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LITERATURE.

The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and
Literature of the Year 1824.—Rivtagton.
The historical papers and the different official documents
which appear in this valuable volume, the publication ,of
which has been delaye4 in order that they be procured
for insertion, are sufficiently important to have justified
even a still further delay, rather than that it should have
appeared without them. All the details of our European
history are given with great exactness ; and the same libe-
rality of sentiment on religious and political subject% is
manifested in this as in all the preceding volumes. IVe
extract, as a specimen, the following remarks, which are
made with equal candour and good sense :
" It must be admitted that there was something of peen-
liar good luck in the circumstances which brought the
present Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer into power, precisely at the period when the
general prospects of the State -had begun to assume a
brighter aspect ; when, to use the common phrase, the
corner of our difficultits had been in a manner turned, and
the period of sacrifice and privation was about to be suc-
ceeded by general improvement in our resources, and gra-
dual remission of the pressure of public burdens. But we
do not think that the popularity of the ministers in question
is altogether ascribable to this circumstance: or that much
of it is not to be directly attributed to the more enlarged
and enlightened views which seem to mark the measures of
the Cabinet since the period of the changes in question.
That it should fall to the lot of the present Chancellor of
the Exchequer to take off taxes instead of laying them on,
as was the more invidious ditty of his predecessor, is no
doubt to be ascribed tarircumstancea over which neither
the one or the other of those Statesmen could exercise any
effectual control ; but there still remains much to applaud
in the greater simplicity and directness of Mr. Robinson's
financial arrangement and exposition, and in the manner in
which lie hri sought to make the remission of taxation
co-operate towatds the revival of our fortign trade. So
with respect to the more enlarged and enliT'itened system
which Mr. Huskisson has introduced into our commercial
and colonial policy. After admitting the full merit of his
predecessors at the Board of Trade, for the opening which
they had made to this important change, it must be allowed
that the present I'resident has carried a spirit into those
measures more decided and systematic of reform, which'
promise to accomplish within no very distant period the
most important revolution which our commercial history
has witnessed.

" In considering, under this point of view, the foreign
relations of the country, we perhaps should in some mea-
sure invert the application of our remark ; for here it is
the fashion to give Mr. Canning the credit of having di-
rectly reversed the general policy of his predecessOr. But
in this also, as in every other case, circumstances have done
more than individuals. Lord Londonderry, had he lived,
whatever may have been his monarchical or aristocratical
propensities, must, as the Minister of a free country, have
ceased to co-operate with his friends of the Holy Alliance,
from the moment of their declaration of a systematic cru-
sade against any attempt to introduce a more liberal system
of Government into the Continental States of Europe. This
disunion of policy on the part of England was, in fact, suf-
ficiently manifested, both in our conduct towards Naples,
and still snore in the despatch in which, shortly after the
outbreaking of the Spanish revolution, the late Foreign
Secretary deprecated any interference on the part of the
Alliance, for the interruption'or suppression of that move-
ment: So far the conduct of the Government was neces-
sarily dictated to it, both by the spirit of our own institu-
tions and the prevailing direction of public opinion in the
country. Mr. Canning's peculiar merit, we think, lies
much less in the particular course of proceeding which he
has adopted in these transactions than in the language lie
has used, and the principles which he has put forward in
justification of that course. In saying this, we are very
far from intending any depreciation of the value of his
services ; on the contrary, none can rate them more
highly. In these days of the almost paramount authority
of public opinion, the language of the English Minister
is perhaps of as much inipetlance as his measures. Our
simple pretest against the invasion of Spain, grounded as
it was upon a general disclaimer of the principles on which
that act of aggression was professed to be founded, was a
measure probably of more salutary consequence to the li-
berties of Europe than would have been the expedition of
a fleet and army to.the assistance of the Spanish Constitu-
tionalists, if attributable to no other purpose than that of
resisting the political preponderance which France was
about to acquire in the Peninsula: It is much less by the
steps which he has adopted than the tone in which he has
spoken, that Mr. Canning has, to use the phrase of the
French politicians, placed his country at the head of civi-
lization. We doubt not but that a large, powerful, and
growl- 7, party, tbrouphont Europe, look up to him as the
best assertor of their principles, and the most effectual
protector of their rights. This is an high, but critical and
ar;tious situation ; Mr. Canning, we are sure, perfectly
appreciates all its importance and glory; and has hitherto
manifested no want of that refined discretion and delicate
precision, which is necessary to guide both his movements
and his language in a position of such nice and compli-
cated difficulty.'

