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

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
Share NArin. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 101 101 105
10 Do B lO 21 15 21
50 Albion
00 Alliance. Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lint all 14 201
20 Auglo-liungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1806, limited 10 55 41
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
20 Do issued at 2 put ~.. 5 • 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Outgo, lint.
25 Bank of South Austra!ia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Ausual la 25 37 33
10 Bank of .N ew Zealand all 151 1, 5
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, .ml China all 18 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India
London, and China
20 City
100 Colonial 2:5 38 40
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and Loudon, lint
50 East London, lint 5 2 1
20 English and American, lim 10 ...
20 English Bank of :Ili° ale Ja-
neiro. lint lO pr 1p
20 English, .t,cottialt, and Aus-
tralian Chartered
'IS, Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 38
285 Do new 5l 25 21
ion Imperial, lint 2O 16 17
20 Imperial Oaoman lO 2 25 1.5
.5 lonian all 21 16
25 Do new 5 11 1p
20 Lud Mortgage of India, lint 4 35 31
100 Do Sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 75 76
30 Londe 0 Bank) of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 65 51
100 Loudon and Brazilian, lint. 45 30 27
20 Do new 75 55 45
100 Loudon &River Plate, lint. 40 9 11
25 Do new 10 21 21p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 211 25 245 1
20 Loudon and County 2O 50 51 5:5
50 Do new. iss at 20 p.m, 10 pd. 11 ...
London Joint Stock 1 315 321 331
London and South African al 81 95
00 Loudon 3; S.-Western, lint, 20 13 11
150 London Venezuela, lint l2l
100 London and Westminster 2O 611 625 615
100 Du Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lint 25 51 41
10 Metropolitan, lint all 71 71
100 Midland, lint.
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lint. 15 ld 1 p
100 National Provinc. of Eng'cl 42 ... 11)
10 Do . 42 ... 44
10 National.. 3O
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 425 431 415
50 Previte. Bank. Corpo., lint lO 6 5
00 Provincial of 25 88 90
10 Do new, all
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 15 11
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Austra,lia all 47 43
100 Union of Ireland, lint ..... 22
50 Union of Loudon

351 36; 3.4

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

1U Anglo-American Tel., lien all 21i 22: 221
10 Anglo 11.1editer Tel., lint.... 10 12 121 12!
st Atlantic Telegraph lO 23 •.5
st Do. 8 per cent.
st B. and I. Mlgnetic Tel., lint lOO 158 161
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 23; 240
10 Do. New 8 9 lip
25 Indo-European Tel., lint lO ... •••
5 Loud. Provincial Tel. lint all 21 3
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all pr „1i
10 Mediterra. Estee. Tel.,lim all 34 34
25 Reuter's 'Pelegram
alill
•.:0 Societe Trausatlant., lint
st Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip 42
.15 l' i 471
all 1 1:
20 TelographCon.&Main.,lim. all 17 171 171
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lint. all 5 :
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref. all 3 3 P

OoLvAils.L UUVlfll►lVtil_h;Lvl'

firiti,ib Columbia, IS per
0ent.,1572.... -
- Uo. 1895 llO
Can.Gov.6p.o.Jan.'&July
1877-81
Do. 6p. O 7eb. & Aug lOO 102 104
Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept lOO 1(2 104
Do. sp. C. In/scribed sir 1(10 90 92
p. c. Jan. & July lOO t 8 10 89 81 8
Do. 6
Cape (*.Hope, 6 p. 0.1873 lOB 102 101
Do.Apl.&Oot 1890-1900 lOO 111 113
Do. do 1880-90 lOO 107 109
Do. Jan.&July, 189 t
Do. 5 per neut. 15 April
and 15 OCt., 1900 lO9 100 102
- Ce 3 1011. Nov 1878, 6 p lOO 108 116
Do. 1872, do lOO 105 10T
MaurltiuB, 6 p. 0, 1873,
- Jan. and July
UO. 1878 ..
Do. 1882, May and /sic' , .
00 106 108
Do. 1895, Feu. &, Aug lO 108 108
Melbourne Corporatn.,
1607-75, 6 per cent
N.11.L10v.8 10U 101 1.4
tal p et, Api & Oet 0
-Do 6pc. 31 .y &No .1 0 !t6 108
W. 5 wc., '7l to '7l. . 100 1
/o. 5 p.o. 1888 to 1896... 1)0 981 994 924
U. 5 p.c. rd.'6: to
•;.Zealand, p. ct. 1601 U.O
i)o. 5 percent.... . 1( 0
- DoJan,Ap 1,.1u.y, U t (64.) 93 04 911 5 4
DJ 6p c. Mar & Sept '9l :CO 108 110
DoJune& Dec , 1-91
JDo rrov. At.c-.ld.
1(0
btrie3l&?, 11'96 ..
.ova Scotia 6p. c.Jan
and July, 1076
Do 1.•0
ie.:wont!. 6p. 'B2-5 lOO 1074 it 81 1074 84
100 074 1181
-
Tasmanian 6 per c. 1835 .. 1084 1074
Do .9•297 •.• ..
Victoria 6r or cont. 1891 ll.O 113 /11
up, AprilandQo ...id, Log igv. llv ion

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 sheaved 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, 101; that the
college of Stockwell is quite full ; while at the
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 arpcared that the money
received from all sources, without including the balance
in hand at the beginning of the year, amounted to
£13,46 12s. 11d.; the payments, inclusive of legacies in-
vested, being £13,635 Gs. sd.

