$263,600. The circulation has been contracted
$559,300. The U. S. Sub Treasury in this city
closed the week with a currency balance of 333.-
751,339 against $30,303,257 the preceding week ;
and a coin heard of $33,093,589 against $31,495,-
648 on the previous return. The City bank ox-
changes in currency reached $295,419,064 or a
daily average of $31,495,648. The customs rev-
enue of the port during the week was $2,271,000.

The City banks reported their average of gold
last week at $19,873,400, and their greenback
average at $57,584,300. Their deposits stood at
$226,006,600. The loan item was $253,339,400.
l.‘he circulation was $14,714,600.

The City Bank net reserve of specie and legal
tender notes new shows an excess over the legal
requirement ofreserve to liabilities of $20,956,050,
as against $23,146,425, the preceding week.

The aggregate of the outstanding U. S. curren-

'cy of all denominations, August 1st, was 3403,
022,216. The outstanding amount of legal tender
notes is $369,619,228. The National bank circu-
lation is now $327,489,841, including $2,092,190
of national gold bank notes.

On Wednesday of this week the cash balances of
the Treasury Department at Washington were:
of Currency $11,864,484 ; special deposit of legal
tenders for the redemption of certificates of de-
posit, $33,855,000; Coin, $62,190,360; Coin certi-
cates, $29,464,100. '

The income of the Government from internal
revenues thus far in the cu_rrent fiscal year, com-
mencing with July 1, 1876, has been about 17%
millions; and from Customs, 21 millions.

«--The week’s importentries of Foreign Merchan-
dise at New York were $5,179,595, including
$2,137,319 of Dry Goods.

Gold has been depressed in price’ during the
week, influenced to some extent by the reports
and rumors relative to the refunding of the public
debt. The speculation has. lacked spirit. The
customs call has been moderate and the export
drain quite limited. The extremes of the price
during the week have been 110}5@1ll1/4. closing
on Wednesday at 1103/,, as against 111% on Wed
nesday of the preceding week. The specie out-
flow last week was $577,820 against $279,600, the
previous week. The imports of specie at this
port last week were $27l,100,and since January
131; 33,120,001 as against $8,226,655 same time
last year. The customs demand for gold last
week averaged $378,500 per day. Foreign Ex-
change has been moderately sought after and
quoted somewhat firmer.. Bankers sixty day

- bills on London closed on Wednesday at 34 87

‘@284 88; sight bills on London at $4 89@$4
90 to the 13 sterling. Tl1e‘week's exports of
Domestic Produce have been to the currency
value of $5,163,132. The week's imports of Dry
Goods and general « merchandise were to the
specie value of $5,179,595 as against $7,600,230
the corresponding week of 1875.

Government Securities have been moderately
active, closing generally more firmly. The inquiry
has been mostly from investment sources" and for
the later issues of the Gold bearing bonds. The
new 5 per cent Geneva award bonds have been
selling at 1171/4@1173/3. The amount of U. S.
bonds held by the Treasurer of the United States,
as security for the National Bank circulation, is
$339,395,850. - ‘

ing the export movement.

AMERICAN RAILROAD aoumvatr.

U. S sixes of 1881 closed on Wednesday of this
week at 120@l201/4; U. S. Five-Twenties of
1865, at 114@114% ; U. S. Five-Twenties of 1865
consolidated, 315621151/4; U. S. Five Twenties
of 1867 119321191/4; U. S. Five-"Jiventies of
1868, l21@12l1/1,; U. S. Ten-Forties at 119%
@1193/; U. S. Fives of 1881, (Funding Loan)
117@1171/4; Six per cent. currency Sixes 1261/4
126%.

