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@5,500; do. 1847, $48,400; do. 1848, $9,100. Total, $85,500. Mr. Hoxsey bas introduced into the Senate of New. Jersey & further supplement to the act respecting anand Reports to the Legislature of Reilroad and Ca. nal Comparies It makes it the duty of the Nw. York end Erie Railroad Company, occupying and using the Paterson and Remapo Road, and of the Paterson and Hudson River Railrodd Company, to make annual reports to the Legislature; and in case of the refusal or neglect of the said Erie Company to make such annual statement, they shall be tubject to the penalties imposed by law upon the Canale and Bailroads of that State by existing laws for neglect or refusal 80 to report. About $23,000 of traudulent drafts on New Bedford, Fairbaven, &e., houses, have appeared, drawn at Honolulu. About $5,000 were paid previous to the discovery of the fraud. Tae drafts, although all drawn in favor of different persons, are filled up, with the exception of the payee's name, by the same individual. Speaking of the rumor in regard to the Bank of Commerce, at Baltimore, The Sun of that place says: " Yesterday there was a brisk run upon the Bank, but everything went off" satisfactorily. The institution has but $30,000 in circulation, and of that amount $2,000 was yesterday presented at the counter and psid. Some few depositors, also, withdrew their accounts. Should the entire circulation be sent in, Mr. Miller, the Cashier, is fully prepared to meet it promptly. The rumors of defalcations to the extent of sixty or seventy thousand dollars are erroneous. The difference bet ween the account of the Bank and the President will be about $7,000 or $8,000, which may be nearly all secured by the Bank." About two millions of dollars were due In dividends, this week, at Boston. The Bank dividends were as follows: Atlantic, 4 per cent ; Atlas, 4 per cent; Bank North America, 31 per cent.; Bank Commerce, 4 per cent.; Blackstone, 4 per cent.; Boston, 4 per cent.; Boylston 41 per cent; Broadway, 4 per dent. City, 31 per cent; Columbian, 31 per cent; Eagle, 4 per cent Eliot, 4 per cent.; Exchange, 4 per cent.; Faneuil Hall, 4 per cent.; Freeman's, 5 per cent ; Globe, 4 per cent Grocers', 4 per cent; Hamilton, 4 per cent.; Howard Banking Co., 4 per cent; Market, 5 per cent.; Massachusetts, (8 per share,) 3 1-5 per cent; Maverick, 3 per cent ; Mechanics', 4 per cent.; Merchants', 4 per cent.; National, 4 per cent.; New England, 4 per cent North, 4 per cent; Shawarut, 4 per cent Shoe and Leather, 4 per cent State, 31 per cent,; Suffolk, 5 per cent ; Traders', 4 per cent Tremont, 4 per cent ; Union, s per cent ; Washington, 31 per cent.; Webster, 31 per cent. The aggregate of these dividends is $1,236,650. The Appleton Bank, of Lowell, has declared a semi-annual dividend of 5 P cent. Also the Lowell Bank. The Railway Committee of the Massachusetts Leg. islature have reported a bill to the House in favor of loaning the credit of the State to the Vermont and Massachusetts to the amount of one million of dollars. The Michigan Central Railroad earnings show a very handsome increase since the commencement of the new financial year, as compared with those of the corresponding period in the previous year. The statement up to the second week in March, inclusive, is as follows:
