The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

TFJE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1 69.

SHARE LIST.

ORDINARY SliAaitlb AND STOCKS.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
Share NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 111 12
.t 2 Do B lO 4 5 41
50 Albion
100 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian . 7l 1 i 1 t
20 Anglo-Egyptian,llm all 1 19 181
20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 2 3
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 5
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 19 It
20 Do issued at 2 pm....., 5 ...
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia all 31 81
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 19
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Au stra-
ha, .nd China
25 Chartered Mere, of India,
London, and China all 29 301 39
20 City
100 Colonial 25 40 4t 405
10 Consolidated, lim.
50 Delhi and London, lint
50 East London, 'hit 5 1 i 01
20 English and American, lim 10
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. lim lO
20 English, t‘euttish, and Aus
tralian Chartered
'2B;/ Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all ... ...
281 Do new 5l 1 I
100 Imperial, lint 2O 17 18
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 1 It 111
.5 lonianall 'l7 'l9
25 Do new 3 pr ip
0 Dad Mortgage of India lim 4 3f 3:
100 Du sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 75 75
30 London Bank of Mexico
and South America, lint. 20 6 4
100 London aud Brazilian, Rm. 45 32 28
20 Do new 74 61 51
100 London &River Plate, Rm. 40 7 9
25 Do new 10 1/ 11
20 London Chart. of Australia all 221 234 23
50 London and C0unty.....,,,, 29 494 501
20 Do new iss at 20 p m,16 pd. 11 ... •••
50 London Joint Stock ..„ 1 3t 33 31i
20 London and South African al 1 12
100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 ... ...
50 London & Venezuela, Kin._ 121 ...
100 London and Westminster. '2O 61 63 59 1
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm......,, 2O 59 61 601
100 Merchant, lim 'ls 6 4
10 Metropolitan, lim all 61 74
100 Midland, lim..
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, Rm l5 3 1 d
100 National Provine. of Eng'd 42 ... "'
10 Do . 42 ... ... 4$
I 0 National.. 3O 46 48
20 New South Wales all 42 43
20 North-Western 74
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim. 10 6 51
100 Provincial of Ireland 25 88 90
10 Do new.. all ••• •••
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 15 11
100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 ... ...
25 Union of Australia all 46 47 56
100 Union of Ireland, lira
50 Union of London

ld pr 9.
161 11

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY, January 29.

The event of the day, notwithstanding that the perplexity
prevailing on the Eastern question becomes more and
more menacing, is undoubtedly the vote of Wednesday in
the Corpg TAgislatif. There are many victories which are
as bad or worse than a defeat, and this is decidedly one of
them. M. Ilouher succeeded in rejecting the interpellation
on tho administration of the Interior, but he gained an
advantage which he would willingly have lost. The divi•
Sion was nearly equal ; many customary supporters of the
Government went over to the other side. The vote proves
simply that many of the deputies belonging to the dynastic
party esteem the wishes of their constituents above the
security of an official candidature, purchased by infallible
obedience to Imperial commands. Such a vote on
the eve of a general election indicates that the great
desire of the French people to exercise by the Chambers
a greater control over the acts of the Government finds
representatives even amongst the staunchest supporters of
the Government. It must not be ovcrl,:olzed that, in
in addition to the members of the Fight who voted with
the Left, many, and notably M. I3chnoutet, were absent.
The Emperor, I am told, is in great consternation at the
issue of this affair.

Rangabc was present the day before 3 esterilay at a
great dinner given by the Marquis de Lavalette. The
Greek Minister was, however, the object of so much
attention that he left immediately on the removal of the
cloth. lie was afterwards present at a soirJe given by
one of the candidates at the English elections.
No less obnoxious a personage than 11 I. llocher, the
administrator of the property of the family of Orleans, has
announced himse'f as the candidate for Caen. Need I say
that M. Pother will meet with all the opposition that the
resources of the Imperial Government can command?

