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Do 6 per Cent. 1858
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NONEY MARKET

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COAIMEROI iL IN TELLIGENCZ,

Two o'CLocx.

Very little business has been going on to-day in
the City, the attendance having been reduced to
the minimum ; in fact, no engagements seem to
have been made beyond those absolutely necessary.
At Lloyds, the Jerusalem, and other centres of
City commerce, the dealings entered into have been
devoid of any special interest.
At the Stock Exchange the transactions have been
very limited, and many of the quotations have been
depressed in consequence of the prevailing inactivity
incidental to the midst of the holiday season. Con-
scls'are 894 j- for money, and 891 90 for the ac-
count. The New Threes and Reduced are 88k
89i ; Annuities, 1385, 12/ ; Exchequer Bills, 9s.
prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 1071 4 ; ditto Enfaced
6 per Cents., 1001 1; ditto 51 per cents., 105 1;
and ditto Debentures, 1004.
Foreign Stocks are very inactive and show slight
decline. Turkish 5 per Cents. have receded 1, to
32k ; Mexican 17 to 181 ; Greek j, to 13k 14 ;
Spanish Passive, however, remains firm, at 201 1 ;
the Certificates, at 131 j ; Italian Stock has also
fallen 1, to 554 I.
The New Russian Loan Scrip continues•flrm, at
I premium.
In the Railway Share Market there is not much
animation, the dealers being chiefly engaged with
the liquidation ; in some instances, however, more
firmness prevails. Midland and South- Eastern
have each advanced 10s., and North Stafford, 1 ;
while Great Northern have declined bs. ; London,
Chatham, and Dover, and North-Western, each 1;
and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are very quiet,
and show no material alteration in values.

American securities are rather heavy. United
States 5-20 Bonds have declined if to 72 Erie
Shares remain at 46 47, while Illinois have advanced
to 781 791.
Bank shares are quiet at about former rates.
Alliance are dealt in at 181 and Consolidated at 4/ f.
In the Miscellaneous Market prices generally re.
main steady. Anglo-American Telegraph are
marked 151 16i ; Credit Foncier of England, 31 ;
General Credit, 4f ; and National Discount Com-
pany, 141.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING:PRICES.
Gc VERNMENT FUNDS.
3 Der Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Jan. 10 B9l 90
a por Cent. Reduced BB} 9}
New 3 per Cent BB} 9}
New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 .—
Do. 5 per Cont. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs 124
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug.,1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 9pm
Do
Do. £5OO
)e II pm
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£lOO & £2OO „ Pill
Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent ...
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Liman otock, 101 per Cent., Apri11874...
Ditto for Account —
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 lO4 5
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent, Aug. 1873
Do. Bouds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO Pm
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 1865
Do Account —
~ Do. £lOO Bonds —
zuenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do. Account
Do .ClOO Bonds
U.. DJ 2 pe
p r Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
utlian 6 er Cent —
Do. 8 per Cent.
Do. 6 per Cent A —
,
Do. B — oJlombian, 6 per Cent.
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 5 per
Principalities
Jo. Account
r,quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant
Do Deferred
6SYptian 7 per Cent —
Do., Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864 —
Do £lOO Bonds B3l 8
Do. Government Railway Debentures B5 1 44 54
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-b, ex Coupons 131
)o Account
„ do. Coupons
uuttetnala 5 per Cent.
It i/ian 5 per Cent 1865
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Railway —
11exicar 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Dn. 1864 l2l
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
Alontevidean 6 per Cent. . —
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 3 per Cen
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Ueruvian 5 per Cont., 1865
no Account —
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent, 1862
P Do Account
ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 434 4 34
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 41 per Cont. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pox Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862
no 5 per Cent. 1864
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid 864 1
Do. do. £lO paid
Bardiuian 5 per Cent
Q Do. Account
'Panish 3 per Cent
Du Acccuut
Do New Deferred 321
~ Do Account
Do Passive 2Ol
Acc,unt —
'Panish Cert. of Coup not funded l3l
t, Do Account —
'lvedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1861
Scrip, dis
L urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 7B

r, .dOO Bonds -
1-'0 6 per Cent. 1862
,Do £lO3 Bonds
806 per Cent., 1863 _
5
Do. A per Cccount ent., 1865
1)0. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed —
Venezuela 3 per Cat.

