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NEW YORK AS A FINANCIAL CENTRE. ITS PAST, ITS PRESENT, ITS FUTURE.—BANKING DECADENCE.—GROWTH OF INTERIOR CENTRES.—OBSTRUCTION FROM THE NATIONAL BANK LAWS.—RELIEF DEMANDED.—REQUIREMENTS OF THE FUTURE. What New York has been as a centre for the settlement of financial transactions is a matter of history; what it is destined to be, in that respect, may not be so entirely certain as some people hastily assume. There are some facts which seem to suggest the question whether our city may prove able to retain its …