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1535. Jan. It will be seen that within the year ending the 1st January, the reduction in circulation has been $11,766,000, or a fraction short of one half of the entire amount; and in loans and discounts $18,314,000; that the circulation is less by one million now than on the 1st January 1834, four years since, and no greater than in the "panic" spring of that year, with an increase of 26 banks and 24 million of capital; that the proportion of loans and discounts is less now than four years since, it being then double the amount of capital, and now 12 millions below that amount; and that the aggregate amount of specie is reduced within the last year, $2,418,000, yet that it is now double the amount of 1834 Under this condition of things, no one can doubt the ability of the banks of this State to resume specie payments, especiaily in the recent state of the foreign exchange and the entire absence of a demand for coin for exportation; and we trust that. whatever may be the efforts of the Phi. ladelphia Bank and its satellites to present it, and to cm. barrass the operations of the banks of this and other States, they will not disappoint the public expectation by delaying concerne an carly day for resumption." Boston Banks. The last N. Y. Er. Post gives the following statistics: "The American Bank of Boston has been obliged to close its concerns and wind up. "The Cashier of the Middling Interest Bank gives notice that its bills will be redeemed in future at its own counter, having hitherto been redeemed at the American Bank "According to the Boston Advocate, the Directors of the latter express a confident opinion that not only the bill-holders. but the stockholders will be paid in full. "A committee in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, has reported a bill prohibiting the bank from paying any dividends during the suspension of specie payments, under a penalty of forfeiting to the Com. monwealth a sum for each offence equal to the amount of the dividend paid. "It seems the Kilby Bank was on the point of yielding last week. but a timely arrangement with the associated banks, sared it from dishonor." Connecticut Banks. The Middletown Sentinel of the 31st ult. states, that The Middletown and the Middlesex County Banks, the only two in this city, resumed the payment of their bills in specie, with the exception of those issued under a law of the last Legislature, which are payable in current bille, as expressed on the face of them. The Banks in New Haven have adopted the same plan. This is a good measure. and the community should sustain our banks in thus fulfilling their obligations. by avoiding running to the banks with every specie bill they may obtain."The same paper furnishes a schedule of 33 Banks. which pay specie, under certain regulations in the U. S-and among them, enumerates nine in Connecticut-Hutrah for the Land of Steady Habits