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There has been a fair inquiry for money in the
open market this morning, and the rates charged
for the negociation of first class paper range from
38 to 31 present.
The shares of the Belgian Public Works Com-
pany have improved their price to 11 to 11 prem.
The following are the latest prices of bullion from
the list of Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmid :—Bar
gold, 77s 93 ; do. parting, 77s 104 d ; Spanish
doubloons, 74s to 75s ; Mexican do. and South .Ame-
rican, 73s 9d to 74s ; United States Eagles, 76s 21d
per standard ounce. Bar silver, 5s 01 id ; do. con-
taining gold (5 gr. and upwards), 5s lid ; Mexican
dollars, 4s 11. d ; and cake silver, 5s sid per stan-
dard ounce.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are steady at 54 56, and the Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds at 41i 42.
The directors of the North British Railway have
issued a statement of the liabilities of the company
at the end of July last, with a proposition as to
the manner in which the emergency may be met.
The liabilities amounted to £1,875,625, and this
sum they propose to liquidate by the creation of a
special preference stock with a dividend not exceed-
ing 5. per cent. per annum ; this stock to rank on
the revenues of the company immediately after the
interest on loans and dividends on debenture stocks.
The directors consider that this is, under the cir-
cumstances, a fair and beneficial arrangement for
all classes of the shareholders, and will not
materially increase the burden upon revenue. They
also indicate their intention, should circumstances
warrant, of applying to Parliament for permission
to postpone, vary, or abandon works already
sanctioned, and of creating a lien over the revenues
of such executed works as they may resolve to
proceed with, which will give undoubted security
to the parties furnishing the capital.

Do Account
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Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do. G per Cent, 1864
Ditto 11 per .
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 pt. Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
BAgian, 4 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch i per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251. —
Italian 3 per Cont. 1831, Ex. 25f.
to. 5 per Cent. Accourt
THREE O'CLOCK.
89f
89i 90

Consols, Money
Do. Account, Jan. ~

Liverpool Cottoi Market—This Day.
Market opens with a brisk demand. Sales pro•
ably 13,000 bales or more.

EX `)EDITION TO MAT £O-GR0330.

AWFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE BRAZILIANS.

Our readers will remember that newly two years
ago a well-equipped Brazilian force started overland
from Rio Janeiro to re-conquer from the Para-
guayans the province of Matto-Grosso. The ex-
pedition was fully supplied with provisions, moun-
tain artillery, &c., and accompanied by a corps of
Engineers to effect a passage through the woods,
mountains, &c., that intervened. The same journey
was made by the Spaniards in the 17th century,
but the present expedition found insuperable dif-
ficulties. At one time they were delayed two
months in crossing a river Dot marked on any
map, and the men were constantly occupied in
killing enorrnow snakes, as will be seen from the
first part of the diary over a year ago at Rio and
reproduced in our columns.

We now take from the Sly° the following melan-
choly account of the second year of the expedition :
" A correspondence, dated August 14, from the
banks of the Rio Dabaco, gives a most heart-rend-
ing account of the sufferings and privations of the
expedition to Matto- Grosso. The soldiers, reduced
to hunger and nakedness, died in great numbers and
amid the most horrible sufferings; the first symptom
was a swelling of the legs, after which the patient
wore away and lost all strength. The prices for the
commonest articles were exorbitant--a hard dollar
for six sheets of letter paper, and ten dollars for a
bottle of brandy.

" The Paraguayans had evacuated Miranda,
but kept all the roads guarded ; their forces still
held the banks of the Aquidauna, and the following
places :—Port Souza, Maria Dominguez, Taqua-
russu, Furquilha, and Nioac.
" The Brazilians counted on assistance from the
tribes of Guaycurues and Galdocos, who had been
armed with Minie rifles.

" It must be borne in mind that the Brazilians
hare never lost possession of the capital, Cuyaba,
but all the other important points, Curumba, Fort
Coimbra, Olympo, &c., are in the power of the
Paraguayans."—From the Standard of Buenos
Ayres.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY TELEGRAPH.

Gu.avEsExn, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 25 —Behrena,from Memel.

Arrived, Dec. 26—Hannah, from Guernsey; Bleneatha,
from Shanghai ; Eliza Forbes, from Dantzie ; Orion,
steamer, from Rotterdam ; Holland, ;steamer, from Ostend,
_ _

Sailed—Vigilant, steamer, for Calais ; Rosa Eliza, for
Dieppe ; Panther, steamer, for Boulogne ; Sir R. Pee],
steamer, for Dunkirk.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Theusia, from London, for Buenos Ayres
Elizabeth, from London, for Bathurst,

UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRAYGEMENTS.

