The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-06 00:00:00

Bank of EnglaA Returns.

An Account, tursuant to ti
cap. 32, for the week ending'
ISSUE DEI

Notes issued £33,2.9,180

£38,209,180
BANKING D.

Proprietors'Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ea-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National

Debt, and Div.
Accounts 10,241,792
Other Deposits.. 18,267,743
Seven Days and
othor 8i115..... 502,322

£16,821,114

;he Act 7th and Bth Victorift
Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1.t..70.
P ♦RTMF.\T.

Governmt. Debt.£ll,olMCo
Othor Securities 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

£33,209,180

;PARTMENT.
Oovernmt. Secu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... 116,311.399
Other Securities 20,253,349
Notes 9,369,925
Gold and Silver
Coin ~„, 886,511

CAPE OF G

OOD ROPE.

/46,821,114

PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.
The Union Company's Royal Mail steamship
Northam, Commander J. D. Jeffries, from Table
Bay,' December 4, St. Helena the 12th, Ascension
the 16th, and Madeira the 29th, arrived in the
Sound this evening.

Her cargo consists of 2,630 bales of wool, 22
cases of gum, 16 cases of ostrich feathers, 130 bags
of shells, 50 cases of wine, 30 bags of argol, 82
bundles of hides, 20 tons of copper ore, &c., and
one box of diamonds.

Among her 17 passengers are Lieutenant de Sau-
marez, R.N., and Lieutenant Pickering, 9th Regi-
ment, from the Cape ; Captain Schutt, from Algoa
Bay; Sub-Lieutenant Squires, R.N., from Madeira.

Mr. J. W. Wethorns returns by this mail with a
concession from the Legislative Council of Natal of
three million acres of land, including the Newcastle
coal fields, and a subsidiary of £40,000 a year to
carry out his project of railways and colonisation
for that colony.

The intelligence from the Cape is unimportant.
The elections which were to be held during the
first week in December appear to be the chief sub-
jects for consideration. Diamonds are reported
to have been found in large numbers. Trade
generally is dull throughout the colony. The
crops are promising. It blew a gale from S.E.
for eight days previous to the departure of the
Northam.
hi
The Union Company's steamship Briton, Capt.
7 R.N.Ro.u,
tawrarrirdedmaatilsT;abthlee Bap,stea
11 E; p Celt,November29Y, v Ywaint the
Capt. Baynton, was :at St. Helena, 'November 3,
and left the same day for the Cape. The steam-
ship Saxon, Capt. Warley, touched at Madeira,
December 16. The screw steamer Kepler left
Madeira with the Northam. _ _

The amount of the registered tonnage of the
vessels which anchored in Table Bay in November
was between 28,000 and 29,000 tons.
From the Cape to Madeira the Northam experi-
enced moderate winds and fine weather. From
Madeira very unsettled weather, the wind being
principally from south-west to north-west. Sho
spoke off St. Helena the ship Sarah Phillips, from
Natal for London ; and in lat. 41 N., long. 11 'W.
the James Montgomerie.
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Portrait albums, dispatch boxes, writing cases, dressing casts'
dressing bags, envelope cases, blotting books, inkstands, desks,
stationery cabinets, bookslides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand.
bags and reticules, card cases, purses, scent bottles, cigar CSS
card trays, pocket books, ornamental articles in china, br..,,
tilt, and elegantly mounted for mantel shelf, drawing and
ables ; bagatelle boards, indoor croquet and indoor game
kinds; Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services
Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly t!,elio-
small articles carefully selected and sent post,
payment. Catzlogues free. ,z-
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