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The failure of the house of s. V. s. Wilder & Co. business circles.

 The house that has thus fallen victim to gigan- tic and disastrous speculations on credit, was re. garded among the most staunch in New York. The New York agents for the wealthy house of Hot tiaguer Co. of Paris, bold and heretofore success full in business, having cleared in season $l50, 900 by adventures on cotton; Wilder & Co. was looked upon as almost beyond the reach of casualty. The result shows that their immense credit has been able to withstand the adverse turn of one two bad seasons. We express no opinion, for we are not merchant enough hold one, in community composed of many veterans in that honorable calling but we cannot forbear to suggest whether the un- expected failure of this house, high in influences wealth and credit in the commercial world, ought not to induce careful inquiry into the character of the system upon which the whole cotton business of South the is conducted1 Is it false system? Is tright, that men living in N. York should enjey monopoly of the right of dealing in millions without one dollar outlay-that they should enjoy credit in Southern Banks, which our citzens, never dream of hoping for-that these houses should send their agents here, taken clerks from their own counting rooms. to conduct the most immense operations on the tunds of our banks, while young men bred to trade at the South and not enjoying the advantage of

 business acqsaintance with these nabobs in specu- lation. are left either idle, to make living ss they can in the lowest walks of ftrade, to which the Northern houses do not condeseend to stoop? We not to be understood to blame those, who having these immense advantages thrown in their way, en- joy tbem.-We count among this class, some of our best personal friends. and they are among the most upright of men. It is the system as system, that appears ts us, to be unjust in principle and danger GUS in praetice.-The failure now before us is an instance the danger, and believe all admit its n justice. This community has been involved in pro- bable losses of over $sOo. 900 by this single explo sioa It has fallen on some of most prudent and respectable houses. Who is safel M