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? ervations on the cases under treatment. J TTiis daily visiting of the patents is of vast importance to the students. i All medical students attending lectures i ih the cijy of New York are admitted to < tha privileges which an attendance on f the wards of the Hospital bestow on the payment of the fee of $6; and they are permitted to witness griituitoualy the treatment of the patients of the New j< York Eye and Ear Infirmary. In this institution, on an average, more than one t ousand patients are operated and pre. scribed for annually. Surgical Clinquk ijcstitutbs by the Medical Faculty of the University of New-York. The Faculty with the view of availing themselves of the advantages which the I ? I r _ A L: I city of New-Xork atroras ior leacuiug Surgery, have established, in connection with the Medical Department of the University, a Surgical Ciimjue for the performance of operation, and for4he treatment of surgical affections, and the discases of the EyeaodEar. The various operations which have been lately introduced for. the.cure of Club-foot, Strabis*11 us, and Strainmering, will be performed ( by the Professors of Surgery and Ana- ( tomy in the presence of the class. The ( Faculty believe that this will open a field , to the medical student of the University , for the observation and study of Surgery, more extensive than any other in this i - 11 country. An immense population ol our city, whose circumstances will prevent l them from paying for professional attendence, vet who may require surgical aid, J will resort to the Dispensary of the Uni. versity, where they can he relieved by operation. ft is impossib'e in the limitsof this an- | nouncement to give a deta lei account of ' the arrangements of this Chniquc. The ? following is a brief sketch of the plan : , 1st. Patients affected with surgical | diseases, including the diseases of the i Eye and Ear, are invited to attend at the j College, Broadway, every Saturday j throughout the year, between the hours of < 12 M. and 2 o'clock P. M. Dr. Valentine, i Mott, and Dr. Granville Sharp Pattison I willhe regularly in attendance, during 1 those hours, to give advice on cases of j surgical disease, and to perform all the necessary operations which may be requir- J ed for their relief. i 2d. After the operations have been performed, and the patients removed to j. their own homes they will be attended e there, under the direction of the Professor j ^ of Surgery and Anatomy, by the senior |< students of the Institution, who will be g arranged in classes for the performance t of this duty, and will be required to make t regular reports of the progress of the cases r under treatment, to the Professors and * to their fellow-students. When neces. sary, either the Professor of Surgery or ? of Anotomy will visit the patients at their houses with the students. . With the view ofstill further promot- t ing the improvement of the students of the Medical Departmentof the Universi- c tv, and securing for them facilities for practical observation, the Professor of c Midwifery will have it in his power to fi supply cases of accouchments to the ad- p ??Th#? students will be V SliceU Oi UVIV/1 > w> A ^ ? divided into smali classes for wailing on r these females during labour, and, they 1 will at all times have the power to call * on the obstetric Professor for his advice and assistance.? VI. AfusicrM. The Meumira will, even at the commen cement of the First Session, he rich jr in specimensof the choicest character ii. I, lucrative of the subjects of the several I} courses of lectures. It will be made up j of the following collections: ! < First. The Museum of the Psofessorof! c Surgery. It may be said to embody a I history of all his operatons, and it will { furnish him, therefore, with the most am. I pie means fo: the illustration of his lec- j' tares. Dr. Afott has brought from Eu- j' rope every instrument or machine of val- I ue which has of late Seen introduced into the practice of Surperv. It is unnecessary to particularize these. Their number and extent may be estimated by the fact, | that the instruments and apparatus for illustrating the new operations inOrthepe. ] die Surgery cost, in Paris, three thousand ] francs. I Second. The collections ol preparations belonging to Dr. Bedford, which has for I the last two jcars been disposited in the Museum of the medical College, at Alba-1 ny, will form part of the Museum of the medical Department of the University.? As illustrative of the department which ; the Professor teaches, this collection is known to be extensive and rich in valuable specimens. 