The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1868.

SHARE LlST.—This Day.

ORDINARY SEIARES AND STOCKS.

.fdii Closing Business
Railways. p"' Price. , done.
Bristol anti Exeter 100 81 86
at Caledonian lOO 711 75 75, 14; 5 ;
st Cambrian
- !Cork and Bandon.- - -
20 !Cornwall
at !Dublin & Belfast June lOO 741 751
at Illun„Perth,& Ah.Junc "Lioo 70 72
100 10. London, Scrip Cv:t,: all - -
Do. 100 - - d
at Glasgow AS. Western 100 93 95
at Great 14.:astern,Ord.stk. 100 291 201 291 1 1
at Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 100 6
st Great North of Scotland 100 is 6
at Great Northern lOO 1061 1071, :061 1
at Do. A stock .. 100 107 10i 105 1
it Do. B Block lOO 1221 la
at Do. New, is. at 25 pin 100 - -
it tS. and W. of Ireland 100 26 93
at Gt. Western -Original ItO 45 451 464
it Do. S. Vtl. Rail. gua. 100 - -
't Do. South Wales
it Do. W. Mid.-Oxforo 100 i 25 344
it Do. Newport
it Do. II ervford lOO
it. Lane &shire .o Yorkshir, 10u 123 121 / 12' 1 4
• !London and Blackwalf luu - - I
at :Lou., Brigli.,& S Coast 100 474 171 4'2 1
it I on., Chat., and Dover' 100 18 19 11 1
it Do. lietrop. A ' 100 -
it Lvn. A van IVesteri, Nu 114 115 1142 ;
at Lou. .t South IVesteri 100 ;0 /8 774 34
it Stan., Shea., A Lincoln 100 44 141: 444
Metropolitan. .
at Do. New lO - - I
it Du. Extension...- all 102 103 1031 3
at Metropolitan District all -
1C 1 Do. do. do. 10 - -
10 Do. and St. John's W'u 6 - -
it Midland
I
- Do. L 9 Share 7
it j & Derbll 100 72 74
- I did Bout . ' all - -
at North British llOO 33 35
st Do. Ed., POI., & Dun ' 100 - -
st 'Nth. Eastern--Berwick 100 98 99 100
25 Do. (.I.N•E purcha.si 16.13.1 - -
at Do. Lelds
st Do. York lOO 91 91 922
at Do. Carlisle .... 100 - -
at Do. Stock. & Darling. all 129 131 , 129
Si Do. du. 1860-61 lB - p
at North London .. lOO 114 116
st Do. do. 1851 5 . . 10 -
- Do. do. 1865
10 North Stallordshire
at &S. W. Junction all 113 115
at Scottish Central -
- Soot. N. B , Aber. stool,' 100 -
Do. Scot, Mid. stock lOO -
Shropsnire Union
st South Devon lOO 42 14
at South Eastern
40 Staines, Wok., A Wok all 84 94
at Tall Vale lOO 145 150
10 Do. C -
ale of Neath - -
- Waterford & }Wimp') 10u - -
10 Waterloo & Whlteha 1 6 - -
West Cornwall , 100 - -

COLOSIAL GOVERNMENT SECUIi

,Britiih Columbia,6 per

oent., Leo. 31, 1872.
Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.,Sz July

1877-81 -
Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug..
,Do. sp. 0. Mar. Sept
Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July
Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed ak
Cape G. hope, 6 p.c. 1873
Do.Apl. &Oct 1840-1600
Do. do 1880-9 u
Do. Jan.&July, 1860-91
Do. 5 per cent. 15 April

and-15 Oct., 1900 -
Ca) lon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. t
Do. 1878, do.
Mauritius, 6 p. o, 187 i,
Jan. and July
Do. 1878
Do. 1882, Mayl6, Nov. t 5
Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug
Natal 'Joy. 6 per cent
N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&July
N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1866
Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876

Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 1395
New Zealand, 6 p. cent
Do. 5 per cent
Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. o
sterling, 1375
,Queeusland Gov. 6 p. c
S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c. 1868-9
Do. 1878 & upwards
Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July
Do. do, April &

190
100
100
100
100
100

98 100'
100 102
100 102
86 88
85 87
IC2 104
106 108
104 ICO
107 109

05 t 7

ITIES.

