The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENI

their strength of reasoning, will this evening annihi-
late the League, and bury in its ruins all trace of
free-trade principles. We cannot contemplate this
possibility without a shudder; but we console our-
selves, after all, in a strong belief in its improbability,
and in our firm conviction that, on Wednesday even-
ing next, we shall at Covent-garden Theatre hear a
full account of this great Anti-League demonstration,
and hear of it, as we do of the illustrious little General
Tom THUMB, as an object of admiration, on account
of its dwarfish stature.

The financial condition and prospects of the coun-
try are subjects of such vital and universal interest
to the public at large, that we are somewhat disap-
pointed at the studied abstinence of almost every
Member of either House of Parliament from any
direct allusion to these topics. That they should be
distasteful, dry—nay, even impracticable to a consi-
derable section of Peers and a goodly band of aristo-
cratic Commoners, is no matter for surprise. That'
exceedingly defective system of education at our
public schools and universities in England, which
sends into the Legislature a senior wrangler from
Cambridge, or a first-class man from Oxford, as
profoundly ignorant of all political and economic
learning, as he is, usually, of natural philosophy or
the principles of perspective, the art of dancing or the
theory of navigation;—that system applies the worst
possible preparation for the practical business of
statesmen. It is not until after such aspirants
to legislative distinction have gone through
the unwonted discipline of Private Committees
on Local Bills, and the drudgery of note-taking in
Select Committees to try the merits of election peti-
tions, that they to conceive the possibility of
business-like habits of applicatiori, attention, and
punctuality—of a knowledge of accounts, and a
familiarity with those lower mathematics (which,
though disdainfully remembered in connection with
the honours of the "tripos " are absolutely essential
to excellence in " vulgar arithmetic ")—are attain-
mentszot unworthy the attention of fine gentlemen,
and Gran conducive to Parliamentary distinction.
These good impressions, however, valuable though
they be, are but the accidence of that forensic gram-
mar which ought to have been thoroughly mastered
before they ventured to offer as candidates for
these public " scholarships." If we only consider
how much longer a period is required, especially by
those who have not the advantages of official occupa-
tion, to become au courant to the varying
statistics of public income and revenue ; the
history of the National Debt and Taxation;
the influence of these upon wages, prices, &c. ; we
need not wonder at the school-boy awe with which
so many senators, both of the upper and lower forms,
regard what they suppose to be the " mysteries" of
finance and currency.

It is not the less deplorable, that a vast system
like that on which our circulation is founded, should
be left in its present disorganised and perilous state,
to find its own adjustment. It threatens danger to
capital, to industrial production, and the market of
labour; to domestic and foreign trade, to the seenrity of all property, to investments, mortgages, debts
of specialty and simple contract ; to the inviolability
of public faith, and the guarantees of private honour.
It thus menaces, indirectly, the prosperity of the
State itself; directly, of all institutions within the pro-
tection of the State. Do her MAJESTY'S Ministers intend
to stave off every previous consideration of the disasters
produced by PEEL'S Currency Bill of 1819, until they
can assemble their supporters in a field-day majority on
the discussion on the Bank Charter ? Do they think
it will sleep until they be pleased to wake ? Are
they aware that, with every day's delay, they lose
some portion of the power which it will require to
beat down the Frankenstein monster of their own
creation, in that unrighteous experiment of 1819 ?
Let them be assured, that to delay the task of re-
tracing that fatal step, is to accelerate their own de-
struction, and to secure an imperishable record of
their own imbecility. Besides, their hesitation in
this matter is-paralysing the short remaining oppor-
tunity they have of diminishing the public burdens
they have so largely enhanced. Foreign capital, as
our City Correspondent tells us, is pouring into this
country for investment. Money was scarcely ever
so plentiful, nor the time so favourable, for a great
funding operation on the part of Government. Yet
the Government are mute as the silenced oracles on
the destinies of the statute-consecrated enormity of
PEEL'S currency scheme ; and have not made one sign
of an intention to convert the Three-and-a-Half per
Cents., whereby so enormous a reduction might be
effected on the interest of the Debt.

