The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-22 00:00:00

Several Government measures have been thrown oul

among others the bill for establishing a Deeds' Re-
gistry Office in Graham's Town, and that for the
creation of a Supremo Court in one of the eastern

divisions.

ThA High Commissioner, Sir Philip Wodehouse,
has announced his intention or annex In .ht, term

tory between the Kei and the Banshee to British
Keffraria, and of giving out the land to settlers on

military tenure.

The Bishop of Cape Town is still at Natal, whence
he will probably return in about a month. Bishop
Tozer, of the late Central African Mission, is in
Cape Town. Dr. Duff, the venerable Indian mis-
sionary, is a passenger to England by the present
mail steamer.

The weather has been very seasonable for farmers,
and a great breadth of land has been placed under
cultivation. The pri3es of colonial produce, par-

titularly grain, are on the increase. Trade is dull,
and the rates of interest are on the decline. It is
estimated that no importations of foreign wheat
will be required during the present year.
Coals are selling in Cape Town at from 655. to 70s.
per ton. Freight to England for wool ld. per lb.,
dead weight 30s. per ton. Exchange, at 30 days'
sight, 1 per cent. discount.
The following have been the arrivals in Tabl-
B iy from England since the departure of the Ro; al
Mail steamer Cambrian :—May 24, the .P...oca,
bark from London; 26, the Glendowor schooner,
from London ; the Francis, bark, from Swansea ;

27th, the Hugh Bailment, bark, from Swansea; the
Meiron's Bride, brig from London ; 28th, the Simon
brig, from Liverpool ; 30th, the Eliza Sharp, from
the Downs, bound for Melbourne; 31st, the Dum-
barton screw steamer, from Greenock, bound for
China ; June 10, the Athens Royal Mail steamer,
from Plymouth ; 12th, the Ahuriri screw steamer,
from Glasgow, bound for New Zealand.— Simon's
Bay.—June 27, the Prince of the Seas, bark,
from London ; the Wallibe schooner, from
Glasgow, bound for Sydney; 28th, the Her.
melba, bark, from the Clyde. And in Aigoa
Bay—May 22, the Eastern Province, screw steamer
from Falmouth; 28th, the Regina bark from Lou.
don; the Milton ship, from Liverpool, bound far
Hongkong; the Noor Jehan bark, from London ;
30th, the Granton bark, from London; the Ortbe
bark, from London ; June 2, the Herman and Oscar,
from Cardiff.
The 11 igship Princess Royal, with Admiral King,
left June 16, tor Trincomalee and Bombay. Th,
Penguin was to follow. Tne Orestes was appointee
to leave on the sth of July for the Mozambique
Channel. The Ariel was expected in the Cape on
the 28th of June, after which she would leave for
England. The Confederate war steamship TUC's*
loose continues in Simon's Bay.
The Diamond steamer Eastern Province, of Lon-
don, made the run out to Algoa Bay in 321 days.
She had unusually fine weather, with fair winds,
and was appointed to leave Algoa Bay on the
20th of June and Table Bay on the 23d for Eng-
land, and may be expected home in about ten days.
The screw steamer Narcissus, 39, with Rear-Ad-
miral Sir Baldwin Walker, which touched at St.
Helena June 6, arrived at Ascension on the 14th,
and left on the 17th for England.
The following vessels have anchored at the island
of Ascension—June 2, the English bark Leading
Star, 94 days from the Cape, short of water, and
left the same day for London ; 6th, the ship Old
England, 52 days from London, for Ascension, with
stores; H.M.S. Encounter, from China, for Ports-
mouth, called far invalids, and left on the Bth ; 15th,
the ship Chinera, 99 days from Currachee, for Lou,.
don ; 16th, the ship Confidence, 85 days from Bom-
b ty, for Liverpool, and the bark Deane, 21 dey s
from Algoa Bay, for Ascension ; 19;11, the eehoonce
Olympus, 25 days from Algoa Bay for New York ;
20th, ship Highland Chief, 100 days from Akyab,
for Falmouth; 22d, American ship Amite, SS dais
from Rangoon, for Falmouth 20th, her Majesty's
ship Industry, from Rio Janeiro for Ascension; 25th,
English bark Thomas Dry den, from Akyab for Fal-
mouth. The,following have passed :—June 7, the
ship Hornet, from Madras for England; the bark
Constitution, from Calcutta for L311(1011; and the
Dutch bark Maria Catharine, 87 days from Sama-
rang for Amsterdam ; 13th, Bremen ship Bremen,
86 days, from SAmarang for Fitimouth ;A.404 Bre-