THE "GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS" IN THE

U2VITRD STATES.

I pronounce Robert D. Richardson, senior Editor of the Louisi.
awe Gazette, as a base liar, scoundrel, and a contemptible coward.
New Orleans, Oct. 20, 182.5. Jou)/ Ontsoze.
We, the undersigned, confirm this publication.
BUT. Gnisra.
P. GUILLIOT.
The Louisiana Gazette contains the following :
The public are requested to suspend their opinidn respecting an
infamous placard, circulated the 21st instant, denouncing the se.
nine Editor of this Paper, until we can set in type numerous docu.
ments establishing the private character of John Gibson, as infa.
mous in the highest degree—and that of B. Grime and P. Guilliot,
u liars and cowards. R. I). HICHAR nsoar.
Mr. Richardson is senior Editor of the Louisiana Gazetic—Mr.
Gibson is one of the.Editoto of the Aron.

The diploma of the degree of which had been
previously conferred upon the Right Honourable the Lord
Chief Baron, was yesterday presented to his Lordship, at
a very full meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh. The reply of his Lordship to an
approp: iate address by the Principal was most eloquent and
impre.-.zive.—Edinburgh Pare?' 6f Saturduy.

THEA7'RES.

DRURY-LANE.

Tire PA xi- 0311 M E.—Pentomime and Plumpurlding have
again come into fashion together ; and we hoid him worse
than an infidel who can quarrel with either. Let him be
written clown an ass without benefit of clergy, and pro-
nounced free natant. ; so that neither the thickness of his •
hide, nor Martin's Act, shall protect him from the
effects of innumerable buffettings. What so proper as
that " the boards" of our Theatres, minor and metropoli-
tan, winter and summer, should emulate " the festive
boards" all over the island at this season of the year ; anti
become vehicles of mirth, good things, fun, and frolic;
and that a plentiful lack of thought and :11-nature, and a
proportionate abundance of good cheer and good temper,
should everywhere prevail ? A merry Christmas and a
' happy New Year to you all, our masters, old and young,
simple as well as gentle ! Above all things, and in
order that we may provide for the entertainment of all
classes and ages—the Wile as well as the great world
—let there be pantomime after our roast beef. Ycur
pantomime is a dessert for a schoolboy, and the only
comedy for an alderman ! All things arc substantia!—
practiaal— tangible—even to the jokes! If it does not
" ascend me into the brain," it does whit is better—
descends me into the itt.r.y, and everything connected
with it is etpa'ule of manual as well as visual denin-
[ strtl'an. Nothing is taken on trust. Harlequin pays his
way with hard cash and orthodox knocks throughout.
Pantaloon demonstrates his, sometimes, it must be allowed,
by means of the "rule of false." Co/an/bine, if not a trifle,
at least a trifler, " light as air," dances gayly as the butter-
fly through all the chenges and chances of her chrysalis-
like existence ; and the Clown, in hia own person the repre-
sentative of all that is roguiph and witty, identifying with
himself every thing pertaining to the perfection of physical
and mental alacrity, "steals the [not] noiseless tenor of
his way," for he picks every men's pocket, and demolishes
ever man's shins, as far as in him hes. Well and worthily
then does Pantomime come in as second course to the Christ-
mas banquet. Your Cowl' harmonises with a fat capon—
masks and mieletoe may even go together; lean and
slippered PiAtaloon, by force of contrast, does rarely sit
dawn to a venison pasty ; minced pies ate nought the worse
for the accompaniment of music ; ham and Harlequin have
more than the initial letter in common ; and a leg of mutton
and a leg of Columbine, if the latter be .trot too slim, may
stand'on the one footing, particularly as each is the better
of capers! If Mazurier were present, with his wonderful
power over back and hip, the banquet would be complete,
for we might venture to knight him by the style and dignity
of Sir-Loin, and place him at the foot of the table. So much
for the present on the scope and tendency of this species of
amusement with our opinions, on which we intend one
day to favour the public at greater length, in a volume to
be entitled " The Philosophy of Pantomime." Last night
witnessed the representation of Yry no means the least en-
tertaining specimen of this kind of dramatic exercitation
which it has been our lot to see at old Drury. The pre-
sent performance is entitled Harlequin Jack nf All Trades,
and its author (the author of a pantomime!) has contented
himself with a modest and modern allegory for his story,
instead of seeking through the mines of ancient and remote
history, true or fabulous, for the foundation of his plot.
The plot of a pantomime, which is never interesting, and
seldom more than a thread on which to hang the tricks and
transformations of the passing show, can generally soon be
told. The present instance is not a deviation from the
rate.

