The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-12 00:00:00

VIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER' 12, 1860.

Closing Business done
Share Railways. Paid Price.
100 , Atlantic &St Lawrence' all 83 90
stk Bom.,Baroda&.Centlndi 100 934 944 031
Gu. 5 per cent
18 Do, Do. 131 11 11 14 d
204 Buffalo and Lake Huron' all 44 54"
201 Do. New
10 Do. Preference all di 7
100 Bufalo,Brant,&Godrich 100 78 82
p. ct. Ms. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 73 78
100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 70 75
5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim 1. 30. 5 d 4p
20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 25. 7,
5 d
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip Is. z
20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. a 74
1.4 d
174 Demerara
20 Eastn. Bengu. sp. c 71 11 11 d
599 d/
pur,o4 994 1004
st2ocok EaDsot.lFfidsihanar,regsnE.
x 5 11050
20 Do. Jubbulpore l5 5 d pr
100 Do. 44 pc. Debentrs all 931 ual
100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864 all 101 102
20 Geelong & Melbourne 2ll 221
Geelong Corporation 6 100
sto' per cent. Bonds
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 29 30 29 1
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 89 91 90
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr all 54 56
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 all 63 65 64
100 Do. do. 1867 all 50 53
100 Do. do. 1872
tock Gt.lndiarenin.gua.sp.c lOO 96 97
20 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 1 d 4 d 5
Gt. South.of India (Lim)
20 13 2 15d
guaranteed 5 per cent.
201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 134 131 135
201 Do. New
100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with all 94 96
opt, till '6O .
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 91 96
100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 94 95
100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do all 90 92
stock Madras, guar., 41 p. c lOO 83 85
stock Do. do. 5 per ceut lOO 94 05 94
stock Do: 41- p. c. Extension 100 87 89 87
20 Do. Fourth do lO 11 14 dBl
20 Do. d 0..... all
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100
Newßrunswick & Canda
20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc
all 5 7
Class A Capital Share
▪ Do. do. Land do..
20 Do. do. B Capital do all 5 7
▪ Do. do. Land do.
20 Oude (Limited) . ss.
stock Scinde .......... 100 974 981
20 Do. Punjaub g 7 14 d 14d 55
20 Do. Do.
stock Do. Indus.St Flo. . • 100 93 911
20 St. Andrews & Quebec A 13
10 (Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 1 Id
.••••••./MMININIIM
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 55
20 Ardennes.... ......... all
20 Ilah.&S.Fran..*Lim.7 p.c. 85 1 id /74
5 Belgian East. Junction all 4 1
20 'Beziers to Graissessac.. all
6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 24 21
100 Ccrpiab0........&...... all
10 Ditto Extension .... all 21 2 d
20 'Dutch Rhenish ........ 15 4 340
20 Eastern of France .... all 241 251
20 Grand Rus. Guar. 6p. c. 6
20 Do. do. all
20 Great Central of France all
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs._ all 6,1 71 0/
20 Italian Junction .. ... all
20 Lake Constance & Bale. all
20 Lierre & Turnhout .... all
20 Lyons & Geneva ...... all
331 Maria Antonia .... . . all
10 Do. New ....... ..... . all
20 Namur & Liege all 7/ 85
20 Do. 6p. c. Pref. all 191 205
16 Northern of France. all 371 381
20 Do. New Shares . 1$
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 8 85
20 Paris,Lyous, & Mediter. all 341 35/ 35
20 Paris & Orleans .. ... ... all 54 55
20 ( Recife & S. Fran. (Peru.)
gua. 7p. et. 1im...... 13 3 21d 10
20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 14
10 Rome & Frascati ...... all
20 Royal Danish all 14 16
5 Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all
20 Sambre & Meuse
10 Do. 5/ per cent. Pref all 85 81
20 San Paulo, lim, tr. 7p. c 2 4 id 11
20 S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin 12 11 11 d 104
20 Southern of France all 19 20
81 West Flanders
10 Do. 54 p. c. Preference all 95 91
20 W. & N.W. of France
23 Western of Austria 6
20 Western of Switzerland all
6 Wiesbaden ...*
6 Do. 8 per cent. Pref all
20 Zealand

TIITHD -EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

DONCASTER RAC-ES.—(This Day.)

LILY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
ST. ALBANS
HIGH TREASON
WIZARD
SABREUR
Fifteen ran. Won easily by a length and a half.
A neck between second and third.
MUNICIPAL STAKES.

Klarikoff
Vaga 2

DEATII OF THE RIOT T 710.2VOURABLE
JAMES WILSON.

We regret to learn froln a source upon the accu-
racy of which we have every reason to rely, that a
telegram was received at the India-office yesterday,
announcing the death of the iti,;ht Hon. James
Wilson. The event is said to have occurred at
Calcutta on the 11th of August. The disorder is
believed to have been cholera. The funeral took
place on the following day.

(From the Daily _Yews.)

