STATEMENT OF TREASURE MANIFESTED AND SHIPPED FROM SAN FRANCISCO, BY SAILING VESSELS, FROM JANUARY 1 TO JULY 1, 1852. Date. Name of vessel, destination, and nation. Feb. 5, Brig Argyle, Hong Kong, American. Total.... CAPITAL AND DIVIDENDS OF BOSTON BANKS, IN OCTOBER, 1852. 5 5 a6 5 a6 STEPHEN BROWN & SONS, Stock and Exchange Brokers, Boston, report the following table of semi-annual dividends, declared and payable by the several Banks in Boston on Monday, October 4th, 1852: The Randolph Bank pays a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent, on Monday, Oct. 4. The amount of capital of all the banks in Boston in October, 1851, was $28,660,000. The amount as above stated, $24,660,000, shows an increase of bank capital since October, 1851, of $100,000,000. * 11,000 ingots. + 5,000 sovereigns. The Cochituate Bank pay on $100,000 increase capital since last dividend. UNITED STATES TREASURER'S STATEMENT, SEPTEMBER 27, 1852. TREASURER'S STATEMENT, SHOWING THE AMOUNT AT HIS CREDIT IN THE TREASURY, WITH ASSISTANT TREASURERS AND DESIGNATED DEPOSITARIES, AND IN THE MINT AND BRANCHES, BY RETURNS RECEIVED TO MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1852; THE AMOUNT FOR WHICH DRAFTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED, BUT WERE THEN UNPAID, AND THE AMOUNT THEN REMAINING SUBJECT TO DRAFT. SHOWING, ALSO, THE AMOUNT OF FUTURE TRANSFERS TO AND FROM DEPOSITARIES, AS ORDERED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Transfers ordered to treasury of the U. S., Washington, D. C... $700,000 00 100,000 00 400,000 00 180,000 00 Transfers ordered to Depositary at San Francisco, California.... 100,000 00 Total....... $1,480,000 00 Transfers ordered from Mint of the U. S., Philadelphia, Pa.................. 2,500 00 BANK-NOTES OF THE OLDEN TIMES. There lies before us, says the Commercial Advertiser, a bank-note for fifty dollars, of the Bank of Rhode Island, dated at Newport on the 8th of January, 1796, and signed “Chris. Champlin, President"-" M. Seiscas, Cashier." The history of this note is remarkable. About three years ago, this and another bill for the same amount were presented at the bank for payment, having been placed in the Suffolk Bank, Boston, for collection. One of them was dated in 1795, and was the first bill ever issued by the Bank of Rhode Island. No bills of the kind had been issued for thirty-five years previously, and the presentation of these at the bank was of course unexpected. They were, however, promptly redeemed, and their history elicited. They were found among the effects of an old man, who had recently died at Salem, Mass., who lived in poverty, and who probably believed the bills to be worthless, as they were found in a package of others of broken banks. The presidency and cashiership of the Bank of Rhode Island have been held in the same family for half a century, Mr. Peleg Clarke being now president, and Mr. W. A. Clarke cashier. We know of no older incorporated institution in New England,* except the Washington Insurance Company of Providence, chartered in 1787, of which the venerable Sullivan Dorr is still the president. We have also before us another money relic, dated April 12, 1760, being a bill for "three pounds," which "by law shall pass current in New Jersey for eight ounces and fifteen pennyweights of plate." It is printed in red ink, on thick paper, and is about three inches and a half long by an inch and three-quarters broad. The signatures are nearly effaced. STATISTICS OF THE DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN. The London Times publishes the following statement relative to the national debt of Great Britain : A Parliamentary return in relation to the public debt gives the following particulars of its variations during the last thirty years, both as regards the amount of principal and the annual cost for the payment of interest. It will be seen that the reduction in the principal effected during that period has been only £50,000,000, or 6 per cent, but that as regards the annual charge for interest, in has been £3,326,424, or nearly 11 per cent. The lowest point at which the national debt ever stood of late years was in 1834, when it had declined to £772,196,849, or to ten millions below the sum at which it now stands, the emancipation loan in 1835, and the Irish famine loan in 1847, having far more than counterbalanced all subsequent reductions. It is to be remarked, however, that owing to the conversion of the three-and-a-half per cents, and the low rates paid upon the unfunded debt, &c., the actual cost of these obligations is now smaller than at that period. During the next seven or eight years this charge will experience a further diminu tion of £2,207,500, of which £600,000 will take place by the three-and-a-quarter per cents becoming three-per-cents in October, 1854, while the cessation of the remaining will occur through the expiry of the long annuities in January, 1860, for £1,295,500, and of other annuities, amounting to £1,314,000, during the intervening time. The annuity held by the bank for £585,700 does not terminate till 1867. The unfunded debt, which is included in the subjoined totals, was less in 1851 than in any other year of the series, its amount being £17,742,800. In 1822 it was as high as £36,281,150: *The Massachusetts Bank, in Boston, is an older institution, having been chartered in 1784; and the Union Bank, in Boston, in the year 1792.