The Queen of Clubs is unhappily left to pine—like any simile
that may be convenient to the reader—in widowed solitude, and re-
gret the decease of her sable lord. There are two aspirants for
the favour of her hand (Oh, call it fair, not dark !) in the
King of Hearts and Jack of all Trades. The, defunct monarch of
Clubs, or rill more extriorainzry. his brazen image, takes a
somewhat unusual interest in the disposal of the aforesaid hand,
and steps in between the competitors in a rather critical dine and
place. Jack of all Trades has a genius (the betties of harlequinades
always have--the authors only Sometimes): this genius is luckily
disposed to assist him, and transforms Jack into Harlequin, and
his mistress into Columbine. The rival King of Hearts, whose soft
empire is in the present case disputed by the refractory female Ma-
jesty of Club., is touched by the Genius's wand, and becomes
Pantaloon. The brass statue of the `• buried Majesty" of Club.
land is transmuted Imo the Clown. From this point the pantomir•.te
commences; many tricks and changes, some of them ingenious, are
played off—plenty of beautiful scenery is exhibited—the usual
quantity of kicks and cuffings ensue—and, after a lapse of a couple
of hours, and a storm at sea, the lovers are united, first re-aasunung
their previous forms, in which metamorphosis they are accompanied
by the remaining characters of the piece.

The tricks and changes of pantomime should be so
many practical jokes, and convey an idea pleasing from
nosvelty and appropriateness, or striking by means of the
force of contrast or grotesque illustration. Iflien they sink
into mere evidences of the correct calculation and clever
execution of the machinist, they cease to be perfect. The
best trick of last night was the change of the gouty man's
Bath chair into a rolling atone and pair of bellows (the
patient being lieenessed to the one, and supposed to be im-
pelled by the other), with the motto insctibed—" Air and
Exercise.' I'erhaps the worst—we are talking of the
spirit of these things—was the practical pun on the Living
Skeleton—" bones may pass." 'l'he scene is in the box
entrance of Drury-lane Theatre, and the announcement we
have just written—" bones may pass"—is exhibited at one
of the pay apertures—a man *dressed up, or undressed, to
represent the Anatomic Vicante, is brought in and caused
to jump through the passage!

