The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-23 00:00:00

TIONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The position of the discount market still denotes
an abundant supply with a comparatively moderate
demand. The quantity of paper on offer this morn-
ing is by no means excessive, and first class descrip
'ions are still negotiable at 7a 4 per cent., so that
the business taken to the Bank of England continues
moderate.

A further supply of gold, viz, £17,000, was sent
yesterday into the bullion vaults of the Bank of
England.
Business in the City is extremely quiet, owing to
the preparations for the Christmas holidays.
A statement just published gives the total
shipments of specie to the East by the steamers of
the Peninsular and Oriental Company during the
sear 1863 to have been £16,308,474, of which
£4,325,400 was Auld and the remainder silver.
The proportion from Southampton was £11,000,026,
and from Marseilles and other Mediterranean
ports £5,308,448. Last year the total by these
steamers was slightly larger—namely, £16,907,415,
but in 1863 a sum of £5,284,829 has been shipped
by the steamers of the Messageries Imperiales, in-
cluding £3,091,492 in gold for Constantinople and
Egypt.

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 40c.
Quiet.

Very little alteration has resulted from the trans-
actions entered into to-day in the market for the
English Funds, but upon the whole the tendency of
prices has indicated greater firmness. This has
arisen principally from the favourable specie move-
ment and a more confident feeling regarding the
progress of monetary and political affairs abroad.
Consols are at advance of 1, the prices being 91t
for money, and 911 for the account. The
Reduced Annuities and New Threes are 9111 ;
India 5 per Cents., 1061 4 ; Enfaced 51 per Cents.,
1131 ; the Bonds are quoted par ; and Exchequer
Bills, 9s. 4s. dig.
Foreign Stocks have been in greater favour this
morning, and general buoyancy has consequently
prevailed. Greek Bonds show an advance of 1 per
cent., the prices bein4 259: ; and the Coupons are
steady at 11-1- z. Mexican have risen about / per
cent., viz., 371 9. Spanish Passive remain firm at
33 1. Turkish Consolides have improved to 474 7,-,
Which is a rise of * per cent., while the Confederate
Loan, after touching 39 41, has descended to 38 40.
In the Railway Share Market the operations
have been of moderate character, and prices gene-
rally show increased firmness, Great Eastern,
North Western, North Eastern (Berwick), and
South Eastern have improved ss. ; Great Western,
and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 103. ; and Mid-
land, 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull at
about 7ormer rates.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have, in most
instances, exhibited a firmer tone. Imperial Otte-
man have improved to 171 189 ; Chartered of India,
Australia, and China, 361; National Shipping Com-
pany are quoted 111 2 prem. ; West India and Pacific
Steam, it 2 prem.; and ConeolidatedlDiscount Cor-
poration, 1/ 2 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Rank Stock 2344
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 914 $ 4
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Net 4 35 per Cent. Annuities
New 24 per Cent. Annuities.. ••••
5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 -
A.unuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4 13-16
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock, 1874 —
Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870
. Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 —
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto 55 per Cent
Ditto ditto April, 1861
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
:tank Stock for Account
D:tto bonds £2.000 —
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account, Jan, 7 915 1
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2; & 3 per Cent 4 9 dis
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859
Brszilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ..
Ditto 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto :1863
r, uen o a Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account —
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd
Ditto Scrip. 1863, £3O paid
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Xquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent..
L,tulian 6 per Cent —
Oitto 44 per Cent,
'Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders
Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
100
ptian 7 per Cent
Ditto, Second Issue .. 994 i
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
1
Ditto Account
Ditto Coupons —
Ditto Account
Guatemala 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account —
ttalian 6 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway)
t.texican 3 per Cent
„ Ditto Account . 364 7 61 74 61 74 7
Aloorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Ditto 2 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
3,, Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
4-15 ruvian per Cent. ..
Ditto Account
Ditto 44 per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account....
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, 'GO, 62,'3
49
Ditto
Ditto, AlBc c6o3u n t
Scrip, £l5 paid 1 01 14 pm
Russian. 6 per Cent , 1822, L St —
Ditto 45 per Cent. 1850
Ditto
Ditto 3 per Cent., 11885690 -
ae
SpanishDDiittnt asn per Cen t . 1862 .......... 891
84
94
per Cent
A3cr,ount ......
Ditto x per Cent
Ditto New
ccount
-I3t Deferred
Di tto Ireourit
Srr,ajnitiQshACceaaer°t7oB-ft ..
(-1::::: ::::::::::::::::
3:311
Ditto Account . -°IIP •not funded
wedish, 4 per ce'l
Darkish 6 per Cent. 18b%} •
":
Ditto Account .. •.. -Ditto 6 per Cent: 1.86 if
Ditto Account
i ....... 694
1 g 4 Al 1
Ditto 6 per Cent. 862
Ditto Account ................ .71 4 wil. 7.1 -
Ditto, rioo Bonds. .................. • -. ‘-' 4 1
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 ............. 714
Vfmezuela 3 per Cont. .............. ......... Joitto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch2s per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 44 per Cent,, Ex. 25f —
Oitto Account ......
Ital inn, 5 per Cent., 1861 k.. : . •70s
... •
.. x. 20 francs T
Ditto Account...
704 4 i
Ditto Scrip (1863) X 42783. id* .. •... •
• pant — pm
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money .....................
Ditto Account ..
.....:
. . 914 4
. 915 i
hiB Day.
Liverpool Cotton Market —T

Cotton market remains quiet and steady, pro,
bable sales about 3,000 bales, half spec.
"d export

TUE WATERLOO ROAD MURDER.—Great efforts
tire being made to induce the Home Secretary to
recommend her Majesty to commute the sentence of death
'4l Samuel Wright, convicted for the murder of Maria Green
In the W aterloo-road on the 13th inst. A numerously
petition is being prepared in the borough of Lam-
-elh in favour of the commutation ; and, with the same
object, a public meeting is to be held on Thursday evening
at the National Baths, Westminster-road. Should these
efforts prove unavailing, it is understood that the execu-
tl6ll will take place at Horsemonger-lane Goal on the first
,t
'me cc,:i
usday:
andJa January next. The prisoner still preserves the
collected manner which has characterised
0 conduct throughout. He is described by those of his
fellow-workmen employed in the same establishment as a
d inoffensive man. The prisoner still asserts that
thce, unfortunate occurrence took place by the deceased
first taking up a knife and endeavouring to stab
h in her excitement aggravated by drink.