The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-12 00:00:00

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The Price of Gold.

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The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on Loudon is 2M. 12c. per £1 sterling.
On c.naparing these rates with the English Mint price of
ori. toid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold is nearly two-tenths dearer in Paris than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight is about 109 j per cent. At this rate there
is no profit on the importation of gold trona the United
States.

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mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser.
vices, in every type. Parkins and Gotto, 25, Oxford'
street. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new
and fresh, consequent upon a rauid sale.—fAnTrA
Tun (UleEN'a Bouic.— Her iVkp-,ty the queen hat,
graciously presented to the WiHeii:lll Literary Insti-
tute a copy of her new work, Leaves from the Journal
of our Life in the _Highlands. In a letter accompany-
in, the volume, addressed to the lion. secretary (Kr.
J.'C. Tildesley), the Queen intimates that it is not
her intention to present copies of the work to insti-
tutes generally, but that in this case she was unwilling
to refuse the request, as the Willenhall Institute is
one of some standing, and is designed mainly for the
benefit of working men. The people of Willenhall
are much gratified- with this act of condescension on
the part of her Majesty, and have appropriately
acknowledged the gift.

•
NATIONAL PORTRAIT EXHIBITION, 1868.—There
has been published to-day the preliminary list of
eminent persons living between the year 1800 and the
present time whose portraits have been promised for
the third and concluding exhibition to be opened at
South Kensington in April. The Committee of Council
on Education express a hope that the possessors of por-
traits of the many distinguished characters whose
names do not appear in the list may be induced to send
particulars of their picas theytotures are d
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year. Besides the modern portraits, the Exhibition
will include a supplementary collection of portraits of
eminent persons living before the year 1800 who
were
unrepresented or inadequately represented in the two
preceding Exhibitions. For this, a large number of
pictures have already been promised.
THE OUTRAGE EPIDEMIC.—Another startling out-
rage is reported from the West-end. Mr. M`Keown,
the bullion merchant of Fenchurch-street, who re-
sides at Lancaster-villas, Notting-hill, was returning
at about half-past twelve a.m. from the Popular Coll-
eens at St. James's-ball, on Monday, and having
reached the site of some unfinished houses in Lancas-
ter-road, was accosted (according to the prevailing
device) by a woman, whom he summarily repulsed.
No sooner had he done so than he was seized behind
and before, evidently by two men, a third appearing
almost simultaneously to assist. He was lifted
bodily off his feet, and carried out of the highway
among the mud and mortar of the unfinished build-
ings, and there he was rubbed of a gold eye-glass,
and left almost smothered in dirt. But the remark-
able fact is to come. Although he was brutally
knocked about on the eyes and face (the markS of
which to-day are most significant of extreme violence),
he lost nothing but that eye-glass ; whereas he had
upon him nearly £lOO worth of property, including a
large diamond ring, a. gold chain, worth at least ten
guineas, and a watch worth probably twice as much,
together with a silver card case. A locket, probably
dropped in the scuffle, has been since found in the
mud: The police are in hopes of gaining a clue to this
singular assault by means of the eye-glass. One of
the miscreants was a coloured man. They were all,
however, probably new at their business, for they
spent so long in assailing Mr. M'Keown that they lost
nearly all their booty. ,
THE MEMBERS FOR LEICESTER ON EDUCATION.--.
Messrs. Taylor and Harris addressed their constituents
at Leicester on Monday evening. Mr. Taylor, in the
course of his speech, avowed his opinion that national
education must be secular education, because no man
should be compelled to pay a rate for teaching his
child opinions that he did not hold himself. This was
not, however, to do away with religious instruction ;
it was simply delegating it to the parent and the priest.
Education was mere instruction and communication
of fact. Instruction might be immoral, but edu-
cation could neither be immoral nor irreligious.
Education was the drawing out and development
of the whole being ; it was not the cramming
of the brain, it was the creating of the charac-
ter of the individual. That being so, if he
were asked why secular education could not be irreli-
gious, his answer was, because to his mind it was the
vital truth that " The earth is the Lord's and the
fulness thereof " (cheers). From this it followed that
the laws of the universe, the laws of reason and
action of the human mind, were divine, and not dia-
bolical ; and for every drop that man could raise out
of the great ocean of truth, he was not further from,
but nearer to the great source and origin of all things
(cheers). And the converse of the -proposition was
true, that as secular education was not irreligionS edu-
cation, so so-called religious or theological education
was not necessarily moral or religious (hear, hear). The
religious spirit was the product of the brain and heart,
the result of the best intelligence and affection ; it
was the ripened fruit of the perfect man (cheers).
Referring again to the condition of Ireland, Mr. Taylor
expressed himself opposed to the idea of a separate
Irish nationality. He would utterly abolish the
Irish Church, and he would open no fresh endowments
as suggested the other day by Mr. Bright (hear, hear).
Mr. J. D. Harris said there was one thing patent to all;
the Reform Bill had done good, for it had made states-
men and politicians of all parties anxious for the
education of the people (applause). He was of opinion
that they must have a ratal system, a secular educa-
tion, and the schools that continued in the national
system had went to Government for aid must have a
conscience clause, so that if they took- the peoplfia
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