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The following table is an abstract of quarterly reports of the National Banking Associations of the United States, showing their condition April, July, and October, 1866, and January, 1867:

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THE EUROPEAN BANK MOVEMENT OF THE YEAR 1866.-La Finance estimates that the subscriptions in France, in 1866, amounted to 28,000,000 sterling for foreign loans and railway advances, 12,000,000 more for advances by the societies of Crédit Foucier for the improvement of real property-and a further 12,000,000 for debentures and shares in French railway and other companies: in all, therefore, a total subscription and contribution of 52,000,000 sterling, equal to 1,300,000,000 in francs. In 1866, the rates of discount at the principal monetary centres of Europe were as follows: At Amsterdam, the year 1866 opened with a 6 per cent. discount rate. In the 2d week of the year there was an advance to 63 per cent., but in the 8th week there was a fall to 6, and in the 11th to 5. In the 18th week, the rate went to 6, and in the 19th to 63. In the 27th week of the year, it further advanced to 7, sinking, however, to 63 in the 32d, 6 in the 33d, 54 in the 39th, 5 in the 43d, and 44 in the 51st week.

Berlin commenced 1866 with a discount rate of 7 per cent., which sunk to 6 in the 8th week, advancing, however, to 7 in the 16th week, and to 9 in the 19th week. In the 29th week, there was a fall to 7, in the 30th week to 6, in the 32d week to 5, in the 44th week to 41, and in the 51st week to 4.

At Bruxelles, there were very few fluctua tions. They may be summed up as follows: commencement of the year, 5 per cent., 9th week, 4; 20th week, 5; 22d week, 6; 33d week, 4; and 38th week, 3.

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per cent. ; 2d week, 7; 3d week, 51; 4th week, 5: 7th week, 43; 10th week, 4; 12th week, 41; 16th week, 5; 19th week, 6; 20th week, 7; 26th week, 6; 33d week, 5; 34th week, 4; 41st week, 4; and 46th week, 34.

At Hamburg, there were no fewer than thirty-one changes in the rate of discount during the past year. In the 1st quarter, the fluctuations were from 4 to 7 per cent.; in the 2d quarter, from 5 to 83; in the 3d quarter, from 3 to 61; and in the 4th quarter, from 3 to 41.

At London, the year opened with a discount rate of 8 per cent., which fell to 7 in the 8th, and to 6 in the 11th week of the year. In the 18th week, the rate rose to 7; in the 19th week to 9; and in the 20th week to 10. This rate continued to the 33d week, when it sunk to 8, declining further to 7 in the 34th week, 6 in the 35th week, and 5 in the 36th week. It afterwards fell to 43 in the 39th week, 4 in the 45th week, and 33 in the 51st week.

At Paris, discount was kept within very moderate bounds in 1866, the year commencing with 5 per cent., from which there was a fall to 4 in the 7th week, 4 in the 8th week, 3 in the 12th week, 4 in the 19th week, 34 in the 30th week, and 3 in the 35th week.

The aggregate amount of calls made by the Cornwall and Devon Mines from 1862 to 1866 amounted to £1,828,427; the dividends during the same period amounted to £751,713. The year 1864 stands foremost in the list of calls for upwards of £400,000, and during that year the dividends reached £174,907. In 1865 the calls were £331,881, and the dividends £90,596.

BANK OF FRANCE, FROM 1861 TO 1866.-TWENTY-FIVE FRANCS - £.-LIABILITIES.

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• One of the extraordinary features of this exhibit is the rapid increase in the reserve of coin and bullion from 1884 to 1866.

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ments $189,241.35. Missions reported the preceding year, 20. Two were transferred to the Home Mission Society, and one received from the Publication Society, making present number, 19. In the Asiatic missions are 15 stations where American missionaries reside, and about 400 out-stations; in the European missions, including France, Germany, and Sweden, at the end of 1864, there were reported not far from 1,300 stations and out-stations, and the number is constantly increasing. American missionaries connected with the Asiatic mis sions, including those at present in this country, in all 83: males, 40; females, 43. Native preachers and assistants, not far from 500; of whom 50 are ordained. In Europe, preachers and assistants, not far from 200. Whole number baptized in 1864, in Europe, 1,911; in Asia, 761; total, 2,672. Members at the close of 1864, not far from 36,000, leaving out about half of the Toungoo churches previously reckoned, and the Rangoon Sgau Karen Association, from which no return had been received. The President of the Society is Hon. Ira Harris, New York. On motion of the committee on finance, it was resolved to raise $200,000 to meet the expenses of the coming year. This was rendered necessary on the assumption by the Union of the Swedish mission. The report of the committee ôn European. missions recommended that the full amount of $8,000 be appropriated for the purpose of building and maintaining chapels in Sweden, Germany, and France. The report was adopted.

