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Show ' CURRENCY. I Now York, 19. Private advices ; from Havana lo Cuba merchants 1 here, say that Commissioner Do La ( Fonda, engaged in tho examination of tho allitirsuf the Spanish bank, has ascertained that that institution has issued $101,000, OUO in paper currency, cur-rency, instead of 00,000,000, which the bath; had acknowledged in their 'published stalemenL: and that their capital is only o0,u00,000. Further, i that the basis lor this over issue has 1 been a loan to the Captain-General of not less than o0, 000,000 in paper currency, without specie to back up tho notes, In addition lo this story a large' . quantity of counterfeit bills have been discovered. Many persons are exchanging their currency for real estate and buildings, holders of paper, money being far more anxious to have properly in building than to hold any quantity of depreciating currency. |