MR. PEEL'S BILL.
WE have often heard of the terrible effects of the Bill for Suppressing Small Notes, but we were not aware of the full extent of its influ- ence. A pamphleteer of the day, deeply read in the mysteries of the London Prices Current, has made out a series of tables from that useful repository of marketable knowledge, from which it appears, that the prices of French brandy, of Spanish barilla, Carolina rice, Jamaica rum, Demerary coffee, Smyrna raisins, and African ivory, have fallen 50 per cent! to which we may add, from our own private list, that Otaheita paper shawls, New Zealand dried heads, Sandwich Island pathos, and Oonalashka cloaks, have fallen 60 per cent ! In a word, in all quarters of the world, and in all possible ways, this un- .happy bill has been operating. Every one knows, that since 1829 the Constitution has fallen,-arid have not the Argyll Rooms and the English Opera-house fallen also ? And did not the rain fall last summer, and the snow last winter ? Nay, it is confidently whispered that the firmament is cracking over our heads, and unless the cur- rency be restored to a healthy state, that it will not hang another year. And if it fall—mercy on us !—the price of larks will fall all to nothing ! Oh, Mr. PEEL Mr. PEEL that act of yours will be the death of us.
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