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mittee, desenre tar higher praise than we can pre-
tend to offer them. We are aohaniesi sow to see
persons condemning the rinsoore or restoring the
cashipirculation, oho for years before heti made the
aivitq of the Batik Restriction Act the eternal topic
411kir invective. No men bus a right to coudtmit
Mr. Pasi.% Bill who is not prepared tq recommend

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iiintiegire-iinewai of the Bank Restriction Act, •
with the instant overflow of domestic paper moneys_
the depreciation of our currency. the hanialimiiirtiir
obfeoiti. both gold and ell ver, and the eternal fannies
tinny, manly he prompted by the caprice or iiterests
ref iodsviduals of domestic prcsperity or misery.
If there be a man in the empire capable of esti.
mating the consequences of the old system w 1 1,1.
stand forth and suggest the expediency of noir, eSe.
vertint to it to serve a temporary purpose, he will
at least pot the question in a tangible shape, and"
the subject may be argued fairly, although in the
proposal of such a measure the integrity co the
sanity of the propounder may chance to becomea
matter of no ordinary or unreasonable doubt.
The Agricultural Committee will proceed to:thil'
inquiry without loss of time, and it is suggesttellhyst
the Marquis of LONDONDERRY that soon after the
Easter holidays some practical measure may bef
fuuoded upon the Report. It is not like) yetpu the
Report of the Committee in this Session %rill be
prepared by the same hand that wrote the lost Re.
pita. 'Mr. HUSKISSON complains bitterly of the
. treatment which he has eiperiasieed from the *OW
bets of the Committee upon this matter. It seems
that the Right Hon. Gentleman had been earnestly
requested by the Nlerrihers Of the Committee to per.
form in this instance the work which usually falls to
dbbtlot threlliiirmaii, and that his sketch was din.
cilissect iti:irostomusittee porograph by paragraph,
and severel ottektibllisitittesfseed into it iiintrary
to the wishiss.of di..writer, before it was submitted
to she House of Commons turd the public as the
eillidiss image of oe,foint.isititisilaof the Members of
the Committee. Such being the state of the case,
it was really too severe in Mr. GOOCH, the Chair.
untootis say on Monday erasing that the Report was
not ditty iu itself uselagWilat a complete inyatifice.
tioo of the country—in plain language, that it was a
hoax. The use of such a word implies the existence
of a feeling on the part of the hoaxer not very cre-
tillable to his understanding or to his moral percep-
tion., and strict justice imposes upon Mt. Gimes
himself, as the Cheirman'of the Committee, no in-
conlidirable portion of Acialanse, whatever it is,
.ih.t may attach to the-set which he now ventures
to condemn. lt is, perhape, fair to believe thit,
Mr. Gooch used. the word without consideratiorre
for there is not a member of the Committee toy
whom, on a matter of such general. interest, no"
unworthy motive could fairly be ittribatetg
Lis deserving of some attention that: Mr. Hos.
IL molt stood •:most alone in the Cothtnittee,
urging the propriety of applying to the trade of
coru the same principle of protection by the ordi-
nary way of duties upota importation which governs
every other part of our commercial system. , Had
this recommendation !teen adopted bY,lfte,loom-
, 'Entre, the Report would art least linveescapedtowite
part of the charge of incongruity. 7titre lament,
that Mr. Husetssos's opinion did not prevail; the
principle would be intelligible, free from the dan-
gerous complexity of the present laws, and be
always uniformly operative; the agriculture of
the country would, under every circumetince, ex-
perience an equal protection ; end in particular the
evil would never occur of II sudden and overwhelm-
ing influx of foreign corn on the markets rising to
a certain height, which was especially noticed by:the
Marquis of LONDONDKRRY on Thursday night as
a point that ought to be immediately corrected.

The Paris Papers vu Saturday lost have arrived.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the
preceding day, after some additional articles and
amendments had been rejected, the Chamber pro-
ceeded to the discussion of the 4th article of the-
irs, of the Journals, which is stated in the following
terms :—" If, in the interval of the Sessions of the
Chambers, circumstance. of a serious nature 'Weld
render the e►tablished measures of security and re-
pzeasion insufficient for the time, the laws of) the
31st March, 1820. and 2Gth July. 1821, shall be
again put in force, by virtue of an ordinance treat
the Kt trG. countersigned by three Minirters."'lls„
sairmlitirtit was proposed by General-I'OY, *lids
produced ■ warm debate, and the Climber ad..l
jaunted without coming to the vote.

The Fi►e per Ceuta. on Friday *ere at 90 fr. ; Bank Stock,
1,500 fr. •

. The Special Commission was opened at Cork on
Saturday lost by Baron 41'CL►.LLAnD. His Lord.
ship Wilted On the preceding day, accompanied
by • large assemblage of the most reaptciable Gen-
tlemen or the city and county. Twelve persons
have been apprehended near Listowel, charged us
principals in the late disturbances in that quarter.
They are represented as men possessing incomes
from 1001. to 9001. a year.

A Dutch Mail ha. •ed with Papers to the
17th instant. li is stated under the head of the
Hager. that the cummercial relations between
Turkey and Russia are re-established. A Brussels
Paper asserts. un the contrary, that hostilities will
immediately commence.

Yesterday s Committee of the Lords of the
Council assensh;ed at the Council Office, White-
Yesterday the Doke of You, as Commander in
Chief, held a Levee ■t his office in the Horse
Guards. which was attended by Gene& BALFOUR,
General HART, cud near 30 others.

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