Total liabilities...... $4,661,214 35 $17,466,851 28 $5,466,249 73 The capital stock of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company is $2,000,000, which is loaned on real estate. The capital of $611,226, on which it is doing business as a bank, consists of loans made to the company, on which it is paying interest. $307,960 14 of amount due to banks and bankers consists of a balance of $556,149 71, after deducting therefrom $248,189 57, the amount due by the Trust Department. STATISTICS OF BOSTON INSURANCE COMPANIES. The following table, compiled by GEORGE A. FOXCRAFT, Esq., exhibits the amount of capital of sixteen Boston insurance companies, (incorporated with specific capital,) and the rate and amount of dividends paid in 1849, 1850, and 1851. The capital of the Neptune Company was increased 50 per cent in 1850. The Cochituate Company (organized in 1850) declared their first dividend in October last3 per cent. The Tremont Company are winding up their affairs. They will pay their first dividend of the capital stock ($75 per share) on the 15th instant. The semi-annual dividends of nine of the above companies, namely, the Boylston, Hope, Manufacturers', Merchants', National, Neptune, Suffolk, Warren, and the Washington, are payable in April and October; the American, Firemen's, and Franklin, are payable in January and July; the Boston in March and September; the Mercantile Marine and the Tremont in May and November; the United States in June and December. 50 per cent in stock-30 per cent in cash. QUOTATIONS OF LEADING STOCKS IN THE NEW YORK MARKET IN 1851. The following table shows the prices at which some of the leading stocks sold in each month during the year commencing January 1st, and ending THE STOCK MARKET OF BALTIMORE IN 1851. We published in the Merchants' Magazine for April, 1851, (vol. xxiv., page 493,) a table prepared for the Baltimore Price Current, showing the cash prices of all the stocks sold in that market during the year commencing January 1, and ending December 31st, 1851. We are indebted to the same reliable source for a similar table for the year ending December 31st, 1851, which we here subjoin :— Our cotemporary of the Baltimore Price Current introduces the above table with the following remarks: "In all our leading and stable securities, such as Government, State and City loans, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bonds generally, and bank shares, it will be seen there has been no material fluctuation in prices. Those of our securities that partake more of a fancy character are more readily affected by the sudden transitions in the money market as well as by other causes-the operations of 'bulls' and 'bears' for example -and to these causes may be attributed, in a great measure, the sudden fluctuations in Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and York and Cumberland Railroad shares. On 15th January, 1851, we quote Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 744 bid; on the 6th of May sales were made at 78 a 78%; from that time until the 14th of November they gradually • Dividend off. declined until they received 60 per share, at which rate sales were made on that day, since which time they have as gradually advanced, and are now held at 624. We note sales at the board at 62, with an upward tendency. "York and Cumberland Railroad shares, however, were quoted on the 15th January, 1851, at 20; they advanced during the year to $24 per share, and closed on the 15th December at 18 bid. There is some demand for the stock to-day at 18 a 184 per share. In Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad shares there has been nothing done for the last three months. This Company, we learn, will shortly make their annual report, which will show a large increase of business as compared with that of the previous year. The York and Cumberland Railroad Co., we also learn, are steadily increasing in their gross receipts every month, and with the aid of the surplus revenue to be derived from the Baltimore and Susquehanna, may be able, at its next semi-annual report, to pay a fair dividend to its very patient stockholders. Looking to the early connection of this work with the great Sunbury and Erie Railroad, which connection has now become a fixed fact, we do not hesitate to hazard the prediction that to the stockholders it must become, within a few years, one of the most productive stocks in our country." TAXES IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. The following schedule exhibits the rate of taxes that are collected in the Sandwich Islands : (Girls residing with their parents are exempt by law from this tax.) SCHOOL TAX. Every male subject of his Majesty, as above..... $2.00 (This tax is for the exclusive support of common schools in the district.) Every foreigner, subject or alien, residing or doing business in the city of Honolulu, if without children under legal age. 3 00 Every foreigner, as above, having children under legal age.. 5 00 (This tax to be subject to the order of the School Committee of Honolulu.) TAX ON ANIMALS. For every dog, without exception, if alive on the first day of January PROGRESS OF MAIL TRANSPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES. STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER OF POST-OFFICES AND LENGTH OF POST ROADS IN THE UNITED STATES-THE ANNUAL AMOUNT PAID FOR MAIL TRANSPORTATION-AND OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT AT PERIODS OF FIVE YEARS FROM 1790 TO 1835, INCLUSIVE. No. post-offices. L'gth post r'ds. Paid for transport'n. Years. 1,875 22,081 Receipts. Expenditures 32.140 |