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Show SILVER IN INDIA. AN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT OR THE GOLD STANDARD. Is the Way in Which to Oive StahilJk,. 4t the Value of the Hupeo Other News From Foreign Lauds by Cable. Loxnoy, Feb. 30. A dispatch to tho Timet from Calcutta says the address presented the government by the Bengal chamber of commerce com-merce on the subject of exchange says it is impossible for the men in business to have any confidence in the future value of the rupee. It addB, It is the belief of the members mem-bers of the chamber of commerce that there is no complete remedy for the fluctuations in ratel of exchaugo except by either establishment estab-lishment by an international agreement for a system of free coinage both of gold and silver at li.xed rates, or the adoption of the gold standard by Iudia. Failing iu these remedies they see nothing in the fuhue except ex-cept the gradual demonetization of silver by one country after another with violent and endless fluctuations in the relative values of gold and silver and the fall In tho value of the rupee is impossible to predict. |