" At the last meeting of the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Railway Company," says a Scotch paper, " Sir
ANDREW AGNEW moved as an amendment to the ap-
proval of the Report, that the Sunday trains be dis-
continued ; at the same time he presented memorials
against their continuance from the Free Church
Presbyteries of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The vote
being taken, the Report was approved of by 'a majo-
rity of the shareholders present, fifteen voting for it
and nine for Sir ANDREW AGNEW'S amendment—the
majority represented three hundred and fifty-five votes,
the minority forty-six. Five of the minority
held only one share each." Poor Sir ANDREW
AGNEW ! He seems doomed to perpetual discomfi-
ture—predestined to be the very hero of defeat.
Scotland, like England, will have nothing to do with
his panaceas for piety, but repudiates both him and
them with equal pertinacity. On either side the
Tweed he makes a stir only to be laughed at. The
recent defeat of his amendment at the meeting of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company which—
as will be seen by the above paragraph—was a crush-
ing one, will, we trust, teach him a useful
lesson of discretion whereof he stands much in need ;
and convince him that it is only " labour lost" to attempt
to make head against the common sense 'and right
feeling of a community. Were the interests of true
religion involved in:s4ch puritanical restrictions as
this grim Baronet has now, for a long term of years,
been assiduously endeavouring to impose on the Sab-
bath recreations of the people, we should not dream
for an instant of objecting to them; but religion
has nothing to do with the matter; the question
is one of pure Pharisaical cant—of cant
unleavened with the slightest admixture of toleration
or common sense. Were it possible that Sir ANDREW
AGNEW and the double-distilled Saints who think with
him, could ever succeed in their efforts to pro-
pagate fanaticism among the people, they would do
more public mischief, both in a moral and religious
sense, than whole centuries of enlightened legislation
could repair. For let no one imagine that a long-
faced puritanical community must necessarily be
a moral and devout one. The records of our own
history show that the reverse is the fact, for never
were there greater outrages committed than during
the reign of the Saints in England, when.robberies,
and even murders, were continually perpetrated,
under the pretext of religion, by Millenarians and
Fifth Monarchy-men, who yet would have shud-
dered at the idea of missing attendance at a conventicle
twice or thrice a day, and fancied themselves absolved
from all crimes so long as they held fast by the prac-
tice of singing psalms and hymns in the key of a
Tower-gun. Look, too, at the career of the Mun-
ster Anabaptists—men who cried down all innocent
amusements as impious—who were strict to a degree
in the performance of all external religious duties,
yet who scrupled not to commit the most heinous ex-
cesses ! Generally speaking, a fanatical community
must of necessity be a hypocritical one, and the day,
we trust, is far distant when cant and hypocrisy shall
find favour in the eyes of the major portion of the"
people. Stringent religious restrictions, such as
those which the grim-visaged Agnewites would fain
impose upon us, invariably foster the very evil which
it is their object to check. As they commence by
making men hypocrites, so, in nine cases out of ten,
they end by making them infidels.

We have received Madrid papers of the 24th and
25th ult. Alicant held out on the 2lst. The Junta
of Carthagena on the 18th declared the town and
province in a state of siege, and ordered the surren-
der of all arms except those belonging to the Na-
tional Guards. From Madrid ,the only intelligence
is, that the Minister of Finance is actively engaged
in schemes for raising money. None but fools will
trust him. On this subject the Paris Siecle justly re-
marks :—" The present dictatorial Government of
Spain having manifestly violated the Constitution by
acting in the absence of the Cortes, whose ratification
is indispensable, those who shall advance money to

NARVAEZ must expect to see their security rejected
by the constitutional Government, when it shall have
been established."
The Three per Cents. were done at 29i for cash,
30* at 60 days ; the Four per Cents., 21 for cash ;
and the Five per Cents., at 22f at 60 days.

