The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-31 00:00:00

SA VIA 0$ BANKS.

There seldom w t a meow" that proposed an
equal degree of public and privoto good that has
made such a 4ratif)iisr, progiesa, or prosince.l such
beneficial results, as the valuable lostitution of
Sasiugs Conks. By an Act passed on the lust Sus
aim' of Parliament, among other advatriaues held
out to these eatablislontents, a fixed rate of 'Merest
limy be obtained for the money deposited, by
transmitting it to the Commissioner, lur leducing
the Natioual Debt, who purrisuse sin( k with the
OM Mint ; and in consequence of thiv and other in-
. documents, already 95 Savings Bank. In I.:legion.'
and Wales are k Is to have been smutted, uc-
•Vording to the Act, and, before the end of the hist
..year. above 300,000/. had been laid out, on account
of these Banks, in the produce of stock.
The success of the three great institutions in the
metropolis has exceeded the expeetutions of the
. Most sanguine of ilwir projectors. The wrsterta
Bank, opened in April, 1811 i, hati 1.900 depositors,
sod has received 16,3001.; the London Batik, open-
ed July 1816, has 1,700, recrited 16,5t:0/. ; the
Southampton-row Bank, open. d February 1817,
Isms 950, received 10,0001.; besides many 'moor
Book!, in the metropolis, and nt most of the villages
of the suburbs.

Aa by the Act of Parliament already noticed, no
Batik can take the benefit of it, wiles% it be a re-
gulation of the Bank, that no depositor shall be en-
titled the first year to iltliosit above 100/., urn on
ally ruliseiluent year above .191., there is a strong
presumption that the alitoe sums, large as they
may appear, have been deposited by that class of
persons not in the higher rooks of life, for whose
benefit thee Banks were particularly projected.
The systein is also spreading in Ireland, and
especially in the northern parts, while in Scotland,
where it seems to have originated, it is represented
in a thriving state in every 'warier of the country.
lit the city of Edinburgh, from an account
which has been lately given to the public, in the
Sts Reports of the Society for Suppresaing Beggars,
it appears that, from January, I 14, the time this
Bank was opened, till the 30th of Septeinner last,
the sums which have hero depositid Nomura to
11,9451. this sum there has been drawn
out •2a. Gd. ; and there bas born deposited,
OTT interest notes of 101. and giviii to ilitkresit OM.
trilintorr, according In ilia ruks of the Bank, 2,1404

The difference between t'oesetovo List sums and
thr lint, being :1.2494 11+.:'L remains deposited
with the Savings Busk. Alter realms king. that the
paid on during the lirst ii itt e month• of the year
1817, amounts t0:1,628/. I9a. the Report concludes
with observing. " Thy, statement is very 141 t i le e-
tory ; for, notwithstamling the severe di.oremors
the labouring classes during the last year, the sums
pant in, during these last three quarters, have hero'
greater than during any pocceding period of the
same cumber of months.

CLERK or PARLIAMENT.— lale Lord
THUALow, during the tinir lie held the seals gave
nonce of a itiotioli iu the 11.111,41 of Lords, respect-
ing the sion-attenilitie..• of the priliciiml
Ali it was through the Lesrsied Liiiil's poirrimige
that Mr. Run obtained that lucrative
'went, he was not a little itliirmerl of his
Lordship's intended It so., however,
dropped (as Lord Tutu [mow
mentioned to our of their mutual friendl, in con-
sequence el Mr. Rom,: hating very otoolo.ily staled,
theft he held so en.airy /duces, it was P1114'41.11 mi-
pes•ible for lout to attend to them te.l io

COA 1. MARKET, JANVAaa 30.
Grip• al Market Ships Sold. Prix•
79 Neonate ..
1.11 Suuderlaistl 1 .... 36. 0.1. to —a. Otl.

Thursday sermight Iwo sleight of baud itinerants obtain-
ed permission is. lit form one night at Mkt .... , mating
Themselves Isi be in the greatest distress, hut Into's• the
tlrtli Mei alillnlenWilt% commenced, • rotatable and • re.
spertahle out woman from Wigton arrived :it DaWon, with
• Him %A! &whist one of the orrt'orosers of li.tveng seduced
totel taken away with him the daughter of she old woman,
of the age of 16, and also sonic of the old woman's hand-
kerchiefs; Ibis being given opium oath, the its ight of hand-
yman was cosnmilled in Carlisle gaol for further (stamina.
C ; swims friday Ilse Clerk of the Peace attended with •
Magistrate, when the delimpiriil, upou being told he should
millergis the punishment of whipping sad imprisonment,
sued hard fur 'miry, although he had held a high crest be-
fore. The old ansl 'ming woman seemed both melted; the
young one declaring she srsiulil go with him wherever he
went, and the out ....e stsitog slw had door all she could to
get her slaughter back, nod therefore she would irturn home
In this state the matter now stands, unit the conjuror
iu Carlisle gaol fur the psteeni.

There are at this tame a gang of roliburs in
or about the villaAe of Ramsey, near Harwich,
who I•onttnit tiepotalations in the night et the firm-
loises, told wool to brt at deliaitee all attempt, to
take them. y slate them:tette:4 to he ieritty-
tole Farr. It is hoped their caiver will he of
short dusation, by the vigilant eof the Magiiitrates,
and the prompt atteistiou of the cinittithles to
their chits.