The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-01 00:00:00

!TONEY MARKET

- 'AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Stock Exchange has been closed by order of
the committee,• and a holiday generally observed.
The Money Market is active, and the brokers
evince a disinclination to take even the best short-
dated paper at less than the official minimum, and
there are many who would not be surprised if a
further advance were made on Thursday in the
Bank rate to check the outflow of the precious
metals.

The advices from most of the manufacturing dis-
tricts represent that the observance of the Christmas
holidays has in a great measure caused a suspension
of business operations during the past week ; a
cheerful tone, however, prevails in most depart-
ments.

The Asia has arrived from America with £3,047.
The amount of £50,000 in sovereigns was taken
out of the Bank on Saturday afternoon for Alex-
andria, and £12,000 in bar gold for the continent.
It has been announced that Mr. Crum Ewing,
M.P., and Mr. Frederick Lubbock have joined the
board of the Colonial Company.
The directors of the St. John d'el Rey Mining
Company (Limited) have received per Douro the
following report, dated Morro Velho, November 29,
1865 :—Produce, second division of November, 10
days, 13,189 oitavas ; yield, 8.030 oitavas per ton.
Continued deficiency in water power. Remittance
received, 94,361 oitavas.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.
SATURDAY.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Jan. 9
86f
3 per Cent. Reduced
1
New 3 per Cent B6 ft
New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Ceut. Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 6 3
6 3
Do. £5OO
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent
Do Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 104 per Cent., AprillB74 —
Do Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 54 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 984
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Pm
Do. under £1 000 —
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent -
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 1865
41
Do Account 7 51
Do. Scrip, £25 paid
Baenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do. Account
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Chili= 44 per Cent
Do. 3 per Cent —
Colombian 6 per Cent.
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, .£25 paid —
Danubian Principalities
Do Account 75
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
Egyptian 7 per Cent
Do., Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds ~, —
Do. 1864 914
Do £lOO Bonds 92
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account —
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent. —
Do .£B6 paid
-
Do. 1839 and 1850
-
Italian 5 per Cent, 1865 -
Do. Account
Do. Maremmana Railway
Do Scrip, .£671 paid
Do 5 per Cent., 1864
Mexican 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Dn 1864
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French.....
Do French. Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c
Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent .....
New Granada .. .
Do 2 per Cent -
Do Deferred .... . .... •
Do Land Warranis (Hectares) ....
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864
Peruvian 44 per Cent ....▪ ....
Do. Account .................... ........ ...
_.. -
Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in .BOncl;
DDo 3 per Cent. (Uribarren)
041 per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 185'3 . ... -.
Do Apex Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, —}
Rccoun ........ .. . . . ..............
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, X. St
—461
Do 41 per Cent. 1850 .............
Da 41 per Cent., 1860 ........ 89 4
Do 3 per Cent. 1859
1 454
Do 5 per Cent. 1862
89
Do 5. per Cent. 1864
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Do Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto account
Do New Deferred
Do Account
—Do Passive
SpanishDo Account .. . . ......... . . ... .. .
Cert. of Coup not funded
DoAccount ...... . ..........
Swedish 4 per Cent. ..
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854.
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account -
Do. 11 per Cent —
Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account
—Do £lOO Bonds - i
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —Do 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Scrip, £35 paid
Do Account
Do £ICO Bands
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed —
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austria; 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian 41 per cent. Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 re" (lout., Ex. 12 Guil Do. 4 per Cent. CertificaLes
French Rentes 3 per Cent. --
Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. —
Consols for money TWO O'CLOCK.
D.
Do. Account,

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We have reason to believe that her Majesty has
signified her intention to confer the Grand Cross of
the Bath, left vacant by the death of Lord Palmerston,
on Sir Robert Peel. The circumstances under which this
mark of Royal favour is conveyed. are peculiar. In the
desire to make some acknowledgment of Sir Robert's en-
ergetic and effective assistance, the 'Government had
already offered him a peerage ; but the right hon. gentle-
man, for the second time within fifteen years, courteously
declined the proffered dignity ; preferring, as his father
had done before him, to remain in that House of Parlia-
ment which is the real vantage-ground of political action.
The same reasons will scarcely apply to the present dis-
tinction, which, although not in popular estimation so
exalted; is unattended by the inconvenience of carrying
With it any practical change of position ; while it yet pos-
sesses a considerable significance, The Grand Cross is
seldom conferred upon civilians, unless they are already
of noble rank; and we are not aware of any commoners
who actually hold it, except three or four, and they are,
or have been, Cabinet Ministers. Nor do we recall any
precedent of its bestowal on a statesman still so young as
Sir Robert Peei.
We understand that Mr. Edward Buller, the
member for North Northamptonshire, is to be created a
baronet.
THE CORPORATION Op LONDON AND THE CATTLE
PLAGUE.--A Anal meeting of the Cattle Plague
Committee appointed by the corporation of London for the
purpose of endeavouring to establish sanatoria for the
treatment of cattle afflicted with the plague was held on
Saturday, at the Mansion-house, for the Purpose of wind-
ing up its affairs. The committee having in vain endea-
voured to induce the Government to sanction the rinciple
of establishing sanatoria in different districts of the metro-
polis, and the proposal having also been regarded very
apathetically by the public, so far as the subscription of
money Was concerned, the committee, at a meeting held in
October last, resolved that it was useless for them to act,
as no good was likely to result from their proceedings, and
it was agreed that the money which had been received
should be returned after the necessary expenses had been
deducted. Mr. Gibbs, the secretary to the committee, now
reported that the total amount of money received was
£1,650, which included a donation of £l,OOO by the cor-
=lon_ of London, and several other sums from dif-
raeat uitY companies and persons connected with the
ardly
tide in the metropolis, the general public having
subscribed h
expended, anything to the fund. The amount
principally in advertising, was a little over
£l6O, or about 10 per cent. on the sum' received ; and a
formal resolutioco
returned. The co •passed that the money should be
lonlittee than separated,