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BAEKRuPr BILL.-Mr. Bernard, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in recent speech on the Bankrupt bilI stated that 97 out of every hundred merchants in this country become insolvenI This extraordinary fact is gathered, believe, from sta- tisiical Information on the subject. He estimates the whole number of bankrupts at 100000.

 T~u o'clock on the l4th inst. was fixed upon by Mr. Clay fof taking the vote this measure. On that day the bank bill, il was expected, would be turned. This was not done, and the very who votsd for ,the decision, moved a reconsideration, which was carried-thus leaving the bill open for farther discussion. What effect the veto will have on the measure is not yet known. Mir. Wise in his speech on it, said--t g.

 The bill did not sit his constituents and he should vote against il. He hud sincere Sympathy for the unfortunate debtor and feeling so a did not wish to keep him the tenter hooks of hope. He would tell every poor tat aey loEid get bankrupf bill ts sessiOa. And he would give them no reason for it, at present. The majority would not pass it without the happening of cetaa coating sney and Ihey wanted il to make political capital out of The passage of this bill would be popular with large number of the ctLehb, Dut TIC would inform members that It's repeal would be still more popslar measure hereafter.

 Referring to the manoeuyre by which his party de- ferred the question,

 "Mr. Wise, would say to every such unfortunate man who looking, with fearful eye, toward that House for hope, that his hopes had been atered only to be betrayed; he would get no bankrupt bill this session. Gentlemen intended to use this bill as SO much political capital, and to allow it pass not to pass, on certain contingencies.

 "lt had been calculated that the bankrupts were sufficiently numerous to turn the majority in five States, giving s9 electoral votes, and made state ment showing what had been the state of the polls in these States at the last Presidential election. The States he said, were New York, Pennsylvania, Maine and two others.

 "He gave the bankrupts warning that they had been weighed, and with very great nicety, in the scales, not of justice, but of political influence, and he feared it would be found that their scale kicked | the beam. They like mice in the receiver of an air pump, being experimented upon. While haste and precipitation had marked the proceedings of the House in reference to every other bill of the session, on this alone gentleman seemed to think themselves at liberty to irfe."