-EDITOR. REVENUE OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK. ST. JOHN, September 20, 1852. FREEMAN HUNT, Editor of the Merchants' Magazine, etc. :— DEAR SIR-If the inclosed is of any service to you please publish it. The pound is equal to four dollars American. The Loan Fund is to pay off the Province debt, and is raised by levying 1 per cent upon all British and foreign manufactured articles, also pepper and spices imported into the Province. The Auction Tax is a duty of 1 per cent upon all goods sold at auction, except sheriffs' sales, household furniture, effects of deceased persons, underwriters' sales, salt and coals. Your obd't serv't, R. S. ABSTRACT OF THE REVENUE OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK FOR THE YEAR 1850, THE LAST YEAR'S REVENUE AS YET RETURNED. Total... £6,146 8 £71,447 12 £16,901 8 £3,571 18 £1,665 8 £104,089 9 Increase of revenue over 1849 is £8,552 12 2. In addition to the revenue received from the sources specified above, that derived from other sources for the entire Province is as follows: We have These sums are included in the column of "total" in the above table. also omitted, for the sake of convenience, the pence in the table which will make a trifling difference in the totals. DIVIDENDS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. The semi-annual dividend of the Bank of England was 3 per cent, as declared on the 16th September, which is a reduction of per cent from the previous six months. The reduced dividends is said to be owing to the cheapness of money, and the difficulty of lending it except at very low rates. There was a rumor prevalent in London that loans as government securities would be reduced from 2 per cent to 14 per cent per annum. The Bank of England was making arrangements to augment the stock of silver for circulation, which had recently become very much reduced by the emigration to Australia and elsewhere. At the meeting of the Bank of England, the ques tion of electing a permanent governor, was under discussion. DEBT AND REVENUE OF PENNSYLVANIA. From a circular addressed to the foreign loan holders of the State of Pennsylvania, by JOHN J. MCCAHEN, Commissioner of loans for that State, we extract the subjoined statement of the debt and resources of the State: The whole debt of Pennsylvania is forty millions of dollars, or about eight millions of pounds sterling. The State has the right to pay off the same at the periods designated in the following table :-- At the present time, (and will be paid during this year,).. . . In the beginning of the year 1853, (will be paid as soon as the period arrives,)... July 1, 1860.. The remainder of the loans are payable in 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1868, and 1870, $400,000 due in 1879, and $850,000 in 1882, amounting in all to... Total........ $3,314,825 20 688,479 51 650,163 00 119,500 00 2,744,057 83 2,146,529 83 4,478,040 26 2,731,190 49 7,022,233 01 1,209,999 59 2,582,386 48 13,062,000 00 $40,748,905 20 It will be perceived by the foregoing that the State has the right to pay off, during the year 1852, $3,314,325 20; during the year 1853, $4,202,200 34; during the year 1854, and August, 1855, $6,624,670 09; and July 1, 1856, $2,731,190 49; the first half-year of 1858, 87,022,233 01; in two years after, $4,392,386 07; making an aggregate of $28,287,005 20, payable in less than eight years. The following exhibits the comparative revenue of the State of Pennsylvania for the years 1843 and 1851, and the estimated revenue of 1852, from general and regular sources. The fiscal year terminates on the 30th of November: 1 The prosperity of the State cannot be retarded, unless by some improbable casualty; the completion of the last link of her improvements has been provided for, and it is expected that in one year the North Branch Canal will pay a revenue upon more than three-and-a-half millions of dollars, hitherto entirely unproductive. The railways are now improving, and, being adapted to increased business and celerity in transporting passengers and freight, we may confidently predict that, in less than two years, the receipts upon our public works will exceed two-and-a-half million dollars The single article of anthracite coal will illustrate the product ive wealth of the State: per annum. In 1843, there were sent to market from our eastern coal-fields....tons In 1851.... Showing an increase of production of.. 1,840,710 4,388,780 8,142,020 5,300,000 |