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r n*-4 , `":l"44Tt. M`. .s~_ I 1 • )1 PAW PAPAW. treat resistasica ; but hloriosiately happeasid thst the Pei , ianser was from home, sod his wife woistatiog then for sodas of bar ins4baistrs associates, admitted them law the mange. Os searching the house, they fogad piles of fee. thee heel% pillows, timid holsters, concealed In the rellar; shoe a %naafi , ' of watches, *eels, and other @elicits of jewellery, linen of rimy description, sod • box containing loaded pistols, daggen, sad other deadly wearoomi, as Imemealie of 4 ,44 4 “ • Irrlesthreetel AM! flagman, mat lam: rill ' to sail, boxes of phosphorus and matches, sod even other +porta of tools used is breaking it'll" houses. Timm sae alas .pi th a tad heath in site W 14 et tams, lmith OW Priaissei . tali Woo ; .6 by - teate a guilialiliT ...4. i e via; to attpe rbn Motel de attimilloddi n tle'oll mitre* hie real Piraiiiti, tislt'bie mieenputlems Oat ' pelfly In tusking sitilMeli keys cod anw•baes ea She ' - ilipreeetprtnelpies. After se. verb( Arse sibyl; it hal agreed smougst the otilleei that leis deal acetify the beak, eihiht smother placed lbw& in flii street, ea Hutt the Pritletter could not reciting 'him. ' Tamie preeestiews hued out in the end to he Wry Weep. ' vary, de Priaimmer Wilted I+l the Coarse of half at leer,. slid ' , Acre he Inineledle'dillked le 'tie wheats*, Which seems t s Mire Wen lib WO Peatber ; lit a .'trod froiii hie wife, cnuaeil lots' iestedrifystriiim ; et the end of Ike court hi on' slopped by the ellter, gibs dwelt him oil the trite/di and sclera him lieforellia ehdld attempt aay resisteare. la his ram Forte*, ware deed a choice wlectiou of master-beys, from 'shirt it was modtiuded del he had tome impoetatit baslaCii es limed hi the time. Oa the property foetid is the • Insowelitrisig odelrefloell, Were, riroseri were discovered whine Imams had Wee Pfamidied of +Wool every artiste of false whim* they roateitseMt. The shot! itfthe•.Prisepoet's litiumbeNtieg Ple*Phergalia were predated I. Coast. M. LUer! l l readmitted the Prisoaer's defesee, sod called two otineswei ti groin'. me alibi. They score, that at the hoar of die voilikey Hal weie drimihilie Pa . with him at his hoses. Mei they phdroseel i Iseameetweeso be mere miblic.hoisse neammehlawaw of I'k4 east as Mar erearesaasioadoit doh. 'levy lepOsiMii very 4r4rilverri. ' likelier, famed the Primmer itleitlr.-DivitA. FOREIGN INTSLUGENCE. PA RAN *ARCM J. Letters received in emit Irons Copasapfi si pple, sod dated 'boot the tad if February, mineariee, that on the 23th a rialrlcnoncil was held at the Porte, et which ihecontarandents of the Janispiries oad the headed ilte.Corsatritioug •1 the city were in - recut. Oa the 26th same disturbaoces broke out in the city, which were only &stormed by orders of P Norco; nature frntn the GovernMent. lr is arfirtioA that subsequent to' those disturbances the Nei* ttfendi trisisainted to the Ailibm.sudora of am. Allied tour*, • Note, which i% not so satisfamary in. bad beeu expected, arid whieli does not )tirtify the hopes held out he preceding conurianiculioos. It it believed, say, the liiiche d'afyribiiise, that flerhois is' in some measure concerned iu the plot set 1.0 IZoehrUe. What is certain is, that he ho. I.llewn himself et a fair wish seven others well arta. ed. 'and endeavouring to get new recruits. Telegraphic dispitches from Toulon of the 26th sod 28tleof March anaorace the sailing from that port of the Medea frigate, mid the schoeurr La '/Ipeche. The Medeti, commanded by Captain /Figny, is going to the Levant to ,„11 7 his h!lijesty'll 41nadron, after having cruised Off vatioa? psOp of Cls. enlist of the Aletliterrimean. The lerehe„ earn. wooded by Ai. llrlirlrl Thousro. it gene to Algiers and Bona, to protect the coral &her, in those path., *here treaties gire the Preach emelt . the right of pursaing that fishery. The trio de l'Oriene complains, that in contra. ventiou of the cooeurdat of 1801, attvnpis haft been nude in the diocese of Rennes to restore the skippressed fetes, and instances those of the Virg; Mary, which were before tioised with the Sunday, gut during this year bare been celebrated in the tliocoar on the day when they fall. The clergy publicly announce that the parish priests time. rally the observance of them to their liocks, who