)f the scenery we can only speak in terms of the highest
commendation. " The exterior of Club Pdlace," by Stan-
field, possesses great architectural beauties, together with
the advantages of a beautiful sky and moonlight. Roberts's
view of Regent-street, with Carlton House in the distance,
is true to the original, and the perspective extremely well
managed. But all these sink in comparison with the arc-
cession of panoramic paintings, entitled " nautnetabolia,"
Stanfield. The first of the series, which displays the
launch of a ship at war at Dover, with the surrounding
scenery of the cliffs, castle, &c. is extremely beautiful and
faithful to nature ; and the last, representing the
towing of the shipwrecked vessel into a foreign port, is
about one cf the most splendid things that have) evir
'hopped even from Stanfield's pencil. The dismantled and
disinasted wreck—which albeit it went out like a lends,
returns quite hardship—is excellently painted ; and all the
machinery of sun, clouds, waves, rocks, and breakers, are
as well dune as canvass would admit of. In our enumera-
tion of the scenic displays which add beauty to this
Pantomime, it would be injustice to omit the last scene,
" the Hall of Honours: which is as brilliant as gilding
and the gorgeous pencil of klarinari could make it. Ro-
berts's poulterer's shop in the Strand must be immediately
recognized by any one accustomed to pass Exeter 'Change.
It only remains to notice the music sod performers : the ori-
ginal part of the former is by Mr. T. Cooke, awl can occa-
sionallyboast some pleasing passages,like all the works of tit's
camposcr. Mr. Blanchard was an excellent Pantaloon, and
Mr. Southby would no doubt have vroved equally good as
Clown, had he not received an injury in one of his legs,
while leaping, in the early part of the pantomine, which
caused him to limp throttAli thermal:ALT, apparently with
much pain to himself and the humane part of the hcuse.
Mr. Howell's Harlequin and Miss Barnett's Columbine are
both well and favourably known to the public. Their
exertions on the present occasion were such as excited the
warm approbation of the spectators, and are not likely to
detract from their previous merits. We would advise
Mr. Fitzwilliani to give up his attempt at an imitation of
Liston, in Paul Pry. He certainly did succeed in remind-
ing us of the great original, but it was rather in the way
of contrast thau resemblance.

CON'ENT-0 ARDEN.
We cenfess we love Christmas—an En Christmas,
with its hilarity, its good.cheer, its hospitable observances,
and innocent gayeties. Amongst the latter we rank the
Christmas Pantomime, and defy the most hardy libeller
of our national character to deny. that John Bull can relax
his features—aye, and grin broadly too, by St. Dunstan,
when he visits either of our great Theatres (for say what
we may in our hypercritical moods, these are the houses
where pantomimes arc produced) and observes the motley
crowd assembled in gapi ngexpectancy, with their honest open
countenances and noisy jollity, to witness the firstypresen-
tation of a bolyday Pantomime. It is a rude scene, but an ani-
mated one, and full of national character. On these nights the
Pantomime is evidently not the primary but the sole object
of attraction, and whether Melpomene or her more sportive
sister rules the hour preceding the arrival of the grand de-
sideratum, the deep sighs and melancholious wailings of

the one, and " the quips, and cranks, and wreathel
smiles" of the other, run a hazard of beirv; set down a;
" weary, stale, fat, and unprofitable," by the critics R 1„,hold the sceptre en these memorable oecasiclts. Such list
the fate of Southern's ttagetly of Isabella; or, the F „tu.t
Marriage, perform( d at this theatre last night; a consum-
mation scarcely to be wondered at, when we eolisider that
this piece is amongst the heaviest of those which Lip
'
stage, and has lost even its t..?.tritiste worth, since it Las
been deprived of the charm derived from the pathrtie
nity and subduing feeling so conspicuous in Mrs. Sidilon''a
performance of habella, and the graceful energy which
distinguished her no less talented successor, Miss O'Ntill.
We make this observation without any disparagement to
Miss Lacy, who is, we verily believe, the best represents.
tive extant of the weeping Niebe, whose
acting and gentle.
" Pleasures were
Bury'd, and cold in her dead husband's grate."
With this single observation we shall despatch the tra•
getly, merely adding, that although we are well inclined
mtoaenaltiikmeattieep highlyo r
referencearde's to
correct
his
performance of
Biro's, we cannot refrain from counselling him, as much
as possible to avoid appearing in those characters where
flexibility of manner and pathetic delineation are requisite.
Of this, ye, buns sat.