2. American Baptist_ Publication Society (established in 1824). Total receipts for the year, $173,321.47; expenditures, $169,678.79; balance in treasury, $3,642.68. There have been fifty-two new publications issued during the year. Including the annual report and Almance, the aggregate number of copies of new publications issued during the year is 69,175. The new editions of former publications are as follows: of books, 227,000 copies; of tracts, 223,000. The total issues for the year have been, of books, tracts, etc., 519,175 copies, equal to 38,764,017 18mo pages; Young Reaper, 1,624,000 copies; National Baptist, 264,950 copies; making a total of 2,408,125 copies. This exceeds the issues of last year by 20,939,167 pages. The Society has printed, of books, tracts, and periodicals, since its organization, 23,112,259 copies, containing matter equal to 651,976,754 pages in 18mo. Fortyeight colporteurs have been in commission during the year.

3. American Baptist Home Mission Society (established in 1832).-Receipts for the year, $137,810.16; expenditures, $135,822.00; balance in treasury, $1,988.40. Two hundred and sixty-five missionaries and sixty-two assistant have been under appointments since the last anniversary. One hundred and eighty-two of this number were new appointments. They have labored in thirty-seven States and Territories. There has been received for the freed

men's fund the sum of $21,386.21, and $40,000 appropriated for the benefit of the class for which the fund is intended. Twenty-five white and ten colored, with sixty-two assistant missionaries, are laboring among the freedmen under the direction of the Society. The Society adopted a resolution instructing the Executive Board to continue their work among the freedmen using every facility in their power, and to give such religious instruction to colored preachers as might be deemed consistent with discretion.

4. American and Foreign Bible Society.The receipts of the treasury from all sources, including small balance on hand at the commencement of the year, amount to $40,896.40. Books printed from their own stereotype plates, by direct purchase, and by donations to the Society from other sources, full and parts of Scriptures, 21,286. Books issued from the depository, 26,379; gratuitously, for the army, navy, for freedmen, to poor churches, Sunday-schools, State prisons, etc., 22,165 copies. The committee to whom was referred the question of union with the American Baptist Publication Society, reported that they found difficulties in the way, and referred the subject back to the Board, with a recommendation for a general conference. After considerable discussion, the subject was indefinitely postponed. The committee of five, to whom was referred the question of uniting with the Bible Union, reported that it was both desirable and practicable, and such a union should take place; but on taking a vote, the proposed resolution in favor of a union of the two societies was defeated.

5. American Baptist Free Mission Society (established in 1843).-The twenty-second anniversary of this Society was held at Chicago, Ill., May 30, 31, 1866. Receipts for the year, $26,042.30; expenditures, $25,212.21; balance, $831.09. The Board has flourishing missions in Japan, Rangoon, and Bassein, Burmah. Number of laborers among the freedmen in the Southern States, twenty-nine.

6. The American Baptist Historical Society (established in 1853), had added during the last year 620 volumes; cash receipts, $399.45. The library now comprises 2,590 volumes, and 11,000 pamphlets, besides 100 volumes of portraits, views of Baptist edifices, and historical manuscripts.

7. The French Regular Baptist Missionary Society (established in 1863) labors among the French in Canada and the United States, by means of pastors, evangelists, the press, and the training of young men for the missionary work, and it now sustains two missionaries.

The Southern Baptist Convention met in May, at Russellville, Ky. It was the general opinion of this body that there should be no fusion between the societies of the Northern and the Southern Baptists; but that the Foreign and the Domestic Mission Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention should continue their existence as heretofore. At the beginning of the war the Foreign Board had about thirty-five mis

sionaries in the field. This number was greatly reduced in consequence of the difficulty of transmitting funds during the war, but the work was not abandoned, and it was resolved by the convention to continue it with new zeal. The Domestic Mission Board, located in Marion, Ala., kept in the field through the war more than one hundred missionaries, and now they propose, with new vigor, to prosecute their work.

The colored Baptist churches in the Southern States organized a number of separate associations, which put themselves in communication with the Northern societies. Colored churches of nearly all the States were represented at the annual meeting of the "American Baptist (African) Missionary Convention," which in August met in Richmond. The convention thanked the Northern societies for the aid given them, and earnestly asked the continuance of their coöperation in the future.

A convention of the Baptists and "Disciples" (Campbellites) of Virginia met at Richmond, on April 24th, and continued in session until the 27th, for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of a union. Its meetings were strictly private. At the close of the convention it was resolved, at least for the present, not to publish its minutes; but Dr. W. F. Broaddus and Elder J. W. Goss were requested to prepare and publish, over their own signatures, a brief address to the Baptists and Disciples of Virginia, setting forth the results of the conference. Most of the Baptist papers were decidedly opposed to the holding of the conference, and after the publication of the address by the committee, the opinion generally prevailed that no result could for the present be expected.

