The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-20 00:00:00

THE FUNDS,

I e
I ° e ste r 1 ay closed 7911
After the Market 791,1
This morning opened 79H
After the close of the Market, yesterday, the
intelligence of the Emperor A LEKANBEIt'S death
(:)ccasioned some depression in Foreign Securities,
:t it did not materially affect Consols, which
however, done at s lower than the closing
NICp
This morning, Consols opened at the closing
Pslee of yesterday, 790-, and shortly fell to
05i. The number of money buyers in Reduced
s" gave an impulse to the Market, and Consols
Leached 801 ; at one o'clock the quotation was
B°l' but they soon after revived to SO4. In the
City,
there is a marked difference from the
4sPect of affairs last week--very little bustle,
/1(1 comparatively, no great extent of trans-
4ctinfts in the Stock Exchange. From most
"Ile of the country accounts continue favourable,
th regards the apparent stability of Banks—hut
Period of private embarrassment is evidently
aPi'r"ching. The immense mass of hills which
cannot be duly honoured, without the accustomed
kecornmodations from Bankers, must inevit-,
41,1 y occasion serious difficulties. This, however,
Will not affect the Bank of England—on whose
extent of issues nevertheless depends in a
great measure, the extent and the duration of
eNontercial embarrassment. It is not at present
afPnreltended, that the Exchanges will be so un-
st'uurable, as to create a demand for gold on the
e °4ltineut• The Bills for commercial purchases
daring the year, having already, for the most
Part, attained maturity, there cannot now remain
4? considerable balance, for which the foreign
merchants can draw upon this country. If the
(4)illicnis entertained on this subject prove cor-.
:"I` the Bank Directors may be enabled to
-Nslert their existing Stock and future purchases,
(I°ld, into that, which can alone enable them
defy the danger of a crisis, such as that through
-"jell they may be now perhaps said to have
Praised. The contingency of entire exhaus-
-1"of their coffers is believed to have been
apprehended, but. it was the deter.
30—"tion to persevere in cash payments to the last
~..I?"feigil- Then, and then only, would the pro-
17elarnation consequent on an Order in Council
appeared. Since Saturday there bas been an
luct"l"ed guard within the walls of the Bank, and
ievevai of the principal officers from the office in
II °w-atreet have been in daily attendance. In the
C2I/hiera Office to-day, there was no appearance
hustle beyond what is usual. Bank Stock
ha, advanced to 203. On India Bonds the dis-
"lts" has declined to 55. Between 12and 1 o'clock
witB announced at the East India House, that
41t"
the 19th of the present month, the rate of
Lite" on Bonds of the East India Company, ,
*ill be
advanced, from three, to four per
e" t• Exchequer Bills of 1,0001. on which a
.4
Isc(Rtnt was yesterday given of 90s. have been
"d to-day at only 365. On those of 1001. the
44c"ut is quoted ss.

FOREIGN.
P"eigti European Securities were affected
,h"efromratly, this morning,nus by the intelligence from
lia to the extent of between 3 and 4 per
t• but
they subsequently recovered. Russian
13°Ilds which were done in the morning at
:if—afterwards reached 79, from which, how-
l.") they receded to 75. Greek advanced to
174
z'—now 47; Spanish 9i.

Two o'CLocK.

Consols for Account, 80111.
lIALF-PAST TITO O'CLOCK.
Since one o'Clock the purchases of Money
Stockl have been very considerable, and Consols
l
47e been done at 80i 4 for Account—now SOI

Ihe Cheltenham Chronicle of yesterday's date
tsilaYs's.--" with feelings of 'regret we state,
at a respectable Banking Firm here stopped
PaYntent on Saturday, but are expected to re-
vi their payments in a few days.—The prin-
itat inhabitants of this place met on Saturday
af
lotertionn, and came to a resolution to take their
I "as usual." The name was given—but the
sup,,lC can duly appreciate the wisdom which
rrebsed it, should the event prove untrue.
,grettt quantity of bullion has arrived this
1/
'Ring at Itorruscumn's, and will go to the
~,elYockesterday morning, between ten and eleven
hitte,o the Secretary of Legstion arrived at the Prussian E
A, I-
rene house, in Mansfield-street, with dispatches for his x-
to 0.7, also with dispatches from the Duke of Cu gIIERLAND
allatsTy and Mr. Secretary CAN
thelY recent advices from Persia it appears, that
°lndian-pending_ accounts between that country and the Eas
4nclti,`::"lll.PanY have, at length, beenlsatisfactorily adjusted
eera 'at Air. NVillock was on the point of proceeding from Te-
llerBla t° Tabriz, to pay the balance to the Prince Royal of
aert• When this usiess is settled, it is confidently as-
f„_ed that Alr. Willobck'sn functions, as British Charge d, Af-
SZ" at the Court of Teheran, will cease, and that he will be
daireded by Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, who was, at the
of of the letters, on his way to that capital, in the character
government
from the Supreme Government of India; the. British.to
p___rnment having, some time ago, made over the mission
'll.lll to the East India Company.
letter from Paris states that the Bank of
"Ince had, within the week, thrown an enor-
41c'tis 541111 into circulation by discounts.

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,1/445?igt,
_7 I.,rif_kr,
F :40
nn 't 'q.• • ''eat!--*.'".''~y.
Zit of g
444'3kir,p. 0;
64.