4" ? lurnro nartnf the MllSPUITl A VTIIll* Af u iui^V ? ? of the Jefferson Medical Col lego, of Philadelphia, belongs to the professor of Anatomy, and the Practice of Physic, who have been translated from the school to ihe corresponding chairs in the Medical department of the Uni ersity of New York, this will come to I #in a valuable addition to the A/useuin of the institution. The Museum of the Medical Department of ihejUniversity of New-York will in fact be iformed of three Museums; and as daily .additions are being made to it, so far as preparations can illustrate lectures, these will be dbunndantly provided by the Faculty.* . The Cabiuet of Materia Medica will . V ^ Pantflty will feel thankful to their ProfeskarnftM BMhren fur any specimens which they may*?iifribuie; ' ; i te well provided with specimens to ilfus- ]< irate the lectures of the Professor of that iepartment. And the Chemical apparatus will be extensive and calculated to exhibit brilliant and striking experiments and interest to the lectures of the Professor of Chemistry. VII. Practical Anatomy. It is unnecessary for the Faculty to say ane word on the importance of the cultivation of Practical A n itomy. It is admitted to be the foundation of a 9ound medical education. Impressed with the truth of this fact, every effort has been made by the Professors to afford to their students the best facilities for dissections; and thev hazard nothing in saying that they are unequalled in this country. No city in the Union furnishes the same supr ply of the materia/ for the study of Practical Anatomy, as the citv of New-YorkIndeed, it is a fact of notoriety, that a considerable part of the supply required in the dissecting-rooms of Philadelphia has heretofore been obtained from New York ; nnd a number of the other medical jchools in the country are mainly dependent on her, even for those subjects retired for the illustration of their enatomeal lectures. The dissecting-room of ;he Medical College of the University is s a Hall seventy-five by forty, with an devation of ceiling of twenty feet, furlished with every comfort and conveni;nce for making dissections. The Department of Practical Anatomy s under the control and direction of the Professor of Anatomy ; who has secured he assistance of able demonstrators. VIII. Regulations for tiie terms of Lectures, dec. Requisites for Graduation, &c. The Lectures of the Medical Department of the University of NewYork commence on the last Vfonday of October, and are continued intil the last day of February following, rhe Faculty have been induced to fix he comtnencement of their lectures, on ;he suggestion of soine gentlemen from he South, one week before the Medical !l?Ir Lectures commence in rnnauKipuiu. n ms been thought, that it would be very lesirable for the southern students to have t in their power to attend the Introducory Lectures delivered in New.York and | hose in Philadelphia. By commencing he lectures in New-York one week beore they begin in Philadelphia, this op* ortunity will be afforded them, and they the Faculty) believe that a large mar>rity of the gentlemen of the South, who ropose visting Philadelphia, will leave mme a week earlier than they would othrwise have done, and come on to New. fork to bo present at the introductory jctures. A visit to the great iMetropolis f their country, independently of the in. srest they may take in comparing the wo schools, will most certainly much lore than repay for the trouble of vising New-York. The examinations for degrees will ommence on the ffrst of March, and will e continued daily, utitil all the candidates hall have been examined. Tho following are the requisitions for he Diploma: 1st. The Candidate must be 21 years * _a?0, 1 ~ 14 I ? J 4>?w maiipcog 2d. He must nave fmeuucn l/UUI ov?.i | f Medical Lectures ; one of which must ave been delivered in the Medical De- ' artment of the University of New-York. 3d. The candidate mu-t have studied ledicine for three years,) the terms of ' ittending Lectures being included in he8e,) nnder the direction of a respccta- 1 le Medical Practitioner. 4th. He must write a Medical Thesis, ither in the English, Latin, or French inguage. Two Commencements take place anlually in the University, at either of vhich Candidates who have complied vith the above requisitions may graduate. The first takes place early in the month ?f March, and the other about the midlie of the month of July. The great tody of the candidates will no doubt, graduate at the Spring Commencement; tut those who wish to postpone it will lave the opportunity of coming forward in lulv. IX. Fees, (fee. &c. The Fee* for a fullcour'of Lectures imount to $105. The student can atend one or more of the courses, as he nay be dispo9Pd, and pay only tor the ectures for which he enters. The Fee for the Diploma is $30. The Fee for admission to the Dissecting[looms and Demonstration is $5. Alhough an attendance on the Dissecting[looms is