iiVe•vi4idocile, that labour is interupted, &toil the stlioceiltbe civil authorities induces oleo obiegruent of the law. The same of the Bishop is put forward to authorize those innovations ; and it vi ems not to be known that he slime has no right to change what his suioeine head lois thought to establish,. which the rest of the French clergy 4. serer, probably, without resistance. and to whit* Ise is bound by a law of his country to submit. The same Journal mentions The still more haistO. able conduct of an ecclesiastic at the heist! of • e•t ',ie.., who suspends the studies Of ils;',Ossth N i hilidays thus illegally restored. euumuTtuooLe, YAttcu 3. (FXlftlrf Angie a - volute Loma.) • Lorrl Sttangliird tra hail untidier conference with The Reis Effendi about the rod of Ferhuary. to induce him to accept the Russian whimetui with out soy modification. He even offered a further trim of four weeks, and endeavoured to obtain a promise fiom the Reis Effeudi that a decisive arnoser should br given by that time ; but he pretelitleil that •rrangemrtits in the interior of the empire prevented him from entering into a formal engegement ; he added, however, that he might iwohape wake a definitive declaration be fore the expiration of that period. Lord Strang ford proposed to send Commissioners to the fron tiers to effect an arrangement, but the Reis Ef fendi replied that the Porte being in a state of peace with all Powers, there was nn occasion for entering too negociations about it, The Divan, it appears, wishes to await the result of the expedition to the Motes. We ore very curious to kilos, the reply of itie Porte to the two notes transmitted by the Aus. man lisieraut cto , Count Lamar. The Einreror .1 011 , 14 liar satisfied tile de. mends mule by the Itch's Ellett& in his Note of December St, by ordering the removal of Prince Michel Serso, and disbanding the corps of Heti. riots is, Bessaialsia. There is little probability of any farther concession on the Iran of the Russian Cabinet ; it would at least be an instance unex ampled in the annals of Russian diplomacy. with the exception of that short period when Russia, like the rest of the Contiueut, bowed before Bonaparte. 111ARCa 23. Subsequent to the arrival of the last courier Irmo Constontioople, the result of the coufereoces with 111. de 'fatiischetf was, that a courier should be dispatched to that capital ; lie is the bearer, it is ',oil, of • Note, in which Austria urges, for the Last time, the beets:illy of a decisive reply. M. ile Tatitscheff will await the answer here, which may arrive rhont the VOili of April. Affairs are then suspended for four weeks. This delay is not un pleasant, as strong hopes are entertained that the Porte will yield. TRAPIIIPOILT. 111.111C11 26. PiilICS SUBZO is still utidsr auttelltruer at Lema ~~~ e. berg, Am Austrian Thivvroment trot ellawea hint to prosecute his journey. He has applied to the Caen of St. Prtersburgh for leave to retsina Als Ports letters ante that the tate Naval ocean be.. twee t s the Tads sad Greets at the entrance of the (twif or Lejlawif,ttaxtrl4994r..kod duo. thclaso. irtdei was - immense. *The low Of the Turks is estimated at 25 ships of warp bat the Greek,* ore said likeeriseto have last 16 ithipof war. The Pe The tiettne bee peb4aeed a nqp i e ,,, qe prosnetina in the A oetrims 4 D i str ....el, that ♦ socli pragmatist)* arafpnerolly astute oa the eve of • war. ntx-14.clIAIT1 1 1.3,1101C11..ili• A person worthy of credit . sruds as by express from epoultratt the following details:— On the 251 h is the morale' the Imam of Amiss child, sn. received an espies' frriai Portia. An . extraordinary bustle was noticed in doe troilism-tient, With paper currency ; the tickets of the lottery of Rothschildimmediately .fell 3 per pia.: an the other Assertion paper fell is proportion. The house of Rothschild her tlg. cootlory to its usual custom, observed profound atkoceon.tpc con tents of the dispatChei wlijela u has received, the most Woodsy reports which were in eircelatioss an 'Change; and, the magistrates of •Frouldort not having cottradieted thews, it was generally believed by ihnoterchsnis that the courier had brought stews of nholcOmpaencenteat of bestiiiiies betwoeu the lAussiawead.the Turks. On the rose day (the gith) the how w.f , Atrubschild dispatched to *Serest espiials. !Atter. fro'lii,(lcfesto, from a respects* quarter, wfoih,stie . fi4esiso ieceived ex,press, stair, that in of orders fret St. Petemburgh. great were making at Odessa to receive the Emperor sod EmPress Dowager. These letters give no further information of ulterior Movements of the Houma armies; only they say that the Ge tresale.ia-Chief have lately received seated orders, the contests of which will probably be .kaowa when the Emperor arrives.