ••••
10 Natal Land and Colonisa-
tion Co., lint.
25 National Discount Co., lim 5 10/ 111
25 National Prov. Marine, lim. 4 ••• • •
10 National Steam Ship, has, all 01 101
20 Nerbudda Coal& Iron, lim. 6 31 3d
10 New Consolidated Dis. lim 3 11 14d
5 New Quebrada, lim 4.8.0 41 41
25 New Zealand Loan & Mer.
cantile Agency,lim 2l 4 IP
25 New Zealand Trust and
Loan, lim 5 1/ 11
10 Northern Assam Tea, lint. 5 7 5,,
10 Do. B
at North Brit. Austral., lim lOO 43 t 3,
50 North Brit. & Merca.u. In 64 19 198
25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 13 14 19
50 Oriental Financial, lint ll
5 Oriental Gas, lint
5 Do. New 1 4 1P
10 Otago and Southland In
vestment, lim ld iP
5 Ottoman Gas, lint ll 21
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian R. Mail lim —.-
5 Do. do.
st Peel R. Land &Minerl, lim 100 81 84
50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 6 41
50 Do. New 1867.,,,,,,,, 10 2d
50 Rhymney Iron
1 Do. New
2 Rio de Janeiro City all 18 19 171
Do. Gas, lim all 21 241 241
100 Royal Mail Steam CO 43 5
Scottish Aust. Invest., lim lOO 78 83
Do. 6 p. c. Guar. Pref lOO •••
Societe Fin. d'Egypte, lim, 10 7 6d
Societe Gen.de PEmpire Ot. 8 21 3i
50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lint. 6 ...
25 South Australian Land
20 Telegraph Con. &Main.,llm all 29 294 811 1
20 Thames and Mersey Marine

(Insurance), lim- 2 2f 3
20 Trinidad Petroleum, lim 81 „.
...
10 Trust & Agency of Aus.,lim 1 f 1p
10 Do
Loan ni)•e•r• all 79 80 81i
do. do. all
••• .„
20 Trust &Loan Co., U. Canada 5 i. p
„
50 Union Marine L'pool, lira 5 41 r
20 Union Steam Ship, lira all 22 24
15 United Discount Corp., lira 6 li id
20 Universal Marine(ln.), Ilm• 5 3 4-,,
10 Upper Assam Tea, lim all I i 2• '
30 Van Diemaz's Land 2Bl 6 7
100 Vicceenrot.yooffortEggyagpe,
50 Warrant Finance, lim• l2 11 10d
50 West India and Pacific
Steam, lim 2O 5 3
20 West London Whirves and
Warehouses
•.. ...,

COLONIAL 00VBRNMENT SECURITIE&

- British Columbia, 6 per
cent.,1872 100 ...„
- Do. 1895..
Can.Gov.6 p.o.Jari.g& July
1877-84 - .
- Do. 6p. 0 .7eb,& Au1g0.v.....
111:000
ill.
111(0'13041 105/
& Sept.. 100 102 104
- Dpoo.. sp. o. Mar.
p. o. Jan.
~t July.. 100 92/ 931 931
- Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk.. ICO 90 92
- Cape (*.Hope, 6P.0.187,,3•• 100 102 101
- Do.Apl./hOot 1590-
- Do. do 1880.90.. 100 107 109
- Do. Jan.&July, 1891 .... 100 108 lit
- Do. 5 per cent. 15 April
and 15 Oct., 1900
100
100 98 1(0
- Ceylon
, Nov 1876, 0 p.c•. 108 sic
- Do. 1872, do lOO 105 iv
- Maurltiue, 6p. 0, 14373,-•
- Jan. and Jul/
- Do. 1878 „.. ........ , lOO 100 10C 103
- Do. 1882, hIP.y and lit,•:.
- Do. 1805, Feb. & Aug , lO 106 108
- Melbourne CorpOratlL,••
- 1667-75, 6 per cent 1(0 100 100
- N.1.1.(3cv.6 p.c.Ja.&July lOO 103 104
- Natal 6 p or, Apia; Oot OO _
Ice 10S
--- Nb.oDBo6..‘PV:. p 53 I
.10P .. °137.1:1:81 to 76 0
tNov 0i'506.....1110 99 1
000 o no loot i
7 (,1
- Do. 5 p.c. rd.'6: to '75
- N.Zealand, 6p. et. 1801 lOO
- Do. 5 per cent. •
- DoJan, A prl,./ Jly, Oct lOO 91 92 92 /
- Do 6p e. mar & 6 ept '9l lOO 108 110
- Do Jure 4 Dee, I'9l 'co 109 xll
_.- 1 Dol'rov.: 1 Amok ld. 1 110 ... .._
( xArie-t I &2, 1195. • •
- nova Scotia 6p. .c.Jad..•
- and Jnly, 1875 . 190
- Do 1886_ ~ ..... - . 100 10
- Qtreu,!nd. sp. C. '623-• 100 107 1031 1081
- Do 1801 • = - Tasmanian 6 pee x. 1895 .. /1.7 199
- Do x 893 'll/ ...... , lOO 108 109
.- Victoria 0 t el, ow:U.1891 lOO
- Do. April and t)Ot
_••••••_ VP 111 112 111

