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We observe that in Mr. Roebuck's tour of agitation from

lIreatmin- ster to Marylebone, he is not in his itinerancy followed by the Parlia- mentary joints of the tail which he flourished so successfully at the Crown and Anchor. Is it that Messrs. Leader and Grote have begun to discover, that in supporting his anti-national interests and connex- ions in Canada, they are likely to lose the support of their own con- stituents? If not yet, we think it likely Out these gentlemen, and every other Member representing a commercial constituency, will, in due time, find that they are considered to be acting in disregard of the interests of the trading community, and that if use interests, as well as those of the holders of property, will be against them.—liforning Chro- nicle. [ This extract shows to what an abject spirit the once Liberal Chronicle has been sunk, under its official connexions. The appeal to the pocket interest of that powerful, it may be, but comparatively email section of the trading community, who profit by time twofold in- justice done to this country and the Caundinne, is alike characteristic of the cause and of its Orme)). Does the writer suppose that either of the two Members whom be insults by his insinuation, would swerve one iota from a principle of justice, to secure the suffrages of any consti- tuency whatever, much less of one that should avow that they pre. ferred their own commercial advantages to the libel ties of a people?] A rumour has been put in circulation by some Tory.Whige, that a requisition will be presented to Mr. Leader culling upon him to resign his seat for Westminster, and another to Lord Dudley Stuart request- ing his Lordship to become a candidate to supply the vacancy. The parties to this wise project may as well be quiet. The vexatious delays consequent on the mode in which business is done at the Bank of England, are a subject of frequent complaint, and have been noticed on various occasions, although it would seem to not much purpose. On the subject of those in the Post-bill Office, a nor- respondent detuils the fruits of a most annoying experience. The process of business there may be described in his own words—" If the amount to be exchanged for a bank post-bill consists of notes and specie, the littler must be left in the hall, and a check or order obtained instead ; the notes arc marked and restored to the applicant ; who gives them with the order anti a paper stating the amount, the name of the drawer, and to whom the bill is payable, to the clerk who sits under the notice.board on which is inscribed ' Orders for Bank Post-bills taken here.' f his gentleman examines the particulars; end if found correct, he tells you that your bill will be ready in about ten minutes." The writer proceeds to say, that this information is by no means to be depended upon ; the time of detention being in many instances twenty minutes, and in some even half an hour. The causes of this delay, he thinks, can only be accounted for by the "slothfulness of the clerks engaged in the department." Upon this it is hardly possible or fair to pronounce ; but surely the system cannot be well arranged which leaves it at the option of any individual or set of individuals to obstruct the speedy transaction of current business. To commercial men in parti- cular, the loss of half an hour, or the half of it, is a serious inconve- nience, from the multiplied concerns in which they are engaged, and

when every moment before post-time is of the greatest importance.

The correspondent alluded to states, that ludicrous proofs may be found on the walls of the office of the manner in which the impatient nppli- cauts endeavour to divert themselves whilst under detention. These matters cannot surely be creditable to the establishment, and the Direc- tors should seek to apply a remedy.— Times.