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certain and very limited market, or sending their
told to be coined at the Mint, they are enabled to
deposit it at the Bank, and weave thereon in
advance within a fraction of its value. For want of
much a mutation, we perceive bow the French Mint
is pressed in supplying the wants of the public, by
converting their bullion into coin, again to be melted
down and sent beck to the source from whence it
came—the Bank of England.
Bat that arrangement which has worked so well in '
ordinary times, giving the bank a kind of monopoly
of the gold bullion market, and the sole privilege of
coining gold, by opening a market for the purchase II
bullion at all times, cannot be maintained in all its
integrity, if the value of gold were to undergo any
considerable depreciation. The arrangement is one
beneficial to both parties—buyer and seller—but it
cannot be supposed that the bank should by law be
compelled to submit to what the act never contem-
plated—namely, to buy gold, noktu tialsns—st a price
considerably above the market value. An amend-
ment of the act would therefore be sought for if such
a consequence were apprehended; and an alteration
of the gold standard would also be forced on the
attention of government. Parties here, as in Paris,
would rush to the Mint to have their bullion con-
verted into coin, at the rate of 3L 171.100. an canoe,
while the market price might command no more than
31. 17e., leaving, therefore, a handsome profit on the
transaction.
But this, as yet; is but a vague apprehension, never
perhaps to be realised. No satisfactoi y proof has
been given that the sudden appreciation of silver arises
from a change in the value of gold. It more likely
arises from an extraordinary demand, depending on
recognised causes, and when the demand is satisfied
the price may f+ll, and tbirgs return to their level.
There has yet been no such abundant importation of
gold from California or the United States sa
to materially affect the price; and when we
see the vast treasures of silver bullion kept uselessly
in the vaults of the Bank of France—exceeding
in value the gold in the Bank of Eogland—w- 'wn
scarcely anticipate any such demand for silver ... to
exceed the amount available for coin. The tempta-
tion of the present enhanced price will, no doubt, act
as a key to open to the world so great a storehouse of
silver, and so relieve men from some of those anxious
but vague fears which assail them.
But it ought to be observed, at the same time, that
if governments apply artificial laws to restrain the cir-
culation of the precious metals, and, while they draw
silver to them by temptation of high prices, at
the same moment expel gold, it will follow that gold
must flow into particular countries, to the great
inconvenience and embarrassment of all commercial
transaction'. And it is a gross error to suppose
this can be done without affecting the price
of silver, causing great commotion in the rate
of exchange, and materially acting on the standard
of value. Such great fluctuations in price may
ensue, upon the interference of hasty legidatien,
that banks requiring bullion in deposit shall hesitate
to buy except as merchants, on speculation of making
profit; and, instead of having steady and equable
markets, we shall have the contrary. Everyone
with any knowledge of the bullion market can certify
that if the Bank of England refused to buy gold, leav-
ing the market open to the natural laws of supply and
demand, there would be an immediate depreciation of
price. It is true, merchants could have their gola
coined at the Mint, on such a conjuncture, but if ten
millions of gold were turned into the circulation
when not needed, the effect would be the tame.
It is now a recognised truth, in spite of
the late Sir ROIART PEEI:B Netting, that the cur-
rency of the country, though it can be restricted by
human means, cannot be increased beyond the re-
quirements of the people. And gold is not an article
in which any one would incest money for the sake of
profit.
Existing regulations considered, it is manifest that
eventually England will be the mighty ocean into
'which all the golden tributaries moat flow ; for where-
ever a man may be, he can with safety speculate on find-
ing here a certain market and a fixed price for his bul-
lion. The abolition of gold currencies on the continent
renders this contingency more certain ; for after all, the
smitiot
demand+ for manufac:uring pur - --n never
keep pace with the supply, one ad that
gold most be a drug. On the er hand,
silver bullion will constantly flow to the
continent, as it always has done, and whether the
price fall, or permanently rise, as may bel the case,
aneh an seeident will rant matiwi.llyallka Ilk with a
gold standard and a token silver coinage *bleb can-
not be destroyed till the price of silver exceeds ss. 6d.
an ounce. the rate of coinage. Any significant fall
in the value of gold is evidently an event yet a great
way off, though looked for by some weer-cautious
speculators on the future ; and when that occurrence
arrives, it will be time enough to determine upon
what is wise and necessary to avert such a cense-
iuence.