We now come to what all seemed to consider the princi-
pal source of attraction—the Pantomime. It is called tea,.
lequin and the Mogiek Rose ; or, Beauty and the Bead. We
suppose we should be chargeable with a gross dereliction of
that duty we are disposed to pav, to the spirit which /we,
sides over such performances, it we neglected to attempt
something like a description of the" programme."
Azor (Mr. Ellar) Prin6s of Persia, having rejected the hand of
Ugalena (31r..11enry) Princess 6f Persia Interior told, and
the
wised of magic power) she, in revenge, transformed him into the
likeness of the Northern Bear (not Ursa Major), which form ebe
vowed he 'Mould retain until a virgin fair should consent to unite
her fate with his. The entrance to his chamber in the &cliental
Palace is guarded by the Magic Rose Tree. The merchant
Scandsino (Mr. Barnes) is driven by the violence of a storm
b;
seek shelter beneath a fatal roof; and remembering the month. he
made to his daughter, Beauty (31iseRomer), to bring her a rose, the
only flower her garden did not possess, pluelts a branch front the
Magte.Tree. The Beast rushing front it, is in the act of de.
stroyinrg_ the merchant, who implore. for life, in nitre, re
his only dauhter, Beauty. The Beast spares hits, ca a
promise that tie brings her to his palace, and despatches the
merchant in a magic car to expedite his return ; meanwhile Realm,
in the Orange Grove. at her father's villa, is informed In a 'Mon
ui
her destiny by the Genii of the Rose (Master Longhurst), and is
conducted by him to the palace of Azor. Filial affection triumphs
over external deformity, and bile is about to resign herself to die
transformed Azor, when the malignant Ugalena appears, and again
crosses Asor's joys. The Interposition of the Genii of the Row
thwarts her digns, and (though unable to give the Prince his
real form), changes him into the motley hero Harlequin. and
Beauty to Columbine ; the other characters are also tranformed
into Clown. Pantaloon, and Lover, and all are sent upon thea
annual voyages anl travels.

This gives occasion for the usual display of graceful
agility froth tit:wit-pin and Columbine, the requisite nu.n-
bet of kicks an 4 cuffs to Pantaloon,. and a great nutnber of
practical jokes'` in the performance of which the Clow;
(Mr. J. S. Griffinldi) and Dandy Lover (Mr. Parsloe) were
the active aggitta. Mr. Pat sloe is new, we understand, to
Covent-garden boards, and fl ings about his limbs with such
a wonder-stirring carelessness of all the laws of mturcular
motion, that he bids fair at !cast to gain a niche in the
Temple of Fame tit at to that of the "animated whale-
bone," Monsieur Mazurier, if he dues not live actually to
pine: the wreath from the brow of that nine nights' wonder.
The worst fault of Harlequin and the Magic* lion is one
that perhaps in this age, when—
Fancy has sported all its powers away
In tales, in trifles, and in children's play,

- -
it is scarcely liberal to charge as a sin against a panto-
mime writer, we mean the introduction of some dozen
tricks, as familiar to us as the names of the perfotmets.
From this condemnation we must except the sports of
" Greenwich Hill, on Easter Monday," the sudden trans-
formation of the Living Skeleton into a portly aldermanic,
personage, by the simple process of filling his stomach,
the ghost of the green-grocer in Covent-garden market
at night, and the panoramic exhibition, which we
are especially disposed to applaud, as it gives ream
to hope that what is rational, and in some degree iti-
structive, nosy be infused into pantomimic performances
without diminishing their value by lessening their effect.
The scenery was generally good, and some particular seen
were magnificent. The performance concluded with th
following finale, but its appeal did not seem td be univer
sally wed received, for the performance was rcatm!unre(
amidst mingled hisses and applause. Every part of th•
house was filled to overflowing:—
FINALE TO HARLEQUIN AND TIM MACIICK RCS
fairy_Our blagick Rose,
Pray don't oppose,
Tie a type of England's glory ;
We just made free,
From the Fairy Tree,
To pluck one for our story.
Chores.—Our Magick Rose, &c:

C/ores.—lt you approve tonight,
. The Roses red and white
Shall deck our (Anistmas feast ;
In our Garden here,
May they long appear !
And for Beauty spare the Beast.
Chorwr.—ln our tiarden, &c.

ADELPIII.