—/ krene• Pfpers, I.) Price of French Funds on Illnirday; April ). Five per Cent. Cou. jousas, dp iglar. ot -417 r. 70 c. 75 c. 84 C. 05 c. ; ad f. 67 1. 415 c. Ate. Oro. 85 e. 90 c. 83c. SPANISH ,PAPERS. MADRID, 11111C111,0. • l ' At i P early the Aushoritiea hod takes all recsatouss to preserve rasher in the cere nalgOttrif drawing lots for the Coovcription, which lm been annoinced to begin, end in fact did be gin. this Pluming. little time after it cow menevil, smite cries were heard of " Fiera User, 1" %bids for • considerable time were overpowered by the admonitions—sometimes geode, sometimes emeti getic—uf a detachment of tora of the regitniii'i: del Principe , which was posted h, ? liar the pla t c,s, —These Clllll were afterwards repealed quilt others of the same kind, is conaiquersoe of which the national militia, which occupied the entrance' to the ',Tare of the Constitution, interfered, and initesterl'a co.uutryrnan who distingOiShed himself in one of the groups. kisily of thme who composed it proceeded to the Plague's de la Ville to demegid his liberty, which they afterwards repeated in the' square or the Congittolioo. We do not know whether tfic attained their object. This evening there have been stomaifehled gOlPe symptoms more or less tending to disorder, the effects of winch have been repressed by the noble attitude of the local and permanent national militia. The militia perceiving that after the opeunion of the day was concluded, considerable groups want. bled in the square, and that many of the persons who composed them ; were armed with sticks, took those it could, and at night continued its efforts to prevent the interruption of the public tranquillity, the preservation of . which is coalidrd to its zeal. It its now nine o'clock at night, all symptoms of dis order have vanished ad the city is perfectly trait. lexpartiq. Merck 2 I • geßli Faiway.-4144fer al 111 fitt] tiftto fv , i. i..h!',-'4,' LON DON, FRIDAY. Anti. 5, ism Two PlAlders Mails arrived last night with Pa. pets to the 2d instant. The following are extracts: coNSTANTINOPLI. IFIBRUARY 15. We bare us important political sews. The English Am bassador has had the audience which ►e deslred. Opiedisna are divided ors the •object, but is general people are inclioed to hope a happy issue. The Turks are said to have pro. raised (Ara Straugford to prove by deeds that lbey canoeist to the demands of the Emperor Alexander; others shirk that this coufereure has sot at all advanced matters, because the Turks have wily premiers]. As for os we centimes to entertain the beat hopes. The Austria. lateraumeio received an express teas days ago; nothing has transpired of .bat it bronchi. M. de bIiZOW asked for a conference. It seems that Russia crams to tbe Porte a certain time to accept or reject its proposals. Two regiments of artillery, with forty pkces of cannon, set out in • few days to repair to the frostier. attacked by the Persia... ANCONA. MARCH 11. It is saisl that the Engli►h are going to prohibit the inks. Wants of the lonian Islands from hiving soy intercourse with the neighbouring coasts. The fishery will not be allowed hut in sight of the ports. It is feared that the islanders may carry ammunition to tbe Greeks. Accounts from Egypt say, that the Viceroy has prepared as expedition of 2,000 men for the island of Cyprus, hut that he does nut think At to send one to Candi', because the 'fucks have only one futures. iu their possession, and the greatest discord prevails among the garrison, which coasists of Eaudiot Turks and Asiatics. CORFU, FEBRUARY 14. The proclamation published here to announce that the estritordiaary mea•sres already in force in Cephalonia, blade, Santa Mama, lames, and Cerino, are to be extended to the other islands, has produced • lively sad disagreeable sematios. The Lurd High Commissioner baviug stated in the proclamation that the only object of dose taeasares is to insure