991 2;

85; 0

96! 6 51
101 6
9 2 71

102 }

E'FBB:IADRERS:INT AL 81
132
?irieda telVonessotrirnd
a,itil:pe6FrpeEeeßrn
etE.e,ANngr6teTd. rd.,
Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent.,
Ditti,o,i4.iiiii;serLcemnALSErdp.,
London and Black wall, 87
London, Chatham, AO., „fl per cent., 621
klnt NJ CrN ttAILIVAYI",
Great Luxembourg, 84 1
San Paulo, lien., gua. 6 per cent., 18k
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 131

FOREIGN MINNS.
Chontales Gold and Sliver Mining, :11m., 3;
Von Del Rey, 3 put
rontino and Bolivia Gold, lirn., 1;
St John dcl Rey. lim , 321 2
Yudanunutana of South Australia, lira 1 1-la

DOCK S.

East and West India, 124

BANNS•

Alliance, Rm., 13
Australasia, MI
British North American, 4FI
Consolidated, lim., 4f
Crystal Palace, 22
Imperial Ottoman, 81
London Chartered bane of Australia, 23 f
London and County, 521
Loudon Joint Stock, 33f
London and 11 estminster, 711

Ditto, Scrip, 41
Merchant Bank, lint.. 141
Union of Australia, 491
Union of London, 331 3

miscicLuttisoue;
Anglo American Telegraph, 29k
Atlantic Telegraph, 441 t
Ditio, S pnr ;wet., 95
Corporation of London Bonds, 1817, 4i'per cent , 10i;
Cretin render of lim,, 3k
Ebbw Vale, l k
East India Irrigation and Canal, 161
ELyptian 9 per Cent, Viceroy Loan, guit.'by Egypt. Govt. 90
Gen. Credit and Discount, mu., 5 7-16
Hudson's Bay, 14;
International zEociety, ltrn., 3
Nattonal Discount t oinpany, 10i
Ocean Marine Insurautc),
Oriental Gas, lira., tft
Thames and Ilerwey Marine, Insurance, Ilia., 4;
Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan, 70 0,

211ETROPOLITAN GOSSZR

Politicians are beginning to shew signs of life again fIOW
that their Christmas dinners are digested. There are
rumours at the clubs, mostly untrustworthy, as to the
events of the coming session, and the parts which the chief
actors will take. There are some things which it requires
no exclusive information to know, and it is easier than is
usual to forecast the Parliamentary programme. Every-
body can see that Ireland and Education must be prominent
topics, if not of legislation, at least of discussion. The first
is forced upon us against our will; the second has been
taken up voluntarily in a most remarkable manner. The
demand for general education has not been raised by the
working classes ; it has originated with politicians, and
with some of them it is probably a mere cry needed as a
substitute for Reform. Whether this he so or not, one
thing is very noticeable—the rapidity with which the
prominent Liberals are coming to the conviction that edu-
cation should be made compulsory. Mr. Forster a few
days ago spoke of Mr. Bruce as being not quite suffi-
ciently advanced in this matter, but since then the late
Vice-President of the Council has declared his readiness
to go as far as the member for Bradford, and at the Man-
chester Educational Conference, which opened yesterday,
there was not a prominent Liberal who did not pronounce
with him for compulsory education. Another noticeable
fact is the frequency with which Prussia is held up as an
example. Four years ago we should as little have thought
of imitating that country as of imitating Spain ; but now
the great German Power is taking among English Libe-
rals the same prominent place that the United States used
to occupy. The Prussian system of education and
the Prussian military system are constantly referred
to, and, most significant of all, the Professor
of Political Economy at Cambridge has during
the present week boldly announced his approval of
the Prussian land system, and that great revolution which
was brought about by Stein. With compulsory education,
free trade in land, and the regeneration of Ireland still to
accomplish; it is clear that the Liberals need not weep for
lack of worlds to conquer. As to Mr. Gladstone's move-
ments, they are as yet uncertain. He will probably
avoid the mistake which ho made last session of lagging
behind his party. For this reason he will most likely give
up the idea which finds favour with him, of endowing the
Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland with a portion of the
revenues of the Established Church. The Radical party
are so resolutely opposed to State religious endowments,
that this scheme may safely be considered impracticable.
This and other important subjects will be considered at
the approaching Cabinet Council meetings. The first of
these takes place on Tuesday.
Whatever be the course of Parliamentary events, it is
not at all improbable that the Houses of Parliament will
before long be materially modified. Your correspondent
was the first to mention the reports which had been pre-
sentCd by the select committee appointed to inquire into
the accommodation of members, and it will be remembered
that several schemes were proposed by which the present
House of Commons would be available for a larger number
of M.P.'s than it is at present. But no plan provided
sufficient room even for the present number, and as Mr.
Disraeli intends to increase that member, the proposed
arrangements will be all the more unsatisfactory. It must
be remembered that, thanks chiefly to the spread of the
provincial daily press, which carefully notices how often
the local members are present at divisions, the attendance
of M.P.'s is much larger than it used to be thirty years
ago, and that while the present House was large enough
then, it is so no longer. It has therefore been boldly
suggested that a new House shall be added to the present
buildings. The existing chamber would find plenty of
uses. Committee-men, Parliamentary counsel, and re-
porters will all be glad to have at least a part of it. The
expense will be heavy, but probably not half that of a
single ironclad ; and the cost is scarcely likely to stand in
the way, considering that in this matter they who bear
the bag have such a deep personal interest in opening it.
One of the events of the week has been the Russell-
Elliot-Hudson-Bulwer correspondence. The ex-Premier
and his relative come badly out of the matter. It is quite
true that Sir James Hudson has chihlrously come to the
rescue of the ex-Foreign Secretary, but he has not cleared
up the point which impressed the public so unfavourably
at the time—Sir James's retirement from the Legation at
Turin just at the time when his long and intimate
acquaintance with Italian affairs made it particu-
larly important that he should retain his post.
No doubt he asked leave to resign on his full pension, but
he would not have done so if he had not seen that
his place was wanted. Lord Russell, in explaining that
he intended to have sent Sir James to Constantinople has
only made the matter worse. Sir Henry Bulwer has been
less sparing of his lordship's feelings than Sir James Hudson.
Sir Henry's letter has seriously damaged the one while
Foreign Secretary. The inevitable inference is, that Lord
Russell, influenced by that nepotism which is such a
prominent failing of the Bedford family, was prepared to
sacrifice two first-class Ministers, each of them peculiarly
fitted for the post he held, in order to advance his brother-
in-law. It is to be hoped that these revelations will lead
to a thorough investigation of the system under which our
diplomatists are appointed.