Last night, after the performance of The Pik!, and th
interlude of Christmas Boxes, the Managers of this 'fheart
"as in duty bound," presented their audience with ano
pantomime, entitled the Three Golden /amps; or, Hat.
lignin and Me Wizard Dwarf. We are told that pai.,
toinimes, which were invented and brought to great per
fccticn by the subtle Greeks, were afterwards a first.ra
favourite at Rome • so much were they prized by a
petiole of that city, ;hat it was once a matter of grave dou
whether Bethyllus, the Harlequin of his day, and the cat:
'temporary of Cicero, were not capable of conveying
many sentiments, and giving expression to as great a rare,
of feeling by his pantomimic fooleries, as that distinguishc
orator could by his eloquence. Were such a question
be determined by a well-packed gallery of modern " gods•
their decision would most unquestionably be in favour
the physical eloquence of the Harlequin and his agile cos
jutors. Yea, they would prefer their speaking somersets a
expressive capers to the most impassioned sentences
the first orator on earth. Indeed 'so strongly did this feeling ne
test itself last evening, that The Pilot, which has now for:
tarty-eighth time " weathered the storm." was forc:al to throw
inconsiderable portion of its dialogue overboard, :nd to crowd :
sail in order to appease the wrath of the " powers above." is
did Mtn Colin present us with a fine specimen of a amine L.
tish seaman; bootless was the patriotism of Lientrßant Barest.:
The intrepidity of the one, and the- national feelings of the
were forgotten In the impatience for the " new comic pantemiT:
The pantomime they came to see, and the sooner they had tt
better. During the performance of the two first pieces they
sionafly enlivened the scene with a set-to, and it was tiot
of the eilektial combatants was borne away is the car-
grasp of a police officer, that any thing 1:1.0 timer was
At last came (the Pantomime, such is it was, the story tF
this : Grimpinibo/dlito, an Eygtiao sorcerer (Mr. T.
possession of " three golden lamps," in the Fare custody
depends all his magic influence. The lamps arc uct
stolqp, and Comatalinlzan (Mr. W. Kitby), the of icy,:
Sorcerer's daughter (Miss Pincoo, is ordered by the
to resign all claim to his daughter's hand, or to C.. •L
lamps. Afters long search, he discovers and imams C'ec,
Sorcerer ; but, unluckily for the poor lover, just as he is
receive the reward of his tuitions, the lamps are 3 steott,t.mt
made away with by his mo.her,
bunghibus (Signor Paulo), who had chanced to intros
able use to which the Sorcerer was wont to convin ti., • L

stead, however, of the usual frcight of treasure, the slant'
lamps, when summoned by her, twoduced huge clubs, with s
hi
ttblieeyy
blaoirde nottrosith:nlanmiepsrei.fulNlyowoncohnermiteracnad,thteo
batiudbintnesl:r of 1 I'l
tornlme : the lovers are, by a touch of the Sorcerer's a end, cht.n
into llarlcquin and Columbine, the mother Incomes iLe
and Epitomanea, the tMarcercarsfucteintn (Mr. Elliot), spens,a
as Pantaloon. The usual tricks are then gone throcgh: th!
are in the end found, and //askquiu, to his pest hasimis,
misery as it may be," obtains; the hand of his C 4 ityntihe. t ors
ing the difficulties that are to be encountered oosa first rii.ll•• s
fortnance of a pantemitne„it went off pretty well : tile ch'"V. t•
sure were neither numerous nor striking, but on the whole net.:
rably amusing m a person who did not consider them onh a
close or critical eve. The performers exerted hmvlres!
great deal of energy. The Clawn of Signor l'aulo wid
.Ir. hi:
Harlequin were perhaps the most successful effat.. The see
owing perhaps to the limited size of the stage and the muslin.
the theatre, had not the moat striking edict. The musx
sprightly, and notwithstanding there were a few dissentixus ,
dose of the curtain, we look upon this pantomime as an s
to the stock of amusements already produced this SOW al
popular little theatre.