The Marquis de :Mustier has again relapeed.
Queen Isabella went out alone yesterday, and paid a
visit to the Tuileries. She spent half an hour with the
Emperor and Empress.
Miss Chasve is about to be married. This apparently
insignificant fact is really one of the chief news items of
the day. Miss Cbaree is an Englishwoman of distinction,
who formerly officiated as the7.;overness of the Prince
Imperial. She was charged with full power of securing
obedience, and her just mixture of severity and mildness
secured her the respect and affection of her young
charge. The Prince christened her "Bobo," and as he
grew up still retained the familiar title. It is
related that on one occasion the Empress playfully asked
him whom he liked best, Bobo or herself. " Bobo " was
the decisive reply. The Empress commended the answer,
simply because it was palpably the correct one. Miss
Chawe is about to marry M. Thiciry, formerly captain of
the Guard, and now the treasurer of the Emperor's charity
fund. The Prince Imperial, it is said, will make Bobo a
grand wedding present.

A stockbroker named Maas recently committed suicide
here by hanging himself. One of his partners, who acted
as chief cashier, had misappropriated a large sum of
money. The effect upon M. Bans's financial arrangements
was such that, despairing of meeting his engagements, he
put an end to his existence. He is universally regretted,
and his rash determination is the more deplorable since
it has transpired that, in spite of his partner's defalcations,
his affairs could readily have been set right. In his
despondency he exaggerated the extent of his losses.
The singular strike of the cigar•makers at Marseilles
still continues. Another version of the story is to the
effect that the strike was brought about by a change in
the mode of manufacturing the cigars. The reform, how-
ever much the workwomen may have disliked it, was
decidedly necessary. The cigars lately Made were so bad
that half of them could not be smoked.

The people of Marseilles have been much astonished
lately at seeing in the streets of their not very delectable
city a number of ecclesiastics with moustaches and long
beards, followed by little boys clad in the Arab
costume. It appears that the Archbishop of
Algiers, not having sufficient money for his
orphan flock, has resolved upon a campaign abroad.
He has sent one of the priests of his diocese into all
Catholic countries, and has given him ono of these orphan
Arabs as a companion. Their object is to plead the
necessities of the orphan poor amongst the Catholic popu-
lation of Europe.

An alarm of fire, a night or two back, at one of the
Antwerp theatres was caused by a singular incident. A
ballet had been introduced, with an unusually lively move-
ment, so lively indeed that a cloud of dust was raised, and
this falling on the footlights caused a smell of burning.
There was a tremendous rush, and several ladies were
thrown down and severely injured.

A Russian Councillor of State has just been condemned
to degradation and exile in Siberia for a robbery of no less
than £132,000. He was the governor of a great salt and
iron magazine belonging to the State, and he contrived to
apply the proceeds of an immense quantity of these p ()-
ducts to his own uses.

Tile frost has vnnished, the skating has come to an end,
r.nd it is raining heavily. The change, which I believe is
very general, has also been very sudden. In the Bois de
Boulogne the ice gave way so suddenly that a considerable
number of skaters was gratuitously bathed. They were
all rescued.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS .DAE

DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY.

A...large and influential deputation of
.gentle Men
desirous of establishing an improved form of government
for the metropolis have had an interview with the Home
Secretary, for the purpose of presenting him with
a memorial to the following effect :—" That, not-
withstanding the great improvement which has been
made in the general condition of the metropolis by the
Act of 1855, there is urgent need for the development
of -municipal institutions by the furthet concentration of
the executive ; that a committee of the House of Com-
mons has reported in favour of great changes on the basis
of enlarged administrative areas and the establishment
of a municipal council for the whole of the
metropolis, and has by the 31st resolution urged
the Government to introduce a bill to effect the
suggested changes. Your memorialists respectfully
represent that the evils arising from the present
divided authority demand immediate attention,
and urge that bills may be submitted to Parlia-
meant the earliest possible time to correct admitted ills."
After various members of the deputation bad spoken at
some length in reference to the memorial, the Home
Secretary, in reply, declared that he felt personally much
interested' in the question, and that he would do his
utmost to secure for it that legislative attention which he
considered it deserved.

