The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

There was an improve .I demand to-day on the
Stock Exchange, and although the price of Consols
did not go up they were firm at yesterday's quota-
tions. In the Foreign market Turkish stock was
firm, and in Railways prices in most instances un-
proved from to Telegraph shares were in de-
mand ; and altogether the transactions during the
morning were of a decidedly cheering character.

Consols are now at 92 to 925 for money ;
ditto, for Account, 921 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 914 2 ; New 'Fires per Cents, 914 2 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 5 prem. ; June,
2 7 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March,
prem. ; June, 2 prem. ; Bank of England Stock,
41 per Cent., 239.
India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
litto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1115 ; ditto 4
per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Eufaced Paper,
4 per Cent., 91i ; ditto 5 per Cent., 1054.
In the Railway Share Market Great Northerns
have inproved to 108 to 109 ; Metropolitan, 831
to 831 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 154 to
15; ; Great Northern (A). 1091 to 109; ; London
and Brighton, 475 to 47; ; London and North
Western, 1214 to 122 ; South Eastern, 774 to 771 ;
Great Eastern, 375 to 371; Caledonians, 784 to
79 ; Midland, 1194 to 120 ; Great Western, 555
to 551 ; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1261 to
1271.
In the Foreign Market Turkish Fire per Cents.
are 444 to 444 ;.Six per Cents., 641 to 661 ;
Spanish, 271 to 275 ; Peruvian, 831 to 844 ;
545 to 544 ; Egyptian (1868), 784 to 78} ; and
Argentine, 851 to 861.
New Turkish Loan is 5 to 1 prem. The subscrip-
tion list &nes to-day for London and to-morrow
for the country.
In Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay are
12/ to 13 ; General Credit, 14 to 1 dis.; National
Discount, 101 to 111; and International Finance,
24 to 11 dis.
American Five-Twenty Bonds are lower, at 86
to 861; Eries are 195 to 20 ; and Illinois are 994
to 994.

Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Shares
are 35 to 35:1 ; French Cable, 151 to 15i ; Anglo-
American, 19} to 19i ; and Atlantic Eight per
Cents., 1 to 2; Falmouth, 4to 14 prom.

About 100,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday—viz., 50,000 for South Ame-
rica and 50,000 for Portugal. The latter amount
is believed to be on account of the new loan.
The steamer Atrato takes £50,000 in gold and
£lO,OOO in silver for the West Indies.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Wednesday, the 22d inst., a special settling day in
the scrip of the Five per Cent. Redeemable Deben-
ture Stock of 1867 of the Great Eastern Railway
Company, which is to be marked in the official list.