The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on
the affairs of Otaheite lasted for two days; and ex-
cited long speeches and strong national feeling, but
finally terminated in favour of the GUIZOT Ministry.
The speech of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in
reply to M. CARNE, appeared in The Sun on Satur-
turday. M. BILLAULT followed, and made a violent
attack on the Cabinet, accusing them of being guided
in their treatment of Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS
more by fear than reason. M. DUFAURE was equally
violent—praised the French Admiral, blamed M.
GUIZOT for disavowing acts which did honour to the
navy, and summed up in these words :—" Much is
said of the position that France ought to occupy as a
naval power. We make in our budgets great sacri-
fices to sustain the dignity of our navy ; but, for my
part, I declare it openly, I should prefer seeing
France give up her navy for ever, to find her suffer-
ing such acts as the Ministry is defending to-day."
The next speaker was the Minister of Public In-
struction, but he was listened to with some impati-
ence, as the affair had assumed a new form, in con-
sequence of a motion which M. Ducos handed to the
President. This, of course, was known to the Oppo-
sition, and the President, on the last speaker leaving
the tribune, announced that M. Discos had handed
to him a written proposition, having for its object to
terminate the discussion on the interpellations by a
vote to the following effect :—" The Chamber, with-
out approving of the conduct of the Cabinet pass to
the order of the day." M. GUIZOT seeing the temper
of the Chamber, moved an adjournment, which was
violently opposed by the Left, but ultimately carried.
The debate was resumed next day, when M. GUIZOT
and M. TRIERS addressed the Chamber at con-
siderable length ; and, on a division, Minis-
ters had a majority of 46, there being for
the motion of M. Ducos 187, and against ,it 233.
This is considered a great victory by the Cabinet,
and had a material effect on the funds, the Three per
Cents. having advanced from 82f. 20e. to 82f. 73c.
as goon as the division was known on the Bourse.
The Opposition papers of course are furious at the
result. We give an extract from the National as a
specimen :

" It is with the heart deeply wounded that we take up the
pen to give an account of yesterday's sitting. There were
233 deputies found against 187 to pronounce that Admiral
Dupetit Thouars was wrong in defending the influence
and honour of France against the intrigues of England-
-233 against 187 to signify to our seamen that in
distant latitudes, where they are to carry our flag, they
must, under penalty of reprobation on the part of their
Government, respectfully withdraw before the lowest Eng-
lish missionary. Already, by the establishment of the
right of search, there was imposed on them the obligation
to let themselves be robbed and insulted with impunity by
the cruisers of Great Britain. Now they will learn that there
does not exist a single tribe of savages which has not the right
to drive them away when it pleases, in the name of England.
Admiral Dupetit Thouars and Captain Bruat, who supposed,
very properly, that they deserved well of their country, will be
'struck as with a.thunder-bolt, when they receive the order to
evacuate their conquest, and humiliate themselves before the
protegee of Great Britain. Can we not see from hence the
French authorities forced to quit Queen Pomard's house, and
re-establishing there with their own hands the fancy flag
given by Victoria to her sister, the Queen of Otaheite ? Do
we not behold them, filing off like conquered troops, between
two rows of English sailors, Methodist missionaries and savages,
who will not spare them the most cruel mockeries ? In truth,
we have cause to regret that the tricoloured flag was re-
sumed by France in 1830." •
The discussion, which will be found in another
part of the paper, will be read with interest.
THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, MARCH 2.
. _ _ .

First highest Lowest

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 125 85 126 10 •• 125 85 126 10
Three per Cents..... 82 75 • • 82 80 • • 82 75 • • 82 80
Bank of France • • . ..3270 .•3270 • • 3270 ..3270
Belgian Bank • • .• 660 .. 660 . • 660 .. 660
Belgian Fives •••• • • • • ..... 104 .. 104 .. 104 • . 104
1840 ........ 1071 •• 107; .. 1071 107;
1842 1091 • • 1091 • • 1091 • . 1091
Spanish Active •••• .. • ..... 331 • • 33f • • 331 . • 331
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 46 • • 46 • • 46 .. 46
Neapolitan lOl 50 .. 101 50 .. 101 50 .. 101 80
RAILWAY SHARES.

