109%@109% 5184@515 41 @41% 109%@109% 517%@516% 41 @4144 Bremen. Hamburg. Berlin. 78% @78% 35%@36% 78% @78% 36 @36% 78@78% 35%@36 71% @ 72 72 @72 72 @72%2 71% @72 71%@72 71% @72 71% @72 714@72 71% @72 71%4@72 71% @72 71 %4@72 71% @72 71% @72 71 @72 71%@72 711@72 71%4@72 40%@41% 40%4@41% 40%@41% 78%@79% 784@79%4 36 @36% 78% @79% 36% @36% 72 @72% Since Jan. 1.... 108 @110% 525 @510 40%@41% 78 @80 35%@36% 71%@72% The annual meeting of the Clearing-House Association was held the past week. The transactions for the past year amounted to $29,520,122,921 35, and the average daily transactions to $96,818,580 91. The total transactions since the organization of the Clearing-House on the 11th October, 1853, a period of four_ teen years, reach the immense aggregate of $187,890,467,794 68, all of which transactions have been done without loss or error. The subjoined table shows the aggregate for each year : JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE. Returns of the New York, Philadelphia and Boston Banks. Below we give the returns of the Banks of the three cities since Jan. 1: NEW YORK CITY BANK RETURNS. 32,762,779 I oans. Specie. Circulation. Deposits. Legal Tend's. Ag. clear'gs $257,852,460 12,794,892 202,533,564 65,026,121 486,987,787 January 26 258.935,488 14,613,477 32,825,103 202,517,608 63,246,370 605,132,006 520,040,028 197,952,076 63,420,559 568,822,804 The following advertisements appear in our advertising pages this month: MERCANTILE. Lillie's Fire & Burglar-Proof Safes-198 B'way A. B. Sands & Co.-139-141 William St.-Drugs Duncan, Sherman & Co.-Cor. Pine & Nassau. Lockwood & Co.-94 Broadway. INSURANCE. Fidelity Insurance Co.-17 Broadway. THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. NOVEMBER, 1 8 6 7. CENTRAL STATISTICAL COMMISSION OF AUSTRIA; ANALYSIS OF REPORT FOR 1866.* BY W. THOMAS NEWMARCH, Associate of King's College, London, and A.A., Oxon. The Central Statistical Commission at Vienna is composed of twenty members, appointed to it officially from among the secretaries and heads of the governmental departments, and is presided over by M. von Glauz, a counsellor in the Ministry of State. The Commission holds monthly meetings, at which communications are read by the members, and reports presented by the Select Committees named by the Commission to investigate particular subjects; in fact, the Commission would seem to combine the functions of the Statistical Society and the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade. The Commission publishes an annual report, and the issue for 1866 contains much valuable information. Among the subjects of the thirty-nine memoirs and papers contained in the report, the following are of the greatest general interest. * Read before the Statistical Society of London, Tuesday, 18th June, 1867. VOL. LVII-NO. V. The reports of the Select Committees named to prepare-A Population Table (to be based on the Census of 1861); to prepare a Statistical Handbook; to prepare a set of Questions to be filled up by the Secretaries of Legation and by Consuls, concerning the Commerce of the dif ferent countries where they reside, in the same manner as the Reports made by the Secretaries of the English Legations, and presented annually to Parliament; to consider Criminal Statistics, Railway Statistics, and the Statistics of Lunatic Asylums. The reports on the above-mentioned subjects are very similar to the reports on the same subjects in this country. Among the papers read before the Commission are three of great interest and value, to which a fuller notice may here be given, viz.:(a) A Statement of the Comparative Consumption of Articles of Food in Vienna, by Dr. Ficker. (b) Statistics of Marriages, Births, and Deaths from 1851 to 1864, together with the prices of Wheat and Rye, by M. Schimmer, of the Bureau of Administrative Statistics. (c) Statistics of the Losses of the Austrian Army in the Campaign against Prussia in 1866, communicated from the Ministry of War. The information afforded by the first-named paper (a) is comprised in the following table: [A.]—Consumption of Food, &c., in Vienna, per Head of Population. It will be seen that the greatest increase has taken place in the consumption of coal and the greatest decrease in that of firewood, showing how even in Vienna coal is supplanting wood as the fuel for household use. The nearest coal mines to Vienna are at Wolfsegg, near Gmunden, on the Western Railway, and at Leoben, near Bruck, in Styria, on the Southern Railway; Wollfsegg is about 100 miles and Leoben 120 miles from Vienna. The quality of the coal at Leoben is, however, much superior to that at Wollfsegg. Both are lignites. Next with regard to Mr. Schimmer's paper on the Statistics of Marriages, Births, and Deaths. His tables commence with the year 1851, which was the first year in which statistics were available from the whole of the empire. The prices of wheat and rye are given in the table in metzen, which is equal to 13.6 gallons, so that 5 metzen make a quarter as nearly as pos |