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volved in the debate. The ministry had annoiincofl 

 their propose;! rate of duties on i^raiii, which is qnilf 

 lo^v — Ss. per quarter (or 8 bushels) on (oreiijn wheat, 

 4s. per quarter on barley and other grains, including; 

 Indian corn, and '.is. Gd. on oals. The greatest inter- 

 est is excited, and the gi-fat body of the people anx- 

 ious for the proposed reduction. We leel satij^uine as 

 to the favorable result, which will be of immense va- 

 lue to this country, as well as to Great Britain. 



The New York Courier and Enquirer (adininistra- 

 lion paper) of the 3d, sa3's of tlie President\s messaj^e 

 — " It is due to candor to say tiiat this document hjs 

 given far more satisfaction to thd opjioticnts than to 

 the friends of the administration in this city." Amoiif; 

 the objections then stated at length, are, the want oi 

 explicitness as to a national bank — the intimation of a 

 possible veto on a law for that object — the repudiation 

 of increase to the duties in contravention to the com- 

 promise act — the not recommending some early mo(!e 

 of increasing the revenue — and the not mentioning a 

 bankrupt law. 



Saturday, June 12, 1S41. 



John Q. Adams has at last triumphed. He moved 

 to rescind the 21st rule of the House of Representa- 

 tives, which forbade the reception of abolition peti- 

 tions — and his motion prevailed by a vote of 112 to 

 104. The vote was not divided so much by parly as 

 by geographical lines. 



All the four negroes charged with the St. Louis 

 murder and arson, have been tiied and condemned to 

 death. 



Theatricals are in a bad way in New York. In our 

 last was stated the burning of the National Theatre. 

 The Bowery had been previously closed, through ina- 

 bility of the manager to pay the cit}' tax : and since, 

 the Park Theatre has been sold for 1^^4,000 only. 



Glentworth is to be tiied again. 



Some of the Philadelphia bardis have been disap- 

 pointed in a new etfort to evade the law and cheat the 

 public. This was by issuing "certificates" and ■' obli- 

 gations" for $5 to take the place of -the oidinary b.ndv 

 notes for $5, which the banks were required by law 

 to pay for in specie. Both the Philadelphia Bank 

 and the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank have bi-en 

 sued and cast upon their attempt to execute this new 

 fraud ofi<sning and then refusing to pay these substitut- 

 ed "obligations." 



Several of the country banks have accepted the 

 provisions of the Revenue bill, and have already com- 

 menced the issue of small notes. Several of the city 

 banks have rejected the provisions of this bill, and it 

 is probable that the others will follow their example. 



"From all the inquiries that we have made upon 

 the subject, we think it very doubtful whether these 

 bills will be able to maintain the credit of currency 

 ire at all. They are palpably at a depreciation of 

 I. enty to twenty-five per cent, and it is quite certain 

 that, unless the city banks with one accord come to 

 their relief and agree to receive them on deposite, ami 

 in all their transactions credit them as currency, tlip\ 

 must fall into discredit. Now will the banks here, 

 with any considerable unanimity, agree to thus credit 

 tliem ? We have some good reason for believing that 

 they will not. Some have already declared that 

 they will not, and, if they adhere to this determi- 

 nation, as we believe they will, they must adopt the 

 only alternative left them — resume specie payments in 

 full for all their liabilities. The insolvent and un- 

 sound institutions that hoped to live through the next 

 five years by virtue of the Relief Law, at the ex- 

 pense of the sound and solvent banks, will find them- 

 selves greatly mistaken." — Ph. Led. 



Benj. Higgins, master of the sloop Wellington, of 

 Boston, is under trial in that city for kidnapping a 

 negro man in Boston, and sending him to Newbern 

 N. C. The facts are that the slave concealed him- 

 self on board the vessel, when it was in the port 



of Newbern, and was not discovered until far on thf 

 voyage. The cajilain kept tln" slave confined, to 

 send him back to Newbern, and did so on the return 

 of his vessel, it being a regular trader between 

 Boston and Newbern. Thus, by his honest endeavor 

 to escape the charge of kidnapping a slave in New- 

 bern, he is charged by his countrymen with kidnap- 

 pinjr a freeman (the same negro,) in Boston. 



"Dr. Braddee, tried at Pitisburgh for robbing the 

 mail, has been convicted, and is to be sentenced to 

 the penitentiary. He is represented as a wealthy in- 

 dividual, who enjoyed a large and profitable business. 

 Since the conviction of B , two of his gang, Sirayer 

 and Carman, have pleaded guilty." — Phil. Led. 



The people of Cincinnati, have had the good sense 

 to refuse to see Fanny Ellsler dance. It is the first 

 town which she could not lay under a heavy contri- 

 bution. 



" The president, directors, and company of the 

 Bank of the United States yesterday entered a suit in 

 the District Court against the late President, Ni- 

 cholas Biddle." (Phil. Led.)— We trust that this suit 

 will serve to expose much more of the gigantic system 

 of swindling, and pillaging the people, and of brib- 

 ing their representatives and political leaders, than 

 has yet appeared. 



Lieut. Hunter, of the navy, has invented, and had 

 constructed at Gosport, Virginia, a steam vessel propel- 

 led by submerged paddles. It was tried on the Dis- 

 mal Swamp canal, and found very applicable to canal 

 navigation. It has gone to Washington for full ex- 

 amination and trial, antl made the passage up the 

 Chesapeake, at the rate of 10 miles the hour. Opi- 

 nions so far are much in favor of the value of the in- 

 vention. 



A mode of directing the course of halloon«, it is 

 said, has been discovered, and successfully tried in 

 Fiance. 



An insurrection has taken place in the neighbor- 

 hood of Moscow. 



Insurrections have broken out in Candia, Bulgaria, 

 Servia, and other parts of the Turkish empire, which 

 will be difficult to que'l. 



The report of the secretary of the treasury recom- 

 mends, distinctly and cleariy, the chartering of a 

 national bank. Mr. Clay had pi eviously moved in 

 the senate the repeal of the sub-treasury law, and 

 the establishment of a national banlc. 



The Union Bank of Mississippi, (having cheated 

 the public as much as possible, we presume,) is now 

 to he wound up " as speedily as is consistent with the 

 present condition of the country." But it seems from 

 the following paragraph (of the Vicksburs Sentinel of 

 May 27,) that the authorities mean to make another 

 etl'oit before they yield. 



" We understand that the Cashier of the Union Bank, 

 at Jackson, wants to make a loan of 25,000 dol- 

 lars, to help to paj' the exjjenses of the bank. But 

 tlie most amusing part of the business is, that he wants 

 to get this loan on a pledge of Union shinplasters ! 

 We expect to see Union sell for 16 cents on the dol 

 lar ; and, if they have to sell notes to pay the ofHceis, 

 they will soon be as cheap as Brandon " 



" Exchanges and. a Fiscal .dgent — We asked one of 

 the largest tiouses dealing in exchanges in Wall street, 

 at what rate they would undertake to collect and di.=- 

 burse the public revenue, receiving payment in specie 

 or its equivalent wherever money is to be received, 

 and paying it in the same currency wherever it is to 

 be paid. The answer was, ' a quarter of one per cent.' " 

 — Journal of Commerce. 



The Bank of Michigan, although its suspension 

 was permitted bv law, and for enough time to come. I'.as 

 nevertheless been compelled to stop operations. Bad 

 times for the swindling banking system, when banks 

 cannot go on even with the aid of legalized suspension 

 of specie payments. 



The Bank Commissioners of Ohio have resigned. 