More demand has been reported for State and
Railway bonds chiefly on investment account, and
prices of the more substantial loans have been
quoted generally firmer. And in the line of Rail-
way and Miscellaneous share property the week’s
business has been comparatively liberal at how-
ever unsettled prices, closing with some show of
firmness and buoyancy. ’

The New York Herald, in its Money article of
Wednesd ay,the day succeeding the disruption of the
coal combination, says that .“ however clisastrous
the present results may he to bomz flde investors,
the dismemberment of a ring which had become
not only odious to the public but most damaging
in its effects upon commercial and manufacturing
interests is greeted with intense satisfaction. It
is felt that at least one incubus has been removed
from trade, now struggling to its feet, and that a
restoration’ of the various industries in which cheap
coal plays so large a part may in good time fol-
low."

General business has been on a comparatively
moderatescale during the week in the line of
domestic produce, values of which have been un-
settled. Petroieum has further advanced, check-
Foreign merchandise
has been more sought after and held more firmly.
Hardware, Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, brisker.
Metals generally quiet. Eglinton Pig Iron
quoted here at $27@$27 50; Glengarnock $27 50
@$28 50 ; Coltness $28 50@$29 50 ; No. 1 Amer-
ican Pig at $22@$23; No. 2 do. at 820.0322 00 ;
Forge $l8@20; American Rails at works 842 50
@345 00; Old Rails $.2l@$22, Wrought Scrap
328. Ocean freights have been more active but
at irregular figures, especially for berth room.
At the close the market exhibited‘ rather more
steadiness. The Grain movement has been some-
what heavier.

The following quotations of sales of R-i].l1W21\
and other securities are in addition to those giver
elsewhere in our columns :-

New YorIc.——Central Pacific R. R., 100; do.
Land Grant bonds, 971/.5 ; Duhuque and Sioux
City R. R., 66; Canada Southern lst mort. cou-
pon nn, 51%; Missouri, Kansas and Texas R. R.,
8% ; do. consol. S. F. bonds, 57% ; South Pacific
of Mo. bonds, 69% ; Cedar Falls and Minnesota
lst mort., 90% ; Producers’ Consol. L and P.
C0,, 114%; Maryland Coal, 12; Missouri 69, long
bonds, 106%; Tennessee 6s, old, 493/4; do. new,
48 ; do. n. s., 49 ; New York State 7s, B. L., reg.,
102% ; North Carolina 63, special tax, 3d class,
1%; Virginia 6s, cousn1.,.ex mat. coupon, 66;
do 6s, new, 1867, 28; Missouri 6s, H. and St. J.
issue, 1886,10? ; Georgia 7s, gold, 105. The latest
quotations are : Pacific Mail,,24@243/3 ; Western
Union Telegraph, 71%@7l1/,; Atlantic and Pa-
cific Te1., 171/§@18 ; Quicksilver Mining, 13@15;
do. pref.,.14@18; Mariposa Land and Mining, 6
@8; do. pref., 7@9-; Adams Exp., 112@114;

