COMPARATIVE EXPORTS OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES, FROM LIVERPOOL, FOR THE YEAR 42,113 189,567 161,999 Oat Meal, British and Foreign, loads. Corn Meal, British & Foreign ...bbls. Here appears an increase in the imports for the last over the next previous year of 432,959 qrs. of wheat, 160,675 bbls. and 70,255 sacks of flour, 6,195 qrs. peas, 114,573 qrs. Indian corn, and 71,526 loads of oat meal; and a decrease of 31,266 qrs. oats, 18,797 qrs. barley, and 15,929 qrs. of beans. In the exports the most noticeable feature is a decrease of 121,098 bbls. of flour, 86,844 qrs. Indian corn, and 9,964 qrs. beans. The shipping interest which has been considerably depressed, is now the most prosperous of any in the community. Vessels of all descriptions, whether old or new, sell readily, and bring very full prices. We have compiled carefully a table showing the highest, lowest, and average price of freight for flour and grain to Liverpool for the last seven years, at the port of New York:- · Thus it will be seen that the rates both for wheat and flour average higher for the last 10 months, than at any previous time since 1847; and engagements for the coming month have been made at prices considerably above even the high rates here given. JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE. LOSS OF BANK BILLS IN A SERIES OF YEARS. The State Bank of Indiana, whose charter will soon expire, has issued a circular addressed to numerous banking institutions, with a view to obtain information as to the average loss of bank bills in a series of years. The resolution adopted by the State Bank of Indiana was as follows: Resolved: That the cashier of the State Bank be authorized and directed during the next vacation of this board, both by correspondence and personal conference, so far as practicable, with the former officers of banking institutions in this country, which have closed their business after completing their chartered existence, to ascertain and report to this board at its next session, a just and safe per centum of substituted circulation to be issued to the respective branches of this bank, for the amount of the paper of the bank believed to be actually lost by circulation or otherwise, Banking institutions generally are in possession of few facts that will elucidate this matter, and it would be difficult to ascertain the per centage of loss of bank notes, in consequence of fire and other accidents. The Catskill Bank, New York, after a business of thirty years, ascertained that about fifteen thousand dollars of their circulation had not been presented for redemption, nearly all of which is probably gone beyond recovery, and of course a clear gain to the institution, as well as a loss to the holders. This loss of $15,000 occurred between the years 1813 and 1843, or up to the adoption of the registry law. Sufficient time has therefore elapsed to show that this amount, at least, has been destroyed. The ordinary circulation of the bank is $200,000. The Mechanics' Bank of Baltimore has been in business forty-seven years, with a circulation ranging from $300,000 to $600,000, its present average being about $428,000. Of the bills issued between the years 1806 and 1839, the amount now outstanding, after a lapse of at least ten years, is $26,190, viz:— This is, however, beyond the ordinary loss of bank notes. It will be seen that the loss above stated was mainly during the period of 1808-17. It is a curious fact that $15,000 of the bills of this bank was sent to the Canadian frontier during the war of 1812-13 to pay the U. S. troops, which are supposed to have been lost in the River St. Lawrence. These were $5 bills. The sum of $20,000, issued by the Union Bank of Maryland, was sent at the same time for the same purpose, all of which shared a similar fate. Of the above sum of $26,190, the denominations were as follows: The $1,250 post notes of the Mechanics' Bank, dated in 1827, were issued to a gen tleman traveling to the West to buy land. He is supposed to have been lost in a steamboat on the Mississippi River. Neither he nor the bills have been heard of since. FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 1852-3. STATE OF THE TREASURY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE 1853. Premium on redemption stock loans of 1842, '46, '47 and '48. 500,000 00 193,300 00 16,743 99 24,327 59 6,305 68 4,317 72 294,358 99 43,683 24 17,832 67 Premium and interest on redemption of stock loan of 1843. 178 25 1,315 74 256 62 Redemption of treasury notes purloined.. Interest on treasury notes Interest on public debt created since 1841 Reimbursment of treasury notes, prior to 22d July, 1846 per acts of 1846-7 200 00 802 11 3,666,634 85 7,450 00 9,250 00 STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE SEVERAL BANKS IN THE STATE OF OHIO, TAKEN FROM THE RETURNS MADE TO THE AUDITOR OF STATE, ON THE FIRST MONDAY OF AUGUST, INDEPENDENT BANKS. RESOURCES. 1853. Due from other Eastern Deposits. $42,017 46 361,645 58 29,698 02 18,313 08 34,954 68 17,012 81 89,193 41 13,641 54 14,163 00 43,494 27 31,701 56 406,620 91 15,702 32 51,146 00 15,237 70 48,228 02 255,168 33 29,648 41 43,455 00 1,468 40 43,620 05 |