CONDITION OF THE BANKS OF OHIO.

We have received from the Auditor of the State of Ohio the quarterly statement exhibiting the condition of the several incorporated banking institutions of that State on the first Monday of February, 1856, as shown by their returns made under oath to the Auditor of State, from which we have compiled the following table. There are eleven independent banks, the circulation of which is secured by Ohio and United States stocks deposited with the State Treasurer; thirteen free banks, whose circulation is secured by Ohio and United States stocks deposited with the State Auditor; forty-one branches of the State Bank, four of which have become insolvent, viz.: the Akron Branch, the Commercial Branch. Toledo, the Licking County Branck, Newark, and the Mechanics' and Traders' Branch, Cincinnati, and one withdrawn, the Franklin Branch, Cincinnati; and one old bank, the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, with a paid-up capital of $2,000,000:

Total...

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$3,466,346 57 $2,962,731 73 $16,579,581 42 $2,989,354 68

Total...... .... $3,466,346 57 $2,962,731 73 $16,579,581 42 $2,889,354 68

EXPENSES OF LEGISLATION IN PENNSYLVANIA.

The Auditor-General of Pennsylvania furnishes a statement of the expenses of the Legislature from 1843 to 1855, of which the following is a summary :—

FRENCH FINANCES AND FINANCIERS.

As to the financial position of France, the National Review says: "Including the two great loans the belief is, that since the coup d'etat, Louis Napoleon has borrowed 1,700,000,000 francs. The expenses incurred by the municipality of Paris on account of the arrangement as to the price of bread, reach between fifty and one hundred million francs. For the embellishment of the city the Parisian authorities have contracted three loans, to an extent of 135,000,000 francs. The sums borrowed for similar purposes by the departments and communes are stated to us at 300,000,000 francs. These facts and figures are alarming enough: what is yet more so, is the establishment of the Credit Mobilier, a society for borrowing and lending on various securities and on an enormous scale. Scarcely one of the ministers, or men connected with the emperor, is free from the reproach of stock-jobbing; their fortunes have been made either by gross favoritism or by speculations in the funds, which, in men placed as they are, and with sinister and secret means of information, is little short of swindling; and the riches thus questionably won are spent in a style of lavish and somewhat vulgar luxury peculiarly offensive both to the taste and the poverty of the cultivated and the noble."

PAYMENT OF INTEREST ON STATE BONDS OF MISSOURI.

We publish below the several sections of an Act passed at the last session of the "General Assembly of the State of Missouri," and approved by the governor December 7th, 1855. This act is entitled

AN ACT TO SECURE THE PROMPT PAYMENT OF THE INTEREST ON STATE BONDS.

SECTION 1. There is hereby set apart on the first day of July, 1856, from any moneys in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, as the basis of a State interest fund; and the further sum of one hundred thousand dollars annually thereafter, out of the gross revenue of the State for the period of thirteen years, which said fund shall be denominated "The State Interest Fund."

SEC. 2. In case any railroad company to which the credit of the State has been loaned, shall fail to deposit with the treasurer of the State a sum sufficient to meet any interest to fall due, upon any State bond, or upon any bond guarantied by the State, thirty days prior to the time when the said interest shall become due, it shall be the duty of the auditor and treasurer, hereinafter mentioned, to pay to the treasurer of State, out of the State interest fund hereby created, the amount of money sufficient to enable said treasurer to pay said interest promptly at maturity; and when such delinquent railroad company shall repay to the treas urer of State the amount so paid for such company, with interest thereon, the same shall be repaid by said treasurer into the said "State Interest Fund."

SEC. 3. The treasurer of State and the auditor of public accounts, and their successors in office, are hereby created commissioners of said "State Interest Fund," and they shall have the exclusive control, custody, and care of the same; and it shall be their duty to keep separate accounts of said fund, and make annual reports to the governor of the condition of said fund.

SEC. 4. The said commissioners shall invest the said sum of two hundred thousand dollars, and the said annual apportionment of one hundred thousand dollars, in the seven per cent bonds of the State of Missouri, or in the bonds of the United States, or such other States as the General Assembly of this State may from time to time designate, and the interest accruing from time to time on said bonds shall be invested in such bonds, and shall be added to and form part of the said "State Interest Fund."

SEC. 5. The said commissioners shall have power to sell or hypothecate the whole or any part of the bonds belonging to said fund to procure ready money, to meet any demands which may be made upon such fund under the provisions of the second section of this act. The bonds, moneys, and papers belonging to said fund shall be deposited in the State treasury under the immediate care and custody of the treasurer of State for the time being.

SEC. 6. The fund created by this act is hereby declared to be sacred and invio

lable for the purposes contemplated by this act, and the General Assembly hereby pledge the public faith of the State of Missouri, that the fund hereby created shall not be diverted or applied to any other purpose whatever, until the principal and interest of all the State bonds issued and to be issued or guarantied under existing acts shall be fully paid and redeemed in good faith.

