The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

THE S, LONDON, MONDAY EVE NiNG, DECEMBER 24, 1860.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

1 Closing )„
Stare, Railways. Paid. isaußiness done
Price.
100 lAtlalitic & Si, Lawrence an 77 Bo-
stk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 95 96
k Gu. 5 per cent
18 Do, Do. B 16 14 1 d
203 Buffalo and Lake 'Juror) all 44 5 d
203 Do. New - -
10 Do. Preference .... . all 64 7
Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich
100 flOO 75 80
6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 187::
100 Do. do. July 1, 187:-, 100 67 72
100 ; Do. do. June 1, 1871 100 65 70
5 iClcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim 3 id pr
20 ICape,l4:astn.Prov. (Lim. 2e. - -
20 ICapeTown & Dock Scrip 5 11 14 d
29 !Ceylon Guarautd. 6p. c. 73 14 4 d
174 ;Demerara. - -
20 'Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 10 14 14 d I
stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 1004 1014 1014 1
20 I Do. F Shares Ext all d pr
20 I Do. Jubbulpore. all d pr
100 Do. 43 pc. Debentrs. all 984 993
100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864 all 1004 1014
20 Geelong* & Melbourne all - -
stock Geelong Corporation 6
per cent. Bonds - -
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 23 34 234 3
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 78 80 78
100 Do. 6 per et. Debentr all 48 52 48
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 _ all 57 60 60
100 Do. do. 1867 all 50 54
100 Do. do. 1872 all 48 52
stock Gt. Indiagenin.gua.sp.c lOO 974 98'
20 Do. New gua. sp. c 8 4d i d
20 Gt. South.of India (Lim)
guaranteed 5 per cent. all 2 14d
204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 11 111 11
203 Do. New
100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with
opt, till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 95 100
100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 93 96
100 Do. 53 p. c. do. '77 do all 90 93
stock Madras, guar., 43 p. o lOO 85 87
stock Do. do. 5 per cent
stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 884 894
20 Do. Fourth de l5 14 13 d
20 Do. d 0.... .-. . . - -
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Buds lOO - -
20 Newßrunswick & Canda
Ry.&Land(Litn.),Z.Glac all 5 7
Class A Capital Share
Do. do. Land do
20 Do. do. B Capital do all 5 7
Do. do. Land do.
20 Oude (Limited) - -
stock Scinde .......... ' ..z 100 100 101
20 Do. Punjaub .... ig 5, 10 14 d 14.1
20 Do. Do. ... .. ... cd '. all - - d
stock Do. Indus. St. Flo. g,,,P., 100 91 96
f
20 StAndrews & Quebec A 18 - -
10 (Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip I 1 4 4 d
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
10
.Antwerp & Rotterdam all 54 53
j2O Ardennes .... ...... - -p
20 IBah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c lO 13 lid
5 ;Belgian East. Junction all 4 1
20 rßeziers to Graissessac all - -
6 Ca,-neaux Mine & Rail all 10 11
100 Copiapo & all - -
10 Ditto Extension - - all 3 24,1
20 Dutch Rhenish
20 Eastern of France
20 Grand Rus. Guar. 13 p. c 6 - -
20 Do. do. all - -
20 Great Central of Franc • all - -
20 IGt. Luxem., Con. shs all 64 7 64
20 ;Italian Junction .. - -
20 ILake Constance & =ale all - -
20 ILierre & Turnhout - -
20 Lyons & Geneva. - -
334 Maria Antonia -- - - all - --
10 i Do. New - -
20 ;Namur & Liege
20 Do. 6p. e. Pref.
16 (Northern of France all 883 394
16 Do. New Shares l5 -
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 74 64
20 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter all 353 163
20 Paris & Orleans .. -..
20 Recite &S. Fran. (Peru.
gua. 7p. ct. Bin.-- 13 31 21d
20 Riga & Dunaburg l4 - -
10 ;Rome & Frascati - -
20 IRoyal Danish all - -
5 Royal Swedish - -
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all - -
20 Sambre & Meuse
10 Do. 53 per cent. Pref all 84 A 1
20 San Paulo, lim, v. 7p. c 2 1 4 d
20 S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin 12 3d 4 d 133
20 Southern of France all 20 2t
84 West Flanders ......
10 Do. 55 p. c. Preference all 94 94
20 W. & N.W. of France
23 Western of Austria 6 - -
20 (Western of Switzerland all -
6 iWiesbaden ...... . . -
6 po. 8 per cent. Pref all - -
20 ;Zealand - -

BRITISH MINES.

