The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1863.

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Sept. 19, ct. 17, )
1863. 1 1863. 'lncrease. Decrease
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Bank of England... 20,970,780 21,544,213 573.433
Private Banks 3,024,000' 3,331,7151 807,715
Joint-stock Banks
Total in England 26,8 2,157 27,889,1;8 1,077,021
Scotland 4,104,276 4,338,360! 234.084
Ireland 5,039,65u 5,660,410! 610,760
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United Kingdom.

35,956,083 37,887,9481 1,931,865

Sheerness harbour to Chatham dockard by the Locust and
Sheerness steantug, to be fitted and got ready by the mid-
dle of March next for service as a flagship. It is rumoured
that her station will be the coast of Brazil, and that she will
carry the flag of Rear• Admiral the Hon. Charles G. J. B.
Elliot, C.B.

Mercury, of the 2d, has the following, headed
the
bombardment, fort
"The Siege—the 114th day :—Oa Friday night a
detail, chiefly from the Washington Light Infantry,
was stationed in the eastern barracks of Sumter,
there to be held in readiness incase an assault should
be
usual made
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al nightly
compared with the bombardment of the day, has
hitherto been of a sufficiently heavy character, no
casualties occurred until a quarter past 4 on Satur-
u Although
day morning. At that hour a Parrott shell from
Morris Island struck the iron girder which sup
ported the ceiling of the portion of the barracks
to which we have alluded, causing it to fall
in and crush thirteen men under its ruins. On
Saturday morning the enemy opened from all
his land batteries, and Parrott and mortar shells
were rained through the day upon the silent
work. Occasionally, indeed, the middle battery,
by which is meant the battery between Gregg
and Wagner, would throw a shell in the direction
of Johnson or at Sullivan Island, but for the
most part the fire was concentrated upon Sumter.
At the hour 12, two al the three monitors which
have been playing so conspicuous a part in the pre-
sent bombardment came up and proceeded to batter
the sea face from their usual prudent distance. The
shots of the island batteries were chiefly aimed at
the south-west angle. The guns in action on Sa-
turday at Morris Island were two light and two
heavy rifled guns at Gregg, three heavy rifled guns
and four 10-inch mortars at the middle battery, and
four rifled guns at Wagner. In the course of the
day, 443 rifled shots were fired at the fort, of which
51 missed. From the mortars 373 were fired, 120 of
which did not strike. The monitors fired 86 times,
and never failed once to hit their mark. The flag-
staff wastwice shot away, and was replaced by
Sergt. Graham, Corporal Hill, and Private Swain,
of company F, 12th Georgia Battalion. At length
the staff was so cut up that it became necessary to
raise the battle flag of the battalion just named. The
mortar shells thrown by the enemy are so contrived
as to explode a few seconds after impact. Of these
33 were fired at the fort on Saturday night, 12 of
which passed over. On the same night 70 rifled
shells were also fired, 10 of which missed. There
were several casualties on Saturday at the fort. The
story of Sunday is but a repetition of that of Satur-
day. The enemy's land batteries were served with
the same fury, and the monitors assaulted the fort
with the same vigour which characterised their fire
on the preceding day. About 2 o'clock the firing
was very rapid, averaging four shots a minute. The
bombardment was still going on at a late hour of
the night, but no retort had reached us at the hour
of going to press of the results of Sunday's opera-
tions. Our own batteries have been by no means
inactive during the last two days, but we have
learnt nothing of the effect of their fire."