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th lies in his humble capacity for 25 years, he would, he was con. deserve to lose every respect for his service., if any they wee -, during that period, did he support any resolution of thanks is die Americans for the address which had been trained in New y et is. One more replete with tithes which might be used against t hem in Parliament he had never heard. If th e y wi s h e d to g i ve their siteruies real arguments against them, instead of pretence., w hich alone were now used by them as foundations of their oppoxi ten, let them adopt this Resolution. But if their intention was to low the British people thin .their only wish was to seek the bles. s no and privileges of the British Constitution through the Consti s national and Parliamentary sources, they would unanimously e nd at once reject the resolution recommended for adoption. In the tint place, he would ask, had the majority of the 1 irctine de pherately weighed the bearing of the address, upon which they were called on at the present moment to decide by their vote ? .Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to read passages of the address, the adoption of which, by their vote to the framers of in would Im plicate the Catholics of Ireland. Hauperticularly adverted to the Freese which said, that ~ t he desirewd separation rises unbidden in every Irish breast ;" and that which said, speaking of the Church Establishment of Ireland, " it is, surely, time t undo that Establidnnent." He was not the advocate of t c Established Church t on the contrary, he considered the tenets it professed erroneous ; and it was his conviction that they were en, which made him adhere to his own religion. He also thought that too much riches would undo any religious establish ment. lithey adopted that sentiment of the address, they ought to go further. and tr.alte pikes In an hour after. (Cries of "Nn, no 1"1 Mr. O'Connell proceeded to read other parts of the Ad dress of a sirolar witur., the adoption of which, he said, would be most fatal to the ('leholie cause. It was an argument used by Mr. Plunkett in favour of t'atholic Emancipation, that the conceding of that great measure would tend. in the strongest degree, to the oecurit y of the Church Eluablish went ofthe country. In the courve ef last Ses sion also Mr. Hume had omitted to bring forward his usual motion with respect to the Church Establishment, lest his doing en would injure the then pending Catholic Bill. And would they, by adopt ing the sentiments of this address, deprive their Parliamentary yrieruls of such a strong argument in their favour? It was his opinion that if they adepted such a resolution, and that their ques tion was brought on for discussion during the present Parliamentary Salina, the previous question would be moved and carried. It would be, in tact, opening a bark door through which the great object they all should have in view, namely. a discussion on their claims, would escape. The expresainn of their gratitude on such a sebjeet, attended as it would be by the disastrous results he had adverted to, would do very well for a romance t but if they pre ferred reality tonomance, they would join him ( Mr. ('Connell) in seciving the resolution. He would ask this .Meeting were they desirous of a separation from England ? (Cries of " No, no.") He (Mr. O'Connell) was as ready ss any man to state his conviction thin the connexion between the two countries, as it was at present tdminietered, was a curse. But at the same time. it was his firm I e'lef that the greatest blessing which could be conferred by heaven on Ireland. was that connexion as it ought to be. Ile thought that every thing of value in this life, every thing worth preserving found its germ and seed in the principles of the British ( 0 stitation, and that there could not be greater impnlicy or crime on the part of any who wished well to both countries than to desire their separation. I Hear.) Would they go before Parliament, he would again ask them, and say that they approved of the part of the address which said that the " desire of separation rises unhidden in every Irish breast ?" He would call on all who wished for the success of EmaneipaCon, not to throw an additional stigma on the Catholics. Ile had been formerly for the giving of a vote of thanks to the American people to a certain extent, but he had since weighed the matter more deliberately, and his opinion now was, th it he had been wrong in at all entertaining the idea of thanking them. He would ask, did they imagine the Catholic Aristocracy would join Cheat in the vote, even If they should determine on pressing it? No, he was of opinion that they would firmly and manfully dissent from it. He did nor, when speaking thus of the Aristocracy, mean to say that they should submit to them. nor on the other hand should they be shaken off lightly. The best mode of acting would be to continue the exertions of both. They should mot, therefore, quarrel with the Aristocracy on a mere matter of compliment, and one which did not involve any principle. Those who were desirous of division would vote for the resolution of thanks; foe such a vote, he felt convinced, would cause diesenition in the Catholic body; they who wished to go before Parliament and any, that " the desire of separation rose unbidden in their bosoms" would vote for the rosolution but those who wished well to the counter, who sought for emancipation. and who expected the co. operation of the Aristocracy, would vote against it. Mr. D. O'llat Lew hopsd the Aristeocracy would set on this occasion as became men of spirit. He regretted that the sitting of the fourteen days' Association had not continued till this day, as they might very consistent move a retraction of the vote of cen sure which had been passe d on AI?. Anthony 3larmion, after hearing what had fallen from Mr. O'Connell on the same subject. which was in his (Mr. 011.'s) opinion couched in much stronger terms. Mr. O'Cox X r.t.t. called