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NEW TRANSLATION' OF THE BIBLE.
" If all cannot be of one mind, this doubtless is more
wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian, that many be tole-
rated rather than compelled. I mean not tolerate Popery and open
superstition, which, as it extirpates all religion and civil supremacy
—so itself should be extirpated—provided first that all due means
be used, to win and regain the weak and misled. They are
the troublers, they are the dividers of Unity, whonegleet and permit
not others to unite those dissevered pieces, which are wanting to
the body of truth. To be still searching what we know—not, by
what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it, (for all
her body is homogenous and proportional), this is the golden rule
in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony
in a Church ; not the forced and outward union of cold and neutral,
and inwardly divided minds."—Areopagetica ; or, a Speech for the
Liberty of Unlicensed Printing : Milton.
House of Lords, Monday, Feb. 25, 1828.—" Numerous petitions
were presented from the Dissenters, praying for the repeals of the
Corporation and Test Acts, and from the Dissenters, praying also
the concession of the Popish Claims."—Herald, Feb 26, 1828.
See the Examiner, Sunday, March 9, 1838, under the head of Ob-
servations on some of the Causes of Dissent from the Church—
__

" The devotional austerity exhibited in the Monastery of La
Trappe, as in many others, would be unaccountable, if ages of ex-
perience did not teach us that enthusiasm in matters of religion is
as much a disease of the mind as fever and atrophy are diseases of
the body. The gloom of the modern Methodists is the same cast,
but there is Method in their madness. There is a mixture of cun-
ning and hypocrisy in the character of the majority, which those
who mix with them soon detect, and the progress of knowledge
among the common people at home has driven them to foreign
missions, where ignorance has a better field for imposture."
The Editor's notice of Lady Wortley Montague's Letters.—The
Guide, No. 47

" The greatest curse which ever lighted on the earth never pro •
duced consequences more deplorable than have been produced by
the doctrines of Calvinism. The worst contagion that ever withered
the energy, and bowed the strength of the human frame, is not to be
compared with the prostration of mental rigour, and of moral into
grity, produced by the infection of that cant and self-pride and
fanaticism which is making such rapid strides amongst us."—.
Editor. _ _

If all circumstances," says the authoress, " left it as matter of
doubt whether Evangelical influence, as it is impiously called, were
productive of evil, the terrible power which it is so constantly seen
to have of destroying family union, must be quite sufficient to settle
flee question. Any person who will take the trouble to inquire into
the fact, will find that family affection has been more blighted and
destroyed by the workings of this fearful superstition than by any
other cause of which the testimony of man bears record."

Vol. 2, p. 62, Mrs. Trollope's Vicar of Wrexhill.—The Guide,
No. 48.

The Vicar of Wrexhill.—" A bonne bouche for the saints.
Never has the affectation of piety been lashed with such unexampled
vigour and ability."—Sunday Times.
At a time when we had two publications (the enduring produce
of immortal mind !) in active circulation amongst us—two chivalrous
editor's promoting and diffusing " the bright intelligence" contained,
to the hamlets of the empire—then for an Archbishop of Canter-
bury to appear as one of the Lords on the Commission for giving
the Royal Assent to the " Dissenters' Declaration Bill"—(Morning
Herald)—it makes what is enjoined by the immortal bard impera-
tive—" for the people to re-assume the ill-deputed care of their
'religion into their own hands again."
" The differences amongst ourselves furnish those whom we would
attempt to convert, with this plausible, and to them, I fear, unan-
swerable argument, with what face can you Christians attempt to
make us converts to your faith, when you have not yet decided
amongst yourselves what Christianity is? Surely it will be time
enough to make proselytes of others when you yourselves are agreed."
—Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words ; addressed to those who
think. _ . .

