The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-02 00:00:00

London and Westminster Bank.

Some excitement was created in the City yester-
day by the announcement that arrangements had
been made for the transfer of the business of Messrs.
Jones, Loyd, and Co. to thelLondon and Westmin-
ster Bank. The shares of the latter suddenly rose
from 82 84 to Itis 110, bat a partial reaction has
occurred this morning, and they are now about
94. Annexed are the circulars issued :
" Lothbury, London, E.C., 31st March, 1864.
"We beg to inform you that in pursuance of a wish
(which we have for some time past entertained) to retire
from business, we have made arrangements with our imme-
diate neighbours, the London and Westminster Bank, for
the transfer t 3 them of our banking establishment.
" In thus entrusting to them the future management of a
business which we have so long conducted, we believe that
we shall confide the interests of our constituents to an insti-
tution in Every way capable of doing them justice, and we
shall be much obliged to the friends who have kindly re-
posed confidence in us, should they sanction the arrange-
ment we have made by continuing with the London and
Westminster Bank the business hitherto entrusted to us.
" We cannot thus announce to you the step we have
taken without thanking you for the kindness and confidence
with which you have favoured us, or without expressing to
you the regret with which we contemplate the close of our
mutual connection,—We are, your obedient faithful ser-
vants,

"JONES, LOYD, and Co,"
"London and Westminster, Bank, Lothbury,
London, E,C., March 31, 1864.

" We have the pleasure to inform you that we have con-
cluded an arrangement with cur next door neighbours,
Messrs. Janes, Loyd, and Co , for the transfer to this bank
of their old established banking business, together with their
banking premises, and that Mr. H. J. Norman will join the
board of directors of this bank.

"The business will be conducted in Lothbury as here-
tofore, and in soliciting the favour of your account we beg
to assure you it will be our earnest desire to afford you
every facility in the conduct of your business.
"In furtherance of this arrangement may wa hope you
will kindly sign and forward the authority on the other
side.—Wo have the honour to remain, on behalf of the
board of the London and Westminster Bank, your most
obedient servants,—John Garrett Cattley, Thomas Chap-
man, James Denis de Vitre, Bonamy Dobree, Joseph
Esdaile, David Salomons.

"To Messrs. Jones, Loyd and Co., Lothbury, London, E.C.
':You will please to transfer the balance of account in
your books to the London and Westminster Bank,"

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, April 2.—Wind this day at noon—West;
strong breeze and oloudy weather.
OFF PORTSMOUTH, April I.—Arrived—Nimrod, from
London for Madras—Daniel Webster, from London for New
York.

BELFAST, April I.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Queen of the
West, for Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, April I,—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—
Leon Romando, from London for Madeira—Budget, from
Shields for Huelva.

CLIrDt, April I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sarah, from
Pernambuco. Sailed—Margaret, for St. John's, New-
foundland.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

FALMOUTH, Saturday ISlorning..

Arrived, Friday, 5 p.m., late Chinese steamer
from Shanghai. She landed her mail, which Wad sorted
hero prior to despatch.

73Y MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.

Arrived, April 2—Syren, from Colombo—Archibald
McMillan, from Bahia—Persia, from Havre—Alfred, from
Algoa Bay—Wellington, tug, from Havre—Martha Bra-
den, from Antwerp—Lucy, from Oporto—Thomas Hamlin,
from Madras—Admiral, from Guernsey—Ocean Child,
from St. Michael's,

DEAL, Saturday Morning-
Passed—Gauss, from Now York, for London ; Cid, screw
steamer, from Bilboa, for London—Mayola, from Colombo,
for London—Jeuno Sophie, from London, fur Nantes—
aterloo, from London, for Madras—Leipsie, screw
steamer, from Pomoron, for Lisbon, not for Lonbon.

LODGING HOUSES FOR THE LAILATRING CLASSES.
—The Court of Common Council, on the recommendation
of their Committee for Improvements, have just authorised
the expenditure of nearly £30,000 in the erection of a series
of improved dwellings for the labouring poor in Clerkenwell
on the plan already successfully carried out by Mr. Alder-
man ti 9 aterlow in a deneely populated part 0 Finebury.

GARIBALDI AT SOUTHAMPTON,

The arrival of General Garibaldi, with his two
sons, the elder of whom holds the rank of colonel
in the Italian army, is expected today, although
the Ripen—not by any means distinguished as a
fast boat—is only due by contract on Sunday.
General Garibaldi's health, which was low before
he embarked at Caprera, is not likely—even in the
case of so old a sailor—to have been recruited by
the fatigues of a voyage. Mr. Seely's residence,
Brook House, is in a retired situation at the back of
the Isle of Wight. When the Ripon is telegraphed
off Hurst Cistle the union•jack will be hoisted at
the Bar-gate, and signal guns fired to apprise the
inhabitants of Southampton of the arrival. Three or
four open landaus, each drawn by four greys, will be
in waiting to convey the General and his friends,
provided that their debarkation take place in good
lime and in fair weather. The corporation will
meanwhile have been summoned to attend the
mayor at the Audit Douse; bells will be rung; a
salute of lo guns fired from the platform ; and the
Volunteer Engineers' band will attend and head
the procession from the docks to the mayor's house.
Such are the arrangements, so far as they can
thus be called.

In the small party of eight by whom General
Garibaldi is accompanied are, besides his two sons
already mentioned, Signor Guersoni and Major
Basso, his secretaries, and Colonel Chambers, an
Englishman. There is also the physician by whom
the General was attended in the illness consequent
on his wound. A deputation from Newcastle,
headed by Mr. Cowen,
will present an address ;
and to-day acommunication from the Mayor of
Bristol has been received, stating the desire of him-
self and the corporation of that town to take part
in the proceedings to-morrow. The Bristol depu-
tion will be accompanied by Mr. Gore Langton,
M.P., a personal friend of General Garibaldi.
The Lord Provost has invited General Garibaldi,
in the event of his visiting Edinburgh, to be his
lordship's guest. Garibaldi will, it is believed,
visit Glasgow, and report says Dundee also.

MARKETS—This Day.

COVENT GARDEN.

Our market is seasonably well supplied with fruit and
vegetables. There is a fair demand at the following
currency;--

PR UIT.

I. d. s. d.
Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0
Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0
Grapes,per lb 6 0 to 10 0
Foreign do 1 6 to 3 0 I
Melons 0 0 to 0 01
Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 01
Apples, per hi -sv. 2 0 to 4 0
Pears, per do
Oranges, per 100..1 0 to 8 0
Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 7 0
Gooseberries lit sveo 0 to 0
.01
Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0

8. d. s d
Mulberries,prpt..o oto 0 0
Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0
Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb .. 2 oto 2 6
Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0
Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per doz. .... 0 oto 0 0
Peaches. 0 oto 0 0
Currants, per lisv 0 oto 0 0
Plums, per do. 00to 0 0
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0