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Complaints of dulness of trade in the manufacturing districts still
continue. The failure of Spring orders from the United States is the chief cause. Injudicious restrictions on trade, and a curreney resting on a false basis in both countries, have been the origin of the commercial embarrassments in both. Perfectly free trade in every thing, in money aa well as other articles, and the entire disjunction of government Silence from mercantile speculation, is the only remedy.— Glasgow Argus.