The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-17 00:00:00

1865 100 102
1872 100 101

Ct., let mortgage ..
Increased animation has prevailed in the Rail
way Share Market and a further improvement has
taken place in the rates current for most of the
principal British undertakings. North Westerns
have advanced 55.; Bristol and Exeter, Caledo-
nians, Midlands, and North Eastern (Berwick),
los.; Eastern Counties, and Lancashire and York-
shire, 155. ; Great Northern, Great Western, £1 ;
and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South
Easterns, £1 to £1 los.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
also tended upwards. South Austrian and Lom.
bardo Venetian have improved ss. Grand Trunk
of Canada 10s. ; Great Western of Canada, ss. ;
East Indian, 55.; and Great Indian Peninsula ss.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
been in good demand at slightly enhanced quota-
tions. Union of London have improved 55.; Aus-
tralian Agricultural, 10s.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
2311
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities • 93 2/
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93 2f
India Stock
Ditto Enlaced Paper, per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 1858
Dltto Bonds £l,OOO lO die
Console for Account, Jan. 10
India Stock for Account
Ditto 5 per Cent. for Account
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1852
Ditto, 1860
Russian .5 per Cent. 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent 941 51
_ 1,

Sardinian 6 per Cent.
Turkish 6 per Cent • • --
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan . • • . —
Ditto Account
/
Ditto £lOO Bonds • 6O
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK
Consols for Account, ex div.

TBIS DAYS MIFFING.

LONDON, Dec. 17„Wind this day at noon—North,
strong breeze, cloudy, with rain and sleet in the morning.
PLYMOUTH, INC. 15.—Wind N.W.rrivedßerwick
(ecrew steamer), from Gibraltar ; Sorme, from Rotterdam Sat
for Boston, rith mainmast sprung.
BRISTOL, Dec. 16 —Wind W.—Armed—Woodlark,
from Mauritius ; Mary Jane, from Montreal.
WEYMOUTH, Dec. 16.—Wind, N.N.W.—Arrived-
Billow, from New York.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH•) sti
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning• at,

Wind N.N.W.
Arrived, Dec. 15—Rival, from Jersey ; Duke of Corn •
well, steamer, from Dublin ; Southampton, steamer, from st,
Jersey; Havre, steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Duke of Cornwall, steamer, for London. sti
Arrived, Dec. 16—Minerva, from Boston Providence, •st
from Cork; Atalanta, steamer, from Guernsey; Brilliant, gett
from Jersey.
Sailed—Hope, for Swanage ; George and Henry, and
Comet, for Cowes.

BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind ; tido last hour's ebb; cloudy, with sleet.
Arrived—Arcturus and Myst4y, from Rotterdam ;
H
ar
-
binger, from Archangel ; Jane, from Amsterdam ; St.
Joseph, fr m Gravelines ; Ann and Margaret from Amster-
dam ; Margaret and Jane, from Hamburg ; Sir G. Brown,
from Malmo; Lark, from Antwerp ; Madelina, from Sun-
nesund ; Metropolis, steamer, from Guernsey ; Gladiator,
steamer, from Lisbon.
Arrived, Dec.l7.—Elizabeth, from Preaste; Giffords,from
Bruges.
Sailed, Dec. 17.—Wanderingsmandens, for Chistiansen.
DEAL, Monday Morning.

Wind N.E., fresh.
Passed—Gleaner, for St. Michael's; Alma, for Cardiff;
Eliza Ann, for New Orleans; Theresa, for Rio Janeiro ;
Effort, for Corfu ; Zodiac, for the Cape of Good Hope ;
Eugenie, for Havre—all from London.

" We are glad to state," says the Malta rbserver,
" that telegraphic communication is again open between
Malta and Sicily, and, consequently, with England and the
Continent."
Mr. C. Kean is about to proceed on a " starring"
tour through the United States.
Messrs. Longman will publish immediately
" Melusina," a new Arabian Night Entertainment.
Messrs. Blackwood announce the " History of
the Greek Revolution': from the pen of Mr. Finlay.
M. Dupont White has translated Mr. John
Stuart Mill's essay on "Liberty," into French.
M. Meyerbeer's " Schiller March" is now to be
had, "transcribed" for the pianoforte, by Dr. Liszt.
Mr. Norman Robert Pogson has been appointed
Astronomer at the Madras Presidency.—Athe;accum.
Mr. Tweddell, of Bury, has in the press a second
edition of his work, " Shakspere, his Times, and Contem-
por
Inaries." -
the January number of " Temple Bar," Mr
Sala will commence anew serial story, entitled, " The Seven
Bona of Mammon,"