Lord Amberley may be followed as an impartial
guide in discussing the tenets of the " Latter-Day
Saints," and his account in the Fortnightly Review,
to which we last week alluded, is fun of interest.
Very little is known of the new revelations claimed
for Mormonism, as the world in general throw them
aside as an impudent imposture, asun worthy of seri-
ous notice as are the Jumpers, or the dwellers in the
Agapemone. A consideration of what the followers
of Joseph Smith have achieved disabuses us of such
an error, and Mormonism is thus rendered of inte-
rest, while politically for some time it has furnished
an important subject for discussion in the United
States. Professedly the Government is Republican,
but in reality their polity is a theocratic despotism.
Brigham Young, like the other high officials, goes
through the form of being re-elected twice a year—
but who dare oppose men inspired by Heaven ?
Much interest must be felt in the writings left by
the founder of the sect and the Commentators and
Fathers of the Church. Lord Amberley says :
" The Book of Mormon is a small volume in its ex-
ternal aspect, resembling a cheap edition of the
Bible, containing 563 closely printed pages, and
divided into fourteen books. It contains the his-
tory of three distinct emigrations from Palestine to
America. The work begins with that of Lehi, who
left Jerusalem in the reign of Zedekiab, King of
Judah, with his four sons." One of these became
the ancestor of the Nephites, another of the Lama-
nites ; two great nations, whose wars, as related
in the Book of Mormon, occupy a large portion of
the narrative. The Lantanites are the American
Indians, who are, therefore, of Jewish origin. Such
was the gravity of the sins and offences committed
by Nephi's brethren that, "as they were ex-
ceeding fair and delightsome, that they might not
be enticing unto my (Nephi's) people, the
Lord did cause a skin of blackness to come upon
them." Hence, ever after this, the Lamanites were
distinguished by their colour. Another colony was
discovered at some period between B.C. 200 and 100,
and it was found that its inhabitants also were
Jews, who had emigrated to America when Zede-
kiah was taken captive to Babylon, some years after
the Nephites. The great object to which the ex-
hortations of all the Nephite prophets, who were
very numerous, were directed, is the future coming
of Christ. This is the culminating event of the
Book of Mormon, and it is predicted in the most
unmistakeable terms, the name and parentage of
Jesus being expressly mentioned. Bad the lan-
guage of the Hebrew prophets been equally dis-
tinct, it would have sailed ail colitroversy about
Messianic prophecies. Christ appeared to the Ne-
phites after the Crucifixion, and nis preaching Con-
sisted of a repetition in a great measure of his dis-
courses in Palestine, a few special injunctions being
added. But the oldest emigration of all remained
unknown until Moroni, a Nephite prophet (about
A.D. 400), di.covere 1 24 plates, giving an account of
a nation wl:o had emigrated to America soon after
the confusion of tongues. Their journey across the
ocean occupied 344 days. After living for many
generations in what is called the North country,
probably North America, they were destroyed by
God on account of their wickedness. A similar
fate awaited the Nephites. Their iniquity became
so great that God was obliged to get rid of them,
and they were exterminated by the Lamanites iu
the battle of Cumorah. Mormon, who lived in the
fourth century after Christ, made an abridgment of
the original plates of the Nephites, from the time
that Lehi left Jerusalem to his own day, and
continued the record by adding a narrative
of the things which he himself had witnessed.
Just before the battle of Cumorah, foreseeing
that this would be the last struggle of his
people, he hid the plates in the hill in order to save
them from falling into the hands of the Lamanites.
But he gave a few plates to his son, Moroni, who
fiuished the record of his father. Moroni, the
son of Mormon, was the last surviving Nephite, and
it is he who describes the battle at Cumorah. After
a wretched life, wandering from place to place to
escape the Lamanites, he finally buried the plates
in the hill (A.D. 421) and sealed them up, where
they remained until their removal by the prophet
Joseph in the year 1827. The interest centres in
the matters relating to this history, but, as a whole,
the Book of Mormon is dry to a painful degree.
There is a book of doctrine and covenants embody-
ing the plans and resolutions of each month and
year. Another, called " The Pearl of Great Price,"
purports to relate legends from an ancient scroll
written by Moses in Egypt about himself and
Abraham. In the Pearl there appears this curious
prophecy revealed to Smith on the Christmas-day of
1832, whils the book was published by himself in
1851—
" Verily, thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that
will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of
South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the
death and misery of many souls. The day will come that
war will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at that
place; for behold the Southern States shall be divided
against the Northern States, and the Southern States will
call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as
it is called, and they shall also call on other nations in
order to defend themselves against other nations, and
thus war shall be poured out upon all nations. And it
shall come to pass after many days slaves shall rise up
I against their masters, who shall be marshalled and
I disciplined.for war."

Bank of Engia-a. Iteturns.

An Account, tursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1869.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £33,263,385 Governint. Debt..£1.1,015,100
Other Securities.. 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

X 33,263,385 ,
BANKING 1)

£33,263,385

Proprietors'Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rtst
Public Deposits
(includiugEx-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Comnmsioners
of National
Debt, and Div.
Accounts 6,773,491
Other Deposits 17,239,507
Seven Days and
other Bills 505,095

.?.PARTMENT.
Governmt. Seen-
' rities(includin,g
Dead Weight
Annuity) ....413,811,953
Other Securities 16,577,881.
Notes 10,863,075
Gold and Silver
Coin 903,724

X 12,156,633

£42,156,633

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