The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-14 00:00:00

SCOTCH NOTES.

We stated in our last that a meeting was about to be
held in Carlisle on the subject of a threatened withdrawal
of the circulation of Scotch notes from this district. At
that time very little was known on the matter, but since
then, Sir James GI aham, Bart. M.P. for Carlisle, has vi-
sited Scotland for the purpose of obtaining information;
and the result of the Honourable Baronet's inquiries was
communicated to a meeting held at the Coffee-house, on
Thursday afternoon. It appeats that in consequence of
the intimation in the report of the Parliamentary Com-
mittees on the Scotch Banking system, that a general
w for the suppression of small notes was inevitable,
unless their circulation in England could be pre-
vented, strengthened also by some communicatimor
with personages high in office, the Scotch bankers
lately held a meeting, and unanimously agreed to with-
draw all their agencies and commissions from the north of
England; and they have already given private notice to
that effect, and contemplate the carrying of their resolu-
tion into speedy operation. Sir James's inquiries were di-
rected to ascertain if the Scotch bankers were willing to
continue their business upon its old footing, provided the
concurrence of Ministers could be assured, and the reply
was in the affirmative. 'flee meeting of Thursday there-
fore adopted two memorials ; one to the Lords of the
Treasury ; the other to Scotch bankers, therein setting
forth the vast importance of the Scotch one-pound
Bank-notes to the agriculture, trade, and manufac-
tures of the north of England : and requesting at
least a suspension of present intentions, as a sudden
change would be absolutely ruinous, there being no
visible means of supplying the deficiency in the circu-
lating medium which a hasty retirement of the small Scotch
notes would occasion, amounting, it is calculated, to
more than two-thirds of our regular circulation, be-
sides bring the main-stay of the cattle-trade in the
northern counties. Previous to this meeting, a requisition
for a general fleeting had been forwarded from the
southern part of the county and the northern part of We st-
morland, signed by Sir P. Musgrave, and other influential
persons in that quarter, with a request that the inhabitants
of Carlisle would sign it and co-operate. But as the gen-
tlemen who met at the coffee-house thought a public dis-
cussion on such a question likely to prove disadvantageous,
the memorials were trwarded to the south, for the concur-
rence of that district, and another meeting is to take place
at the coffee-house, on Thursday, to receive an answer,
and despatch the memorials to their destination. We hope
and trust that the hasty measure contemplated by the
Scotch bankers tnay be averted, and we have no objection
to hazard a prediction, that the Bill of last Session will be
considerably modihed in the next, for that it is defective
is admitted on all sides, except at the Bank of England.
Certainly the English bankers are quite as much entithd
to a Committee as the Scotch, and we dare say have an
equally strong case to off r.—Carlisle Patriot.

NEWS], Aren JUSTICE.—The American proprietors of
newspapers hays a very summary mode of proceeding with
time gentlemen who forget to balance their accounts. The
following, from a New York paper, is a specimen:—" We
a e 'if:lined to believe that proprietors of newspapers would
do so vice to the community by publishing the names of
such mean-sdirited men as subscribe for papers, and after
receiving them one, two, or three years, as the case may
b change their residence by running away, or otherwise
I 'living the printer unpaid, the paper still going, and the
postmaster to inform that the subscriber had made off bag
and baggage. All flagrant cases •at least, ought to be pub-
lislied.—Anson Gibbs received the Statesman at Ovid, Se-
neca county, to the amount of 11 dollars 94 cents. and
wet t off without paying for it. This is the only r:com.
.ndation we can give him to the confidence of othe:d."