Mr. O'Reilly to order. He had as. hewed what could not be borne out or warranted by what had fallen from hilt (Mr. O'C.) It was one of the most unfounded of all the adurenies which had been uttered against him, to state that he had spoken in stronger terms of the connexion between the two countries than Mr. Marmion had done. But there was a kind of importance attached to every calumny against him. Mr. O'REILLY did not Intend. As the remotest decree, to say anything of Mr. O'Connell which bis recollection of the words he had aced would not warrant. Hie opinion was, that they ought to be thankful for kindness. no matter where it was displayed, who. tharin India, China, or Japan. Mr. LAWMAN said that Mr. O'Connell had been misrepre sented. If be understood that gentleman rightly, he had declared that no man could wish more a•dently for the connexion of the two countries than he (Mr. O'Connell), and his belief that the anion of both would be more strongly cemented by creating mu. tualgnod.will between the people of all religions. (Hears) lle was against any vote of thanks. . . 11r7REn1tiirrn approved of the vote as a simple expression of their thanks for the sympathy evinced in their favour by the Americana. Mr. CONWAY—Aye, and that vote arose, he thought, from the ciretunstance of ao address having been framed by the /interim] people, and transmitted to the Irish Catholics. The question then was, whether, in thanking them foe that address, they did not vir tually adopt the sentiments (and it wall a cknowledged on all hands that some of them at least were moat obnoxious) it contained ? In his opinion it was quite manifest they would do so. Mr. RONAYNE was against the resolution, as he saw no ?food which could result from it, and it might be productive of touch mischief to their cause. Mr. HVOHES thought the resolution a mischievous one. and that the Catholics had very little to do when they directed their at. tendon to it at all. The Secretary (Mr. O'Oon wax ) thorght it would be unmanly to as that the Catholics should nut thank their friends in Americ a foe that address, which, in his opinion, did not contain a stronu'r sentiment, or one couched in stronger terms than 11r. O'Connell had this day used. He bad taken down the words which Ilr. O'Connell had made use of as he had wtered them, and they were •• that he considered the connexion, as it existed at present, a rune." 31r. O'CownEr.t.—Good God! am I said to have tittered such an expression ? I said no such thing. He (Mr. O'Connell) had alertly said that the connexion as at present administered was not a blessing : but lie qualified his expre - ...i0n by stating his opinion, that it properly administered, it would be the greatest benefit which could be conferred on this country. (Hear, hear.) It was tint by taking down and quoting against him isolated phrases in a sentence that his observations were to be undercood. Indeed be could see no reason at all why his words should be taken down this way by Gentlemen, and afterward s ma d e use o f aga i nst hi m. Illr. O'Cloa MAX had taken them down merely in order to reply to them. He was convinced he had noted them down correctly ; but even allowing them the interp retat i on now a ffi xe d to then) by Air. O'Connell, what was it but telling the British people, that if they emancipated not the Catholics, the events of the next year would be so and so ; and pointing oat the consequences of persist ing to refuse their rights to the Catholics. What was it which made It a curse ?—that very Established Church with which they found fault in America. He would di recate here and elsewhere the evils of the Establishment. Why was it considered a public calamity that the speeches at die great national dinner had not been reported? It was because the admirable sentiinents of Lord Purtarlington and other Protestant Noblemen, then delivered witb respect to the Established Church, had not been laid before the public. He would give his support to the motion for the ap. potritment of a Committee. Mr. Smut. thought that Mr. O'Connell might eav to his Learned Friend, (Mr. O'Cloeman,) in the language of Cassius to Brutus, " Why are all my words observed, Set In a note-book, conn'd and leam'd by rote, To dash into my teeth ?" Ile would advise gentlemen to have better memories, and not to retain single fragniests of s speech without bearing in recollection the paws es which form the context. After some further observa. tions on this head, Mr. Shell concluded by proposing as an amend ment, " that the ardent and honourable anxiety for the success of our cause evinced by the Americans, afforded an additional proof of the solicitude felt by all the friends of liberty in the success of the Catholic cause." This amendment,•iih hie opinion, would obviate all objections. It did not at all dihnk the Americans; it merely put on record a most important fact—namely, that the sympathy of all pans of the world was evinced for their success. In using the words "ardent and honourable," they sulkies dy expressed their opinion of the conduct of the Americans. Mr. COPPINGICA and Alr. LAWLESS MSC to tieeond the resolu tion, upon which Mr.O'Coxx ELL moved that the meeting adjourn to Monday, which wu secuntitl by Mr. Conway, and carried. Mr. O'CoNNELt., ot . Kilgory. county Clare, was called to the Chair, thanks were voted to 3lr. BELLEW, and the meeting, which was vary numerous, adjourned.—Dublin E. Post of Thursday. --- - - - Ilia Majeety's frigate Tartar arrived on Thursday at Gravesend. having a min on board in irons who, it iv said, has confessed himself to be the mur d erer of filr:Bird, of Greenwich, f !which Hussey wu hanged, and who upon his trial confessed i'mt he was an accomplice, but that the real murderer was gone to lea—Ciagae Porte Herald. At Bow-street yesterday two of the boys, Sullivan and Wilson, who committed the robly ry in Mr. 31oore's ('he special ;hider's; chambers, were admitted as evidence for the Crown. and th e third, Chaihnead, was committed to Newgste for trial . Torkiogtrin and his son were also committed to the mile prison, as receivers of the stolen property. ;TOLES VESTE V New 4 per Cent. 92 91 90i Long Ann. India Stock lAtto Acct. 215 216 Ex. Dills 1 „MM. 14 22 16 dia Ditto, 5110 t. 12 21 13 dia Ditto Small 12 8 die Lottery Tickets IW. 11A. STOCKS YESTERDA V. Mexican Bonds Ditto Bolide (1825) 384 Li 6 1 594 49 51 2 494 63 24 2 Ditto Acct. 374 4 3 3 2 G 3 Peruvian Bonds 31 Russian Bonds 73:4 3 Ditto Acct. 744 4 4 3 Sprmiph Bonds 84 9 tto Acct. Ditto MO, 'J YESTERDAV. Leghorn Demos Venice........ Malta Naples "toli Palermo.... .... ...per os. 119 Lisbon 50/ Oporto 51 Rio Janeiro 45i Bahia 4$ Buenos Ayres 43 Dublin Cork 1 atm Liori,rea Z. a. d. Portugal Goldin coin° 0 0 Foreign Gold in bare 3 17 3 New Doubloons.— 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 IL Silver in hart, stand 0 I 1 43i 26 PRICES OF SHARES YF.STERIYAV. MIMES. lihnre. Patti. Primness per tun 10 3dl. PRICES OF BRITISH Bank Stela 134 193 3 per Cent. Red. 7 5 17 4 4 3 per Cept Cons. /5} .74 7N 74 74 Ditto Acct. 76 74 a 73 74a a 75} 741 84 per Cent. 83 34 per Cent. Red. 831 et PRICES lIF VOIIEION Brazilian Bonds 494 Colombian Bonds 60 42 . ... . Ditto D..nclx (11124) AO 4 1 $ 73 31 404 4i lii 362 4 2 Ditto A rec. 494 7 6561 5 3 247 3 6 3 French Dente, 5 per Ct. 97f. 50c. Exchange 25c. Mc. Greek Bomb) (1825) 171 17 10 17 161 Ditto Acct, 18 ctivitsE or EX1:11, Amsterdam C. F. 12 19 Ditto at sight 12 9 Rotterdam....2ll. l2 13 Antwerp 12 13 Rantburgh 2A U. 37 9 4 bona 24 U. 37 10 Parit,3 days'aight 23 C 5 Ditto 2 U. 25 00 lbordeaux 23 90 Dalin 7 0 rrank.on Slai n Ex. M. 1 fig Patersburvh. rble. 3 Us. Pi Vienua,efrective fl. 2 M. 10 20 ?Ante ditto 10 29 Madrid I:adis 311 Itilbna Barcelona tiecllle 30 Hibraltar 31 Colombian Pasco-Peruvian United Mexican Basilian 100 6 1 100 10 6 di. 40 20 Ditto New 4O 121 oar Welsh Iron and Coal 25 20 9i die wi4eri.t.ANEol:ll. Van Diemen's Land Agricul. 100 24 Zite iiritigit SireM KING'S THEATRE. On FRIDAY NEXT a GRAND PERFORMANCE of ANCIENT and MODERN MEW, under the direction of Mr. Boehm, for which OC easlon a splendid Orchestra will be erected on the Stage. PART I.—A Seised ni from the Sacred Ortrorin, The Redemption. PA nr lI.—A Grand Selection, Including some favourite Pieces from itaydn's Seasons," Mozart's Requiem,- and "M.se In Egitto;" Ileetholen's First Hymn, from his admired Mass; and seve re' other Pieces from the Works of eminent Composers. PART Grand Miseelatieous Act, lit which all the principal Singers wiit appear. The Band 4 . 111 be numerous and eomplete In erery department. Leaier, Mr. Rophino Lacy. The Performance to commence at Seven.—Boxes 7s.t Plt NI. 6d.; Gallery 2s. Second Price at Nine.—The Opera Free List does not In clude these Performances.—Books of the Performance to be had In the Theatre only. price la.—Private Boxes. two guineas each. and Tickets at 7a. each, may be secured by applying at ➢tr.FberaS, rt, Old Bood-street. DRURY-LANE THEA7'RE. To-morrow, THURSDAY, Feb. lA. will be performed the new National Ballad Opera of NAI.VINA. The principal Characters by Mecwr.Wallark, Sinclair, Horn, Pedt.rd, Harley, and Fltzwilllam t Waft Stephen., Furey, and To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN, JACK OF ALI. TRADES. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanchard' Clown, Mr Hill; Columbine. MIAs Bartlett. Saturday, Ma'u'na; and the Pantomime. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Tomorrow, THURSDAY, Feb. 16, will be perfonned the Dew Play of t THE FRENCH LIBERTINE. The principal Characters by Messrs. C. Kemple, %Verde. Power, and Cooper; Mesdames Simnel], Cbatterley, arid Glover. To cone:ode with the Opera of THE MARRIAGE. OF FIGARO. Count Almevica, Mr. Jou:s; Eigaro, Mr. Durmet; Antonia, Mr. Flu rett; Cherubim, Mrs. Chattelley. Countess Aimeelra, bliss Paton; Susanna. Madame %cowls. COPENT-GARDENTiIEATRE. GRAND PERFORMANCE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSIC, 111101111 Tllll MANACIIIIRNT Or SIR 0. SMART. This Evening. WEDNESDAY,. February 15, A GRAND SELECTION. PART t.—A Selestion from the Works of Handel. Haydn, Attwood, and Marcella PART 11.—A Selection from "The Seasons," by Haydn t from "Jephtha," by Handel; &e. rec. PART II 1.—.1 Grand Miseelluneous Aet; Including a Seen' from "The Redemption," by Handel. ; Principal Vocal Performers—Messrs. Brsharn, Pearman, Tinney Horricastle, Robinson, Phillips, blasters Harker and Lou ghurst Misses Stephens, Love, Gowand, H. CAWS*, Paton, and Farrar. KING'S THEATIth, OP RA CONCERT-ROOM, H4YMARKET. Mr. WALKER respietfully announces his ASTRONOMICAL LEC TURES on the original EIDoURANION. or Grand Transparent ORRERY, to eornmenee this present wEDNEsnAy EVENING, and eentinue every Wednesday during Lent. at Half-past Seven. Boxes 3e., Pit Vs., Gallery Is. is not the large Orrery Mr. W. has read upon the last four yea. , but the original Maehhie which he has reetted. =4 from which so many Imitations exist at the present moment. ENGLISHOPERAWOE'S E, STRAND, Opposite Waterloo Bridge. Thls Evening. WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15, LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY, AND THE PHCENOMENA OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH, Te lee delivered by Mr. BARTLEY on the WEDNESDAYS and FRI DAYS daring Lent. Begins at Seven —concludes at Tan. . TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication of "An Attorney of the Court" shall appear on the first vacant day. The DILATION Pa mmenced publishing3vaterday mottling at a quarts before eight o'clock. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FWUAIY 13, 1924. The French Papers of Sunday are almost exclusively devoted to the speech of the Minister of Finance in the Chamber of Deputies on the Budgets of 1821, 1825, and 1826. His remarks will be read with interest, as they show that our neighbours have as yet but partially felt the effects of the crisis which has been so alarming on this side of the Channel. They seem to congratulate themselves in conscious security, and to look with a sort of contemptuous pity on those dangers to which they consider themselves as in no degree exposed. The Minister states that there has been an excess of no less than 42,557,10'2 francs in the re ceipts above the estimates ; that part of this has been ab sorbed by the extraordinary expenses of the troops in Spain ; that 10,800,000 francs have been disbursed on the account of the Spanish Government; but that, after all these ex traordinary expenses, 18 millions are supposed to be the disposable surplus of revenue above the expenditure. In consequence of this a further reduction in the direct taxes, to the amount of 19,451,759 francs, is proposed, which with the former reductions, will make a decrease of above a million stilling. The difficulty which the French Government encountered in transfering the Benin from one species of Stock into another, is ascribed to the financial and commercial crisis which was then on the point of breaking out in this country, and which is said to have arisen entirely from hazardous speculation. In proof of this the Minister enters into various details respecting the comparative diminution in value whit► has taken place in the funds of different countries; from which it appears that the French Five per Cents. have suffered very little alteration. The bankers of Paris con tinue to discount at four per cent., while those of London and Amsterdam demand .5 per cent. Payments of no less than 100,000,000 francs have been made into the Bank of France since June, with very little effect on the funds. The expenses for the next year are estimated at 676,932,921 francs, the Sinking Fund at 238,840,121, and the receipts are expected to amount to 916,608,734. After the statement of the Minister of Finance, a debate arose on a priilet de loi presented by the same Minister on the indemnity to be paid by the Government of Ilayti to the former colonists. The Et/4/e of Monday has an:article dated Bucharest, 20th January, in which it is staLLl that an English cou- THE BRITISH PRESS. tier who left Constantinople on the 13th, brought private letters, containing the satisfactory intelligence of the Greeks having gained further advantages over the Turks. These papers notice the arrival of the Duke of WEI, T.INGTON and his suit at Calais, on their Journey to St. Petersburgh. (From the Etoite dated Monday. Feb. 13.) littettartEsT, JAN. 20. The English courier who left Constantinople the 13th brings private letters from that capital which speak of advantages obtained by the Greeks, The loss caused by the Isst lire at Galata is estimated at twenty. five millions of piastres. Since that event two thousand vagabonds have been sent to Asia. PARIS, FED. 12. The Onvernment is having the expost of the motives and the tables relative to the laws on the finances printed, and they will be distributed on IVerinesday. The Chamber on the other hand will print the projects of law relative to the planters of St. Domingo and to the customs. The preparatory discussion of these projects will commence in the bureaux forty-eight hours after the distribution. When there is to be a nubile sitting, the Deputies will receive no tice at their own houses. It is probable that the next public sitting will take piece this day week, the 111th February, for a report of the Committee and petitions. • The Duke of Wellington, Ambassador Extraordinary from his Britannic Allalesty to the Court of Russia, landed at Calais tNe day before yesterday, 10th February, at two o'clock in the afternoon. His Grace was accompanied by Lords Douglas, Fi'zroy Somer set, and Cathcart, and Mr. gutsy. The Ambassador and his suite immediately set out in six carriages for the Netherlands. The body of his Excellency Al. de Narischkin, High Chamber lain of the Emperor of Russia, and Chancellor of all the Orders of the Empire, lay in state yesterday. Several private houses, belonging to persons of distinction at Zurich, were marked with blood in the night of the 26th January ; a reward of lOU francs is offered to whoever shall discover the per petrator. The Court of Justice at Rouen, at the instance of the Attorney. General, has just interdicted, from the exercise of civil rights, an insane person, who was at first pointed out as a state criminal. It is the individual named Perim, who, first at the liavannali and afterwards in the United States of America, proclaimed himself Charles X. son of Louis XVI. The Attorney of the King of Havre received orders from the Minister of the Interior to prosecute this individual, which the Court pronounced to be valid. Persat's Counsel alleged that there was no ground to admit the application of the King's Attorney, be cause his madness had none of the characteristics of violent insanity, and he had near relations, who alone were entitled to make such an application. The Court, however, coinciding with the Advocate. General, supported the interdiction. From the Jemrtml de Paris of Sunday.l Our Vienna Corre•pundent writes to us on the Ist The Turks, who appeared to have been reinforced by some thousand men in Wallachia and bloldavia, have recommenced their whole system of oppression towards the inhabitants. It is in vain that the Consuls of the Christian Powers at Jassy and Bucharest have remonstrated with the commanders of the Ottoman troops, who behave as if they were in a conquered country. They even dis. regard the authonty of the flospodar, " News has been received at .lassy of some movements that have been retherked In the corps of General Sabanieff. A report was in. circulation at the court of the Hospodar, tnat these troops were taking up more concentrated positions on the extreme frontier of Bessarabia, and that important orders from St. Petersburgh were expected at the head.quartera at Kiscbeneff." The Moniker of the 12th contains no Royal Ordinance, or any other official document. Lisbon Papers to the sth instant have strived. It is mentioned in them that all the difficulties being now re moved which prevented The distribution of the