......
" He, who by a diligent and faithful examination of the original
records, dismisses from the system one article which contradicts the
apprehension, the experience, or the reasoning of mankind, does
more towards recommending the belief, and, with the belief, the in-
fluence of Christianity to the understandings and consciences of
serious inquirers, and through them to Universal reception and au-
thority, than can be effected by a thousand contenders for creeds
and ordinances of human establishment."—Paley.
" The heads of houses at Oxford, are not so obtuse of mind as
not to see that if the privileges and possessions, gradually and im-
perceptibly accumulated by them, were brought into collision
and contest with the awakened perception and increasing strength
of mind of the community at large, their interest must be deeply
involved in the struggle. .
that if Oxford were brought within three hour's journey from
London, that instead of the reverential few who now come within
their halls, like pilgrims, to worship and admire, that the busy eye
of inquiry might be induced to ask how came it that when, monas-
teries were suppressed, that such establishments were maintained
as those of Oxford and Cambridge, with monastic discipline and
rites, where celibacy was enforced by statutes, amid other rem-
nants of monkery, the relics of" . .
"".c..remites and friars
white, black, and gray, with all their trumpery !".—Sunday Times,
No. 820.
" Messieurs de Beausobre and L'lnfant, Ministers of the French
Church at Berlin, represented to the late King of Prussia, that the
•
French translations of the Bible began to be neither so intelligible
nor agreeable to be read as they were at first, and that therefore to
be edified by them required that they should be revised, or a new
translation made. On which that Prince pitched on them for this
purpose, and by his Royal Decree appointed them to make a new
translation," p. 372.

. . . . . • . ..
The King (James the First) said, that. " lit; hall irver yet seen
a Bible well translated in English, though he thought tile Genoa
the worst, and therefore wished, that some special pains should be
taken in this matter for one uniform translation, and this to be

" Who never even in a dull house couldat tame
To unleavened prose his own poetic flame"
said—" A Government without foresight is for the good of the
people who live under it—no Government at all." What a panegyric
upon the 4.-ivio Estates"—the subsequent and Government of our
day ! -
The " collective assemblies" whose components are said to be
the principal persons of distinction of the country, whence we ask
their pretension to the proud and 'distinguishing appellation of
Great Councils of the Nation," when a matter of bounden duty
to the Sovereign and institutions of the country, and above all these
" of the utmost importance to the interests of mankind that this
should be taught them by the press and people !"
To CORRESPONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so
earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis-
cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of the
utmost importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel it to be
our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore, shall be at-
tended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that the Heads of
the Church have already directed their attention to the contro-
versv."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1818.
"*Mr. Bellamy, in a very conclusive performance, the Anti-
deist, does not attempt to parry the weapon, so much as to disarm
the hand that wields it ; for he does not explain away the objections
that have been advanced by the Deist, but he labours rather to ex-
tirpate them, and to show that they have no other root but miscon-
ception or mistake. Should this author's emendations turn out
correct, they should be adopted, as no time and no authority can con-
secrate error. Mr. Bellamy has met with patronage in the very
highest quarter—a patronage liberal in every sense of the word;
and as honourable to the patron as the author."
" His alterations, I admit, are extremely numerous, important,
and consequential, but they are supported by a mass of erudition,
authority, and argument, that does indeed demand our most serious
attention, and many, in common with myself, willlament that they
have drank more freely at the stream, than at the fountain."
" We hail the march of intellect, because we know—that a
reason that is cultivated, is the best support of a worship that is
pure. , It is for those who thrive by the darkness to hurl their
anathemas against the diffusion of light ; but wisdom like a pure:
and bright conductor,i.can render harmless the brutum fulmen'
of the Vatican." --T Lacon, Colton.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation has
deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example and in-
citement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged errors,
descend to posterity polluted with all those errors ; or shall it be
transmitted to the latest generations of mankind, with as much of
its original purity as it is possible for human sagacity, knowledge,
and- diligence to elucidate and confirm."—The Sun, Monday, No-
vember 23d, 1818. The Sun, September 30th, October 7th, and
28th. 1837. The Guide, March 13th, and 25th, 1838.
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c. 50.

