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

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Deo. 19.—Tne 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 prey, nt time
pretty well maintained. The market improved
towards the close, and left off as follows :-
41 per Cents 94
Do. end month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month..„, 65 ,40
Credit Mobilier..., 930
Do, end month 903 75
Bank Shares 3570
Credit oncier 1225
Roman

Italian Loan 65 40
Do. end month 65 55
Ditto Threes — —.
New Mexican
Russian .. —
Austrian .. BO 50
Spanish Threes 44
Home Debt
Deferred

lIIIL WAYS.
Cash. Account.
846 25 .. 860
997 50 .. 9D5
880 .. 881 26
585 .. 655
610 .. —.—

Orleans. •3
Northern ....
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern ... - ..
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Loir bard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

492 50 .. 492 50
316 25 . 315 -
435 - .. 440 -
605 - 507 50
372 50 372 50
437 50 .. 432 60
- .. 190 -

3.-ATTERN POST TO THE BRITISH COLONIES IN
THE WEST INDIES AND THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS ON
THE WEST COAST OF Antics,.—On the Ist of Jan. next,
and thenceforward, patterns of merchandise may be trans-
mitted by pest between -England and the undermentioned
British colonies in the West Indies, viz.:—Antigua, Baha.
mas, Barbadoes, British Galena, Carriacou, Dominica, Gre-
nada, Honduras, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitt'e, St.
Land the following British settlements on the West Coast of
Aufrciicaa,,Svtiz.N.-,iGncaemnbt,iTa,oGbaogldo,cTooarstteia,;Lagos, Sierra Leone, TheTrinidad,Turks Islands;
following will be the rates of Mtage which must be pre-
pkets of patterns, viz.:—For 4
Ilb, 18—above lib and not exceeding
packet not exceeding 4
84ofozpossntdagenosttaleseding alb, 6d—above alb
chargeable upon such
and
icd3
ndb—oyt
amebxoe
cavenee
ding
lilb, is 61—above and not exceeding 21b, 28—and
every additional alb, 6d. Special attention is directed to
the following rules and regt
ulatiolls, Which will be strictly
enforced t. No packet
feet in length, breadth, or depth Patterns must exceed twu
not be of intrinsic value. This 2d. The patterns must
rule excludes all articles of
a saleable nature, and, indeed, whatever may haves value of
its own, apart from its mere use as a pattern ; and the
quantity of any material, sent ostensibly as a pattern, must
not be
this so
ground, great
nd, that
u be considered as having,
on th
3d. There must be no
writing or printing other that the address of the person
u aniu
intrinsic
it i canaie
v fairlyaue.
for whom the packet is intended, the address of the sender,
a trade mark and numbers, and t prices of the articles.
4th. The patterns must bed
at the ends, so as to be eas sent in covers open
Yof examination, Samples,
however, of seeds, drugs, and ao forth, which cannot bo sent in open covers, may be enclosed in bags of linen, or other material, tied at the
luck; bags so closed that
they cannot be readily Opened) even although they be
transparent, must not be used for this purpose. Non-com^
pliance with either of the foregoin-
s rules will subject a
packet of patterns to be treated and charged as a letter.
In all other respects the regulation_
a of the colonial book
post will apply to the pattern poet with the above colonies.
Under these regulations, in order to prevent any interrupw
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 pom, office is, of course, a
packet containing anything of the kind will be stopped and
pplicable to the pattern post ; and a
not sent to its destination,--By command of the Postmaster
General.

TBAMES ANGLING.--The following informa-
.ion as to the state of the fishery' is from the weekly
reports of the assistant river keepers of the Thames Ang-
ling Preservation Society for the week ending December
15, 1864. From Staines, Fletcher says, "There have been
but few fish of any sort taken this week. One gentleman
tojk six jacks, one weighing 61b. The water still holds
good." Harris reports of Laleham :—" Ihe fish-
ing has been bad. No one comes to fish at Laleham.
The water is in good order for jack and perch." Rose•
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 large as nine
pounds each, and a few perch." From Kingston, John..
son writes, " 1 have got some 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 less every day. The dace
are dropping down to Kew end Mortlake." Erricker says,
" There have not been many anglers out this week at Ted,
dingtor. One gentleman to seven and a-half dozen of
dace in one day, and there have been some more jack
taken under the weir. The :ever is in good fishing
order. Howard, from Rizhmond, gives an account
of several days' takes—one four and a-half dozen
fine dace, another two dozle, and seven roach ranging
from half to one and a half pounds weight; another day
seven dozen of film roach and dace ; another day five and a
half dozen roach and dace, the heaviest roach weighing one
pound and six maces. These have been quantities of fine
dace taken from the bank drily,-7Vire osNrrey Zimos,