CARDINAL WISEMAN is to have no sinecure of it.
Gentle and asgentle challenges to controversy come
upon him fres all sides. The latest comer is a lady,
and, as becomes a man born in Spain of Irish parent-
age, his eminence will doubtless have the gallantry to
giro tier precedence.
The quarrel between Lady MORGAN and Cardinal
WISEMAN is not exae'ly new, but it has never been
fairly fought out. The expression of the lady that
gave rifeness was uttered in her " Italy," a publication
not of the most recent date. It was called in ques-
tion by Cardinal Wtstwart at least as long ago as
1830. This literary dtsrUo has hung fire most unac-
countably. Still, as her ladyship declares that she is
now anxious for the fray, his eminency can scarcely
refuse to give her satisfaction.
The point at issue is one of some importance for
his eminence's church. The head of the 'bluish church
claims not only to sit in St. PETER'S chair, in a figurative
sense; he professes to be in possession of the identical
chair which the apostle honoured by sitting in it. This
relic is preserved and shewn in the Vatican Wilk..
Lady MORGAN has impugned its authenticity.
This her ladyship hea done on the strength of an
anecdote related to her by Dieteore. When the French
armies, under NAPOLEON THE GREAT took possession
of Rome, somewhat after the same fashion as the
French armies lately took possession of it under NA-
POLEON THE LITTLE, DEMON, CHAMPOLLION, and
others, set to scrutinise the relics of antiquity therein
preserved, with a prying curiosity of which the de-
vout Italians were incapable. Among other articles
the chair of St. PETER was uncased, wheeled into
the light, scrubbed, and dusted. The result was
about as deplorable aa the scouring of SCRIBLERUSII
shield by his housemaid. On the apostle's chair was
discovered an inscription in Cufic characters declaring
that " There is but one God, and MAmoMET is his
prophet"—rather an awkward confession of faith to
be enshrined in the Vatican.
Cardinal Wisariete, then a nameless priest, under-
took to vindicate the authenticity of the relic ; the
attempt is understood to have been his first literary
effort. In no measured language he rebukes the fair
licoffer ; argues that the chair is just such a one as a
Roman senator might have been expected to present
to a saint; and maintains that there are distinct proofs
of its existence in its present place from the tame it
came into the saint's possession, to the present day.
Our contemporary, the Morning Chronicle, who
has installed himself umpire and judge of this gentle
passage of arms between a priest and a lady, is evi-
dently disposed to adjudge the victory to the former.
He objects to Lady MORGAN that there is " no con-
temporary evidence" that the chair was examined by
the French weans.
'lois is true, and yet it appears to us that the diffi-
culty may be got over by a propose that would spare
much waste of words and ink. The chair itself, we
presume, is still in existence: let it be tried by a jar,
composed of_ equal numbers of catholics and prows-
tants. Let Lady MORGAN and Cardinal WISULUI
each name an equal number of acute and learned
antiquarians to premed to Rome and examine the
chair.
It is not for the purpose of gratifying an idle
curiosity that we propose this alternative. If the
chair really be so heterodox as to m-ke the declara-
tion attributed to it by Lady MORGAN, it is high
time that it should cease to desecrate the place it
occupies. Who knows but the misfortunes to which
the Popes have been subjected under the NAPOLEONS,
uncle and nephew, may be a punishment for their
allowing this infidel piece of furniture to maintain
such an honourable position?

GERMANY,

On Sunday her Majesty's packet Crane, Lieut.
Parsons arrived at Falmouth from Rio Janeiro in 47
days. She brings on freight a moderate sum, the
exact amount not ascartainabh but supposed to be
about 10,0001.
On Oct. 29 the Spider sailed for the River Plate;
the Cormorant steamer arrived on the 30th, and left
on &cruise on Nov. 1 ; the Rifleman steamer came
in on the 3rd, and left on Nov. 9 ; the Conflict
ste tmer arrived on Nov. 4, and quitted on the 10th.
Remaining at Rio Nov. 12 : the Southampton and
the Crescent ; the United States ships of war Rari-
tan, Congress, and Saratoga.
General Guido, the Buenos Ayrean minister, who,
by the last packet, was reported to have demanded
his passport, had received his dismissal.
A movement of troops had taken place. General
Oribe had made for the frontiers of Maria Theresa
with a force of 1,500 men, and the imperial troops
bad likewise been moving towards the borders.
Nevertheless, the general opinion at Rio was that the
matter would end in smoke.
[For Commode Intelligence, see page 4.]

