MISSOURI STATE DEBT.

A bill "to restore and maintain the credit of the State of Missouri" was introduced in the Senate of Missouri on the 24th of January. The bill proposes to fund all the railroad debt, including coupons up to January 1, 1867, into bonds running twenty years and payable at New York. The following provisions are included in the bill:

SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be used for the single object of consolidating the railroad debt of the State, now in default, with the accrued interest thereon, and shall be issued only in exchange for the bonds and overdue coupons thereon, heretofore issued by the State, or guaranteed by the State, in aid of certain railroad companies, as follows: For the $7,000,000 issued to the Pacific Railroad; for the $4,500,000 issued in exchange or guaranteed for the same company; for the construction of the Southwest branch; for the $4,350,000 issued to the North Missouri Railroad Company; for the $8,501,000 issued to the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company; for the $650,000 issued to the Cario and Fulton Railroad Company, and for the $700,000 issued to the Platte County Railroad Company; and the holders of the bonds aforesaid shall at any time after the passage of this act have the privilege of exchanging the same for consolidation bonds, and of funding the coupons due at the date of the passage of this act, when presented in sums of $1,000; provided that for any balance less than $1,000 the State Treasurer shall give in exchange certificates of indebtedness, which shall be converted into consolidation bonds, whenever presented in sums of not less than $1,000.

SFC. 8. There is hereby appropriated to the interest and sinking fund the sum of $4,500,000 out of the moneys to be received from the United - tates under the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to reimburse the State of Missouri for moneys expended for the United States in enrolling and equiping and provisioning militia forces to aid in suppressing the rebellion," approved April 17, 1866, which appropriation shall be disposed of as follows: $1,500,000 to go to interest fund proper; $2,000,000 to be invested in United States six per cent. bonds, to be held as a reserve fund to meet any deficiency in the semi-annual payments of interest on the State bonds, and may be used for abtaining temporary loans to pay interest, but for no other purpose, or so many as are necessary may be sold to make up any deficient in the interest fund, to meet interest as it becomes due; but if any part of said bonds are sold, a like amount shall again be purchased whenever there is surplus funds belonging to the interest or sinking fund, so as to keep the reserve up to meet future emergencies. The remaining $1,000,000 hereby appropriated shall go to the sinking fund to be used in the purchase of outstanding indebtedness of the State.

SEC. 9. Whenever there is, in the judgment of the fiscal agent, any surplus of the interest fund that will not be needed, it shall be credited to the sinking fund, and be used in the purchase of State bonds. The interest collected from the bonds belonging to the reserve fund, and all interest accruing from the principal of sinking fund, shall go to the interest or sinking fund, as the fiscal agent may find it necessary, and all moneys hereafter paid in the treasury on account of the purchase of any of the railroads sold by the State, shall go to the sinking fund.

SEC. 10. There shall be collected for the year 1867, and for every year thereafter, a special tax of of 1 per cent. on real estate and other property and effects subject to taxation, as provided for by the railroad ordinance in the constitution which shall be returned and paid over as a special tax, and, as fast as collected, shall be deposited in bank to the credit of the interest fund, and shall be used to meet the semi-annual interest as it accrues upon the bonds to be issued under this act, and any surplus to go to the sinking fund as above provided: said special tax fund shall be used for the payment of all accruing obligations of the State for the purchase of outstanding State indebtedness, but for no other purpose whatever.

CANADIAN TRADE SINCE THE ABROGATION OF THE RECIPROCITY TREATY. . The Montreal Gazette says that the exports from Canada instead of decreasing actu. ally increased, the figures being: Total value of exports in 1865, $7,512 752; do. 1866, $8,599,030. There is a falling off in the exports " by rail," but this is more than made

up by the increased exports "by sea," and shows how we were driven to seek a new, and, we believe, more profitable--at all events a self-reliant--market for the balance of the goods thrown on our hands by the protective tariff of the United States.

In 1865, for instance, the exports from Montreal" by rail," came to a total value of $2,977,135, and last year fell to $1,742,042. The exports" by sea," on the other hand, only amounted to $4,535,617 in 1865, and last year had risen in value to $6,856,988. We sold, Montreal alone considered, one million less to the Americans, but then found extra direct sale for two millions with the British and Lower Province consumers. We now propose to point out the items more immediately affected by the treaty, in order to show how our interests were affected by its abrogation. This will be best shown in a comparative tabular form

The following recapitulation will also show where the great increases and decreases of the exports generally particularly take place :

These figures show an increase last year of $46,687 in articles the produce of the mine; a decrease of $4,137 in fish and oil; a decrease of $216,465 in the produce of the forest; an increase of $26,739 in animals and their products; an increase of $1,751,218 in agricultural produce, and an increase also in manufactures of $130,697. So far as this port, therefore, is concerned, we have no reason to complain of the abrogation of the treaty, an increase instead of a decrease being remarkably perceptible on the general result.

COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES OUTSTANDING.

Below we give a full statement of estimated outstanding compound interest notes and interest due thereon to date of maturity, read in the Senate a few days since by Mr. Sherman :

GOLD PRODUCTION OF NEW ZEALAND.

A London (England) paper prints the following respecting the gold produce of New Zealand:

No little misapprehension exists as to the amount of gold annually exported from New Zealand. This chiefly arises from the fact that most of the New Zealand gold reaches this country by way of Melbourne and Sydney, hence it goes to swell the total received from Australia. The Custom-house authorities here have no means of making separate returns, so that New Zealand is deprived of her fair share of fame. The government of New Zealand has supplied the following returns, clearly showing the immense wealth of the gold fields in those islands:

It will thus be seen with what enormous strides the auriferous regions of New Zealand have progressed, having in the short space of 9 years increased their yield more than 40 fold.

During the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1866. the total yield of the gold fields was 181.405 ounces, valued at £701,635, but of this large amount only 1,875 ounces were shipped direct to England, thus confirming what we have already stated as to Australia reaping the credit due to New Zealand.

COIN AND CURRENCY IN THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.

The following statement, published by the New York Times, showing the balance of coin and currency, and places where held, subject to draft of Treasurer of the United States, from the amount as made up to Feb. 8, 1867:

THE LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER PRODUCT IN 1866.

The Houghton (Mich.) Gazette of January 24 gives the following statistics of the Portage copper mining business in 1866:

Mr. Rollins gives the following statement of Internal Revenue taxes paid by National Banking Associations for the years 1864, 1865 and 1866:

Mr. Spinner reports the following taxes from National Banks for tho same period :

The duty for the six months preceding January 1, 1867, being in process of collection, the amount thereof cannot now be stated.

We estimate these taxes at three millions of dollars.

Subjoined is a recapitulation of the aggregate taxation on National Banks for three

GOLD CERTIFICATES ISSUED, REDEEMED AND OUTSTANDING.

The following is a tabular statement of the amount of gold certificates which have been issued and redeemed, with the amount outstanding:

NEVADA TREASURE MOVEMENT FOR 1865-6.

The Gold Hill (Nevada) News of Dec. 10 gives the following statement of bulli n shipped through Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express for the years 1865 and 1866 from the Virginia and Gold Hill offices, shoving an excess of $2,074,174 85 for 1866 over the preceding year, for these two places alone. The amount from other places—Carson, Aurora, Austin, &c.-shipped in 1865, makes the total product for that year $14,000,000. For the past, 1966, it stands as follows:

Bullion shipped from Virginia and Gold Hill, Nevada, for 1865 and 1866:

Total...

3,546,597 59 9,286,822 24 12,833,719 83 7,100,268 007,807,626 18 14,907,894 18