The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-04 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEL—Business has been inactive, and the few bargains
reported have been at about previous rates.
SUGAR.—The market has remained very dull, and prices
in some instances are a shade lower. Good grocery de-
scriptions, however. maintain previous rates. In the re-
fined market there is little change of importance to report.
COFFEE.—There has been a steady demand for colonial
descriptions, and prices have remained without material
variation ; the stocks on hand, however, when compared
with those of the corresponding period of last year, exhi-,
bit a slight increase.
RICE.—A fair demand has been experienced for superior
East India, and late rate rates have in most instances been
well supported. _ _

TALiOw.—The market has continued very dull, and
prices for both present and forward delivery have shown a
further depression. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 405.1;
June delivery, 40s. 3d to 40s. 6d. ; and last three months,
41s. 6d to 425. 6d. per cwt.

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.

_
s. d. s. d.
Cowpen Hartley l6 3 Hastings Hartley l5 9
Carway and Duffryn South Kelloe
Malting 22 0 Heugh Hall l9 9
Walls End Haswell... 21 0 Braddyell's Hetton 2O 0
South Hetton
Tunstall
Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Kelloe
East Hartlepool
Hartlepool
Ships at market, 56; sold, 52.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens quiet. Sales probably 3,000 bales.

The Crown agents for the colonies have notified
that they will be prepared to raise a further sum of
£lOO,OOO on 6 per cent. debentures, under the
authority of .the British Columbia Loan Act of
1864. The applications are to be forwarded on
Thursday next. The loan is secured on the gene-
ral revenues of British Columbia, and the only
charges now existing thereon amount altogether to
£102,000, or less than one year's revenue. The
debentures, with interest coupons attached, are for
sums of £500,'£200, and £lOO respectively, redeem-
able in thirty years from the Ist April inst. , In-
terest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, com-
mencing on the first instant will be paid half-
yearly. For the final extinction of the debt, there
is to be a sinking fund equal to 21 per cent. per
annum formed in this country, under the control
of trustees.

A general meeting of the shareholders of the
Bank of British Columbia was :held to-day. The
report presented stated that after paying current
expenses and deducting rebate of interest on bills
not due, the amount of undivided profit at the con-
clusion of the half-year ended 31st December last,
was £18,680 12s. Id., which the directors proposed
to appropriate as follows : £8,333 6s. Bd. in pay-
ment of a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per
cent. per annum (being for six months on £125,000,
and for four months on £62,500, paid Ist Septem-
ber last) ; £7,000 to be added to the reserve fund,
which will be thereby increased to £13,000, leaving
£3,347 ss. sd. to be carried forward to the current
half-year.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 3.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Beatrice, and attended bythe Hon. Florence
Seymour, drove in the Great Park this morning.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise also went
out driving, attended by the Hon. Caroline Caven-
dish.

Her Royal Highness Princess Helena rode in the
Home Park.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales and Prince Albert Victor left the Castle
this morning for Marlborough-house, attended by
the Countess de Grey and Major Grey.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and the Dean
of Christ Church have also left the Castle.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred attended
Divine Service yesterday afternoon at St. George's
Chapel.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Major Cowell, Lieut. Haig, and Dr. Bernhardt,
went to London this afternoon.

Major-General Seymour and Lieutenant-Colonel
Du Plat have succeeded Lord Alfred Paget and
Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge as Equerries in
Waiting to her Majesty.
Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust had
the honour of an audience of the Queen, to present
his new volume, " The Lives of the Warriors of the
Thirty Years' War," which has been dedicated to
her Majesty. The presentation copy of the work
was illustrated with photographic portraits from the
galleries of Vienna, Munich, and Dresden.