public tiasquillity m a moment when the oar kindled in Greece Lai caused the 'prated fermentation _ . tab, • is pairs'i Isis* that tie iissniiag ttf time is halitosis, awl the julalicalioo of %Arad law, seem to MO iodisprovoble to preserve order, awl to put as cad to Ike wears of loslivisloal atrocity, which hare Moe too freqoeat. Hie preellcocy tbenfore, by the advice of Ike Presides, sod of the Senate, declares the isle of Corfu reed lts deettiedeileJes **dm martial low, bet Awl Sise *WA hi will mot cease to be la forte, sod tie Cringes' Gawk will Maio its functions. AA the istbabitaats are to deliver spy's* arms, which will be regittelwa mid tiibettd, to be resewerd lot die petrel to ad.flMl l ctildes tagsktlytt Ott of tlie, pa 2 1 " 1611 ° P. 440 . 41.4 griftfedire 604.0tal -0 4 41.- "1 SIT bet eeP Matiktgle Mabee tot eft* bs Sea comprised la Ibis raeleleadem trill be rehears/ by the march of a body of troop, bste Am Tillage or dish let where this act shall hp. taken plaememd ahem She difiletk iiMirretly transgress against three esensoose shell be Isle to sill the signer of martial law. lIRUSSILLS, APRIL 1. To the am project d law relative to the _ode of the do. males is added a table of the soma aimed, elpitoded, or le be ,expended for the fottideatioa mid wising of die Member, part of the kingdom, for which a see of eight teal' limn is assigned. The expeasgs of the artillergAe. &e amopot to 13,(A10,000 florins, maim together a swam 118015,306 dories. The perorate wade to this purpose by the Netherlands, Eng land, sad Frame', have prodneed the ram of 74,440,158 florins. A letter from Bayonne, of this 111111u.kfilreh, contain. the fullowiwg particulars Term bM its bight at Pam petits. : the horrible sod bigtittnietwe which passed there on the 19th, has tilled it WO onswiteroatian. The troops funny for eight hours is the 'lnsets with this national gaud, and there were charges with the Isayosiet. Several Akins were killed or *flooded, as well as cititeas; the nasiber is not knowo, hat it stews to hare been cosaiders. ble. Ou the 2tith fresh revocation Woe `ins, and the city Ins again on the point of heeousiag a stelae of corsage. Bader these unhappy circumstances many of the wealthy inhabitants have retired to Todela, in Ns . Tnrellers no longer rattan to pass through Pasapektaa." Wa have received poim Papers to the ed i ns t an t. They contain serious rumours respecting the stile o f f the neggci■tion between Turkey and Russa. There rumours are rather or a warlike character. Extracts from Spanish Papers to the 21d instant are given in our preceding columns. They notice some excesses in the north of Span, but the ni fenclers are rather smugglers then rebels. A ten dencr to &sortie: Juts *leo manifested itself in the capital, but it is not of a serious nature. Ws do sot think with Lord LONDON DIMLY iitetiSsion in the House of Commons on illtashmeaday everting upon the Report of the Agri -elgthriteounittee was premature, but it is im possible to deny that much more was said on that °erosion thin was wire or politic. We are amazed at finding such men as Mr. ELLICE sad Mr. WESTERN echoing the vulgar clamour against the Cash Payments Bill, and seriously descanting upon the expediency—nay the very necessity of repealing that protectire anal providential measure. Admitting for a moment—but only for the sake of argument, that no share of the existing distresses would now oppress the country if that measure had not been enacted, can it be concealed that this very result, pernicious as it may be, is but the necessity consequence of the change that has been effected, and that, according to the same line of reasoning, similar effects must flow from such e change at schatecer period it was to be eccom plialred I Where then would be the wisdom of . rettneing our steps, and of once snore submitting the whole property of the empire to the capricious varieties of an inconvertible paper currency, whets oar reason and experience tell us that we bill'', only put off the tvil to some other period, and must again encounter all the sufferings which are necessarily to flow from the act of restoring our demreciated currency ? There can be no doubt that a change in thc rela tive value of the currency of a country must pro duce a proportionate change in the value of every species of property. and must proportionally