Show Weekly Bank Statement New York Dec IiIhe statement of averages av-erages of the clearinghouse banka of this city for the week shows Increase Loans 5S 2002nO uajtXX Deposits SI21XKJ4CO 181S1U Circulation 4G05SCOO 21GOO Legal lenders urvllSiO 1140SOO Specie irlGllGOO i620660 Reserve 217030100 f1720 Reserved required 2UV725100 337100 Surplus fi205SOO liO100 Ex U S deposits 15o03570 177JoO Dccrcae The Financier says The feature of the onlcial statement of tIme New York Asso oiled bnnku last week was the not gain OL 17200 In cash whereas thc estimates which were based upon the traceable movements of money during the wuclc In dicated a loss of > 2il200 Tills discrepancy between the official and the estimated changes in this item may very easily be accounted for by the system of averages Payments by the assay office of imported gold were large but they were distributed through the week and moreover the dis bursement on Friday of over K0JOO for gold received from Boston which had been imported by a Boston bank though countIng count-Ing for but onesixth of the amount h = > il soiie influence The deposits Increased 1340000 as the result of thc gain in cash amid of the aug mentation of the loans The required reserve re-serve was Increased 3C7100 because ot this gain in deposits and deducting this sum from the net increase of cash leaves 1SO 102 an the gain In surplus reserve which item IB now C30T COO Computed upon the basis of deposits Ions thoso of SMyJllOO of public funds the surplus la 513505575 The increase In loans WHS somewhat unexpected unexpect-ed but It was probably caused by the renewal re-newal of activity at advancing prices on thc stock market This is Indicated by the average dally bank clearings for the week which were 218000000 against 203 OOOUOO the previous week The statement shown a good balance the sum of Increase In loan and of cash being ilCa7 00 or only 331400 more than the Increase In deposits The surplus reserve re-serve will doubtless bo augmented In thc current week through the arrivals of gold from Europe which metal Is now in transit Moreover the transfers hence to San Francisco are understood to be practically prac-tically at an end The subtreasury operations opera-tions last week were largely against thc banks because of a falling off in pension disbursements and of Limo heavy transfers of International revenue collections and of payments by the banks on account of thc ii per cent redemption fund One feature of the state 11 cut wan thc decrease In specie while legal tenders In ruascd Time Joss In the former was probably prob-ably due to the fact that foreign bankars aro employing much of thc gold which they arc receiving from abroad In1 tIme purchase pur-chase of exchange limo gain in legal tenders ten-ders was most likely caused by receipts from nearby interior points and also to some accumulations of this kind of money In anticipation of holiday requirements |