The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-24 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 Oct. 17. 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
14th Oct. (le nearest date furnished by their returns)
will give the following results of the circulation of nates in
the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous
month :

ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Sept. 19, k, ct. 17,
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This day is published, 1863. 1863. Increase.' !Decrease
pROFESSOR AYTOUN'S LAYS OF THE
Bank of England... 20,070,780 21,544,213 573,433
SCOTTISH CAVALIERS, and other POEMS. Private Banks 3,0'.4,000 3,331,716 307,7151
With lilustrations designed by J. NOEL PATON, U.S.A. Joint-stock Banks 2,817,3771 3,013,2501 195,8731
Engraved on Wood in the highest style'of the art by John , 1 —,.---
, .
Thompson, W. J. Linton, W. Thomas, J. W. Whymper, J. Total in England. 26,8 2,157, 27,889,178 1,077,0211
Cooper, W. T. Green, Dalziels Brothers, E. Evans, J. Adam, Scotland 4,101,276 4,338,3601 234,084
.
&c. Ireland 5,039,65Q, 5,660,410 620,760)
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United Kingdom

35,956,083 37,887,918 1,931,865;

And, as compared with the month ending the 18th Oct.,
1862, the above returns show an increase of. £241,579
in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of
£485,752 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 :

KINGLAKFIS HISTORY of the INVASION
of the CRIMEA. Vols. I. and IL, Fourth Edition,
Octavo, 325.
In the copious Notes which are inserted in this Edition,
the Author deals with questions arising* out of controverted
matters of fact, and produces authority substantiating dis-
puted statements ; but not a word has been withdrawn from
the Text, and not a word has been added to it.
W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.

The English private banks aro below their fixed
issue
The English joint-stock banks are below their
fixed issue £261,108

HISTORY OF EUROPE, from the Commence-
ment of the FRENCH RE VOLUTION in 1789 to the
BATTLE of WATERLOO. By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON,
Bart., D.C.L. A New Library Edition (being the tenth). In
Fourteen Volumes, Demy Oct..vo, with Portraits, and a
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Edition, Twelve Volumes, closely printed in double columns,
£2 Ss., and Index Volume, 3s.

Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,194,535
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue .. £1,589,089
The Irish banks are below their fixed issue .... £694,084

The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending the 14th
Oct, was £15,034,343, being a decrease of £368,321 as
compared with the previous month, and a decrease of
.E 1,659,231 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 17th Oct. :
Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,334,771
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 1,923,197

