The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-26 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, March 26,—Wind at noon—North; light
breeze, and cloudy.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, :4aturday Morning.
Sailed—Clyde, for Melbourne ; Hanover, steamer, for
Calais.

DBAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Josephine, for Colombo ; Langdale, for Cardiff,
Beagle, for Newfoundland ; Julia Pasha of Egypt, for Con.
atantinople ; Sunbeam, for Adelaide—all from London.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.--Yesterday morning the
following was printed as a return to the House
of Commons :—" On the 20th November, 1863, the
amount at the credit of the 99 friendly societies receiving
X-1 lie. 3d. per cent. interest was £580,183 13s. sd. ; to
'which there was added on November 21, to bear interest as
capital from that date, £13,339 5s 7d., being the interest
due on the half-year ended November 20, On November
20, 1863, the amount at the credit of 352 friendly societies
receiving £3 16s Oid per cent interest was 11,232,691 8s 2d ;
to Which there was added on. the 21st November, to bear in-
terest as capital from that date, £23,616 16s 8d being the
interest duc on the half-year ended 20th November. On
the 20th November, 1863, the amount at the credit of
the 210 friendly societies receiving £3 Os 10d per centum
interest was £188,069 5s 11d. To which there was added
on the 21st November, to bear interest as capital from that
date, £2,823 15s 2d, being the interest due on the half year
ended the 20th of November. In addition to the above
friendly societies depositing directly with the Commissioners
for the reduction of the National Debt, there were, on the
20th of November,'lB63, 12,141 friendly societies depositing
their funds in savings banks, with an aggregate amount to
tbeir credit of 1,999,953. The rate of interest credited half-
Yearly to this class, by the savings banks, depends upon the
rules of the several savings banks in which the deposits are
)nade, and therefore the books of the National Debt Office
do not show how much of this sum was interest credited
to Nov. 20 ; but as the sum due to this class of friendly
societies by savings banks formed part of the capital
credited to savings banks on the 20th of November, the
interest which was credited to savings banks for those
friendly societies on the 21st of November for the past half-
Year Was (at the rate of £3 6s per annum) £32,493."

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
Isar. Railways
10u Itiantic & St Lawrence all 58 60
Sk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Inc .
Gu. 5 per cent. . 10( 1031 1031 103
20 Do. New. 8 p 1p
20 Do. E. Shares
~.01 Buffalo and Laxe Huron ali 51 6
10 Do. Preference
00 I Bufialo,Brant,&Godriol, to
1 ap. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 187.‘
100 Do. do. July 1, Ism 100
100 Do. do. 'June 1, 1871 100
st Cleutta.&S. Eastn. (Lin, 100 102 104
st Cape Town &Dock Seri) 100 102 104
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. / 100 105 106
stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1041 10t1 1041
20 Do. do. G Ext l5 I P
20 Do. do. H do.
stook Grand Trunk of Canada luo 19 20
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 74 76
100 Do. do. deferred....... all 58 61
100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 66 68
100 Do. do. deferred all 51 53
100 Do. 3d P. ef. stock
100 Do. do. deferred all 40 62
100 Do. 4th Pref, stook all 25 27
100 Do. do. deferred all 22 C 5
stook Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.o 100 103 104 1031
20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2
Do. January, 1862 ..
stook Gt. South.of India (Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1021 1037
201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 91 91
20# Do. New .. ... . 18 111 101
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 92 94
100 Do. 5/ p. o. do. '77-8 all 83 86
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 1 p 21
stock Madras guar., sp. o lOO 103 103
stook Do. 11 p. o. Extension 100 97 69 •
stock Do. 46 do lOO 92 94 921
20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 --
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnd" lOO
5o Melb. & Hobson's Bay all 55 58
100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds al/
110 Newßrunswicka Candy
Class A. and B. all 3 5
N. Itl.C'da6 pc Ist pf bds 100 82 L 4
stock Soinde ....... (100 1031 104# 105
stock Do. Delhi 4.: 100 101} 1023
20 Do. ' 5 2
at Do. Punjaub all 1021 103#
Do. Do.
rook Do. Indus. St. Flo ) 100 97 99
OLUN I.AL tGOVERNMtt.N I 1, ltl I i
- t...u.Guv.6p.c.Ja&J uly
1677-81 .. . 101 103 102 1
Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. let 100 :02
Do. 6p. c.Mar. & Sept. 100 09 101
Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 10, 88 00
Do. 6 1 nscribed stock 100 88 80
Pape G. H ope, 8 p 0,1876 lot. 106 108
Do.Ap &Oct 1880 100 110 112
Do. 189 t lot. 111 ,13
Do. Jan. & euiy, 1891.. 101 109 111
'Ceylon, Nov.lB/8, 6p c 100 112 114
:Mauritius 11 per cent .. 100 196 108
!Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 130 lriB 110
N. B.G'ov. p.o. J a.&JuI3 100 101 103 1011
Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 10,1
N. S.W. G ov. 5 p •.,18 10e 99 100
Du. sp. c.,18/ tot • 100 99 10 991 100
Do. d0.,i888 & upwth 100 99 160
New Zealand 6p cent. 100 108 110
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
steriing, 1875
• Queensland Gcv. 6p. 0 lOO 1074
8. Aus U6p.e.187a& up too 100 111
Vlo.Gov. 6 p,0.Ja..37.Ju1y 100
- 'De lo I o.s. An.&Dot... 100 1111 1121 1.(14114_
BRITISH MINES.
2 ! (1/..mbrian Consol. Gold 1 4 id
1;A/fiord Amalgamated.. 354 803
Devon G. Cons. (Tavist., 1 655 e 65
East Bassett (Illogan) 30 70 75
East Clogau Gold Ltd.
East Caradon ...... '2.14.1/ 30 32
East Carta Brea... 3.4.0 61 71
E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) 8.9.0 3t 41
!Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen , 584 10 11
IGreat South Tolgus.„ , 178 4 41
G. Wheal Vor (Heiston, 40 37 39
Grenville
ercd's-Foot . 8.12 85 37
Ilingaton Downs 4.!8.0 31 41
Lady Bertha
Margaret (Uny Lelact 9e 19 21
31arke Valley..
I siyndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 21 11 Icl
New Setun l9l 85 95
- North Downs 2l 11 2
Basset (111o4au 3.1.0 2 21 •
! North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 41 51
ear Consols (15 t. Blaze
- It'rovidence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 41 43
;South Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 440 100
;S. Carta Brea (Illogan) —
- I•.,..Whea Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 50 55
--'Stray Park '30.17.6 32 34
ramarSilv.& Lead i4tin—
- '—
rin= Crort 9 19 20
West Basset (Mogan).* 11 11 12
W Cr radon (Liskeard; 5 20 22
West Seton
Wheal Basset (Illogan 54 874 924
Wheal Buller(Redrutb) 10 31 37
Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6
WhealLudcott
Wheal MaryAnn,Men ) 8 131 141
Wheal seton ' 581 190 195
Wheal Treiawney (Lis.), 7 2I 24
Wheal Union I 3.17 21 21

