The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-27 00:00:00

ivIONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Money Market continues exceedingly quiet,
and no alteration is perceptible in the rates charged
by brokers for accommodation on the best bills.
Capitalists evince no inclination to take securities
under the Bank rate for a longer period than the re-
maining days of the month.
The interest due on Ist January next on the de-
bentures of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay
Railway will be paid by the Alliance Bank Limited
on and after that date.
An amount representing £147,000 in gold was
withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for shipment to
the continent.

Two o'C LOCK.
According to Reuter's telegram the French
Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68c. 17c.
All securities offered.
The English Stock Market has been dull and de-
pressed, very little business is in course of negotia-
tion, and there is not much likelihood of any active 1,
resumption of dealing till after the present account
has been arranged. Consols are at a decline of 1,
the quotations being 871 for money, and 871 1 for
the account. The New Threes and Reduced
Annuities are 861 1 87 ; India 5 per Cents., 1021 1 ;
ditto 5 per Cent. Enf aced Paper, 1011.
In the Foreign Stock Market sales have predo-
minated, and quotations are generally lower.
Turkish 5 per Cents. are 1 lower, at 421 ; Mexi-
can ex all Bonds, 1, at 24 11; New, 221 ; Greek
are 151 16 ; Spanish Passive, 271 1 ; ditto Certifi-
cates, 14/ 151 ; Italian, 641 61; and the Confede-
rate Loan, 7 8.
American Securities are also depressed. United
States 5.20 Bonds are 64! 8 ; Erie shares, 571 1 ;
and Illinois, 801 1.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
exceedingly dull, and several of the principal lines
are a shade flatter. Great Eastern, Great Western,
Metropolitan, and South Eastern have each receded
55., and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North Wes-
tern, each 155..
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there
is little change of importance. Dutch Rhenish are
steady, and Grand Trunk of Canada flat at 344 35.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally remain
very quiet. London and County are marked 791 ;
Alliance, 291 1; Credit Foncier and Mobilier, 81 1 ;
General Credit and Finance, 61 1 ; and Overend,
Gurney, and Co. at 211 ; Charles Lafitte and Cora-
pany shares are quoted 31 31 prem. ; London i(
Steam Towing Company, 11 2 prem. ; Atlantic and 11
Great Western Railway Mortgage Bonds, scrip,
1 11 prem. ; English and American Bank, 221 v
prem. ; and British Commercial Bonds of Mexico,
65 70.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Jan. 9
3 per Cent. Reduced B64i 7 7
64
New 3 per Cent 1
New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. — dis
Do. £5OO — dis
Do £lOO and £200
Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent
Do Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 104 per Cent., AprillB74 Shut
Do Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
D0..54 per Cent., May 1879
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 984
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO —
Do. under £1 000 — pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 44-per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 1865 —
Do. Scrip, £25 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do. account —
Do 1 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Chilian 44 per Cent
Do. 3 per Cent —
Colombian 6 per Cent. —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do. 4 per Cent., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid —
Danubian Principalities
Do Account —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant
Egyptian 7 per Cent 924 3
1)o., Second Issue —
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do. 1864 914

Do .£lOO Bonds
Greek 5 per Cents., 1821-5, en Coupons
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Civatemala 5 per Cent.
Do XB6 paid
Do. 1839 and 1850
Itslian 5 per Cent, 1865
Do. Account
Do. Maremmana Railway 6B*
Do Scrip, £67* paid
Do 5 per Cent., 1864
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Dn 1864

~.. 24/ /

Do 6per Cent. Anglo-French —
Do'French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c —
Kontevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 2 per Cent —
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 —
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent —
Peruvian 4i. per Cent
.._

Do. Ac,count
Do Scrip, .£45 paid, paid in Bonds
Do 3yer Cent. (Uribarren)

Do 41. per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 46f

Do. Account —
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9O
Do. 4i. per Cent. 1850
Do 4i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pei Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 BBf
Do 5 per Cent. 1861 —
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto account —
Do New Deferred —
Do Account
Do Passive 27i
Do Account —
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded l5 14i

Do Account —
Swedish 4 per Cent.
Do 4i per Cent. 1864

Turkish d per Cent. 1854
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858

Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1 per Cent

Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 72 i
Do 6 per Cent., 1863
Do 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Scrip, £35 paid
Do Account
Do £lO Bands
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed 99/
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in Lon(len.
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for money
Do. Ao3ount,

THE NEW ASTRA. LA.MT.—VaTious contrivances
in the arrangement of lamps for the consumption
of mineral oils have already been made, and some of
them locked upon as perfoct, but that conclusion has been
entirely set aside by the latest production by the eminent
firm of Defries, whose name has now become so well
known throughout the world. A table lamp called " The
Astra" has been invented by them, which will certainly
entitle them to call, with the celebrated magician in the
fairy tale of Aladdin, " New lamps for old ones," in the
truest sense, because the saving to be effected by the
adoption of the "Antra" will in a few weeks amply repay
the first cost of its purchase. The arrangement of the new
and elegant invention is perfectly simple, and so easily is
the " trimming" accomplished, that it can be done without
soiling the fingers or causing other and more serious an-
noyance arising from. smoke and its unpleasant accom-
paniment. The light given by the lamp is of extraordinary
brilliancy, and although the name given to it by its
inventors is not by any means a bad one, yet they could,
had they so thought proper, without the slightest exag-
geration, called it the " Wonderful Lamp." The charmed
article used by Aladdin, we are told, was of unheard-of
value, as it accomplished the wildest desire of its possessor;
but as an article of every-day use it could not have exceeded
" Astra" in giving a cheerful and brilliant light around,
consuming at the same time with the greatest safety any
of the mineral vile yet diecoverocl. •