Earl I? ussun, 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—those 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 command's and direc-
tions which be gave to his disciples." His
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 county against
foreign invasion was that every soldier was educated.
"If this (the noble lord continued) is the security for
international institutions--if this is the security
against external dangers—as men the most able
end 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. Fcr
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 understanding ;
but 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
iu one shape or another—might not think it fit, and
wisely think it fit, to allow of secular schools; but secular
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 has 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 think fit to introduce to Parliament, and that
while systematic education shall pervade the land, and
that while schools shall be established throughout it, we
shall be Permitted to teach in them, not denominational
instruction, but shall be permitted to give that instruc-
tion in the Bible which has always been the mask and
distinction of this society. Schools must then be given to
every district alike ; there must be no uneducated town-
ship. I believe 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 good.
1"
PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE JEWS.
The annual meeting of the British Society for 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, Gaiass, Heidelberg, Russia, Italy,
Germany and Hungary, a 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 bad 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 .£18,466 16s. 9d., and
the colonial and continental income to £14,801 3s. Bd.,
being a total income of £33,268 Os. 5d.; making with the
balance of last year (42,187 3s. bd.) a total of receipts of
£35,455 3s. 10d. The expenditure had been £32,797
9s. 10d., leaving a balance of £2,657 14s. 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.

T
11.1001 D sCLOOL uMON.he Earl of Shaftesbury
again cccupied 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
182 day schools, with 24,000 children attending ; and 207
schools,
havingvg schools, an average attendance of 32,000 scholars ;
with nearly 10,000 children present.
These figures chewed an increase in the average attendance
as compared with last year's report of 777 in the Sunday
schools, and more than 1,900 in the day schools.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Irish Evangelical Society, the National Home for
Ladies, and the Prutcritant neruiwatoor Society held
their meetings also on Monday. The London Missionary
Society hold meetings throughout the week.

The Poet Laureate has been unanimously
elected an honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge.
CHEAP HONOURS.—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
"by the Tusculum College, U.S. America." We have never
serious affray took place at the
village n,
some
ugly
blows were exchanged. From fists the combatants
bad the pleasure of hearing of this American College
which distributes honours so freely abroad, and we have
no idea of the price at which it sells them.—New York
Times.
STABBING WHEN DRUNK AGAIN.—At a late hour
maddened with
drink, on Saturday
o ot
curf
md namey
de
commenced
inightcn ed t gto no . a
fight,
A
numberand in
in of
them e
contest
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 Monday night was
reported to be very dangerously all. A man named James
Flemming is in custody at Bedlbgton on the charge of
having inflicted the wounds.
A GIGANTIC MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—There issued
from the Foreign Office on Saturday a volume of com-
mercial reports received from ;ler Majesty's consuls in
1869. This volume, which forms one of a series, con•
tains reports from towns in F:ance,
Italy, the North
German Confederation, Turkey, and the United States.
Mr. Consul Lousada finishes hi 3 report from Boston with
the following paragraph :—" I snrcely 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 Festiva;,' to be held next July, in
a building which is to be erecter expressly for the purpose
on the ' Common ' or Palk, apable of holding with eats
120,000 spectators. Besides fiese, the principal voices
are to number 10,000, the chortses are to be 20,000, and
the instruments 12,000, gatlered from all the chief
cities of the Union. It is b last three or four days,
and the subscriptions already promised are more than
1 sufficient tg__Mia ticiSOratiastaLthis aigaliqc
niusior„,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day

T HAMES.

IMPORTANT DECISION.-Mr. Charles Young, solicitor,
who was accompanied by Lieutenant Sheppy, the Super-
intendent of the East and West India Dock Company's
Police, applied for summonses against the owner of barges
for leaving them in the West India Dock basin without
any person on board. Mr. Young said the accumulation
of empty barges and craft at tho several entrances of the
dock, in the dock basin, and other portions of the dock,
had been found SO inconvenient and embarrassing 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 largo amount of room
occupied which ought to have been devoted to ships and
barges engaged in delivering and receiving goods and
cargoes. Mr. Charles Young then read a portion of the
104th clause of the West India Dock Company's
Act of Parliament as follows :—"lf 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 ouch offence for-
feit and pay any sum not exceeding £5; 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 n .glect thereof."

Mr. Lieut. Sheppy confirmed th; statomeut of Mr.
Young, and the summonses were issued.

WESTMINSI ER.

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

Mr. lleginold York, 37, Princes-gardens, 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, aas much injured. Complainant was t brown
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 ho was going at the rate of
ten miles an hour although the road was in a very crowded
state at the time. Ile was drunk.
Defendant said he had settled for the damages done to
the cab with the proprietor of it.
In answer to the magistrate's inquiry, Mr. York said
that 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 40p, a gui-
nea for the hat, and 40s for the damage done to the cab,
or one month in default.