The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept.. 3, Two o'clock.—The monthly
settlement on railways, foreign, and miscellaneous
securities is proceeding favourably. The market is
generally very quiet. Threes are quoted at 69f. Gsc.,
or the same as yesterday, taking into account the
deport. Italian Fives are at 48f. 95c., a rise of sc. ;
Credit Foncier at 1,373 f. 75c., an advance of 3f.
75c.; Credit Mobilier without change, at 277 f. 50c.;
and Comptoir d'Escompte at 712 f. 50c., a decline
of 2f. 50e. A fall of 15f. has taken place on
Southern railway shares ; they are quoted at 537 f.
50c. The cours de compensation have been fixed as
follows :—Bank shares, 3,335 f. ; Italian Fives, 48f.
95c. ; Credit Mobilier, 280 f. ; Comptoir d'Escompte,
710 f, ; and Credit Foncier, 1,375 f.

41 per Cents lOO 25
Do. end month —
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 6O 674
Credit 31obilier 275
Do. end Month 277 50
Credit Fonder 1370
Di. end month —

Bank Shares —
Italian Loan —
Do. end month —
Mexican Loan ll
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 38
Home Debt —
Deferred -
BALLWATS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1165
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Lyons and Mediterrauetin 896 25
Southern 555
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ts
Austrian
Lombard 383 75
North of Spain
Saragossa .
Roman .

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THE CAUSE OF EDUCA7ION.

A public meeting was held at Penzance on Friday
last, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone
of a large building to be appropriated to day and
Sunday schools in connection with the Wesleyan
Methodists.

RICHARD LEWIS, Esq., the barrister and secre-
tary of the National Lifeboat Institution, made
on the occasion the following appropriate re-
marks on 'the subject of education. He said he had
long been a promoter of the cause of education,
but he dreaded equally both bigotry and sectarian-
ism. John Wesley preached free trade in religion,
and a life according to the teachings of the Bible.
This meant religion for the learned and the un-
learned, for the educated, for the imperfectly edu-
cated, and for those who were utterly destitute of
knowledge. He believed that great misapprehension
existed on the subject of popular education. The
power of reading and writing did not alone consti-
tute education, but the mental power that was set to
work by the training received. He wished some
distinguished man in Parliament would bring in
a Reform Bill on education which should please
both Whigs and Tories, which should be charac-
terised by no party views, but by patriotic and com-
prehensive ideas, He fully agreed with the remarks
of Earl Russell,
.that whal-ever course was taken in
popular educati,m, the Bible should never be absent
from school-rooms ; they should be places where
free religion, but no sectarianism, should be taught.
He bad just come from the assizes at Bristol, where
out of 18 prisoners only five could read or write
in any degree. Drunkenness and ignorance were
the most prolific causes of crime in the land ; edu-
cation was the great remedy in his view against
criminality. He felt certain that the result of
the building they were about to erect would be most
gratifying to them all, not only by the successful
teaching of reading and writing, but by instruction
in morality and religious duty, the impression of
which received in youth could never be effaced.
But they must bear in mind that nothing would
succeed without great industry and undaunted per-
severance. He instanced gentlemen at the bar,
who, by their severe mental discipline and
great labour, had raised themselves to high posi
tions in their country's service. He occasionally
mixed with the highest and the lowest classes in
the land, and he found amongst many of both classes
that the greatest difficulty was to get them even to
think consecutively, and the cultivation of the think-
ing power must be the grand point at which they
must aim in educating youth. An interesting ex-
ample of the power of education was lately afforded
at the Paris Exhibition in the trial of two safes,
where the American succeeded by scientific prin-
ciples, while the Englishman hoped to sucCeed by the
mere application of muscular strength. In a town
like Penzance they need not be dependent on any-
thing that Government might do. If they a,ccepted
Government grants they must accept Government
conditions ; but if these conditions involved prin-
ciples which they could not surrender, they were
perfectly ab:e to support their own schools. Let
them go forward in their great undertaking of sub-
duing the pernicious influence of ignorance and vice,
and success would certainly follow.
WILLIAM M'ARTHUR, Esq., sheriff-elect of Lon-
don and Middlesex, and other gentlemen, also ad-
dressed the meeting.
Votes of thanks were given to Mr. Lewis and Mr.
M'Arthur and to the chairman, and the proceedings
terminated.—Western Morning News.

THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION.—The Boundary
Commissioners will commence their inquiry in Essex next
week. Among the matters which are mentioned as likely
to be brought before the commissioners at Colchester is a
proposal for extending the limits of the borough so as to
include the parishes of Wivenhoe and East Donyland. A
proposal will also be submitted to make Colchester the
place of nomination for the proposed division of North-
east Essex.

JUSTICES OF TIIZ PEACE.—Certain disqualifica-
tions of Justices of the Peace aro now removed by the Ant
(30th and 31st of Victoria, cap. 115) in the execution of
certain acts in Sessions as to Municipal Corporations,
Local Boards of Health, or Improvement Commissioners,
by reason of being ratepayers, or liable, in common with
others, to contribute, or to be benefited by, any penalty
payable, &c.

TILE IRON TRADE OF WITTON PARK.—During
the past few weeks trade has considerably improved at the
works of Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co. (Limited), at Witton
Park, several large orders having been obtained. The
various departments are now fully employed, with the ex-
ception of the Neate-mill, and that, we understand, will
commence work next week. The tradespeople in Bishop
Auckland are already beginning to feel the good effect of
the improvement in trade at Witton Park.—Newcastle
Journal.