SEC. 7. The commissioners of said "State Interest Fund" hereby created shall receive such compensation for their services as the General Assembly of this State shall from time to time prescribe by law.

SEC. 8. This act shall not be construed to alter, modify, or repeal any former acts of the General Assembly loaning the credit of the State to the railroad companies respectively; nor shall the Governor be authorized to issue any bonds of the State to such railroad companies, while such company or companies shall fail or refuse to repay to the treasurer of State any advance of interest due by said company or companies to said "State Interest Fund." This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES WITH THE WORLD. The following tables, showing the Commerce and Navigation of the United States with various foreign countries, were communicated to Congress on the 10th of March, 1856. These tables, as will be seen, exhibit the value of exports to, and imports from each country, and the tonnage of American and foreign vessels arriving from, and departing to each country during the years designated. These tables are similar to one or two which we copied from the manuscript tables furnished to our hands by Mr. Nourse, and published in a former number of the Merchants' Magazine:

Years. produce, produce. Total.

Value of imports.

Entered Cleared Entered Cleared U.States. U. States. U. States. U. States.

1845 12,880,171 3,170,233 15,500,404 21,595,425 126,417 141,032 14.104 10,690 1846 13,601,650 1,528,925 15,130,575 23,911,332 118,554 134,679 13,714 12,116 1847 18,592,531 505,087 19.097,618 24,900,841 189,672 160,657 29,535 23,107 1848 15,374,885 4,444,425 19,819,310 28,096,031 156,326 132,546 24,837 27,387 1849 12,523,759 2,986.824 15,510.583 24,363,783 102,017 127,888 33,917 30,388 1850 17,950,277 1,883,070 19,833,347 27,538,025 114,867 128,747 42,852 26,392 1851 25,302,085 2.951,061 28,252,146 31,715,553 142,842 163,707 41,154 33,160 1852 22,190,070 1,800,575 23,990,645 25,890,266 193.242 214,763 46,768 17,602 1853 25,120,806 1,450,978 26,571,784 83,455,942 189,916 201,181 37,966 14,888 1854 30,968,252 1,179,729 82,147,981 35,781,393 233,148 230,052 31,833 18,091 1855 31,623,893 1,254,230 32,878,128 31,609,131 199,695 266,823 28,765 16,063

SPAIN.

1845 452,091 64,673 516,764 1,759,877 31,498 14,134 10,774 2,115 1846 541,903 61,843 603,746 1,939,740 27,981 16,242 6,422 3,198 1847 2,006,716 95,938 2,102,654 1,847,179 37,133 20,896 14,079 17,500 1848 2,386,141 21,647 2,467,788 2,428,539 43,677 25,276 10,849 29,637 1849 1,944,202 60,629 2,004,831 2,485,210 88,790 27,584 11,997 30,542 1850 3,899,362 131,928 4,031,290 3,504,484 42,797 29,386 30,064 43.848 1851 5.555,128 161,186 5,706,314 3,444,979 85,288 40,151 28,432 61,400 1852 3,445,080 152,417 8,597,497 3,360,332 37,908 28,974 22,402 53,532 1853 4,642,740 51,848 4,694,588 4,643,629 27,369 40,012 24,272 47,597 1854 4,650,141 78,494 4,728,675 5,122,458 45,904 38,924 16,050 41,231 1855 4,702,252 441,612 5,143,864 5,366,108 61,690 55,709 86,687 42,303

The figures for this year are those given by "Commerce and Navigation" for the Papal States. In former reports, the entry is Italy, or Italy generally; or Pontifical States-sometimes both,

2,656 4,542

5,828

6,527

20,178

18,752

11,431

6,267

9,947

6,196

5,756 4,068

1845 $1,495,754 $355,319 $1,851,073 $709,562 11,740 20,289 1846 1,632,607 749,207 2,331,814 836,372 12,714 23,375 1847 2,874,367 848,190 3,222,557 948,325 28,307 26,617 1848 1,989,764 200,171 2,189,935 1,325,061 20,256 19,870 1849 2,443,064 288,243 2,731,307 1,844,292 21,158 27,862 1850 2,168,357 375,403 2,543,760 2,404,954 23,033 21,428 1851 2,709,393 142,619 2,852,012 2,377,630 16,578 17,654 7,524 3,829 1852 3,202,767 1,001,003 4,203,770 2,054,043 15,982 34,705 15,538 5,940 1853 2,301,038 907,495 3,208,533 2,732,168 28,845 25,124 10,931 4,192 1854 3,848,890 1,158,004 5,006,894 3,462,241 36,480 42,532 13,217 11,171 1855 2,576,354 1,550,886 3,927,240 8,398,690 36,998 37,790 7,048 4,963