As compared with the month ending the 8th of December, 1866, the above return shows an increase of £1,092,154 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £1,145,051 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks, the following is the state of the circulation: The English private banks are below their fixed issue £1,169,248; the English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue £406,172-total below fixed issue in England, Comparative condition of the Bank of France in Jan- £1,575,420: the Scotch banks are above their uary, 1867, and January, 1868. fixed issue £2,306,523; the Irish banks are above their fixed issue £61,807. The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of England in both departments, during the month ending December 4th, was £22,062,761, being a decrease of £706,892 as compared with the previous month, and an increase of £4,235,227 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 7th of December: Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks, £2,922,954; gold and silver held by the Irish banks, £2,535,028. London Joint-Stock Banks.-The following table presents the dividend paid by the leading joint-stock banks of London in 1867, and in the latter part of 1866; showing a large business and ample profits on the capital employed: DIVIDENDS PAID. Capital of the Bank... Profits, in addition to the capital Francs. 182,500,000 182,500,000 7,044,776 Reserve of the bank.. 22,105,750 New Reserve... 4,000,000 Notes in circulation. 1,016,558,625 Drafts outstanding... 16,578,406 Treasury account. 185,033,312 Accounts current at Paris.. 240,039,320 360,987,432 Accounts in the provinces.. 89.$44,905 47,000,645 Dividends payable.. 12,898,251 Various discounts.. 1,085,037 11 1414 Ten Years' Discount of the Bank of England. The fluctuations in the rate of discount at the Bank of England during the ten years ending December, 1867, were as follows: 1858-January 7, 6 per cent.; January 14, 5; January 28, 4; February 4, 3; February 11, 3; and December 9, 24. 1859-April 28, 34 per cent.: May 5, 41; June 3, 34; June 9, 3; and July 14, 24. 1860-January 19, 3 per cent.; January 31, 4; March 29, 44; April 12, 5; May 10, 41; May 24, 4; November 8, 4; November 13, 5; November 15, 6; November 29, 5; and December 31, 6. 1861-January 7, 7 per cent.; February 14, 8; March 20, 7; April 4, 6; April 12, 5; May 16, 6; August 1, 5; August 15, 4; August 29 4; September 19, 31; and November 7, 3. 1862-January 9, 2 per cent.; May 22, 3; July 10, 21; July 27, 2; and October 3, 3. 25 15 11 18 13 94 1863-January 15, 4 per cent.; January 28, 5; February 20, 4; April 23, 34; April 30, 3; May 16, 34; May 21, 4; November 2, 5; November 9, 6; December 2, 7; December 3, 8; and December 24, 7. 1864 January 20, 8 per cent.; February 11, 7; February 25, 6; April 16, 7; May 2, 8; May 5, 9; May 19, 8; May 26, 7; June 16, 6; July 25, 7; August 4, 8; September 8, 9; November 10, 8; November 24,7; and December 15, 6. 1865-January 10, 51 per cent.; January 26, 5; March 4, 44; April 27, 4; May 11, 44; May 25, 4; June 8, 31; June 20, 3; August 5, 4; September 28, 4; October 2, 5; October 5, 6; October 7, 7; November 23, 6; and December 28, 7. 1866 January 6, 8 per cent.; February 22, 7; March 15, 6; May 3, 7; May 8, 8; May 11, 9; May 12, 10; August 16, 8; August 23, 7; August 30, 6; September 6, 5; September 27, 41; November 8, 4; and December 20, 31. 1867-January 3, 3 per cent.; January 31, 3; May 30, 2; and July 25, 2. The Bank of England reported in November, 1867, a net circulation of £24,780,000 coin, and bullion £22,000,000. The circulation of the Provincial banks of Great Britain is about £15,300,000, and their coin and bullion about £3,000,000, making together, for Great Britain and Ireland, a paper circulation of £40,000,000, and coin and bullion, £25,000,000. The Bank of France, in November, 1867, reported a circulation of 1,160,000,000 francs, equivalent to about $225,000,000, or £43,000,000, with coin and bullion on hand, 945,000,000 francs, or about $180,000,000, or £35,000,000. Reducing this to a tabular form, it presents the following results: BAPTISTS. I. REGULAR BAPTISTS IN AMERICA.-The Baptist Almanac, for 1868, gives the following statistics of the "Regular Baptists' in the United States and in the British possessions of North America: Total. In tablished in 1814).-Receipts from all sources, including an unexpended balance of $1,869.75 from the previous year, $191,714.00; expenditures, $199,077.79; leaving a balance against the treasury of $7,363.79. The number of missions under the patronage of the Missionary Union is the same as the previous year, 19. the Asiatic missions are 16 stations, where American missionaries reside, and about 400 out-stations. In the European missions, including France, Germany, Denmark, and Swe61,219 den, there are about 1,300 stations and out11,341 stations. American missionaries connected with 1,991 the Asiatic missions, including those under ap18,447 pointment, and those temporarily absent from 2,102 the field, including also wives of missionaries 6,483 and unmarried female assistants, in all 90, of 84,567 whom one-half are males. Native preachers, teachers, and assistants, not far from 500, of whom more than 50 are ordained. In Europe, preachers and assistants, about 300. Whole number baptized the last year, in Europe, 2,280; Present membership, in all the churches, about 38,000. The number of churches in Europe, 266; in Asia, not far from 300; total, 576. 