DEAN STANLEY ON THE THREE
CHURCHES OF IRELAND.

The Dean of Westminster delivered a lecture on the
above subject at Sion College, in the presence of a large
assemblage, composed principally of clergymen. The
Dean said he desired to approach the subject by what had
been called the historical 'method. There were in the city
of Armagh three main thoroughfares, which were called
Irish-street, English-street, and Scotch-street, and these
three streets represented the three nations and the
three Churches of Ireland. They could not speak of the
Protestant Episcopalian Church as if it were the only
Irish Church with which the English State bad to deal ;
they could not speak of the Roman Catholics as constitut-
ing the only nation which existed in Ireland ; they could
not speak of either or both of them without refer-
ence to the powerful body of Presbyterians and cognate
Churches which flourished by their side. To untwist the
triple thread of Irish life into its constituents would be
the object of his address on that occasion. The Dean
then entered into a lengthened and interesting historical
review of the establishment, progress, position, and
influence of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, Episcopa:
lien, and P"resbyterian Churches of Ireland. lie attri-
buted the greater influence the Roman Catholic clergy
possess over their flocks in Ireland than the clergymen in
any other country over theirs to the fact that they were
intimately identified with them during the operation of the
penal laws, and bore testimony to the great influence for
good which the Protestant clergy exercised throughout
Ireland, even over those who were not of their own com-
munion, by their blameless and edifying lives. To this
fact ample and generous testimony was borne by a Roman
Catholic bishop. No settlement of Ireland would be com-
plete that overlooked any of the elements presented by
the three religions, or rather the Churches of the three
nations in Ireland. England and Scotland each had a
national Church : in Ireland there was not only different
religious belief, but there were three Churches all national
in the sense of representing three nations. The Dean
went on to remark that nowhere had the English Church
had such an opportunity as in Ireland of conciliating its
two chief rivals. The attempt at conciliation which in
England was as desirable was more difficult. In Ireland
neutral ground had been found • in the general control of
the Imperial Government, in the progress of national
education, in the conciliating influence of a resident gentry,
whether English or Irish. It was sometimes said the
day of compromise had passed. It might be more truly
said that nothing but compromise could be proposed or
accepted. The advance of civilisation forbade the total
destruction of institutions. The complexity of the three
religious elements excluded of necessity the adoption of
any measure which was not in some degree a com-
promise. It was a choice not between destruction and
reform, but between various kinds of reform. Selec-
tion might be difficult, but discriminating selection,
though it might be rendered difficult by the force of con-
tending parties or popular prejudice, was not beyond the
reach of English statesmanship and English patriotism.
Let them not say that the best remedy was too late ; let
them rather say that the seriousness of the enterprise
would be its best recommendation. They must not return
to the course of former times of armed neutrality or
mutual aggression. Not in these did the true mission of
the Irish clergy consist. Whatever framework the State
may give to the Church, the spirit must be infused into it
Ly the clergy themselves. That spirit might be one of
narrow proselytism or exclusive sectarianism, or it might
be more of what, in spite of all her shortcomings, had in
some measure been, at its worst or at its best, the mag-
nanimous imperial spirit of what had been for 700 years
the United Church of England and Ireland.

