The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-25 00:00:00

PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of circu-
lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending the 22d of Dec.,
1855, and gives the following as the average weekly cir-
culation of those banks during the past month, viz. :
Private banks .....
Joint-stock banks 3,058,165

Average weekly circulation £6,901,153

On comparing the above with the returns for the pre-
ceding month, ending the 24th of Nov. last, it shows—
A. decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of £138,922
A. decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of 62,338

Decrease on the month
And, as compared with the return for the correspond-
ing period of the preceding year—viz., Dec. 23, 1854, it
shows—
A. decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of a 069
A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of 14,573

Decrease on the year
On comparing the above with the amounts of the fixed
issues, the following appears to be the comparative state
of the circulation :

The private banks are below their fixed issues £750,729
The joint-stock banks are below theii fixed

issues

257,973

Total below their fixed i55ue5........ £1,008,707

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Jan. 25.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.
strong breeze and tine.

POIiTSMOUTH, Jan: 24.—Wind W.S.W., blowing sh
gale.—Arrived—Wide Awake, from Malta ; Jane and
Isabella, London, for Hong Kong; Irene, London, for
Hobart Town ; Forestor, London, for the West Indies ;
Herald of the Morning, London, for Nobile.
A vessel of about 15 tons, not coppered, bottom upwards,
was seen yesterday, 10 miles S. by W. of the Owers.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 24.—Wind S.W. ; it blew a heavy
gale to-day, but is now more moderate.—Arrived—Louisa,
from St. Domingo, for Hamburg, leaky ; Star of Peace,
London, for Sydney, N.S.W., with loss of maintopmast.
FALMOUTH, Jan. 24.—Wind W. to W.S.W., violent
gale, with squalls. Arrived— Somorrostro, from Havana,
leaky ' • Rigroa, London, for Sierra Leone ; Eureka, Lon-
don, for New York.

SHOREHAM, Jan. 24.—Arrived.—Laura, from Shields, for
Cette, brought in dismasted, having been run into by a
large three-masted vessel, on the 23d, nine miles east of
the Isle of Wight.
WEYMOUTH, Jan. 24.—The Goodwill, of Portsmouth,
came on shore near the Old Castle, and is in a perilous
position ; cargo is being saved.
Cowes, Jan. 24.—Wind S.W., a gale.—Arrived----
Earl of Shaftesbury, from London, for Calcutta.
MARGATE, Jan. 24.—The Charles Louis, from London,
for Brest, which got on the French Rock, yesterday, has
come off.

(Pelt ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SouTnAmProN, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Alliance, (s.), from Havre; Pet, Shields ; Fox,
and Twyford, Newport; Breeze, Plymouth • Eleanor,
.1 ersey ; Onosera, Swansea ; City of Limerick, (steamer),
London.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.
Wind W.

Arrived.—Matilda, from Calcutta ; Fleetwood and
Francis, Bahia ; Pathfinder, Maranham ; Dusty Miller,
Alexandria; Lizzy Garrow, Messina; Gnelhelmina, Per•
nawbuco.

Wind S. QUEEN STOWN, Jan. 23.
Arrived—Lone Star and Olive, from Callao ; Spray,
Paraiba ; George Caday, Trieste; Ector, Syra ; Brewer,
New York.