II. FREE-WILL BAPTISTS.-This denomination has a Biblical school at New Hampton, N. H.; colleges at Hillsdale, Mich., Lewston, Maine ("Bates College "), and Wasioga, Minnesota "Northwestern College"). TheFree-will Baptist Printing Establishment," at Dover, N. H., publishes a Quarterly Review, the Morning Star (weekly), and the Myrtle (Sabbath-school paper, semi-monthly). In Nova Scotia, where the Free-will Baptists have been for many years divided into two branches, the two bodies, namely, the "Free Christian Baptist General Conference," and the "Free-will Baptist Quarterly Meeting," met on November 29th, at Barrington in convention, for the purpose of consolidation, and successfully accomplished their object. The united body will be called the "Free-will Baptist Conference of Nova Scotia."

According to the Free- Will Baptist Register for 1867 (Dover, N. HI.), the statistics of this denomination were, in 1866, as shown in the following table. It will be seen there was an increase over the preceding year of twelve churches, fourteen licentiates, and two thousand one hundred and eighty-two communicants:

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III. SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS.-This body numbers 7,014 members, 33 pastors, and 68 churches. By the minutes of the General Conference, held in September, at Alfred, N. Y., it appears that the churches are most numerous in New York and Wisconsin. The report of the Missionary Society shows contributions to the amount of $2,302.42 during the past year, and an accumulating fund amounting to $7,268.74 in the treasury. The missionary work is chiefly carried on in our own country, though the report contains a reference to foreign missionary work prosecuted with some degree of success in China, at Shanghai, and neighboring stations. This denomination maintains also a Sabbath Tract Society, and an Educational Society, under whose care the university at Alfred, in New York, is maintained.

IV. TUNKERS (German Baptists).-This denomination, which has 200 churches, 150 ministers, and 20,000 members, held its annual meeting from May 18th to May 24th, near Waynesboro, Pa. The meeting was composed of delegates from all their churches scattered throughout the United States. A correspondent in the German Reformed Messenger says of the meeting: "The business transactions consisted in rendering decisions on the practical questions that the times and circumstances constrained them to consider. One

question was, whether it was right to adopt the habit of voting, in order to arrive at the sense of the majority, and thus come to a decision on any subject. The question was answered in the negative, inasmuch as voting was a custom that belongs to the world. The manner in which they come to decisions is something like this: A committee of fifteen is appointed, to whom all questions must be previously handed. This committee then refers each question to a sub-committee, which sub-committee frames a decision to the particular question referred to them; being approved by the committee, both question and answer are then presented to the assembly through the president thereof, who at the same time asks their opinion. Their approval is manifested by nodding, their disapproval by shaking the head. When any signs of disapproval are manifested, discussion ensues; but yet the answer previously given stands, and the president pronounces it passed. Some of the questions thus decided at this meeting are the following: Shall we receive colored persons into the church, and shall we salute them with the holy kiss?' It was decided that they should be received into the church, but that all the members were to be left to their own choice and taste in regard to saluting their colored brethren, with the understanding, however, that all who refuse to do so were to be regarded as weak. One of their members out West leased a piece of ground to an agricultural society for a number of years. Was it right for him to do so? The answer was, 'No! as he thereby helps to foster the spirit of pride.""

V. Other denominations that practise immersion are the "Anti-Mission Baptists," "SixPrinciples Baptists" (18 churches, 16 ministers, 3,000 members); "Disciples" (1,500 churches, 1,000 ministers, 30,000 members); "Church of God" (Winnebrennarians). (See CHURCH OF GOD.)

VI. GREAT BRITAIN.-In Great Britain, the annual session of the Baptist Union was held on Monday, April 23d. The report stated that the labors of the Union had been proceeded with during the past year with encouraging, if not entire, satisfaction. By slow degrees a tolerably exact account of the members of the Baptist churches was obtained. Last year 1,893 churches reported 198,295 members in communion. This year 2,023 churches had made returns, and reported in all 209,773 members, being an excess over last year of 11,478. This was not to be considered as so much clear gain, as 130 churches had now reported for the first time; and as these 130 churches returned a membership of 6,505, the actual increase, as near as it could be reached, was 4,973, a number under the mark, as 400 churches, but mostly very small ones, still remain altogether unreported. Between October, 1864, and October, 1865, fiftysix new chapels were erected, supplying sittings for about 25,000 persons, at an aggregato cost of £88,787, making a total expenditure of

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