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— . . * . jant~-scrupulously neat in attire—a perfect master of all the ‘petits soins’ of the drawing roon—and expert 1n all elegant trifings permissabie tn the ‘laisser aller ol the égala, Don Felipe Le Bran would have been a formid-| able rival against any worshipper of kid or eau de ologne, |

Le

nagistrate, forced hita to commence his scheme at once pressed state, and in the staples of Sugar and Cotton

and prematurely, ihe wished to avoid the suspicions of there is a further decline. ‘I'he retail business of the friends who he wished to save, or employers whoin he|country is also suffering extensively ; and general con- wished to deceive. | 1

. ‘Sumption is not a little affected by the state of the pub- And with this view, the moment he was free from the lic health, which occasions considerable alarm. Partial

that ever smirked and simpered over a Drusseis carpet,| presence of the ‘juez de paz,’ he flew to the * chacra’ of and whose acconplishments were contined to Carving a, Mendoza. | merry thought, singing on a flute, or tenderly composing) —* And how came you to know ofthe body that was! asonuet to the shadow or the shoe string of hus lady found opposite my door?’ suid Mendoza to Le Brun, as! love. _ {they were nding together,

Add toall these accomplishments the recommendation; * Why. sir, Mr. Thorne with a friend encountered it of a father, and none need be surprised that be was ajon coming from a party in the evening. They encoun- favored suitor of Anita Mendoza. tered some of—of the *Masorcheros” said Le Brun!

Such was Don Felipe Le Brun. We have given every (looking around him, and whispering the phrase); * and characteristic except that of honesty or principle; and taking fright, | sappose they requested to be taken to

et there could not have been more upright hovourable the police office for security ; and befure the magistrate rinciples than those with which Le Brun first commenc- he told what he had seen.’ ed and flourished in business, ‘Aud how happened you to be there ? urged Mendoza.

He had every requisite, and ali the knowledge neces-| ‘Sir, replied the other, mingling truth and falsehood sary for business on the largest and most acurate scale,| with great tact, ‘I had heard, nay knew, that the go- and every accomplishment that could adorn the active vernment were suspicious of you; the number of massa- and solace the retired lite of a gentleman. And in such |cres the preceding night alarmed me for your safety. uprightness of conduct Le Brun might and probably Making an excuse of a criminal complaint against a ser- would, have continued under any ordinary circumstances, vant, | repaired to the ‘juez de paz,’ to find out, if pos-

He lived under one of the most suspicious, corrupt. ‘sible, upon what grounds their suspicions were founded. | and tyrannical governments that ever existed. ‘he|‘hus we were engaged when Thorne entered. Whe- suspicious tyranny of Buenos Ayres extended even into ther he heard your name mentioned, | know not, but Mr. | ‘the private and domestic relationship of lite; and to ef-|‘Thorne, sir, is suspicious of me. Yes, sir, I verily be-| fect this,spies of every grade and quality were employed. |tieve that Mr. Thorne, in his jealousy—yes, it must be!

Now Le Brun being of foreign extractiou, and yet a jealousy of my favor in the eyes of your danghter, that’ native born and bred, moving in good society, betug a/makes Thorne suspect me. Good God! Mendoaa, to! respectable mérchant, and in a line of business that) what have | fallen when I should be suspected by an} brought him in daily contact with every momed man in idle, chainpaign-swilling babbler, of betraying the man the city, and even made him more or less acquainted to whom | am so much indebted, who, I may say, has with their means, resources, and transactions, was in made me what [ am, and who has it in his power to make every way suited to bean admirable agent of Rosas,and| me happy or miserable for life. Oh,sir, what a wretch- it was determined that it should be so, cost what it nnght/ed country this is, when one learns to distrust even their in time, money, and political influence. | best friends.

And well the secret agents knew how to lure the) ‘Come, come, Le Brun, not so bad as that yet. But ambitious, tempt the effeminate, force the timid, bribe) Don Felipe, bave [ not often told you that you were in the sordid, and flatter the vein. too high favor with these hypocritical cut-throat mis-

Slow and insidious were the approaches made to un-)creants in office.’ dermine the honor of Le Brun. No difficulty was ever| ‘And if I have found favor, which I never sought for, | experienced by him in shipping gold and silver without |have not you reaped the benefit more than me? What)

failures continue to occur at intervals in various parte of Lurope, but they are chiefly of houses of secondary importance,