considered by the Faculty to je most desirable, it is not obligatory. By a resolution of the Faculty, the members of the professon from every part >f the country, who are Graduates of Medicine, and who have been established in the Practice of their Profession for three years will, on presenting their lmploma to the Secretary, be admitted gratuitously to all tbe Lectures of the Institution. Erroneous opinions being entertained by gentlemen residing at a distance as to tbe expenses which a student must necessarily incur by attending Lectures in \ew-York, and it being known that many have been deterred from availing themselves of the advantages which this city offers foi the cultivation of Medical Science, the Faculty consider it their duty, to promulgate the following facts. In the Annual Announcement of the Medical Faculty of the University of Transylvania, the expense of board and lodging for medical students in Lexington, Kentucky, is stated to be " from $3 00 to $3 50 per iccck." Three collais, may betaken as a fair average of the price usually paid for beard and lodging by medical students, in the small towns where Medical Schools are situated. Xow, although the impression has gone abroad that a student cannot obtain board and lodging in the city of New-York, for twice that sura, the fact is, that very few of the students in attendanceLon lectures in Now-Yerk pay more than $3 00 per j week fdr their Board and Lodging.* In- ' deed, a considerable number of gentle- r men from distant parts of the country, ? attending the Lectures delivered by the Faculty of Arts and Science in the Uni- ' versitv, are lodged and boarded at $2 50 J per week. * So far, therefore, as the expenses in- s curred by the medical student for his * board and lodging during the term of his * attendance on Lectures are concerned, it * is demonstrated that these are not greater [ in New-York than in small towns.- { As it may be interesting for a student * residing at a distance to bo inforhied of the 1 different items of expense which he must 6 incur, should be determine to visit New J York, and attend a full course of Lectures f in the il/edical Department of the Univer- 1 sity, we subjoin the following table i ' Fees for the six courses of Lectures . #105 50 1 Dissecting Ticket, ' * 5 00 1 - An a Martriculalion Fee, o uu Board and lodgingTor sixteen ' weeks, ' - ' ' 49 00 y ; $163 00 j It has been urged, that the present ' state of the exchanges will have a tend- 1 r ency to induce the Southern students to F give a Medical School situated in one of the states where there is a suspension of ' specie payments a preference to New- ? York. All the payments for Tickets are ^ received by the professors in the current ' notes of the solvent Banks of the States, fi where the students respectively reside, and consequently the only money on ' which the students from the South will 1 lose by the exchanges, is the money ex. ponded in the payment of their Board, ' Ate. Allowing that in addition to his Lee- T ture Tickets, a student should expend * $*200; as the exchange between Pennsyl- ' vania, Maryland, Virginia and New-York ' varies from 3 to 4 per cent discount, his ' loss, at the utmost, will not exceed Eight * Dollars. * It has been the object of the 3/edical ' Faculty of the University of New-York I to embody in this their First 11 Annual Announcement," &c. as much informa- 1 tion ns the limits of the publication would ' permit. With confidence they address ( themselves to the members of the profes- * sion, and solicit their patronage and sup. * port. It is true that the 3/edical School ( of which they are members has just come into existence. Yet it comes before the ! public not without name and reputation, * but as one of the departments of a flour- ( ishing University. And it? Professors, ' although they now for the first time ad- ' dress themselves to their medical brethren * as Professors in the Uhivefsity of New- 1 Vrtrfc An nnf nlineal tn them'as strangers; I *" "? -rr ? ~ i on the contrary, having beert" for many years engaged as medical teachers in other institutions, they have the gratifying assurance that many, into whose hands this announcement will pass, have been their old pupils, and are still iheir sincere friends. Bv order of trrc Faculty, THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN. 1 JOHN W. DRAPER, Secretary. ' (?r P. S. As the Surgical Clinique ' af the Medical Department of the Universitv had not gone into operation when 1 this announcemens was prepared for the press, the Faculty could only in adverting to it, express their belief that it would "open a field to the medical student of the ' University, for the observation and study of surirerv. more extensive than any other ] I" ' O ' in this country." Although this Dispen- ' sary has only been open for three Satur. 