A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian mentions a case which
has recently occurred respecting the liability of the acceptor of a bill of exchange to pta• a forged acceptance of the same amount due on the same day, whiel was presented at the banker's in London a few hours before the genube bill, and was paid, whilst the genuine bill was dis- honoured. It Itpears to be a point on which much legal argument is likely to be emiloyed ; for the London bankers, who had never before seen the signatire of the acceptor, had no means of ascerta:ning whe- ther the acceptnce was a forgery, and they were bound to pay the amount as advied by the banker at Bolton. It has not been the cus- tom for bankes in the country to transmit to their London agents the real signaturesof the acceptors of bills which they advise ; therefore there was no eglect of ordinary precaution on the part of the country banker.
Great apprhensions are entertained in Paris in consequence of the rising of theSeine, which is almost unexampled. In other parts of France the Sods have been extensive and injurious. Great damage has been doe at Bordeaux by the united influence of the heavy floods and the sprig-tides. All the land in the neighbourhood of the river is overfiowe. The village of Verdun was expected to be completely under wate, it the Medoc, a great portion of the arable land is sub- merged ; ad It was dreaded that to sow the land, which has not hi- therto beemracticable, would be impossible this year. A somewhat similar fat has befallen several portions of England ; and it should instruct stirs time to look out for a short harvest next year.—Courier.
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