A Table showing the highest and lowest prices of bank notes at Philadelphia, in each year, from October 31st,

1814, to December 31st, 1841.

[In this table, p stands for premium; d for discount: a is an abbreviation of the Latin ad, to.]

others scattered in different places) continued to refuse payment of specie on demand. time, suspended specie payments; and did not resume them again till the 18th and 19th them for about twenty days, or until the 4th of February. They then, for the fourth the south and west of New York (with the exception of the East Jersey banks, and a few January 15th, 1841, the banks of Philadelphia resumed specie payments, and sustained

of March, 1842.

year, from October 31st, 1814, to December 31st, 1841.-Continued.

A Table showing the highest and lowest prices of bank notes at Philadelphia, in each

A Table showing the highest and lowest prices of bank notes at Philadelphia, in each year, from October 31st, 1814, to December 31st, 1841.-Continued.

BANK OF FRANCE.

The "Moniteur" publishes the account of the operations of the Bank of France during the first three months of 1842. On the 25th of March there were 211,909,148f. in specie deposited in its vaults. The commercial bills discounted amounted to 152,559,492f.; the advances on ingots and money, to 3,023,600f.; the advances on public securities, to 10,662,071f.; the current accounts, debtors, to 16,146,188f.; the capital of the branch banks, to 20,000,000f.; the reserve, to 10,000,000f.; the lodgements in public securities, to 50,187,018f.; the hotel and furniture of the bank, to 4,000,000f.; and various debts and other objects, to 362,620f.; making the assets of the bank amount in all to 478,550,140f. The bank notes in circulation at the same period, exclusive of those issued by the branch banks, represented a sum of 228,180,500f.; and the bills to order, to 1,102,969f. The discounts, advances, and loans on commercial bills during the three months, amounted to 229,120,000f.; on ingots and money, to 7,335,600f.; on public securities, to 10,006,900f.; on mint bonds, to 863,700f.; in all, to 247,326,600f.

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

RATES OF FREIGHT AND PASSAGE ON LAKE ERIE, FOR 1842. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser publishes the following table of freights and pas. sage on Lake Erie, &c., as established for the season of 1842 :

Silver Creek, Dunkirk, Barcelona, Erie, Con-
neaut, Ashtabula, Grand River, Cleveland,
Charleston, Huron, Sandusky, Toledo, &c.,
Monroe, Detroit,....

Heary.

Light.

100 lbs. 100 lbs. Barrel.

Bulk.

50 c.

50

...100 lbs. 15 cents.

Down freight from ports upon Lake Erie to Buffalo, will pay as follows:

Flour,

Wheat, Provisions, Seeds,

...barrel 20 cents. | Tobacco,.....

66

BUFFALO TO

Mackinac,

Milwaukie,

Racine,

Southport,

PASSAGE TO THE UPPER LAKES, UNTIL OCTOBER 1ST.

..hhds. $150

$16 00

$8.00

Wagon. $5.00 a 7 00

Chicago,

Down freight from the upper lakes will be charged as follows:

The charges upon wheat are subject to variations. In the early part of last season, wheat in sacks was brought from the upper lakes to Buffalo for 12 cents per bushel; but in the autumn, when the demand was good and when a full supply was in store at the west, double that price was paid.

PRESENT RATES OF PILOTAGE FOR TYBEE BAR AND RIVER

SAVANNAH.

As Revised by a Law of the State of Georgia, passed December, 1836, adding twenty per cent to the former rates.

DRAFT OF
WATER.

BAR PILOTAGE, AND TO
COCKSPUR, OR SAFE

FROM

TOTAL AMOUNT.

Feet.

ANCHORAGE.

COCKSPUR TO SAVANNAH.

U. S. Vess. For. Vess. U. S. Vess. For. Vess. U. S. Vess. For. Vess.