The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN

SITARE LIST.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

1 Closing I Business
Share Railways. I Paid. Price. dome.
at riffirbrrand rseter .... 160 82 84
at Caledonian —... 100 741 75
at Cambrian .. 100 20 30
Cork and Bandon...—.
20 York
all 21 11
at üblin & Belfast Juno ion 754 77
at Dun„Perth, & Ab. Juno 'loo 70 72
‘lil.London, scrip Certi all
Do. 100 —d
at Glasgow &S. Western 100
at Great Eastern,Ord.stk. 100 ' 31 .341
at Do. E. Angh at. N 0.2 100 7 5
at Great North of Scotland 100 15 .6
at Great Northern lOO 102 103
at Do. A. stock.
at Do. B stock
at Do. New, is. at 25 pm 10..,
st GtS, and W. of Ireland. 100 96 97
at Gt. Western -Original 100 53 531
at Du. S. Val. [tail. gua, 100 •
at Do. South Wales
at Do. W. Mid.—Oxford 100 30 35
at Do. Newport lOO 31 31
at Do. Bereford -
.t Lancashire& Yorkalnia: 100 127 j 12811
at ',Judea and Blaokwall 100
at Lon., 13righ.,& S Coast 100 52 53 . 1.21
at Lon., Coat., and Dover 100 191 20
at Do. aletrop. Ex. A lOO .... 113
at Lon. & North Western 100 115 114 1151 141
at Lou. A. South Western 100 91 93 1 911
at Man., Shef., A. Lincoln 100 421 Ili
at atetrovolitan all 1111 1,4
at Do. .sew
st Do. Extension...— all 107 108
at t Metropolitan District all 80 82
it I Do. do. do. 10
l 0 Do. and St. John'tsW 'i.l 6 -
at Midland
Do. £9 Share 7
at I Do, liirmiu.. A. Darby 100 75 77
i did Kent .
at North British
st Do. ltd., Pth., & Dun. 100
at .N at. Eastern—Berwioa 100 1021 1034
25 Do. ii.N•E purchase 16.13.4
at Do. Leeds
st Do. York lOO 94 95
at DC, Carlisle .. 100 130 1311
at Do. Stock.& Darling. all 131 13.1
45 Do. do. 1860-61 lB -- p
at North London
at Do. do. 186* 5 . . lO -
Do. do. 1866
10 North Staflordahire
st N. &S. W. Junction
et Scottish Central
--• Soot. N. E ,ADer. stock 100
Do. Scot, Mid. at ock —10 u
Shropshire Union
st South Devon iv() 43 15
at ,outh Eastern
10 itaines, Wok., A. Wok all lu 11 10/
at lad Vale lOO 143 145
10 Do. C . - -
- V ale oY deain -
- Waterford A. Kilkenny 100
10 Waterloo & Whiteha i 8
Neat Cornwall —

THE FACTORIES ACT AND ITS RESULT.

The Factories Act is now indisputably allowed to be a
complete success. Nothing could shew this more conclu-
sively than the report just issued of the inspectors of fac-
tories for the latter portion of 1867. The half-time system
has worked admirably. Not merely with regard to mann-
factures has this success been chronicled, but the extension
of the Act to agricultural labourers has been productive of
immense good. On these points the report of the inspec-
tors agree. There are a few matters, however, to which
attention is directed in the report in question which is worthy
of remark. A charge is broughtagainst the factory schools,
which applies more or less unhappily to a large proportion
of better class schools, that the teaching received is so much
connected with routine that the children are not suffi-
ciently exercised in their powers of thought. They learn a
great deal by rote, to be forgotten almost immediately.
Another matter mentioned by one of the sub-inspectors is
that the schoolmasters had not sufficient incentive to snake
their half-time scholars work, and the consequence is that
these are often neglected for the whole - timers, a 3
they are called. For instance, a teacher might
be tempted to neglect those who will arrive at
the age of 13 and leave the school for full-time factory
work, possibly some months before the annual visit of the
school inspector. Such children may have completed the
number of attendances necessary for the grant, but their
" paas" will be more than endangered by the long interval
of idleness. It may not pay to take pains with them.
Something should certainly be done to amend the Act as
relating to print workers, who are not required to attend
school day by day, but are most irregular. It is almost
agreed that it is impossible for masters to prepare these
children yearly for the examination under the Revised
Code. They severely tax the energies of the teacher, are
not profitable pecuniarily to the school, and after all they
receive a very imperfect education. The law might also
be so altered as to include brickmakers' " pages," who
now, not being employed by the masters of the brickyard,
but being hired by the workmen themselves, are not com-
pello to go to school. _ _ _

That the inspectors have been earnest in their endea-
deavour to enforce the Act is apparent by the fact that
no fewer than 202 informations have been laid Ly them for
infringement of the Act, out of which only two were dis-
missed, and one of these was referred back to the magis-
trates by the Court of Queen's Bench.
Some interesting figures are appended to the report as
to accidents, from which it appears that no fewer than
2,201 accidents from machinery were reported during the
half-year, of which 1,010 were sustained by females.
Thirty of the total number terminated fatally.