The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. 19.—Tae market has been firm,
and with a fair amount of business doing. Threes.
for the Account, are unvaried at 65f. 30c. Mo-
bilier shows a slight improvement, being now at
927 f. 50c. R tilway Market rather quiet, but with
the closing rates of Saturday up to the present time
pretty well maintained. The markbt improved
towards the close, and left off as. follows :

11 per Cents. .. 94 'ltalian Loan 65 40
Do. end Do. end month 65 55

3 per Cents -
Do. end month.... 65" 40 New Mexican 51
redit Mobilier.... 930 Russian
Do. end month.... 903 75 Austrian ..
Bank Shares 3570 Spanish Threes.,.. 44
Credit I oncier 1225 Debt
Roman

HAIL WAIN.
Cash. Account,
Orleans 846 25 ~ 850
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 880 .. 881 25
Southern 585 .. 585
Western
Eastern .... 492 50
.. 492 50
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Lotrbard
North of Spain
Saragossa 437 50 .. 432 60
Ditto to Barcelona -
.. 190

PATTERN POST TO THE BRITISH COLONIES IN
THE WEST INDIES AND THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS ON
THE
—Oll the Ist of Jan. next,
and
patternsoF AFRICA.—pa
mitted by post between England and the undermentioned
st
of
tamhandise may be trans-
. merchandise
British colonies in the West Indies, riz,—Antigua, Baha•
max, Barbadoes, British Guiana, Carriacou, Dominica, Gre-
nada, Honduras, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitt's, St.
Lucia, St.Vincent,Tobago, Tortola,Trinidad,Turks Islands;
and the following British settlements on the West Coast of
Africa, viz., Gambia, Gold Coast, Lagos, Sierra Leone, The
following will be the rates of postage which must be pre-
paid by means of postage stamps, chargeable upon such
packets of patterns, viz.:—Fur a Packet
not
exceeding 4
oz, 3d—above 4 oz and not exceeding ilb, 6d—above ilb
and not exceeding Ilb, is—above llb and not exceeding
lilb, is 6 I—above lilb and sot exceeding 21b, 2s—and
every additional i lb, 6d. Special attention is directed to
the following rules and regulations, which will be strictly
enforced :-Ist. No packet of patterns must exceed two
feet in length, breadth, or depth. 2d, The patterns must
not bo of intrinsic value. This rule excludes all articles of
a saleable nature, and, indeed, whatever may have a value of
its own, apart from its mere 11,18 as a
pattern ; and the
quantity of any material, sent ostensibly as a pattern, must
nut be so great that it can fairly be considered as having,
on this ground, an intrinsic value. 3d, There must be no
writing or printing other that the address of the person
for whom the packet is intended, the
address of the sender,
a trade mark and numbers, and the prices of the articles.
4th. The patterns must be sent in covers open
at the ends, so as to be easy of examination. Samples,
however, of seeds, drugs, and so forth, which cannot be
sent in open covers, may be enclosed in bags of linen,
or other material, tied at the neck; bags so closed that
they cannot ba readily opened, even although they be
transparent, must not be used for this purpose. Non-com-
pliance with either of the foregoing rules will subject a
packet of patterns to be treated and charged as a letter.
In all other respects the regulations of the colonial book
post will apply to the pattern post with the above colonies.
Under these regulations, in order to prevent any interrup-
tion to the regular transmission of letters, a packet of pat-
terns may, when it is necessary, be kept back for 24 hours
beyond the time when, in the ordinary course, it would be
forwarded. N.B.—The rule which forbids the transmission
through the post of any article likely to injure the contents
of the mail bags or the person,Of any officer of the post-
office is, of course, applicable to the pattern post ; and a
packet containing anything of the kind will be stopped and
not sent to its destination,--h1
command- of the Postmaster
General.

THAMES ANGLING,—
The following
Stationinforma-
as to the state of the fishery is from the weekly
reports of the assistant river keepers of the Thames Ang•
15, 1864. From ling Preservation Society tor the week ending December
15, 1864. From StainoB
but few fish of any sort taken this week. One gentleman
to.)k six jacks, one weighing 61b. The water still holds
, Fletcher says, "There have been
good." Harris reports of Lalehaui :—" The fish-
iug has been bad. No one comes to fish at Laleham.
The water is in good order for jack and perch." Ron •
well observes, "I have seen two or three brace of very fine
trout lying in holes spawning, There have been some
very good jack taken in Walton-sale this last week. Roach
fishing is very bad. Smith says, "There have been some
very good jack caught in Hampton-preserve as largo as nine
pounds each, and a few perch," From Kingston, John-
son writes, " 1 have got emu good roach with one gentle-
man, and with another gentleman a jack of twelve and a
half pounds weight. This is all the fishing I have had this
week. The water alters more or lees every day. The dace
are dropping down to Kew,and Mortlake." Errieker says,
" There have not been many anglers out this week at Ted-
dington. One gentleman took seven and a-half dozen of
dace in one day, and there have been some more jack
taken under the weir. The r.ver is in good fishing
order. Howard, from Richmond, gives an account
of several days' takes—.one four and a-half dozen,
fine dace, another two doen, and seven roach ranging
from half to one and a half pounds weight ; another day
seven dozen of fine roach and dace ; another day five and a
half dozen roach and dace, the heaviest roach weighing one
pound and six ounces. There have been quantities of fine
dace taken from the bank dttily,— Wist Surrey 2'fines,