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the Age of Reason, and in a recent publication, entitled Re-
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First and Second Replies to the Quarterly Review, showing the
gross errors the reviewer has made in his Remarks on the New
Translation of the Bible.
" I now proceed to examine the passage which the reviewer has
adduced to prove how grossly I have erred in translating the word
gnaaroumin, prudent, instead of naked; which is in Job, c. 22,
v. 6. And stripped thi naked of their clothing. This is perhaps,
one of the passages which he deems elegant," simple,' and dig-
nified.' It is enough, surely; and such simple passages
abounding in the common version have in all ages excited the won-
der of intelligent men. Stripped the naked of their clothing !'
In the name of common sense if they were naked, how could they
be stripped?"—Extracts. See Classical Journal, No. 38.
A Refutation of the Erroneous Opinions, promulgated by a Right
RSeeveeCrelnasdsicia3ilsJhoouprnoafl,
St.No D
.la.vid,s.—
see
Classical Journal, No. 26.
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o of
the Lo
n Rightcin
Bellamy.
SPECIMENS OF EMENDATIONS, AND TENOR OF
REPLIES.
Genesis, c. 11. v. 4. Jerome's Version.—And they said, go
to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach Unto
heaven.
New Translation.—Hebrew.—And they said, come, let us build
a city and tower, with his top Like unto heaven.
Note.—" Therefore the tower, with his top or domelike heaven,
can have no other application than to the figure of the heaven,
with the heavenly bodies, the idols which they worshipped the
primary one, as observed, being the sun, i.e. an image representing
the sun : the sacred writer uses the masculine pronoun rosho, his
head. Thus were their subordinate idols, fancied figures, the
signs of the Zodiac, the continuation of the antediluvian idolatry,
which represented the different seasons, and which by being placed
in their temples at length were worshipped."
Authorised translation.—Gen. xis. 26. " But his wife looked
back frOm behind him, and she became a pillar of salt."
" We will not question the metamorphosis of Lot's wife, or
whether she were transformed into a Real statue of salt."
" The tower of Babel whose top was to reach to heaven,' and
the confusion of tongues '•" the sacrifice of Isaac and Jeptha's
daughter; the true age of Christ at the crucifixion."—Enquiries
into Vulgar and Common Errors.
The works of Sir Thomas Brown, Knight, M.D., of Norwich,
1686.
Hebrew.—" But his wife looked after his posterity, and she be-
came a memorial of destruction."
" And the angel of God called to Hagar out of
h e aven. Genesis,'
x According
17.
eordieg to the authorised verson, it seems as though
an angel, an immortal being, called to Hagar from the sky, " while
she was lost in the wilderness;" this is the generally received
opinion. I shall frequently have occasion to remind the reader,
that the word Melake, rendered Angel, literally means an earthly
messenger.
" Through their several Angels, or Apostolical Ministers, they
are commanded to repent and reform, not by discontinuing the
Unity of the Church, but for the express purpose that the Unity
and identity of the body might be preserved."
" This charge is given to the Angel or Superintending Minister,
who is duly invested with authority, for the Government of the
Church," p. 273.
Reformation to be effected without prejudice to the Unity of the
Church.—Church Union.
Jerome's version.—Exodus xii. 29.—And it came to pass that
at midnight, the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt,
from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the
first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the first-
born of cattle.
Hebrew.—" Now, it was at midnight, that Jehovah smote every
firstling in the land f Egypt, from the firstling of Pharaoh, who
sat upon his throne, to the firstling of the captive, that was in the
house of the dungeon."
Exodus, xiv. 21.—And Moses stretched out his hand over the
sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east-wind
all that night."
New Translation.—" Then Moses stretched forth his hand to-
ward the sea ; and Jehovah caused the sea to return by a strong
wind eastward."
Note.—" An east-wind would necessarilydrive the waters of the
ocean through the Straits of Babelmandel into the Red Sea, and
thus raise the waters higher than usual, which would have prevented
the sea from being dry land, as stated in the common version.
And thus, we are told, that The translation of the Septuagint
speaks for itself in the most philosophical manner.' It is certainly
said in the Septuagint Ev avEv.W VOT'W HO= by a strong
south wiud."
Pictorial Bible.— Judges c. xv. v. 4.—" And Samson went and
caught three hundred foxes, and took fire-brands, and turned tail
to tail, and put a fire-brand in the midst between two tails."
New Translation.—The word Shougnaaliiii, which is rendered
Foxes, comes from the root shagnal, which means the Hollow of
the Hand. From which it appears, that the word Shougnaalim
means handfuls, or armfuls, of anything to which it is applied;
and, in this passage, it is applied to the sheaves of cern evidently ;
that he took Three Hundred Handfuls, or Armfuls, of the Sheaves
of Corn, and Turned them Tail to Tail, and put Fire-brands in the
midst between the Tails. "_Extracts, see Galway Independent,
April 28, 1837.
Joshua, c. x. v. 13.—" Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, and
the moon in the valley of Ajalon."
Hebrew.—" When Joshua commanded before the sight of Israel,
the sun setting on Gibeon, and the moon was in the valley_of
Ajalon."
See Classical Journal, No. 60 ; also Liverpool Advertiser, Dur-
ham Chronicle, and Norwich Mercury, 1835.
Note.--" One thing is most singular in the order of the Divine
Providence respecting the idolaters of Canaan. While their lights
were burning in their temples as symbols of the, Sunlight and
Moonlight, and while the worship of the light of the two orbs, the
sun and moon, was celebrating, that pagan abomination was totally
destroyed."
Pictorial Bible, according to the authorised Text. I Kings, c.
xvii. v. 4.—." Thus it shall be, thou (Elijah) shalt drink of ;the
brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there." •
Hebrew.—New Translation, Part V.—" Thus it shall be, thou