American Exp., 61%@62; U. S. Express, 65%@

66%; Wells-Fargo Express 853/,,@86 
and Alton, 98@l00; Cleveland and Pittsburg,
92%@93; Chicago and Northwestern, 38}§./Q39,
50- Pref-. 527/s@63; Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific: 10626531063/4; Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul. 361/.,@3e;-,4 ; do. pref., 687/,,@ 39 ; g1..,,_
land, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis, 41%
@43; Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Cc-ntral,.3%’
@414; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 887/,
@89; Erie, l3%@133/1; Hannibal and St. Joseph,
11@11% ; do. pref., 19}.§@20}.§; Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern, 543/,,@54%; Michigan Cen-
tral, 41%@4'1%; New York and Harlem, ]37@
139; N. Y. Central and Hudson River 1O7@107,1/2;
Central of New Jersey 53@53};;f ; Ohio and Miss,
13%@i3%; Panama, 130@135; Toledo, Wabm},
and Western, 2@2}§; Pacific R. R. of Mo., 51;
51/4:; Union Pacific, 62@65 ; do. 1st mort_,
105%@l05'7/8'; do. 78, land grant, 105§§@l05}.§’;
do. sinking fund 8s, 953/,@96 ; Central Pacific (is,
gold, 1093/,@1l0. ..
P/ziladelp/u':z.—Camde:i and Burlington County
6s, 99; Susq. C-lllill 65, 75; Am. S. 8. Co. 65, 83;
West Jersey R. R., 7s,, 107; Denver and Rio
Grande 73,51 ; Pennsylvania Canal 6s, 721/4 ; Nm-in
Pennsylvania Ge-n’l mort. 7s, reg, 107% ; Hm.,.;S_
burg and Lancaster 65, 99; Northern Pacific 7
.30s, 15 ; Nesqnehoning Valley It. R., 54 ; Phila-
de1phia,Germantown and Norristown R. R.,l0l£/2; ;
Fifth and Sixth Streets R.R., 75 ; Central Transp.
44%; Empire Transp. 49}!/. The latest’ quota
tions are : City 63, 104@——; do free of tax, 1093/,
@110; Pennsylvania State. 6s, 2d senies, 104.3}
104%; do. 3d series, 112?/,;'@-—; Philadelphia
and Reading, 44@44}-3 ; do. Gen’l mort. 7s, coup,’
107@-'-; do. reg., 106@-——-; do. mort. 6s, 1880,
10210»-— ; do. 7s, new conv., 99'@100 ; do. 7s, 1893,
109@1l2; United New Jersey R. R. and Canal Co.,
139%@140; Camden and Amboy mort. 6s, 1889,
107@—-; Pennsylvania R. IL, 49.n49,1g; do. let
mort., 1051/,Cd105}§; do. general mort. coupon,
104}/§@——; <10. P62-, 107@1(.8; do. Consol. mort.
Gs, -reg., 99,é4’@101 ; Little Srghuylkill R. R., 47%
@47}Ǥ; Morris Canal, 50.4256; do. prcf., 133(6)
140; Susq. Canal, 6@l0 ;do. 69, 74}-§@76 ; Schuyl
kill Nav., 6-C177; do. pref. 12}/,.,@14 ; do. 6s, 1882,
77@78; do. 1872, 95@95; Elmira and Williams-
port pref., 40-@—: do. 7s, 101}/§@l03; do. 5s,
65@-—; Lehigh Coal and Navigation, 36%@36'7/3;
do. 6s,l884, 102.‘/2@10,3; do. R. R. Loan 1013/4
@102‘-2,’; do. Gold Loan, 103%@l04%; North
Pennsylvania,501.750}§ ; do. 68, l05@—— ; do. 7s,
109@110; do. Gen’! mort. 73, reg., 107@107%;
do. chattel 10s,‘103@—; Philadelphia and Eric
16@16,1.§; do. 6s, l02@104; do. 7s, 94}.g@——;
Minehill, 5362531/4 ; Catawissa, 12@13 ; do. prei.,
42}/.§(d43}--5 ; do. new pref., 41@41; do. 7s, 1900,
1071/2@l08%; Lehigh Valley, 54V;@——; do. 6s,
new coupon, 106%@-—; do. reg., 108@109; do,
7s, 1l4@l14; do. consol. moi-t.,99%@100'/,1; Fifth
and Sixth streets (horse),"71@-— ;. Second and
Third, 83 use; Thirteenth aha‘ Fifteenth, 40:»
42%; Spruce and Pine, 31}§@34; Green and
Coates, 50...d—; Chestnut and Walnut, 84@90l;
Hestonville,25@25}’/3; Germantown,62@67 ; Union,
98@103; Lombard and ‘South, 20@22; Ridge
Aven'ue, ——@60; Tenth and Eleventh 125@--.
Boston.-—-Michigan Central Air Line 8s,1890,
90; Pueblo and Arkansas Valley 7s, 63 ; Cheshire
R. R. 6s, 1896, 97%; New York and New Eng-