Rotten 832 50 .. 832 50 .. 832 50 .• 832 50

Rouen to Havre •• 675 .. 676 25 .• 675 676 25
Orleans • 852 50 .. 852 50 852 50 .. 852 50

Strasburg to Bale • • • . . ..... 245 .. 247 50 • . 245
Avignon to Marseilles • ..... 760 .. 760 .. 760

.• 246 25
•• 760

RAILWAY SHARES FOR FEBRUARY ACCOUNT.
Versailles, R. 8.• •
L. 8.• • •• • • 175 .. 175 •• 175 • • 175
Rouen ••

Rouen to Havre 671 25 .. 675

Orleans ....

• • 671 25 • ••• 675

• •• 852 50 .. 853 75 .. 852 50 •• 853 75

Strasburg to 8a1e....

247 50 •• 243 75 - 247 50

RAILWAY SHARES FOR MARCH ACCOUNT.

352 50 •• 352 50 .. 352 50 .. 352 50
L.B 177 50 .. 177 50 .• 175 .. 175
Rouen to Havre.• •• ••••••• 675 677 50 .. 675 •• 677 50
Orleans •...

Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • • • • • 247 50 .. 248 75 • • 247 50 .. 248 75

The dinner to be given to Mr. O'Connell, at Covent-
garden Theatre, on Tuesday the 12th inst., already
excites public attention in a degree beyond any simi-
lar occurrence in our recollection. The dinner given
to Mr. Byng, on his completion of fifty years' service
was a magnificent af-
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and every pains taken 'to give effect to the
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will perform during dinner, and
afterwards. The toasts and senti-
given, and the various speakers by whom
are to be introduced and acknowledged, have been
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carefully selected, so as to afford no ground for offence
portion of the Liberal party, or even to those
to any,h
o view the late trial of O'Connell as an unfair per-
version of justice, apart from all political or party
considerations. After the debate of Friday last there
can be but one opinion throughout the press as to
the conduct which they must pursue on the present
occasion, to vindicate themselves from any supposed
approval of acts of espionage and violated confidence.
THE PRIVY Cour/cm—On Saturday afternoon sum-
monses were issued to the Cabinet Ministers to attend
a Privy Council this afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
and most of the Ministers are expected to
b
The time appointed for the Council is a quarter before
therpeereose'cnlojk,

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.
The average price of Wheat last week was 17.03 f. and that
of Rye 16.41 f. The duties on importation and exportation
remain as before.
A letter from Liege, of the 27th, says :—" Our rivers are
rising in an extraordinary manner. The Meuse has risen
y, and continues to rise. All the
s under water. Several accidents
lahoraifay partrd
reported. nf c
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The ship Ville de Bruxelles, which left Antwerp in April,
1843, with colonists, for San Thomas; in Guatemala, has
just returned with a cargo of indigo, mahogany, and
logwood, which will be sold by auction as soon as the vessel
is unloaded. It brings very unsatisfactory accounts of the
state of the colony.
BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 29.—The Sections of the Chamber,
at the request of the Minister of Finance, are engaged, laying
aside all other business, .in examining the project of
law for the 'conversion of the Five per Cent. loans. Five of
the six sections have already named their reporters.
THE HAGUE, MARCH I.—The Second Chamber of the
States-General in its sitting of to-day, agreed after long de-
bates, to the following project of law :-
1. For completing the ways and means for the years 1844
and 1845, by a majority of 29 to 25.
2. For paying the debt to the Handelsmaatechappy (Com-
mercial Company), by 31 to 23.
3. For regulating the claim of his late Majesty King Fre-
derick William, by 39 to 12.
After which the Chamber adjourned indefinitely.—Staats
Courant, Feb. 29 and March 1.
AMSTERDAM, MARCH 2.—lt is with deep regret that we
have to announce that the Second Chamber of the States
General has had the courage to agree to the project of law
for an extraordinary income-tax, &c. We say that it had
the courage, for courage surely was necessary to pass such a
law, for the dangers :which it threatens are great.—Amster-
dam lianddsbla4 March 2.

