The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-12 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

BOURSE, Oct. 11, Two o'clock.—The market,
at first somewhat slack, has improved, and quota-
tions denote a slight advance. Threes are at 68fr.
35c., an advance of sc. Italian Fives have advanced
10c., at 45fr. 85c. Credit Mobilier shares gain 2fr.
50c., at 173 fr. 75c. ; whilst Credit Foncier are at
1,270 fr., without change. But business is not very
active. Railways are firmer than at the outset;
the quotations have been rather under yesterday's
prices. No change telegraphed from London on
English Consols.
Threo o'clock—The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents 9B
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 60
Do. end month GB 42i
Credit Mobilier 176 20
Do. end Month
Credit Foncier 1275 50
Do. end month 1277 50
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3300
Italian Loan 45 05
Do. end month 46
Mexican Loan lO
Do. Bonds lOO
Spanish Threes 34 75
Home Debt —
Deferred -
'AYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern ll4O
Lyons and Mediterranean BBO
Southern
Wester*
Eastern

Sardinian —
Austrian
Lombard B6B 75
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman ••

97 50

MR. MONCREIFF ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

EDINBURGH, Friday Evening.

To-day Mr. Moncreiff addressed a crowded meet-
ing of the constituency in the Music-hall. He ex-
pressed his gratification that the Tories had aban-
doned their fears of the people, but he felt they had
carried their Household Suffrage Bill at the price of
party honour. He believed that Mr. Disraeli had
always been willing to concede a wide extension of
the suffrage, but he thought his part would have
been more honourable had he carried his party round
to the bill of the Liberal Government. He trusted
the reception of Mr. Disraeli in Edinburgh would
be worthy of the reputation of the city. The bill
would have been better without rating clauses, and
redistribution must be carried further. He wanted
more members for Scotland by taking them from
England, and not by increasing the number in the
House. The meeting closed with a unanimous vote
of thanks to Mr. Moncreiff.

MR. DU CANE, M.P., ON AGR,ICUL7 URAL

TOPICS.

At the annual meeting of the Great Braxted
Labourers' Friend Society on Thursday,
Mr. DU CANE, M.P. (one of the Junior Lords of
the Admiralty), in returning thanks for the toast of
his health, made a passing allusion to the doings of
last session. It could not be said, he remarked, to
have been barren of other results than the passing
of the Reform Bill (or, as he called It, " our recent
attempt to renovate the soil and to develope the pro-
ductive resources of our good old constitutional
farm"), for they had had more than one question of
an agricultural character brought before them, and
to one of which he wished to allude before ho sat
down—he meant the question of the education of
the labouring classes. Upon that subject they had
a bill brought into the House last session by Pro-
fessor Fawcett, the member for Brighton. He
was sorry to have to speak ill of any measure
brought in by a private member, because he
knew by experience the herculean difficulty a private
member had to contend against in trying to bring a
measure before the House, but he thought that not
only was this one a very objectionable bill, but one
of the worst pieces of amateur legislation that was
ever laid upon the table. (Hear,hear, and laughter.)
He could not now say how far the bill was an inter-
ference with the law of labour, but to his mind,
bad it passed, some of his brother magistrates would
have been astounded at the extra duties it cast upon
them. Why, it actually proposed that any two
magistrates in petty sessions—if it appeared to-
them that the means of education in any parish
within that petty sessional district were of a defi-
cient character, whether they had anything to do
with the parish or not—should have the power of
levying a rate upon the parish. (Laughter.) Apart
from that ho thought the way in which it proposed
to meet the religious difficulties of the question was
one that would have been a most frightful source of
discord for many years to come, for it pro-
posed that if there was any difference upon the
matter the majority of the ratepayers should settle
what should be the religious teaching. They all
knew there were differences of religious opinion
among them, and they respected those who differed
from them, but there were many agricultural
parishes in which Churchmen, and those who dif-
fered from the Church, were very evenly balanced,
and therefore what a fertile battle-field the proposed
act would have opened. The bill, however, died a
natural death ; and he only mentioned it as a mat-
ter that was engaging public attention, and which
would in all probability engage the attention of a
Reforme'd Parliament. What he would say was
this, that if his friends the farmers and those who
lived in agricultural districts would avoid having
education rates thrust upon them, they must do their
utmost to encourage the families of their labourers
under the existing voluntary system. (Applause.)
They must encourage the labourers whom they
employ to send their children to school ; they must
abstain from employing' children of a certain age,
and they must encourage, by night schools and
otherwise, the older labourers to keep alive the re-
membrances of the education they received in early
life. He believed farmers as a body were fully alive
to the importance of the labourers keeping pace with
the advance and development of science, with the
spread of the country's civilisation, and with the new
duties that the great mass of the working classes
will shortly be called upon to perform. (Hear,
hear.) Mr. Du Cane next alluded to the expedi-
ency of establishing a chamber of agriculture in the
county of Essex, giving it as his opinion that it was
of the utmost importance to the well-doing of the
agricultural interest in any county that the most in-
telligent and practical among them should have an
opportunity, such as a chamber of agriculture would
afford, of discussing amicably such questions as are
at the present time, or are likely to become, subjects
of legislation. Speaking for himself, he might say
he had often felt the want of such a medium of
communication between himself and his agricultural
constituents in arriving at a sound and independent
judgment. (Applause.) in conclusion, he thanked
them for the way in which they had received the
toast.

We believe it is now determined that Parliament
hall meet on tho 10th of November for three weeks, to
grant oupplio for tho 41.4ssinitua gxPoclition,

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Thursday.

The Queen drove out in the morning with Prin-
cess Christian, and her Majesty again drove out in
the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise, and
attended by Mrs. Gordon.
Prince Christian went out for a drive of deerZn
Colonel Farquharson's woods at luvercauld.

Prince Arthur, who is at the ranger's house,
Greenwich Park, has a very mild attack of modified
small pox, and is progressing satisfactorily.

The Duke of Rutland has arrived at his residence
at Campden Hill, Kensington, and will shortly go to his
seat near Newmarket.

The Duke Grazioli and the Marquis de Ma-
gliano have left the Alexandra note], Hyde-park-corner,
for Paris.

The Earl and Countess of Wilton are expected
in town on their way to Heaton Park, near Manchester.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have
returned to Brocklesby Hall, their soat in Lincolnshire,
from visiting Colonel and Mrs. Farquharson at Inver-
cauld.

The Earl of Glasgow has returned to the Claren-
don Hotel from Newmarket.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Disraeli have arrived at Grosvenor-gate from visiting the
Duke and Duchess of Mariborough at Blenheim Palace.
The Count E. de Viel Castel has arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from Paris.

Captain and Mrs. Leyland have returned to the
Clarendon Hotel from a tour in tho West of England.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Airs.
Disraeli have arrived at Grosvenor-gate from visiting the
Duke and Duchoss of Marlborough at Blenheim Place.