The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-27 00:00:00

thE SUN, _LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1869.

Closing Busbies'
Share; . NAME. Paid. Price done
10 Agra Limited, A all 11 114 11
10 Do B lO 31 44 3/
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited 15 9 7
121 111 13
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian lim all 211 221 p 224
20 Anglo-Hungariau
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian ......... all! 51 55
20 Bank of British Columbia all 12 13
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt ............... all 41 43 39
20 Bank of Outgo, lini. •10 5 4
25 Bank of South Australia... all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of Aew Zealand all 141 101
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
ha, cud. China
25 Chartered More. of India,
London, and. China all 32 34
20 City
100 Colonial.,, 3
37
25 6
10 Consolidated, lint
50 Delhi and London, lint
25 ... ... 50 East London, lira.,
20 English and American, Hui 10 . 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
.
neiro, lira
20 English, Se,ottish, and. Aus-
tralian Chartered . ,u all 64
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 38
281 Do new ll4 4 b
100 Imperial, lint ................... 20 15 16
20 Imperial 0tt0man............ 10 24 24 121 12
25 10nian.......................... all / 9 '22
25 Do new .................. 5 6 3
Lud Mortgage of India, lira 4 34 01
100 Do sp. c. 1m05.1864, 30 all 76 76 80
100 London Bank! of Mexico
and South America, lint 20 7 6
100 Loudon aud Brazilian, lint 45 30 27
20 Do new 71 541
100 London &River Plate, lira. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 234 241
20 Loudon and C0unty,,,,,,,,, 20 401 501 494
50 Do new, iss at 20 pan, 16 pd. 11 •••
London Joint 5t0ck......... 311 324
London and South African al 8 9
100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 13 11
50 London .t Venezuela, lira... 121 ... ..•
100 Loudon and Westminster. 20 571 581 57
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm.. ....... 20 ... ...
100 Merchant, lim .................. 25 64 54
10 Metropolitan, lim ............. all 74 74
00 Midland, lint._ ............ 20 11 4
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool lien. 15 3d alp
00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ... 1394
10 Do 1
...... .... ...... ..
...
42 ...
50 National...... .................. 30 ... ..
20 New South Wales ............ all 41 43
20 North-Western ............... 74 ... ...
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
50 Provinc, Bank. Corpo., lint 10 61 54
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 90 02
10 Do new, all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 11 13
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 46 41
100 Union of Ireland, lira
50 Union of London

RULBORN TILEAME.

ful. The characterof the scheming London banker
was well portrayed by Mr. Stephens, and Mr. Lin

_ .
Rayne, as the fast son of the aforesaid worthy, was,
in the little he had to do, excellent. There is "a
gentleman of the press" in the piece, one Mr. Gagg ;
but Mr. Evans made him simply a bore and
an unreality, not that there are some " pecu-
liar" people in the profession, but really we never
met anything human that could be compared
to Mr. Gagg. Mrs. Vezin sustained the part of
Mrs. Harrell, the banker's wife, with remarkable
power, but the part was not worthy her great
talent. Aliss Rignold and Miss Maud Howard
each looked pretty, and that was about all they
had to do. With a little judicious alteration the
play will be greatly improved, but even taken as
it is, it met with a very favourable reception.
It was preceded by a little sketch, entitled
'• Wait for an Answer," followed by "The Water-
man," in which Mr. Cotte made a very favourable
debut as Tom Tug.

Mr. Barry Sullivan has commenced his season
in the most energetic manner, and he has our
best wishes for his success during the winter
campaign.

'The Glasgow papers announce that Mr. George
Tawse, secretary to the City of Glasgow Union Railway
Company, has absconded, after misappropriating "consi-
derable funds" belonging to the company.
The Mayor of Manchester (Mr. John Grave) and
Mr. Alierman Bennett, president of the Chamber of Com-
merce, have received official invitation from the Viceroy of
Egypt to be present at the opening of the Suez Canal.
We are promised a great political meeting in Hyde
Park on Sunday, the 24th of October. The object of the
meeting is to secure the release of the Fenian prisoners.
Deputations from Ireland aro to be present, and it is said
that a leading Irish member of Parliament will preside.
At tho county police court, Wigan, on Friday, a
collier named Littler was committed to prison for two
months, without the option of paying a fine, for breach of
regulations in having, while at work in the Arley mine,
taken off the top of his lamp to snuff the wick.
At the sitting of the Beverley Election Commission
on Saturday, Major Waterhouse, 31. P. for Pontefract, said
he advised Ci cnlielin to abeent himself so as riot, to reveal
things, but did not tell him to burn IGtters. The cominisbion
will be adjourned to-day till the 19th of October.
The Marquis of Tweeddale, who has hitherto
enjoyed remarkably good health, is said to be very ill.
The ve!eran general was brigade-major in Stuart's army
in 1808, «as aide-de-camp to the Duko of Wellingt on
in the Peninsula, and received a wound at the battle of
Busaeo.