- -
A very serious matter close at home also requires investi-
gation. The condition of the East-end of London is some.
thing terrible. It is not so much that "exceptional distress',
prevails there, though that is bad enough ; but that the
distress has become chronic, that the whole district has
become pauperised. A clergyman long resident in that
district told me yesterday that he had no doubt hundreds
of persons were dying of starvation every week, and this
within an hour of the mansions of Belgravia and Tyburnia.
But what is to be done? The West-end sends a constant
stream of funds to the East-end, and has done so for the
last two or three years, and what is the result ? The idle
and the profligate crowd into the district to such an
extent that the landlords are actually raising their rents,
though their tenants are starving. The Rev. Harry Jones,
a well-known London clergyman, in a sermon on pau-
perism which I heard a few Sundays ago, remarked
that nothing was so disheartening in parochial work
as to see how rarely the funds intended for the relief of
the deserving poor reached them. He said that whenever
such a fund had to be distributed, the thriftless and impor-
tunate would come clamouring for it, just as flies swarm
to honey. Meanwhile, those who ought to be helped keep
their poverty secret ; they " die and make no sign." Nor
is this all. The money which the West-end sends to the
East is now counted liven by East-end guardians, and they
refuse to raise sufficient rates, in the hope that the misery
which they will thereby cause will be relieved by
charity. Thus, charity, however abundant, not only
does not keep pace with pauperism, but actually
increases it. We want some other agency. We
want some method by which work will be supplied
to those who are willing to work, and which would
be a test to try the indolent. Only yesterday a man
who had obtained employment after fifteen weeks passed
without it, remarked to me that he should not stay in his
present place long, as he got " only 245. a week." This
man lives in a district where the clergy are active and the
district visitors benevolent, and where both, I fear, are,
with the best intentions in the world, demoralising the
people by excessive almsgiving. Still there arc the really
deserving poor, and it is these who ought to be helped.
Why can wo not do in London as was done in
Lancashire four years ago—construct public works
with Government grants advanced on the security
of the rates? There is surely as abundant room for
improvements—for drainage, housebuilding, paving, and
park-making--as there was in the Lancashire towns.
Surely, too, in no other city of the world would such a sight
have been seen as was witnessed at the end of last week.
A succession of snowfalls, with slight thaws, followed by
frosts, had covered the roads and streets with a thick
sheet of the smoothest ice. In the parks I saw on Friday
gentlemen and ladies skating, not on the Serpentine only,
but beneath the trees along the paths, which were quite
as smooth as the river. They might have skated with equal
ease all through the West-end squares, where walking
was a work of serious peril. Yet at the same time the
streets were paraded by parties of stalwart navvies, shout-
ing in a most horrible chorus of groans, " We're all frozen
out!" Probably these men were impostors ; if so, it ought
to have been proved by setting them to clear the streets
of their ice-crust. Truly, sell-government is a wonderful
thing, and London is a wonderful city, whose people are
breaking their legs at the West-end because the streets
have not been cleaned, while at the East-end men are
dying upon tenpence a week. Truly, too, Lord Devon
has cl osen a strange time of the year to go to Nice. One
would as soon expect a barrister to leave town during
term-time as the President of the Poor-law Board to be
absent from Gwyder House during the winter months.
The public have by this time had their fill of the Queen's
Highland Journal--" Butter-Scotch," as the Tomahawk
calls it. They now know the ancestry and lineage of John
Brown, and divers other weighty matters, and in a few days
Mr. Mudie will be selling his surplus copies for what he
can get. Though the newspapers have eulogised the book
as in public duty bound, it is spoken of very sarcastically
in literary circles even by some of the eulogists. They
contend that it 1:4 nothing but Pritish Ilunkeyisin which
makes people read gos,,ip that coming from anybody els,
would have found no altni:siun even into a fifth rat,
magazine. Perhaps there is a little professional jealoui.
at the bottom of this criticism. Publishers. and author,
complain that when a queen turns author, no other author
has a chance of being read ; that for a time the book trade
Is completely paralysed. Fortunately, the stagnation is
not of long continuance. The "Early Years of the Prince
Consort," for instance, was selling second-hand within six
weeks of its publication.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has accepted the
captaincy of the Irish Eight who are to shoot at Wiatble-
Cl.9g &kits ygit/ for the 4teruational Trophy.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF ARCHES.
(Before the Right Hon. Sir Robert Phillhnore,
Dean of Arches.)

