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

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENT \IG, JANUARY 17, 18E8,

SHARE LlST.—This Day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Amer Railways. i paid./ Clporisoein.g Budasinne.ess
,Brietol and Exeter ...: 100 54 86
at 'Caledonian . 100 731 741 758 i 4/ 5
st Cambrian. lOO 20 30
- Cork and Bandon...-. - - -
20 Cornwall all 2 4
at Dublin & Belfast June lOO 748 758
st Dun„Perth,& Ab.Junc 'loo 70 72
100 E.London, bcrip Corti all - -
Do. 100 - d
st Glasgow &S. Western 100 93 95
at Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 100 294 291 291 1
at Do. 10. Angl. at. No. 2 100 6
st Great North of Scotland 100 15 16
at Great Northern lOO 106 'O7 100,
at Do. A stook .... 100 107 108 103
at Do. .B stock lOO 1228 123
at Do. New, ts. at 25 pm 100 - -
at GtS, and W. of Ireland 100 96 98
at Gt. Western -Original ILO 45 458,471 1
at Do. S. Val. Rail. gua. 100 - -
at Do. South Wales - -
at Do. W. Mid.-Oxford 100 25 30
st Do. Newport lOO 29 31
at Do. Rercford lOO - -
at Lancashire ez Yorkshirvi 100 123 121 121 4
st London and Illackwall! 100 - -
at ;Lon., Brigh., S Coast; 100 474 474 41
st I•on., Chat., and Dover! 100 18 19 151 4
at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO - - •
at Lon. & North Wester, 100 114 115. 1143
at Lon. & South Western 100 76 78 774
at Man., Shel., do Lincoln 100 41 144
at Aetropolitan...,
at Do. New lO - -
st Do. Extension all 102 103 1038
at Metropolitan District all • -- -
10 Do. do. do. 10 - -
10 Do. and St. John'aW'd 6 - -
at Midland
- Do. £9 Share 7 - -
st Do, Birrnin.. & Derby 100 72 74
- I.lid Kent . all - -
at North British ...... 100 33 35
st Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. 100 -
Nth. Eastern--Berwick 100 98 99 100
25 Do. G.:•1•E purohas, 15.13.4 - -
at Do. Leads ..... 100 59 61
at Do. York lOO 91 94 921
at DG. Carlisle ...... 100 - -
a t Do. Stook. & Darling, all 129 131 129
16 Do. do. 1800-61 lB - p
it North London
Do. do. 186 t 5 . . lO - -
.0 Do. do. 1866
it North Staffordshire
'N, & S. W. Junction
- Scottish Central -
Scot. N. E , Aber. stock, 100 -
Do. Scot, Mid. at ook - -
t Shropshire Union
s t South Devon lOO 42 (4
at South Eastern
10 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 84 9)
at Taff Vale
10 Do. C - -
V ale of Neath - - _
- Waterford & Kilkenny tOu
10 Waterloo & Whiteha i 6 - -
West Cornwall lOO - -

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
;British Columbia, 6 per'
cent., De 0.31, 1372... ! 100
- 'Oan.Gov.6
1877-84 ' 100 98 KG 991
Do. 6p. o. Feb. & Aug 1,0 100 1021
!Do. sp. o. Mar. & Sept 100 100 102
Do. sp. c. Jan. & July; 100 86 88 E 5/
!Do. sp. c. Inscribed ski 100 85 87
;Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c.1873 100 102 104
Do.Apl.&oo , 1890-1900 100 106 108
Do. do 1880-9 v 100 104 1(6
Do. Jan.&July, 1890.91 100 107 109
Do. 5 per cent. 15 April
and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 85 i 7
Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.ii 100
Do. 1878, do lOO 11) 1104
Mauritius, 6 p. o, 1873,
Jan. and July
Do. 1878 ... lOO 106 108
Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. t 5 100 105 107
Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 107 109
Natal goy. 6 per cent lOO 1(4 106
N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July 100 IC3 105
N. S.W. Gov.s p•c.,1866 100 -
- Do. 5 p.c. 1811 to 18Th 100 98 90
Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1895 100 974 934 so 6
New Zealan p. cent 100 - 10
Do. 5 per ced, 6
nt....
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o
sterling, 1875 l9O 1(2 104
,Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 lts 102
rB. Aus.Gov. 6 p. 0.1868-9 100 -
- Do. 1878 & upwards lOO 110 111
Vic,Gov. 6 p.o. ja.& July 100
Do. do. April & Oot lOO 110 112 1114 11
-

