The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

41 per Cents .. 93 10
Do. cna month....

3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 30

Credit llobilier 1068 77
Do. end month 1077 50
Bank Shares 3300

Credit 1' onoier 1290
Roman

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 953 943 75
New ditto B9O • • ---
Southern
Western -
Eastern ....
•.

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

North of Spain
Saragossa 587 60 .. 587 50
Ditto to Barcelona

The meeting of the Chartered Bank of India,
Australia, and China, has also been held toolay, and
the directors' report states that the general balance
sheet of the Bank, for the year ended 31st December
last, showed a net profit of £101,193 2s 10d. To
this has to be added the unappropriated balance of
£4,368 lls 61 from last year, making £105,561 14s
4d. The increase of theßank's capital from £644,000
to £BOO,OOO by the issue, at a premium of £lO per
share, of 7,800 new shares of £2O each, is in course
of being most satisfactorily earried out —and the
premium received, viz., £78,000, has been carried
to the reserve fund. After deducting from the
balance of £105,561 143 41 the sum of £32,200—
the interim dividend paid the shareholders
in October last, at the rate of ten
per cent. per annum—there remains £73,361
14s 4i now available for division. The direc-
tors recommend a dividend at the rate of 10
percent. per annum, and also a bonus of 10s per
share (both free of income tax), which together will
amount to £48,300. They further recommend that
£12,000 be added to the reserve fund, leaving a
balance of £13,061 14s 4d of undivided profits to be
carried forward. The reserve fund, with the above
two additions, will then stand at £105,000. The
directors can continue to report favourably of the
prospects of the bank ; and they have to state that
since the last annual meeting a new agency has
been established at Batavia—now in fall working
order—and ano'her more recently at Hankow,
iu
China.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE,

A new farce, entitled "Au April Fool," has been
produced at Drury.line Theatre, which, although
composed of very slender material, affords unani-
mous merriment for nearly an hour. The fun con-
sists of the perplexities, disappointments, and
eventual triumph of a certain Mr. Paddles (Mr. G.
Belmore) in his endeavour to secure the object of
his young heart's fondest affection, Miss Diana
Oldbuck (Miss Lydia Thompson), whose life
it is his happiness to have saved when in
extreme danger from the upsetting of a
pleasure boat off Brighton. Mr. Peddles
his a vivacious friend Mr. Sparks (Mr. R. Roxby),
who generally contrives to come in for all the
honours following the exertions of Puddles, and in
the present instance, though holding the young
lady in his arms, after having received her dripping
from the sea from Pcddle3, on her recovery he takes
all the credit of having saved her from drowning.

He is invited to her father's house, while Poddles
is made the means, through the instrurw_Antality of
Sparks, of providing all sorts of fun for the ElltlBo-
- of Miss Otdbuck and her lady friends. On
the occasion of one of his visits to Oldbuck Hall, on
the first of April, Sparks takes delight in making
everybody April fools. He invites Poddles to Miss
Oldbuck's fele with her knowledge. He tells the
old gentlemen his pleasure grounds are about being
taken for a railway, and points Puddles out as the
surveyor, &c.; but, finally, he is fooled himself, by
being made instrumental in resigning Miss Oldbuck

to the arms of Peddles, as he observes, " for ever."
The little trifle is well worked out, and Mr. Bel-
more drew down immense laughter by his humorous
performance, Miss Lydia Thompson, as Diana,
playing with her usual archness, and in
the course of the piece she dances a kind
of medley with great spirit and effect. Mr.
Roxby rattled through the part of Sparks with his
peculiar briskness, and Mr. B lrrett as Oldacre, and
Mr. G. Weston as a poor, half starved charity boy,
both acquitted themselves excellently. The farce
was perfectly successful, and it is to be repeated
every evening until further notice.
The splendid Skakspereian revival, Henry IV.,
increases nightly in attraction, the great effect—
the battle of Shrewsbury—calling down thunders
of applause.