The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-17 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

ST. SIVITHIA"S DAY.

Closing Business Share NAuk. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra, Limited, A all lei 11.:
al D.l B lO 34 U
30 Albion
00 Alliance, Llinited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 An lint . all 84 211 20 Auglo-ilanzarian
20 Auglo-Italial 1333, limited 10 51 41
40 Australasian
20 Baal: of British Columbia , all 10 It.
20 Do issued at 2 pin ~.. 5 6 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, limn.
25 Bank of South Australia_ all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 16 17
SO British North American .., all 501 511
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, rnd China all 13 19
25 Chartered Merc. of India
Loudon, and China all 32 33
20 City
12
100 Colonial 25 118 41
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, lint
50 East London, lint 5
20 English and American, lint 10
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro, lint lO pr 1p
20 English, acottish, and Aus -
tralian Chartered
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all .36 38
284 Do new sg 2: 24
100 Imperial, lim 2O 15 16
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 11 121 i
15 lonian all 19 22
25 Do new 5 6 3
Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 3i 4
100 Du 5 p. c. Debs.l364, 30 all 76 76 80
100 London Bank( of Mexico
and South America, lint. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, lint. 45 30 27
20 Do now 74 5 44
100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 6 8 474
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 241 211
20 London and County 2O 491 50i 511
50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m,16 pd. 11 ... ..
London Joint 5t0ck......... 1 311 321
London and South African al 8: 91
100 London 8: S.-Western, lim, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, lint l2l . ...
100 London and Westminster. 20 61 62 601 i 4
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lint 25 6 5
10 Metropolitan, lint all 71 7i
00 Midland, 1int...... 2O 11 4
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lint l5 3.1 1p
00 National Pro vine. ofEnt,•'d 42 ... ."10 Do
60 National., 3O ... .
20 New South Wales all 41 4:1
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 41
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lint lO 61 54
30 Provincial of Ireland 2.5 9J 91
10 Do now.. all ... ..
100 Stand, of Brit. S. Africa, lira 25 14 11
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 43
100 Union of Ireland, lint
50 Union of London l5 371 381
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.Vl,Viliit.L. (1.)1 V EakiNtieLNAT 6MA J itIT 1 15.:

Thursday was Saint Swithin's day. Mr. Plant, of Bir-
mingham, on that day made some calculations as to the
trustworthiness of the old legend. Ms investigations do
not tend to confirm its truth. Tbo weather has been often
fine subsequent to a rainy ear cn the 15th of July, and on
the other Land a long wet season hes traluently suc-
ceeded a fine Saint Swithiu's Day. On the 15th
July, 1816, there was no rain in the locality, but the
weather that followed was of a miserably cold rainy
character, and we had the worst harvest ever known.
In 1826 it rained hero on the 15th July, but the remainder
of the month was fine and intensely hot. Again, in 1856, it
was wet on St. Swithin's Day, and the rest of the month
and part of August were fine. Coming nearer to the pre-
sent time, in 1861, it rained on the 15th of July, and the re-
nutinder of
,that month was wet; but was succeecled by
a dry August and magnificent harvest. In 1862 it was again
wet on St. Swithin's Day, but the following six weeks fine.
In 1665 it was wet on St. Swithln'sDay, and a rainy season
followed to the end of August. Whereas in 1866 it was find
n the 15th July, suce4 eded by n wry wet period nod a
bad harvest. In 1867 St. Swithin's I) ay was wit, and the
rest of July was rainy, but August was fine and hot. In
1868, on the 15th of July, it rained here and in many parts
of the Midland Counties, Cheshire, and Lancashire, and
there was no more rain for three weeks. It was the dryest
and hottest July every registered, and the harvest the ear-
liest since 1826.

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THE LAWS AFFECTING SALMON
BISEIERIES.