UNITED STATES,

DItUDEN, Dam 27.
A postscript to my letter yesterday contained the
information that Prince Schwarseeberg would
accompany Manteuffel to Berlin to-morrow. I
sea add now that Count Boot, who has
wind from St. Petersburg, and Count Al-
veulsben will likewise proceed to Berlin. This
Chet appears to he but slightly known in the
town, or among the members of the con-
ferences; but, to the minds of those to whom
it hu spread, it has created the most
mixed sensations. To the Bavarian, Wurtemberg,
and Saxon representatives the information will have
appeared like a thunderclap. The disagreement of
the two ministers was the means by which they
intended to work, and they flattered them-
selves with the idea that an agreement be-
tween those two was an impossibility, and that
they had but to wait for the moment when the
contrary would appear publicly to be the ease, to
step forward with their plans and propositions for the
humiliation of Prussia. The journey of the two mi-
nisters to Berlin is to them, therefore, the most
unfavourable augury. They see in it a proof of the
possibility of union, for the result of the confer-
ences between the two ministers has been
kept so profoundly secret that Herr von der
Plortden is perhaps at this moment still in I
utter ignorance of what has taken place in the
palace of since John. Those who know the secret
see in the journey of Schwarzenberg to
Berlin the strongest possible demonstration
against the pretensions of the minor kingdoms—
a desire to give a dramatic colouring to the dogleg
act of the ,quarrel between Austria and Prussia. I
may state that the offer came from Schwaraenberg
himself, and was motived by the wish to do honour
to the Prussian minister. The Prince is
said to feel how deeply the interests of
the empire of Austria have been promoted by the
preservation of peace, and that this peace is emi-
nently due to the exertions and influence of his Prus-
sian colleague. He is moreover impressed with a
very high opinion of the abilities of Manteuffel, whose
talent in keeping silence even when bitterly attacked
is said to be great indeed, equality which the Prince
respects, but which he himself fails to exercise. The
ministers and their companions will be doubtlessly
feted and honoured in Berlin, where an understand-
ing between the two great powers, so perfect as the
present is said to be, was held to be a Herculean
task, and the work of weeks, if not of months.
They leave to-morrow morning early, but
will return for the next sitting of the conferences,
1 which will not take place until the 31st instant
or Ist proximo. It is anticipated that at
this sitting the first step towards the real
"(micros of the conferences will be taken by
some kind of proposal from one or other of
the two great powers. The nature of the altera-
tions and proposals upon which they have
agreed is still kept secret, but the friends of
Nlanteuffel assert that they will be found to be more
advantageous for Prussia than was to be expected,
and hints have been let fall that the dualistic plans of
the Prussian minister have in some shape or other
secured the approbation of the Austrians. It has
been impossible to learn any details of the plans, and
we must await patiently, therefore, until they are
laid before the conferences.

