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Philadelphia. [Correspondence of the Herald.] PHILADELPHIA, March 11, 1842. The Rumor of Gov, Porter's Visit untrue-Banks that will Resume-Stocks-Dr. Lardner's Quarrel with Manager Pratt. The rumor that Governor Porter is in town, for the purpose of consulting Horace Binney, Esq., as to the constitutionality of the resumption law, is without foundation. If the Governor wants advice, he can obtain it from his Secretary, Mr. Parsons, good and as sound as from any other source-not that Horace Binney is not also very able to give an opinion. It is understood that the Commercial Bank and the Philadelphia Bank have, through their boards of directors, resolved to resume on the resumption bill becoming a law. The North America, the Western, the Kensington, the Southwark, and the Moyamensing, it is understood, will also follow in the same course. The last named is the only "accepting" bank, as it is termed-the only one of the banks that issued relief notes, that has yet given indication that it will resume. The opinion prevails to some extent to day, that the banks of this class will generally contest the constitutionality of the law. Weshallsee. Business in stocks was very light today, at prices the same as yesterday. U. S. Bank notes 51 per cent discount; country relief notes have improved 4or 5 per cent; specie 4 per cent premium. Dr. Lardner continues to draw splendid audiences at the Chesnut street theatre-Jarge, fashionable and intellectual. Notwithstanding these large houses, and consequently large profits, because of the small expense, a difficulty, I regret to learn, has occurred between the lecturer and the management of the theatre, relative to the division of the receipts. The Doctor complains that the portion paid him is of a more depreciated character than that which is retained-hence the wide and apparently irreconcilable difference that has sprung up. PHILADELPHIA, March 10, 1842. Rumours from Washington-Complaints against the Girard Bank-Bank Resumption-Rumors-Stocks -Jefferson College-Movement against the United States Bank Assignees-Theatres, &c. It is said here that James Gordon Bennett has been treated at Washington by the President, to ublic dinner. This is asserted as truth, to which there is added a rumor that some change is about to take place in the Cabinet, and that the head of the Treasury Department will in all probability be assigned to this same James Gordon Bennett. From the uneasiness evinced in the elite and financial ci:cles, 1 am deeply concerned for the fate of his particular friend James Watson Webb. You will break the news to him as gently as possible. The Girard Bank is the subject of some considerable conversation among her creditors and stockbolders. It is said that a committee of the direc. torsarein sessionat the bank, engaged in reducing e her assets to availability as fast as possible, and t that the lerks daily amuse themselves by bandying jests across her counters, and over her empty k vaults. There is, however, too dead a silence pert vading these movements, and those most interested are uneasy. Rumor says that though the If cashier has not been dismissed, his salary d has been stopped. This of coure he will not care about if the assertion be true that his laay has lately fell heir to a fortune of $200,000 by the death of an uncle. There is a great diversity of opinion here to-day, respecting the resumption of specie payments by O our banks. Nothing has been heard from the banks themselves, as to whether they mean to ree spect the law or not. I am still of the opinion that kthey all, or near all, will A rumor is in circulation i. prejudicial to the solvency of one of our banks; bnt am unable to trace it to any authentic source. It e probably originated from the low price at which its e, stock is selling. y The business in stocks to-day was very light, at 1prices the same as yesterday, except in States Fives, which fell off another dollar on a share. Exchange d on New York, and specie, have both advanced h. little. The rate day is from to 5 premium. e At the commencement of Jeffersen Medical Cel lege to day, at the Musical Fund Hall, the ceremonies were of the most imposing character. The e valedictory was pronounced by Professor Houston he The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon sixty young gentlemen, from almost every on State in the Union, except New York. er Citations were sued out of the Court of Com er mon Pleas to-day, at the suit of Mr. Schwal of 's your city, against all of the several setts of the assignees of the United States Bank The object a to require these assignees to give security in doust ble the amount of the trust confided to them. ch This is more than any set of men will attempt, and if the motion can be sustained. the object sought at the late meeting of the stockholders may be rreached, to wit, a new and general assignment 0. for the equal benefit of all creditors at Mrs. Shaw made her appearance last night, the Chesnut street theatre, as Juliet" to a very ngood house--and which, but for the weather, y, haver doubt would have been much better.
