NEW YORK STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD. Meet at the Merchants' Exchange, daily. David Clarkson, President. H. S. Stebbins, Vice President. James W. Bleecker, Treasurer. NEW-YORK PUBLIC STOCK EXCHANGE. Meet daily in the Rotunda of the Merchants' Exchange. Seixas Nathan, President William Borrowe, Vice Pres. S. J. Joseph, Secretary. TABLE, Showing the Market Price, at different periods, of some of the principal Stocks sold in the city of New-York, during the year 1844. NEW-YORK POST OFfice. Located in Nassau-street, between Cedar and Liberty-streets. The Branch Office is located in Chatham Square, corner of East Broadway. Office Arrangements. The Post Office opens at 7 A. M. in Summer, and 8 o'clock A. M. in winter, and closes at 7 P. M. daily, (except Sundays.) On Sunday the office opens at 9 A. M. and closes at 10: opens again at 12 and closes at 1 P. M. Persons calling for letters that are advertised every Saturday, are requested to call for Advertised Letters. United States City Despatch Office. All Letters placed in the Boxes at the various Stations, together with all City Letters deposited either in the Post Office, or in the Branch Post Office, will be under the charge of the Department, and will be received for rapid delivery at the hours mentioned below. Letters, addressed to parties renting Boxes at the Upper and Lower Post Office, will be deposited in them as heretofore, unless a request is made that they be sent by the City Despatch Post. Stations.-Letter Boxes are placed at one hundred Stations in various parts of the city, and Letters deposited therein will be punctually delivered three times a day, (Sundays excepted,) at three cents each: option being given, either to free the Letter, or leave the postage to be collected of the party to whom the Letter is addressed. Foreign Letters. Letter Bags for the reception of letters to be forwarded by the steam or sailing packets leaving this port, are kept at Gilpin's News Room, Merchants' Exchange. Letters to be forwarded by the British Royal Mail Line Steam Ships, leaving Boston, may be deposited in the Post Office, in Nassau-street, or at the Branch Office, until 15 minutes previous to the Eastern steamboat leaving the wharf. All inland postage on Foreign Letters must be paid. NEW-YORK CUSTOM HOUSE. Situated in Nassau-street, between Pine and Wall. Open daily, (Sundays excepted,) from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. C. P. Van Ness, Collector. C. S. Bogardus, Assistant Collector. Elijah F. Purdy, Surveyor. Deputy Collectors. George Davis, Charles P. Clinch, M. B. Edgar, Matthew L. Davis, James T. Talman. Samuel G. Ogden, Jr., Auditor. Charles W. Van Ness, Cashier. Appraisers. Amos Palmer, Vanburgh Livingston. PUBLIC STORES.-230 Cherry; 274 Front; 109 Washington; 270 Water and 12 Broad-streets. APPRAISERS' Office & Public Stores, 12 Broad-street. } Turkish Piaster, value to be ascertained according to the ex change on London. Prussian rix dollar,... 0 681 Prussian florin, 0 23 Leipsic florin,... 0 48 NOTE. All currencies not fixed by law, will be taken according to the American Consul's certificate of their intrinsic value, compared with the American dollar, which must accompany the invoice. VALUE OF MONEY IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN EUROPE, As the comparative value of money in different countries is subject to slight and irregular changes, it cannot be precisely fixed for any gi ven time. The following tables are believed to approach as near to it as the nature of the subject will admit. The asterisks denote that the denomination to which they are annexed is only nominal, and not represented by any real coin. The fractional parts of the cents are decimals.-Foster's Counting House Manual. DAMAGES ON BILLS OF EXCHANGE. Three per cent upon bills drawn upon persons in the states of Maine, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, or in the District of Columbia; 5 per cent in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky or Tennessee. In the remaining states, and in the West Indies, Canadas, Europe, &c., 10 per cent. FOREIGN CONSULS, RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, Austria.-Rocco Martuscelli, 10 Beaver-street. Brazil.-Louis H. F. DeAguiar, Consul-General; Louis F. Defiganier, Vice-Consul, 34 Platt. Bremen.-Herman Oelrichs, 42 Broad. Brunswick.-John D. Kluedgen, 56 Broad, Chili.-Franklin H. Delano, 78 South. Denmark.-Edward Bech, 67 West. France.-Charles De Laforest, 93 Greenwich; Louis Borg, ViceConsul, 93 Greenwich. Frankfort.-Frederick Wissman, 23 South William. Great Britain-Anthony Barclay, 30 Merchants' Exchange; James C. Buchanan, Vice-Consul. Greece.-Eugene Dutilh, 36 Beaver. Hamburg.-J. W. Schmidt, 34 Broad. Hanover.-Lewis H. Meyer, 9 Broad. Hesse Darmstadt.-Anthony Bollerman, 32 Beaver. |