affect all coveirsots that had been previously made, with direct reference to the value of the existing cir- Culatiug medium. An extraordinary alteration has taken piece in the value of our currency since the year 1814, but that this change in all its extent is to be attributed to Mr. Pates Bill exclusively, we wholly deny; and to no less confidensly assert. that if the Rill were to be repealed to-muerow, the currency of the cents's, Mt ird not be so deeply de itreciated as it was duress, the: last five years of the war. The entrenry of this country during the greater part of Ow war, atheist since the year 1800, whets geld rose above the Mint price, and the cur rency felt u sudden depreciation so the amount of 8 per cent., consisted of Bank of England notes and country bank paper. We omit to notice the effect which might have been produced by the amount of the trofunded Government securities. The eptantity of country bank notes in circulation at any given 'Atticad cannot he ascertained with ally degree of confidence, but that it fir exceeded the amount of the notes of the Bank of Etiglisild three callow be soy doubt. It is hence evident, diet they who estimate the state of the currency by cal culating only the Bank of England notes in circu lation, must be liable to the most serious errors. The safest criterion for ascertaining the state of the i currency is to see the prices of gold at various times, foe gold, ria an article of commerce, is more seas,- hen in. ito nature, and more susceptible of the slightest variation its the state of a circulating medium not consisting exclusively of 'gold. than any other article whatever, From the year 1801 to the year 1810, /old slid not for any considerable time ctn. coed the average of 41. an ounce; bat in 1810 it mounted Suddenly to Al. 104. Bank notes lbw fore were, in the year 1810, at • discount of 13/. 9.. 6.1. per cent. ; and in proof that this de ' liteetietion .sese (wird _safety by an increased rose of paper, we find that the Batik uY England had en -1111;,T4571,2i41811.68, 7th li e h d ig ur li i : g st a i nt he oul } e .em r t l !ir i c o tile h t o lo in n .during the year 1809, to 84...i40,1t'51., the saw!" i in circulation as the.2sth August, 1810. The re turns of the stamp duties sbew an eyesl increase is 1 the issuer of the country banker,. The yesr 1810 was thus au excellent year for farmers, aid for all patrons who had contracted to pay, but to land lords and creditors it was a year of spoliation ; their rents and credits were at once reduced within the space of • few mouths noires than 11 per cent. In this year the Report of the Bullion Committee re commended • relearn to cash payments, and 'check ed the lavish issues of paper money. The currency was +hereby again altered, mill Bonk notes. which in 1810 were at a discount of 13 per crut. fell to a discount of way 71. 16.. 10d. Gold was then at 41.45. tie,. as since. The Bank of England bad reduced its s.ea m 1811 to 83.894,8331. and the', stamp duties for country bank notes, which in the October quarter of 1810 amounted to about 22,0001. fell in the January quarter of 1811 to aboot 18,500/., and in the April quarter to about 18,0001. If the comparison were confined to the seamier for notes under two greiness, the diminu tion would appear much more remarkable. The vote of the Room of Common* in May, 1811, which in the face of common seuse arid truth declared a pound note and • shilling equal to n golden gullies, restored confidence to the hankers throughout the kingdom, and for the three following years we find the leases of the Bank of England increasing; we also find the emonat of the stamp duties pay. able for country bank notes advancing with asto nishing rapidity, until at length, in the January quarter of 1814, foe those that were re-irmuble alone, it reached the erem of 40,000/. The number of private banks in Great Britain to which licenses were granted for the issue of promissory notes pay. able on dem snd, from the 10th of October, 1813, to the 10th of October, 1814, amounted to no less than 1,026! In England and Wale. the number was 940. The edifect upon the currency was such as might be expected. The depreciation amounted to 251. 2s. 6.1. per cent. and phi pond in the roar ket at 51. 