THE AFFAIRS or OTAHEITN.--The comments of
the French press on this debate are all of one character—
vituperative, prejudiced, and unjust, and have consequently
no claim upon the attention or consideration of a foreign
reader. One imputation, directed-against ourselves, it may
not, however be unnecessary to repel. These journals assume
that " the Times, being the .only. London paper which an-
nounced on Tuesday the restoration of Otaheite to Queen
Pomare, must have obtained that information from the
British Government " (with whom they persuade themselves
we stand high in favour) " comMunicated to Lord Cowley in
Paris on Sunday." If our Paris contemporaries take the
trouble to inquire, they will find that our special courier, with
the Moniteur of Monday last, containing the announcement
in question, left Paris at half-past nine o'clock, A.M. on
that day ; that he arrived in Boulogne, notwithstanding the
severity of the weather, in less than twelve hours and a half
—that it being then low water, the Waterwitch steamer,
specially engaged for us, could not leave the harbour of
Boulogne before one o'clock on Tuesday morning, and that
owing to the frightful state of the wind and sea, that
steamer could not make Folkestone before eight o'clock. A.
special railroad train, ordered immediately on his arrival, en-
abled our messenger to reach the Times-office shortly before
eleven o'clock. The important news brought by him, we
published in a second edition in a few minutes after his arrival.
—Times.
One of the very few Tories in the Leicester town-
council, being unable to sleep o' nights, because of the want
of a mace, has been endeavouring-to stir up his colleagues to
recover the "bauble" which they disloyally sold, on their
entrance to office, on the passing of the new Act. It was
", too bad," he said, to sell a " royal gift." Well ! to satisfy
him, the town-clerk searched- the corporate records, to trace
the history of the mace. Alas for royalty ! it turned out
that the "royal gift"
was purchased, and paid for, by the
town of Leicester, in 1645, in consequence of Charles the
First and his soldiers having stolen the mace previously in
we: Fact plays sad havoc with romance.—Leeds Times.

G, MARCH 4, 1844.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING.

By the packet United States, Captain Britton,
which arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning, we
have accounts frOm New York to the 14th ult.,
being five days later than those brought by the last
arrival. 11er Majesty's ship Vestal, with Mr.
Pakenham, the British Envoy to the United States
Government, on board, reached New York on the
13th, after a very stormy passage. lie was to set
out for Washington next day, to replace Mr. Fox,
who would depart in the same ship for Vera Cruz, in
a week or a fortnight. On reaching the harbour of
New York the Vestal fired a salute of twenty-one
guns, but, according to a correspondent of the New
York Herald, the naval authorities were not prepared
to return the compliment. "Permit me," says thewriter,
through your columns, to inquire of the naval autho-
rities of the port of New York, what is the cause
that on the arrival of a national ship of a friendly
power in our harbour, and who salutes our flag, that
we are not prepared immediately to return the friendly
greeting ? We are induced to make this inquiry as
we happened yesterday to witness the arrival of the
British frigate Vestal (conveying to our shores a high
diplomatic functionary), who, as soon as she came to
anchor, hoisted the United States flag, and saluted it with
twenty-one guns. We remained on the battery for
more than an hour, eagerly watching the re-
sponse to so kindly a greeting, but, up to a late hour,
yesterday afternoon, it was not returned." The dis-
cussion in Congress, on the tariff of 1842, was still
going on. The last speaker was a Mr. Huntingdon,
who stood out for high protecting duties, with as
much fury and argument as any of our most deter-
mined monopolists, but his speech excited not the
slightest interest. A correspondent, who writes from
Washington on the 12th, gives the following report
of proceedings in that quarter :—" The President is
certainly expected to send into the Senate six great
appointmenst, two Cabinet Secretaries, three Ministers,
and a Judge, together with many minor appointments.
The great debate upon the Oregon question is ex-
pected daily to arise. Mr. Allen will call it up to-
morrow. Col. Merrick will bring in his Post-office
Reform Bill to-morrow ; that subject willthen be open to
debate. This week, therefore, you may look for highly
interesting and important news from Washington."
Great expectations prevailed at New York that the
markets, and chiefly the Cotton market, would be
very brisk. Stocks in general were firm, and many
of them had advanced considerably. We subjoin the
only extracts of interest and amusement from the
papers : _ _ .