Share'

Mines.

Paid. I Closing Business
Price. Done

IAI ire ci Consols (Philack)
British Iron
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'Devon G. Cons. (Tavisti
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,East Caradon ......
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iGam.dzSt.Aubyn(Gwen.)'
'Great South Tolgus
IG.Wheal Alfa. (Philack)']
'G. Wheal Vor (Holston):
Grenville
IHerod's- Foot. •• •
Hiugsbon Downs
(Lady Bertha
•••• Margaret (Uny Lelant)j
North Downs
;North Frances (Illogan)1
IN. Wh'l Baseqt (1110 ,an)'
;North Wheal Crotty • .
Par Consols (St. Blazey)l
20 'Providence (Uny Lelnt.)j
Sortridge Cons. Min. Co.
'South Caradon(St.Cleer)!
iS. Carn Brea (Illogan)
1 S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim.
S.Wheal Fran.. (Illop,-,an)l
Stray Park
5 ,Tamar Silv.Sz Lead Min.'
10 Tin Croit
[Vale of Towey (Caren ).
West Basset (Mogan). •1
W. Caradon (Liskeard)
West Seton
,Wheal Basset (Mogan),
- ,Wheal Buller (Redruth);
Wheal Edward (Cals.)
Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant)i
- Wheal Mary Ann (Men.);
- ,Wheal Treiawney (Lis.)'

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SUN OFFICE. Six o'clock.

CIT ► BET2IIVG—(This Day).

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
6to 1 agst Kettledrum (t,)
7to 1 agst Diophantus (off)
Bto 1 agst Russley (off)
9to 1 agst Klarikoff
9to 1 agst Matador
10 to 1 agst any other

THE DERBY.
sto 1 agst Dundee (t)
13 to 1 agst Big Ben (off)
15 to 1 agst Diophantus (t)
20 to 1 agst Kettledrum
20 to 1 agst Klarikoff
25 to 1 agst Matador (off)
50 to 1 agst Overton (t)
50 to 1 agst East Stanley (t)

SUSP-ELVSIO-1V OP P-417.11EN TS AT WASHING TO tir.

The letters on Saturday from New York mention
that the Government Treasury at Washington has
been compelled to suspend payment. " Its funds
are exhausted, and Government officers and employes
are unpaid. Contractors for the mail carriage and
other purposes are included in. the general bank-
ruptcy. They can get no money," A Bill for the
issue of £2,000,000 Treasury bonds was to be
brought in forthwith, and there was no doubt of
its being hurriedly passed, since in the meantime
the members of Congress you'd themselves have to
wait for their pay and raileage expenses.—Times.

EXPEDITION 7:0 EXPLORE THE

SOURCES OF THE NILE.

The President and Committee of the Geogra-
phical Society have issued proposals fora subscrip-
tion to raise £2,000 for sending an expedition under
Mr. Petherick, her Britannic Majesty's consul at
Khartum, up the Nile to explore its sources, and to
aid that of Captain Speke, already despatched by
way of Zanzibar, for the same destination.
This subject has already been mooted at several
meetings of this society, and also at the Geogra-
phical Section of the British Association held last
June at Oxford ; but during the past autumn so
little progress has been made in the subscription
list that the president and council are induced to
recapitulate what has already been urged, and to
lay the proposal before the fellows in the present
form, more especially as some very recent discoveries
by Signer Miani give a new interest to this effort.
Until the middle of last month the farthest point
on the banks of the Nile known to geographers was
Gondokoro. This place lies about 1,400 miles by
river above Khartum, which itself is 1,900 miles
above Alexandria. It is described as being in
N. lat. 4.30, and E. long. 31.50. Gondokoro is the
seat of an ivory mart during the months of Decem-
ber and January, when traders from Khartum visit,
and obtain their ivory in exchange for grain and
beads ; and here the late Pro Vicario Knobleoher
established a Roman Catholic mission, which was
abandoned in 1859. Immediately above Gondokoro,
a succession of rapids prevent further navigation ;
below Gondokoro the passage is perfectly open to
boats, sailing at the times when the periodical
winds are favourable. During ten months of
the year Gondokoro is deserted ; the scanty
and barbarous population of the village is dis-
persed over its barren neighbourhood, and an
expedition such as that under Captains
Speke and Grant must necessarily be—
exhausted of means of barter and wholly
ignorant of the negro languages of Northern Africa
—will be sure to tempt hostility and to incur
serious danger of absolute want of supplies. If
Captain Spoke be unable to reach Gondokoro in
December or January his position will be exceed-
ingly precarious, while farther advance to the north
would be impossible. The first of Mr. Petherick's
proposed objects is to form a sufficient depot of
grain at Gondokoro, under the charge of his own
men, to ensure to Captain Speke means of sub-
sistence and security from violence whenever he
should reach that place ; the second is to explore
the district coloured orange in the accompanying
sketch map; the third is to effect a meeting with
Captain Spoke' and to assist him through the
hostile tribes between the Lake and the Nile.
Many of these negro tribes are known to Mr.
Petherick, and it is precisely in the locality where
the party under Captain Speke would be most
helpless, that that of Mr. Petherick would, com-
paratively speaking, be most at home ; and even if
the union of the two parties did not actually take
place, the aid which Mr; Petherick's presence in
the country might, with reason, be expected to
afford to Captain Speke can hardly be overrated.
The discoveries of Miani add fresh arguments in
favour of the proposed expedition. That gentle-
man left his boats at Gondokoro, and travelled
overland by the side of the Nile, in n south-east
direction, to a placticalled Galufli, situated, accord-
ing to his estimate, at a direct distance of 180
geographical miles from Gondokoro, and therefore
leaving an unexplored link of only 270 geographical
miles between his position and the most northerly
point reached by Captain Speke in his late expedi-
tion from Zanzibar. Miani's information, even
allowing largely for erroneous estimate of distance,
reduces within manageable limits the country that
remains to be explored in order to discover the
sources of the Nile. It also places them eastward

of Lake Nyanza, and therefore in a locality where
Captain Speke would be less favourably
circumstanced for finding them than he had
hoped. Miani makes no mention whatever of any
large lake, such as the Nyanza, being reported to
feed its waters, but, on the contrary, the natives
derived the source of the Nile from a town called
Patico, lying in the direction of Mount Kenia.
These circumstances being taken into account,
together with the fact of Mr. Petherick's services
being now available, who, beyond any other Eng-
lishman, is peculiarly, fitted for carrying out the
expedition he proposes, the president and council
of the Royal Geological Society consider that they
would fall short of their duty if they left any le-
gitimate means unemployed for securing those
services to the advancement of geography and the
honour of this country. Her Majesty's Govern-
ment having declined to send out this additional
expedition, the president and council make their
appeal to the liberality of individual fellows of the
society and to that of the public. The sum re-
quired to be raised is £2,000. Should this be
quickly obtained, Mr. Petherick will undertake to
reach Gondokoro in November, 1861. He will
then explore until March, 1862, when the setting
in of the rainy season prevents farther movements.
Starting afresh in Ar gust, 1862, he proposes to
continue his travels till February, 1863, and after
that to return to Gondokoro, reaching his depot in
1863, or early in 1864.
Subscriptions are received at the Royal Geo-
graphical Society, 15, Whitehall-place ; and at
Messrs. Biddulph, Cocks, and Co.'s, 43, Charing-
cross.