4.. Here was a reduction of rents fully one-fourth on all farina which were taken in or previous to the year 1800. But as leaves ex pired, rents were of course raised, all deeds were made with reference to the existing state of the currency, marriage settlement., jointures, the for tunes of. younger children, dower, every thing was accommodated to this depreciated 'medium, and had a measure been then enacted suddenly for the restoration of a gold currency, at the rate at 31. 17s. bold, so ounce, it would have been se un just as impolitic. The same consequences, how ever, flowed from other sources. The sudden ces sation of the war l i me en alarm to the country bankers, who immediately began to contract their issues ; a diminutien in the circulating medium produced its necessary consequences, and the failure of some country bankers still further increasing the alarm, aggravated the distress. It is estimated that more than 200 bankers stopped payment during the years 1815 and 1816 ; and such was the dimi nution in the amount of the notes in circulation, dirt gold in April 1816 fell to 4/. an ounce, end consequently the currency suffered at that time a depreciation of only V. 13..44. iwr cent. In the October of the mime year the depreciation was still less, for gold was quoted at 31. 18s. 64. and so it remained until the following April. The average issues of the Batik of England were at that period about 27,000,0001. ; but the stamp duties on the country bank paper did not exceed its the October quarter of 1816, 5501. and the number of licenses granted for the issue of pro. mirsory notes to private bankers in England mid %Vales, from October of 1815 to October 1831 i, amounted to 831, and in the next year to only 75g. The reduction in the stump duties is most extraordinary, but our atatemeut rests Lippe the authority of the official papers 'which have been laid before Parliament. The issues of country bank paper mast have been reduced to about 1.80111 part of what they were in she latter months of 1813 and the beginuing of 1814. This circumstance, which rests upon the chorea evi dence, is its itself sufficient to account fur the ex tensive change that has been effected in Ille salue of the currency and the prices of gold, aid for the denies' which, in the years IS 16 and 1817, pervaded every part of the country, and which, from the permanent nature of the covenants that affect hustled property, continues still to overwhelm the ugriculimal inteiests. We presume that in this plain statement of facts we have given to the public some food fur thought., The depreciation in the curiesey during the our mounted to more ehau 25 per cent.; the subsequent restoration of the currency has caused nu e quelly ex tensive,though a more rapid and a more sensible re. volution it. the value of the property, end in all the pecuniary relations of the country. This revert ution, to the emetic of 23 per cent., we have shears was ef. fected before Mr. PREVII Bill was enacted, and the only effect of that calumniated measure was to pro. - _...iai. eta the country . ' from itiOthett denreciation Olf the currency. and from the repeated shocks and son. villsiona which frequent and capricious changes in the currency of • country must produce. In . 1800 the currency oak in its mature! rtatei. in 1801 it antlered a sudden 'depreciation if per cent. Was this no evil to the coelitr% ? In 1802 it was imprinted per cent. Here wits another violent and extensive abet:yin!' ..t the value of the whole property of the empire. lit 1810 it again fell I I per cent., in the next year t: suddenly rose 6 per cent., in the fulluaing yea; it fell 13 per cent. and was al • disco:tint lir 204 141. 9d.; it continued to firli further year 181§, and in 1814 still more. whew the di s , count amounted to 4/. Ys. 6.1. Its 11(45 it rocs nearly 9 per cent.. and in 1816 egeiu rem 14;w4] cent. ; in 1819 it jell 2 per cent.; and is now /*lO in its proper state, as it stood in the year 1500. Let Parliament and the country consider the ne cessary effects of such extensive and rapid elteri• anon, in the value of the circulating medium of the country, and then say whether the current" rail ever again he made the subject of legialetiVe tam pering for the ,attairimeut of some temporary convenience. We forbear to speak of the der. honesty and impolicy of altering the standard of value by which all contracts have been made throughout the empire