The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

OparushlActive:.......:•: :5l -7... 24% ... 2414 ... 24%
0' Passive 5 ... 5,', ... 5% ... 5%
l• New Deferred ll% ... DV ‘.. 11% ... 11N
Naapolitaii .... .....
Marian ..•. ICS ••• I('s ..• 103 MI 103
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Gennain ... ..........
... 780
Versailles. L.. 8.................. 192 50 ~. 192 50 ... 1,2 50 ... 192 50
R. 13 320 ... 320 ... 320 ... 320
Rouen 455 ... 4Y7 8) ... 455 ... 457 50
urielns ...• ...... • •••
Mulhausen to Therm ..... ••• 385 ... 385 ... 385 ... 385
itraehurg co Pale 222 58 .. 222 50 ... 222 50 ... 2t2 50
, :, , -`BELGIAN t UNDS—Baussime, DEG. 21.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Rothschild 's Loan, 5 per Cent......„....„ lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92%
3 per Cent. ..... ••••

_Brunel* Papers, Decv.i2ENl
N.
A,
-:, I "- ,i 1.1-.--..Thirty.seven—;—____
• '1 'Lo7---"---an of City, 1932, 4 perWeig............. .. 11)9717148
t IT' Society of' Commerce, 4 4 per Cent ."
—.
d to flank of Belgium, 5 pet Cent..„„ 74A
National Ssciety.
Dec. 111
A Exchangeu s
Rn:A LiNo nFduen:l! —
nye pit' Costs. Metalliqtzes
Four per Cents
Three pvt• Cents.
Bank Shares ...... ....... ................ ...... .. .....
—Aligemeine Zeilesng. D. 17.

CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE NEW POLICE ACT.—
For the information of all concerned, it may be
necessary tv state that no rejoicings will be
allowed in public-houses after twelve o'clock
to-night; but people may drink as much as
they like at home. The police have orders to
see that all public-houses are closed as on Satur-
day nights.
INCONSISTENCIES.—The Morning _Herald is
one of the sticklers for the Church, and for ex-
tending the Church. But the clergy can only
teach as they are taught, and hence, if Univer-
sity education be bad, the clergy will not teach
properly, and to extend the Church will only be
to extend improper teaching. The Herald, how-
ever, besides being a patroness of the Church, is
Anti-Puseyite, and. its dislike of Puseyism in-
spired it yesterday with the following severe hit
at OXford education A college tutor, brought
up in the principle and practice of school logic,
can easily find a loop-hole to creep out at." But
a college tutor is the only pivot of college edu-
cation, and college tutors, according to the Herald
—a description which we believe to be accurate,
and to apply to the entire instruction of the
Universities—are brought up to quibble, to make
the worse appear the better reason, to pervert
and mystify, not to discover and establish truth.
Such is the character which the Church-loving
Herald gives to the education which the tutors
of colleges receive and bestow on the youth
educated at the Universities. Can we wonder at
the consciences of priests being in all cases so
wonderfully flexible, while their avarice is un
controlled and intense ? Our Contemporary has
also been a distinguished advocate for the abo-
lition of capital punishments. It is now very
zealous for the suppression of the slave trade, as
it had the good fortune to publish a notice of the
new treaty before the Times. This zeal,Fester-
day, led our Contemporary into cap exultation
at the existence and extension of capital punish-
ments, in the case •uf making the slave trade
piracy, contrary to the principles so well advo-
cated by the Herat'. It affirmed that the
" ventures of the slava dealer will be fewer, with
the prospect of the YARD-ARM before him." Such
tricks do words play even with strong minds. Had
"yard-arm" been " gallows," the Herald would
have shrunk affrighted from encouraging the
vulgar belief that putting men to death is the
way to prevent crimes. The passions of great
men play sad tricks with their reason, and be-
fool them far worse than ever an old man was
befooled by an artful maiden.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Stock Markets save presented a tranquil appear-
ance to-day, but there has been no fluctuation of the least
consequence in the quotations. Consols have realised
8871 to 89 for the opening, ex-dividend. Exchequer
Bills have been steady at 10s. to 12s. premium, and East
India Bonds have been marked Is. to 3s. premium.
India Stock for the opening has obtained 245 , and Bank
Stock has been firm at 165 to 1654 ; Reduced Three-
and-a-Half per Cents, realise 984 to 98-4-.
A slightly improvd value was borne by Spanish Bonds
to-day, but then the transactions were very limited.
The Actives ranged from 23i to 24. The Colombian
Bonds were a shade higher, viz. 201. Belgian Stock was
worth 1011, being an advance ; and Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. obtained 52 to 511.
A moderate business has been done in Shares again
to-day. Great Western Railway were much the same,
viz. 18i premium ; South Western improved to 19a and
2071- prem. Birmingham were 75 to 76 premium ; and
York and North Midland 39 premium. Brighton were
12, North Midland 29, Manchester and Leeds 5 to si,
Midland Counties 14k, and Northern and Eastern, 9a dis.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEO. 22.—We have
had a fair demand for Cotton to,day, the sales amount-
ing to 4,500 bales, of which 150 American were taken for
export. In prices there is no change.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 22.—The trans-
actions at the Stock Exchange comprise Great North of
England, 67.1; London and Birmingham 32/. New Shares,
26/ ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 511.
No later arrivals to-day from any quarter.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 22.—Railway
Stock continues in demand, and prices are firm. The
following sales have been reported:—Midland Counties,
85; Ditto, Quarters, 211; North Midland, 721 ; North
Union, 753 T; South Eastern and Dover, 201.
Consols opened at 88:1 89 for the Account ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem.
Towards the close of business yesterday, Spanish
Active Stock advanced to 24A- 4, but opened this morn-
ing rather flat at 23j 241 ; Portuguese Five per Cents.,
are 321 33; Ditto 'Threes, 191 20.
Both the English and Foreign Markets are inactive,
and prices remain withou
Stock,taiteratiol%sl_C;onTshorlssf-oarndt-hae.
Haf per Cents.opelningare 88
89 ;
Bank
Reduced, 94; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 premium ; Spanish
Active Stock, 24 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cen ta.
524 ; Ditto, Five per Cents., 994 ; Belgian, 1011.
The Share Market is steady without alteration. Lon-
don and Brighton were last done at 3718 ; London and
Birmingham, 165 ; Midland Counties, 851 ; 'North Mid-
land, 701.
Consols, 881 89 ; Colombian,, 20/3-, ; Spanish, 2424.
It seems it must be left at ,last to Foreign States
to teach us sound maxims of policy in regulating
our domestic trade. Sweden has just effected a
most material reduction in the import duty on
all descriptions of grain, and will allow foreign wheat
for instance, to come in at the reduced rate of one rix-
dollar. The plan the present Ministry of Sir Robert Peel
intend to give us, is oozing out by degrees, but if
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isnaytsheitviess, a new sliding scale, the Pre-
ition of the man in the fable,
who, trying to please everybody, could please no one.
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Bank Stock l6s- India Stock • ass
3 per Cent Rect.
Annuities...,ooo .Annuities.. d.
3 per Cent Cons
s
3i per Cent Red..
New 3i per Cent --101pprnm
New 5 per Cent — I Ditto 5001 lO pm
Long Annuitiestoexpire Ditto Small. 13 pm
Jan 1860 l2i ;Bank Stock for Acct... 245
Oct 1859 'lndia Stock for Acct..