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Western, 5 per cent. red. prf., 1021
LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
London and Chatham, 41 per Cent., 901
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Great Luxembourg," 11 i 11
Sambre and Meuse, 84
San Paulo (lim), gun. 7 per cent.. 84
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 211
FOREIGN MINES,
Cape Copper, Bin.. 121
St. John del Rey (lira.), 451
Worthing (limited),;
iudanuntUtana of S. Australia, Um., 31 1
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Alliance 501 1
Ditto, new, 401 •
Anglo Austrian. 61 1
Brazili in and Portuguese, lira.. 81
Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 11
Chartered Bank of India, Australis. and China, 451 5
English, Smell, and Australian Chartered, 211
English and Swedish, Rm., 121 13
European Bank, lira., 101 4
Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 34 34
Imperial Bank (lim.), 366
Imperial Ottoman, 191
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 31
London Bank of Scotland, lira., 154 4 1
London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate,
Ditto, new, 54
London and County, 591 601
London and South African,
Dit o, new, 26
London and Westminster,NB2
Merchant Bank, lira , 131
Metrop.,and Prem. Bank (lira.), 27
National Provincial of England, •_
Ditto, new, 414
Ditto, ditto, 34
New South Wales, 51 50/
New Zealand Baak, 13
Oriental Bana Corporation. 641
Provincial of Ireland. 92
Seinde. Punjaub, and Delhi, lira. ;11$
Ditto, new, 104
South Australia, 401
Union of Australia, 56
Ditto, new, 325
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bombay Gas. limited, 51
Ceylon Company, 101
Commercial Union Insirance), 91
Financial Corporation, 55 4
Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lira., 81
Hudson's Bay. 19
International Financial Society, 11/
Joint •stock Discount, Bra., 61
Land Securities, lira., 45
London Financial Association, lint., 261
London General Omnibus Company, 21
Mercantile Credit Association, Um., 134
National Discount Company, Um, 124
National Steam Navigation, Him, 41
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 82

METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY MARKET.
—The extensive properties 'in Smithfield-bars and Smith-
field required for the new market are now being lotted out
for sale and demolition at the commencement of next
month, so that there is now every probability of the loDg-
delayed work being begun.