2 Kings, c v., v. 18.—Read the words in the preter-tense : when
my master went into the house of Rimmon ; the sense appears to
be a pardon craved for sin past, not afterwards to be committed.—
Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites used by the Ancient Hebrews. De-
dicated to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of the University of
Oxford. By Thomas Godwin, 8.D., 1634.
A Letter to Mr. Bellamy, by Samuel Lee, M. A., of Queen's
College, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge,
1821.
" Your Anti-Deist, a work perfectly of a piece with the New
Translation." . • . " I give it conscientiously, I
have not been able to discover anything like merit in your transla-
tion." Advertisement—" The author takes this opportunity of
making, his grateful acknowledgments to the Syndics of the Univer-
sity Press, for their liberality in taking upon themselvesthe expense
of printing these sheets."—Extracts.
Mr. Bellamy's Reply to S. Lee, M. A., Professor of Arabic in
the University of Cambridge, 1821.
" You say, The only writers, who in this day have rejected these
helps (the sister dialects, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic) towards as-
certaining the meaning of the Hebrew Text, are the author of the
Remarks' (the Regius Professor of Oriental Languages at Ox-
ford) above mentioned, and myself.' It is certainly much to the
credit of the author of the Remarks' that he rejects those lame
helps,' the sister dialects." . . . •
" But you have entirely passed over the vast destruction of the
infant children in Egypt, as recorded in the common version. I have
shown, so as not to admit of a contradiction, in truth, that no such
destruction was ever executed on the first-horn, but on the bekoi,'
the firstling of the animal in their tabernacles, which was the object
of their idolatrous worship." . . . " Here I shall
close my remarks concerning the speaking of the ass, by observing,
that though you have given the reader to understand that the ass li-
terally spoke, the obvious sense in which Maimonides understood the
matter was, that the messenger spake, and not the ass. Really, it is
time you should get rid of such childish notions. To say any thing
more on your absurd conclusions, would be a total waste of time.
Depend upon it that, whatever they may now do, asses never spoke
in the days of Balaam."—Extracts.
The Critical Examination, refuting the statements of Mr.
Whitaker.

