but that of positive loss, superadded to the increased danger of being overtaken by a crisis with a vast amount of capital locked up.

Since the former part of this article was written, another debate on the monetary policy of this country has taken place in the House of Commons. This latter debate, like the one before referred to, is indicative of the advance of sound opinions; and the house, it is obvious, will not, in future, be "frighted from its propriety" by a bugbear made up of a few empty phrases and a nickname or two. The following passages from the speech of Mr. Henley, are especially worthy of consideration :

"What was wanted by the country was (if he might use the phrase) a sort of small change. For what was the circulation of the country? It was not the 19,000,000 or 20,000,000 of bank notes, it was the countless millions of bills. These represented the capital and property of the country; the bank notes were merely that portion of it which enabled men to exchange the other masses of capital. He put it to the house, whether it was possible in such a matter as bank notes that they could take the hard and defined limit of £14,000,000, and say that that should be the exact quantity which the varying circumstances of the country neither more nor less, should want. When it was admitted that in some cases £100,000 more might save the country, would they say they would always adhere to it? Suppose it should please God to inflict another bad harvest upon us, was the government prepared to maintain this bill in all its stringency? With our granaries completely empty, with no prospect of corn for us (so far as we knew) abroad, the right honourable baronet looked forward to terrible times if it should please God not to give us a good harvest. Were the merchants and people of this country to be told that under no such circumstances would the bill be relaxed?

No human being could predicate what the harvest might be either here or abroad. This question must be an swered were the government to reserve the power in their hands to relax the bill if they should see cause, or were they prepared to stand by it under all circumstances? It had been stated by merchants in that house, that at that very moment their orders for corn were suspended because they could not negotiate their bills. The question was one from which they could not escape. The government must be prepared to look it fairly in the face."

With this quotation, we must leave the subject for the present. The question to be decided is, whether the existing monetary system is based upon sound and philosophical principles, or upon principles of an entirely opposite character. In bringing under the notice of our readers this question of the Currency, we are endeavouring to secure their support to measures of a beneficial tendency, and in the success of which the welfare-nay, the exist ence of our common country is involved. Unless we can secure employment for the masses of our population, daily and hourly increasing as it is, the British nation will share the fate of the nations of old. Her greatness will

pass away as a summer cloud. The struggle of class against class will go on, until some calamity shall arise more severe than any we have hitherto experienced, and all law and order may at once be at an end. In the discussion of the monetary question, there is no room for selfish agitation. They who engage in it can have but two objects, namely, to benefit the industrious classes, and to give stability and security to all property-security to the property of the rich, and a just and constant reward for labour to the poor.

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House of Commons, on moving for
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the prompt and profitable Employ-
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Edenmore and its Inhabitants, 277;
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of the Glen-Pure Love, 284; Chap.
IV.-A Prophecy - Disappointment
and Generosity, 289; Chap. V.-A
Wedding and a Death, 429; Chap.
VI.-Grave give up thy Dead, 434;
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Free Trade and Currency Reform, 777.
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693.

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the Irish, 630; Lamentation of the
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the Irish, 631; Welcome to the Prince,
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right, by virtue of the Union, review-
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