The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. 29.—The market continues in the
same state, with prices unvaried, Threes, for the
Account, being now at 66fr. 45c. Mobilier is
slightly lower, the present price is 1,031 f. 250.
Railway Market heavy, The market closed ae
follows :

41 perrents 9l 25
Do. mid month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 40
Credit Mobilier 1C33 75
Do. end mont h 1033 75
Bank Shares 3270
Credit Fancier 1235
Roman

Italian Loan 7l 80
Do. end month 7l 50
Sew ditto
Do. end month - --
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52
Home Debt
Deferred

RAIL'

-AYES.
Cash. Account.
975 .. 975
971 25 .. 971 25

Orleans
Northern ..
New ditto —
Lyons and Mediterranean 935 933 75
New ditto BOO
Sputhern
Western
gastern

Sardinian.
Austrian
Lou.bard
North of Spain - .. 515
Saragossa .... 613 75 .. 613 75
Ditto to Barcelona .... 300 ..

The directors of the East London Bank have
determined upon increasing their capital from
£600,000 to £1,000,000, by the issue of 8,000 addi
tional shares of £5O each, at a premium of £1 10s,
per share, to existing proprietors in the proportion
of two for every three shares now held. The calls
already arranged are two in number, one of £2 on
the Ist February, and the other of £2 10s. is April
next, together with a deposit of £2 on the 4th
proximo. The amount that will be obtained by
the premium will be appropriated to the formation
of a reserve fund.

The directors of the Oil Wells Company of
Canada, satiefied by the personal visit of ono of their
board, and by the reports of their special commis-
sioners sent out from England to Canada, that it
would not be for the interest of the shareholders
to acquire possession of the oil wells and lands
(2,948 acres) in Western Canada, for the purchase of
which at £25,000 they had previsionally contracted,
and subsequently learning from their local agents
that many of the most productive wells in oil
springs' districts had ceased yielding any supply
except by the expensive process of pumping, have
recommended, in a circular recently issued, the re-
turn to the shareholders the amount of subscribed
capital without any deduction whatever, and the
dissolution of the company. The deposits are now
in course of repayment.

Kent, E.......
Reigate
Totness
Cambridgeshire
Lisburn
Somerset, \V
Cambridge
nevonport
Devizes
Chichester
Bandon

Antrim ..
Thetford 1
Dublin, Co.
Radnor
Ti alee
London

Deedes, W (d)
Monson, Hon. W. (p)
Giff,rd, Earl (d)
Ball, E. (r)
Richardson, J. J. (r)
Moody, C. A. (r)
Steuart, A. (r) ••• • ••
Seymour, Sir H. (r) • .
Gladstone, d . N. (d)
Freeland, H. W. (r)
Bernard, Colonel (d)

Upton, General (p)
Euston, Earl (p)
aamilton, J. li. (r)
Lewis, Sir G. C. (d)
O'Connell (o%)
wood, \V (d) ..

Dering, Sir E.
Gower, G. L.
Seymour, A.
Mannere, G.
Barbour, J. D.
Langton, W.H. G,
Powell, F. S.
Ferrand, W. B.
Addington,Hn.W,
Smith, J. A.
Bernard, H. B.

O'Neill, E.
Fitzroy, Lord F.
Hamilton, J. T.
Price, P. G.
O'Hagan, T.
Goschen G. T.

New Ross I Tottenham, C. (r) Tottenham, Col.
Kit sale lArnot, Sir J. (r) Colthurst, Sir G.
Lisburn
Berwick , Gordon, Capt. (d) Cargill, W. W.
Clare 'Calcutt, F. M. (d) O'Loghlen, Sir M.
Pontefract Milnes, R. M. (p) Waterhouse, Major
Montgomery Johnston, Capt. (d)... —Tracey, Hn. C. H.
Ludlow
Worcester W. Elmley, Viscount (p) Lygcn, Hon. F.
Tewkesbury .. Lygon, Hon. F. (r) (Seat: vacant)
Tamworth Raynham, Viact. (p) Peal J.
Coventry Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. (d) Treherne, M.
Barnstaple Potts, G. (d)
Reading Pigott, G. (off)
Windsor.. Hope, G. W. (d) Vyse, Col. H.
Oxford
Andover Cubbitt, W. (d) .. Humphrey, W. G,
Buckinghamsh, Cavendish, Hn. W. (p) (seat vacant)
In the foregoing table d. stands for death vacancy;
acceptance of office ; p., accession to the peerage ; r., re-
signation; e. v., election void. The number of changes has
been unusually great; the results slightly less favourable
to the Conservative cause than those of 1862 ; but then it
must be remarked that 1862 was an exceptionable year, the
Conservatives gaining six seats and losing none.
Not counting Lisburn we have lost three seats and
gained five. Two of the former, there is little reason to
doubt, will be repaired when opportunity offers—l allude
to East Kent and Barnstaple. Of our gains probably all
are permanent ones.
Since the last general election our gains have been 26 ;
our losses, 11. Thus
Dartmouth
Taunton
Aylesbury
Beverley
Ayrshire
Londonderry
Harwich
Boston
Leicester
Wilts, S.
Cork
Tynemouth
Lancashire, S.
Birkenhead
Oxtordshire
Lincoln
Grimsby
Wakefield
Yorkshire, N.
Southampton
Devonport
Lisburn
Pontefract
Coventry
Tamworth
Buckinghamshire
Total gains .... 26

Bodmin

Whitby
Berwick

Pontefract
Roscommon
Plymouth
Lincoln

Kent, E.
Lisburn

Montgomery
Barnstaple

Total loam ll

Let us now consider these Changes as affecting the state
of parties, and Lord Derby's chances of coming into
power :
NUMBERS IN DIVISION, JUNE 13, 1859.

For Lord Derby.... 310 I Against
Then for 1864

Subtract
Add

Showing a majority in favour of Lord Derby of fifteen
votes. In point of fact, there is strong reason to believe
that when the day of account arrives, as soon it will be, the
Whigs will be driven out by a majority even larger than
this.

The following table has been drawn up from year to year,
and may, I think, be relied upon :

JANVARY 1.

1864, 1863. 1862. 1861.
Conservatives.. 314
Peelites
Whigs 233
Radicals

It is not a little noticeable that the pure Whigs (save
the word I) are invariably the chief sufferers by electoral
changes. Fewer Whig vacancies are filled by Whigs than
occurs in the case of any other parties.

TAE CONDEMNED MURDERER IN KIRKDALE
GAOL.—Few criminals who have been inmates of
the condemned cell at Tilirkdale gaol have exhibited such
cheerfulness and firmness as the man Charles. He eats
and sleeps well, and converses freely with all who approach
him. It is very clear, from observations that have fallen
from him since his trial, that he never expected the jury
would convict him of the murder. On Friday he intimated
his desire to communicate with Mr. Pope, the learned coun-
sel who defended him, upon the subject of a memorial being
got up and sent to the Queen, asking that his life may be
spared. He was informed, either by the learned counsel or
another gentleman connected with the legal profession, that
it would be of no use to send a memorial to her Majesty ;
that the only thing which would be likely to affect the sen-
tence was for him to prove that he was not with the w.f.":
tunate woman on the night of the alleged murder. On th.ts
information being conveyed to Charles, he said he rou!.t.
in-
duce some of his friends outside" to get a petition,
expressing at the same rime his belief that it the circum-
stances under which he had been convicted were
fully set
forth and explained in the petition, the sentence of the kw
would not be carried out.--Manchester atmithan,