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PROVINCIAL 11.4 NA'S.
BEDFORD BANKS.
,ith extreme pleasure that we annottnce Messrs.
od Co. haring given notice that they will be pre-
oily et all their notes now in circulation, on the
jimmery next, and it is truly gratifying to record
in this town and the run on the Old Bank,
entirely subsided. The firm of Barnard and Co.
for many years in high estimation, and it is
honourable to those gentlemen, and satisfactory to
zb:ic, to find they conduct titeir banking business on
I„leiiide, as to be enabled and fully prepared in the
;,/ 'few hours to discharge in the most prompt =n-
o., demand made upon them, not only fur their notes,
As on interest, on which, if they thought proper,
have claimed fourteen days notice.
PETERBOROUGH BANKS.
happ' to state that the affairs of Messrs. Simp-
tllttte of this city, will turn out as stated last
A meeting of the creditors was called at the Angel
ivi.joesday, the 21st inst. Earl Fitawilliam in the
It was stated that the face of the books showed a
at d copoi. due to the firm after every demand
0 ;ben was paid ; and, in consequenee, the cretlitots
of unanimously agreed to supersede or prevent a com-
o' bankrupt, and the affairs are confided to a com-
ae wen gentlemen, (Lord Milton has kindly under-
hs he owe) to arrange and manage the same.
;esho observed that the bank of Messrs. Yorke and
Mno danger whatever. It appears that before the
0 was out they returned specie and notes to a very con-
•Ve amount to their London agents.—Cambridge
;ruled Preis.

'it'd.
liar.
We
on of
Pre-
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!toted

SUNDERLAND RANK.
, rusuasee of the recommendation of the merchants,
eirwessed at the late meeting held at the Mansion-
London, a declaration of the stability of the bank-
Pe. ,
,bosse of Messrs. Bickhouse and Co. of Sunderland,
;bite signed about 300 merchants and tradesmen of that
0, who also engage to take their notes as usual. This
otion, with the signatures, has been published. and
`had a mast salutary effect. It was proposed on Satur-
if morning last to issue a similar declaration in this
v,is (+sews of the Durham bank, but it was deemed un-
4.sary, the public confidence in its stability (which was
er oath shaken) having been completely restored.—
Am Adrerfirer.

STOCK TON BANKS.
Tie revolutions of the times have had an effect upon the
. bank, the firm of Messrs. Hutchinson and Place.
• lacnk was established in 1795, mud has hitherto with-
every shock against which it has had to contend. The
is which have been derived from it by Stockton and
eat districts, at Frio& when depression hovered over
class of people, are well known, and have been always
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;lilted • and there perhaps was no bank in which
.fdence was more fully reposed. This confidence has
diaplaved even in the present unfortunate crisis. The
y::cipal difficulty which they.had to encounter existed in
,vopension of S:r Peter Pole and Company, which was
rammed by heavy losses from persons to whom they
iJ :dulcet' considerable sums, yet the faith of the
entry remained unaltered. liowever, the subsequent
due of Sikes and Co. and consequent misfortunes, have
opened them to suspend payment. The numerous friends
Obis firm have expressed the most marked re„n-ret at the
semi y to which it has been driven, by the unhappy th-
ermos which have befallen it in so brief a ;pace.
We have the greatest pleasure in stating, that the re-
ntable establishment of Messrs. William Skinner ant'
v. of the Commercial Bank in Stockton, have stood firm
:J gush—Durham Advertiser..
MACCLESFIELD BANKS.
Neagh no alarm whatever lass prevailed in this town,
Congleton, for the safety of our highly respectable
..:kh;g firms, yet in compliance with the custom of the
aT, and to convey to distant parts the entire reliance
uxd in their stability, declarations to that effect have
.en tinted and published by the inhabitants of this tha-
ne% We cannot but congratulate the public on the uani.
thy it:dcli has prevailed on this occasion, and the ad-
trAars which have resulted from well-placed confidence.
Te must also add, that equal confidence pervades the
sighbontlng towns.—.2lfaccksfield Herald.
SWANSEA BANK.
On Monday last, as so as the intelligence hreame
burro that the bank of Messrs. Gibbins and Co., of Bir-

