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ing balance against the government at the close o the year amounting to one hundred and thirty-two thousand three hundred snd thiry-one dollars and thirty-two cents

 For country abounding in resources as this does. and under government proverbia iorits rigid eco nomy in expenditure is it not remarkable that there should be an annual increase of the deficit in the public Treasury?

 If iudicious and timely movement is not made on the part of the Legislature graduolto check the growing evil, how long will it be, beort their sue cesssors will from indispensable necessity, have to lay the hand of taxation with oppressive weight up on their constituents

 There are those, know who rely much on our Stock in Bank to meet the exgencies of govern ment-a huriful deluson fear, should il eveIbe the disposition of the Legislature, so to apply the funds of that institution-ior, although in the twq banks tine amount of stock reported, is S7SI, 2S 69, it can hardly be considered as safe and permanent re- source for the support of government.

 Judging of the future from the past, of the un- known, from what we do know respecting the Bank Of the Commonwealth, its failures deialcatious, and rObberes, how can we the constituted guardians of the rights of the people, any longer confde in the in tegrity, in the faithful management of suchan in- stution For although the withdrawal of the Branches and the destruction of the paper may in some degree, operate safeguard against negli- gence misconduct in future we have yet td learn the extent of the evil resulting from defalcatons and other wrongs already committed.

 It IS in the discharge of an unpleasant but an in- dispensable duty, that would respectfully makethe suggestion whether il is not expedient to trowad- ditional guards around this all contamnating rstitu- tion 4.F .f

 Tine moral sense of the community IS not extinct although it has not yet been reused into acion.-We act under the highest responsibility to that commuu- ty. We are aware of the treachery of some of its agents. We owe it to our constituents, as well as to the Bank agents themselves, to draw line of dis tlncon between the faithful and aithless; and fur thermore to ascertain, as nearly as we can, what amount of our bank funds may be estimated as aral 0bie now or hereafter. With these objects in view, will ii not be well to require report, in which shall be set forth the debts which may be considered as unquestonably good; the doubtful and the despe- rate? Let us no longer be told of inc indeicacv of exposing bank secretS-Where all is sound there will be no shrinking from exposure-Iis the Bank of the the people, aud therefore. where its net sound the people and their representatives ought to know it