The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

BANKRtIPTS.

J. Travers, Lambeth. coal merchant.
C. Carr. Bridge Street. Watininster. jeweller.
J. Paine. Plymouth Dock. saddler.
J. R. Saxby, I lawkhurst. Kent, hop merchant.
R. Jones, Cheapside, roullen draper.
D. Wraith. Truro, Cornwall. smith,
J. Swainston, Kendal, Westmorland. morocco leather mania-
&cutler.
S. Hawkins. Milton. Southampton, dealer.
W. Garrimore, Norbury, Derbyshire, tanner.
$. Thornlcy. Levenshulme. Lancashire, and J. Becktoa,
Manchester. manufacturers.
S. Panton. Milton next Sittingboume. Kent, mina.
W. Wainewright, Liverpool, merchant.
W. Clancy. Comhill, provision merchant.
B. Smith, Birmingham, steel my maker.
The Official Accounts of the produce of the pub-
lic Revenue for the Quarter ending the sth A prii,
were made up on Monday night. The following is
their substance :
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The total produce of the Quarter. compared with that
of the corresponding Quarter in the year PM. is
deficient . tsta.one
Cuitoms—deficient t30,000
Deficiencies under various other heads 100.0u0
Excise—Excess 110,000
The total charge of the Quarter stctgos the lu.
come 650,0001.
Letters from Cadiz, received on Thursday, state,
that the expedition for Chili is to consist exclusively
of ships of war ; and that the troops are to be sent
to Portobello, to cross over to Panama. It seems,
however, questionable. that this be really the inten-
tion of the Spanish Government, as it has before
found this plan impracticable, owing partly to the
unhealthiness of the isthmus, and partly to the wan:
of shipping at Panama. It would require a naval
superiority to convoy light transports from Callao
to Panama ; and afterwards, whey they had receiv-
ed the troops on board, to protect them back to
Callao.

LONGEVITY —There are now living as resident*
in the Parish of St. Peter, in Thanet, 30 persons,
whose united ages amount to 4,436 years--a sin-
gularity supposed to be unparalled by any parish .4*
Kent, in ProPwava tc Eta .4-A;Ation.

rllO.ll SATURDAY NIGH7"S GAZETTE.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
A. Kent. Deptford, baker, front April 13 to April 17.
J. Thick. Lombard Street. broker, from April to to April Si.
W. R. Vigers, Austin Friars, merchant, front April 13 to
April 24.
BANKRUPTS
J. Bartlett. Frame Selwood. Semeeet, clothier.
M. J. Crosland. Whitby, York, porter merchant.
C. Bemis., Stroud, Glocestershire, mercer.
S. B.mtlry. Dorton, Yorkshire. worsted mnnufaeturer.
J. Kipiy, York. common brew..r.
R. Hoy.; id. junior. Woolwic,,, Kent, brewer.
M., .1.. a.I R. Griffiths. Bristol. masons.
J. Coq . r. lotherhain. York. slate merchant.
G. Dave Tenby, Pembrokeshire. merchant.
T. Croat.. Chatham. Kent. brewer.
.1..1. Watt. Ratcliffe highway, surgeon.
H. Buckle: , Adlemoth, York. innkeeper.
S. llu.nll. Mitiories, corn dealer.
E. Wood, Bolton. Lancashire. brazier.
M. Jackson, Bolton. Lancashire, cotton nu. 'afacturer.
S. Peaky, l'endleton, Lancashire. wine merchant.

DIVIDES DS.
April 21, F. Wright, Budge Row, merchant—May 1. M.
I ianly, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, tavern keeper-1, J. Welch
and T. Carter. Great St. Thomas Apostle. cmhossers-4. S.
Copestiek, Stafford, coal dealer-3, R. Leigh and P. Amastrong.
Liverpool. Inerehrents-4, R. Sowter. Kingston upon Hull. and
T. H. Payne, Cullum Street. merchants—ts, T. Palagreve.
Reopen Street. Blackeners Road, insurance broker-4, M.
♦Whit., Lowdliam. Nottingham, bleacher—t, S. S. Allen. Little
Yarmouth. Suffolk. corn merchant-4. G. Hose. A►hford,
Dobv, Age dresser-4, J. Reid, Newcast:e upon Tyne, saddler
—7, W. Morris, Donew.ter. York, weld dealer—l I, A. Bendy.
cower Street,Redtbrd Square. builder—ii. .1. l.ee, .1. S. Niter.
tinean, and J. Wilkinson. nreul Sttcet.factors—tl. S. Core,
Biehopsgate Street, haberdasher-5, J. Briggs, Scut:Dates, York,
grocer.
CERTIFICATES to be granted May 1.
T. Pidgeon, E. Getky. and It. Lomas, Birmingham, mer-
e:lnnis—J. Chambers. Coventry., draper—l. Hill. Bradwell,
De:Ly. baker—.l. Ferrell, Birminghani. printer—C. Bruford,
Galway Scree', St. Luke's. cabinet maker—J. Wright, Rosemary
Lane, baker—S. Harvey, Windsor, draper—C. Halsted and J.
Mottershead, !leaky Wood. Lar.cit-ter, cotton spinners.

!Plitt

Batik Stock
3 per Cent.
per Cent Coss. 71j
SI per Cent.
4 per Cent.
b per Cent. Navy 104
Lung 4.. n.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Lon Don.
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1919.

We suppose it is about 12 months since the Bank
ei England published a notice in the Gazete,
s':2;ned according to the Act of Restriction, by the
linker of the House of Commons, announcing that
t..ey would pay in cash all their notes dated prior to
the year 1817. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
scanted a great deal upon the subject, quoted it as a
proof of our increasing prosperity, and deduced from
it that the deep, croaking, unpatriotic doubts of the
solvency of the Bank were totally confuted. On
Tuesday a Bill for restricting the Bank of England
from paying their notes, issued before 1817, in cash,
received the Royal Assent, and became a law.
Leave to bring in the Bill was given in the House
of Commons only the night before, the standing
or le.rs were suspended in both Houses to facilitate
its rassing, and within 24 hours it became effective.
If Ministers believe the Bank to be insolvent, we
think they have acted wisely—if not, they have done
an incalculable injury to the country, by making
every one else of an opinion which they do not hold
on so important a question. Bank notes, in conse-
•quence of the partial resumption of cash payments,
were recovering from the great doubt with which they
}IAA long been received on the Continent ; we have
ourselves repeatedly purchased them for 8 guilders
rts3 a half, though a guinea was at the same time
wo th 12 guilders and a half; they were, however, like
the bills of a house which having stopped payment,
whose bankruptcy has been expected, but which re-

commences in a proportion its payments, so were
the Bank of England notes restored in some degree
to foreign confidence. We wait to learn from our
different foreign correspondents what will be the
effect of the present measure, but if it be not de-
structive of all reliance of common prudence in our
National Bank, we shall be a•tonished. The rapidity
of passing the Bill proves either the most imminent
and immediate danger, or that the credit of the