since the month of April, 1816. Hall contracts previously made during the existence of the depreciated currency be found to, he inconvenient and intolerable, let them he re. acinded openly, and with the consciousness of the parties concerned ; but let us have no indirect measures. let net the currency of the country he again debased, nor the whole concerns of the em pire be subjected to eternal derangements, that debtors or parties who have contracted to pry may receive a partial remission of their engagements. But will any person venture to affirm, that if the issue. of gold by the Bank of England w ere again restricted, the paper currency of the country would again increase to such an extent as it did during the war ? Some years passed after the first enactment of the Bank restriction before the cur rency suffered a depreciation exceeding 2 per cent. The sudden debasement is 1801. which continued during ittoe, was followed by six years in which the lowest depreciation was 21. 13s. 2d. and for more than two years precious to the passing of Mr. Peres Bill the depreciation was not more considerable. If tier Bill, therefore, to use the common though incor rect mode of expression, were repealed to-morrow. or, to speak more correctly, ifs Bank restriction law were again enacted, what probability is there that the issues of the Bank of England or of the coun try banks would exceed what they are at this mo ment ? For our own parts we entertain a strong belief that no increase would take place, and that circumstances too powerful to be controlled by legislative enactments would save the empire bons a renewal of the calamities which have already flowed from the debaeement of the currency. The Report from the Select Committee en Recognizance, has been printed by order of the House of Cominout. It points out revers' defects in the present system of levying forfeited 'retest& zutices, particularly the dilatoriness of the process, and the great loss sustained by the revense. In the Duchy of Lsncuster, it states that the gross amount levied on forfeitures estrested is little more than 16s. in the 1001. and in every other part of England it does not exceed lOs. in the HAL The Report concludes with recommending a Bill to amend the present defective system. The East India Company's ship Herefordshire has arrived in the Channel. She left China on the 23d of November, and St. Helena on the 6th of February. All the Company's shins of the season had arrived at China except the Venseffart. We learn, from good authority, that Mr. CAN NING does not intend to vacate his seat tor this borough, by accepting the Chiltern Hundred., until immediately before his departure for India, which will um be before next September.—( Liverpool Advertiser./ The account of the public Revenue for the pre sent quarter, it,is said, will exhibit a great increase above that of tbe corresponding quarter of Lot year; report states nearly a million. Letters end petters from Vaindraito to the be g:issuing of November mention that the royal . pirates at Orico had been driven into the init.. iiir by the Patriots from Conception. Sir T. HARDY had taken active measures to put • stop to these depre dations, having dispatched the f 'merry 7,100 p of war to get till of these marauders. The cunviers at Juan Farmilid• a, swirled by the garrison. int prisosied the Governor, who was subsequently re• The following is an extract of a letter from Val. parsipo, dated November 8 :—" The Sacramento has arrived, and it appears that Lad COMBINE has gone for Callao, but others say, for Acapulco but I am informed that las object is to look after the chip Emperor Alexander. in which. I believe. be is tmtere►ted. The army at Guyaquil has suf fered eousalerahly, and General SUCRE, after having run ted the Spaniards, has been completely defeated, and it is expected the Spaniards will again br Inns te r s of tioysquil." Some further partictitnrs of the loss of the Lisa' flail schoon►r, la►ely announced in this Paper. are given to another column. The Linen Hell had '25,000 guineas ow board, being !Hirt of a sons of 100,000, rewired from the Batik of Ireland to the Batik of Etsg/and. The money and Mime other lean of the caw have been tumid. The remit tance, it is wird, was made upon the favourable stall of the eat:Range beiaeaa the two countries. iOC" -;~`- -1~ ~~