The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-11 00:00:00

THE SETN,
~. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
Share Nein. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 101 104 101
0 Do B ' lO 21 24 21
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 11i1 201 204
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 51 41
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, Inn.
25 Bank of South Austraia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 3)
10 Bank of New Zealand all 151 1 1
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, ,nd China all 13 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India,
London, and China all 301 81 31
20 City
100 Colonial 25 38 40
10 Consolidated, lim.
50 Delhi and London, Bin
50 East London, Bin 5 2 1
20 English and American, Bin 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of ltio de Ja-
neiro. lim
20 English, .Scuttish, and Ails-
tralian Chartered
28; Hong Kong and Shangiu.i
Bank Corporation all 33 08'
285 Do new 55 21 24
100 Imperial, lint 2O 16 17
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 2 21 121 1
.5 lonian all 21 26
25 Do new "5 1s 11)
20 Lnd Mortgage of India, lim 4 31 35
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 75 78
30 Londoz Bankj of Mexico
and-South America, lim. 20 61 51
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27
20 Do new 75 51 41
100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 9 IL
25 Do new 10 '2l 21p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 2ii 25 241 1
20 London and County '2o 50 51 5:1
30 Do new. iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. 11 ... ...
London Joint Stock 1 311 321 331
London and South African al 81 91
00 London &S.-Western, lint, 20 13 11
150 London & Venezuela, lim l2l ... ~.
100 London and Westminster. 20 611 621 611
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lim 25 51 4;
10 Metropolitan, Hut all it 74
100 Midland, lim 2O 15 1
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 ld 1 p
100 National Pro vino. of En-'d 42 ... ... 10
10 Do . 42
"' "'44
50 National. 3O
... ..
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 421 431 411 4
50 Yrovinc. Bank. Corpo., lim. 10 6 5
00 Provincial of Ireland 25 8.9 90
10 Do new..
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 15 11
500 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 8 6
25 Union of Au5tra1ia..........., all 47 48
100 UniOn of Ireland, lint
50 Union of London ............ 15 351... 301 3511

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

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lo Anglo-American Tel., tint all 2 22f 22;
10 Anglo Mediter Tel., lint.... 10 12 121 121
st Atlantic Telegraph ......... 10 23 15
et Do. 8 per cent.......... 100 6; 70 67}
et B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lint. 100 158 161
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 23, 240
10 Do.
25 Indo-Euro New,.,,,,
..
....... 8 9 lip
pean Tel., 10 ...
5 Lond. Provincial Tel.lim. lim all 21 3
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all pr 1P
10 Mediterra. Eaten. Tel., lint. 3# 31
25 Reuter's Te1egram............ all 4 to 471,
;:0 Societe Transatlaut., lint_ 14 2/ 11
st Submarine Telegraph ...... 100 113 113
1 Do. 5crip............ all 111
20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim. all 17 171
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lint. all 5
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref. all 3 3 V

OUS.

