The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day,

LONDON, April 22.—Wind this day at noon—NortD.
Dot; moderate breeze and very fine weather.
FAlNtount, April 21.—Wind E.—Arrived—Roue /I'
steamer, and lett for the West Indies.
DUNDEE!, April 20.—Wind W.—Arrived—Lalla Dool
from Calcutta.
CLYDE, April 21.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Bung "al".es;
for Matanzas—John Gray, for Trinidad—Melrose, for 1
York—Abbey Craig, tor Miramichi.
COWES, Aprir 21. Wind S.E.—Arrived—Laura 13114
Louise, from Callao,
OFF PORTSMOUTH, April 21,—Arrived—Balhurst, fr°T3l
the Cape of Good Hope. 1„s d 1
OFF TORBAY, April 20,—Arrived—Lady “co'ac
from
OFF Kurrachee.
DOTER, April 21.—Wind W.— Arrived-513'1311°P'
from Calcutta.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SOUTRAAIFTON, Friday Ifornia a'st
Tha Bavaria, steamer, wiled for Now York at ha"
10 night.
Arrived
—E
manuel, from Christiana.
BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAFEI•
GRAVESEND, Friday
Arrived, April 21—Krageroe, from lirageroe•—omSlu''rotu
from Calcutta—Triton, from Warburii—Just, fr .1.
—and Wave, from Guernsey.
Arrived, April 22—Two Friends, from Guernsey.
Sailed, April 22—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne.
n'
DEAL, Friday Morill!:
,
Passed—Scotia, for Port Phillip—Johanna' for 111
bucti—Shepherdess, for Port Augusta—all from Loricloo•

POST-OFFICE ----
SAINGS ANE.sThe underaten'
tioned offices in Birmingham B
will be•
opened as Post-taco
Savings Banks, on Monday, the 2d May, 1864 :—Ast°ll.
Park, Ii agley-road, Hockley-hill, Parade, and Summer.,
1,,120.—8y command of the Postmaster-General, J 0115
TILLEY, Secretary.—Gttneral Poet-cce, 9th April, 1864..

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

CITY, TWELVE 0 CLOCK.
There is a rather less favourable feeling in the
diBonunt market this morning, consequent upon the
adverse movement exhibited in the Bank return,
,and 7 to 71 are the quotations for first-class bills
having only a short period to run.
The Bank of England return for the week to
Wednesday last presents some very unfavourable
features. The bullion and reserve of notes are both
arnaller, and the other securities have experienced
R farther increase, notwithstanding the large sums
Paid to the authorities by parties who were com•
Pel'ed to borrow daring the period of the " shutting
of the transfer books," The following are the par-
ticulars:--

• £21,141,675
.. 114,545
.. 12,743,302
.. 337,098
.. 3,195,300
31,143
.. 5,787,329
142,953
▪ 13,684,069
93,040
•• 351,108
1,731
•• 11,022,267
No alteration.
Other Securities • • • • 20,476,912
Increase .. 210,874
Notes Unemployed 5,564,845
Decrease .. 205,880
~The committee of the Stock Exchange have fixed
Monday next for a special settlement in the shares
of the Thames Iron, &c.,Company, dealings in which
sre to be recorded in the twice-a-week list.
.It has been announced that Mr. Thomas Barker,
of Lloyds, has been appointed underwriter for the
National Provincial Marine Insurance Company.
At the meeting of the Scottish Australian Invest-
tent Company to-day a dividend at the rate of 10
Per cent,
per annum was declared.
a Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
4urkets during the last few days has been rather
more active. The public sales of Indian teas have
Doe off with more animation, and prices have
slightly improved. Angara have been in steady
demand, at an advanoe of 61 to is per cwt., but
Coffee has remained inactive, and declined about is
Per cwt. In rice, fruit, cocoa, and spices, the opera-
tions have been moderately active, at about previous
rates, but increased depression has prevailed in the
tallow market, and prices have shown a further
decline.
The directors of the Agra and United Service
1511.1 k, have convened a meeting of shareholders, to
obtain the sanction of the latter to the purchase of
the business and premises of Messrs. Masterman,
Peters, 'Mildred, and Co., and to the proposed
Cutinge in the name of the undertaking to " The
4gra and Masterman's Bank (Limited)." Power will
4180 be obtained for increasing its capital to
£3,000,000, by•the issue of 20,000 new shares of X5O
each ; it is arranged that 10,000 of these shares shall
be Offered to the proprietors of the original stock in
the proportion of one new for every two of the old
shares held on the 15th May next at a premium of
X3O, to be paid together with £25 within six
Months. The remaining shares are to be dealt
With as the directors may deem most desirable.
Application is to be made to Parliament to enable
the Board to divide the original £lOO shares into
others of smaller nominal amount.

