CAPITAL AND DIVIDENDS OF BANKS IN PHILADELPHIA.

The Philadelphia banks made in November, 1852, the following semi-annual dividends. The list includes all except the Banks of Pennsylvania and North America, which declare in January and July, instead of May and November:

The actual production of the precious metal of this new and wonderful gold field has thus far proved fully up to the wildest calculations entered into last spring. The ascertained yield of the Melbourne Mines to the 31st July, amounted to fifty-three tons weight, or in exact Federal value, to $25,312,800! And at the Sydney Mines to $12,500,000. A further sum of $5,000,000 is set down to Adelaide, South Australia, though thence taken, for the most part, by miners from the Melbourne District. The aggregate, therefore, stands thus:

DEET OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

The debt of the city of St. Louis is $2,158,096, payable as specified in the following table. The yearly interest is $128,000, or a little more than an average of six per cent per annum :-

We learn from the North-Western Gazette, published at Galena, (Illinois,) that Henry Corwith and Nathan Corwith, of Galena, have associated themselves together for the purpose of forming a banking company under the provisions of the general banking law, and have given their institution the name of "BANK OF GALENA," Capital stock

five hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of $100 each. The company was formed on the 11th day of December, 1852, and is to continue until the 10th day of December, 1877. This step is one which has been frequently called for by the public. The well known character which these gentlemen possess, for integrity, responsibility, and correct business qualities, will be sure guaranty, even if there were no other, that the bills of the bank will be as good as specie.

RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS.

THE RAILROADS OF THE UNITED STATES.

PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE BY DAVID M. BALFOUR, ESQ. The number of miles of railway now in operation upon the surface of the globe is 29,606; of which 15,436 miles are situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, and 14,170 are in the We-tern, and which are distributed as follows:

The longest railway in the world is the New York and Erie, which is 467 miles in length.

The total number of railways in the United States, in operation and in course of construction, is 372, constructed at a cost of $400,713,907. For their names, locality, length, and cost, we refer to the annexed list :