2150 AAnusgtlora-tlaensileagirti.Mculit...l.i ..
11.541
113
2:5 Australian Mort. Land and
10115009 Berlinßol3aDiueognk.4:: Water iev,3:l.lltavl:irMa.a..h.EN. Vn0.t::::k;.5,.5u,.,.1.1. i:un...111 saso:l 413971 i 1:5:11 dar 3 ,
10 Do. New 4
6 3 4 11
5 Bombay Gas, Hill. all 34 41
5) British American Land 4l 15 17
20 British Inlian Tea, lint... all 24 31
20 British Ship Owners • 1
29 Canada Company
IU Canadian Loan and Invest-
ment, lint
:0205
City
iii
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Offices,
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Milan Leos nodi omiumnp er
oa
i.l . Pli rmo
.- 24 2 1 d
20 Ceylon Company, lint.
10 4 34d
20- Do. A shares
10 City Discount, lim 6
pert, lim
2a5911 451 6343
25 City of Moscow Gas, lira all
50 Colonial, lint.
Do.
50 Connuercia Jnion (Assur) 6 4 413
10 Company of African Mer-
chants, lim
20 Continental Union Gas, lint all 91 204
25 Copper Miners of England,
pref. 74 per cent.
100 Corporation of London
Bonds, 1877, 44 per cent, all 1034 1014
100 Do. 1879, 4 i per cent. all 1041 1051
100 Do. 1832, 41 pet cent. all 1031 1044
10 Credit Fon. of England, lint. all 21 3 2 13-16
50 Credit Fon.of Mauritius lint lO 34 2nd
at Crystal Palace
at Do. Preference l,OO 9, J 0)
at Do. 6p. c Perpetual 1)01) lO9 103 112 10)
'2O Darjeeling, Jim.
I 0 Eastern Assam, lint.
50 East Indian Land Credit
and Finance, lint.
20 East India Irriga. a; Canal all .. ..
32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and
. Coal„iiin.
100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy
Gus. by Egypt. Gov all 941 951 95 1 1
20 Egyptian Corm& Trad. lim 6 .. .
3 Lug. & Aust r. 1.1. Copper, lint 24 4 1
15 English and Foreign Credit 74 41 3,,i
100 Eng. and Scot. 1: urine, lint. S ... ...,1
10 Faireaira Engineering 5 2 1,1
20 Fore-stroet Warehousedim l2 4 14p
100 For. & Col. Gov. 'l'rust and
Loan Scrip, issued at £B5 all
50 Gellivara, lint. 2O
10 General Credit & Lis., lint. 74
15 General Steam Navigation 14
st) Home 5c Col Marine In. lint. 5
10 Hong Kong and China Gas all .. ...- 91
20 Hudson's Bay all 14 12/ 124 4
20 Imperial Laud Co. of Mar-
seilles, lint.
20 Interna.linancial Soc. lim 5 1/ 11 215 16
20 Interns. Land Credit, lint 6 6 4d
50 Italian Land 5 id p
20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 31
100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem
1870, issued 110 all 66 118 63
50 Land Securities, lint 5 24 113 •
25 London African Trading lO 7 5d
25 Lon. & Caled. Marine, lint 6 ... ...d
10 London County Land and
Building, lint.
50 Loud. Financial Asso., lint 30 '22 c 1
4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Colim. all 2 24 21
50 Lond. and Glasg. Engineer
and Iron Ship, lim 25 21 161
20 Loud. & Provincial Marine 2 id pr
at Madras Irriga. & Canl. Gua.
sp.c. by India Gov. lOO 102 103
10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and
Agency, lint.... l4 f id
50 Merchant Shipping, lint all 33 38
60 Minivan Iron Works, lim 124 ...
...
10 Natal Laud and Colonisa-
tion Co., lint.
Ship,arine , linolhu:
all 491
104.
25 National Discount Co., lint 5 111 114 114 i
10 New Consolidated Dis. lint 3 lf )43
4.4.0 44 4
201205 NNN eaa rtt iiboounndal aFSCriavam.l3l& Iron,
a'Loliman & Men
24 1 ip
25 New Zealand Trust and
Loan, lint 5 11 1 i
255
Newj.ecan‘ QtZilueeaeAblaragneddncy,lim
10 Northern Assam Tea, lint 5 7 .5
10 Do. B
et North Brit. Austral., lint lOO 48 5 3
50 North Brit. & Moreau. In 64 9 In
Financial,Marine
(Insurance)lim 5 12 1
all 7 8
5 Do. New 1 1 1p
10 Otago and Southland In,
vestment, lint 2 4,1 ip
5 Ottoman Gas, lint all 11 24
52595 OrientalOceanOriental Gas,
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
=1
5 Dso B. Mail rimall
do.
at Peel R. Land & M ,
inerl lim 100 31 34
50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 48 50 49
n Atralian ....
ao Do. New 1867 lO
113 01
a 22 24
50 Rhymney Iron
15 Do. New
25 Rio de Janeiro City Im.,lim all 184 19 18 174 4
20 Do. Gas, lint all 24 6
100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 42 45
at Scottish Aust. Invest., lint lOO 83 83
at Do. 6p. c. Guar. Pref lOO ... _
20 Socidte Fin. d'Egypte, lint lO 7 63
20 Societe Gen.de l'Empire Ot 8 24 34
50 S. African Mort. & Inv., Um 6 ...
25 South Australian Land
20 Tha.'nv.,) and XUrraoy lefaL LW
(Insurance), lint 2 24 3
20 Trinidad Petroleum, lint Bl ... ...
10 Trust & Agency of Aus.,lim 1 4 1p 24
10 Do do. do. all ... ..
20 Trust &Loan Co., U. Canada 5 4 fp
50 Union Marine L'pool, lint 5 41 5 p
20 Union Steam Ship, lint all 22 24
15 United Discount Corp., lim 6 I.y id
20 Universal Marine(lu.), lim 5 14 2 p
10 Upper Assam Tea, lim all 14 2
30 Van Diemat.'s Laud 284 6 7
00 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per
cent. (Mortgage) Loan all 774 784 Di 874
50 Warrant Finanee, lim. l2 12 10d
60 West India and Pacific
Steam, lint ... 20 2
20 West London Wharves and
Warehouses