prizes made (luring the Peninsular war, his MAJESTY has been pleased to appoint a Commission, composed of live officers, to pro ceed immediately to the allotment of the said prize money. Many British claimants are interested in this decision. There is no other intelligence of public interest contained in these papers. The debate at the Catholic Adjourned Association, an account of which will be found in another part of our paper, manifested very little of that approach to una nimity of sentiment which is so essential, as well to the respectability of its members as to the success of their cause. The leading orators displayed, as usual, a tolerable show of fire, and a more than tolerable portion of flip. pancy ; we have condensed the controversy, in order to bring what wisdom it contains into a reasonable compass. Mr. MAHON, among the vast resources of his prudence, moved a resolution for a vote of thanks to the radical rump of the old O'Corixon party in New York, whom he was pleased to dignify with the style and title of—the American people, " for the generous expression of their sympathy in favour of the Irish Catholics." To this, Mr. LawLEss moved a foolish amendment. Paddy O'REILLY disturbed the debate, and Mr. O'CoNxer.t. called Paddy O'RLILLY to order. O'Coxls' r. Cs words, which on a former occa sion had been taken down by Secretary O'Gosmarr, were now thrown in his teeth, which, rousing him from his reverie, he started up, took the Lord's name in vain, and, as no one likes,to have another man's disloyalty laid at his door—manifested a great abhorrence that an ex pression should be charged upon him which he had never uttered. The debate, which was rather noisy, concluded with a characteristic vote of thanks to Mr. BELLEW, and the meeting adjourned. Whatever difference of opinion may prevail with respect to the origin of those perplexities in which the commercial world is at present involved, every friend to his country I must applaud the disposition shown on the part of Minis- ters to adopt such measures as may be best calculated to remove them. NVe are not among the number of those whe would damp the spirit of the people by undervaluing their resources. There is an energy in the English cha racter, which, when fairly put forth, is equal to any exertion which the pressure of the times may call for, and which has overcome difficulties much greater than any with which we have at present to contend. In the meantime there never was a period, we admit, which called for greater caution in the application of remedies. When a mercantile nation is under great embarrassments it is vain to expect any effectual relief from legislative interference. The causes which have interrupted our prosperity are such as Government did not create, and which it cannot be ex pected to remove. To a certain degree those causes are temporary/, and the great danger is, lest any permanent measure, however well intended in the way of relief, should have a directly contrary effect. That our paper enrreney has been much too abundant may be true, and much evil may have been produced by its excess; but it is possible, never theless, that we may over-rate the benefit to be derived from its contraction. It is by no means true that specie alone will introduce commerce into a country, whereas it is certain that a profitable commerce will introduce specie, A rich and enterprising nation like our own must always suffer severely if any part of its circulating medium is too suddenly withdrawn, and still more deeply must it suffer, If, in addition to this, a general want of confidence locks up the resources of commerce in the coffers of the monied capitalists. Much alarm, we know, has been excited lest the suspicion thrown on the solvency of country banks, by the agitation of the currency question in Parliament, should occasion a tun upon them, Emil thus renew, with still greater aggravation, that overwhelming distress with which we have been so recently visited. We really see nothing before us that confirms this apprehension. 'Mi nisters have undoubtedly a task before them, w hi c h men !cgs firm of nerve might recoil front as perilous ; but if a gradual reduction of bank-paper be the cure for the pre sent disordered state of our commerce, no mode more effectual to this purpose can be adopted than the suppres sion of one and two pound notes at the end of three years, —the period given for their gradual withdrawment. If it should be found, in the interval, that the exigencies of com merce require these smaller notes, as the BANK is not restricted in the issue of them (hiring that period, a supply of bunk notes of this description may always be obtained in any part of the kingdom. P u bli c con fidence in these smaller notes will by this tneans be pre served, while public credit will be in n o respect en dargued. .. It Loa) be ment ioned."--says one of the best informed write r• on the subject of paper credit—" u an additional ground of confidence in the Bank of England, and as a circumstance of importance in many respects, that the numerous Proprietors who choose the Directors, and have the power of controlling them (a power of which they have prudently forborne to make any frequent use), are men whose general stake in the country far exceeds tha t particular one which they have in the stock of the Com pany. They are men_ therefore who feel themselves to be most deeply interested, not merely in the increase of the dividends, or in the maintenance of the credit of Bank of England, but in the support of commercial at well as of public credit in general. There is indeed, both among them and among the whole commercial world, who make so large a portion of this country, a remarkable determina , - Lion to sustain credit, and especially the credit of the Bank, and this general agreement to support the Bank is one of the pillars of its strength, and one pledge of its safety. The Proprietors of it themselves are not likely to approve of any dangerous extension even of their own paper. Both