The committee appointed to inqUire into the existing
laws affecting salmon fisheries resumed their sitting on
Friday in the House of Commons, Mr. Dodds in the
chair. Before proceeding with the business of the day,
the court was cleared, and on being reopened the chair-
man stated that in future members of the committee must
rot supply reporters with copies of the evidence.
The first witness called was Mr. Patterson, chairman of
the Special Commission for Inquiring into Salmon
Fisheries, who was examined touching the general
working of the commission. He stated that the
powers of the commissioners were pretty much
the same as that, of justices of the peace. The best way
of giving representation to greater numbers was by giving
votes upon the electoral system. Both in the estuary or
in the tide way there should be a power to put
on a certain license on nets. The powers con-
ferred on water bailiffs were insufficient ; be
thought they should have power at all times to inspect
salmon rivers. He had never heard the proposal that nets
should vary at different times. Those used in the
English rivers were a little larger than those used
in Ireland and Scotland, which were of a fair
size. Some of the provisions of the Act were
extended to trout. He knew that there were three sepa-
rate parties as inspectors of rivers--the Pollution Com-
missioners, themselves, and the inspectors of salmon
fisheries ; but the Pollution Commissioners had more
to do with sanitary measures. Some restriction
should be made to any mode of fishing that obstructed
the passage of fish. He objected to give local
conservators the power of making bye-laws, as they might
be led away by some predominant local influence, He
would vest the power in a superior board. He had made
several representations to the Home Office, but without
any notice being taken of them. But for the appoint-
ment of the present committee, the views of some of the
best-informed persons mould never have been made
known.
The committee adjourned.

- Britt4ll Columbia, 6 per
0ent.,1872.... -
- UO. 1885.. lOO - -
Can.Gov.6 p.o.Jan.,&July
1677-84
Do. 6 p.o 20X & Aug leo tut )05
- Do. sp. 0. Mar. & Sept lOO 102 104
- Do. Cp. o. Jan. & July lOO 68 tO
- Do. sp. c. Inscribed ek ICO 90 92
- Cape, G.Hope, 6 p. 0.1873 lOO 102 101
- Do.Ap1.&001 1890-1900 lOO 111 113
- Do. do 1890-90 lOO 107 109
- Do. Jan.&July, 1891
- Do. 5 per °ant.. 15 April
and 15 Oct., 1900 . foo 93 100
- Ceylon, Nov 1878, 6 p.c.. 100 108 11c
- Do. 1872, d 0.... 100 105 10
- Mauritius, 6p. o, 1873,-
-- Jan. and July
- Do. 1878 .. lOO Ith; (OS
- Do. 1832, Hay and 1:10. 00 106 103
- 1895, Feb. & Aug lO 106 196
- Melbourne Corporatn.,
- 1867-7.1, 6 per cent lOO 100 100
- N.8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.&J uly lot) 103 1..4
- Natal 6 p ot, &pi& Cot O.) .
- DJ 6p u. 51. ty & Nov l.O 1 6 101 1072
- N. 8.15/.5 ire., '7l to 'N l9O 99 b 1
- - Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1896._ 103 981 994 081
- Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to '75
- N.Zealand, 6p. et. 1801 ICO -- -
- Do. 5 per cent—.
- DoJan,Ap I,J u!y, 0 t lOO 9.3 94 94
- Do 6p c. slar & Bept '9l lOO 108 110
- Do June & Dec , 1,91
Do rrov. • l Aticzld. 1 0 -
( rie 1& 2, 11)6 ..
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- Nova Scotia 6p. c.Jan...
- and Jnly. 1875
- Do 1,66..
- Qu9enaind. b p.c. 100 10;2 106: 1072
- Do 1891 .
- Tasmanian 6 per c. 1893 .. 034 1071
- Do iB9 '97 .• 100 1)1} 1( 7
- Victoria 6 ier cent. 1341_ tl6
- I.e. April and Oct ...... 111 I. 2 112

The Prussian army is to have a new breech-
) a !er. Au improved needle-gun.
Mr. Bruce's bill for the Protection of Trade Union
Funds has been l üblished. Its powers expire on
th 3 31st August, 1870.
THE MASTERSHIP OF THE T4.IIPLE.—The appoint-
ment of Dr. Vaughan to the Mastership of the Temple is
gazetted.
Mr. 11. A. Churchill,. C.D., just arrived in this
country, speaks with confidence as to the safety of Dr.
Livingstone, from whom Lo Las bad letters of a date more
recent than that of his reported murder.
The Birmingham papers repot a serious boatirg
fatality, which happened et Lickey en Thursdu. Some work-
men, engaged in altering the Rose and Crown Hotel, went
out for a row. They commenced "larking" in the boat, it
capsized, and three of their number were drowned.
A ci.ble telegram Ire m Ililadelphia states that
there was an accident on Wt dnesday nighton the Erie Rail-
way to the New York express train, which was thrown from
the track. The cars caught fire, and v.vai persons were
1 urnt to death.