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£4,957,968
Being an increase of £47,075 as compared with the
previous return, and a decrease of £23,628 when compared
with the corresponding period of last year.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
7 Rear-Admiral F. Bullock has been making a series of ex
perimental trials on board the paddlewheel steamer Vivid,
Commander W. H. Allen, which has been placed at his
disposal by the Admiralty, at the measured mile, Maplin
Sands, near Chatham, for the purpose of enabling him to
form correct tables and lay down a code of rules and regu-
lations for the use of his newly-invented permanent ship-
log, which is about to be introduced into the service. The
Lords of the Admiralty are so well satisfied of the import.
ance of the invention that orders have been received at
Chatham for the new log to be fitted on board the Liver-
pool, 39, 600 horse power, Capt. R. Lambert, belonging to
the Channel squadron—and also the paddlewheel steamer
Geyser, 6, 280 horse power, Commander M. R. Pechell.
The condemnation of the old class of wooden gunboats at
Haslar, and the certainty that iron alone will be used in the
construction of this class of vessel in future, has liberated
Haslar yard to a great extent from the duties it has hitherto
performed as an appendage of Portsmouth dockyard, and
raised the all-important question, " What shall we do with
it ?" To consider this question it will be necessary here to
state the present extent and position of the yard, the
amount of plant it contains, and the advantages it offers
while remaining still an adjunct to the yard at Portsmouth.
Haslar yard stands on the south side of a narrow creek
bearing the same name at the entrance to Portsmouth har-
bour, and is 2,640 ft. in length and 816 ft. in width within
the boundary walls ; it has a water frontage throughout its
entire length. On the side opposite to its water frontage
stand a line of galvanised iron covered sheds for 50 gunboats,
divided by five brick walls into as many divisions, the en-
tire length of the shed line being 1,900 ft. In front of and
parallel with these sheds aro lines of rail exceeding in their
collective width the length of the largest of the gunboats.
Over these travels the transporting frame and cradle, pro-
pelled by a powerful locomotive engine, which conveys the
gunboat to or from the launching and hauling up slipway
or the sheds as required. Between this line of sheds and
the south boundary wall of the yard is established the
nucleus of an engineering range of workshops with the
necessary forges, lathes, &e., employing about 30 junior
naval engineers and 40 stokers, the latter working at their
trades as boiler makers, moulders, coppersmiths, carpenters,
&c., or fitting the machinery of the gunboats (which will
become available for the ironboats to be constructed) with
condensers, and doing, in fact, all the work required for the
alteration and repair of machinery, except heavy iron cast-
ings, which are supplied from the iron foundry at Ports-
mouth dockyard. About a score of shipwrights aro em-
ployed on four new wooden gunboats, which have now been
building there some time, and a gang of hands from the
steam factory of Portsmouth dockyard is employed in tak-
ing the boilers and engines out of the condemned gunboats.
A few iron and wooden mortar vessels stand on their blocks
in one part of the yard, but as they can only be looked upon
as waste material and not as plant, they may be dismissed
from all further consideration. The enclosing wall of the
yard is of brick, and substantially built, as may be ima-
gined, with brick sentry boxes at the angle. At the
entrance is a spacious guard-house, police-station,
and an official residence, now occupied by an acting
master shipwright. Such is the present extent and position
of Hasler gunboat yard and slipway. The advantages Has-
lar yard offers as an adjunct to the main yard at Portsmouth
are many, and are not likely to be set aside even by the
comprehensive scheme for the extension of Portsmouth
dockyard which is about to be carried out under the direc-
tion of Mr. Stamp, C.E., Deputy-Director of Works to the
Admiralty. In the first place the yard may be appropriated
as a boat building, repairing, and storing yard, and thus
become wholly attached to the department of the master
shipwright; secondly, it may be handed over to the chief
engineer of Portsmouth yard, and become a part of the fac-
tory establishment ; thirdly, it may be handed over entirely
to the naval engineers in commission afloat, and thus be-
come the headquarters of the steam reserve ; and, fourthly,
it may remain as it is, attached in part to all, and a source
of continual disputes. It is evident that, as we are to have
iron gunboats, Haslar yard, with all its costly plant of
covered berthing, high and dry, for 50 boats, its transport-
ing lines of rails, and launching and hauling up slipway,
will be retained as their headquarters. This at once nar-
rows the question as to the retention and future use of the
yard. As a yard for the storage, repair, and building, if
necessary, of iron gunboats, it would come under the ma-
nagement of the steam reserve more than any other depart-
ment, and if the steam reserve is to be continued as a dis
tinct department of our chief naval port, then the iron
gunboat yard at Haslar appears to offer unusual and ex-
traordinary advantages as the officially appointed head-
quarters of the force. We have already said that the nucleus
of a naval engineering establishment exists at Haslar,
and there is plenty of apace to extend the workshops on
the present line of ground, so as to afford full employ-
ment for all the naval engineers and stokers on the books
of the reserve in the port, who would thus have the ad-
vantage of being employed in the shops upon work they
might bo called upon to do on an emergency at sea. With
the captain of the steam reserve in residence on the esta-
blishment, and the " factory" system of work and accounts
introduced (as now arranged in her Majesty's dockyards,
and than which nothing can well be more efficient), Haslar,
as the head-quarters of the Portsmouth steam reserve,

would become a most important and economical esta-
blishment. There is abundance of room at Haslar to
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and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
officers of the establishment, including the naval engi-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is acorn
panted by sickness and disease, t dis now of sufficient &c., which would form a necessary part of such an esta-
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
hlishment.
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the Adititalty orders have been received by the authorities
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of at Sheerness dockyard that her Majesty's screw steam
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
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it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, line-of-battle ship
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
horse power, Master in charge John C. Salfleet, belonging
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to the first division, of the Sheerness steam reserve, is to be
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that immediately got, real), for sea as a troopship. Her main
daily present themselves. deck guns P
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and db' read y.s .re to be removed and the ports closed. When
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and iploy, ion the China station. She will take out 600 marines
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn ~ ' 4 will have a complement of 480 men, and be em-
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison _aid supernumeraries.
and Co. ; W Mains, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, ar -
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Livery -4 to the second division of
and at the Hospital. .4)91 tens, 400 horse power, belonging
STANFORD S. SMITH $P Th© Bombay, 67, screw steam line-of-battle ship, 2,872
was removed yesterday from
.„,r ataxv the &come:so steam reserve,