The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent 73
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863 • 6611 74
Do. 5 per Cent., 1.86:5
Ito Account. 774 4
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent B4
DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cabe, 6 per Cent.
C..illau 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent 67
tio. 6 per Cent., B —
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 9ll
Do., Scrip .£32 paid • —
C ,' rubirin, 6 per Cent.
unnisn 3p T Cent., 1825 ..
D nr.hian Pr:ncipalities, 7 per Cent 66
Do 8 per Cent.., 1867 634
E.. udor New Cou.-.olid.ted, t pc.r Cen
,:gy i,;1:11`, 7 per Cent —
),,. Se. oad Istqle ... . • -
D .. 15 o, 1-I.l;de
Do. £lO6 Bonds 914
1).. tmi-t
~.). f 5 ol lion,is —
D0..£100 Bonds .... 914 1
I iov.,11;1. e•tt ii.;t11,,, k ),-hi•iT,i,,, . ... 911 24 2
lircuk, 5 per Cent., 182-1-5, ex Coups. —
t t.,. Account
r)o. Account

C 1••,••,,,;.,:. :, 14— 1, ~,,, -
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 pi I pin
It ~at., .) V7l 1.1.71., 1660 -
Do. Account .. G9i
;k). Ilaremmana Ihtiway 456i
31-,iicaK 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
I.on. 1864 -
V; 1 per Cont. Anglo-French —
iontevidvan C per Cont. .. —
qoorish imperial 5 per Ceut
New Granada 124 I
Do 3 per Con —
_.. ... . -.

Do. 15efervad
?!o Litigt Warrants (Hectares)
Peraviau 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent., 18C2
Do Account
PJaaguese 3 per Ot., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'1• 391
R tssian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B7t 7
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do Is per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1t.,62
Do. Anglo-Dutcb, 1861, £lOO Bonds... 89* 9
Du. do. £B4 los. do. ...
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds...
Do. do. £B4 los. do —
Sa•-•huian, 5 per Cent —
Span.sh 5 per Ceu —
Do Ace,,,unt, ..
Do New Deferred —
Do Account
Do Passive... —
Do Acetant
Do Com. Cert. or Con,. not funded —
Do Account a —
Tu .kish 6 per Cent. —
uo Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do Account
Do .£10( Bonds 6O
Do. 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865 —
D,, Account
Do 6 per Cent, 1865 491 1
D., 1 per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
Do 6 per Cent. 1864 •
Dividends on the above payable iu Lonna,.
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ez. Zsf.
Do. Account 421 1
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 921
Do. Account

MARKETS—(I his Day.)

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

SUGAR.—There is no revival of demand, and the few
passing transactions are at moderate rates. Floating car-
goes meet some inquiry at the recent decline. One of
Mauritius, No. 13j, sold At 25s 3d: and one Havaunah,
No. 12, at 24s fur the United Kingdom. Refined sugars
continue dull of sale, but are not lower.
COFFEE moves off steadily, at late quotations. Good
ordinar3 medium, 52s 6d to 53s 6d ; middling plantation
Ceylon, 75s to 78s.

TEA.—The market is quiet, at late rates.
FRUIT.—The trade is inactive, and rates nominally un-
altered.
SALTPETRE.--Some small lots 5 per cent. Bengal have
sold at 19s 3d to 19s 6d cash.

COTTON in steady request, and firmer.
J TE. —The market is flat, and where sales are effected
prices are lOs lower, common to good bright selling at .£l5
lOs to £l9 lOs per ton. _

HEMP. -- Clean St. Petersburg is rather firm at 438 108
per ton ; Manilla dull, and 445 taken for a small lot,
common.

COCIIINEAL.—Prices are steady, with a full demand.
Teneriffe silver, 2s lid to 3s 4d ; stock, 3s to 4s per et.
GALLS.— parcel of Japan sold at 51s per cwt.
TALLOW.—The market is steady, at 435. 3d. spot,
435. ad. March, 435. 6d April to June, 41s. last three
months.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
The supply of live stock at this morning's market was
moderate, and the trade dull.

Of beasts there were 610, including 90 from abroad.
There was a quiet demand, aad prices ruled the same as
on Monday.

Of sheep, the number on sale was 3,720, and the propor-
tion of foreign was 480. _ _

The quotations for veal are steady, and a moderate de-
mand was experienced. The number of calves at market
was 40, of which none were foreign.
COTTON.

LrvEn.rooL, Jan. 23.—Market opens with a good demand
and rather dearer. Bales 15,000 bales, or more.