Active Circulation • •
Decrease ..
Bullion ..
Decrease ..
Rest .. • •
Increase .. • • ..
Public Deposits • • • •
Decrease .. • • • •
Other Deposits.. .. . .
Increase ..
Seven Day and other Bills ..
Increase .. .. • •
Government Securities ..

•• •• ••

.1_ important undertaking, brought forward to-
day for a capital of £1,000,000, is the British and
South American Steam Navigation Company, which
la to establish a line of steam communication
between England, Brazil, the River Plate, and
~Lee West Coast of South America, via the Straits of
Magellan. Operations are to be commence d with
eiz screw steamships of 2,200 tons and 300-horse
Power each, leaving Liverpool and Falmouth every
month, calling at Bahia, Rio Janeiro, and Monte
Video, and thence proceeding via the Straits of
Magellan to Valparaiso and Lima. It is stated
that the Chilian Government has long desired such
a line, and some years ago offered a subsidy for the
Purpose, and strong hopes are now entertained that
some liberal concessions will be obtained from the
Lt►ilian, Peruvian, Argentine, and Brazilian Ge-
vernmenta. The services of a firm well acquainted
With the trade and the management of screw
steamers have been secured on advantageous terms.
Details are given in the prospectus of the trade be-
tween this country and South America, ail tending
to show the large and profitable field existing for
the operations of the company.
The increase in the importation of foreign cattle
into this country, and the very scandalous way in
'Which this importation has been accomplished,
added to the disastrous results that have occurred,
viz., the deterioration of stock, as well as the im-
portation and propagation of disease into our own
Cattle, has at length aroused from the old systems a
few of those most directly interested, in a pecuniary
Sense, and, to a certain extent, the public mind, to
the importance of devising, and at once, efficient
remedies for this long existing evil. At a meeting
held the other day a number of importers and
dealers met to commemorate the opening of a new
Maven,
more speedy route from Holland via Thames
'yen, and under more humane arrangements, and
after the statement of one of the speakers, we can-
tot but conclude that this event comes somewhat
tardily., Mr. Giblett, in proposing the health ,t
.0m e importers of cattle, pointed out that toe gees-
t]." of cattle supply from abroad was becoming
more and more important every day. Already
there had been imported this year 109,000 head of
cattle, 448,000 sheep, and calves and pigs in pro-
Portion, and he believed that if facilities were not
given to the import trade, the effect would be an
Increase of something like 4d. per lb. on the price
cif meat. It was, therefore, their interest to use
'every means for the conveyance of cattle brought to
our shores to the London market as speedily as
Possible. Since the above meeting was held a new
company has been started to carry still further, and
tln a much more extensive scale, the importation of
fereign cattle, not only from Holland, but from the
Whole of Southern Europe; and considering that
1,500 head of evade are daily imported into London
from the Continent, there is ample scope for the
Operations of inch a company. It is pleasing to
nod that this company propose to give a special
attention to the sanitary arrangements of their
Means of tre.nsport, and to provide at all ports suit-
able conve-aiences for the care and rest of the stook
en route 'ao the markets, in fact, to carry out the
spirit of the new Act now passing through Parlia-
ment. In reference to the pecuniary prospects of the
ieiropF;an Cattle Importing Company, from calcu-
lation a which have been made by experienced men,
a Profit of some 25 per cent. will, they expect, be
the, result of the trading of this particular company.

Two O'CLOCK.

At Paris this morning, according to Renter's
telegrams, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 500.
In demand.
There is a continuance of dulness in the market
for Public Securities, and the quotations are iin-
altered. Consols for transfer are 911 8, and for the
li(lcount 91* t. the New Threes end the Reduced
:flainuitiai are 891 ; Exchequer Bills are marked
dis.; India 6 per Cents, 105 k ; Enfaced 51 per
Cents., 1121; andjthe Debentures, 1866, 99:-. Bank
St L.
.;) in 238 240; and India do., 218.
4 'II the Foreign Market there is a decidedly
riellter tone, and business is rather more active.
Aqrkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 711 ; do., Clnsolideo,
; Mexican, 451. 461 ; do., New Loan, par
geul• ; Greek, 241 251 ; Spanish Passive,
4. ; and the Confederate Loan, 541 551.
t.e'llings have atso taken place as follows :—Bra-
.-,tittri 4i per Cents., 1852-60, 901; do., 1863, 871;
gYpiian, 100! 101 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.,
.v. 1886 63, 48.2- 49 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 1862, 87i 4 ;
o'llezuelan 3 per Cents., 224 ; do., 6 per Cents.,
; and Italian, 684.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
I,°t been very numerous. Great Eastern, Brighton,
z*th Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern, how-
jer, have each improved ss. ; while Midland has
"lined 10s., and Metropolitan £l.
Chltle Foreign and Colonitl lines exhibit little
ehang
of importance.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares also have re-
""aititld very inactive. Qi 1411dpn have ira-