The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

UESDAY EVENING-, DECEMBER 26,

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has addressed a
circular to the various Ministers at Foreign Courts of
a very pacific character. M. D'HARCOURT is to be
recalled from Rome, M. Bois LE COMTE from Turin,
and M. DE RAYNEVAL from Naples.
Yesterday, being Christmas-day, the Bourse and
public offices were closed. In the Passage de l'Opira
some speculators assembled, and the Five per Cents.
were offered at 77f. 70c., but not a single transaction
took place.

GERMANY
AND

aI7sINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONI: O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pia Sn AA?.
A.berdeen
AWI bvr., .Notting., Boston, &c 44 — to
Ayrshire and Galloway
Belfast and County Down .. 19 .. ..
Wirmingnam & Oxford Jwact.,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 20
Do., without a guarantee... 20 ... -
Birmingham,Wol., & Dudley,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . 14% to
Do., without a guarantee.— 10
Binning., Wol., & Stour Val. 13/.145....
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction..
Boston, Stamt., & Birming... 5
Bristol and Exeter
Do., Thirds ............ 27% 15% to
Buckinghamshire.;. 14./. 4s — ...... to
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Sh t 1........ VA .. ... 1%%... to
Ditto, New 101..- Illi 7%:... to
Ditto. Clydesdale (Inictlan 50
Chester and liolyhead...:. . . ... 50 .....
Ditto, Preference