NEW vox
Great anxiety is felt in this °Gantry that
moth line of battle ship the Pen 14ally .1
sent to England, to he exhibited oa your
the Work's Fair. It will require erne
r
her up, and Congress, as Mal, must deba,
From present appearances I trick hhe
sent ; but it is a mooted pint whetter th
will go to London or stop at Suuff aro;
active and intelligent consul there hes" $
exercising his influeorse in flavour of
Se
and really the advantages of that port an
and seem marvellously to be overlooked
thinks it might easiiy compete with.
Liverpool, having vast advantages over t
far as continental intercourse is to he ,
actual facility of approach. This gentlemi
vowing, through his American cur r, spot
the magnificent new steamer, the 11e4li
to make a few trial trips to SouthaMi
should not at all be surprised if he sure;
he be successful you will ate the
fastest steamer that ever yet crowed the
Much to my surprise, I have noticet
days put an announcement in our ti.y
the transit of the Nicaragua route ia at
commenced. A new steamer called th,
advertised to depart in a tew days f r ta•.
the price of passage from New Yrok
fixed at a low figure. I must say tt.i.
bold adventure. Tee very man who
the agent of this route but a few wie..s
lished a letter, the result of hi, u
observations, to the effect that the
at present impracticable. Whether
attempt is intended for effect 16
not say, but this I will pred'e.,
will not be the subject of many anth;:i
The two steamers, the Cyrus and the hire
to be some wht re on the San Juan, betel e.
respectively which thi y eminent sect r el.
are expected to foot it round thee plac
to trust themselves in bungee, or nat:vz
a passage through the lakes. If V.( le
of enterprise among these Central Amer;
of Nicaragua would lung ago have ILA
plement of steamers.
The engineer corps for the final sun
huantepec route has sailed from New ni!
you perceive the nnafeilised rand barba
the men whom the Times delights to
undertaken to complete three lints of ti
the Atlantic and Pacific, quite tinai:.s d
and with a risk of some trouble from 1.0
while the high and mighty monarch.,
capitalists of Europe, those mint n:
regard the prowess of the human 1
very dangerous, have for many year;
but talk as to 1112 propriety of the n a
contemplation of their own in
concluded, that %hat they did not v ist
not be done.
I regret to say that the cholera is p
Mi:sissippi river, nearly every steamer
ber of paseergers. the mortality is
the emigrants, who, moving in crow,:
little regard to cleanliness, pay tie p
incaution.
A number of the states have ain't
policy of the Homestead Exemption
has passed au act which exempts from
only the dwelling and the land, but
the land. This is a step beyond any '1
principle is working well. It is re:!
class of :persons from idle and wortf.l.l
for fear of continued persecution Iron
abandoned themselves to despair.
We have
ofd
heard of the accept an
the terms of the compromise, and ni
Carolina has resolved on nisi! g
military purposes, a menace quite big,
forts in the harbour of Charleston Sr. ,
manned by government troops, and l oar's
from the neighbouring states could be r.i.
days to occupy the principal teat:sof
possible her factiooiets may raise the tt.
volt, but this is all they can do. Apr .lass
from the President would probably be
,:he tr
however to overthrow them.
Jenny Lind has reached Washingt,n,
her first concert, which was crowded t,,ix
attended by the President and all '!..n.
She visited the Senate Chamber for
but withdrew in consequence of the t •,.,
arose on her appearance. Jenny was ,1
ceseful at Baltimore, the enthusiasm ef ,
no wise abating. Large preparivioss
made for her at Havanna, where a ,t•ry
residence has been taken for her. Our lost set
from thence are however that the Rearm are
very great doubt whether they shall admire her
not. They have the conceit that they are the grit
amateurs in the world, and that there to at
music in the world than that of the Pa%an who
They are, therefore, in great doet th-rmry sal
to like Jenny Lind or no. If the esi.lat
confine herself to Italian music for a nii;L: or tin
think she will carry all before her.
Parodi, after a few months, will return to E
o
not fully succeeded here. All the recent •
of foreign actresses and singers appear to ee
cessful. Netball° Fitz•Jamee seset.y attn
Parodi is a quasi-failure. Sir Wm. lion, :!-.t et
trio comedian," has only distinguished hou,lt bra
lie,
to resume her engagement with Lren.ty.
ing the temperance pledge; in short, se Lave .
of id, nes folui, but few veritable stare. 11 ela MIN
to see and hear Griei, and the northern
Tteffz. Either of these may be sure of a terse IX"
if they will visit the United States.

MALTA, Dec. 22.

The fleet of Sir William Parker, now daily ex-
pected, has not been yet telegraphed. The Terrible
and Scourge steam-frigates are still in port, and do
not appnr to be making any preparations for a start.
The Medusa, with the London mails of 7th, entered
Malta harbour at 1 o'clock p.m. on the 13th,
having made one of her good runs from Mar-
seilles. She loft on the same day for Alex-
andria, and may be momentarily expected on
her return. To Alexandria she conveyed the In-
dian mails and 31 passengers, two infants, and seven
servants. Of the gentlemen, six were obliged to be
contented to sleep upon or under the table for want
of accommodation, whilst the ladies' cabin, with 16
ancurtained berths, was rendered more agreeable to
its occupants by the introduction of the female ser-
vants to the number already there, and to whom the
sofas were assigned as dormitories.
Whilst reformation in the comfort, &c. of the naval
packet service is under the consideration of the Lords
of the Admiralty, another observation may not be
misplaced—it refers to the public being prevented
from availing themselves of 11. M. packets for the
conveyance of merchandise, parcels being limited to
N lbs, weight, a fact that is very detrimental to this
island, and one by which the benefit of the overland
route from India is entirely lost to those who would
wish to avail of it for the conveyance of goods from
India or China to the French markets since packages
so sent, under existing regulations, must wait at
Malta one month at least for conveyance to Mar-
seilles.