1 flays, the number of surgical cases which have resorted to it for advice and opera- j tion, has more than realized their most sanguine anticipations, and warrant them { in asserting that a more interesting and ' * i valuable school for the Clinical Observe- , tion and Study of Surgery, does not ex- j ist in this or any other country. The limited space left in this circular will not ' allow of the publication of all the cases which have been prescribed for, and ope- ' rated on, since the Institution was cstab- ' tahiished three weeks since ; hut that the student residing at a distance muy form some idea of the extent of practice he will witness by an attendance on this Surgical CUnique, we publish below a list of the cases examined, prescribed for, explained, and operated on, by. the ProfesJ 1 ^ nn tho last sors of surgery ana ..viiiuuiiiy ...? .? day of their attendance at the Dispeosary, Saturday the 24th inst. .. .. I Two cases of ulceration of cornea, and inflammation of the eyes. Four cases of stammering; on three of these the operation of dividing the genio-hyo-glosssi was performed?on the other, as there was great elongation of the uctda ; Yearsley's operation was executed. One case of fracture of the radius in a child. One case of caries of temporal bone, with a large fungus growth from the meatus auditorius cxternus. One case of polypus from the bottom of meatus auditorius ex? j tenuis. To be operated on next Saturday. Two cases of syphilis. One case of congenitafphytnesis, with ulcernt on orglands. One case of Egyptian ophthalmia. A case of club foot' on which the operation of dividing the tendons was performed. A very bad case of white swelling, on which the flap operation of amputation of the thigh was performed. A case of the contraction of the fingers from a severe burn. VI.T.tV, tko iriotu nf nrpronlin(r. if nnssihle. JJ Kill illU WWW v. J/, w. .. p. , contraction from the operation, after the skin was removed from the palm of the hand, a corresponding portion of unitegment was taken from the fore-arm, and fitted in accordance with the principles of Rhinoplastic Surgery to the wound on the palm. There were, inaddition to fhese cases, about twenty others, which were, from | want of time, postponed until the follow^ ing Saturday. ~ ' " I C05CBESSI0NAL. i Washington, August 5. j The Senate was occupied the whole lay with the fortification bill, from the | louse. Numerous amendments . were | nade to the hill, which have clogged it ( o much that it may be rejected by the | iouse* The amendment appropriating | F5,000 dollars for the selection and pur- j :hase of a site, under the direction of the | President, for the erection of a national , irmory somewhere in the Western, North. . vestern, or Southwestern States, was, af. , er an earnest discussion, agreed to, 28 to { 11. The amendment was advocated on | he ground that an armory was necessary , 'or the defence of the West, and to avoid . he expense and delay of the transporta- < ion of arms from Springfield and Harp. , sr's Ferry. Mr. Clay opposed it, for he reasons that, though the subject had j men talked of in Congress for 20 years, , t had never been "acted on, arid that it j vas less proper to act upon it now# at the teel of an extra session, and when the fi- | lancial condition of the country would , tot warrant the expense; that the two irmories now in operation could manufac. ure 24.000 stand of arms a vear,. which vas adequate to the wants.of the country; ind that rail road and canal transporta. ion to the West, from Springfield and Sarper's Ferry, was now cheap and easy, ind would soon become more so, in the >rogress of improvements. Mr. Benton, said the West was to be >urdened with a national debt, and with i tea tax, salt tax, coffee tax, sugar tax, fee., for the government, and if they >ore all the burdens, they were entitled to tome of the benefits of the government. Amendments were also made for de'ensive works at Fort Smith, in Arkansas, tnd at Detroit. The exposed situation of the lake fionier was also the subject of discussion, and in amendment was carried, authorizing he President to expend 100,0ft0 dollars towards the defence of the Northwestern akss. by armed steamers, with a proviso hat the treaty stipulations in regard to the naval force kept by each party on [hose lakes, shall not be violated. The tiill, as amended, was ordered to be engrossed. Mr. Botts made a strong argument in mpport of the doctrine that a national >ank was constitutional, and that the question had been settled. He broached [he idea, also, that the President, under luch circumstances, hud no right to exercise the veto power. Mr. Proffit made rather an eccentric jpeerh, advocating a bank, and Mr. Ulay's bank?but fiercely opposing the compromise