Of the above total for 1863, the sum of $44,611,891 was received in specie, $2,337,072 37 in the interest-bearing Treasury notes, and the remainder in demand notes. The paper receivable for customs is about exhausted, and most of payments will hereafter be made in coin.

ARRIVALS IN NEW YORK, 1863.

FROM FOREIGN PORTS.

WE are indebted for the following statement of foreign arrivals at this port, for the year 1863, to the politeness of Mr. A. M. TROTTER, Boarding Officer of the United States Revenue Department, Whiteball:

In the above, there are no sloops included, which, if added to the many schooners from Virginia and Philadelphia, with wood and coal, which, though consigned here, discharge their cargoes at Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City and the adjacent towns on the Hudson, and are not boarded, owing to the remoteness of those points from general business, would make the number much greater. We estimate the schooners that arrive at the above places and are not reported at five per day, which we think an estimate rather under than over the actual number; this would give, for the year, 1,825 additional schooners to be added to the coasting trade, making the whole number of coastwise arrival, for 1863, 8,973.

JOURNAL OF BANKING, COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

BANK RETURNS AND BANK ITEMS.

MONETARY PROSPECTS OF 1864.-The year 1864 opens, in a pecuniary point of view, under remarkable circumstances, both in Europe and America. A war in which all the States of the Old World may finally be engaged appears to be more and more imminent every succeeding week. Should the mutterings we now hear be the beginning of a bloody strife, the effects, financially, on both sides of the Atlantic, must be very decided. Then, again, the cotton trade (as we have shown in previous numbers) is disarranging all former calculations. For instance, the English Board of Trade Returns, just issued for the ten months ending October 31st, show the following as the values of raw cotton imported into Great Britain, and the countries from which it has been received:

And the importation was proceeding at a great rate, for the imports for October were valued at £5,994,951.

If we look at the quantities of raw cotton, we find them as follows, for the same ten months:

So that they are paying $3,000,000 more than they paid in 1861 for considerably less than half the quantity, and double what they paid in 1862 for only one third more in quantity. But the peculiar and important feature of the trade is, that this cotton is bought in new countries and must be paid for in specie, and not as formerly, when bought of the United States, in manufactures. New countries, and especially semi-barbarous countries, are not ready to buy just because they are able to sell., They take the money, and keep it. That such is the case, in this instance, is shown by the following figures:

COTTON IMPORTS IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR TEN MONTHS, ENDING OCT. 31.

Showing an increase of cotton imports from these three countries of £13,720,442. And yet, notwithstanding this increase, the exports to these same countries have augmented but very little, as will appear from the following:

Brazil Egypt India....

EXPORTS FROM GREAT BRITAIN FOR TEN MONTHS, ENDING OCT. 31.

Total......

Being an increase of exports from Great Britain of only £1,568,936, while there was an increase of imports to Great Britain of £13,720,442. It is evident, therefore, that there is a large balance of trade due from Great Britain to the cotton growing countries which must be paid in bullion. Then, again, there is a balance against France, on the same trade, which must be paid in a similar manner. When we remember that this trade is not only being continued, but that the present year will see it greatly increased, we can form an idea of the disturbing influence thus at work. We conclude, therefore, from the foregoing, that money will be very dear in Europe the coming year, and that fact will react on us and cause money to be dear here.

But aside from European influences, the war we have in our midst and the necessities for money which it begets, and the speculative tendencies of the times, must increase the price of money, whatever plan the Secretary of the Treasury may adopt for raising the necessary funds. We look forward, therefore, to a period of dear money in this country, and venture to place on record the prediction, that, in October next, there will be greater stringency in the New York money market than has been experienced for many years.

REVENUE OF GREAT BRITAIN, ETC.-We have prepared the following table,. showing the revenue of the United Kingdom for the last three years:

In this connection, the following table, showing the stamp duties in England, on bonds and mortgages, bills, etc., will be of interest:

ESTIMATES AS TO THE PROBABLE RECEIPTS INTO GREAT BRITAin of Corton, FOR 1864.-We append the following table, as being important, in connection with what has been said above. Estimates have been made by Messrs. AsnWORTH, CHEETHAM, WHITWORTH BROTHERS, NEILL BROTHERS, London (which are based upon a knowledge of the extent of the growth of the staple in the several places named), of the probable receipts of cotton into Great Britain during 1864, which will be found very nearly to agree.

These estimates are as follows: