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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
April
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tho last arrival from England brough scarcely ony thing of importance. Th Bank of Messvs. Wjgaey &. Co. ior forty years the most eminent banking establish ment at Brighton, stopped paymenton th 5th of March. Debts due from American States. - W underLtan3 tliut very decisive meaaure are about to be adopted for the recovery o debts due by states of the American Union to British suhjects. Mr. R. Crichton Wyl lie, himself a. creditor, authorized by othe holders of American securities, to represent them, has embarked in iKe Columbia Btoumer for New Yoik. f lis first objee will douutiess be to resist and counterac the dangerous doctrine of the repudiation of certaiti English claims on Acnericai states, - a doctrine equally dishonest anc dangernus, but set up by sume aulhoriües in the Union. The amount of Bniish mon ey invcsted n American state bonds banks, canal and railroada shares, is from 20 to25 millions. Texas. - Nothing of much i-mportance has been heard from this country. Orders have been given the Texan army to cross the Rio Grande, preparatory to an aggressive muvemenl on Mexico. ♦Volunteers and supplies are continualK íurn8hed from the South for the Texan army. Why do we not have a proclamalion from the President,such tia was issuec by the Government during ihe Canada disturbances? Thefollowing extract from the Memphis Enquirer shows the[Southern feeling towarda Texas. Texas. - A gentleman arrived this morning from New Orleans, sia-tes thal a ves sel with munitions and supplies, and 500 volunteers, ieft this city for Gajvcslon on Tuesday. A third and still more enthusiastic and protracted meeting of the cisizens of memphis was held last night, at which about eight hundred dollars in cash was contributed by the gentlemen and ladies. Our gailant volunteers, from80 to 100 in number, are expected to leave on MoVjday, or Tuesday at the fartherest. Between 1,500 and $2,000 have been raised for them by our noble and valianl hearted pitizens and slrangers. We also learn that our Somerville, LaGrange, Holly Springs, and other sisler tuwns, are rnovin