MARTIN V. MACIIONOCIIIE.-RITUALISM IN HOLBORN.

Mr. Stephen, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey appeared for
the promoter; and Mr. Prideaux, Q.C., and Dr.
Tristram for the defendant.

The argument in this suit was again resumed
this morning, and is expected to last some time.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STRE F.T.

NUMEROUS HOUSE ROBBERIES.—Joseph Crew, a
lad, described as a costermonger, was charged be-
fore Mr. Knox with stealing a clock, three dresses,
and other articles of the value of £lO, the property
of Mr. James Holloway, house-painter, of No. 46,
Newinau-street, Oxford-street.
Mr. Holloway said that shortly after five o'clock
the previous afternoon, while taking tea in his first
door back room, he thought he heard a noise in the
front-room, and on going out to ascertain the
cause he found the dresses and other articles about
die landing. Hearing footsteps on the stairs he
went down stairs and saw the prisoner go out at
the door and close it after him. On opening the
street door, seeing the prisoner running, he pursued
him, calling " Stop thief," and on the pri-
soner being stopped, and he (\lr. folio -
way) coming up, he said, " What do you want
with me ?" He told the prisoner that he would
tell him when he got back to his house,
and took him back, and then found that several
things had been taken from the front room, and
dropped on the landing, including a cloak, three
dresses, some blankets, and a counterpane.
Iu answer to Mr. Knox, the prosecutor said that
from the time he opened the street door till the pri-
soner was stopped, he never lost sight of him.
Sleeman, 108 E, said that on the prisoner
being given into his custody he said that he knew
nothing about the robbery.
The prisoner said he had no questions to ask.
Sergeant Wheeler, E division, asked for a re-
mand, there having been numerous complaints of
similar offences in the district, and there being rea-
son to believe by
a gang of which the prisoner is a
member.

WESTMINSTER.
SERIOUS CHARGE OF WILFUL, DAMAGE.—JuIia
Alorrissey, an old charwoman, and Ellen Mor-
rissey, her daughter, were charged on an adjourned
warrant, with doing wilful damage to some squares
of glass at the house of Mrs. Chapman, 10, Suther-
land-street, Pimlico.
Mr. Bury Hutchinson prosecuted.
Mrs. Chapman said that the elder prisoner
had been charged with stealing a diamond
pia and pocket 'handkerchief, a few weeks
ago, from my house, and after two remands
had been discharged, as there was no prosecutor.
Last Saturday morning, about ten o'clock, she was
alarmed by a violent ringing at the door bell, and
fearing that it was the prisoner, who had abused
her in the police court, ordered her servant not to
open the door. At this the prisoners became more
violent, and Mrs. Chapman opened the door slightly,
whereupon the younger prisoner put her foot in the
door, took an umbrella away from her mother, and
with this and her fist, as well as a loaf of bread,
she smashed the windows on either side of the door.
They both used filthy and abusive language, and
created a great mob.
Three or four witnesses corroborated Mrs. Chap-
man, and they were all cross-examined by both the
prisoners to show that the pattens and aprons of
the elder prisoner were thrown up the area with
abusive epithets, but they failed to elicit anything in
their favour.

