The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-04 00:00:00

A decided decline has taken place it the value
of the principal speculative Foreign Stocks, and
there are very few operations. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1862, are 671 681 ; do. Consolides, 471 ; Mexican,
354 s ; Greek, 23 1 ; Spanish Passive, 33f 34};
do. Certificates, 14 14; Portuguese, 47.1 ; and
the Confederate Loan, 37 39.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been very limited, and prices have, in most in-
stances, shown a downward movement. North
Eastern (Berwick) have receded ss. ; Great Wes-
tern, Brighton, North Western, Metropolitan, and
South Eastern 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
been neglected, and remain nominally without
change of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been in
moderate request, but prices have in most instances
sympathised with the heavy tone in Consols. Lon-
don and Brazilian have declined to 54, Oriental
Bank to 571, Alliance Bank to 461. West India
and Pacific Steam are quoted 2 to 21 prem. ;
National
Shipping Company, to 1 prem.; Con-
tract Corporation, 21 3 prem. ; and Foreign Con-
tract, 21 21 prem,

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Rank Stock
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
Ditto Account.,.,,,, 91 903
90i 1 903
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
yi 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 74t
Aew 3i per Cent. Annuities
P" Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873
unnities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
IDitto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908.
,
-4"leclller Bills, £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per Cent. 2 7 dis
Ditto £5OO ..
Ditto Small
India Stock, 1874
Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 4 per Cent
Ditto ditto April, 1864 99}
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
_ _

Ditto Bonds £l.OOO —
Ditto under £l,OOO 3 pm
:dank Stock for Account
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....-
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto 1863 ..
Ditto Scrip, 1863, £45 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd
Cuba, 6 per Cont.
unilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 4} per Cent, —
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 ,.. --
Dutch, 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders ..
Ditto, £lOO Bonds —
Equador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent l3/
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
-,
zgyptian 7 per Cent —
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account -
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account —
Italian 5 per Cent. (Alaremmana Railway) 77 81
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 361 k I St
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada l3l
Ditto 2 per Cent. —
Ditto Deterred —
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
..., Ditto 3 per Cent.
rerilvian 3per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 4} per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Piedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Portuguese 3
per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account..
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
Ditto Account . • • •
Ditto, 1863
Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid — pm
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 . 851
Ditto 1860

Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 ..
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 —
Sardinian,s per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 521
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account ..
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 34 k
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Ditto Account . l4 13!
Swedish, 4 per Cent ..
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds 6Bl 71
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 —
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent ....
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
iJitto Account 23A
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
Belgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
toutch2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 4} per Cent., Ex. 25f —
oitto Account.... —
• Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Bs. 31. paid — pm
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs..
Ditto Accounl... ....

TWO O'CLOCK
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0!.3 ols Money
i'-h!tto Account
91 01
--itto Feb
I

li7erpool Cotton Market—This Day,

. Market very strong, and large attendance of
_l3.llYers. Probable sales, 15,000 bales. All quota,
tions
, Will be higher. Market not yet developed
"1111 Port, 3,227 bales.

•
Cla Thursday Professor Tyndall delivered the
third of his Christmas course of lectures at the Royal
Institution. Having in the two previous lectures illustrated
and explained the phenomena of electrical attraction and
repulsion, and the induction of electricity in bodies at a dis-
le from the excited electric, he yesterday proceeded to
consider the excitement of electricity in larger quantities
an can be produced by rubbing rods of glass or sulphur,
and its condensation in the Leyden jar. For this purpose a
more complicated form of apparatus was necessary, and the
Dovverful electrical machines and batteries of the Royal In-
stitution were brought into operation.