BRITISH "'OBSESSIONS.
•
100 Atlantic & St.Lawrenoe all 63 65
et; Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln.
100 IC4 105
gu. 6 per cent... .
20 Do. F ahares lO p IP
201 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 31 4
10 Do. Preference
100 100 88 71
Butf.,Brant,&Goderich
1 6 p.o. 1872-3-4
at Calcutta &S. E., lim lOO - -
:001 jOaemPeeTraorwa,n7itp.Dc.wpker%gpu; 1:101 9198 16522
at Nast. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 103 164
at East Indian, gu. 5 p.o. 100 110 1104 1081 9
20 Do. J Extension - -
at GrandTrunkof Canada 100 17 18
100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds
1 charge 6 p.c all 83 85
100 Do. lst Pref. Bonds all Si, 52
100 Do. do deferred - -
100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds., all 40 45
100 Du. do. deterred - -
100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 32 34
100 Do. do. deferred -
100 Do. 4th Pref. stook
100 Do. do. deterred all - -
st India I'en. gua. sp.c. 100 107 108 108 71 8 n
1) o. (.1 ua. 5 per cent lB - 2Pi
20 Do. New crua. sp. c 6 - 2
at t. South of lndla
gas. 5 per cent . .
at D. 41 per oent too 92 91
at Do 2 -
204 ;rcat Wes. of Canada all 151 154 164 *
204 1)o. New all - --
WO Do. 6p. o 11Gs. pay. 1873 all 95 97
100 00. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 1 all 85 67
10 Indian Branch, limited 3 I 1,1
at Madras, gua. 5 p.O 100 100 102 HIE I
st Do. 41 do lOO 93 95
at Do. i 1 do 1 100 89 91
2') Do. Fifth Extension 5 -
tlelb. Cor 6p. c. 13nds.1 100 - -
50 Niel. & Hobson's Bay.. i all - -
at N.lll.C'da,6pc lstpf.taa ' 100 83 85
st Sainde . 1 100 leo 101
st Do. Delhi
20 Do. do . 1 4,1 15 P
at Do. Puniaub.... 100 99 100 1(01
at , Do. Indus St.Flot 5", 100 85 87
BRITISH. MINES.
Cam. Conaol. Gold, lira. 1 -
- Chiverton
- Clifford Amalgamated 3O 54 64
- Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 440 430
- rakevralls 2.1.0 4
- sat Bassett (illogan) 294 10 12
- Jsat Caradon 2.14.6 6 6
Carn Brea 34 2 21
- -
East Grenville .... 2.14.0 1 2
- East Gunnislake 8.3.0 4 4
- East Lovell 3.9.0 8 9
- Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 14 2
- Gam& StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 5
4 Great Laxey, limited all 17 18
- Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 -
- Great Wheal Bosy 14.9.0 -
- G. Wheal Vor (11elat,q) 40 17 19
- Grenville 9.0.6 11 14
- eaharrrc;.Bat`rosenti
iot)uootlnv
264 2iif
- Macke Valley 14.10.6 4f 51
4 liwyndy Iron Ore, urn 34 21 11
- ,ae•tv S ton
- North loskear 1 381 5 7
- N.Wh Bassettailogan 4.1.0 -
- North vVheal Crotty 2.13.0 2 3
- Prosper United , 8.11.0 2 24
t'ruvidence Uny Lelau 10.6.; 29 St
- S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 190 410
South Coudurrow
S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.0 374 421
- stray Park 135.15.6 4 8
rin Croft Yn 8
Lela u t 1853:
.110: °Go 35 37
1) 13 14
Vigra and Clogan, lim all -
- West Bassett (Illogau l4 1i
W. Caradon (Ltakeard' 12 10 12
WestChiverton ll 66 68
-- West Seton 474 195 205
Wheal Bassett (Mogan 51 85 95
Wheal Buller (itedruthl 16 16 le
- Wheal Mary Ann (Alen 8 18 20
Wheal Seton
Wheal Trelawney (Lis I 5.17.0 6 8

