... HOUSE or COMMONS, TuefJay, June tx. The Houfe in a Committee 'went through the Aflets, and Imports and Exports Bills. The Gold Standard Bill, and the Northern Light Houfes Bill was read a third time, and paffed. M-SSACfc FROM HIS MAJESTY. Mr. Secretary Dundas ...

... countries, with which chiefly we had mercantile dealings, silver was the standard, and it was impossible, if we had a gold standard, that we could ever have a par of exchange with them, His lordship, after illnstrating his positions, and relying upon ...

... sufficieul keep the metallic cash pay minis six moi.lhs alter In. Hank ot F. currency, the Bank were obliged to issue gold standard land; they had the a.ilhioily ..I the floverm.r fur siaimg. of Jf3 17s. |»JU perm hick others could immediately ex- that ...

... terms: 4. That it is expedient provide law. that from the Ist February , 1820, the Bank shall liable to deliver, demand, gold standard fineness having been assayed and stamped at his Majesty's Mint, quantity of not less than sixty ounces being required in ...

... Liverpool, answer the Marquis of Lansdown, observed, that all the arguments in favour of'tbe substitution of a silver for a gold standard, might be resolved kit© the convenience of evading a full paywatat, In other words, cheating the public and all private ...

... considered that any change in the currency would, certain extent, by defrauding public creditor, preferring a silvei a gold standard. In the firstpint of hi* Majesty’s Speech, it is declared that his Government had remained faithful j the principles wh'cb ...

... opinion, however, that, if it bad not been altered, there would have been agri. ullnr d protection. If instead restoring the gold .standard, the Ooycriirnent his country had adhered to the stem currency it had existed at the close of the war, apply ini! such ...

... and exhausts the vital function, upon whieh the exlslenco of tlio communUy deiienils. The fact Is. re-lnli odnetlon Hie gold standard has raised the nine of money, or in oflier words, cheapooed evety article la the country, and dlywod corresponding portion ...

... perhaps, not L2,ooo,oolt—Sir James is quite Rin his assertion as to our attempting to pay off the Lailfo,oolJ,ooo. debt in a gold standard. There is no such operation going forward, and the only operation that we can see is the one we have stated. But even the ...

... contemplate the enhanced value of money, occasioned by the impression of the small paper currency, and the adoption of a high gold standard, unaccompanied by a proportioned reduction of taxation, without rutertaining an earnest desire that your Honourable House ...

... DOUSE OF COM MONS—Wgmenmr. Mr. I)enison presented a petition from Air. Coldietti praying ihe house not to chauge the gold standard and tilthititide a fictitious currency. Tim petitioner also pray (41 lid- reform and a reduction of taxation. The Lon. ...

... repeal eat of the Act as pielibited the issue ut s LS. 31r. E. coincided with views of the Lt speaker. The adeption of the gold standard r. t!neing the prices here to a level with pots the ; hilt: adopting a silver stanuarei, wouid at ,i,t c re liter the burdens ...