609 46,129 14,377 15,378 3,434 41,610 44,877 49 91,928 60,532 33,869 8,537 2. American Baptist Publication Society (established in 1824).-Total receipts for the year, inclusive of $50,000 from the Crozer family as a missionary memorial fund, $240,165.88; 217 expenditures, $240,138.50; balance in treasury, 7,718 $27.38. There have been issued during the 21,094 year 31 new publications. The aggregate number of copies of new publications issued during the year, including the Annual Report and Almanac, is 150,800. Of former publications there 1,082 have been issued, during the year, of books, 47,700 374,500 copies; of tracts, 299,750 copies. 62,984 1,691,450 copies of the Young Reaper, dated on 46,564 the 1st of the month, have been published 19,089 during the year, and 535,800 copies, dated the 7,714 15th of the month; making the average monthly 116,526 issue of the first 140,954 copies; and of the sec8,891 ond, 44,633. The aggregate number of copies of the National Baptist published in the year 3,896 is 288,450, making an average weekly issue of 5,738. The first number of the Baptist Quarterly was issued in January. Two thousand copies were printed. The total issues for the year were 171,037,050 18mo pages. This ex16,308 ceeds the issues of last year by 49,660,733 pages. 8,755 The Society has printed of books, pamphlets, 22,261 tracts, periodicals, etc., since its organization, 23,932,309 copies, containing matter equal to 822,573,804 pages in 18mo. The whole number of publications on the Society's Catalogue at the present time is 923, of which 440 are bound volumes. Forty-nine colporteurs bave been in commission during the year. 12,774 600 1,400 1,094,806 15,091 13,605 1,157,221 The number of ordained ministers in the United States, in 1866, was 8,346; in the whole of North America, 8,790; the number of baptized in the United States was 92,957; in the whole of North America, 94,993. The anniversaries of the Northern Baptist Benevolent Associations took place in May, 1867, at Chicago. The following is a brief summary of the operations of the Societies, and of their present condition: 1. American Baptist Missionary Union (es 3. American Baptist Home Mission Society (established in 1832).-Receipts for the year, $176,899.08; expenditures, $182,348.87; indebtedness, $5,449.79. Three hundred and sixty-seven missionaries and fifty-nine assistants have been under appointment since the last anniversary. They have labored in thirty-eight States and Territories. It was resolved to ap point delegates to the next Southern Baptist Convention. 4. American and Foreign Bible Society (established in 1838).-The receipts of the treasury from all sources, including a balance on hand at the commencement of the year, amount to $51,467.45. The appropriations to India were as follows: Burmese and Karen Scriptures, $3,000; Assamese, $500; Teloogoo, $500; Chinese at Tie Chien, $500; Ningpo, $500; also $300 to China by other channels. Issued from the Depository during the year, 21,988 copies of Scriptures, of which number 5,863 were sold at full or reduced prices. 5. American Baptist Free Mission Society (established in 1843).-The twenty-fourth anniversary of the American Baptist Free Mission Society was held at Plainfield, New Jersey, May 29-30, 1867. Receipts for the year, $21,318.97; expenditures, $18,357.07; balance, $2,961.90. The board has missions in Japan, Rangoon, and Bassein, Burmah, and the South. Number of laborers among the freedmen in the Southern States, twenty-five. 6. American Baptist Historical Society (established in 1843).—Added, during the past year, 459 volumes; cash receipts, $368.21. The library now comprises 3,040 volumes, and 13,300 pamphlets, 455 likenesses, 87 views of Baptist edifices, and 328 historical manuscripts. The object is to found a library containing whatever relates to the history of God's people in all ages, especially of the Baptists; and every thing written or translated by Baptists in any language; biographies and likenesses of eminent Baptist persons; Baptist periodicals, reports, minutes, etc. There were published, in 1867, in the United States, 36 Baptist periodicals (24 weekly, 10 monthly, 2 quarterly), and 3 weekly periodicals in the British Provinces. The colored Baptists in the Southern States bave organized a number of associations, which are in connection with the societies in the Northern States. The American Baptist Home Mission Society sustained, in 1867, in the Southern States, fifty ordained ministers. Ninetyseven colored Baptist churches were aided by the Society. The work of educating ministers for this people has been prosecuted. Schools have been sustained at Washington, Alexandria, Culpepper, Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, Richmond, Portsmouth, Raleigh, New Orleans, Murfreesboro', Nashville, Albany, and Ashland. Instruction has been given to more than three hundred colored preachers and persons having the ministry in view. Among the colored youth fifty-nine teachers have been employed as teachers of day-schools, who have had under their tuition 6,136 pupils. The appropriations in the education