i'larence. .... 7814 - ..... to -
Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 - • ... to -
D0.,2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - -
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - ...... to -
Direct London & Portsmouth 54 - to -
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35
Dundallvird Enniskillen ... 20 -
East Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
and L. & D - -
Ditto, 18/. E. & H lB
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 3% 2%%c to -
E tstern Counties
Do. Nero Gua rant. 6 per Ct. 10 - -
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... - -
Do., do N0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... - -
Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 - to -
Do., 5 per cent. - to -
Do., Quarter .... . ...... ...... 1254 %..... -
--
Do., New - to
Eastern Union, Class A. (late
E. U. Shares) ......... - 25 - ...... to -
Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 1 - -
Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 20 - -
Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20 - to -
Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 10 ...... 7% to -
Ditto, ditto
Ditto (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 2% - to -
East Lancashire - -
Ditto, New .. ........... .... .21 ..... to -
Do., New Quarters -
Do., 6 per Cent. Preference
Quarter Shares - -
East Lincolnshire ... 25 -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O -
Ditto, Half Shires - -
Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 -
Ditto, New p0rt.......... - 15
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% l%%s .. to -
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. 63.8 d - .. ... to -
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
Do. Preference Consolidated - - - ... to -
Great Northern ... 19 -
Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 121,E 434%% to -
Do. %B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6% 4% to -
Do. Extension ... - -
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 42% 24 ..... to -
Great North of England 100 - ...... to -
Ditto, New 401. 4O - ...... to -
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, Now 30/. -
Ditto, New.lsl--- ..- ..... 14 ...... - • -
Great Western .................. 90
Ditto, Half Shares 5O - ...... to
Ditto, Quarter Shares -
Ditto, Fifths 2O - ...... to -
Do. New 17/. -
Huddersfield and Manchester 30 .. ... - -
Di tte, Thirds lO
...... -
Hull and Selby 5O ...... - ..... . to -
Ditto, Half Shares 25
..... . - -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - to -
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 - ...... to -
Do., ThircLs... lO - -
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93
Ditto, ditto -
Ditto Half Shares ........ 43 ...... 30% -
Ditto Quarters -
Ditto Fifths lO - -
Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6,4 ...... - ... -
Ditto Thirds (Reg.)
Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 7% - ...... to -
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43
Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 43
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
- and Goole 5O -
Do., West Riding Union... 7 .... . - -
Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9% - to -
Leeds and Bradford 5O .. -. 871,4••• .. to -
Leeds,Dewabury,& Blanches. 50 - ...... to ....
Do., Half Shares - ...... to -
Ditto, Blue (scrip) ** 2% - ••••.. to --
Leeds and Thirsk .. -... 5O
Ditto, New - ».••. to _
Do., do„Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... -
......
to
Liverpool, Crosby, andSouth-
von.. 3%...... -•
.. .. to --
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction. ..... .... 2% - -
London It Blackwell ......131.6a. 8d - ... .... to -
22%..,.,, -
Do. Extension
...... to -
Loud., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 3114 ...... to
De. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... - ...... to De. Prof. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... _
..
...
to
-
Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... - .... tA) -
Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 ...... 5% ....... to -
London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... -
...
.. to _
Ditto Preference lB/ 17s 2d... -
..... to -
London & North Western.....loo 122 ...... to 1231
Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22 - D9. New -
% -
Do. Fifths 7 Bto
to -
Do. 40r. Shares.....L. & M 25 -
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 9 .... . -
Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 9 ..... 11 -
Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 - to -
London and S. Western.-- 50 ..
Ditto, New 501-- „..... 42% - ...... to
-_-
Ditto, New 404.- ..... .. •• 84 - ...... to -
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 - ...... to -
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
to -
Ditte.Thirds ... . ....... 13/. 6s. 8d 4%34• dis, to -.
Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref.
7 per Ct. on Deposit and
5 per Ct. on Calls 5 . ... - ..... to -
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1%
Londonderry and Coleraine... 28% .. :. . ....
. - .. to -
Londonderry and Enniskillen 27%...i - ..... to -
Lmestott (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 -
..... to -
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 - ...... to
,s,.lanch Lit, .0.,,n, g. Alnt:wg, 4 -
~. . _ .
Manchr, SikeLiteld, gild Line. luu - -
... 10% to -
Ditto, ditto (Ne. 2) 25 ...... -- - ,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
At Liverpool, as in the metropolis, yesterday was
observed as a strict holiday, consequently, we have
nothing to report concerning the Cotton or the Share
markets.
The prevent being a time for pleasure rather than
business, people are engaged chiefly with calculations
of the past stud considerations of the future. Of the
result of this year's business, for it may be said to have
closed now the holidays are on, the matter for congra-
tulation is rather that so much has been done, fcr the
influence of revolutions abroad and excitement at home
could not but be expected to prove injurious. We have
had a year of vicissitudes, and we seem now to
be on the thireshold of improvement. The Funds are re-
covering gradually to a better price. The Bank bullion
stores are more amply replenished than for a long time.
Money generally is abundant and cheap, and confidence
grows stronger. Although many firms, large and small,
merchants tend retailers, still feel severely the effects of
the panic of October, 1847, the manufacturing districts
are becoming more active, and the stocks of goods in
foreign parts are becoming reduced. These form the
ground for pleasant prognostications of the future,
and relieve the more sombre feeling produced by the de-
pression existing in the West India colonies as an inevit-
able result .of the changes which have been judiciously
made in oter commercial policy.
The Haraburgh mail brings the exchange on London
13 9 with bills in request.
The satisfactory advises from France have produced a
favourable impression here in the Stock Exchange, al-
though yes y little business has been done. Consols have
advanced to 88i . The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 89 to 4-, and the Three per Cents, to 88i f.
Exchequer-bills are 38s. to 41s. prem.
. The Peruvian affair excites still a great deal of atten•
tion, and no doubt the bondholders will be assembled in
public meeting to decide upon it. Whatever the Peru-
vian Consul-General may say, and we obeerve that ho
has written to an evening Contemporary on the subject,
the belief is general that the Peruvian Government has
for a long time past been obtaining, both by the guano
contract payments and by quiet purchases, a arge
amount of its own bonds at most depreciated values.
The dividends in arrear amount to more than the
original debt, if our memory serve us righily, and it
is now fennel when proposals for a settlement are made,
that the Mock is exceedingly scarce, and that, conse-
quently, he Peruvian Government would have not the
slightest difficulty in carrying out even better terms.
The creditors, however, are so thoroughly tired out that
it would c of surprise us to find them submitting to great
sacrifices.
The Fesreign Stocks are very buoyant. Mexican have
touched 2.4 for Account. Peruvian have ranged from
44 to 46. Brazil Bonds have been 74 to 754. Spanish
Three per Cents. are 274; and Portugnese Four per
Cents. 24 to i. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been 49i i. A duty of 5 per cent. is to be levied on the
Coupons paid in Holland.
Railway Shares are rather quiet. Caledonian, Mid-
land, Great Western, Great Northern, and some others,
are higher. Eastern Counties and North British
scarcely so good.
BRITISH FUNDS Tll 1S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.-- ..... 381,i3i
Now 34 per Cent. Amts. B9 89
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 8% 11-16
India Bonds under 1,000/
Consols for Account .. 86%1/27/42d.
Exchequer Bills. 21/2d.
March. June.
1,0007.
500/ 3B 42 p 37 p
Small 3B 42 p 41 37p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Small
Equador Bonds ... 2:-3,i %
Grenada, 1 per Cent. . .... ... 134 %
Ditto Deferred ...
Mexican Bones, 1846, 5 per Cent 24
Ditto for the Account ....
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent ... 44 46
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent 244 24 24%
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account ......
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 27%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 49%
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates
Ditto for the Account .......

