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-... WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 1852.

 "The long agony is over," Col Benton tin-. ished his speech to-day of full four days con tinuance. It was great. enormously great It is true, he has repeated the most of it three times before ii the Senate, and three ditierent editions oft have been pablished and dIstrlbnt- ed through the country, to prejudice the pub lie mind against the Bank. Stili, he has am pliied-for he has never been over three days in delivering it before; and then it has age

 and why may not speech be as much i'm proved by age. as cheese or wine! That It was a tremendous great speech, you will have the Globe for a sponsor. The Honorable gen tenan, for the third time resarted to that beautiful figure for the purpose of illustration, of which he may claim the authorship. MT. President-I say Mir. President the Bank of the Upited States-that monster-controis the destinies of this nation as easily as boy leads pig in a string; or as easily as the Bank of England led Mir. Pitt ]" Notwith- standing the great powers of Mir. Benton Tn debate, there is an unacconntable prejudice d. gainst him on this side of the mountain, and his merits are only cknowledgrd q" in his be- loved far West;' and l suppose the farther west you go, the greater is his reputat"n, so that on the west side of the Rocky Mountains, he is acknowledged to be a real steamhoat.- This prejudice, for cannot account for it in any other way, drove the audience into the galleries of the House of Representatives. to hear MT. Binney. W. y. Ado.