The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-01 00:00:00

PPIVATB AND .T NT-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 14th of Feb.,
1857, and gives the following as the average weekly cir-
culation of those banks during the past month, viz. :
Private banks
Joint-stock banks 3,037,124

Average weekly circulation £6,730,1A9

On comparing the above with the returns for the pre-
ceding month, ending the 17th of Jan. last, it shows—
A decrease in the circulation of the private

banks of
A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of

£34,448

13,823

Decrease on the month £48,271
And, as compared with the return for the correspond-
ing period of the preceding year—viz., Feb. 16, 1856, it
shows—

A decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of • . £:05,521
An increase in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of

56,520

Decrease on th,

to year

£49,001

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 £820,067
The joint-stock banks are below their fixed
issues

Total below their fixed issues

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major-General Sir W. F. Williams has reassumed the
command of Woolwich garrison until the meeting of Par
liament.
Captain Middleton's Company of Royal Artillery, under
orders for China, assembled yesterday morning on the
practising range at Woolwich, and fired 160 rounds of shot
and shell from the now 3-pounder battery, at a distance
varying from 200 to 800 yards. They wore afterwards
mustered on parade, and went through a course of carbine
having7oti
drill. The whole of the troops about to proceed to China go
through a routine of ordnance and rifle practice daily,
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fthe 64th,
garrison, •
completed their course of instruction in the use of the En-
field rifle, przNiously to their embarking, for India, an order
has been given for the depots of the Bth, 10th, 21th, 27th
(Enniskiliens), 29th, and 83d Regiments to be placed under
Captain W. Nett, the instructor of musketry, in order to
acquire a knowledge of the use of that weapon.
The following officers have joined their respective regi-
ments at Chatham garrison :—Lieutenant-Colonel R. N.
Phillips, Provisional Battalion; Captain J. M. Lyle, 29th
regiment, anti Captain R. G. Connolly, Royal Marines.
gwThei leaart.
g e stone slip at Chatham dockyard, on which the
Mersey, 40, has been laid down, has been lengthened CO
feet. iu order to give additional space for the building of
this frigate, which will be the longest in the service, her
length being 336 feet.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Ad nairalty :
Lieutenant H. M. Bingham, to the Belleisle • William
Long, second master, to tho Rhadamanthus; William H.
Hyde, clerk, to the Melville.

STEAM TO THE BRAZILS.--SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—
The Hamburg and Brazilian Company's steamship
Tentonia, Capt. Malchin, sailed hence to-day for Lisbon
and the Brazils, carrying out 163 passengers, 600 tons
of freight, 68,0001. in gold for Rio, and a considerable
quantity of jewellery. The Royal mail steamer Teviot,
Capt. Moir, leaves on the 9th of April, with the Brazi-
lian mails. The Gulden Fleece steamer, Captain J. V.
Hall, leaves litre on the 6th proximo for Hamburg, from
which she is to sail on the 20th, and Southampton on the
24th, for the. Brazils, and will carry a ship letter mail.
With the departure of this vessel will—commence the
operations of the new European and American Steam
`Shipping Company, and their New York line wll also
be opened by the Queen of the South, Captain Beal,
which is to leave this port on the 29th. These steamers
are being splendidly fitted up with passenger and other
acccmmodation.
A DNVeEtabTelrebEuDifylTTl—Jane Hallett, of Whitty Head,
near
Dorset, suffered for many years trom
a bad leg. From the knee to the ancle it had several
wounds, so that she was unable to stand or move about
the house. She tried a variety of means and applica-
tions, but without obtaining a cure. By the blessing of
God and using only three pots of Poor Man's Friend,
and taking three boxes of pills, she was perfectly cured.
Dr. Roberts's Poor Man's Friend, for wounds and erup-
tions of every description, is sold in pots, ls. lid. and
2s. 9d. each. His Pilules Antiscrophulm, for all im•
purities of the blood, is sold in boxes, Is. lid.; 2s. 9d.,
44.'6d., 1.1.5., and 225. each, by all medicine vendors
throughout the United Kingdom and Colonies.