amendment to the bill which, le said, was attributed to the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Botts; He defended the right of the President to exercise the reto power, in this case, if he thought proper, and maintained that it was his Juty to do it, if he believed it to be uninstitutional. The whig party had not info nnwer on the bank question, i>r any other question, but by keeping all questions out of view except the single ane of displacing a corrupt administration. If the President saw fit to veto *he bank bill, it would not break up the whig party. Messrs. A V Brown of Tenn., and Grarable of Ga., spoke in support of the bill. Messrs. Weller, McKeon, Hubbard ind M Brown, in opposition to it. Washington, August 6. The Fiscal Bank bill was discussed from eleven o'clock, A. M., to eleven :>'clock, P. M. Much interest was given to the debate by the vigorous assaults which some of the friends of a Bank? Messrs. Marshall, of Ky., Adams, Underwood, and others made upon the 16th fundamental rule, respecting the assent and dissent of the States, and which is known as the compromise. Mr. Marshall confined his remarks to this provision of the bill, and exhibited its absurdity in so strong a point of view as to make a deep impression upon the House. He had been anxious, he said, to support this measLire, as he had supported every measure which his friends brought forward, but he 1J * fiia r>r?nor?ipnp.P and his ! CUliiU UUl nuiuib ma vwu-w.? ? duty to the country, by voting for the hill with this provision. He shewed that it was clearly unconstitutional, inasmuch as it allowed a State to withhold her assent from the placing of a branch within her limits, and then provided for the repeal of the State law thus made. There was no power to repeal a State, law legally and constitutionally made. The provis. ion also conceded powers belonging to the general government, long exercised by it and acquiesced in by the States; and he contended that it was not in the power of the general government either I to diminish or add to its constitutional powers. The clause combined the two extremes of consolidation and nullifica. tion; for, while it asserted power to abolish a State law, it authorized a State to limit the powers of the general government.? He protested against provoking ajid inviting a collision between the powers of the general government and of the States. Let this bill be passed, and it will open a thousand questions, now happily at rest. It will next be required that the assent of the States shall be asked to Revenue bills, - T?L . 1 4 to treaties, Otc. i ne general government will lose not onty the banking power, but the revenue power, the war power, and the power to regulate commerce. lie was for a bank?but he wanted a Bank of the United States?for the whole United States?not for a part. It was admitted that half a dozen or more States would refuse assent to the law; and the law would, therefore, operate, not generally, not coextensively with the Union, but partially and locally. Mr. Adams was also very powerful in his opposition to this pari of the bill. He also indicated his objections to various other of its details, and moved amendments accordingly. He moved to strike out that gart of the bill which prohibits iliens frottt holding or subscribing to the stock of the Bank. Mr. Wish was in favor of a bank, and bad no scruples as to its constitutionality; but he could not vote for this bill, on account of its objectionable details. He thanked Mr. Marshall for having saved bim the trouble of arguing tho compromise question. Mr M., he said, had raked that question, fore and aft, leaving not a jpar standing. He defended the veto power, and claimed for Mr. Tvler full right to exert it in this case, if he thought the law unconstitutional. The argument that he must yield his judgment to the Dpinion of his predecessors, or that be was bound by the decision of the Supreme Court, he considered a9 absurd and unconstitutional. Mr. Underwood opposed the compromise, and said he felt pity for the men wtfo could vote for the bill, with this compromise, and not for the bill without it. The Senate passed the Fortification bill, with amendments enough to destroy it. The bill extending the Charters of the District Banks was also passed. The Navy Pension bill was discussed. r** . %r .onnrlorl fh* RpVfnilS bill. If I 1 VliAX V|/VI bVU ?MV j with amendment*. FISCAL BANK.?August 6. On motion of Mr. Sergeant, the House resolved itself fnto committee of the Whole on the State of the Union (Mr. John C Clark, of New York, in the chair) on the bill to incorporate the subscribers to a Fiscal Bank of the United States. The pending question being on the (renewed) motion of Mr. Dean, to strike out the enacting clause of the bill. Mr. Roosevelt, after