According to the best private accounts from New York, there
is little prospect of the quarrel between the United States Bank and the Government being adjusted and another charter obtained during the approaching sitting of Congress. Nothing short of compulsion would, it is well.known, induce General Jackson to assent to any such measure ; and in the new elections the Bank, it is said, is losing ground, not obtaining more than one-third of the votes in some of the States. It was thought that the policy of the Government at Washington, and also of that of many of the separate States, would be to abstain from granting charters or exclusive privileges to banks of any description, leaving the trade in money open to all. It is supposed also, that all notes of small value will be put out of circulation in the United States in the course of the next spring. The proceedings of Congress alto- gether are likely to possess more interest in Europe than has been the case for several preceding sessions.— Macs.
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