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

MONEY 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withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for shipment to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'CLocK.

According to R'euter's telegram the French
Three per Cent. Renter 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
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 f for
the account. The New Threes and Reduced
Annuities are 861 /I 87 ; India 5 per Cents., 10214 ;
ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced 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 1 ; Mexi-
can ex all Bonds, 1, at 24 1 1; New, 221 8 ; Greek
are 158 16 ; Spanish Passive, 271 4 ; ditto Certifi-
cates, 141 151 ; Italian, 641 61 ; and the Confede-
rate Loan, 7 8.
American Securities are also depressed. United
States 5.20 Bonds are 641 1 ; Erie shares, 571 ;
and Illinois, 801 1.
Businessin 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 fiat at 344 35.;
-Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally remain
very quiet. London and County are marked 79i ;
Alliance, 291 8 ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier, 81 1
General Credit and Finance, 64 4 ; and Overend,
Gurney, and Co. at 218 ; Charles Lafitte and Com-
pany shares are quoted 31 31 prem. ; London
Steam Towing Company, 1f 2 prem. ; Atlantic and
Great Western Railway Mortgage Bonds, scrip,
/ 11 prem. ; English and American Bank, 2 28
prem. ; and British Commercial Bonds of Mexico,
65 70.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Jan. 9
3 per Cent. Reduced 864 7 6i
New 3 per Cent B6k 7 6i
New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprilBBs —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. — dis I
Do. £5OO — dis
Do £lOO and £200
Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent —
Do Account —

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ndian Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874... Shut

Do Account - -

15;.5perdent. July, 1870
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5} per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO —
Do. under £1 000 — pm
FOREIGN FUNDS —ONN O'CLOCK
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
• Do. 1865 —

Do. Scrip, £25 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
nn. Arrount
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per -Ma) =
Chilian 44 per Cent
Do. 3 per Cent —
Colombian 6 per Cent.
Cuba, 6 per Cent. _.,., —''1.7671k-Wt-Ghe-leff--------

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 92f
Do., Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864
Do £lOO Bonds
Cireek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
CTuatemala 5 per Cent.
Do.f.B6paid

Do. 183-9 and 1850 —
Italian 5 per Cent, 1865
Do. Account
Do. Maremmana Railway 6B
Do Scrip, £671 paid
Do 5 per Cent., 1864 —
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do. Account —
Dn 1864 —
1)0 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c —
Montevidean 6,per Cent., £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada --r
Do 2 per Cent
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 —
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent —
?eruvian 44 per Cent
Da. Account
Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
Do 44 per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 461
Do. Account • —
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9O
Do 44 per Cent. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pex Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862 BBl
Do 5 per Cent. 1864 —
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto account —
Do New Deferred —
Do Account
Do Passive 274
Do Account —
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded l5 144
Do Account —
Swedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
rurkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account —
Do £lOO Bonds —
'
Do. 11 per Cent
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account —
Do £lOO Bonds 72
Do 6 per Cent.,1863
Do 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Scrip, £35 paid
Do Account
Do £l€o Bands
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed 994
Venezuela 3 per Cont.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 2sf.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for money
Do. Account,

THE NEW ASTRA LAMP.—Various contrivances
in the arrangement of lamps for the consumption
of mineral oils have already been made, and some of
them looked upon as perfect, 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's "new lamps for old ones" in the
truest sense, because the sairing 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 tan be done without
soiling the fingers or causing other and more gerions 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 nut 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 excedeed
"Astra" in giving a cheerful and brilliant light around,
consuming at the same time with the greatest safety any
of the mineral oils yet, discovered.

Great.
Di

rtthrliatr:Nt,C
Eastern. E. Counties Ex., No. 1. 104
tto, No 2, 102
LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL B
Buckinghamshire, 91i

I e REIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish. 22
Great Luxembourg, AI
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), lri

,11, 14:1141s WINES
Frontino and Bolivia 6'
Scottish Australian, lim.,

BANK F.
Agra and Misternaan's, lim., 67i 8
Affiance, lim.. 291
Amtio Austrian, 7
Bank of London. 141
Consolidated Bank, Bin., 10i
Imperial Ottoman, 14
London and Brazilian (lim.), 491
Punjaub, and Delhi,
Union of Australia, 541
Union of London, 541

MISCELLANICoI is.
Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua.,2f
City of London Real Property, 1D2., 4
Credit Fonder and Mobiiier of England, 8/
Crystal Palace, °5
Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 11/
Gen. Credit and Finance of London. f
Imperial Mercantile Credit /limo., lim.. 7f
International Fin ancial:.->ociety, Um., 61
Interational Land Credit, Bin.. 61
Joint Stock Discount, Um., ii 8/
London General Omnibus Company, lira., 3j
Ottoman Financial Association, lim., • 21
Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., Zit
Peninsula and Oriental ,team, 74
Quebrada Land, gall, and Mining, lim., 41
Royal Mail Stearn. 1 01

ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, SANDHURST.—An
error having occurred in the total of marks gained by
Gentleman Cadet M'Cally, the correction of it places that
gentleman, with 5,555 marks, fourth on the list of gen-
tleman Cadets found qualified for commissions by pur-
chase, and equal to Mr. IL H. Swetenham.
Her Majesty has been pleased to advance Sir
Roderick Murchison to the dignity of a Baronet, "in
recognition of distinguished merit and attainments."
THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN LEEDS GAOL.—The
injuries self-inflicted by Seli Sykes, now under sen-
tence of death in Leeds Gaol, for the murder of a young
Woman (his sWeetheart) and her mother at Batley, near
Dewsbury, Edo tint quite so serious as at first represented,
and as previously described. Though he was insensible
when first picked up, Sykes soon recovered sensibility,
did yesterday be was quite calm and collected. The bal-
cony from which he threw himself was about 26 feet from
the floor. In consequence of the West Riding Gaol De-
livory having been adjournedirom last Saturday until
the 9th of January, the period between the trial of Sykes
and the trial on Patrick Welsh, now under sentence of
death for the murder of John Ronane at Leeds, and the
day fixed for their execution will bo a fortnight longer
than it would have been if no such adjournment had taken
place. Some of the friends of each convict are getting up
memorials to the Home Secretary for a commutation of
the capital sentence ; but it is understood that the puNie
are not signing the memorials with much alacrity.