The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Aug. 2.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. I.—Wind S.W.—Arri red—Helen
Burn, from Rio Grande.

PORTSMOUTII, Aug. I.—Wind W.—Sailed—Her Ma-
testy's ship Syrian, for Plymouth.

CARDIFF, Aug. I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Anna Marie,
'rom Miramichi. Sailed—Albatross, for Singapore—Wil-
iam, for Rio Janeiro.

QUEENSTOWN, Aug. I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Surprise,
r.oln Cardenas.

SCILLY, Aug. 1 —Wind N.W.--Sailed--Enterprise, for
Bahia.
OFF QUEENSTOWN, Aug, 30.—Arrivad—General Wind-
ham, from Callao.

(➢Y MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning:

Arrived, Aug. I—Morris, from Porto Rico—Concordia,
New York—Roslin Castle, from Calcutta—Progress, from
Alemndria—llaofman, from Richibucto—lsabella Robin-
son, from Colombo—Sir George Pollock, from Pugwash—
Campane, from Gottenburg—Firza i from Cronstadt.
Sailed, Aug. I—Granville, for Mauritius.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Passed—Elita, schooner, from the west. and Apphia,
from Grenada, both for London—Raven, of Yarmouth, and
Favourite, of Poole, from the north, for the west—Rapid,
from Gloucester, for the Baltic—Ben Limond, and Fourth
of November, from Quebec, for Hull.
Sailed—Lerat with others, westward.

GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES.—In the act passed on
the 14th ult. to grant additional facilities for the
purchase of small Government Annuities, and for assuring
payments of money on death, it is recited that in the Act
16th and 17th of Victoria, cap. 45, deferred annuities of
small amounts can only be granted upon the condition that
the full amount required to purchase such annuities be paid
in one sum or by annual payments during a course of years
fixed at the time of purchase. It also recites that under the
same act contracts for payment of a sum of money on death
cannot be entered into except on the condition that the
party contracting for such payment on death at the time
purchase a deferred annuity on his life. The law is now
altered, and it is enacted that deferred annuities may be
granted on the condition to be fixed, at the time of pur-
chase, and that the sum required to purchase the annuity
be payable in smaller instalments, and at shorter periods
than before. By the former act £3O was the limit of the
annuities, but they may now extend to £5O. The section
requiring a deferred annuity to be purchased of the Na-
tional Debt Commissioners is now repealed in part. No
contract for payment on death is to be entered into by or
on behalf of any person under the ago of 16 or over 60.
Fresh tables are to be constructed, and until the tables
made in pursuance of this act can bo legally acted on it is
not to come into force so far as to enable any grant to
be made of an insurance, or any grant of an annuity
the consideration money for which is paid by instal-
ments more frequent than annual instalments. By this
act it is provided that on a life policy after the payments of
the premiums for five years, a person on surrendering the
same is not to receive less than one-third of the payments
made, or may have granted to him a paid-up policy on such
an immediate or deferred life annuity. Jurisdiction is given
to the County Courts on the Commissioners of the National
Debt refusing payment. Contracts may be assigned. The
National Debt Commissioners are to regulate the payments
by instalments, and they, are at no time to be less in amount
than 2s. The Postmaster-General, with the consent of the
Treasury, may authorize his officers to receive money under
this Act, and regulations may be made by the Post-office to
carry out the provisions. The accounts under this Act are
to be submitted to the Public Audit Commissioners.
INAUGURATION OF THE ALBERT STATUE AT
PERTH EY THE QUEEN.—Her Tilsjesty has intimated her
intention to be present at the inauguration of the statue to
the late Prince Consort on the North Inch of Perth abcut
the end of August. The ceremony will take place early in
the forenoon, probably of Tuesday, the 30th, and at its
conclusion her Majesty will continuo her journey north-
, ward to Balmoral,