The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, L 69.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Meng linaktess
Share Nlvz. Paid. Price. don.
10 Agra Limited, A all 10/ 104
10 Do B lO 34 34 3/
60 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyytian, Urn all 201 211
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 51 41
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 1:
20 Do issued at 2 pm....., 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 19
It) Bank of New Zealand all 15 l 7
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, -. nd China all 13 19 Iql 18
25 Chartered Mere. of India
London, and China all 12 33
' 20 City
100 Colonial
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and Loudon, lira
50 East London, lint 0
20 English and American, lint 10
20 English Bank of Rio do Ja-
neiro. lint
20 English, z•cottish, and Aus -
tralian Chartered ......
284 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 38
281 Du new 5l 21 24
100 Imperial, lint 2O 15 16,
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 25 31 12
5 luniun all 19 'li
25 Du now 5 6 3
Lnd Mortgage of Indid, tan 4 31 $5
100 Do :i p. c. Debs.lB6l, :.;t) all 76 76 e 0
100 London Bank; of Mexico
anti South America, lint. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, lint. 45 30 27
20 Du new 74 5 44
100 London & River Plato, lint. 40 G 8 47
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 241 231
20 London and County 2O 401 501
30 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ... ...
London Joint Stock 1 315 321 32 14
London and South African al 8: 9
100 London &S.-Western, lint, 20 13 11
60 London & Venezuela, ltm 125 ... ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 61 62 el
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lint e
10 Metropolitan, lint all 71 74
00 Midland, lint 2O 11 4
5 National of Australia
25 National ef Liverpool, lint l5 8d 1p
00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do
10 National..
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriontal Bank Corporation all 4 t 42 41
50 Proviuc. Bank. Corps, Ihn. 10 64 hi
30 Provincial of Irelant.
10 Do now.. all ... ...
WO Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lira 25 14 14
100 Do issued at G pin. 10 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 48
100 Union of Ireland, lint
50 Union of Loudon

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TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

10 Anglo-Ame can 1., Um al 201 tO 201
10 Anglo Mediter Tel., lira.— 10 121 14
st Atlantic Telegraph lO 20 ',2
at Do. 8 per cent.
et B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lira lOO 168 173
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 250 256
10 Do. New 8 11 18p
25 Indo-European Tel., lira lO ... ...
5 Loud. Provincial Tel. lira all 31 S 1 3f
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all t i p
10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lira all 4 41
25 Reuter's Telegram all 63 61 70 09
20 Societe Transatlant., Ihn all 181 19 1 /
st Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 11 11
20 Telegraph Con. & Main., lira all %if z 1
6U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lira all 64 61 gi
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 41 4fp

