The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-09 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing; Busmeen
Share NAkr.E. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 11 12 111
10 Do B lO 21 31 313
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lira alll 191 2 1
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 01 41
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 12
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 33
10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 18
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, Ind China all 20 21 !
25 Chartered Mere. of India.
London, and China all 191 301
' 20 City lO 12 121
100 Colonial '2s 59 40
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, lint
50 East London, lints 2 1
20 English and American, lira 10 ••• •••
20 English Bank of ltio de Ja-
neiro. lim lO pr 1 p
20 English, :- sottish, and Aus •
tralian Chartered
281 Hung Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 08
281 Do new 5/ 11 '24
lOU Imperial, Um 2O 16 17
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 2 • / 11
1.5 lonian all '2l '26
25 Do new 5 1t 4p
20 Lnd Mortgage of India lint 4 3/ 31
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 301 all 76 75 76
30 London Bank! of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 5 4
100 London aud Brazilian, lint. 45 30 27 17
20 Do new 71 5i 41
100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 9 11
2.5 Do new 10 21 2lp 12f
20 London Chart. of Australia all 2,1 '25
20 London and County 2O 61 03
50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ••• •••
London Joint Stock 1 34 3:1 331
London and South African al 85 91
00 London & S.-Western, lint, 20 11 9
150 London &Venezuela Um_ 121 ••• •••
100 London and Westminster. 20 61 65 . 611 34
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lint 25 6 4
10 Metropolitan, lim all 71 74
100 Midland, him..
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lint l5 ld 1p
100 National rrovinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do
50 National.
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 43 41 43
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim. 10 6 5 44
00 Provincial of Ireland 25 88 90
10 Do new all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 15 14
100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 48
100 Union of Ireland, lint
50 Union of London

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

10 Anglo-American Tel., lint all 221 24 24
10 Anglo Mediter Tel., lira.— 10 lit 121 114
et Atlantic Te1egraph............ 10 25 28
at Do. 8 per cent. ......... 100 71 74
et B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lira. 100 160 165
at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 2,0 250
10 Do. New ...... . ........ 8 9 lip
25 Indo-European Tel., 10
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lira all 3 31
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent. all IP
10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., inn. all 3 4
25 Reuter's Telegram .... . ....... all 50 65
20 Societe Transatlant., lim... 14 4 3 101
et Submarine Telegraph ...... 100 109 114
20 Telegraph Con. & MScripain.,lim. all 161 174 161
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., Um. all 5. 6 bf
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref. all 31 4 p

MR. CHARLES DICKENS IN LIVE.RIVOAT4

On Wednesday afternoon a deputation; consisting of
the president and several members of the Liverpool
Literary and Philosophical Society, waited upon Mr.
Dickens, at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, and presented
him with a congratulatory address. In reply, Mr. Dickens,
after cordially thanking the deputation for their kindness,
went on to say :—" In reference to the handsome tribute
you have paid to the usefulness of whatever work I have
done, I may at least claim that I have tried to do some
little social service in my generation, and that I have en.
deavoured not to squander away such opportunities as the
public have generally afforded me in this respect. I really
find it veryhard to express my sense of the spontaneousman•
ner in which you have paid me this great compliment, and
I assure you that I shall not easily, nay, I shall never,
forget it. I may say, further, that to respect my vocation,
and to cause my vocation to be respected, have been
the two great aims of my life ; and that I could not
possibly have forwarded those objects except I had been
honest in intention, at least, in my labours. In such
recognitions as yours I find my best and purest reward,
and I prize it highly."

PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON SCIENTIFIC

TRAINING.

Professor Huxley, at the annual dinner of the Liverpool
Philomathic Society, on Wednesday night, spoke on the
subject of the introduction of scientific training into the
general education of the country. Upon no subject had
the public mind been more educated, he was happy to say,
than upon this particular topic of the introduction of
science into education, and physical science was already
recognised as a part of the curriculum at Harrow and Rugby
and some of our great schools. It might be well for him to
state what appeared to him to be the great justification
and necessity for the introduction of physical science
into education. They must not suppose because
he happened to be devoted to abstract pur-
suits that he was in the least degree insensible
to that which bad been said to be the English
notion of paradise, namely, " Getting on." He looked
upon "getting on" as a very important matter indeed,
and for that purpose recognised the value of science, for
in hardly any of our trades, except the huckstering ones,
was not some knowledge of science absolutely profitable
to that occupation. But apart from any general bearing
of science in practical life, its direct influence upon
the professions was enormous. He would ask
any engineer present how much time he had
lost because when he had left school he had
had to take to pursuits which were absolutely strange
to him. With regard to medical practitioners, the young
man who gave himself up to the study of medicine had
immediatelyto make an acquaintance with a greatnumber
of studies, such as physics, chemistry, botany, and
physiology, which were entirely strange to him.
The clerical profession had to deal with the facts of
nature and were brought into contact with the teaching of
the man of science, and they knew very often what that
contact was, and how little light came out. In the
interests of mankind and of fair play, why would not the
clergy get some little tincture of physical science and put
themselves into a positi the understand the difficulties
which were forced upon mind of every thoughtful and
intelligent man? He addressed himself particularly to the
Protestant clergy. The training of the Roman Catholic
clergy differed as much from that given to Protestant
clergymen as the volunteers who did not face the weather
very violently the other day and the trained soldiers of
Napoleon's Old Guard. What was wanted in the present
day was men of the character of Butler of the " Analogy."
If he was in the life he would make mincemeat of nine-
tenths of the heresy of the present day. The Professor, in
concluding, said he hoped the time would come when it would
not be regarded as a blasphemous proposition that there
should be opened in every parish in this country Sunday
schools for science, in which people should be taught for
the purpose of rescuing themselves from misery and
ignorance. That might be supplemented by a series of
Sunday evening discourses upon secular matters, and upon
topics which would enlighten them and enable them to
bear better the toil of daily life.