The reader will, by attending to the answers I have given to
the remarks in his book and in his Appendix, form a proper judg-
ment of this gentleman's great opinion of his abilities in Hebrew,
when he finds that the Third person singular of the verb is made
the plural—the Third person singular preter of the verb is
made the Participle active—the adverb instead of the verb—the
common plural They instead of Them—pronouns where they are
not in the original—errors in conjugations sanctioned—the Mascu-
line rendered Neuter—palpable errors, which sanction the remarks
of Deists, countenanced—obscenities attempted to be confirmed,
which are not in the pure word of God—absurdities admitted—the
characters of the holy men of God represented as immoral and
wicked."

" Luke xvi. 9. And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends
of the mammon of unrighteousness ; that when ye fail, they mag re-
ceive you into everlasting habitations. Such a command certainly
could not be given by our Saviour. This verse remains in the state
it was in when first translated out of the native language (of Judea,
in the early ages of the Christian Church, not translated ; and this
is the case with numbers where the Hebrew words have been re-
tained by the translators in Greek. I call upon Mr. Todd, and the
writer of the Critical Enquiry. to favour the public with the solu-
tion of the above difficulty. -If they cannot, they are not qualified
to translate from the Hebrew." • • • • • •
_ _

" Surely, every onewbo believes in the sanctity of the word of
God, for the reasons above given, will be convinced that it never
was subject to those casualties which ever attend on the writings of
men, and will not hesitate to say, that the most confirmed infidels,
from the time of Porphyry of Celsus, to the modern Deist, could
not have broached a more impious and untenable dogma—than the
sacred original " Inspired Volumes were corrupt."
" As the University is implicated, by the Syndics defraying the
expense of the publication called A Critical Enquiry, it will be
something new in the annals of that high seat of learning, and
will be heard with astonishment in the Continental Universities,
that a hook containing such dangerous and infidel dogmas, calcu-
lated if believed to shake the faith of all Christendom, is printed at
the expense of the Syndics of the University of Cambridge, written
by a man who says, that the third person singular of the verb is
also the participle active."—Extracts. _

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Reasons why the Roman Catholic Emancipation cannot be
granted, without imminent danger to, and violation of, the prin-
ciples of the Protestant Constitution as settled at the Reformation.
" From the commencement of the Christian Church to the time
of Constantine, the Church of Christ was pure, it was to that pe-
riod Apostolic ; but when Constantine turned Christian he
brought into the Church, an inundation of wealth, Paganism, and
worldly grandeur, which like a mighty flood, swept away the truths
of the Apostolic Church." .
. .
" The Papists refuse to take the oath of supremacy, as they
will not allow any other potentate to be supreme, except the Pope."
—Extracts.

" The Hanover Gazette admits that the Archbishop of Cologne
has sent a courier to Berlin, demanding to be transferred to
Cologne, or Munster, but makes no offer of submission."—Herald,
Sept. 17, 1838.
" The Pope and the King of Prussia.—The following is the
address of the Pope to his consistory on the erection of the Bishopric
of Algiers, pronounced on the 13th of September." . .
" The Holy Father then raising his pastoral voice with Apostolic
Freedom, calls earth and heaven to witness his complaints against
the detriment done to the Church in the Kingdom of Prussia."—
The Morning Herald, Oct. 3, 1838.

Imperial Rome governed the bodies of men, but did not extend
her empire further. Papal Rome improved upon Imperial : she
made the tiara stronger than the diadem; pontiffs more powerful
than praetors ; and the crozier more victorious than the sword.
She devised a system so complete in all its parts, for the subjuga-
tion both of body and mind, that, like Archimedes, she asked but
one thing, and that Luther denied her—a fulcrum of ignorance on
on which to rest that lever by which she could have balanced the
world.—Lacon.