some remarks in relation to New York city politics, procceded to remark on the selection, at Harrisburg, of General Harrison as a candidate for the Presidency, which he ascribcd to a persuasion that, from former expressions of his opinions at different times, he might be considered as for a bank and no bank, tariff and no tariff, abolition and no abolition?all things to all men, as circumstances might render expedient. He represented the present Chief Magistrate as exhibiting a perfect j contrast in this respect; in support of which he referred to his printed speeches, j delivered seven years ago, since which j nothing had occurred to lead to any change in his sentiments. The United States Bank had fallen from the height and pinnacle of virtue and perfection into such a depth of infamy that its " odor of nationality" had become a stench in the nostrils of all men. Ho next commented on the result of the late election, which he attributed not so much to any political sentiment as to a general desire for a change. The people had heard of "Jackson and Van Buren" so long, that they wanted a new tune.? Mr. R expressed a good-natured acquiescence in the change, under the general maxim that in a republic it was not good for power to remain too long a time in tbe same hands. '* * -a* 1 tie men weni on imu some muumuij strains on the Sub-Treasury, insisting that it had worked well, and that the objections to it applied with equal justice to the employment of a bank as a fiscal agent of the government. Certificates of deposite would answer all purposes of circulation and exchange, and would avoid the evils of expansion and contraction. Mr. R then went into the constitu. tional argument, in reply to the remarks of Mr. Botts, whose inference from the coining clause would, if followed out, prove all State hanks to lie unconstitu. tional. He also contended that the np. pointment of a portion of the directors was inconsis'ent with the clause of the Constitution which referred to the ap. pointment of Government officers. Some explanations passed between Mr. R and Mr. Sergeant, touching the extent of the power conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase the residue of stock not subscribed. The reply of Mr. S was inaudible to the Reporter; and, soon after, the hour expired. * a -? A *i _ r Mr. King wtsned me opportunity 01 offering a few remarks in explanation of his rote for this bill, inasmuch as he had, at an early period of his public life, been strongly opposed to a National Bank. The substance of his remarks may briefly be stated as follows: 1 Experience had fully satisfied him that, in a country like ours, it was impossible to carry on the vast moss of trade and business with a metallic currency. In confirmation of this position he referred especially to the experiment once made by the city of Hamburg, and its result in banishing all specie from circulation, and the substituting for it of a currency of paper exclusively/ The framers of the Constitution had had in their eye a specie currency; but the necessities of the country had superseded such a scheme, and had introduced a universal circulation of paper money. Owing to the issues ot banks incorpor. ated by States independent of each other, it had become impossible to collect the taxes in a uniform manner throughout the Union ; for the depreciation of bank issues in different degrees in different parts of the country prevented the currency from being uniform. The States | bad no concert of action, and could not, if they should attempt it, effect a uniform, ity ; but their interest lay the other way, because they made money out of the expansions and contractions incidental to the existing state of the currency. Being the sole dealers in exchange, they profited by all fluctuations in it. Hence he argued the necessity of a national institution as a regulator of the currency. If he we e accused of sanctioning a principle which would authorize a protective tariff, and works of internal improve ment by the general government, his re* ply was, that the establishment ofa bank was a necessary incident to the money Jl power, which required that duties and taxes should lie uniform throughout the Union: whereas a protective tariff and internal improvement were not incidental to any one of the granted powers in the Constitution. To illustrate the regulating influence of a central institution, Mr. K. quoted the effect of the arrangement made hy the country banks in Massachusetts witk the Suffolk Bank in Boston to redeem their paper, which was, to keep their pa-per at par. And Mr. K had once supposed that the same thing might be effected by central State banks in each State; but he found it was impossible, because many parts of the country traded with more markets than one, and could* not make