BnAm.—Advices from Rio, to the 13th of December,
have been received in Baltimore.

Affairs in all parts of the empire were in a prosper-
ous condition. Rio Grande was more peaceable ; indeed,
the insurgents had been entirely subdued.
The importance of the political movements of the
Opposition party, which we have heretofore mentioned,
have been greatly overrated in the Bahia and other
papers. That party in Brazil is very much like the
rump of the Butt-enders of this city.
The increased anchorage duties have been put in
force,:also a stamp duty on dispatches, which amounts
to about 14rs. per barrel for flour, and 13rs. per bag for
coffee.

It was reported in Rio, that one the 28th of Novem-
ber, Gen. Rivera was on his march toward Monte Video.
with the intention of raising the siege, and it was
expected that the result of a general battle would ere
long decide the conflict one wa or other.
LATE FROM MEXICO via NEW ORLEANS.—WC have
received advices from Vera Cruz to the 27th ultimo :
The internal state of affairs in Mexico remain tran-
quil. Santa Anna is at his hacienda near Vera Cruz.
He gives his persoal superintendence to the extensive
repairs now making to the castle of San Juan de Ulloa,
and the fortifications which defend Vera Cruz.

The British frigate Inconstant arrived on the 22d
from Port Royal. She reported that the whole British
West India fleet was to sail for Vera Cruz two days
after she left. . .

-----
The condition of the Texian prisoners at Perote is
worse, if possible, than by previous accounts, Sickness
and suffering are thinning their numbers. Of the whole
number confined, but eighteen are able to perform the
labour imposed upon them by their brutal captors.
It was reported at Vera Cruz that the British Minis-
ter had intimated to the Mexican authorities, that upon
the arrival of Mr. Fox, the new Minister from England,
the British flag, which was captured from the Texans,
should be hoisted on the staff of the castle, in addition
to the usual salute. This arrival was daily expected.
There were in port two British brigs of war and two
French sloops of war.
IMPORTANT ARREST.—J. C. Ashley, well-known in
this city and Brooklyn, has been arrested on charges of
forging mortgages on property in Brooklyn, and perjury
in sustaining them before the Court of Chancery. The
examination of the case will be concluded to-day, and
the whole particulars given to-morrow.
THE PLAGUE CONE TO THE UNITED STATES.—WC
see it stated in some of the penny papers that a new
disease, supposed to be the plague, has made its appear-
ance at Saxony in Massachusetts. About half-a-dozen
persons had died suddenly after picking some Smyrna
wool, which was thought to have conveyed the infec-
tion. In the present dearth of medical business, we
think it would be a very good thing for the physicians to
get up some plague excitement. It is now ten years
since we had the cholera, and the plague excitement
might go very well.
CLEAN STREETS.—For several days past the streets
have been actually passable—nay, they have been to-
lerably clean, in consequence of the surveillance of a
new street inspector. For many years we have had here,
in the Second Ward, honest Jack Hill, and he has kept
clean streets. Recently, however, the Providence of
Heaven has appointed a new Inspector in the place of
the locofoco one, and he is generally called Jack Frost.
He has a good many of the qualities of Jack Hill, being
like him, honest, and straightforward, and for the last
few days has kept the streets pretty comfortable.
POST-OFFICE NEGLIGENCE AT WASHINGTON.—Yes-
terday morning no letters or papers came to us from
Washington. We believe that the negligence of the
Post-office officials at Washington begins to show itself
again. These chaps have to be stirred up every now
and then to keep right.
COLD WEATHER IN ALBANY.—The thermometer at
8 A.M. on Sunday, marked 4 below zero.
MONEY MARKET, TUESDAY, FEB. 13._