of freedmen for the year amount to $39,925.11. The Southern Baptist Convention met at Memphis on May 9th. Two hundred delegates were present from thirteen States, including the District of Columbia. The Foreign Mission Board reported the expenditures, amounting to $22,000, during the past year. They have six missions in China and Africa. The Domestic Board, located in Marion, Alabama, has collected and distributed $44,000. It employs 124 home missionaries and 10 Indian missionaries among the Indian tribes. The Board of Indian Missions reported but little progress during the past year, owing to a meagreness of funds. Six missions only had been kept in the field. The receipts during the year amounted to $6,740; the disbursements to $6,639. It was resolved to hold future conventions annually. The convention also adopted a report in favor of contributing to the moral and religious improvement of the colored people, by the establishment of Sunday-schools, missions, and day-schools, and to accept the cooperation of the Northern Baptist Home Missionary Society. They also invited the colored Baptist churches to cooperate with them in sustaining missionaries and colonists fitted to missionary work in Africa. II. FREE-WILL BAPTISTS IN AMERICA.-ACcording to the Free - Will Baptist Register for 1868, the statistics of this denomination, in 1867, were as follows: and 2,953 communicants; and a decrease of 43 licentiates. The benevolent institutions of this Church are a Foreign Missionary Society, a Home Missionary Society, an Educational Society, a Systematic Beneficence Society, an Antislavery Society, and a Sabbath-School Union. There are also a branch Mission Society in the State of New York and a Western Home Mission Committee. The printing establishment at Dover, New Hampshire, publishes a weekly religious paper, a Quarterly Review, and a Sabbath-school paper. Another weekly paper is published at Chicago. The educational institutions are a Biblical School at New Hampton, New Hampshire, three colleges, and ten seminaries and academies. The Free-Will Baptist Foreign Mission Society supports a mission at Orissa, in India. III. The statistics of other denominations that practise immersion are as follows: of the (Particular) Baptist Union of England in April, 1866, 2,023 churches reported 209,773 members, showing an increase from the year before of 130 churches and 4,973 members. But 400 small churches are still unreported. Fifty-six new chapels were erected during the year, with sittings for about 25,000 persons, and 25 new churches were originated. The Baptist Handbook for 1867 gives the names of about 1,994 pastors in England and Wales, of whom 386 are without a pastoral charge, 19 in Ireland, and 92 in Holland; but many of these are engaged in secular business. There are 11 colleges, 18 tutors, and 262 students. During the year there had been 103 settlements, and 19 ministers had died; 39 new chapels had been erected, and 29 enlarged. The following statistics of other Baptists in Great Britain are given by the census of 1851: Seventh-Day Baptists 4 68 7,038 Seventh-Day Baptists.. Church of God (Winebren-| narians)* New Connection General Baptists .. 5,000 200 500,000 20,000 Scottish Baptists (in England) Baptists in Scotland Disciples (Campbellites)... The one hundred and ninety-seventh anniversary of the "Rhode Island and Massachusetts General Six-Principle Baptist Association of the Ancient Order of the Six Principles of the Doctrines of Christ and the Apostles met this year at Kingston, Rhode Island. Massachusetts holds an ancient place in the above extended title by virtue of two churches in Bristol County, of sixty-five members, one organized in 1693, and the other in 1725. The church in North Kingston, where this small body of the Baptist family assembled for its present annual meeting, begins its history in 1665, when the shores of the bay were an unbroken wilderness, and the pale-faces lived by the good-will of the Narragansetts. The "six principles" from which this sect takes its name are found in Hebrews vi. 1, 2, and comprise its articles of faith or creed-repentance, faith, baptism, laying on of hands, resurrection, and a general judgment. The fourth "principle has the same place as the third, and all persons received into the church have the imposition of hands, similar to confirmation of the Episcopalians. This sect is fast decreasing, and has little representation out of Rhode Island. The receipts of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1867 were £30,104 88. 1d., somewhat in advance of those of last year. They have been exceeded by the expenditures, which have been increased chiefly because of the advance of the prices of living in India. The society publishes three periodicals, two monthly and one quarterly. The mission stations, etc., are as follows: India, 4 stations, 9 English missionaries and assistants, 8 natives; Bengal, 67 stations, 18 English, 98 natives; Northern India, 14 stations, 11 English, 61 natives; Southern India, 2 stations; China, 3 stations, 2 English, 6 natives; Ceylon, 57 stations and sub-stations, 3 English, 17 assistants; West Indies, 6 missions 2 missionaries, 6 assistants; Bahamas, 42 stations, 2 missionaries, 71 assistants; Hayti, 26 stations, 2 missionaries, 7 assistants and Bible |