‘The Corn market since the beginning of the month has been remarkably steady. On the market day of the (ith inst., prices continued unaltered at our last quota- tions; but on that day se’nnight the trade evinced a de- cided disposition to make purchases, and the finer and best conditioned descriptions advanced about Qs., whilst the common runs fetched about ls. per quarter above the previous week’s prices. Foreign Wheat has been but in moderate demand, without a change in prices till Monday last, when prices improved Is. per quarter. Flour has advanced 2s. per sack, and the best American Flour has become more free for sale, the nearest price being about 30s. per barrel for the best fresh Western Canal. Altogether, this week the Corn market has as- sumed amore active tone, to which the declaration of Ministers, that they do not contemplate any further sus- pension of the Corn and Navigation Laws, may have contributed. At any rate, there is a greater desire to get into stock, whilst holders are more firm. The stock of foreign Grain in our granaries is very large, b regards Wheat the quality is inferior, and chiefly unfit for British consumption. Reports respecting the rot in ye potatoes in various parts are again revived.

DEBATES IN PARLIAMEENT.

The long protracted debates on the currency have terminated in the appointment of a select committee in each House of Parliament for the investigation of the causes of the commercial distress in Great Britain, and how far it has been affected by the laws of 1819’ and 1844, After a careful study of the arguments adduced on all sides during the discussion which took place, we can only come to the conclusion that an overwhelming majority of both Houses will inevitably maintain, under any Circumstances, a convertible currency. For while

permits. A passport for a friend in trouble was always at his command; his goods were the first to pass through the custom house, and the first intelligence that could affect paper currency and exchange was always com- municated to Le Brun.

Such was some of the substantial proofs of favor, and still more numerous were the polite attentions showered on the intended agent of tyranny.

Now when an individual finds himself thus highly favored, without any exertion used, or any return re-| quired on his part, he becomes naturally disinclined to

have [ to fear from them, I, who am supposed to be of it 1s notorious that the Bank Charter Act of 1844 broke their party, rat them! Should your skins have passed) down at the very critical moment when its principle was the custom house? Could Mendoza’s gold, in Mendoza’s | put to the test, it must not be inferred that any change

often asked me to do for others.

name have been shipped to invest abroad ? Could Men- doza the Unitarian, have procured passports for the Uni- tarian brothers or ‘corpadres 2 And now, sir, at this very moment Iam seeking to do for you what you have That remark of yours, Mendoza, has nearly driven me distracted.’

‘Don Felipe, forgive me, we are too much bound up together for me to suspect you now.

Have you not the!

will be made in the principle of convertibility establish- ed by the act of 1819, and rendered more stringent and compulsory on the Bank Directors by the act of 1844. Lord John Russell in his speech expressed some vague hope that, by the collision of intelligent minds in the committees, some modification may be hit upon so as to enable the currency to work more practically. It is impossible to read the speeches of the most intelligent

believe any reports to the prejudice of those who treat) promise of my daughter’s hand ? have you not the com-|members, as Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, Mr.

him so well; and disposed to attribute the blame more,

to the complainant than the party complained of; or|ject of suspicion.

mand ofmy means? I believe, I know that I am an ob- I know that at the present time, the

I". 'T’. Baring, and his brother, on the opposite side, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Milson, Sir Wm. Clay, Mr. Edward

wrapping himself up in his own selfishness and self se-|:niscreants stand at no obstacles; that my money would! Ellice, and others, without feeling satisfied that they are curity, to go upon the maxim of ‘praising the ford as he be instruments to strengthen their hands. I know you/all thoroughly convinced of the correctness of their se- finds it.’ ‘have saved my friends, and I believe you are anxious to veral opinions; but whilst they all maintain the principle

So it was with Le Brun: from being a passive support-|save me. Forgive me for expressing my sentiments of of a convertible currency, none of them would be indis- er of Rosas, he was led onto be hisjustifier. He had so horror against those who render it necessary that honest | posed to alter the act of 1844 if any improvement can often been indebted to the good service of government) men and quiet citizens should seek means of security at}be suggested. Mr. Thomas Baring, whilst with his

officials, that he considered himself indebted to them

‘personally,’ and then politically--and then—‘ facilis, the G iown safety, but may he branded as traitors for so doing.’ ber was its orignal condemnation, does not venture for

descensus’—poor Le Brun!

Luis Mendoza had long been an object of avaricious’ suspicion to the government. He was rich, fond of; All these were crimes; and it | was known that he held correspondence with the friends.

foreigners—intelligent.

the hands of others.’ ‘ Aye, sir, and these others not only thereby risk their

‘So, Don Felipe, yon think that body on my pavement was a warning for me?’

‘No, Don Luis, it was not intended as a warning to you, but you are intended forthe same fate.’

‘You can have no proof of that, Don. Felipe.’

