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BANK OF MIDDLETOWN. It is with pleasure we are enabled to lay before our readers the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Directors of this institution on the 15th inst. If all banks were to pursue this course, public confidence would increase the circulation of their notes, & few of them would be compelled to close doors in consequence of runs for specie. The resolution speaks for itself; and is but another compliment to its vigilant and enterprising Cashier, who has made it so useful to the public and SO profitable to stockholders. We subjoin the resolution without further comment. Resolved, That the directors of the Bank of Middletown deeply regret the necessity for the temporary suspension of specie payments, forced upon the interior of the country, by the suspension in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore ; and having the fullest confidence in this bank to fulfil all its engagements and liabilities, the President, Directors and Cashier, have determined to pledge, and they will individually and collectively pledge, their private fortunes for the ultimate redemption of all the notes of the bank in circulation, until circumstances again permit the resumption of specie payments. BENJ. JORDAN, Pres't. SIMON CAMERON, Cashier.