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RETURNS OF THE NEW BANKS. Loans. Specie. Circulation. Deposites. Bank of Albion. 4,480 1,683 6,985 5,114 Ex. Bank of Gen. 65,800 3,276 49,618 5,293 Eric Co. Bank 19.527 215,700 100,187 14,476 Far. Bk. of Hud. 8,768 30,360 64,339 22,187 2.410 none 28,900 Bk. of Am. Buffalo, 2,047 11.575 Bk. W. N. Y. Roch. 93,390 171,468 9,404 5,000 Bk Silver Creek, 15,676 8,999 10,408 572 2,923 96,193 19,000 Bk. Tonawanda, 496,468 473,256 Total, Jan. 1840, 55,162 70,472 " 321,318 50,616 311,412 Sept. 1839, 37,456 Decrease, 185,056 151,938 33,016 4,552 A relief bill is before the Legislature of Alabama, which it is supposed will pass. The following are the leading features:1st. Giving the directory a discretionary power to call in the suspended debt and seven per cent loan, not exceeding twenty per cent in the year 1840. 2d. Legalizing the suspension of the suspended banks until July, 1840. 3d. Abolishing the Board of Control. 4th. Authorizing and requiring the inssuance of post notes by the banks to the amount of two millions and a half of dollars. The State of New Jersey has hitherto been without a state debt. A bill is now before the legislature of that state to loan $1,000,000 for the enlargement of the Morris Canal. This rotten concern has absorbed more stock loans than any other in the country, and now the State of New Jersey is to be dragged into the vortex to sustain it. We have received the report of the Maryland Committee on Finance. It is a very long document. The points are as follows: The Frederick County Bank has forfeited its charter;that the Merchants' Bank, Western Bank, Chesapeake Bank, Citizens' Bank, Hamilton Bank, and Mineral Bank, have subjected their charters to forfeiture. With respect to the other banks, they report that by the act of 1818, their charters are, in consequence of their failing to pay apecie for their notes, actually void; but they are voidable, and may be forfeited if the public interest demands it. The balance of the report is taken up, with answers to several questions proposed by the Legislature. The branch mint at New Orleans has, since it collmenced or erations last December, coined 160,000 half dimes, 18.000 half dollars, 130,000 dimes, 9,396 quarter eagles-making in all 317,396 pieces. In looking forward to the financial prospects of the coming year, we cannot but have some forboding for the effect that the pecuniary difficulties of the State and Federal Governments may have upon commercial operations. The vast amount of money to be raised for government purposes cannot but have a very material effect upon the state of the market. We will here give a table of the amount, required for the State and City of New York, the State of Pennsylvania, and the Federal Government for the year 1840, according to official statements. EXPENSES, REVENUE AND DEFFICIENCY, FOR THE U. STATES, STATES OF NEW YORK, AND PENNSYLVANIA, AND CITY OF NEW FOR 1840.