Jan. 1860.
FOREIG.
Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent lOl4
Brazilian 80nd5....

Consols for Open B9
4 FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent. --
Ditto, New Ditto —
Prussian, 5 u. cent.

Buenos Ayres, 6 per cm
Chilian, 6 cent-

pei
'Russian, 5 per cent

Colombian, 6 per cent
Ditto, 1824.
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 ...-
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct.
SH A

Ditto, Met.;llic
Spanish, 5 per cent 24
Ditto, Deferred ...
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c,
Exchange
French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Dutch, 21 per cent 5l
Ditto, 5 per cent.
RES.

Great Western Railway,
Ditto New Shares (5
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
..
London and Brighton (50 paid).. ..... ......
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)...
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
London and Birmingham (90) ......... ...
Ditto Quarter Shares ( b paid) 234
Ditto New Shares (15 paid 27
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (35 paid) • . 25k
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)........,
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid)
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid)
Ditto New Shares 415 paid) ... ........

0 paid) B3l
paid)
9/
38

THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.--A Correspon-
dent asks us to warn the Emperor Nicholas. " I have
great faith in dreams (he says), and, last night, I dreamed
that I saw the Emperor of Russia, and that he was for-
saken, solitary, and in distress. On reading the morn-
ing Papers to-day, I find that a new Ministry is to be
formed at St. Petersburgh ; that the Minister of Police,
because he only suppressed some conspiracies amongst the
nobility, and did not inform the Emperor, is displaced,
and that the Emperor meditates making a great blow at
his unruly nobles by abolishing serfdom. I have noticed
that changes and projects of this description precede
the demise of the Czars, and I should not be surprised
to learn that the Emperor Nicholas had been treated as
was the Emperor Alexander and the Emperor Paul.
It is such an unusual thing for a Sovereign of Russia to
die of old age, that it is impossible to read of change and
conspiracies in the Court of St. Petersburgh without
anticipating a change in the person of the Sovereign."
We fulfil the request of our Correspondent in conveying
his warning through the public to the Czar Nicholas.
Lord Rolle has given 2,0001.
,to build a new
bridge across the rive Torridge iu connection with the
proposed new road to Little Torrington.— Western Lu-
minary.

THE RIGHT HON G. R. DAwsorr.—On
Monday last, Mr Dawson formally accepted the Com-
missionership of the Customs, vacated by the decease of
Sir Henry Freeling, Bart. We are intormed that Mr.
Dean, the present Chairman of the Board, will shortly re-
tire, when *Air. Dawson will succeed him. The post which
Mr. Dawson has assumed is one of great responsibility.
It presents, especially amidst the changes which are
contemplated in the Customs, a wide field for the exer-
cise of his business talents and industry:---West of
England. Corsertative.