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M. VAN BUREN. MONEY AND BUSINESS MATTERS. The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 17,says-Yesterday was a dull day in out-door transactions. Money 14 per cent in a month. United States Bank 16: a 17; Girard 28: State Fives 71. The complaints are loud and deep with regard to the inaction of our State Legislature. There is, says an afternoon contemporary, a constant and general demand for small notes, and for the imperfect supply in circulation we are indebted to oth er States, and use any trash that may come to hand. It is the people of limited means and small business who feel the want of cur rency most severly, and yet for the suffering mass nothing is done. This apathy is unaccountable, and is by no means calcula ted to increase the popular ty of the members who share it. We should be glad, in common with most of our fellow citizens, to have some explanation of the cause, from those who are in the secrets of the Capitol. Our New York friends are getting into sad confusion with regard to their Banks.Most of the brokers refuse to purchase the Red Back Notes, as late as Monday and Tuesday, thirteen of these Institutions stopped payment, nomely; Millers' Bank of Clyde; Farmers. Bank of Seneca county: Tonawanda Bank; N. York City Trust and Banking Co., [fraud]; Tenth Ward Bank. N. Y.; Chelsea Bank. do.: Staten Island Bank, do : Erie county Bank of Western N. Y., Rochester; Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Batavia; Binghampton Bank. The Albany Argus savs: On Wednesday, the following were thrown out by the agents of this city, viz:-Bank of America, Buffalo, Merchants' Exchange, do. And finally yesterday the explosion became general,and the agents threw out the following:-Mechanics' Bank of Buffalo; of United States do.; Phoenix do.; Bank Commerce do.; Bank of Brockport; Catteraugus county Bank; Bank of Lodi; St. Lawrence Bank. The two latter banks it is supposed will furnish their age nts with funds to go and keep up their redemptions in a short time; the officers and some of the stockholders of the St. Lawrence Bank particularly, being among the most wealthy citizens of St. Law rence country. The same puper states that the panic burst so suddenly upon the Agencies of the Associations,thst the funds placed with them were exhausted before they could arrange to meet such an extraordinary demand. By a singular, if not an inadmissible construction of the law. by the late Comptroller r. Cooke) preference has been given in the redeptions from the deposite in his hands to those who were the first to appear with their prostests. The Couriorand Enquirer states that business was never duller in that city than at the present moment.--It would seem then, that our neighbours have very little to brag of. Twenty or thirty of their specie paying Bankshave already been discredited. and their condition is any thing but enviable. If The Pennsylvania Legislature would only give us small notes, we should hold ourselves in quite as good a condition as those who have been charging us with bankruptcy.The Buffalo Commercial says: Exchange continues to advance daily. and at such a rate as amounts almost to prohibition. The rates on uncurrent to-day are as follows: Eastern 1 a 2; Can da 6; Ohio, In dianna, Kentucky and Virginia, 8; Illinois 15; Michigan 20 per cent discount all around.
