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

IIONEY MARKET

AND

COMMRCIAL 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
tions are still negotiable at 7a I 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
ailpments of specie to the East by the steamers of
the Peninsular and Oriental Company during the
Year 1863 to have 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 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. Renter's
telegram)
the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 661. 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
atisen 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 91i
for money, and 911 _a for the account. The
Reduced Annuities and New Threes are 9111 ;
India 5 per Cents., 1061 g ; Enfaced 5i per Cents.,
1131 4 ; 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. Ureek Bonds show an advance of I per
cent., the prices being 251 I; and the Coupons are
steady at 111 Z. Mexican have risen about i per
emt., viz., 378 Z. Spanish Passive remain firm at
33 4, Turkish Consolides have improved to 478 Z,
Which is a rise of i 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, 108. ; and Mid-
land, 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull at
about iormer rates.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have, in most
instances, exhibited a firmer tone. Imperial Otte-
man have improved to 174 181. ; Chartered of India,
Australia, and China, 364; National Shipping Cotn-
Pally are quoted 2 prem. ; West India and Pacific
Steam, 11; 2 prem.; and ConeolidatediDiscount Cor-
poration, lf 2 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 234/
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9lk 4
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
N.,''''" 33/4 per Cent. Annuities
Yew 2f per Cent. Annuities....
6 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873
5-Lnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 188.5 —
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India Stock, 1874
Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870
Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 —
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent . .
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Ditto 5} per Cent
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66
Bank Stock for Account
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO —
Ditto under £l,OOO . ... par
Console for Account, Jan. 7
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent.. • • —9li &
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2t k 3 per Cent. 4 9 dis
Ditto £6OO .. •-- die
Ditto Small
-

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto, 1839 and 1859
Ditto 4} 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
.c.quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Lliilia.o 6 per Cent.
.., Ditto 4f per Cent,
,llatish 4 per Cent~ 1863
-uutch, 2f per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders
-, Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant —
t4/' v p tiau 7 per Cent lOO
Ditto, Second Issue -
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons..
Ditto Account 2sh
Ditto Coupons —'
Ditto Account —
6uateruala 5 per Cent.
1 Ditto
sper Account —
xst'Llian Cent.(slaremmana Railway)
•"kelliCall 3 per Cent
Moorish
Account •. 36/ 7 6a 7}
New
Imperial 5 per Cent
44e..,w Granada —
Ditto 2 per Cent. —
Ditto Deferred
p Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
etuvian 3per Cent. ..
!lift° Account —
P Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862
°,-,rtuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account.. —
Ditto 3 per C t 1856, '7, '9,
en ~ '6o, 62;3
Ditto Account • • • 49
Ditto, 1863
Ditto Scrip, £l6 paid
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 _
Ditto 1860 --
Ditto Ditto 3 per Cent 1859
SardinianDitts:6ecropuneCretcnet..:tlB62 ..
891
Ditto Account
ANcezvo,
Spanish 3 per Cent
uDnetfarr d —
Ditto Account e .....
Ditto
Paesivo
Ditto Account :: *******************
Spanish Cert. •of * cc:" "•• •• • • ••"" —
I)itto Account . uP not funded —
Swedish, 4 per CeZt:
Turkish 6 per Cont. 18:54
Ditto
Account. .... . .............
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
701
Ditto Account .................
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 ................ 71'
Venezuela 3 per Cent. ................ --
Ditto Account -.
Ditto 6 per Cent,, 1862 ..
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch2l per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
'renoh Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f —
~ Ditto Account...
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861.
bitto Account....
, Ea. 25 francs 7Ol
1
70
Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 88. 3d. paid — Pm
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols' Money
.Uitt,oAccount
... .... 91+. i

Liverpool Cotton Market—Thi Da.

Cotton market remains quiet and steady, pro
bable sales about 3,000 bales, half spec.
4"1 export

TUE WATERLOO ROAD MURDER.---Great eeorts
Ore being made to induce the Home Secretary to
reeulnmend her Majesty to commute the sentence of death
.11 Samuel Wright, convicted for the murder of Maria Green
'a the Waterloo-road on the 13th inst. A numerously
6,igabd petition is being prepared in the borough of Lam-
ueth in favour of the commutation; and, with the same
(le.abfjoerett'spar(.l3v neblic meeting is to be held on Thursday evening
at the National Baths, Westminster-road. Should these
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
ilsaitn ceo cool and collected manner which has characterised
nduet throughout. He is described by those of his
fellow-workmen employed in the same establishment as a
t'llllt,let and inoffensive man. The prisoner still asserts that
wonauanfortuaate occurrence took place by the deceased
Lim i first taking up a knife and endeavouring to stab
u her excitement aggravated by drink,