1848

Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 11U...... - -
Do., New 10.. Preference.. 10 ... .. - ... . to -
Ditto Grimsby ..
- -
Ditto, ditto. -
-
Ditto, ditto ... ..... . ..... ... 8% - to -
Ditto Sheffield and Linc. 15 - -
Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 20 - to -
Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41 25.... - -
Mid1and........ lOO -
Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo - to -
Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 20
Midland, firm., and Derby...loo ... - -
llidland, Consol. Bristol end
Birmingham, 6-per cent.... 100 122 -
Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38 ... .. - -
Ditto ditto 141. 185... - -
Midland, Leices. and Swan-
nington (8 per ct. gua.)....100 .... . - -
sLidld. Great Western (Irish) 45 -
Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6
per cent. guar. - to -
Newcastle and Carlisle . 100 ..... -
Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... .. - -
Newmarket ...... ..., ~...,.. .. 20 - -
Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s - -
Newport Ahergy., and Here. 6
Newry and Enniskillen ...... '4'
Newry, Warrenpoint, and
liostrevor ..... .........,.... 20 - ... .. to
Norfolk: ...... lOO - to -
Ditto New 20/. .
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per ct. 20 - ...... to -
Do. Do. Ws per cent -
Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 - „„„. to ...-
Northern Counties Union ... 4 - to -
North British -
Ditto Half 5hare5........... 12% - -
Do. Quarters 6 - .. -. to -
Ditto, Extension
Ditto Thirds ... ......... ....- ki ....... 41%... to -
NTorth and South-Western 2
North Staffordshire..... l 5 -
North Wales - ..... to -
North Western lO
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton - . 5O -
Reading,Guildfd., & Reigate 10 ...... - -
Royston and Ilitchin ..... .. 2 ...,.. - Fto -
Scottish Central -
zicottish. Midland .... ....... .... 25
Ditto, New... - to -
.'heflield, Rotherham, and
Goole lO - ...... to -
Do. do. (South Div.) 4 - to -
hrewsbury and Birmingham 9 -
Ditto. ditte, Class B. 5
Ditto, New Guaranteed 6 -
Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 2
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Kin.) - ...... to --
Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8% -. . ... to -
Ditto, Oswestry 1734 ...... - -
Ditto ,New)... - -
Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10 - -
`'..hropshire Union 4 ..: .. ..- ...... to -
South Devon .. - •to -
Ditto, Preference 25 -
South Staffordshire 6% . to -
South Eastern
Ditto, No. 1.... ........ ...... 24 -
Ditto, No. 2. 22 - ... to -
Ditto. No. 3.
.. -
Ditto New, No. 4. Thirds 10 -
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Doncaster
and Goole 5
'v'ans. and Loughor and Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... . 6 - to -
law Vale Extension ..... ... 8
Thames Haven Dock and
Railway 17% - ...... to -
Vale of l‘ieath
Waterford and Kilkenny l7l/2 ....... -

...... to

ly
Waterford and Limerick ... .. 47 i••• ..
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw,
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do.
West Cornwall 6 -
West London
Ditto, First Class ... 20
Ditto, Second C1*,....520
Whitehaven and Furness l4 ... .. ..... to
Windsor, Staines, and South
Western
Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 40 ......
Vork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. Original New & Ber ck 25
Do. Exten. No. 1 ( Y. & N.) 15
Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 15 33/4 to
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or ki.ef. 8
York and North:Midland .. 50
Ditto, Preference
Ditto East and W est Riding
Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo Italian (late Italian
and Aastrian
Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 8%1/2... to
Central of France ( Orleans
and Vierzon) ....
Ceylon .....
1-A —
Demerara.
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and Madras ss. ..... .
Deitch Rhenish 7l/2 to
East Indian
Great Indian Peninsular l4
Louvain ala Sambre . ..... ... 71/2 — ...... to
Luxembourg -
-Ditto
madrid and Valenti*
Namur and Liege 2O
Northern of France l2 ...... 8 ...... to
Orleans and Bordeaux_ 7
?aria and Lyons
Do. Do.
Paris and U'

Irfeans... 2O
Paris and Houen
Paris Sr Strasbourg ..... ..... 9
Rouen and Havre 2O
Sambre
..
and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale l4
... to
Tours & Nantes ... . .. 9
Tcurnay, Jurbise, Landes,
and llasselt .
West Flanders B3/4 to
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia -
British North American .... 50
Colonial .... - ..
28 •••. • •.'. • •• to ....
Commercial ot London
London Joint Stock .....
London and Westminster... 20 .....
National Provincial of Engld. 85
Ditto, New
National of Ireland
.. .. to
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto, New lO
Union of Australia ...... ...... 25
Ditto, New
Union of London ....... . ..... 10
Union of Madrid
MINES.