COAL 31
Price per Ton

rARKET.
at the Close,

s d
East HartlPpool l7 9
Kelton.
H,wthorn l5 9 1
Hatton
Hetton Lyons l5 9
Tunstall ... 15 9
Stith H tton

a d
Eden Main
Wylam l6 0
North Pelton Gas
Bradyell'slietton l7 3
Cowndon
Tees

RussTA AND CHINA.— The St. Petersburg journals pub•
lisp intelligence from Taschlund, in Tattary, dated the
beginning of December, and asserting that military measures
ere being taken by China which are interpreted by the
Russian correspondents as being directed against Russia.
The same advices allege that China has contracted a treaty
Ruth the Turkomans, and that fortifications are being con-
structed on the Russian frontier.
THE UNITED STATES. —We learn by Atlantic cable that
on Tuesday last the House of Representatives passed, by
123 against 45 votes, a Bill declaring that there are no valid
3ivil Governments in the late rebellious states, and trans-
ferring all powers of appointment and removal under the
Reconstruction Act from President Johnson to• General
Grant as cowmander•in.chief of the army.
MJLITARY AND NAVAL MUVEMENTS —The 44th (East
E sex) Regiment,- under the command of Col. Hort, left
Aldershot yesterday morning, en route for Ireland. The
56th (West Essex) Regiment, at Aldershot, under the
command of Cul. Lacy, has been bell in readiness for some
days past to proceed to Ireland. The same may be said of
the 68. h Regiment, a {deb is held in readiness to proceed to
tltnchester. On Tuesday evening a "divisional ball," under
!be patronage of Lieutenant General the Hon. Sir J. Y.
Seatlett, K C. 8., was held in the Club-house at Aldershot.
--The operation of the Contr.gious Diseases Act, 1866, will
shortly be extended by the Government to the garrison
districts of Shorncliff, Colchester, and Coik, as well as the
Curragh. Her Majesty's ship Pyladas sails to day for the
Pacific stalk:ilk

THE ALABAMA QIIPSTION.—Another long and able letter
appears in the Times to day from " Ilistoricus," on the
Alabama claims. Summing up the inquiry on which his
fund 'mental proposition rests, the writer asks :—" Is the
question whether a state of civil war did exist in the
United States btfore the issue of the Queen's Pro-
clamation of May 13 h, 1861, a matter upon which
any one. either in England or America, is entitled
to entertain a reasonable doubt I I have shown what
was the conduct of the American Government at the time. I
have shown what Mr. Seward, the recognized organ of that
Government, said at the time when the events were in progress.
I have shown what was the considered judgment, after the
event and in their own favour, of a Court which is not only
the supreme judicature of America, but the final judge of its
Constitution. If, in the teeth of such admissions, a Government
is entitled to resuscitate a stale cLim, where is to be the
end of litigation If, when you have not only got in
vtfiting the confession of your adversary, that he has
no claim against you, but have, further, a judicial
decision in his own country recorded at his instance,
which authoritatively disproves his pretension, yea are
again to submit the same question to arbitration, what
subject is left on which you are safe from persecution I I
can only sag that a nation which, under such circumstances,
should voluntarily submit itself to unreasonable vexation
would amply deserve the unjust and perpetual oppression
which it would infallibly invite."
THE LATE EMPEROR Marslrtratr.—As it has been stated
that the ccrirte given up by the Mexican Government was
not really that of Maximilian, we may state that the
report is false. "The body landed at Trieste," says a
a mespondent, writing on the highest authority, "is un-
doubtedly the body of Maximilian. With the exception
of the wounds inflicted by Mexican bullets, the slight per-
forations necessarily made by the embalmers for the put..
pose of injecting the veins with chemical substance, and
the inevitable incisions requisite for the removal of the
i..a-stines. &a., it is entire and untnutilated. Admiral
T-gethoff, who carried the golden key of the inner coffin
about him, opened the shell twice subsequently to his
arrival in the Adriatic (once at Pola and once at Trieste), in
order to assure himself that the body had not suffered by the
voyage; and be reported that no change of any moment
had taken place in its appearance since the Novara's de-
parture from Vera Cruz. On Wednesday night Louis Victor
and Charles Louis went on board the frigate whilst the
Admiral was by chance on shore, and sent to ask him
for the key of the coffin, in order that they might contem-
plate the remains of their dead brother. Their demand
was of course complied with ; and I believe myself to be
justified in abating that, upon being shown the body, they
0.92_10.e recoliajled and cleobzo4 his suthestioits,2