PUB BISHOP OP GLOUCESTER ON CHURC.I7
WORK.

In addressing the conference of clergy and laity held
yesterday at Bristol, the Lord Bishop of Gloucester
addressed himself to the question, What is it that the
Church of England must do if she would retain het
honourable position as the National Church? What is
now her especial duty ? Is not the answer almost spon-
taneously rising to the lips of many of those who now
hear me : the Church must continue, even more earnestly
than before, to educate her children, and to evangelise her
masses? These things done, and heartily done, she will
be; to a wider extent than before, the Mother Church
of all ; these things left undone, or slothf ally done, and
she will slowly but surely dwindle into the Church of a
denomination ; and the immediate future beyond that is
easy enough to be foreseen. Such briefly is the work we
have now before us—education and evangelisation. First,
as to continued and increased activity in education. I say,
" continued activity," for our Church has been pre-emi-
nently forward and active in this great and holy
cause. We can point to the million and a half
of scholars that the Church is now educating in her
week-day schools, and to the million and a quarter
that are gathered in her Sunday schools. We can
thankfully specify the almost marvellous progress of her
night schools, from the two-and-twenty thousand scholars
of twenty years ago, to the hundred-and-forty-and-eight
thousand of the present time. Yes, we can further test
our progress with full and duo reference to our ever-
increasing population. If we look back a little more than
a generation we can see how at that time our Church
could claim but one scholar out of every thirty-six of the
whole population, and how now she can claim nearly three
times as many. Such things may well give us heart. But
much more yet remains to be done. There must not
only be continued activity, but increased activity if we
would keep pace with these swift-moving times. And we
have a great opportunity; the general feeling is with us
on account of past services ; and is also, for the present,
at least, by no means favourable to any purely secular sys-
tem. The time present then is the time for action. We must
put aside bickerings about conscience clauses and contro-
versies on revised codes, we must utilise all available insti-
tutions, and then and therein teach, as the Church of Eng-
land has ever taught, frankly and freely, with broad, clear,
and faithful assertion of her own apostolic principles.
Education is the question of the hour ; let the clergy
and laity of our Church be forward in dealing with it, and
make it their care to give the restless movements of the
time their right and reasonable direction. If the time,
now our own, is allowed to pass, our present denomina-
tional system will find itself very soon in difficult and
hardly hopeful competition, with a system probably
compulsory and certainly unsectarian. But, my friends,
if education is much, evangelisation of our masses is most.
There, indeed, is our greatest work; there laity, as well
as clergy, must be earnest and forward, if we would all
do our duty as Churchmen and Englishmen. Yes, my
brethren of the laity, there is much you can do to aid us.
You have not yet done much. How few unpaid scripture
readers there are, for instance? How few lay readers in a
diocese where scattered hamlets are so numerous, and
clerical endowments so frequently in no sort of fair pro-
portion to the spiritual needs of the population. Is this
due to apathy on the part of the laity, or to a mistaken
professional sensitiveness on the part of the clergy—
or, worse still, to a sort of sectarian opposition that
paralyses everything? Let us leave the answer unsaid,
and the question undecided; let bygones be bygones; lot
us, at any rate, with God's grace, make the future our own,
and bring the name of Christ more freely to the ears and
then to the hearts of those that have heard it not. The
faithful layman has his work as well as the faithful minis-
ter, and let him do it. What matter what official name he
bear—let him do it co-operating with and subordinate to
his clergyman with an earnest and devoted heart, and God
will give the increase. But there must be no delay. We
have received, and are daily receiving, something more than
mere hints that if the gospel is not preached much more
heartily, much more widely, and with much more blessed
reality than before, the Church of the present, ray, the
very society of the present, must be prepared for startling
and even revolutionary change. Let us, then, co-operate
heartily and earnestly, put our petty differences out of
sight, and look more and more to the points where we
agree.

ASSURANCE COMPANIES IN CHANCERY.