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The Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats
arrive in Mal•a about the 13th of each month, gene-
rally after the departure of the Hostand Company's
French steamer for Marseilles; the Hostand boats
run only once • month. Now, if H. M. packets
should be allowed to carry merchandise, the goods
brought down from India and China could be trans-
mitted at the UM, time na the mails which leave
Malta about six hotirs after the arrival of the Com-
pany's vessel.
The difficulty does not exist to such an xtent on
the return passage from Marseilles to Malta, as the
French government packets take goods on fie:ght (a
very heavy one, however). The want of concejatice
is much felt between Malta and Alexandria, and
Malta and the lonian Islands, and it will probably
continue so long as the commercial enterprise of the
British is thwarted by the mails being conveyed by
government packets instead of by mercantile steamers,
to which freight would be an assisting revenue.
Three officers of her Majesty's 44th Regiment and
a youngster of the Powertul are now lying in prison
on a charge of having premeditatedly assaulted Win.
Limb Arrowemith, Esq., on the night of Thursday
last. From some events that have taken place—not,
however, in which the present party is at all mixed
np—there may appear some reason to havo induced a
belief that the assault was premeditated; but the fact
is far otherwise, as I have the firmest conviction.

Yesterday's sitting was not of great importance.
The section for editing the protocol was appointed,
and Count Alvensleben, as you know, was named
as its chairman. It was further decided that the
secretary for the protocol should bs chosen from
without the conferences, and their choice fell upon the
most experienced hand in these matters, viz., the
Austrian Councillor of Legation, Thierry, who filled
the same office in the Diet for several years.
Several other plenipotentiaries have arrived. From
Mecklenburg-Schwerin Count Balow ; from Nassau,
Minister Dungern ; and from Hesee-Homburg, Minis-
ter Holzhatisen.
It is anticipated that the journey of Schwarzen-
berg to Berlin will have an enormous effect on the
funds. _ _______ _

Time appreciation of the value of silver bullion,
and the relative depreciation of gold in the market,
are incidents of peculiar interest m the present day.
For many years past the two metals have barns an
almost undeviating proportion to each other, and have
served as the standard of value every where. Commer-
cial transactions have been consequently carried on to
a large extent in the full confidence of the unvary-
ing values of these metallic mediums; disturbing
causes are, however, at work. Aod while we remain,
ass nation, insensible or indifferent to these disturbing
cancel, promoted no doubt by the facilities of selling
any amount of gold under the regulation of the Bank
of Ragland, other countries seem to anticipate a consi-
derable fall in the price of gold, and are already con-
templating changes in their respective currencies.
llolleod has for some time withdrawn her gold coins
from circulation; Belgium is shoot to follow the
example; and France, too, excited by the same fears,
r otscussul the question whether the double standard
of gold and silver shall be maintained. or that of gold
abolished altogether. If the currency committee
decide on the latter, we may be allowed to question
the propriety or necessity of such a measure ; because
although both gold and silver coin be coined
as nigh as may be to the market price
of bullion, no country, strictly speaking, has
the power to maintain two metallic standard',
and agreeably to this, gold coin in France has always
semmanded a premium over silver; and the effect,
therefore, of allowing the currency to remain intact
would be simply a gradual and uniform fall in the
value of the gold, provided, of course, that the anti-
cipations are fulfilled of a permanent depreciation in
the value of gold bullion. Now, what will be the
effect of a sudden transition from a mixed currency
to one purely of silver? No doubt • sudden and
rapid rise in the price of silver, which must inevita-
bly disturb the currency far more than a gradual
depreciation of the value of gold ; and we may look
forward to those results, which effected us in England
prior to the introduction of our purely gold standard,
and which puzzled the sages and economists of those
days—the conversion of the silver currency
into bullion for the sake of the large profit it would
Field. To prevent a recurrence of this disaster, the
rench republic would be compelled to diminish the
cogent' of their silver coins, so as to meet the en-
hanced price of silver in bullion, and no one can fore-
' see where that would end. As a proof of what we
meet, it may be observed that, partly owing to au
animal demand for silver all over the continent and
in India, the price has in a few months risen from
44. II Id. to 6s. 1.;:d. per ounce ; and it needs no
prophet to foresee how much greater the price would
be enhanced if, in France, gold were withdrawn as a
medium of exchange, contemporaneous with a consi-
derable increase of the amount of gold from California
—an increase, perhaps, exaggerated in the anticipa-
tion but still sufficient to tell on the marketable value
of that metal.