Stocks are on the advance. Every one on the list im-
proved. Ohio 6's up 4 per cent. ; Pennsylvania s's, ;
Indiana ; Harlem 2 ; Illinois ; Kentucky 6's, ;
Farmers' Trust ; Long Island ; Norwich ; Vicks-
burgh ; New Jersey I ; Paterson 1 ; North American
Trust closed firm at yesterday's prices. The sales were
quite large, and good spirit prevailed at both boards.
Money is more abundant, and the stock market gene-
rally looks more favourably than it has for a long time.
Counterfeit fives on the Onondaga County Bank at
Syracuse are in circulation, dated Oct. 18, 1843, letter
C, with the endorsement of the Comptroller forged on
the back.

The assets of the Commercial Bank, sold at auction,
were nominally valued at between two and three hundred
thousand dollars, and brought about five thousand. This
shows many of the beauties of banking in a small focus.
Evidence like this cannot be controverted. The present
system of banking produces cases like the above very
often.

Tile paper currency of many of the southern banking
and other corporated manufacturers of paper money, is
fast going out of existence. At Milledgeville, Georgia,
on the Ist inst., $296,000 in Central Bank bills were
burned by the officers of the institution. They have on
hand about $70,000 more to share the same fate. This
will leave only about $275,000 in actual circulation.
The surest method to remedy the evils arising from an
over-abundance of paper money, is to destroy •he cause.
Commence the purification at the fountain-het and the
current will improve the rest.
The Central Railroad of Michigan bids fair to be a
very profitable and productive improvement.

SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$5,000 U. S. 5.5. '53
5,000 U. S. 6's, '62
10,000 Ohio 7's
1,000 Ky. Short Bonds
5,000 Penn'a s's ' 66a
23,000 Ohio 6's, '6O 9Bl
5,000 Illinois 6's, '7O s2O 41
10,000 Kentucky 6's, 30 years s 3 1021.
3,000 Indiana $ 3B
52 Shares Merch's Bk lO5
20 Bk of America 962
55 State Bk
75 Bk Corn. Scrip 9B
50 North American Trust s3o 163-
13 Farmers' Loan 333,-
50 Farmers' Loan b3O 331
50 Canton Co s3O 301

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20 Dry Dock Bk 46
250 Vicksburg Bk • -
76
100 Patterson Railroad
100 Long Island Railroad blO 72
45
100 Harlem Railroad

93
344

150 North Jersey Railroad ....
25 Norwich and Worcester....

STATE OF TRADE.
BREADSTUFFB.—FIour is looking up in this market,
and Grain is high at the west. This looks favorable.
Genesee Flour is held by some in this city at $5.
COTTON.—The market opened with a good feeling
and fair inquiry from speculators, which soon ceases',
however, as holders were firm, at full rates. After one
o'clock, the tone of the day was entirely changed, and
offers, which were refused in the morning, were soli-
cited ; but buyers were off. Arrivals, to-day, are very
large, and, as acket owners are making an effort to get
freights up to d, at which, it is currently reported, an en-
ii
agement hasbeen made for the ship Garrick, the proba-
bility
1,000 bales.
NEW OLLEANS, FEB. I.—Owing to the non-arrival of
the steamer's advices on either Wednesday or Thursday,
the market, during both days, exhibited a very great
degree of
langour, and the sales were generally effected
at a decline in prices of about a quarter of a cent.
MOBILE, FEB. I.—The market has presented an
extremely dull and inactive appearance, and the report

of the arrival of later European advices yet wanting
the proper authenticity, both buyers and sellers evince
a disposition to withhold from operations to any great
extent, until the true tenour of the accounts are made
known.