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THE MAY MEETINGS.

EARL RUSSELL ON EDUCATION.

Earl Russell has for a long series of years taken the
chair at the annual meeting held at the Borough-road
Schools of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He did
so on Monday last, and was attended on the platform by
Lord Lyveden The report of the society shewed pro-
sperity. It appeared that seventy-six students had
left the training colleges to take schools in
various parts of the country, and ninety-eight candidates
had been admitted ; that the number in residence up
to Christmas had been 169, and since, 191; that the
college of Stockwell is quite full; while at tie
Borough-road there are only eleven vacancies. Of 169
students"presented for examination not one failed. In
the schools under the direct control of the committee
1,300 children receive instruction from seven teachers and
nineteen pupil teachers. Permanent teachers have been
provided for 134 schools:. Thirty colonial and other schools
abroad, have received grants of books and school materials,
and teachers have been provided in several cases. From
the financial statement, it appeared that the money
received from all sources, without including the balance
in hand at the beginning of the year, amounted to
£13,4£6 12s. 11d.; the payments, inclusive of legacies in-
vested, being £13,635 6s. sd.
Earl RUSSELL, in speaking to the meeting after the
reading of the reports, referred to the high patronage
which the society had obtained. His Majesty George 111.,
the Duke of Kent, father of her present Majesty;
Mr. Wilberforce, the advocate of freedom ; Dr.
Maltby, Bishop of Chichester ; Dr. Stanley, Bishop
of Norwich, and father of the present Dean
of Westminster ; and Dr. Burnet, the Non-
conformist, had all been friends of the society. All
creeds might come under the shadow of the society.
"This society has never contended for Episcopacy or
against it. We stand here for the support of Christianity,
leaving to the churches and chapels of the land to dissemi-
nate those views of Christian doctrine which they believe
to be conformable to truth. It' has happened to me, and
lately, to consult the various formularies of our various
Churches—theie of the -Church of England, of the Pres-
byterian Church, and of the Roman Catholic Church—but
I find in none of them so good a sermon as the Sermon on
the Mount. It is that doctrine that we have given in our
British Schools. The children read the Bible, and there
they obtain the lessons that Christ gave to the multi-
tude in general, and the commands and direc-
tions which he gave to his disciples." Hia
lordship went on to say that he was grieved that
the Church of England had thought it right to commence
her educational course on a separate principle to that
acknowledged by this society. Passing to the great want
of this country, the earl lamented that England did not
stand preeminent among the nations of the world in
an educational sense. The strength of the people of the
United States was in their educational system. The
German declared that the security of his country agdnst
foreign invasion was that every -soldier was educated.
" If this (the noble lord continued) is the security for
international institutions—if this is the seeurity
against external dangers—as men the mcst able
and intelligent assert that it is—l say let us
have in this country that security for our internal
freedom, and that security for our independence
of all foreign control. We have it not at present, but
fortunately we have a Prospect that, although not in the
present year, but in the next, it may be obtained. IT( r
my part, I am not disposed to depart from the prin-
ciples which have ever animated the British and Foreign
School Society. I think every information ought
to be given in our schools on subjects of general know-
ledge. I think every encouragement should be given
to the exercise and Play of the uralerstanding ;
t.ut I think all the instruction should be accom-
panied with religious knowledge ; and that that part of
man which every philosopher acknowledges is the most
essential part of him—his soul—is not to be neglected in
the education we provide. Ido not say that the State—if
there is a provision for rates or contributions by the State
in one shape or another—might not think it fit, and
wisely think it fit, to allow of secular schools; but secu'ar
schools are not entirely deprived of religious information,
because they are usually connected with some religious com-
munion or other, the members of which and the pastors of
which take care the children taught in them shall not
be altogether deprived of religious instruction. I
trust that the denominational instruction which has
hitherto been given in a large measure by the parochial
clergy of the Established Church--the denominational
instruction which l:as been given in a large measure by
the religious teachers of the various Dissenting com-
munions, I trust that this religious instruction will not
be lost sight of in any plan of education which the Govern-
ment may tl.ink fit to introduce to Parliament, and that
while systematic education shall pervade the land, and
teat, rcnoois snail be established threughout it, we
shall be permitted to teach in tin in, not denominational
instruction, but shall Le permitted to give that instruc-
tion in the Bible which has always been the mai k and
distinction of this society,. Schools must then be given to
; there must be no uneducated town-
-07.
iepr.y distractbe lis
\a, lei Ie :that this will be so before long."—Lord
Lyveden, who followed Lord. Russell, deprecated the com-
pulsory plan, on the ground that it would interfere with
the voluntary system, which bad hitherto worked well and
effected much flood.