DRESDEN, DEC. 28.
Schwarzenberg, Mantenffel, Buol, and Aloensleben
left for Berlin by the early train this morning.

The parties are Lieut. Barchard, Lieut. and Adj.
Colpoys, and Lieut. Micklethwaite. Mr. Vaughan is
the middy. It seems that Mr. Arrowsmith returning
from the opera with his lady in his celesee, had the
window of his carriage broken. The carriage pro-
ceeded on till Mr. A. reached a police-station, and
getting oat he made his complaint, took a policeman
with him and stopped the gentlemen. The language
on the occasion seems on both sides to have been
strong, and Mr. A. received from Lient. Barchard a
blow, slight indeed, but intended to mark ►is sense of
Mr. A.'s language. Mr. A., however, appealed to
the police, and Mr. Harper, the magistrate, has re-
manded thma tiU to-morrow, but as the fact of
premeditation has been sworn to, he holds oat the fear
that his daty will compel him to cmimit them for
trial. It becomes necessary to explain upon what
surmise the charge of premeditation is grounded. It
is this.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

ment

In the National Assembly the Ministerial motion
for the dismissal of M. Yon was negatived after a
protracted debate, with a very small majority.

PARIS FUNDS, Dec. 30.

68f. 90c.
94f. 95c.
2 237f. 30c.

Three per Cents.
Fire per Cents.
Bank Shares..

Our usual Paris correspondence of last evening's
date had not arrived when we went to press.

About the 12th or 13th inst., Mr. Arrowsmith
made a complaint to the governor that some sixteen
lamps at Florian had been broken by some officers of
the 44th, and the conclusion is jumped at that the
officers now incarcerated took this mode of revenge.
Now, the high character they bear for gentlemanly
conduct, and the emcee from all former rows, to
which may be honestly added the fact that they were
not the lamp breakers, renders it improbable they
would have avenged the simple act of Mr. Arrowsmith
having reported them; but it is moreover due to them
to affirm, that had they known a lady was in
the carriage, the act of breaking the windows,
however stupid and unjustifiable, would never have
been committed. Iby no means wish to palliate the
folly, but 1 do wish to palliate the unfounded charge
of premeditation. The prisoners are remanded till
to-morrow. The proceedings are looked forward to
with intense anxiety, for the prisoners are much be-
loved, and cannot by our laws be held to bail, should
the magistrate resolve on committing them. The
prof csional services of Dr. Dingle, a young advocate
of high promise in his profession, are engaged by the
gentlemen thus placed in so unenviable a position.

AmERNI::

EMIGRATION MOVEMENTS.

The following notice appears in 111 AM
paper:
" BOSTON, DEC. 16.—The ship South Cardin,
Liverpool, arrived here, had the ship heel' .0.11
passengers. Dr. Moriarty ordered 61 of them to be ass
Deer Island Hospital. They were is a week. id ono
sick, and filthy. The ship had 323 pusell": 1.,1r
five of the number died on the pas•see Fihp( tar
are reported to have been sent to this country tS
landlords. Those sent to the hospital are doieg
them are sick of the ship fever."
Will the emigration agent at Liverpool give sr swat.
the circumstances in which the South Corohat met
The state in which it reached Boston requites some
planatien on his part, it he would escape tile stcpmts
havieg neglected his daty.
Should that gentleman chance to he reluctant to
himself upon public notice, will the Colonial Lud sad E
station Commissioners call upon him tor as ez,Satti
Since they have not been able to prevent the mocha'.
lout they can do is to ascertain whether it has twin
and unavoidable, or the result of culp,ble neglect. a
security for the future.
plolyf
some independent member will draw attention to tte.ml,
anrgeiiiitkemr,:tme eimnsitgreratmioonveaginentthaatuiLatitterrrpiot.,;;ntooeb.hS4
soon as parliament meets.