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Time*, in referring to the Lords' amendments, ob-
serves that anything like recasting the Irish Church Bill
from the beginning is quite out of the question. Anything
conceived on such a large scale as to come under the defi-
nition of concurrent endowment is eqnal'y hopeless.
Anything involving permanent relations in the nature
of a Concordat between England and the See of Rome
would be at once repudiated by the national senti-
ment. But those who go on to say that the verdict of
the country at the hustings has pronounced against a
modest proposal to erect residences and to assign glebes of
ten acres with them to the Presbyterian and Roman
Catholic clergymen as an equivalent for equal benefits
retained to the clergy of the Disestablished Church speak
without any warrant from facts. In truth, the evidence
in favour of the Duke of Cleveland's proposal
increases every hour, while the argument in favour
of its policy has never been met. The Times believes
the Duke's suggestion will appear on reflection
to possess the greatest recommendations with the
fewest drawbacks. It is moderate. It is just. It
excites to passion. It would induce no prolonged con-
troversies. It would involve no protracted relations
between the commissioners and the religious communions
of Ireland. The commissioners would be authorised to
receive applications from parishes where the ministers of
religion possess no house and glebe, and upon proof of the
truth to supply ascertained deficiencies. The religious
communions of Ireland would remain afterwards as
before, entirely free and unaffected by State alliance or
State control, while all vestiges of predominance and
inequality would have vanished.
Tho Star discusses the propositions of concurrent
endowment, and believes that when they come to be
seriously considered, the proposals to give the Irish priests
and clergy churches, residences, and glebe lands, or the
residences and glebes without the churches, will be found
impossible expedients. It would be far easier to remit
the building charge of the Irish Church clergy out of
goodwill and favour than attempt to shield ' the
process under cover of a general endowment.
The history of the present movement has
been strangely forgotten. To judge from the new
praises of levelling up, and the ardour of some peers in that
course, there is little enough memory of the time when
" levelling up " and " disendowment" were the opposing
watchwords of party conflict. But the causes which made
so much turn upon the opposition of these watchwords are
as potent as ever they were. The Roman Catholics of
Ireland are still demanding religious equality through dis-
endowment, and not through the opposite process. The
Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Presbyterians
of Scotland and Ireland, and the most ardent defenders of
the Irish Church itself, are all bitterly hostile to indiscri-
minate endowment, and especially to the endowment of
the Roman Catholic Church. However the fact may be
disliked, the sentiment of the people of the United King-
dom is arrayed in the most unmistakable manner
against the course which finds so much favour.
That it animates the best part of the Opposi-
tion, as well as of the Government majority, makes
the proposal a certain failure, but the Liberal majority is
so composed that the Government must resist it to the
uttermost. Not only the Dissenters, but the voluntaries
among their supporters, are sufficiently numerous to make
any favour shewn to indiscriminate endowment the cause
of a fatal breach in the party. There has been quite
enough grumbling as it is at the alleged favour shown to
Maynooth in the arrangements of the bill. To go farther
and give the priests parsonages and glebes, to encourage
in this way the " teaching of error," would deprive the
Liberal party of all confidence in its leaders.
The Standurd says that it is difficult to conceive any
living man carrying his memory back to such days of
cruelty and horror as were described by the Lord Chan-
cellor at the Haberdashers' Hall banquet to the judges on
Saturday evening. Most of us live in times so different,
under laws so changed, and surrounded by a social spirit
so utterly in contrast with that of fifty years ago, that
we are apt to exaggerate the distance between ourselves
and them. Yet younger persons than Lord Hatherley
might recall to mind similarly fearful scenes enacted in
the name of civilised justice. The Lord Chancellor told
his audience that once, when a boy, he was present in
the Central Criminal Court when seventy-five persons—
men and women—were condemned to death in a batch.
Not all were to be hanged, and many of them knew it—
knew that their lives were to be spared, while others were
to be inexorably left for execution. These laughed and
gibed as they passed out of the dock at their more
miserable fellows in crime who were sure to die. No
more frightful p!cture, no more humiliating illustration of
human nature in its lowest state, could be imagined. But
it was in the nineteenth century, nevertheless. It seems
a dream to us now, as remote from our practical thoughts
Jt.,l g-Pek"PiCi-V9lBe orf, peat t lY7x--oan". grounds of
humanity ; they were only abolished when they
Lost _ their meaning and had ceased to operate.
The CensoliOaCon Act of a few years ago swept
them clean t:.e statute book, so that the letter of the
law lice been purged not less than its practice. But it is
as well that we shy u:d Le reminded now and then about
the monstr. sides of which our civilieatien was capable,
not so long ago but that a living Lord Chancellor can
remember being a spectator of those awful scenes, aril can
tell of them, as an eye-witness, when responding to a
toast at a eh is banquet.

The Te!c;raph thinks that it is so far satisfactory that
the attenti, n already drawn to the case of Orerend,
Gurney, and Co. has cleared up a little doubt which at-
tached to one or two points, and has aroused some of the
public to comprehend the extreme importance of the
issues at stake. Dr. Thom has all along intended to con-
duct his own case, and will appear before the Lord
Chief Justice on Friday—not as a last .resort, merely
because the Government has declined to aid him,
but iu pursuance of his original design. The re•
solution does the public•epirited gentleman great
credit, but it by no means lessens the responsibility of
the Government or tho public. It is not by amateur
labour, however zealous, that the prosecution can be
exhaustively carried out, and a satisfactory decision
reached ; and a possible failure through well-intentioned
mistakes is as unpleasant to contemplate as the absence
of any trial at all. To obtain the means of effectively
carrying on the case is therefore indispensable; and we
are glad to see that the fact is beginning to be recognised.
Mr. Darby Griffith offers a subscription of £lOO towards