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thcbana, had stopped payment, an immediate and severe
ea commenced on the firm of Messrs. Gibbins and Eaton,
c. this place (Swansea), and which continued, without
&emission, throughout the whole of the day. The next
Ening the bank suspended their payments.
A eciniderable sensation was produced by this event, and
consequence the run became immediate and severe upon
the banking-houses of Messrs. Haynes, Day, Haynes, and
Lawrence, and Messrs. Walters. The former firm, after
ennui' the demands of their creditors for some time, found
themselves campelled to suspend their payments.
On the following day a most numerous and respectable
nesting teak piece at the T3wn-hall, and a committee has-
ac been appointed to investigate the general state of
Hews. Haynes and, Co.'s affairs', the utmost confidence
vu expressed in regard to their stability, if the present
mine of the times had not existed, and great hopes are
etiertai .ed of their recovering the present shock.
We Lave stopped the press, in consequence of the an-
utincement of a meeting for the purpose of expressing the
%Hence of the town in the stability of the banking-'
.taus of Messrs. Haynes and Co. The meeting has not
:t..aken place, but we have the pleasure of stating, that
Eve minutes guarantees were sub-eribed by a few gen-
.xmen to the amount of nearly twenty thousand pounds.
The trade of the town have also taken up the business with
eel: spirit, but as yet their subscription paper has not
bun exhibited to us.• We have no doubt of the favours-
lle nsult of such decisive and honourable measures. Since
the above has been written, the trade list has been shown
us, which amounts to nearly ffteen thousand pounds.
BRECON BANK.
We are sorry to say that the bank of Bromage and
Snead, of Brecon, suspended payment on Wednesday.
The leading men and principal inhabitants of the town
ml county of Brecon have spontaneously come forward
with resolutions to testify their perfect confidence in the
vitality of the bank of Messrs. Wilkins and Co.; indeed,
the public think themselves fortunate that, in this time
of panic and distrust, they have a banking establishment
al so much opulence and high character.—Carmarthen'
tarsal.
HEREFORD BANKS.
Great consternation was excited i.e Hereford on Thurs-
,l47 morning, by the sudden stoppage of the bank of Messrs.
Garrett and Son. The notes of this firm were very exten-
sit* circulated ; and as the failure was wholly unex-
Petted, the holders are numerous, though chiefly of small
amounts. On Thursday evening, a numerous body of
,tradesmen and other inhabitants of the city and neighbour.
hood, including many of the principal landed proprietors
sf the county, with a view of allaying any fears which,
14 the present :tate of things, the failure of Messrs. Gar-
rett and Son might cecasion in the minds of the timid, as
is the responsibility of the banking establishments of
Masts. Matthews, Holloway, and Co. and of Messis.
fladenham, Jay, and Co., signed a public declaration, by
which they agreed to take in payment, as usual, the notes
'ithese highly respectable firms. This measure of precau-
tta has, we are happy to state, Lad the effect desired by
Promoters.—Conbrion.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BANKS.
i 4 this part of the country, we are happy to add, dis-
:r- t has ceased ; and people who are alarmed begin to be
elriscd or ashamed that they had ever been afraid. At
4,:bury, there was no pressure on the bank after last
k ; and at Buckingham, we learn, the accustomed con-
: !erce has returned to the establishments there.—Barks

DORCHESTER BANK.
The Dorchester bank resumed its paytneats on Sstunlay
'lst: the general opinion of the resmarces of the tlrm had,
I.4c't, been very slightly affected by the temporary sus-
ssion of its business, and the notes arc now received
‘*.thotit the slightest hesitation. The flank of Means.
Jicseing and Co. has not yet opened: all the other ma-
ll:ill/Dents in this county are looked on as perfectly secure.
A' 11°01J, Blandferil, Shaftsbury, &c. the inhabitants have
tl:claratiens of their confidence in the stability of

the several banks in the respective towns.—SherLurae
Verculq.
BKIGIITON BANKS.
There has brcn a meeting of the creditors of Loshmar
and Co. who have discovered that upon the winding up
and final balance of accounts connected with the concern,
a surplus of many thOusands will remain with the firm.---
Sussex Advertiser:

DEAL BANK.
The bank of Messrs. May, Wyborn. White, and Mercer,
gave public notice on Thursday morning, that " they were
under the painful necessity of suspending their payments
Mull further arrangements could be enteral into." This in
the first instance occasioned some degree of anxiety, but
from the.well-known respectability of the firm, it is con-
fidently believed the embarrassment must be but of a
temporary nature; the confiflence of the public remains
unafrected, and there is not the smallest -doubt the incon-
venience will speedily be remedied by the bank resuming
its business.—Cinque Ports Herald.