Another heavy blow and great -discouragemen,
hos fallen upon the hopes of reformed administra-
tion in India. Death has struck down suddenly
and unexpectedly the man who, but a few short
months ago, was specially selected by the Home
Government as the ablest and most trustworthy in-
strument at its disposal for the redemption of In-
dian finance from the ruinous state into which it
had fallen, and already, ere he had time to see the
first results of the bold experimental policy he had
instituted, he is summoned from the scene of his
arduous labours without time to think who shall
enter into them. James Wilson is no more. Within

a month from the death of Sir Henry Ward of
cholera, this second distinguished administrator has
perished in its merciless grasp. The telegram re-
ceived yesterday afternoon at the India House con-
tains only the brief announcement of the event,
which occurred on the 11th ult., and of the fact that

the funeral, as is customary in the region of the
tropics, took place on the following day. The Exe-
cutive at Calcutta is thus deprived of its most vigo-
rous and versatile member, while the Executive at
Madras is mourning its energetic and experienced
chief. Losses like these may, and we trust will, in due
time be repaired, but not easily or speedily. Faith

in the fertility of free institutions to furnish a succes •
sion of competent and courageous men to fill every
post, civil or military, which the rule of an empire
needs, forbids our doubting that the places now
lamentably vacated, may be filled up worthily from
the ranks of that class of self-made men to whom
Ward and Wilson belonged. But we know too well
the influences that commonly sway the dispQnsa-

tion of patronage to feel too confident that the next
best men will be forthwith placed in the room of
those ,shooo premature loss we deplore.
Mr. Wilson, as most of our readers are doubtless
aware, was the architect of his own political for-
ture. In trade, to which he devoted the earlier
years of his life, he was not successful ; and when
he began to turn his attention to statistical writing
for the daily and weekly press, he was almost
unknown to politicians so called. From the com-
mencement of the great controversy regarding the
abolition of protection to corn, sugar, and shipping,
he took an active part, but rather with his pen
than as a speaker. Nature had not, indeed, con-
ferred upon him any of the gifts that render a man
pleasing or impressive as an orator. Though al-
ways full of information, and capable of presenting
in lucid order a vast array of arithmetical facts, he
never was able to overcome a formality of expres-
sion and a monotony of tone which rendered his
best efforts better to read than to hear. While,
therefore, a useful ally to the Anti-corn Law
League, he rarely took any prominent part in their
public demonstrations. His principal share in the
free trade struggle was that borne in the pages of
the Economist, a journal established by him with
the aid of certain influential persons in the Whig
party. Through the same influence he was enabled
to enter Parliament in 1847. His first speeches
were listened to with more of curiosity than appro-
bation, for he Was too rigid a financial doctrinaire
to find favour with the Tory Opposition, still smart-
ing under their recent overthrow, and angry at the
defection of their great leader and his staff; and
there was nothing about the new member for West-
bury to propitiate the humour of the pots curante
and fastidious section that traditionally supported
a Whig Ministry. A short time, however, elapsed
before he contrived to show his aptitude for the
details of business ; and he was appointed by Lord
John Russell to one of the joint-secretaryships of
the Board of Control. Little was said or thought in
Parliament about India in those days. Lord Dal-
housie had been nominated Governor-General to
please his relative and patron the Duke of Welling-
ton; and had the errors and excesses of his policy
displayed themselves earlier than they actually did,
they would not have been severelycriticised by either
of the great parties in the Legislature. Mr. Wilson's
time was consequently applied almost exclusively
to the preparation and defence of the financial
measures of the administration, more especially
those relating to the reform of our colonial tariff.
In the protracted discussions that arose upon the
sugar duties, and in those respecting the remission
of our ancient differential charges on foreign and
colonial produce generally, the prourietor of the
Economist became better known as a useful and
ready parliamentary speaker. At the general elec-
tion of 1852 he was re-elected for Westbury ; and
on the formation of the Coalition Ministry under
Lord Aberdeen, he,was made one of the Secretaries
of the Treasury, a post be continued to fill under
Lord Palmerston until 1858. On the noble
viscount's resumption of office in 1859, he was ap-
pointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade ; but
was soon afterwards promoted to the post of Finance
Minister of the Supreme Council of India; in the
discharge of the laborious duties of which he has
now sunk into an untimely grave.
Of his fiscal and financial policy in the East we
have so frequently and so fully spoken that it is
unnecessary to recapitulate its leading features
here. His mission was, as speedily as possible to
make the current revenue balance the annual ex-
penditure. The obstacles he had to encounter,
owing to the effects of the recent military revolt,
were confessedly great; but those engendered by
long-established habits of loose and lavish expen-
diture of public money were undoubtedly far greater.
The whole of the demoralised Anglo-Indian bureau-
cracy were instinctively opposed to him from the
first. So were likewise the powerful native monied
class, whose profits as imperial pawnbrokers were
endangered by the threatened introduction of a
sounder and healthier system. To these must be
added the frustration offered publicly to the deve-
lopment of his somewhat venturous schemes of
change by men like Lord Elphinstone and Sir
Charles Trevelyan. So far he seemed to have
maintained himself steadfastly and successfully
against all hindrances and thwartings. But who
shall say what effect his unlooked for death, fol-
lowing hard on that of Sir Henry Ward, may have
on the eventual triumph of the principles and ideas
of which he was the promulgator ?