We repeat our entreaty to his Majesty the King of Prussia, as
" wisdom, like a pure and bright conductor, can render harmless
the 4brutum fulmen' of the Vatican, by fallowing the precedent of
the illustrious dead—to give the Italian priest' a similar denial.
" The last ten years have brought with them a century's strength
to the Roman Catholic cause in Ireland. To win back heretical
England to the Romish fold, is undoubtedly, the great, the ultimate
object of the Irish Roman Catholic party. Let those who dread such
a result, bestir themselves forthwith to subvert a policy, of which,
that result must prove a necessary consequence."—Herald, Oct. 5,
1838.

" He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,"—(Powlett's
Reasons for being a Christian) therefore a brawling nation,
" hereditary bondsmen," whose natural position makes it the
soundest sense of policy (no other consideration) to keep them in
amity with us—let us, that she may be a worthy associate, so sound
the trumpet of reform—or rather of " reformation itself" (our
mightiest feat " by glorious valour won," being fought on foreign
soil), that they may be

" Great, glorious and free,
Fairest flower of the earth, brightest gem of the sea."
The battle array which we present, in promoting and defence of
just immunities—is the combination of " master minds," "the death-
less part of some who died too soon;" not fifteen thousand fighting
men ! which most ennobles a nation ?
"Papacy (' that infallibility Both so hedge it in') like Pedantry,
prides herself on being wrong by rules ; would rather stumble in
following the dead, than walk upright by the profane assistance of
the living. She worships the mouldering mummies of antiquity,
and her will is, that they should not be buried, but embalmed. She
would have Truth herself bow to the authority
of great names,
while scree weitY, haverfeat 11P.11105 bow to the auther!ty 'f
truth."
" May the diffusion of knowledge, the increase of religion
and morality, and the augmented happiness of the people, make
the present reign (era) more glorious
than triumphs in the

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MONEY AND CITY NEWS.

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)

TIMES.—By the adviees from Hamburgh the price of
gold is 434 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. lOid. the ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 13.9 k., and the exchange at Hamburgh on Lon-
don at short being 13. 3i, it follows that gold is 2.66 per
cent. dearer at Hamburgh than in London.

The premium on gold at Paris is 8 per milk, which, at
the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. Mid., the ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 35., and the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25. 25, it fol-
lows that gold is 0.44 per cent. dearer at Paris than in
London.

The course of exchange at New York on London is 110
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is 0.43 per cent. in favour of England.
In the early part of the day there was some animation
in the funds, and Consols improved slightly to 94, but
closed at 93i to 4. Bank Stock was 202 i to 3 ; India
Stock, 261 - to 2i. Exchequer-bills, 6.55. to 675. ; India
Bonds, 625. premium.

There was more business doing in the foreign house than
for some time past. The prospect of a new French Mi-
nistry, thought to be more favourable to Belgium and
Spain, had an effect on the Securities of those countries.
Belgian advanced to 99 to 1. Spanish Active, with the
May coupons, improved to 16, to -8- ; Portuguese 5 per
Cents. to 80 to ; the 3 per Cents., 19-41 to 20 ; Brazilian
were 761:1 to 74 ; Mexican, 22 to 3 ; Colombian, 251 to 6.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 54,1 to ; the Five per
Cents., 100 k to 1.