‘party he condemns the act of 1844, and argues that the letter of the Government to the Bank of the 25th Octo-

a moment to advocate such a state of things as existed lantecedent to 1819. It was remarkable, also, that ‘neither Mr. Spooner nor Mr. Muntz, the champions of unlimited and inconvertable issues, ventured to broach their extreme views in the House of Commons. From

of the enemy. if not with Rivera himself. | Be this as it may, he was no partisan of the govern-| ‘No, Don Luis, I have no ‘proof’ of that; but those the strong language used by Lord John Russell and Sir

ment, and the maxim of Rosis is, ‘those that are not for|who order such deeds only to’ inspire terror, will not Charles Wood, it is very evident that some reconstruc- me are‘against me.’ Mendoza was a marked man, and scruple at higher victims for greater advantages. tionof the Bank direction is contemplated. Under the Le Brun was set to mark him; and observe this, others Thorne’s bold accnsation, I may call it, of indifference plea that there is great difficulty to procure competent marked Le Brun. ‘or neglect on the part of the magistrate, and the way/and ‘qualified’ persons to fill the office of Governor of

O, how he now loathed his position ! the suitor of his your name was alluded to, will protect you from open the Bank of England, the Bank Directors have intimated intended victim’s daughter—the friend, the private friend jattack. The prison will be your first doom—I shudder to the Government that they would not be averse toa of the very man whose every motion he was to watch to think of what may follow. Thorne is a brave fellow,’ modification of their charter in that respect. Now, the and ‘report’—to betray the friend who reposed in him but he was made to brave themas he did. There is’ pratical effect sought by such a change, would not be to implicit trust. ‘not a‘ Masorchero’ in the city who does not thirst for mitigate the restrictive character of the act of 1844, but

Can the ingenuity of tyranny go further than this? his biood. ‘Thorne knows this, and defies them. I hate avowedly to place some one at the head of the Bank who Le Brun well knew that he held correspondence with him for his suspicions, but yet Mendoza, I admire him would avoid the blunders lately committed, and who at the Unitarian party, who were opposed to Rosas, but this —with a hundred men like him, this city would not now the first indication of derangement of the circulation he never reported. He knew well that Mendoza hated bea nest of cut throats. Yes,’ continued Le Brun, who from internal drain, excessive speculation, or adverse the tyranny and policy of the Federals, and the Unita-' felt pungently the whole truth of what he said, ‘their exchanges, from whatever cause, would be expected to rians expected to find in him a rich and influential sup- spies would be ashamed to show their degraded heads. raise the rate of discount at once, and thereby puta porter if ever their party predominated; and this he did| Masorcheros, afraid, aye, afraid to execute the hated stop to the mischief before it reached any alarming report, hecause he knew full well that government was commissions intrusted to them, and an end put tothe height. In point of fact, by this proceeding the Bank

aware of it.

Thus did Le Brun seek a middle course, until he al- most began to fancy that he was suspected himself; and thus, thoroughly disgusted with his position, he deter-

¢ ®fhined at last to free himself from his iznominious espio-

nage, give Mendoza warning of his perilous situation,

the country, he would then take the credit of giving in- forination when it would be too Jate.

Thus, he would gain time to arrange his own compli- cated affairs, seek ont Mendoza in his exile, and fulfil hia dearest hopes, by marrying Anita Mendoza.

Such was the scheme which Le Brun had formed to extricate himseif from the troubled waters in which he

| wed himself beginning to flounder; and in this scheme he would no doubt have succeeded, had not the accidental incarceration of our honest friend Tom ‘Thorne, and the bold freedom of his speech before the

whole brutal cowardly system, which none can more detest and deplore than I do. To be concluded next week.

— pouries AND UEWs,

and when everything was arranged for his escape from!

~ News by the last English Mail.

[From the European Times.]}

COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. ince onr last publication, we regret to state that commercial affairs have not improved to that extent which the increased facilities in the discount market might have been supposed to warrant. In the manufac- turing districts there is more employment, but the mar-

kets for all descriptions of produce contine ina very de-

Act of 1844 would be made more stringent than ever. But as we doubt whether the vast island and foreign trade of this great country could be carried on profitably with a constantly fluctuating interest, ranging perha higher than five per cent., and as we should fear that commercial intercourse with distant countries especially, would be liable to perpetual interruption by the incess- ant interference of the Bank of England, we should be very sorry to see so much additional real power vested in that institution, which from its vast capital, and enor- mous public and private deposits, has excercised already much too despotic an influence over the destinies and fortunes of British and foreign merchants. _ With reference to this complicated question, Major Beresford, on the part of Mr. Herries, has given notice of a motion in the House of Commons that, during the investigation of the committee, ‘itis expedient that the ‘limitations of the act of 1844 on the Bank of England, im

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