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 The bill for districting the state, now before the House of Representatives, proposes that there be not less than lS nor more than "A Senators chosen by. the districts-that the Legislature for 1928 district the state for the choice of Senators, and determine the num- Der for each Gistrict-the number of districts to be from to 18, (no town to be divided) to continue until the next census, and to be reg ulated accordingly afterwards. When regu- lated agreeably to the census, no alteration to take place in the districts or number of Sena- tors, oftener than once in ten years. On the first Monday of April, 1880, and annually thereafter, the freemen to choose senators, the candidates residing in the districts. The candidates having plurality of votes to be elected, and should a tie occur, the decision to be left to the House of Representatives.

 In many papers wise speculations are enter ed into in relation to inc resignation of seven of the principal ministers of the British Cabi net-the causes of such resignation, and the probable consequences which may grow out of the measure. The most rational one which we have seen stated is, that Mir. Can ming, the newly elected Premier, does not possess by birth, noble blood, although all seem willing to acknowledge that he possesses ccr- tain qualifcations-Nhether the consequences of patrician or a plebian birth we know not

 ;nb T,u khn Ao1 nrl of his noble opponents. Mir. Canning is, and we presume vii! continue to be, supported in his now and responsible station, not only by the crown, but by the mass ofthe English na- ton. The mighty powers of his mind will not suffer the spleen of band of aristocratc to work to the injury of his country. London papers, to the l6th of April, say that he has already selected a new cabinet, and give the following as the list:-

 Sir John Copely to be Lord Chancellor. Lord Granville to be Foreign Secretary.

 MT. Robinson, (with Peerage) Colonial Secretary.

 Mr. Huskisson Home Secretary, (this not certainly

 Lords Dudley aud Ward, Privy Seal.

 Lord Carlisle, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Duke of Dcvonsllire, Lord Chamberlain, (not certainly

 Marquis of Anslesca, Master of the Ord nance.

 Lord Bexley is allowed to come back to the Cabinet.

 The Marquis of Anglesea. We understand, IS likely to be appointed Master General of the Ordnance.

 The new title of Mr. Robinson IS Lord Strathearn.

 The report of the agents ofthe Eagle bank states that nearly all the debts which grew out ofthe ordinary, or honest business of the bank have already been paid; but that fifteen hun dred thousand dollars are yet outstanding,- The agents further state, that they "have reason to believe that great amount of prop erty belonging the debtors has been secreted or withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the state; but as some of the principal debtors are now confined in the state, they are not without expectation that further collections,by compromise or otherwise, will be made. Un- der these circumstances very little, as yet has been collected to constitute fund for divi dend among the creditors of the bank. The agents have not deemed it advisable to avail themselves of the provisions of the act of 1926 which authorizes the superior court to limit the time ofexhibiting claims, and to declare a dividend thereon, believing that the interests 1.-the creditors would be thereby promoted. The sum of the money obtained by fraudulent and illegal means, which has confined hun dreds of cOnvicts in our jails and penitentia- ries, will fall far short, we believe, of the a. mount swindled out of the public by the care less or rillanous conduct of the president of the Eagle Bank

 Counterfeit one dollar notes of the Manhat- ian Bank of New-York, and also of the N. J. State Bank at Newark, payable at the Me chanics' Bank in New Ork, are said to be in circulation. The former are marked with the letters Ii, dated Dec. e6, 1926. The plate is good, and the signatures well calculated to

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