The annual meeting ME PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE JEWS.
Propa-
gating the Gospel among the Jews was presided over by
the Earl of Cavan. The report spewed that in Lon-
don, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Adrianople,
Algiers, Konigsberg, Galatz, Heidelberg, Russia, Italy,
of the British Society for
Germany and Hungarya considerable number of Jews and
Jewesses have been baptised and received into the Chris-
tian Church. Efforts were now being made to establish
a home, asylum, orphanage, and school in London for
converted Jews and their children, and also a home for
missionaries, and a sum of £1,920 bad already been sub-
scribed for that purpose. The general income of the
society had been £4,000. The Rev. Mr. Pennefather, Dr.
Herschel], the Rev. T. Jackson, the Rev. Mr. Fleming, and
others addressed the meeting.
COLONIAL AND CONTINENTAL CHURCH SOCIETY.
The report of this society, read at St. James's Hall
(the Earl of Harrowby chairman), stated that the home
income for the year had amounted to £18,466165. 9d., and
the colonial and continental income to £14,801 38. Bd.,
being a total income of £33,268 Os. 58. ; making with the
balance of last year (42,187 3s. 5(1.) a total of receipts of
£35,455 38. 10d. The expenditure had been £32,797
N. 10d., leaving a balance of £2,657148. The agents em-
ployed consisted of 107 clergymen, 69 catechists and
teachers, and 49 female teachers. Mr. Charley, M. P.,
and others addressed the meeting.
RACCI D SCHOOL UNION.
The Earl of Shaftesbury again occupied the chair at
Exeter Hall, the meeting being that of his own institution
—the Ragged School Union. From the report, it
appeared that during the past year there was 267 Sunday
schools, having an average attendance of 32,000 scholars ;
182 clay schools, with 24,000 children attending ; and 207
evening schools, with nearly 10,000 children present.
These figures shewed an increase in the average attendance
as compared with last year's report of 777 in the Sunday
iehools, and more than 1,900 in the day schools.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Irish Evangelical Society, the National Home for
Ladies, and the Protestant Reformatory Society held
their meetings also on Monday. The London Missionary
Society hold zneetiL,6 thioughout the week.

The Poet Laureate has been unanimously
elected an honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge.