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Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday
evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening
mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock
p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6
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half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's
mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day,
by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning
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3 oz., 6d.; above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an
addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 16
ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At
the same rate of postage, any pamphlet not weighing more
than 8 oz (even though it be not a periodical publication)
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This postage is only the British portion, a further sum
being charged on delivery. The periodical works
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the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or
books (except those specified above), addressed to the
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There must be no writing, or other marks upon such
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Any other writing, &c., will render the paeketsliable to
letter rates of postage,

A POOR PARSON'S Roo3l.—lt was a wretched,
poverty-stricken room. By degrees the carpet had dis-
appeared, which had been laid down some nine or ten years
since, when they had first come to Hoggelstock, and which
even then bad not been new. Now nothing but a poor frag-
ment of it remained in front of the fire-place. In the
middle of the room there was a table which had once been

largo ; but ono flap of it was gone altogether, and the other
flap sloped grievously towards the floor, the weakness of
old age having fallen into its legs. There wore two or
three smaller tables about, but they stood propped against
walls, thence obtaining a security which their own strength
would not give them. At the further end of the roomthore
was an ancient piece of furniture, which was always called

"papa's secretary," at which Mr. Crawley customarily sat
and wrote his sermons, and did all work that was done by
him within his house. The man who had made it, some time
in the last century, had intended it to be a locked guardian
for domestic documents, and the receptacle for all that
was most private in the house of some paterfamilias. But
beneath the hands of Mr. Crawley it always stood open ;
aud, with the exception of the small space at which he
wrote, was covered with dogs-eared books, from nearly all
of which the covers had disappeared. There were there
two odd volumis of Euripides, a Greek Testament and
Odyssey, a duodecimo Pindar, and a miniature Anacreon.
There was half a Horace—the two first books of the Odes
at the beginning, and the Do Arto Poetica at the end, hav-
ing disappeared. There was a little bit of a volume of
Cicero, and there were Caesar's Commentaries, in two
volumes, so stoutly bound that they had defied the com-
bined ill-usage of time and the Crawley family. All these
were piled upon the secretary, with many others—odd
volumes of sermons and the like; but the Greek and Latin
lay at the top, and showed signs of most frequent use.
There was one arm-chair in the room—a Windsor chair,
as such used to be called, made soft by an old cushion in
the back, in which Mr. Crawley sat when both he and his
wife were in the room, and Mrs. Crawley when he was
absent. And there was an old horsehair sofa—now almost
denuded of its horsehair—but that, like the tables, required
the assistance of a friendly wall. Then there was half a
dozen of other chairs—all of different sorts—and they
completed the furniture of the room. It was not such a
room as one would wish to see inhabited by a beneficed
le rgyman of the Church of England; but they who know
what money will do and what it will not will understand
how easily a man with a family and with £l3O a year may
be brought to the need of inhabiting such a chamber,—
The Last Chronicle of Barset.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—Boxing-day is invariably
great with the holiday folk at Madame Tussaud's
Exhibition, and on the present occasion it has lost none
of its hitherto universal great popularity. Visitors have
been pouring in since its opening this morning, and we
feel convinced that all are well pleased with the " thousand
and one" objects which are to be seen in the various
galleries of the exhibition. The life-size portrait models
of our kings and queens, from the Norman monarch to
that of her present most gracious Majesty, appear to at li
-
tract no small amount of interest. The costumes of the
figures having been carefully studied front illuminated
manuscripts, and the effigies in the tombs in the cathedrals
in which their remains were interred. Every visitor is
recommended to purchase a catalogue, which contains an
ample explanation of the exhibition, and which will be
found to be an excellent guide to the study of English
history.

TIIE FISHERY CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE
AND ENoLAND.—The International Commission to revise
the Fishery Convention between France and England will
meat this week in Paris. Tho commissioners for England
are the Right Hon. Stephen Cava, M.P., Vico President
of the Board of Trado ; Air, G. Shaw Lefevre, M,P. (of the
late Deep Sea Visheries ,Commission); Mr. H. Goulburn,
of the Customs ; and Captain Hove, R.N., Naval Attach
at Paris.

CoNsoLATioN.—When Lord Cockburn was at
the bar he once defended a prisoner who, in spite of his
exertions, was sentenced to b hanged on the 17th of the
month. After the sentence the condemned man com-
plained to his counsel that he had not had justice.
" Never mind (said Cockburn), you'll have it on the 17th."