the costs ; and there can be little doubt that his
sentiments will be shared by many who have been
less prompt in giving them utterance. It depends,
then, on the disposition of thepublic to follow the example
of Mr. Griffith, whether the prosecution shall have full
justice done to it or not. It is to be hopecl, should other
means fail, that it is not yet too late for Mr. Bruce to
interfere, and thus to arrest the grave scandal which must
arise if the most important commercial prosecution which
our time has witnessed fail through mere misadventure.
ISectively.liandled, whatever its results, the trial would
place on record one of the most valuable representative
cases which our judicial procedure has yet supplied for the
guidance of the mercant►le world.

The Daily Ncnw declares that the money epidemic seems
to be clearing London society, as twenty years ago the
potato disease swept away the population of Ireland.
Just as the East and its speculators are beginning to
fancy that they see the dawn of a calm day, a storm,
growing rapidly to the dimensions of a hurricane, has
burst upon the astonished West: What is to be the end
of the fashionable crisis ? In the mercantile crisis the
ruin began at the other end of the system. The great
dealers in moneplendiug and discounts suddenly fell to
pieces, and with them fell the companies they had
created, the enterprises they had fostered, and all
the minor traders in speculation who had lived by
picking up the crumbs that fell from their table.
In the fashionable difficulty the case has been
inverted. The customers and the borrowers have
gone first, and it remains yet to be seen whether
those on whose means they floated will not join them in
the great maelstrom where they are whirling, or will
contrive to keep a footing outside and save themselves"
alive. What effect will these events have on the Turf,
and what has now, unhappily, become the soul of the
Turf—the Rus ? The Ring, it may be presumed, whether
it goes with a crash or dwindles away from want of sus-
tenance, will be eliminated from the racing system. When
this ,change has taken place we may possibly see the old
character of racing restored as it existed when Lord
Derby, Lord Exeter, Lord Glasgow, Lord Palmerston, and
General Peel were its leading patrons, and when men of
wealth and position did not shrink from running horses in
their own names ; but if not, we indulge a hope that we
shall not much longer see the names of noble gentlemen
bandied about like shuttlecocks in discreditable contests
in courts of law, which drag into the strife even their
wives and their mothers. -

In referring to the recent catastrophe in Hosier-lane,
the Herald says that such silent slaughter in the midst of
a great city, on a Sabbath'evenieg, strikes the mind
almost with a feeling of awe. That a whole family should
be thus swept off in a night—the man in the prime of his
his days, and the babe as it lay in the cot—is an incident
which may well excite unmitigated horror. Such a merci-
less sacrifice of human life would seem to demand
some overpowering motive. Yet,' in this case, we can
trace nothing but the exaggerated impulse of insanity.
Still there was enough of reason to enable the man—at
some time or another—to indite a couple of letters, duly
directed and posted, as if in relation to the most ordinary
affairs of every-day existence. When Auch hideous tra-
gedies as this start up in the midst of our busy life it prompts
:lie question whether, by some mysterious derangement of
the intellect, the most amiable and affectionate of men
may auddenly be transformed into the most ferocious
murderers and determined suicides. Does it only need
the brain to be unduly wrought upon, whether by
physical agony or by overwork, or by the mere pressure
of care, in order for the husband to s:ay wife, children,
and self—quenching the fire upon the hearth as with a
deluge of blood? We are inclined to believe that deeds
so murderous and monstrous, even where insanity is
present, are not wholly unconnected with previous
degeneracy of character. Suicide may be perpetrated
by the hest of men in a moment of hallucination ; but we
would fain hope that the wise and virtuous do not become
as demons the moment reason totters ou its throne. The
frequency of murder and suicide in the present day seems
to us to indicate a moral as well as a mental and physical
cause. It may be a moot question, but we are inclined
to think that even insanity does not wholly obliterate
character. It is a dark subject, and eight corpses. in one
tvouze mak§ it a 11114ttga plidulintereq,