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Buffalo, February last of 44 per cent. and the City Bank of in the same month, paid a dividend of 50 per cent. Receivers of the several insolvent render it quite bankstaken The returns collectively, from the certain that in circula- the loss to the Safety Fund will be equal to all the notes that a call may on the the debts of some of betion; Safety and it Fund is not to improbable pay the be Banks made youd the redemption of the notes in circulation. The discounted bills in most of the banks are very large in amount; but the Receiver of the Commercial Bank of New-York estimates that only about ten thousand dollars will be realized from three hundred and eight thousand dollars of this class of assets. In ten months the Receiver has collected only $2,181 the in usets the of Bank that of Bank, Buffalo while Comptroller, less 79 than from five the months, has collected and redeemed more than $423,000 of notes of the same bank. There has been Commercial Bauk of paid the circulating on the assets of the Buffalo Fund only to $11,000, while the outstanding notes for the Safety The payments to the Receiver of the of amount to Watervieit A statement redeem Commercial amount Bank to about $483,000. Bank $8,000. Oswego has $2,400; not been the obtained from the Clinton County Bank, but the sum collacied probably does not exceed those of the Commercial of and Beffalo. Judging from tions believe that an amount to Bank there Oswego is no reason to these equal indicathe debts of the banks will ever be realized from the assets the Receivers. If this is so, the loss to the the circulating notes of ten exSafety hands Fund, of being the $2,068,504; banks, which cluding the Lewis County Bank, will be consume the original capital of the Safety Fund and of the contributions of half of one per cent. on the capitals all the banks to January, 1849, inclusive. After the arrearages are paid off, the banks must continue make pay half of one per cent. annually for six years, to up a new fund. This will terminate in January, 1855, provieed there are no mere failures among the Safety Fund Banks. Markets-Carefully reported for The Tribune. ASHES-The market remains heavy with an indisposition among exporters to buy at previous rates. The bills out to-day are about 150 bbls., and the receipts about 100 bble of both descriptions. Of Pots some 40 to 50 bbls. have been taken at $5.621, but the market cannot be considered firm at this rate. Pearls are still sold by some receivers at $6, but sales to a small extent were made at $5 94 a $587} The bigher rate is about the fair quotation. The amount received sisce opening of Canals, is 36,974 bbls. Stock on band, Pots. 1st inst., 2,133; 2d do. 377; 3d do. 119; condemned, H.Total, 2,723. Pearls, inst, 590; 2d do. 115; Sd do. 33 ; condemoed, 22.-Total, 766. Aggregate, 3,489 bble, Shipped from 1st to 19th October, 2,144 bbls. Pots; 294 bbls. Pearls. COTTON-The sales to-day are about 500 bales, at al most previous rates. The market, however, continues in favor of the buyer. A portion of these sales were to exporters, but the decline in Exchange and the difficulty of selling bills, keep shippers out of the market. The sales for the past week add up 2,200 bales, viz: 1,300 Upland and Florida, at a 9; 300 Mobile, at of a 10; 400 New Orleans, at 6a 10. FLOUR-The improved feeling in Flour continues to prevail, and the demand to-day for the East and bome trade has been very fair. Some large receivers who have been seiling at $4.25, are now asking $4 311. The sales of Genesee have been generally at $1.25, with none to be had less, and are not very treely at that. Ohio flat. $4 182 a $425; Wilmington, $1.18 a 25, mostly good brands at the latter rate. Troy is afforded at but sales cannot be made at that rate. Round Ohio is selling at $4 183 and in demand. We believe there is more to be had now be low that price. A lot of 1,200 bbls. of fancy brand round Ohio sold, for shipment to East Indies, at $131. lined. Within a few days 800 bbk New-Orleans superfine sold from the whari at $1 124, and to-day 410 bbls. sold, to arrive, at smething over that rate, supposed at $4 183. In Southern we bear of very little doing. The price of round Ohio in daces purchasers to take that in preference at the differ