they and the Directors know the importance of confining the Bank paper, generally speaking, within its accustomed limitsi and must necessarily he supposed to prefer its credit, and the paper credit of the nation, to the comparatively trifling consideration of a small increase in their own dividends ; an increase which would prove delusory, if it should arise from that extravagant issue of Bank notes which would have the effect of depreciating all the circulating medium of the country, since it would thus raise upon the proprie tors of Bank stock, as well as on others, - CUE rules or ALL TUE ARTICLLS or LlFt.t While the Proprietors and Directors of the Bank have thus an interest, on the one hand, in limiting the quantity of paper issued, they are also naturally anxious on the other, in common with the whole commercial world, to give the utmost possible credit to it ; and although an opinion should prevail, even to some ex ' tent, among persons out of business, that the appear ance of gold is the only teat of wealth, and that the absence ' of it, however temporary, implies great danger to the coon try, the mercantile interest, and in particular the Bank J Proprietors, the bankers, and the traders of London, by whoie transactions the value of the London paper is up held, may be considered as combined in the support of a juster sentiment. The Bank itself is known to have expe rienced, 'at former times (as appears from the evidence of the Directors, given to Parliament), very great fluctuations in its cash ; and in one period of returning peace and pro sperity, a reduction below that which took place at the time of the late suspension of its cash payments; the amount of gold in the Bank, at any one particular era, is perhaps, therefore, on the ground of this experience, not now con sidered by the commercial world as having all that import ance which was given to it when the Bank affairs were involved in greater mystery. It is perfectly well under stood among all commercial men, that gold coin is not an article in which all payments (though it is so promised) are at any time intended really to be made ; that no fund ever was or can be provided by the Bank which shall be sufficient for such a purpose ; and that gold coin is to be viewed chiefly as a standard by which all bills and paper money should have their value regulated as exactly as pos sible ; and that the main, and indeed the only point is, to take all reasonable care that money shall in tact serve as ,that standard." We quote these remarks, not only from their intrinsic worth, but because we consider them, at this crisis, as pe culiarly important. So much pains is daily taken to bring all banking establishments, and with them the Bank of England, into disrepute, that it becomes desirable to dispel the distrust thus unworthily created, by showing on which side the truth lies. • " An Inquiry into the Nature and Effect,' of the Paper Credit. of Great Britain; by Henry Thornton, 1.4 q. M.P." - - + If the Bank notes were increased even five millions. the addi tional profit which would accrue to the Proprietors would not b.: more than two per cent. A Proprietor qualified to vote in the Bank Court (that is, having 5001. stock) would therefore gain by this extravagant issue, supposing it to be maintained for a year, the sum of 101. A large proportion of the Bank Proprietors du not hold more than 1,0001. stock. The gain of each of these would not be more than 201.; a sum perfectly insignificant, compared with the interest which they have in the maintenance of the general commer cial credit of the country. CITY, TUESDAY EVENINO. The consternation on the Stock Exchanges this morning very far surpassed any thing that we have even recently wit nessed. The large majority by which the Ministers car ried their currency question last night in the House of Commons evidently tended in a great degree to create this consternation, inasmuch as speculators felt that the adop tion of this measure must, in the first instance, add to the present pressure by curtailing the issues of country bankers, whatever might be its ultimate consequences. To add to thz agitation of the morning, all the reports of yesterday were in active operation, and the speculators for a fall lost no opportunity of giving effect to them. One of the first rumours of the morning was, that a large South Ame rican house had suspended its payments, and as a natural consequence, half a dozen houses of smaller note were im mediately included in this commercial catastrophe by the newsmongers of the Royal Exchange. Console for the Account were as low as 74, at one part of the day, and after various fluctuations, closed at four o'clock, at 75, but bargains were afterwards done at 741 q. The business in the British market was most extensive; and the anxiety at one time to sell at any price almost un precedented. In Bank Stock the bargains were done at 191, 193; India Bonds were 215, 216 ; large Exchequer Bills 11a. Se2s. ISi. dis., and small ditto, 12s. Bs. die.; Reduced Stock was 75k, 743. This was settling day in the Foreign Market, and cer tainly a more gloomy one has seldom been passed. The fluctuations in South American Stocks have been exces sive; Colombian Bonds fell nearly 10 per Cent. from 50 to 40.1 ; Mexican 6 per Cents. were once as low as 494 ; Russian Bonds were down at 73, and old Spanish Bonds at Greek Bonds maintained themselves better than any other Security, the quotation for the Account being 18. Notwithstanding two failures were announced in the Foreign Market, the Securities in it appeared to sally towards the close, but it was difficult to get a quota tion, and it seemed anything rather than a reaction to be depended upon ; for extreme agitation pervaded the Stock Exchanges to the closing of the doors. There was scarcely a bargain done in Shares to-day. Lima Gazettes to the lath of October have reached us, but their contents are entirely without interest. There was also an arrival from India yesterday, of so late a date as the 25th October, but the letters and papers were not delivered. His Majesty, with his usual munificence, has, within these few days, transmitted one thousand pounds in aid of the funds for rebuilding St. George's Hospital. The King is Patron and President of this institution. Yesterday afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, the T)uke of York, as Commander-in-Chief, held a Levee at his office in the Horse Guards, which was attended by the Earl of Oxford, Generals Gaseoyne, Hart, and Cockburn ; Lieutenant-Generals Sir Thomas Dyer, Hall, and Bayty ; Major-Generals Egerton and Fraser ; and about thirty others. Yesterday the Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York, at his house in South Audley-street. Yesterday morning Prince Leopold left town for Clare mont. Prince Leopold honoured Drury-lane theatre with his presence on Monday evening. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a meeting of the Cabinet Ministers, and several other gentlemen conversant with the subject of finance, assembled at the Earl of Liverpool's house in Whitehall. At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Rank of England attended the Earl of Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Earl of Liverpool's house in Whitehall. The consul tation occupied near an hour. The Speaker's first Parliamentary Levee for the present Session will be on Saturday next, the ISth inst. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE: ntryfhßANDUsl. Parer', Office ' Feb. 14, 025. The better of Recall p re s ente d by the Prince Eeterhasy ttf thi Ding, as notified In the Gazetee of the 24th of December. 1112e4 has been cancelled by a subsequent letter froth the Empeibr Austria to his Majesty. Croon O ffice, Feb. 14,18%. . . . MEMBERS RETUkNEO TO saliva tic Tills FiltiZXT PARLIMICENT. Cityof Exeter—Samuel Trehawke Rekesvich, El in the rows of Wnt. Courtenay, Esq. who bath accepted the °thee of Clerit AC4 aistant of the Psrliamenta. Borough Of BAnbury—The Honourable Arthur Legge, in the toerti of the Aianourable fleneage Legge. who hates accepted the ' office of one of the Cprnmissionera of his Majesty's Customs. Borough of Warwick--John Tomes. of the said borough of Ci'act wick, Esq. In the room s of Charles Mills. Esq. deceased. Borough of Newport (Cornwall)—The nourable Charles likey; of Guy's Cliffe ' in the county of Warwick, in the room of Wm: Northey, Esq. deceased. Ofr'e of Ordnance, Feb. 13, lff2ff. • Corp* of Roy a l E ng i neers —S econ d C apta i n R o b ert 'loper pipe{ to be Captain, vice lhath ; First Lieutenant James Patrick Catty to he Second Captain, vice Piper ; and Second Lieutenant George William ixon to be First Liehtemaat, rice Catty—all dated Jan. 15,1826. Boys! Regiment of Artillery..:-Second Lieutenant Joseph /Idling.: Worth to he First Lieutenant, vice Tbrinscnil, retires: on I:alt-pai —dated Feb. 6,18264 DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVBNtY. Left at the Bankrupt Ofliee, under Act 6 (leo. 4th cap. la. fee 6. Ouantax Toltaimt, Size-lane, Bu t kl er sbury, London, hitter: (Film Feb. 9.) GEORGE tiASSE TT, Judd-plait, West, SeCioda, Middlesex, cabinet. maker. (Filed Feb. 13.) JOHN CROSTHWAITE, Fenchurcli4treet, Lontnii, nine et: chant. (Filed Feb. 13.) Ovn) 'fitostPSON, Wells-TOW, nigh-street, lathes*, plutobsi and glazier. (Filed Feb. 13.) Turmas WALTER Chester, (Filed Feb.l3.) JOHN Coo', Sheffield. rieualler. 'riled Peb. 11.) GEORGE A xpaiws, Durham, bnoasaller. (Filed Fa; 1 4 .) ----- - BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. JOHN WHITE, late of Old Broad -street, London. merchant. CHARLES DELVES HE01:011T01! and Joust Just Ell ati4 NETT, Nantwich, L.hestcr, bankers. BANKRUPTS. THOMAS SHEPHERD and Jostrn HamoiTH, Buff, Lan. caaliire, machine-makers, to surrender, Feb. 27, 28, and March Al; at ten, at White's Hotel, King -street, Manchester. Solicitor', Messrs. Adlingtsn, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, Lon.: don; and Mr. Thorley. Manchester. ROMAIN Boucirez, George-street, Adelphi, 31iddlesex, dia mend-merchant, Feb. 111, at one, 21. end March 2/1, at twelve. af. tile Bankrupt.' Court. Solicitors, Messrs. Willis, aVatson, Bower, and Willis,. Tokeoltouse.yard, London. JOHN HADDON. Ctatle-streist, Finsbury-aquare, printer, dea ler and chapman, Feb. 18, at eleven, 28, and March 28, at ten. at the Bankrupts Court. Solicitor, Mr. Wilkt, Finsbury-place; Finsburylquste. JOHN L;ORHING, Strand, jewellc;, dealer and ehapman, Feb. I 111, 25, and March 28, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court. +lt'll. eitor, Mr. NVehh, Dyer's-buildings, Holborn. CHARLES TIIEODOSI us HEATH, Seymour-place, Euston: square, engraver, dealer and chapel:in, Feb. 21, 28, at nine, and 51arch 28, at ten, at the Bankrupts Court. Solicitor, Mr. Bousa field, Chatham-place, Blacktriars. CHARLES WHITTLE, Hastings, draper, dealer and chapman. Feb. 18, at one, 25, at eleven, and March 28, at tvlelve, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors, Messrs. Gregson and Fonnc?eau, Angel court, Throgmorton-street. AHOUSTirS URTISTON MERrDITH, Portsmrtuth, tailor, dealer and chapman, Feb. 21, 25, at twelve, and March 23, at one, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors. slessra. Clowes, Orme, and ‘Vetilake, King's Bench Walk, Temple. WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN, Peterborough-ennrt, Fleet-atiest, printer, dealer and chapman. Feb. 18, at eleven, 21, at twelve, and March 28, at one, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors, M Hodgson and Burton, Salisbury-street, Strand. Joust 13out.mucE, late of Wisbech St. Peter's, in the !ale of Ely, merchant, iltsfer and chapman, Feb. 23, at six, March I, at nine, and 28. at eleven, at the Rose and Crown Inn, Wished' St. Peter's. Solicitors, Mr. T. Atkinson, Market-place, Peterbo rough ; and Messrs. Bremridge and Cleobury. Chancery-lane. OLIVER JONES, Liverpool, lirtemdraper, dealer and chapman, March 2,3, and 28, at twelve, at the Golden Lion Inn, Dale-street. Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. It. Finlow, Harringtomstreet, Liver p oi; and Mr. E. Chester, Staple-inn. THOMAS JARVIS, 11 ungerford-street, Strand, vine.cooper anti cooper in general, dealer and chspman. Feb. 18,25, and March 15, at eleven, at the Bankrupts Court. fiolicitor, Mr. Ruslibury, Carthusian -street, Charterhome-square. JOHN PERRY, Nottingham, law-manufacturer, commisslon. agent, dealer and chapman, Feb. ?2, 23, and March 28, at eleven, at the Flying Horse Inn. Nottingham. Solicitors, .11r. Fearnhead, Nottingham and Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, Temple. Jolts: BIER and Trroar.as TRAVIS. Manchester, machine. makers, dealers and chapman. Feb. 28. .larch I, at two, and 28, at one, at White's Hotel, King-street. nanchester. Solicitors, Messrs. Antis, Watson, Bower, and Willis, London; and Mr. Radford, Manchester. THOMAS STROUD, Union -street., Bath; linen.draper, dealer and clipman. Feb. 14, March 4. and 28, at eleven, at the Chris toplier,lnn, Bath. Solicitors, Mr. Fisher, Featheratone-buildings, Holborn; and Mr. R. Cook, Bath. NVIL LIAM BEARESFOND. Heaton Norris, Lancaster, roller. maker, defier and chsnman, Feb. 27, March 1, and 28, at ten, at the Bed Lion Inn, Heaton Norris. Solicitors. Mr. John Tyler, Pumpcourt, Temple; and Messrs. Lingard, Vaughan, and Lin. gard, Heaton Norris, Stockport. JOSHUA BOOTHROYD, Almondbury, York. fancy cloth wanu. favorer, dealer and chaplin, Feb. 72, and 23, at the office of Mews. Clough*, Brook, and :Norton, Solicitors, Huddersfield, and March 28. at the Castle of York, at eleven. 6olititors, Messrs. Itattye, Fisher, and Sildio iv, Chancery-lane ; and Messrs. Cloughs„ Brook, and Norton, Huddersfield. Freasris Wttzsrox, Crutched.friers, City, merchant and in. surance-broker, dealer and chapman, Feb. 21, 28, and March 28. at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors, Mews, Constable and Kirk, Symond's.inii, Chancery.lene. GEOUGE WAYOATE, White Lion-street, Norton-felgete, leg. horn.hat.merchant, dealer and chapman, Feb. 21, 28, and March 28. at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. Alexander, Clement's Inn. _ SARAH BRAMWELL. PeteT.Street, GilildfOrti-Mteet, manufacturer, dealer and chapeontan, Feb. M. at eleven. 28„ and March 28. at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. J. C. Shirreff, Salisbury-street, Strand. VI r. T. IAM WIDGES. Whitmore-rosy, Boston, ccal-merrhant, dealer and chapman, Feb. 16, March '2. and 23, at ten. it the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors, Messrs. Robinson and Burrows, A u+tin-friars. J011:4 STINTotr, Coleman street, City, boot and shoe maker, dealer and chapma”, Feb. 21, at ten, IA at eleven, and March 23, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. Wigley, Essex. street, Strand. JOSEPH Buntows, Bond-.treet, Vauxhall, house•builder. dealer and chaprnan, Feb. 13, 28, and March 21t. at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors, Messrs. Croft and Johnson, Bed. ford-row, Holborn. _ _ J•ME; FAULKE LITTLEWOOD, olfOrd-Ftreet, linen.draper, dealer and chapman. Feb. 21, at eleven, March 4, and 28, at leo, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. Hardwick, Lawrence. lane, Cheapaide. JOHN F. W. 'ITT /CIO, 51ROCtleSter, grocer, dealer and ehap man, Feb. 21, 23. and llarch 28, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. Dungan, (Afford's-inn. Fleet -street. Witt.tam PORTER, jun. Great Driflield, York, merchant, dealer and chapman, Feb. 2-1. at three, 25, and March 28, at ten, at the Buck, Great Di-afield. Solicitor. , Megan. Ellis, Sons, Walmsley, and Gorton, Ch a nce r y -l ane; and Mr. Jennings and Mr. Scotchburn, Great DritScld. JOKY BIRD and 11 IL LIAM Thum, Watling-street, merchants, dealers and chapmen, Feb. 111, 28, and March 28, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. Bouslield, Chatham-place, Blackfriars. EDWARD BOND, Wallingford, Bells, linen-draper. dealer 3rl chapman. Feb. 21, 213, and March 28, at twelve, at the Bankrup a' Court. Solicitor, Mr. 11..lones, Size-lane. DIVIDENDS. March 9. Daniel Townsend and' Thomas Townsend, both of Wilton, clothier*, dealers and chapmen, 3t twelve at noon, at the White flirt Inn. New Sarutn—llarch 8. Richard Poole, of Leeds, en" dealer and chapman, at eleven, at the Court-house. Leedss--March 7. J ose ph Liversedge Tuck ,' of the Ilayinarket, jeweller, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court—February 21. George Gardiner, Saint John -street, ironmonger, dealer and chap. man, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court—February 18. George Hart, Deplord, and William Pittock, Dartford, brewers, dealers chapman, and copartners, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court— March 11. Joseph Moore, of Manchester, corn dealer, dealer chapinara, at nine. White's Hotel, Manchester—March U. Peter Smith, of Mevagissey, grocer, draper, dealer and chapman, at eleven, at the Ship Inn, Mevagissey—Maach 9. Philip Ball, late of Mevagissey, merchant, dealer and chapman, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, St. Austell—March 7. Lawrence Frost. of of Liverpool, timber merchant, at eleven., at the (Alice of Mr. Avison, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES—Marten 7. Valentine Clutten, Halesworth, Suffolk, brrinely.merchant Joseph Yates Cooper, Dalston, Middlesex, wine-merchant—Georg* Sharp, Leeds, cordwainer—Lionel Knowles, sea. Lionel Knowles, jun. and Stephen Hartley Knowles, Hommel, Yorkshire, iner ehauts--.Sanittel Dutton, Oak.lane, Cheapaide, warehouseman.. Lazarus Barron, Str ut t on . g e o und, ll'estniinster, and Old Kent loAd, Surrey—linen.d ra p er —J ames B oot y, Newporylale of Wi g ht, t I tunshi re, grocer. OV. _ SCOTCH SE 111; ESTR A T THOMAS COLQUH0111:". Euinburgh, printer ; creditor to r in the Royal Exchange Cofree-house , Edinburgh, Feb. Jet two, to choose an intetiin factor; and March at two, to aAt trustee, • ilex a JOHN SIDBALD, ISn.rtex SIP,AALD, a n d ROT' . NALDSON, Leith, merchaais ; creu:loni to meet iu '.Lt'r