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The bank and mercantile disasters continue to be numerous and important. Those ammounced to-day include three backs in Hartford suspended. The E1 change, Charter Oak and Mercantile. The Bank of Watertown N. Y., and Lee Bank. Mass. The re maining Hartford banks have decided not to suspend. The important mercantile failures are Messrs. Willets & Co., a very wealthy and respectable Quaker house, who have become involved by acceptances on merchandise shipped from the Pacific. They will undoubtedly pay eventually everything. The drafts of Measrs. Sather & Church of San Francisco, have also been protested to-day. This house, we understand, were short insured about $40,000 by the Central America, but the immediate cause of their suspension was the non-acceptance of $89,000 on Willets & Co., remitted by the Star of the West. It is believed that the drafts of Messrs. Sather & Church will be promptly paid on the their return to San Francisco, and meantime, negotiations are going on by which it is hoped they will be enabled in a few days to resume. Van Vieek, Read & Drexel of New York, and Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, have no connection with Sather & Church, whose business with them closed in June last. The American Exchange Bank posted the following notice this morning: " In consequence of the dishoner of drafts remitted this Bank declines further payments for Sather & Church, having already paid as far as covered by funds in hand." The failure of Messrs. Vail & Yates of Newark, one of the most extensive hat concerns in the United States, is also announced; and some six or seven fur houses in this city, none of them of much importance excepting that of Messrs. J.D. Phil ips & Co. We hear also of two or three grocers suspended, but none of much importance. At New-Orleans the failure of Messrs. Voorhees, Greggs & Co. is announced. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Detroit has been enjoined, and the Western Bank of Springfield, Mass., also. Mr. Thomas R Walker has been appointed Receiver of the Bank of Central New-York, Utica. The State Controller has been at the Manhattan Bank, in this city, for two days, signing transfers of State Stock withdrawn from the Bank Department and put upon this market within the few days past in large amounts. The following is a Comparative Statement of Exports (exclusive of specie) from New-York to Foreign Ports, for the week, and since Jan. 1: 1857. 1856. 1855. $1,721,980 $1,309,390 $1,357,470 Total for the week 54,015,245 57,592,356 45,834,246 Previously reported $55,787,225 $53,301,746 $47,191,716 Since Jan. 1 The Manton Iron Company have leased their extensive iron works, for five years, to Messrs. Thomas Chambers, J. P. and J. Grove, and Henry M. Fuller, who will only resume business when sales of iron can be effected at remunerating prices. The receipts of the Housatonic Road for the eig it months ending 1st of Sentember. have been as follow