Anglo liexican lOO ...... to
Asturian Mining Company 14 ..... to
Australian... 2% •
••• ••• to
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 60
Bolanos Seri°
British Imp
Brazilian Imperial •• 244...... ••••• to
Ditto Coutes and Cuialta... 30
Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 16 .. to to
Cobra Copper ......... 40
General Mining ....... .... 20
Real del Monte, Unregistered
... to
Do. Black Debentures —
.. to
Do. Red Debentures..,, —
Santiago de Caba ..... ..... to
United Mexican ..... ........ 28% —

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEG. 26.—Wind this this day at noon S.S.E.,
light breeze and dull hazy 'weather; greatest pressure of
wind, since noon 23d, 4k lbs. Barometer 30.8, ther-
mometer, 49.
WIND AND WEATHER, THIS DAY, 9 A.M.
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Newcastle S.E., very cloudy.
Hull
Southampton S.S.E., rainy.
Liverpool
DEAn, DEC. 25.—Wind S., fresh; P.M. S.S.W., mode-
rate.—Arrd. from the river, 23d, Highbury, Walker,
Jamaica. Arrd. from the river, and sailed, William
Forster, Killick, Algoa Bay ; Manchester, Brown, Mo-
bile; Eiizabeth Archer, Cobb, Sydney, New South
Wales; T. J. Roger, Robinson, Charleston ; Gipsey,
Gibson, South Seas.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd., 23d
Mary Bannatyne, Ficken, Whampoa ; Natalia, Nielson,
Surinam, for Amsterdam. Sld. her Majesty's ship
Driver westward, to relieve the homeward bound.
RAMSAY, ISLE Or MAN, DEC. 23.—The Columbine,
of Glasgow for Liverpool, drifted ashore at Point Ayr
this morning.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—The Marchioness of Bute,
Cardiff, to this port, was in contact, 20th instant, off the
South Stack, with the Lady of the Isles, hence to the
Azores, the former lost cutwater, bowsprit, &c., and
sprang covering board ; the latter was dismasted and
taken in tow till the 22d, when she bore away with a
fair wind for the Isle of Man. Sld. Venture, Africa ;
Superb, Buena Ventura ; Peruche, St. Domingo;
Switzerland, New Orleans ; Caroline, New Or-
leans ; Princeton, New York ; New World,
New York ; M. A. Keming, Newfoundland. Off
port, American, Susquehana, Paragon. Arrd. 23,
Ashling, Harding, New Orleans ; Harriet Au.
gusta, Robinson, Mobile; Isaac Wright, Marshall, New
York; Orleans, Bogart, ditto; Columbus, M'Cowan,
ditto. 24, Lancaster, M'Lillard, Demerara. 25, Bark.
hill, Collins, Newfoundland. Sld. 23, Allerton, Hong-
Kong; Hannah Salkeld, Calcutta; St. Ann's, Sierra
Leone; Maria Jane, ditto; Selma, ditto; Columbas, Per-
nambuco. 24, Secret, San Francisco; Astra, Mobile.
25, Navigator, Buenos Ayres; Commodore, Mobile;
Historian, New York; Caroline, St. Lucia; England,
New Orleans; Viceroy, ditto; Governor Davies, ditto;
Cumberland, Apalachicola; Defence, Charleston; Me-
flora, ditto; Piscator, Newfoundland.
MARGATE, DEC. 25.—The Sophia, Cobbledick, from
Gibson to London,which was on shore on Foreness Rock,
was got off this morning, and brought into the harbour.
NORTH FORELAND, DEC. 23.—The Lady Hilda, of
and for Jersey, from London, is on shore under the
North Foreland light; crew saved.
WEYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Joseph
Bushby, Sparks, China, for London.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind S.E. by E.—Arrd. Jo-
seph Bushby, Sparks, China.
SCILLY, DEC. 21.—The Arietes, of Baltimore, Ame
rica, was passed, dismasted, full of water, and abandoned
on the Ist ult., in let. 32, long. 76, by the Wannan,
arrd. off port.
BRISTOL, DEC. 26.—The Hope,' Liverpool, to this
port, was run down by the Eugenia, Calnest, from Liver-
pool to Mobile, on the 21st inst., thirty miles off Holy-
head; crew saved.
11A 11.1.29:,,T1M POINT, Pw.c. 24.—Tht L'dy of T-1, s
1.1::itc11 00 ,core this morning. Is eXpliettll Ulf V,1.11-
out material damage.
TA.RBERT, DEC. 21.—The Hydros, of Barnstaple,