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Show Clearing House. New York, 21. The Public, tomorrow, to-morrow, will have the following details de-tails on the clearing house : The aggregates given for nineteen cities in 1S78 and 1877 show the increase ol leas lhau 1 per cent, but this is due to the excess of exchanges at New York and that excess is fully eiplained by the fact that the sales of stocks in this city during the three weeks named amount to 2,97-1,460 Bhares in 1878 against only 2,418,520 shares in 1877, exclusive of speculative trans-1 actions. Therefore, the exchanges at New York have been smaller in 1S77, 'although much larger than in 1870. I The in-urpate for eighteen cities out-' out-' Bide of X- w York shows a decrease of i percent., which is much less than thedeclici m prices. (Jompanng tue twelve cities which reported in 1876, we find in the aggregate a steady increase, but one wholly due as to last year's stock operations here. tu eleven cities outside ol New York the aggregate shows a constant decrease, which amounts, however, to less than 5 per cent, in either year, and therefore less in two years than ; the decline in prices during last year alone. So far comparison, com-parison, is not unfavorable, but other cities have fared very differently. I New York, San Francisco, Baltimore iand Louisville have increased in the amount of business each year. St. jjUUia, liner uumj iwaa uuhur i ( strike last year, now reports larger transactions than in 1870. Chicago 1 1 reports larger transactions than those of last year but less than those of 1876, while Milwaukee and New Orleans, though falling behind the record of ,last year, also gaio in comparison , with 1876. At Cincinnati the large gain of last year has been lost, but , Bince 1876 there has been no decrease I of consequence. The only cities j I which record continuous losses arej : Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburg,! , and at Boston the decline has been i lass since 1876 than the decline in prices. The comparison thus brings us back to the conclusion frequently i suggested already that the greater part i of the depression in business has been 1 in the coal and iron trades, and that i as to the other business the aggregate j of quantities exchanged has been steadily increasing. Tne Public omits ' i ita regular weekly table. |