The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-28 00:00:00

Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. 5 per Cent., Rep. Deb., 187.)
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1884
Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug-. 1%-q3 .
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., .£l,OOO
40 prn
Do. under .£l,OOO
pei
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
Br tziliau 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cont., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863 -
D.). 5 per Cent., 1865
0.,) Aet,unt
Dn. .£lOO Bonds 751;
Buto.ios Ayres 6 per Cent —
D , 2 per Cent. (I)eferrad 3 per Cent.)
C apt, 6 per Cent.
C,alitte 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent —
00.6 per Cent., B .
Po., 1867
Do., 7 per Cent., 1806
Do., Scrip' £32 paid
C•• ful)l,,e, 6 pur li.tit.

Danis!). 3 P tr Cent., 182.
D naiiiau Principalities, 7 rr Gout 6l
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 . —
B I,:ador New Consolidated, 1 par Cow...
6gy tante, 7 per Gent —
n,. Se. oid Issue
D '. £5 iu Bonds
Do. £lO6 Bonds —
Do. 1861 ,... 85,1
Do. .15'00 Bonds —
Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 87

Goverum6rit ltail way Debentures 93} 2i 31
Greek, 5 per Cent., 1821-5, ex Coups —
Do. Account , ,
T),,. Coupons
Do. Account ...
Glateniala 5 per Cent .. —
It .iiau 5 per Cert., 1865 —
Do, Account • —
Do. Marounnana Itaiway —
N.l.)xicaL 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
D.. 1,861 —
De it per Cont. Anglo-French —
•iontevi.d9al; 6 per Cent.
gooristi Imperial 5 per Cent
Now Granada, .
Do 3 per Con —
Do. Deferred -
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Pertrian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account —
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4i per Cent.. 1862
Do Account
Portsguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,' 39} ',-
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 4i per Cent. 1850
Do 4i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 por Cent., 1862 , B4l 5f
Do. Anglo-Duteb, 1861, £lOO Bonds B9 8i
Do. do. £Bl 15s. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds
.7 B7l .
Do. do. £Bl 15s. do —
Sardinian, 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cen —
Do Account
Do New Deferred 351
Do Account
Do Passive 2sf
Do Acc*unt
Do Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded ...

Do Account
Turkish 6 per Cent., 1851
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 66f
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 6of

Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1863
Do 5 per client., 1865 321 13
Da Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 50:1
DJ 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
DJ Account.
Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Divideucts on the above payable in Londou

French Ilentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f.
It9.liaL 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 251.
Do. Account
TWO tilaL OK,
Consols, Money! 92i
Do. Account

[The following appeared in onr Latest Haitian ef yester
day et-ening.]
CITY, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK.

Since two o'clock there has been no change in the
value of the English Funds. Consols closed at 921
for money and the account. _

Foreign Stocks have shown less firmness. Italian
5 per Cents. have declined to 441 e ; Greek
Bonds I, to 12 121 ; Mexican Stock 1, to 15/ I ;
and Turkish 5 per Cents. /, to 328 33.

The annexed is from Messrs. Alexander Collie
and Co.'s Manchester Report :—During yesterday
and to day there has been even less disposition for
business than on Tuesday, and in the absence of
transactions the quotations then given are un-
changed.

The following are the latest current quotations of
same of the principal railway company shares :
Caledonians, 73 731 ; Great Eastern, 311 ; Great
Northern, 137 109 ; Great Western, 44 441 ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 122.1 to 1231 ; Brighton,
491 501; Metropolitan, 1151 1161 ; Midland,
1021 1031 ; North-Eastern (Berwick), 98 99 ; and
South Eastern, 661 671.

LIVERPOOL COTTON ILIARKE7-711is Day.

Market opens dull. Quotations unchanged.
Sales probably 8,000 bales.

LONDON G6ZEJ:TE.-LA6T EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 26.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Adolfo
Rivadcueyra as Vice-Consul in the Island of Ceylon, to
reside at Colombo, for her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. 11.
Le Boutillier as Consul at Gaspe Basin, Canada East, for
the United States of America.

COURSE OF EXCHAVGE.—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 18}
Ditto 3 Months. 12 Of
Rotterdam
A 12 01-
Antwerp
2i'. 35
Brussels
Hamburg
13 91
Paris
.... Short 25 12}
Ditto 3 Mouths.2s 30
Marseilles
Frankforl on the Maine _7 25 30
120-t
Vienna — 12 4U
Trieste — 12 40
Petersburgh - 31i
Berlin

11 19
12 1
12 1
25 40
25 40
13 10i
25 224
25 35
25 35

1201
12 45
12 45

Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto ..

484
48i
28 Bt.
28 85
28 K.
28 85
28 85
28 85
511
514

481
49
29 0
29 0
29 0
29 0
29
29 0
511
51i

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 27. Grenadier, from Shanghai; Provi-
dence, from Gravelines ; Vino, from Uddewalla.
Arrived, Dec. 28.—Moselle, from Antwerp ; Mary arKI
Annie, from Bruges; Jenny, from Dautzic.
Sailed—Charente, steamer, for Marseilles.
DEAL, Saturday Morning

Passed, Dec. 27.—Amber Nympb, for Demerara ; Secret,
screw steamer, for Bordeaux ; Rivalea, for St. Übes ; Char-
lotte Ann, for Nelson— all from London.

Anchored, Dec. 28. —City of Quebec, from Calcutta, for
London.

OFFICIAL GAB.—Some years since a graduate of
Yale was asked to contribute towards the support of a
society in that college whose object was to train young
men in public speaking. He refused and gave his reasons
therefor, which may be thus summed up _such societies
encourage "gab." There is too much "gab." It will be
the ruin of the American people. i won't give a cent to
your society. We wish that man, to us he is one of the
unhistoric names, could be censor of our official reports.
From the President down to the "humble individual"
wko sends in a bureau report to Congress, every
man of them has the disease of verbose continuance.
Congress needs information. We all wish it had more,
but it does not need the long, turgid communications
which for its sins officials are permitted to inflict upon it,
in the shape of " reports." Have these gentlemen no
idea that we live in thoughts, deeds, feelings, and not in
words? Do they know that this is an age of railroads
and telegraphs, that the pecuniary interest of the comin-
nity demands compactness of thought, clearness of infor-
mation, and brevity of expression? These officials are
veritable antediluvians impressed with the belief that
no more becoming contribution can be made to the
nineteenth century than long, turgid reports which
lumber the telegraph, encumber the newspaper, in-
increase the bills for Congressional printing and bore the
people. Their profusion of words covers their niggardli-
ness of ideas. We ask for a dozen on the half-shell, and
we get lots of shells, but no oysters. yVe wish every offi-
cial whose duty it is to report to Congress was compelled
to serve an apprenticeship to a daily journal. He would
learn that brevity improves the force of communications
and secures their reading. We are victims to " Webster's
Unabridged" and " Worcester's Dictionary." Will not
some " official " study "Pilgrim's Progress" before ho
writes his next Congressional report, and give us a plain,
brief, Anglo-Saxon statement of his own.— Watchman and
Reflector.