The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-19 00:00:00

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest 3,195,808
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 4,045,459
Other Deposits 13,971,790
Seven Day and
other bills

Governmt. Secu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) ....X10,644,254
Other Securities 18,976,716
Notes 5,738,020
Gold and Silver

Coin ,„ 847,297

£36,206,287

April 19, 1866.

£36,206,287
r. MILLEB, Chief Cashier.

The Resources of Canada.

The resources of Canada are comparatively little
known in this country, except among the few that
have taken the trouble to study them ; and at the
present time a glance at them is not uninteresting,
and the statement "of a few facts in relation to them
will surprise many who have only thought of
Canada as a rather cold, unproductive region north
of the United States.

First, the mineral wealth of Canada is immense,
needing only capital to develope it and render it a
great source of national wealth. The Lake Superior
copper has already become famous for its extent
and value, and the iron deposits in the neighbour-
hood of Lake Superior seem to be practically inex-
haustible. In the vicinity of the Gilbert and
Chaudiere Rivers in Lower Canada have been
found large deposits of gold. Of the oil wells of
Upper Canada probably but few have any ade-
quate idea of their importance. The section of
country embraced by them is over ten thousand
miles.

The quantity of grain produced by Canada an-
nually seems almost fabulous. Of wheat last year
over 25,000,000 bushels was grown; 12,000,000
bushels of peas ; 40,000,000 bushels of oats ; over
1,500,000 tons of hay ; 13,000,000 bushels of buck-
wheat ; 28,000,000 bushels of potatoes, and
10,000,000 bushels of turnips. Canada also pro-
duced 30,000,000 lbs. of beef, sheared 5,500,000
pounds of wool, and made 45,000,000 pounds of
butter. The number of milch cows, horses, sheep,
and pigs is considerably over two millions.
Turning to the manufactories we find them by
no means insignificant. Lower Canada alone con-
tains over 2,000 saw mills, and in one year cut
nearly 800,000,000 feet of lumber.
The coast line from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to
d beside the
Lake Superior is over 2,000 miles,an
ieation there
magnificent system of water communication
the
are over 2,000 miles of railroad traversing
country in all directions.
The
?
The population Canada liable to military duty
is about half a million, the embodied militia 90,000
men, the volunteers alone numbering some
30,000.
There are nearly three hundred newspapers in
the two Canadas, employing 2,000 persons ; 8,000
60,000 boys and girls.
schools, educating

siaPPING INTELLIGENCE. This Day.

LONDON, April 19.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Westerly, moderate breeze, and fin© weather, but a little
cloudy.

FALmotTn, April 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hugh
Black, from Monte Video.
LIvEitFOOL, April 19.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Warrior,
from Jamaica.

- ....... .„„.
PILL, April 17. —Wind S.S.E.—Sailed—Crimea, for
Montreal.
PLYMOUIt, April 18.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—El:za, for
Quebec.
NEWPORT, April 17.—Wind S.E. —Arrived—Barlow,
from HaTre for Sagua la Grande. Sailed Boone Union,
for Montreal.
CAnDur, April 18.—Wind S.W—Sailed - Follen, for
Singapore ; British Empire, for Bombay ; Royal Tar, for
Martinique.
SHIELDS, April 19.—Wind W.—Sailed—Pelican, for
Montreal.

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRATESEND, Thursday- gornin.
Arrived, April 18.—Grace Langstaff, from Alexandru.
Sailed.—Concordia, steamer, for Boulogne ; Chanticleer,
steamer, for Stettin.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed.—lndepenza, from Trieste; Bablin, screw steamer
from Bordeaux—both for London ; llos9au, from London,
for St. Vincent.