FIRE FROM TILE SCZA TlElT.—lnvestigations into

e cause ( f a recent fire near Bradford disclosed the Lc

that it bad been caused by the ignition, under the sun's
rtt)is, of a couple of sparrow's nests, which were just
beneath the Welsli slates.

It is stated that forty members of the Iluuse of

Commons nice► dud an Irish Literal me, f:ng: on
Thursday. They passed a vote of confidence in Mr.
Gladstone, but resolutions were carried urging him
to leave open the question of appropriating the surplus
until the country had time to pronounce upon it. 4r.
Blake advocated that it should be applied to the promotion
of lash railways and fisheries.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.--The im.
plement yard of the Ruyal Agricultural Society's show at
Manchester was opened to the public on Friday morning.
The attendance was rather limited, as usual on the first
day, being a good deal confined to the visits of engineers
and agriculturists, The visits of the general public will
probably be reserved till Monday and the succeeding days
of next week, when the show will be more complete, by
the addition of a show of live stock and of hounds and
hunters.

THE COMPETITIVE SYSTEM. —While a good many
people are grumbling at the extent to which the competi-
tive principle is applied in determining the qualifications
of candidates fcr State employment, Sir John Lubbock is
agitating for the extension of the system to the banker's
and the merchant's counting-house. He proposes the
formation of an examining board for clerks, whose duty it
would be to ascertain the character, abilities, and
"required limits of age" of persons presenting themselves
as candidates for commercial appointments.
A PAINTER'S PUNCTUATION.—At the door of a
certain bat store in New York hangs the sign, "NV e
block your hat, while you wait for 50 cents." Therein
entered a countryman, the other day, and answered affir-
matively to the question of hat-blocking. The work was
performed, and he was asked if he would have anything
else in the hat line. He replied in the negative, but con-
tinued to "hang about," as though something was unsaid.
At last the clerk asked what he was waiting for.
" Waiting for that 50 cents," said he. He didn't get it.
The painter had misplaced the comma.

AN ACCIDENT TO ROYALTY.—On Friday after.
noon the Prince and the Princess of Wales paid a visit to
the Queen, at Windsor Castle. On their return to town by
the Great Western Railway the Princess was leaving the
Queen's private waiting•room at the Windsor terminus,

and was in the act of crossing the carpeted platform to the
saloon carriage, when a humbly-dressed woman, who was
running to catch the train, came into collision with her
Royal Highness, and nearly threw her down. The
Princess, recovering herself, smiled, and passed to the car-
riage.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE WESLEYAN CONFE-
RENCE AND LOCAL PREACHERS.—The Rev. S. R. Hall,
president of the Wesleyan Conference, writes to a gentle.
man living at Bfistol :—" I am in receipt of your commu-
nication of the 10th inst. in which you complain of the
occupation by local preachers of the pulpits of the chief
Wesleyan chapels when the recognised ministers are
occasionally absent. As you propose sending your note to
the Bristol newspapers, I must be excused if I treat your
severe and unwarrantable strictures upon a most valuable
class of men as unworthy of remark from me. I decline to
appear before the public' upon your call ; and as you
stand in no relation to our Church that gives you any right
to disturb our long-established usages, I trust the ' public'
of Bristol will discredit your unjust and obtrusive
criticisms."

