The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-10 00:00:00

The Bank Returns.

Tho Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir'
culation of the public and joint-stock banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending Ist of Jan., 1870.
These returns, combined wiih the circulation of the Scotch
and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir-
culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ended
the 29th of Dec. (the nearest date furnisbad by their
returns), will give the following results of the circulation
of notes in the United Kingdom when compared with the
previous month :

Dec 4, Jan. 1,
1869 1870 Increase Decrease.

Bank of England 23:181:191,. 0 222:67606:1712J
Private Banks v7.517
,roint-stock Banks I 2,3 8,731; 2,281,198

174,438
ta.,599
E 7,541

Total In England. I ‘/F,301,64 • : 27,650,070
Scotland... I 5,287,4 5 4,%1 5,f 47
[reland 7,354,163. 7,056,256

6 Y 1,578
312,41 I
297,907

United Kingdom. 40,9 ; :J9,681,3731

1,261,8!hi

And as compared with the month ending the 2nd of
Dec., 1869, the above returns show a decrease of
£412,119 in the circulation of notes in England, and a
decrease of £30,413 in the circulation of the United

Kingdom.
On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the
several banks the following is the state of the circulation:—
The English private banks are below their
fixed issue 1,380,506
The English joint-stock banks aro below their
fixed issue

457,442

Total below fixed issue in England ... £1,837,948
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 2,225,776
The Irish banks are above their fixed issue ... 701,762
The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending 29th
of Dec. was £19,091,239, being an increase of £648,033,
as compared with the previous month, and an increase o
£006,873 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 Ist
of Jan. :

Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks ... £3,087,604
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,757,358

.£5,844,962
being a decrease of £79,689 as compared with the pre-
vious return, and an increase of £314,579 when compared
with the corresponding period last year. •

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam ,
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 i ... 12 1
Antwerp — ... 25 35 ... 25 421
Brussels
... 25 35 ... 25 921
Ramburgn — ... 13 10 ... 13 101
Paris -
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfurt-on-the-Main ... 120 i
... 1201
Vienna — ... 12 7U ... 12 75
Trieste — ... 12 70 ... 12 75
Petersburg
Copenhagen.. .........
Berlin
Madrid.. - ... 981 ..„ 481
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 40 ..r 26 45
Genoa — ... 26 40 .., 26 45
Naples
Palermo --... 26 90 ... 26 45
Messina
Lisbon —
..„ 51 I ...,. 521
.
Oporto— .. 52 ... 52i

RZo Janeiro
New York

The 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment, at present
stationed at Chatham, will.occupy Colchester Camp
on the removal of the depot battalions. The depot
81st will be attached to the 27th at Colchester.
An order has been received at Colchester from the
Iforse Guards directing that all the depots com-
posing the 4th and Bth depot battalions shall be
held in readiness to remove to the following sta-

tions:—.6th to Pembroke Dock, 18th to Chatham,
20th to Kilkenny, 41st to Portnoy, 49th to Kinsale,
53(1t0 Aldershot, 76th to Dover, 83d to Chatham,
and 96th to Shorncliffe. A station for the 29th
has not yet been named. A detachment of the Bth
dtpot battalion, which had been stationed at Land-
guard Fort, Harwich, for ball practice, has been
withdrawn.

Machinery for the manufacture of the new
9-pounder muzzle-loading bronze field-gun for
India has been made in the Royal Arsenal, Wool-
wich, and will shortly be forwarded to Bombay for
the purpose of completing the number of guns re-

quired for the equipment of the 9th Brigade Royal
Artillery, stationed at Ahmedabad, which is the
first brigade ordered to be supplied with the new
gun.
The depot of the Ist Battalion Ist Regiment is
under orders to move from Chatham to Alder-
shot, and will be attached to the Ist Battalion
4th Foot.

The 11th Company Royal Engineers, at Alder-
shot, under the command of Captain Salmond, is
under orders to proceed to Gibraltar. The com-

pany has been medically inspected, and it will be
up to the customary strength by transfers from
Chatham. Thirty-three men of the Gth Company
Royal Engineers, at resent stationed at Aldershot,
have been presented with the medal for service in
New Zealand by Ccl. Laffan, commanding the Royal
Engineers at that station.

Iler Majesty's ludian troopship Serapis is re-
ported, by telegram from Alexandria, to have
arrived there on the morbing of the sth instant.
All well.

The Secretary of State for War has approved the
hospital stoppage of the wives and children of sol-
diers married without leave admitted to the Female
Hospital, Aldershot, being charged at the uniform
rite of is. per diem, on the understanding that
those persons are only to be admitted into hospital
in very exceptional cases, and when it is absolutely
necessary on the score of humanity.
The 3d Dragoon Guar,]:, at Colchester, are under
orders to proceed to Aldershot, and are expected
to arrive at the Camp about the end of the month.
The move of the 27th Regiment from Chatham to
Aldershot has been countermanded.
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