The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. 17, Two o'clock.—Agents and
speculators are busy with the fortnightly settlement
of miscellaneous and foreign stocks and shares. The
report has varied on Italian Fives from 2c. to 4c.,
and on Credit Mobilier there is a deport of from If.
to 75c. It is to-day that the trinestrial coupon is
detached from the French Threes, which are doing
at 68f. :90c. (ex-coup.), equal to a decline of sc.
Italian Fives are in active request ; they are now
quoted at 57f. 5c., with a rise of 4 per cent. The
principal feature of the market is the heavy fall on
Credit Mobilier ; this is due to a fear that the
January coupon will not be paid. These shares are
offered at 550 fr., showing a decline of 23f. 75c.
Spanish Mobilier are also badly sustained, at 303 f.
75c., with a fall of 11f. 52c. General Ottoman
Debt has, on the contrary, recovered 30c., and is
now quoted at 33f. 40c. Comptoir d'Escompte
lose sf.—at 850 f. French Railway Shares show
little variation. Lombard have declined 3f. 75c.
at 385 f., and are very weak.
Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :-
41 per Cents 9B Bank Shares 3600
Do. end month — Italian Loan. 57 30

3 per Cents. 6B 95
Do. end month 6B 90
Credit Mobilier 555
Do. end month
Credit Fonder —
Do. end month 1383 75

Do. end month 57 10
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
,WAYS.

Orleans For Account.
878 75
Northern 1195
Lyons and Mediterranean 895
Southern 582 50
Western. —
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 383 75
North of Spain ll5
Saragos:a 135
Ditto to Barcelona , _
Roman . —

SALE OF COPYRIGIITS.—The whole of the valu-
able copyrights, stereotype-plates, woodcuts, &c., of
Mr. S. 0. Becton's popular publications were yesterday dis-
posed of by public auction, at the rooms of Messrs. South-
gate and Co., 143, Strand, in consequence of the premises
being required for the new law courts. The principal
copyrights sold as under :—" Beeton's Illuminated Family
Bible," £2OO ; "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Manage-
ment," new edition revised, with entirely new cookery
plates, £3,250 (Weldon); " Beeton's Dictionary of Univer-
sal Information," £2,500 (Ward and Lock); " Beeton's
Book of Home Pets," including the Book of Birds, &c.,
£4OO (Lockwood) ; "Mm. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-
day Cookery," £350 ; " The Englishwoman's Cookery
Book," by Mrs. Isabella Becton, £2BO ; " Beeton's Handy
Book of Games," by Captain Crawley, £145; "Beeton's
Boys' Own Library," by James Greenwood, £300; " The
Adventures of Reuben Davidger, 17 years a captive among
the Dyaks of Borneo," and "Silas, the Conjuror, his Travels
and Perils"—by the same, £250; "Robinson Crusoe," by
Defoe, with memoir, £l5O ; " The Boys' Prize Book of
Sports, Games, Exercises, and Pursuits," £lOO ; " House-
hold Amusements and Enjoyments," £l5O. In all cases
the copyright, stereotype-plates, and other matters were
included. These, with a few minor copyrights, realised
£10,200 ; the stock sold the previous week yielded £8,960;
total, £19,160.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE.—Tho students at this
college leave for the Christmas vacation on Thursday next,
the 20th inst., and the South-Eastern Railway Company
have made special arrangements for their conveyance from
the Wellington College station, on tho Reading and Rei-
gate Branch. The vacation will extend over several
weeks. It is the intention of the senior boys to give a
concert bofore the school breaks up, under the direction of
Mr. Edmonds, the efficient organist of the college ohapel.
During the past few months a racquet-court of noble pro-
portions has been built in the grounds adjoining the col-
lege, and the work is now nearly completed.