THE LORD-IJIEUTENA NT OF IRELAND
ON A1:7:

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At the annual distributi.'n of prizes to the more dis-
tinguished pupils of the art schools of the Royal Dublin
Society, his Excellency, in the course of a long address,
said : " I believe that in Great Britain, at this time, w
have made very great strides towards the improvement
of the fine arts, and I believe I may say that the part
which this country has to play in promoting the fine
arts of Great Britain is by no means a small one ; for
I believe that it belongs to this people to be eminently
artistic. I believe that there are qualities belonging
to the Irish people which are singularly propitious to the
development of high art. We have the poetic imagina-
tion which is so well known to exist among your people ;
we have that warm-heartedness without which, I hold,
true art cannot be maintained, for without it you have not
proper sympathies with all the different relations of life.
You have the love of the beautiful very strongly developed
among your people. It is, then, a noble work, which I
feel sure this society will nobly carry out—the
development of the artistic feeling among the Irish
people. I would allude to one other matter
which I think of great importance to societies like
this. If we consider the position of art, we shall find
that the atmosphere which it breathes is very different
from the atmosphere which art breathed in former days.
The art of Rome and Greece was nurtured by the states.
men of the country. The great monuments and the statues
that have come down to us from Greece and Rome were
almost all designed under the guidance of the wen of the
best taste of the country, and were monuments of that
country's greatness. In medieval times the religious
feeling of the people encouraged art, and almost all the
pictures of those days—l do not say quite all, but the
majority of the pictures of the middle ages were
devoted to the encouragement of religion and to the
purposes of religious ceremony. Later on, the great
nobles and men of riches, educated with all the taste and
by all the experience which former art had brought
together in galleries, guided the art of the country. But
in the present day the art of the country has been-demo-
cratised, if I may so use the word. Painters have to go
into the public market for those who patronise them. I
confess that, though there may be some drawbacks in this
change, I believe the artistic feeling of Great Britain will
be very much improved by it." At the conclusion of his
address the Lord-Liedtenant said : " While I wish to pro-
mote technical education, and to see technical schools
established in the country, I think that before all it
is necessary that the primary education of the people,
whether rich or poor, should be extended more than
tis at present. Unless there be that solid foundation
iin good primary education throughout the country,
I feel sure that the efforts to promote the technical and
higher education in art will nut be of much avail. Ladies
and gentlemen, I do think, in this country, as well as
in the rest of the United Kingdom, that these objects to
which I have alluded will be promoted ; and I feel sure
that this society, which has for its object the promotion of
so many useful arts, will continue to exert itself for the
attainment of that excellent and important object ; and I
am sure that as long as I remain here in the position of
representative of her Gracious Majesty, I shall not fail in
my endeavours, in whatever direction they may be, to pro-
mote the object of your society."

THE DROWNING Or SEVEN SIIRIMPERS,-At the
inquest on the bodies of the seven shrimpers who were
drowned at Marshide, near Lytham, John Rimmer,
brother-in-law of one of the deceased men, gave an account
of the occurrence agreeing with the published details.
During the proceedings it was stated that there had not
been a similar occurrence in the neighbourhood for twenty
or thirty years, and it was suggested that if a man were
employed to blow a born during a fog, when men were
out, such a cala►nity would be Pre% ented in future. A
verdict was returned to the effect that the deceased were
found drowned, having been overtaken by the fog while
returning from fishing.

Th ATII OF A JAMAICA DISTRICT JUDGE.—TIIC
Colonial Standard of Jamaica announces the death of Mr.
Masheder, the Porte Antonio district judge of that island,
two days before the sailing of the packet. Mr. Masbedel
had taken on several occasions a very strong view of the
conduct of the proprietors in St. Thomas-in-the-East
(the parish where the late disturbances broke out), and bad
in consequence been subjected to most unscrupulous
attacks by the planter organs. The Secretary to th(
Colonies will, doubtless, exercise the utmost care in filling
up these positions, which are so important to the pros-
perity of the colony. More than one of the judges here-
tofore sent out from the bars of the three king494l4 Jaye
uotibecta •KactlY prim/unto of their profeimicia'

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PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Jan. 29.

The London, Belgian. Brazil, and River Plate
Royal Mail Steamship Company's steamer City of
Limerick, Captain Smyth, from Falmouth on tle
Gth inst., arrived at St. Vincent on the 16th
and sailed on the 17th inst. for Rio de Janeiro and
the Rivar Plate.