The offer of a baronetcy to Mr. Thomas Bazley,
M.P. for Manchester, has been accepted. The hon. gentle-
man, who is 72 years of nge, has long taken an active inte-
rest in tho commercial life of Manchester, and has repre-
sented that constituency since the death of Sir John Potter,
iu Npvember, 1838.
At the Bridgwater Police court on Friday John A.
Buttle, smith, and his two eldest sons, J. and E. Duttle, wero
charged (in accordance with the request of the commis-
sioners) with perjury, in falsely swearing before Mr. Justice
Blackburn that they were not bribed at the last election.
The three prisoners were committed for trial at the assize,
but wero admitted to bail.
The Bishop of Oxford will commence his triennial
visitation of his diocese at Oxford on Tuesday, November 9,
and will continue it as follows:—Reading, Thursday, Nov.
11 ; Newbury, Friday, Nov. 12; Abingdon, Monday, Nov.
15 ; Bicester, Tuesday, Nov. 16 ; Aylesbury, Thursday, Nor.
18; Newport Pagnell, Friday, Nov. 19; Buckingham, Satur-
day, N0v.20; Banbury, Monday, Nov. 22; Witney, Tuesday,
Nov. 23. Each day at 11 o'clock. •

A correspondent of the New York Times has found
a new candidate for tho crown of Spain in Count
Bismarck. He says that "Spain's chief foreign danger
has always boon from France. Bismarck is tho natural
enemy of Napoleonism. Bismarck is as liberal as we can
expect a European statesman to be. Bismarck is devoted to
industrial, commercial, and educational progress. Bismarck
is brave. Bismarck is strong. Bismarck is capablo. Long
live King Otho."

A desperate affray With poachers took place near
Lydnoy. Mr. J. Clift, farmer, of Purton, hearing of poachers
in a wood attached to his farm, proceeded thither, and found
two men, with gun and dog, in pursuit of game. They im-
mediately commenced an attack upon him ; one of the men
seized him, and the other beat him with the gun in a most
brutal manner, breaking the stock over him and then de-
camping. Severe injuries were inflicted, and fears are ex-
pressed lest the unfortunate man's back is broken.

A fatal velocipede accident is reported from Scot-
land. An insurance agent, accompanied by his son, Henry,
eight years of age, and his daughter, Jessie, six years of
age, were driving a three-wheeled velocipede carriage
towards the bridge which crosses the Kelvin, when the
machine swerved to the tight and rushed down the descent,
through the hedge, and into the rivor Kelvin. A gentleman
succeeded in rescuing the father and son, but the little girl
disappeared and was drowned.

At the Barnsley Court-house on Friday the trea-
surer of a friendly society was proceeded against for being
in arrears to the extent of £9O with the society's funds. It

was said that the accounts had not been audited ; that the
treasurer could neither read nor write; that, though he pos-
sessed no means of his own, ho lent money to tho amount of
several pounds at a time; and that the secretary kept the
treasurer's books. The magistrates fined the treasurer £lO
and costs, and ordered him to refund the £9O, or, in default,
to bo sent to prison.

At the Newport Police Court on Friday the boy
Charles Gritt was charged, on remand, with the wilful
murder of Miss Emily Amelia Collier, on Easter Monday
last. Mr. Cathcart appeared for the prosecution, and said
he proposed to abandon the charge of murder, and to prefer
a charge of unlawfully administering poison with intent,
Gritt repeated his former statement, that the confession he
made was not true. The Magistrates, after consultation,
decided that the evidence was not sufficient to support the
charge, and the prisoner was discharged.

From wreckage which has been picked lip on the
Welsh coast—Carnarvonshire —it is feared that a screw
sterimer which trades regularly between Liverpool and
Spanis% ports, Las been loft in St. George's Channel. Mr.
J. Garnock, of Stoneyeroft, West Derby, has received a
lettor containing some information upon the sulject. It
mentions that the folio wing is the address talicn from apart
of a loose lid picked up on the beach :—" WD. and Co.
finest cocoa shell, shipped by John Clement and Son,
Malaga, steamer Maria. PL, 3,808." Other boxes and sun-
dries are strewed about the shore between Laudwrog and
Carnarvon. Part of a cloak has also been picked up on the
same shore.

Her Majesty's ship Terrible has arrived at Gren_
ock from Devonport with stores for an ironclad
now being built by Messrs. Napier.

I On Saturday evening Mr. Barry Sullivan come.
menced his winter season with the production of a
new comedy, by Mr. Thomas Morton, entitled
" Plain English," but the plot is by no weans novel,
and there is, with few exceptions, little in the
characters represented. The coinedy, however,
has been very tastefully mounted, and with the
talent with which its chief personages are repre-
sented, it will attract audiences for some consi-
dcr.able time—audiences that will ratify the favour-
able reeeiptiou which it met on the first
night of its performance. The leading character
in the play, one Prank Blunt, a straightfor-
ward, outspoken Englishman, has nearly ruined
himself by his plain speaking, and seeing
the reward he is about to reap for his bravery, he
for a moment pauses i❑ his career to ask himself a
few questions. However, he satisfies himself he is
but doing right, and comes to the conclusion that in
the end he will not be left to perish friendless and
in want. Through the influence of a college chum
he obtains an appointment as secretary to a schem-
ing and not over scrupulous banker, and begins his
duties by doing all iu his power to frustrate the
schemes of the millionaire. Ile also, by his " plain
English," changes the character of a money grub-
bing pawnbroker--a character very closely ap-
proaching the great creation of one of the greatest
of English novelists, viz., old Scrogge —into
a free and bounteous distribution of the wealth
he has accumulated, saves a friend who stands in
need and is worthy of assistance, unmasks a bully,
and, finally, makes a fast and timid, not to say
cowardly, young spark the champion of his mother's
honour. Frank Blunt having ail this to do, it is no
wonder his part is the greatest in the piece; in fact,
it is the only one, all the others are merely toys
with which he carries out his work. Mr. Barry
Sullivan represented this verydifficult character, and
he did so with a taste that was unexceptionable, a
force and determination true to nature, and with
a talent that proved him to be one of our most
clever and accomplished actors. Mr. George Honey
had the next best part—old Martin, the pawnbroker
—which he sustained with a reality that was wonder