HERA L D.—The great increase in the sales of cotton
at Liverpool has excited much attention here, both as re-
gards an investigation into the primary cause of this parti-
cular speculation and its future results. It appears by the
late commercial accounts from Liverpool that the specula-
tion in this particular staple has been immense. On Satur-
day last the sales amounted to between 10,000 and 12,000
bales at rather advanced rates ; and that on Monday the
like operations were carried on to about the same extent ;
and as these speculations for some time have been carried
on progressively in the same ratio, which is much beyond
the manufacturing power of consumption as well as the ge-
neral demand, a strong opinion prevails amongst the com-
mercial men that a great portion of the late purchases of
cotton will be thrown again upon the market. Be this,
however, as it may, it only establishes the ability of Mr.
Biddle in creating a new means of paying the commercial
debts of the United States community, by taking the great
bulk of the United States cotton trade into his own hands,
or, rather, in absorbing by means of an extensively ramified
but novel banking operation the export trade in that staple,
which formerly was subdivided amongst smaller branches
of the American commercial community ; an example
which has been, in fact, partially followed by a few of the
American monopolists ; it is, however, very questionable
whether this new mode of throwing the produce of the
United States upon our market will eventually prove be-
neficial to our commercial interests, particularly when it is
considered that these speculations have been carried on in
the face of larger importations this year than appears by
comparison with those of the last year, and that the cotton
crop of the United States for the current year is esti-
mated at 1,600,000 bales.

The private advices which have been received from the
United States this day do not add to the information which
has already appeared in this Journal ; but, at the same
time, they fully confirm them.

Some of the commercial letters from Paris express some
anxiety respecting the state of the Money Market in that
city, which has been somewhat deranged by the late failure
of the Banque Belgique. Great exertions have been made
there to sustain public credit ; nevertheless it appears that
the Bank Lafitte had been partially run upon. The Bank
of France has, however, promised assistance to the extent
of 13,000,000 of francs. This circumstance had caused
the shares of that institution to decline about 320 francs
per stare in two or three days, yet it is anticipated that
the aid thus promptly granted will restore the public confi-
dence.

The chief feature in the Money Market is the fact that
the premium upon Exchequer Bills has advanced to-day to
65 a 67 premium, an indication that money is temporarily
rather easier for commercial purposes. On the Stock Ex-
changethis has been almost a holiday, the transactions
been so very limited ; the market, however, has
having
closed with rather more firmness than on Monday. Con-
sols left off at 93 - a 94 for the opening, the Three-and-a-
Half per Cent. Reduced Annuities at 100 k a 4 for Mo-
ney, and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 101 i
for the opening. On India Bonds the premium is 62, and
Bank Stock is nominally 2021 a 203 Money.
In the Foreign Bonds little has been done, but the mar-
ket is steady. Spanish Bonds, with the May Coupons, are
l(;4 and the Deferred 7 a Portuguese New Five
per Cents are 30 a 4 ; the Three per Cent, ditto arc 19i
a 20. Belgian Bonds are 991; Danish are 741 al, Dutch
arc 54a a -11-, and the Old Five per Cents. 100 al.

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THE LONDON UNION and NORTH of
ENGLAND GENERAL SHIPPING COMPANY.
At a MEETING of the DIRECTORS and SHARE-
HOLDERS, held 22d December, IM3B,
It was unanimously resolved—That, in compliance with the
wishes of the present Shareholders, and of numerous applications
from the friends of the Company in the North of England, and
other persons willing to become Proprietors, the shares of the Com-
pany be reduced to Twenty Pounds per Share, and the number
increased to five thousand.
That. a deposit of two pounds per Share be paid on allotment,
and a further sum of three pounds on the fourth day of February
next.

That the remainder of the calls shall not exceed two pounds ten
shillings per share, and such calls not to be made at intervals of less
than three months.

Application for the remaining Shares to be made (if by letter,
post-paid) to Mr. Murray, solicitor, London-street, Fenchurch.
street ; Messrs. Miller and Potter, 96, Lower Thames-street
London ; at whose offices, or at the Bankers, prospectuses am
further information may be obtained.

MR. PLUMER WARD'S NEW WORK.
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PICTURES OF THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
By the Author of " Tremaine," " De Vere," " Human Life," &c,
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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