CHEAP HONOUES.—We notice from time to time
in our European exchanges that the " degree of LL.D.
has been conferred upon " some obscure person or other
which distributes honours so freely"bythehad hearing
abroad, and we have
no idea of the price at which it sells thorn.—New York
Times.

o n Saturdaynight STABBING
WHEN
a serious affray took place at the
village of Bedlington. A number of men, maddened with
drink, commenced to fight, and in the contest some ugly
DRUNK AGAIN.—At a late hour
blows were exchanged. From fists the combatants
resorted to weapons, and during the struggle two men
named Thomas Lynn and Thomas Moore were severely
stabbed with a sharp instrument resembling a knife. One
of the unfortunate men was conveyed home, suffering
severely from great loss of blood, and on Alonday night was
reported to be very dangerously ill. A man named James
Flemming is in custody at Bedlington on the charge of
having inflicted the wounds.
i

A-.
from A
the GIGANTICForegi 31u S
Foreign Office ICA n
Saturday
com-
mercial reports received from her Majesty's consuls in
1869. This volume, which forms one of a series con-
o L FESrIV L
'Volume of
There issued
tains reports from towns in France, Italy, the North
German Confederation, Turkey, and the United States.
Mr. Consul Lousada finishes his report from Boston with
the following paragraph :—" I scarcely know, if a notice
of this is in place, but it is so singular, and on such
a stupendous scale, that I will risk mentioning it. A
project has been put on foot to celebrate the restoration of
the Union by a Peace Festival,' to be held next July, in
a building which is to be erected expressly for the purpose
on the ' Common ' or Park, capable of holding with ea'.
120,000 spectators. Besides these, the principal voices
are to number 10,000, the choruses are to be 20,000, and
the instruments 12,000, gathered from all the chief
cities -of the Union. It is to last three or four days,
and the subscriptions already promised are more tba:t
Sufficient tQ inswc 0419291;00441.4.t_Qf tblq gigantic
iciatat.!!,J

_
POLICE EYTELUGENCE.-7his Day

THAMES.

IMPORTANT DECISION.-Mr. Charles Young, solicitor,
who was accompanied by Lieutenant Sheppy, the Super-
intendent of the East and West Ind:a Dock Company's
Police, applied for summonses against the owner of barges
. for leaving them in the West India Dock basin without
any pethin on board. 'Mr. Young sail the accumulaticei
of empty barges and craft at the several entrances of the
dock, in the dock basin, and other portions of the. dock,
had been found so inconvenient and embarrassiug to the
dock company, the dock masters, and other servants of the
company, that it was determined to proceed against the
owners for penalties to stop an increasing evil. Accidents'
had been caused, the commission of robberies facilitated,
and other dangers had been caused by the practice. Some-
times empty barges had been left without any one In
charge for 10 and 11 days, and a large amount of room
occupied which ought to have been devoted to ships and
barges engaged in delivering and receiving goods and
cargoes. Ile. Charles Young then read a portion of the
104th clause of the. West India Dock Company's
Act of Parliament Its follows :—" If any ship, lighter,
craft, or vessel shall be left in the said dock
or docks, basin or basins, lock or locks, cut or cuts, with-
out any person or persons on board, the master or other
person having the command of every such vessel, or the
owner or owners thereof shall for every such offence for-
feit and pay any sum not exceeding £3; and the owner
or owners of such ship or vessel, shall be answerable for
all the injury that may be sustained by any other ships or
vessels, or by the said company through neglect thereof."
Mr. Lieut. Sheppy confirmed the statement of Mr.
Young, and the summonses were issued.

WESTMINSTER.
RECKLESS DREVING.—John Knight, the driver of a light
cart, was charged with imperilling the public in the fol-
lowing manner:—

Mr. Reginald York, 37, Princes-garden; said that yester-
day evening he hired a hansom cab at Knightsbridge, and
had proceeded a little distance towards Kensington, when
the defendant drove his cart right into the cab, which, with
the horse, Ras much injured. Complainant was thrown
forward with great violence, and his hat was broken to
pieces. Fortunately he was but little hurt, although placed
in imminent peril.

Mr. Arnold inquired the rate at which the defendant was
going.

The gentleman replied that he was going at the rate of
ten miles au hour although the road was in a very crowded
state at the time. lie was drunk.

Defendant said ho Lad settled for the damages done to
he cab with the proprietor of it.

In answer to the magistrate's inquiry, Mr. York said
.hat his hat cost a guinea.

Defendant denied the drunkenness, but it was clearly
proved by two or three witnesses.
Mr. Arnold convicted him in the penalty of 40s, a gui-
nea for the hat, cad 40s for tho damage done to the cab,
or one mouth in default.