The prisoners wished to call witnesses ; the
younger prisoner said she could plead guilty to the
charge, but it was one under extreme provocation.
They were remanded till Tuesday, their own bail
being accepted.

TAX-GATHERING IN EGYPT.

The following, from a correspondent in Egypt,
,fated Alexandria, Jan. 1, is published in Pall Mall
Gazette:—

" I have just had an interview with a very intel-
ligent man who has been engaged on the Suez
Canal works for sonic time past. He tells me that
the undertaking is evidently pressed for means, and
that the dredging is found to yield unsatisfactory
results. Large stones are turning up under the
mud ; these break the drags, which have then to be
sent away for repairs. I think he said that out of
38 drags between Port Said and Isma'ileh only
eight are actually at work. The water has been let
into the channel too early—the excavation would
have been carried on better without it ; and on the
lakes, in parts, as the soil is dredged out, the pres-
sure from the eastern side raises the bottom
again. My informant stated that in his opinion
it would take twenty years to finish the canal.
. . . There is a limit to all things, and the
Canal Company, having got £8,000,000 sterling
out of Egypt, has had enough, and should not be
allowed still further to cripple the resources
of the Government, the diminution in which is
already working the most serious evils in this coun-
try. What is taking place in the villages to get
money in advance out of the fellahs is atrocious.
No man's denial of want of means is heeded ; his
boxes, if he has any, are searched, and even the
floor of his dwelling is dug up. Flogging is then
tried, and it is only after his failing to produce
money under that infliction that be is given up as
hopeless. The villagers are also being made to give
bonds for recouping the Viceroy those he gave to
the bankers and others on the collapse of the cotton
affairs, in repayment to them of the sums they
alleged to be due to them from the villagers for
money lent. The original debtor, if lie has not
sufficient substance, is disregarded, and his liability
transferred to his village, among the inhabitants
of which the amount is arbitrarily distributed, the
men being flogged if they refuse to seal a bond for
their assigned shares, and kept under the koorbaj
until they consent. With all this Ismail Pasha
is not a mau of courage, and is said to be con-
stantly manifesting signs of apprehensiveness of
what might be the result of the discontent he
is conscious he is creating. He has fixed himself
at a new palace at Gizeh, so as to have
the river between him and the population of
Cairo, and no one with a gun is allowed to crops the
river in that direction. A fortnight ago, also, the
Viceroy, on his road to the Abbadeh, just as he
quitted the town, heard the n ear report of a gun.
Cawasses were instantly sent to search for and bring
the person who had fired it, nor would his highness
believe that he had only been shooting a dove until
the dead bird was also brought.
" M. Mirzan, a broker of this town, on the 23d
of Dec. last issued a printed statement of the debts
of the Government, which, he adds, having pre-
viously submitted to the Minister of Finance for
correction without having been honoured with a re-
ply, he now submits to the public. The total of
the debts, loans and floating, he makes to be
667,850,000fr.—X26,714,000 ; but I have it on
credible authority that the department of the Vice-
roy's Government immediately concerned with his
finances estimated his total liabilities at X 36,000,000.
The month of Kiack (Coptic), 10th of Dec. to 10th
of Jan., is just passing, and no signs of a dividendfrom the 'Azizieh Company, which by the statutes
should be paid in this month.
"January 2.—1 learned this afternoon, through
a channel which to my mind precludes
oy, doubt,
means
al whichi
0
-
such further ciretunstances':o:fle t
are being resorted to under
unhappy co►npelling the
add anothervil'igersno tt
(e)
raiitiynistfeor to his demands, that 1 r
for the sake of exposing such Icohnadsufeati.ledAwsitahltahset
resource, arid when every mesas
men, the wives and other females of the family have
been brought forward and told to produce their
ornaments. No excuse is received. They may allege
that they have already sold them to satisfy former
Government demands, but they are not believed.
They are told that they must have concealed them,
, and are held down by cawagsefi and flogged with a