deposites in each to meet and redeem their notes, which consequently suffered depreciation. But a national bank would extend this same principle to the banks of the whole Union, and would keep the paper of solveat State banks always at par, or nearly so. . Mr. K next noticed the question which* had been raised whether bills of exchango did or did not constitute a portion of ttus currency in every commercial country. The late examinations by the Bank of England had put that question at rest by deciding it in the affirmative. Bills did: constitute a part of the currency, and rep. resented all exportable and transferable' commodities. Of six hundred millionsin bills, more than five hundred million;* were based on the products of the country*, lie then went into some statistical statements showing the amount of bills and! bank notes afloat in England and Wales1 ^ during the year 1839, which hecomparedl with the amount for the same year in thi? country. He stated as the result of the whole that, while the total average circu* lation of the United States for the last three years of the existence of the national Bank had been over six hundred and iifteen millions, that of the U. S. Bank hud been but eighteen millions; this certainly had not been of itself sufficient to make the currency uniform; and he therefore inferred that its comparative uni. formity must have been the result of theinfluence of that bank in regulating domestic exchanges. He compared with this condition' ef the exchanges and currency that eha<w tic, floating sea of our fiscal affairs which* had succeeded the destruction oftheBatikv What must be the condition of t$wt couni trv whose circulating medium wm n? one 1" ~ ~ D year 103 millions, tbe-following year 14t> millions, then 149 millions, tbett 119 millions, then 135 minions, and fhetv 106millions??thus increasing, and than sudI denly decreasing, by a difference of over 30 milhons in a single year. What cowrauoity on earth could long stand such a state of things? Mr. K estimated the annual amount of bills of exchange at five hundred millions; and, reckoning five per cent, premium on them, would show an annual loss to the people of the United^' States of 25 millions of dollars; malting, in the six years since the destruction of the bank, 150 millions; add to this the losses on the currency, and the total amount which the suh.Treasury scheme had cost this nntion might be set down at not lest than 250 millions. -Mr. K. admitted that a National Bank ^ could not wholly prevent, though it would ! greatly diminish, the fluctuations in our j foreign exchange The revulsions abroad j were, for the mast part, the result of short crops, though in some cases they wero certainly the result of over-trading: (but this latter cause had operated only since the fall of the Bank.) A National Bank , was a great palliative of losses from the j first cause, and exerted a powerful resi traint in preventing those from the latter. It was impossible that its place in this respect could be supplied by any Stato Ranks. When exchanges were fluctuating, people had not sufficient confidence >n Qtafo Rfinl/ iwaiioa h?n4>A their OOteS Uiuiii uuiin aouuu | vh?w > returned upon them, and all the specie was drawn from their vaults. Mr. K. thought the People had suffered enough and long enough ; nor would tbey suffer much longer for any man or set of of men. A sound and uniform currency they would have, if to have it was withi^ the compass of human power ; and whatever class of politicians withstood thai purpose, would find that they had run against a rock, on which they would be utterly wrecked, and cast, in disjointed fragments, on the tide of time- He believed that by the present Administration?or if it failed, then by some other which would take its currency as they had in the halcyon days of their commercial prosperity once enjoyed, could and would be accomplished : without it we could never prosper; for it was as uecessary to a great commercial People as was the circulation of the blood to the natural frame. Mr. W. fost Johnson obtained the flour about six minutes before the hour for debate was to expire. [Mr. Dawson, across. "Now Johnson, give them an evidence of the power of concentration !"] Mr. Johnson said that as it wanted but Ave minutes of the time by the minute hand of the clock when the committeo would be forced to rise and vote upon the Kill Ka hrtnnrl that his friend fro.n North ? *?l~~ ? . _ Carolina would allow him to a say a few words. Mr. Stanly consenting? Mr. Johnson proceeded, by 'saying that his principal reason for desiring to speak was occasioned from the fact that he had been on the Currency Committee, and had consented that it should report the bill which it did, without committing him. self upon the details is the House.' At.