The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS.

The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir-
culation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending Jan. 9. These
returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and
Irish Banks for the same period, and the average circula-
tion of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the
6th Jan. (the nearest date furnished by their returns)
will give the following results of the circulation of notes in
the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous
month :

•
• Dec. 12, Jan. 9,
18(33. 1864. Increase. Decrease
-- -- '-
Bank of England... 20,704,586 20,075,403 £629,183
Private Banks 3,220,025 3,115,544 104,481
Joint-stock Banks 2,899,318 2,829,127 70,191
Total in England 26,823,929 26,020,074 803,855
Scotland 4,630,6(4 4,301,431 338,233
Ireland 6,040,253 5,664,1401 276,113
---
United Kingdbm. 37,403,846 35,985,6151 11,418,201

And, as compared with the month ending the 10th Jan.,
1863, the above returns show an increase of £383,430
in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of
£593,492 in the circulation of the United Kingdom.
On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve-
ral banks the following is the state of the circulation :
The English private banks are below their fixed
issue
The English joint-stock banks are below their
fixed issue £445,231

Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,594,829
The Scotch banks ern glove their fixed it,. .. £1,552,100
The Irish banks are below_their fixed issue .... £690,354
Tho average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending the 6th
Jan. was £14,112,975, being an increase of £901,719 as
compared with the previous month, and a decrease of
£760,632 when compared with the same period last year.
The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch
and Irish banks during the month ending the 9th Jan.:—
Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,350,667
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,007,210

£4,357,877
Being a decrease of £291,831 as compared with
previous return, and a decrease of £224,901 when compared
with the corresponding period of last year.

THE FORGET ME-NOT: The forget-me-not is a
name which has, like the pansy, been applied to a
variety of plants. For more than 206
years it was given in
England, France, and the Netherlands to the ground pine,
Ajuga chamtepitys. From the middle of the 15th century
until 1821 this plant was in all botanical books called forget-
me -not, on account of the nauseous taste which it leaves in
the mouth. Somo of the old German botanists gave the
name Vergiss mein nicht to the Chamicke, the
mdrys vera famine
glema ig
van to rheigVeronica chatucedrys.
or Teucrium b
correspond-
ing Danish name, was
)trys. Fgoir
This plant was in English called the " speedwell," from
its blossoms falling off and flying away, and " speedwell ~
being an old form of leave-taking, equivalent to "fare-
well" or good-by." The ancient English name of
the Mysotis palustris was mouse-ear-scorpion-grass ; the
phrase mouse-ear describing the small oval leaves, and the
epithet scorpion the curve of the one-sided racime, like the
scorpion's tail. In the days of chivalry, a plant which has
not been ascertained, was called " Souveigne vows de moy,"
and woven into collars. In 1465 one of these collars was
the prize of a famous joust, fought between a French and
an English knight. Certain German botanists, as far back
as the sixteenth century, seem, however, to have given tho
name forget-ree• not to the Mysotis palustris ; and borne on
the wings of the poetic legend of a lover losing his life while
gathering a pretty river-side flower for his sweetheart, and
throwing it to her, crying, "Forgot me not I" with his last
drowning breath, this naiec is now inseparably connected
with the flower ; and certainly, the lovers are more plea-
santly associated with it than the mouse's ear and the
scorpion's tail,—Dickens's " the Fear Bound,"

BANKRUPTS
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the Ciazette :
George Lewis, general dealer, Caledonian-road
George Hughes, publican, Maidenhead
Samuel Earp, farmer, Launton, Oxfordshire
Thomas Bowen, fishmonger, Brentwood
Henry Hayward, brewer, Landport
Richard Speak, bootmaker, Barbican
Joseph Rebden, lighterman, Blackwell
John Fox, baker, Nuneaton
Caleb H. Winter, grocer, Cheltenham
Charles Smart, jun., farmer. Epsom
John G. Trownce, grocer, Kentish-town
Hubert Minks, chairynaker, Polygon, Clarendon-square
John Murrell, butcher, Hove
Adam Dixon, commercial traveller, Harborne
Charles Rutland, builder, Sedgley
groat inner Arbro
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS,
Robert Mackay avd Co., wrights, Glasgow
John Findlay, gax.sp ,
Donald Gair, tackentan, Ross-shire
John Norman Rober tsotl, innkeeper, Auchmull
William Hamilton, farmer, Brownside, near Paisley

Course of the Exchange—Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam
12 0
Antwerp ** 25 67±
Brussels — 25 67±
Hamburgh
*** 13 7±
Paris ** Short. 25 221
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 119/
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin —
Madrid * ••• —47 a
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 85 25 90
111 ilan — 25 SS 25 90
Genoa — 25 S 5 25 90
Naples
Palermo .. ," '25 85 25 90
Messina — 25 85 25 90
Lisbon — s°l
-4 521
Oport0...-
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars -
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Poublons

11 17i
12
12
25 72}
25 72i
13 8
25 30
25 821-
25 821
1191
12 60
12 65
33k

COPENHAGEN, Jan. 28.—The Landthing (first
Danish Chamber) was yesterday engaged in dis-
cussing the Address, The President of the Council,
difficult to point to an arrangement which " It is
in reply to a question put by M. Plong, said,would
be accepted, and much essier to make nth©w
one which would net. For my part I would not
have a Scbleswig-lielstein united, nor a Schleswig
independent, nor a partition of Schleawlg. ' The
Address was voted unanimously.