The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

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c:IIHME/10/AL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, o'CLooK.
As intimated some days since,Two the Stock Ex.
change has been closed to-day by order of the comft
kittee.
In the general Disount Market there continues to
be a very active demand for money both at the
Bank and in Lombard-street, and 6 per cent, is the
current rate for even the finest paper, although
there is a slight increase in the supply of capital.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have
amounted to £299,900, and the exports to £576,077.
The share certificates of the Baugparah Tea
t states Company will be exchanged for the bankers'
receipts on and after Tuesday CIE Xt,
The directors of the Assam "Company have an-
tounced an interim dividend at the rate of 8 per
cent., payable on the 24th inst.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank
)Yesterday.

A slight downward movement took place in the
foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon.
Messrs T. Travers and Sons, in their weekly cit..
%fiat., make the following remarks on the Money
Market at the close of the year :—" It is remark-
! tibia that, atter all the anxiety and pressure of the
I Year, and the apprehension that was at one time
*Xpressed in several quarters that the worst would
not be witnessed until November and December,
We now find ourselves actually restored to what
may almost be considered a normal position.
The bullion in the Bank is about £lOO,OOO in
egress of its amount at the same date of
1863, and the reserve is stronger by half
.11 million—while, at the same time, there
le the important consideration that the tendency,
tulike that which prevailed last Christmas. is still
towards improvement. But it is not the position
of the Money Market on this side, favourable
though it be, that is the chief cause of congratula-
hon. Twelve months ago the bullion in the Batik
Of France was reduced to a point lower than had
ever been known and with such a fact in view,
there could be no hope of money remaining even in
moderate supply in London. Now the bullion in
the Bank of France is double the amount at which
It then stood, and the rate of discount at that
establishment was accordingly reduced on
Thursday to 4i per cent., a state of ease not
experienced at any time within the past year and
4 quarter. In London the rate still remains at 6
Per cent., and no expectation is entertained that
sty fresh reduction will be adopted until the be-
ginning of the year, but unless some wholly
tulooked4or change of tone should occur in the
Interval, there seems every probability that a return
to 6 per cent. may then be temporarily witnessed.
Whether during the year 1865 any continuance of
moderate rates can be looked for is a point that will
be regarded with much doubt."
The following is Messrs Mecatta and Goldsmid's
liet of the latest prices of bullion :—Bar gold,
17e 9d per cz standard; do Parting, 77s 11d;
doubloons, Spanish, 74s to 75s per oz; do Mexican
end South American, 73s 9d to 745; United States
eagles, 76s 211 to 3d; bar silver, 5s lid to Id per
3t standard, nothing doing; do,:containing 5 grains
°f gold and upwards, Se lid; Mexican dollars
6301 d per oz, last price.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.

YESTERDAY.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Der Cent. Consols
,uo Account, Jan. 10
Per Cent. Reduced BSt a
Veld 3 per Cent. BBl /
8W 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894... . —
, Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 —
'marmites, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 —
U 0 for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 -
k 00 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
Xhequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4:per Cent par 3 pni
Do £6OO .. -
Do £lOO and £2OO
Sank England Stk, 5i per Ct. —
0 Account..
I INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ritlia Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 Shut
Lo Account
Do 6 per Cent. July, 1670 ....
0 3 Account .
Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 —
Do 61 per Cent.' May, 1879 ..
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866
Du Bondekl,ooo --•
00 under £1,000..

A FOREIGN FUN DS--CLOSING PRICES
atria nOD per :.azilian 5 per Cent •• • —
•uo 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ..... -
it Do 1863 .. 83
-4enos Ayres 6 per Cent
1:?'° Account.... , —
elliau 6 per Cent. —
elorabian 6 per Cent —
4130., 6 per Cent.
12-'0 6 per Cent, 1864
-‘4.,,ish 3 per Cent.' 1825
1150 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — pm
Ilslador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.,
1/4 0, Provisonal Land Warrant..
tptian 7 per Cent • 951 6
ho, Second Issue
"0 £IOU Bonds
1, Do 1864 .. 94/ 6
Vo. S.crip, £l5 paid , _
i;ek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.,
,`-'0 Account ......... .... 231
4j° Coupon®
D
4 e Account —
I,lsaternala 5 per Cent.
(t.",.0 1839 and 1859
Vuan 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway;
elican 3 per Cent ....
b 0 Account
PDo 1864..
o 6 per Cent. Anglo-French die
~10 Scrip, 453 paid....
lktio Prznoh Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis x d
4,, °/t3h Imperial 5 per Cent
'4v Granada
13,0 2 per Cent. ..
~`;'o Deferred
"„0 Land Warrants (Hectares) ..
D 0 Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861..
kik Do do Aug., 1866....
Iruvian 41 per Cent ..
1)0 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — •
DOh 41 per Cent., 1862
1,,,",0 Account.... —
"rEagliese 3 per Cent., 1863
D. •••
DO3
Account —
."`° 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 —
BDO Account 4Bl 71
Lo 4}
.5 perent., C CentlBso . . 871 1822, £ St., BB/
7
1) 0
"0 41 per
1860 —
D 0 3
Dper Cent
en 1859 —
° 5 per Ct, 1862
0
1864.... —
881
D
kt 0 Scrip, £65 paid
htdinian 5 per Cent
(V° Account
riapish 3 per Cent ..... —
° Account
i',o° New Deferred
',' Account
s.,'o Passive
V° Account 321 a a
,
Voli Cert. of Coup not funded —
1,,
edish Account
e
ttl 4 per Cent. —
tish 6 per Cent. 1864
L° Account
000 Iper Cent... 1858
D7olmount
0 £lOO Bonds
D ° 6 per Cent. 1862
D° Account
ti° £lOO Bonds... 721 /
ho 6 per Cent. 1862 .. —
',,,"'„° Guaranteed, 4 per C0nt.....
ieluela 3 per Cent.
1)0 Account -
D° 6 per Cent., 1862
11 Account
b° 6 p Cent., 1864
° 4 per Cent
,k 4 Dividends on the above payable in London
,4%tittlan, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins.
°i4lll 4} per Cent., Ex, 25f... —
1:),.,"..21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil —
t. "% Per Cent. Certificates
ti.,*lch A
•All - ...ewes, 3 per Cent ........
el, 5 per Cent 1861 Ex. 25 francs..
0 A, '9 '
,0,..., count • 641
,Nrian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
*altos°, 6 per Cent., Ex. 26f
,1
THREE O'CLOCK.
11401
I)„ lel Money.
' 'Lccouw... ........
1 4.

I‘4),4TAL ACCIDENT IN A CHAPEL.—On Thursday
(!lest was held in Myddelton-street, Clerkenwell,
ilkillody of Mr Samuel Harris, aged 61 years, a master
4! end undertaker, who lost his life whilst engaged in
I;''',le a Cistern at Woodbridge Independent Chapel
41, :11°41.Ythought the trustees of the chapel were to blame
LtEtietwing. such a ladder to b 3 in use. They returned a
of "Accidental death." The coroner ordered the
ILA to be destroyed.
7,43, igtfALE HERO.--An octogenarian named
"N'tPerriog, has died at Burnham. The old lady was
etql, doh her first husband at the battle of Trafalgar,
of fie n exterminated the navies of France and Spain.
kitll4tlQ•eritly recounted many of the most stirring events
1,t4 14 Period, and was never tired of telling that she
4te the blood from the shirt which
the gallant admiral
4'41 he received his fatal wound.

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