The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1868.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

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Closing Business
Share NAII3, Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 111 121 121 12
10 Do B lO 6 6
60 Albion l5 6 4
100 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian; lim all 17 1 i 171
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 IS
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 6 ... ...
26 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
26 Bank of South Australia all 11 13
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 17 MO
10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 19
40 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, and China all 20 21
26 Chartered Mere. of India,
Loudon, and China all 291 301 30
20 City 1 i 11 12
100 Colonial 25 40 41
10 Consolidated, Jim.
60 Delhi and London, lint
50 East London, lim 6 11 Oy
20 English and American, lim 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio dig Ja-
neiro. lim lO ld pr
20 English, .!.eottish, and Aus
tralian Chartered
281 How, Kong and Shanghai
Balk Corporation all .. ...
231 Do new ii i i
100 Imperial, Um 2O 17 13
20 Imperial Ott,hn to lit 1 1 113 1 1
_5 lonian all 27 20
25 Do new 5 pr 1p
z 0 Lnd Mortgage of India, lim 4 3: 31
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB64, 20 all 76 78 02
30 London Bank of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 9 7 121
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 48 3, 31
20 Do new 71 61 51
100 London & River Plate, lim. 40 7 9
25 Do new 10 11 11
20 London Chart. of Australia all 221 231
50 London and County 2O 30 41
20 Do new. iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ... ...
40 London Joint Stock 1 35 16 351
20 London and liouth African al 11 12
100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 ... ...
50 London & Venezuela, lim l2l .. ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 651 661 881 4
100 Do Scrip, its at 10 pm 2l 621 8 1 63
100 Merchant, lim 26 7 5
10 Metropolitan, lim all 61 71
100 Midland, lim 2l Id pr
4 National of Australia
25 National ol' Liverpool, Jim l6 ... ...
100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do . 42 ... ...
10 National. ll 44 56
20 New South Wales all 42 44
20 North-Western 7l
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 421 411 421
60 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim. 11 6 51 41 1
100 Provincial of Ireland 25 91 13
10 Do new, all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 14 12
100 Do issued at 6 pm. 11 ... ...
25 Union of Australia all 48 49
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of Loudon lb 17 31 381

THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.

A very large audience listened on Tuesday, at the
Brighton Pavilion, to Miss Faitbfull's views c n this
important subject. After saying that she did not
appear as the representative of any organised move-
ment, but solely on her own responsibility, Miss
Faithfull described the unfit occupations in which
women are engaged, and dwelt with earnestness on
the necessity of opening fresh channels and remunerating
their work on a scale which would permit them to live
in decency if not in comfort. In demanding for
women of a higher class fair chances of livelihood, Miss
Faithfull regretted that people had not yet learnt to
follow the advice given by Lady Morgan years ago,
though an admirable example had been set by our Royal
Family. If parents would only learn to teach their
daughters all things in moderation, but one thing in per-
fection—whatever they spew a special talent for—drawing,
music, embroidery, housekeeping—even anything which
would enable a girl to feel it would carry her through life
without dependencies, the coming generation might be saved
the evils the present one'was enduring. After touchirg
upon the franchise and the proposed amendment in the
marriage laws, with a moderation and liberality of treat•
ment which secured a respectful hearing, Miss Faithfull
deprecated the present condition of girls' schools, and urged
the higher education of women, and their admittance to
many sources of mental and moral development from
which they are now excluded. The lecture was grave and
logical, and exceedingly well delivered. Miss Faithful'
has the advantage of a peculiarly clear, full, and well-
modulated voice, and her quiet yet earnest manner at
once arrested the attention of her audience, who testified
their sympathy with frequent applause.

THE GRIEVANCES OF IRISH TEACHERS.

A deputation from the Dublin branch of the Irish
Teachers' Association has waited upon Sir Arthur Guinness,
Bart., M.P., at Dublin, to lay before him a statement of
their grievances. The several members of the deputation
spoke at some length, and pleaded their cause with all the
characteristic eloquence and energy of their nation. Their
chief causes of complaint are the insufficiency of salaries,
the want of retiring pensions, and the system of payment,
by results ofwhich they complain most bitterly of all. The
salaries now paid the Irish National teachers are miserably
small. They commence at £lB per annum, and after many
years culminate at £52, but it is only one teacher in 80 who
reaches that amount. When this scale was fixed the neces-
saries of life were not half their present price, and it is no
wonder that many young men who receive third-class cer-
tificates, entitling them to £lB a year, gladly leave their
profession for clerkships of £6O or £7O, especially as these
often offer a prospect of substantial" advancement. The
delegates pointed out that the natural result of this insuffi-
cient remuneration would be to deter young men of ability
from devoting their lives to popular education. The
second cause of complaint was the total absence
of all provision for the future. The demands
of the teachers are very moderate. They ask only to be
placed on a level with the other branches of the civil service,
and declare themselves willing, if their salaries are increased,
to be allowed a percentage to be deducted from them for the
pensions fund. The inspectors of schools have, year after
year, urged this claim upon the commissioners. Their work
is laborious and incessant, and after many years devoted to
the public service they have surely an even greater claim
than other servants of the State to an honourable provision
for their latter days. The proposed system of payment by
results it is felt will be a serious hardship to the
teacher, because of the irregular attendance of the
scholars and other causes over which he has no con-
trol. The Irish schoolmaster has no fixed salary, except
that paid by the State ; the amount received from all other
sources is only about £7 per Echool, and even then is not
certain. If the expected system of payments by results is
introduced every child, for whose instructicn the teacher
receives any State allowance, must make a given number of
attendances and satisfy the inspector in the school pro-
gramme. Out of a school with 40 children, a very numerous
class in Ireland, not more than 20 could be sent for examina-
tion, the youth and backwardness of the children and the
irregularity of their attendance keeping back the other 20.
For these the State will not pay, the parents cannot, and the
teacher is consequently to lose his remuneration. In Eng-
land, where the system of payment for results has been tried,
the schoolmaster has always a fixed salary from local sources
and generally a house rent free. In England, however, the
average daily attendance is about 90 per school ; in Ireland
it is considerably under 50. The teacher of a large school
in Dublin gave the result of his experience during the last
six years. From January, 1862, to the present month,
2,000 pupils had been admitted, giving an average
of 335 per annum. Of these 335 bays in each year, not
fifty made the required number of attendances, so that for
the remaining 285 who probably would have given the
teacher most trou'tle ou accimut of their irregularity, he
would get no allowance whatever. Sir Arthur Guiuness,
after listening with interest to the statem etts of the depu-
tation, expressed his full acconlance in their views. lit
thought that in Ireland the introduction of the system of
payment by results would be most unfair and injurious.
while he had no hesitation in declaring the present rate of
salaries to be miserably insuffijeut, and in supporting the
justice of their claim as vain able public servants t) an ade-
quate provision for their old ago. No doubt now that they
Lave been thus plainly and forcibly stated nese grievances
will be further inquired into.