fILEFERENcE sa4REs.
Great Western, 5 per cent., rd., 81
laid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stook,
Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent.,
Ditto, 4i per cent. rd., 95
YOREJ GN RAILWAyr.
Great Luxembourg, 8i
San Paulo, litn., gua. 6 per cent., lBi
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 13a

FOREIGN MINKB,
Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, :Um,
Von Pedro, Nor. ii Del Rey, 3
pm
Frontino and isolivia Gold. Um.,
St John del Rey, lim , 32l 2
Yudanamutana of South Australia, lien 1 1-la

DOCKS.

East and West India, 124

BANES.

Alliance, Um., t 3
Australasia, 611
British North American, 481
Consolidated, lira., 41
Imperial Ottoman, 81
London Chartered isanK of Australia, 23
London and County, 521
London Joint Stock, 331
London and %% estminster, 71/

Ditto, Scrip, 391
Merchant Bank, liin., 141
Union of Australia, 491
Union of London, 331 3

MISCELLANICOBB.
Anglo American Telegraph, 2O
Atlantic Telegraph, 454 5
Corporation of London Bonds, 18 2, 41 per Cent , 1011
Credit teoncier of England, Dm, 31
Ebbw Vale, 114
East India Irrigation and Canal, 131
Egyptian 9 per Cent, Viceroy Loan, gua.'by Egypt. Qoyt. 90
Gen. Credit and Discount, iim., 5 7-16
Hudson's Bay,
Internatibnal Financial Society, lim., 3
National Discount i.,oinpany, 101
Ocean marine Insurance), 24
Oriental Gas, lira.,
Thames and Mereey Marine, Insurance, lim., 94
Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan, 79

COURSE `4oki EXOIJANGE.—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 18 11 19
Ditto 3 Mouths. 12 01 12 Or
Rotterdam
Antwerp —2 Z 25 371
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 9-41 13 ofi
Paris ... Short 25 121 25 221
Ditto 3 Months. 25 30 25 35 .
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 124 1201
Vienna — 12 171 l2 32j
Trieste — 12 3U 12 35
Petersbui-gn - 313 32
Berlin
Madrid . — 481 481
•
Cadiz —48 i
Loghorn
Milan.

41ETROPOLITAN GOSSZR.

Politicians are beginning to sliew signs of life again now
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 programtne. 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 be 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 he 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 subjecta 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-
sented 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 lumber, 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 3L 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 chivalrously 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 upon 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 are the really
deserving poor, and it is these who ought to be helped.
Why can we not do in London as was clone 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 atoms 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 leo-crust. Truly, self-government is a wonderful
thing, and London is a wonderful city, whose people are
breaking their legs .at the \Vest-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 ct 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 is nothing but British flunkeyism which
makes people read gossip that corning from anybody else
would have found no admission even into a fifth-rate
magazine. Perhaps there is a little professional jealousy
at the bottom of this criticism. Publishers and authors
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 Wimple-
-4°14 114 YcHf9.; the Piteruatioluil Tronlay.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

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

MARTIN V. MACHONOCHIE.-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-STREET.

NUMEROUS lIOUSE 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,
Newman-street, Oxford-street.
Mr. Holloway said that shortly after five o'clock
the previous afternoon, while taking tea in his first
floor back room, he thought he heard a noise in the
front-room, and on going oat to ascertain the
cause he found the dresses and other articles about
the 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 ho (Nlr. Hollo-
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.
In answer to AIL 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.
Wm. 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-
smoenmtboer.believe by a gang of which the prisoner is a

WESTMINSTER.
SERIOUS CHARGE OF WILFUL DAMAGE.—JuIia
Morrissey, 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
pin 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 patters 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.