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

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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
lions are still negotiable at 7a I per cent., so that
the business taken to the Bank of England continues
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yesterday into the bullion vaults of the Bank of
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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
year 1863 to haie been £16,308,474, of which
£4,323,400 was gold and the remainder silver.
The proportion from Southampton was £11,000,026,
and from Marseilles and otker 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
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At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram) the 3 per Cent. Routes 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 I, the prices being 91;
for money, and 91; 1 for the account. The
Reduced Annuities and New Threes are 91;1 ;
India 5 per Cents., 1061 4 ; Enfaced 5; per Cents.,
1131 ; the Bonds are quoted par ; and Exchequer
Bills, 9s. 4s. dis.
Foreign Stocks have been in greater favour this
morning, and general buoyancy has consequently
prevailed. tireek Bonds show an advance of ; per
cent., the prices being 25; 1; and the Coupons are
steady at 11; 1. Mexican have risen about I per
cent., viz., 37; 1. Spanish Passive remain firm at
33 I. Turkish Consolides have improved to 47f L
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, 10s.; and Mid-
land, 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull at
about former rates.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have, in most
Instances, exhibited a firmer tone. Imperial Otte-
Man have improved to 17.1 181; Chartered of India,
Australia, and China, 364; National Shipping Com-
pany are quoted 11 2 prem. ; West India and Pacific
Steam, 11 2 prem.; and ComolidatediDiscount Cor-
poration, 1; 2 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 234k
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll I
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Nev 3} per Cent. Annuities
New 2} per Cent. Annuities... —
6 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873
41-inuities, 30 yrs, expire bthJ an., P3BO —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock, 1874
Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870
Ditro 4 per Cent. 1888 —
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Ditto of per Cent
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Bank Stock for Account
Ditto bond 011,000 —
Ditto under £l,OOO par
Consols for Account, Jan. 7.. 9l} a
India Stock for Account, 6 per Cent —
Exchequer
Bills, £l,OOO, 2i k 3 per Cent. 4 9 dis
Ditto £5OO . dis
Ditto Small ..... ..
dis
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 4f per Cent., 1852-58-60
Ditto :1863
Buenos 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
4quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Lhilikua 6 per Cent.
Ditto 4f per Cent,
Dutch,
4 per Cent., 1363
-uutch, 2f per Cent., Ex. 12, Guilders
, Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
--..`4vptiari 7 per Cent lOO
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
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Ditto Account 25 f
Ditto Coupons
Ditto Account —
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
It 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent
..Ditto Account 361 7 6i 7i
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Ditto 2 per' Cent.
Ditto Deferred —
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares)
reruvian 3per Cent. ..
bitto Account
.... Ditto 4} per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account.. —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3
Ditto Account 49
Ditto, 1863
Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid
Ittissiati 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850..
Ditto 1860 —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 B9/
Sardinian 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto o
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Ditto 1) •evilt
Ditto Acco e .
Epaniala Certlintce
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Swedish, 4 per cent l3
Turkish 6 per Cent, ;:.
Ditto Accoum; ' 'B°4
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Ditto 6 per 'Jen. I: 4.8.6* ....... _
Ditto Acc'Junt .. ..8
Ditto 6 y.eer Lent. 1862"' :
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Ditto Account ............. 70
Ditt'..!, £lOO Bonds . . ..............
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863
Ve.nenuela 3 per Cent. .................. ....
.ciNtto Account
ditto 6 per Cent., 1852 ........
Ditto Account ....... . 611
Dividends on the above payable in London.
-Dutch2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Gun ........
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
Ditto Account...,
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 7ot
Ditto Account....
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... 70
Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 88. 3d. paid.... Pm
.Consols, Money ........... TWO O'CLOCK.
..... 91i A
Ditto Account .................
....... 911

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Da'
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Cotton market remains quiet and
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bable sales about 3,000 bales, half epee.
andy export.

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TUE WATERLOO ROAD 1111:IRDER.—.0
reiat efforts
are being made to induce the Home SeeretEwy to
2.e"lnillend her Majesty to commute the sentence
Samuel Wright, convicted for the murder of Maria Green
la the Waterloo-road on the 13th inst, A numerously
'sigaEd petition is being prepared in the borough of Lam-
be:h in favour of the commutation; and, with the same
object, a public mee',ing is to be held on Thursday evening
at the National Laths, Westminster-road. Should these
efforts
P-CGVO unavailing, it is understood that the execu-
tion will take place at Horsemonger-lane Goal on the first
Tuesday in January next. The prisoner still preserves the
same coot and collected manner which has characterised
his conduct throughout. He is described by those of his
fellow-workmen employed in the same establishment as a
quiet and inoffensive man. The prisoner still asserts that
the unfortunate occurrence took place by the deceased
talr., first taking up a knife and endeavouring to stab
lu her excitement aggravpted by drink.