PRINCE ARTHUR AT THE OPENING OF THE
SAILORS' ORPHAN HOME.--Royalty has been doing much
lately in the way of patronising charitable institutions.
On Friday Prince Arthur connected the Royal Family
with another institution. His Royal Highness, on behalf
of her Maj►sty, opened a new home and school for the
orphan girls of sailers. His Royal Highness arrived at a
few minutes past three, i❑ one of her Majesty's carriages,
with footmen and outriders in scarlet liveries, and
was received in the first place by the inhabi-
tants of Hampstead, in crowds as2enibled, and
in the second by the committee of management of
the institution. When his Royal Highness had been con.
ducted to a platform in a marquee set up for the occasion,
an address was read setting forth the objects of the institu-
tion, and the reasons for the construction of the new build-
ing. When Prince Arthur had made a brief reply,
sundry prayers were said by the Bishop of London.
A large number of ladies, all youthful, some mere
children, and all dressed in blue and white, now presented
purses to his Royal Highness. The First Lord of the
Admiralty delivered a short speech in eulogy of the
charity. When the National Anthem had been sung, the
Prince laid a memorial stone in the central hall of the
building, and planted a tree in the garden. Ilia Royal
Liialanois twit the chair at the dijcilner.,.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY IT, 1869.

TILL' Lurens' PIZOTIZT A GiLLYSI' TIIE
.1141.311 RILL.

'rho following protest has been entered against the
third 'ending of the Irish Church Bill in the Lords :
" Dissentient-1. Because this bill, for the first time
since tho foundation of the British Monarchy, introduces,
so far as Ireland is concerne,l, the principle, unrecog-
nised in any other country in Europe, of an entire seve-
rance of the State from the support of any and every form
of religious worship.

" 2. Because the adoption of this principle with regard
to Ireland cannot but give great encouragement to the
designs of those who desire its extension to every part of
the United Kingdom.

" 3. Because it is a violent stretch of the power of Par-
liament to resume a grant made by itself in perpetuity;
still more to confiscate property held by long prescription,
and by a title independent of Parliament.

" 4. Because if this principle be well founded as regards
private property, it is Still more so with regard to that
which has been solonnly set a; art for the purposes of
religion and the service of Almighty God.
" 5. Because the legislation attempted in this bill tends
to shake confidence in all property, and espeCially in that
which rests upon a parliamentary title, heretofore consi-
dered as the most unassailable of all.
" G. Because it is impossible to place a Church, disesta-
Unshed and disendowed, and bound together only by the
tie of a voluntary association, on a fcoting of equality
with the perfect organisation of the Church of Rome,
whereby, especially in Ireland, the laity are made com-
pletely subservient to the priesthood, the priests to the
bishops, and the bishops themselves are subject to the
uncontrolled authority of a foreign potentate.
"7. Because this bill will be felt as a grievous
injustice •by the Protestants of Ireland, who, through
their Irish Parliament, surrendered their political inde-
pendence by a treaty the fundamental condition of which
was the greater security of the Protestant Establishment.
"8. Because while this measure will tend to alienate
those who have hitherto been the firmest supporters of
the British Throne and British connection, so far
from conciliating, much less satisfying, it will only stimu-
late to fresh demands that large portion of the Roman
Catholic population of Ireland which looks forward to
ulterior and very different objects, and, above all, to
ultimate emancipation from the control of the British
Legislature.
" DERBY. ELLENBOROUGH.
II ARROWBY. 11 EDESDALE.
MARLBOROUGH. CLEMENTS.
fur 1,2, 3,4, 5,7, BANDON.
and S reasons. CHARLES B. Tuam.
AI ALMESBURY. SALTOTJN.
CHELMSFORD. li A RTIS3f ERE.
DE Ros, MANCHESTER.
G P.INSTEAD. MANSFIELD.
WALSING BAIT. CAIRNS, for 1,2, 3,4,
FORESTER. • 5,7, and 8 reasons.
DENMAN. KILMAINE.
CLANCAUTY. COLCHESTER.
G. A. LICHFIELD. TREDEGAR.
BRODRICK. O'NEILL.
STEWART OF GARLIES. BROOKE andWA RWICK.
CLARINA. WYNFORD.
KELLTE. GRAHAM.
LAUDERDALE. MORT.
D ARTM OUT IT. SILCIIESTER.
1I AWARDEN. COI.VILLE OF CUL.
PANTRY. ROSS.
A B ERCORN. EXETER.
ATELv7LLE. A BERG AVENNT.
A MH ERST. STRATHALLAN."
SONDES.