We should always bear in mind that gold and
silver being convertible mediums, bear a proportion to
each other by which the value relatively is deter-
mined, or, more truly, regulated. If the proportion,
hitherto about 15 to 1, alter, the relative value
must, of course, change. To fa a prioe on such
articles is beyond the power of any government,
or of political eoonomists. Supply and demand,
scarcity and abundance, have the same influence over
the precious metals as other things, though their uses
in some degree prevent the great fluctuations in
price to which other commodities are subject. If,
therefore, gold be withdrawn from circulation as a
medium of exchange, its very abundance, far beyond
its use in manufacture, moat depreciate its price; and
the proportion between the two metals being changed,
a rise in the price of silver will ensue ; or speaking more
accurately, while silver may remain of the same value
in relation to other things, a larger portion of gold
will be given in exchange for a pound of silver. But
there is another important consideration which should
not ..bs overlooked, and which may eventually cause a
far greater fluctuation in the value of the precious
metals than can be anticipated. The proportion of
gold to silver is a 15 and a fraction to 1 : that is to
say, it takes about 15 pounds of silver to buy 1 pound
of gold ; or that gold is above fifteen times more
valuable than silver; but, unlike other things, this
' proportion is really no criterion of the relative
quantities of the two metals in the world ; for it is
mired, by a rough calculation, that silver ex-
gold in quantity, ounce for ounce, more
than fifty times; and, if so, is it not manifest
that a fall in the marketable value of the
more precious and least abundant metal, must
enhance the price of silver beyond what mere
ordinary experience might determine on i For then
appear to be elements in the calculation not as
plimble to the fluctuation in the et other com-
modities. And, if this sup bon be founded en
truth, we cannot see how a Ter standard can be lees
variable than a gold one.
The existing proportions between them have in
some measure been supported by the policy of the Bank
of England, in buying all gold bullion tendered at the
fixed price of 775. 9d. an ounce. Merchants know
fall well the benefit and convenience of such an ar-
rangement, by which, instead of waiting for an un-

brings advises Rom the Argentine capital sil
BUENOS AYRES.—The Navigator, it Livefil
°ember ; but. though this is tome eleven days leer tb,::.:01
last advice., the only news of interest that ma St
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from the letters is, that a general opinion was 10.7 i:
Buenas Ayres that the talk about war was solely tar
change ruled at life. Qtr doubloon. 2. pia*
THE THIEVES' NEW DODGE.-011Mmid4 -
last, about live or six minutes before seven o'clock. 0 t
Barlow, who resides at Petrierofe, was prorieke 'a ~,
Victoria Railway. Station, Manchester, in order to itobf
seven o'clock train, while proceeding along Todd etrem;
the opposite side of the street, and nearly opoomt. thl,e
thedral School, he perceived some one rapidly aPlav;
him from behind, and immediately a riaht_r 2,, *a
flung round his neck, and tightly comPf'"•".,,," ~' to
thiet's obi hand grasping the right wrist, "'' -usr
scribed as ng moat powerful in producise issitoal
ously. the first symptoms of stratigulationoWfP4itt .Id
and inducing speechlessness and await utter would d•='
string been applied, than two =ow to die '..
rtneffSh. Persevered in for a little time, death wow. ',....
ler ensue. In thepresent case,no sooner had this tiara7.l
of Mr. Barlow, one of whom snatched his watch from for;
pocket, and jerked the guard chain, a saw' G"' sal
than ordinary strength, with such force as to besot it..„.
k sato"'
poisoned himself of the watch. The other too
from some ash in Mr. Harlow's pocket ; but fortuostell tis
this moment, before the robbery bad been cooPltt.:po
rifling other pockets, Mr. M'Clure, who was s'thises
Seed by the same railway train, came up, and tbV__ a
hurled Mr. Barlow down, his head goer. 1,
wall with great force, and ran off in different direcusr!'„„
Mr. M'Clure saw them throw Mr. Barlow Cove, l?'"io,
and overtook one of them, but was unable to CeWV.,. ~.
and all three escaped. Mr. Barlow has since been
!dims appeared iii.itr.,
1 from the effects of the outrage ; he bas not yes rel' se
voice ; his throat is much swollen, and his bead hen,
..A b.
• he has suffered repeatedly from attacks of spasms. as"Sj
She strangulation to which he was only for Sw Pat'
subjected.

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