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London, England, 1826-05-10 00:00:00

THE LoNpcm JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS PROM THE MORNING PAPERS,
MAY 10, 1826.

[Tip TIMES.]

A most singular and sudden change has taken place
in the intentions of Ministers with respect to the
• Scold) banking system. After all their braggadocio
assurances, that the measures which they proposed for
England should extend throughout the island, Scot-
land, it appears, is still to be exempted from the ope-
ration of the British law, and is to carry on her bank-
ing trade as usual, under the aggravated mischief of
the new and uncongenial system about to be introduced
in England.- This is a mightily pusillanimous affair
on tbe part of Ministers. The Committee which has
sat upon the business are expected to report, by a ma-
jority of 3 to 1, against the proposed change in rela-
tion to Scotland : and it may be certainly said, " why
go into a Committee at all, if the investigation there be
incapable of operating any change in an opinion already
formed ?" Yet, somehow or other, it has generally hap-
pened that the reports of Committees have been found
to coincide with the opinions of Ministers previously
expressed : Ministers would not appoint a Committee
to contradict themselves." It would be like the Pope
calling a general council to controvert one of his own
rescripts on an affair of discipline. Let us see what
Mr. Robinson thought to be the province of the
Committee. "He confessed" (he says in the debate
of the 15th of March) " that the more he had ap-
plied. his attention to them, the more he had become
persuaded that the opponents to the new regulations
were without any ground whereon they could rely for
refusing to adopt them in the case of. Scotland. It
appeared to him that the most prudent and effectual
mode for all parties would be, to allow a full, free,
and unreserved consideration to be given to the sub-
jedt' before a Select Committee." Mr. Robinson,
therefore, thought of a Committee; but a Committee—
not to subvert, but to confirm his own opinion on the
'subject of the banks in Scotland ; that opinion being,
that the " opponents of the new measure were without
any ground on which they could rely for refusing
to adopt them in Scotland." We could cite many
more instances of the unalterable determination of
Ministers to enforce the measures in Scotland, ma/gre
all. opposition yet the " unalterable determination is
altered. We have only now, therefore, to ask, why the
new regulations should be imposed upon England ?
A General is said always to call a Council of War
when he is determined not to fight. It is only, there-
fore, necessary, since Committees have undertaken so
new an office as apparently to contradict Ministers, to
select a fresh Committee, which shall repeal the intro-
&Action into England of a measure of which Ministers
have in like manner said that there are not any grounds
why it should be not there introduced. The same
Right Hon. Gentleman only says, " that should the
House reject this measure (as to England), he should
not envy any' man who might happen to fill the situa-
tion which ho had then the honour to hold, the re-
sponsibility that must attach to him in endeavouring
to struggle against difficulties, which must daily in-
crease on him from the present Istein, in proportion
as sonic efficient remedy was delayed."

[NEW TIMES.]
It is understood that the Committee of the' House
of Commons appointed to examine into the Scotch
and Irish systems of banking, will report favourably of
the former, and probably of the latter. We believe
that the evidence in favour of the Scotch banking sys-
tem has been found more satisfactory than was appre-
hended. We formerly observed, that if the Scottish
people believed their prosperity to be connected with
their banking system, they were right to petition for
its support and maintenance. In petitioning they
were by no means backwarl Every tovvii in Scotland,
we believe, petitioned. They sent deputies to give
evidence on the practical effect of the present system ;
aid a Committee was appointed to report on that evi-
dence. Nothing could be fairer than the examination.
It turned out that there was much more to be said ibr.
the 'Scotch notes than had been anticipated in oint
of detail. Many local circumstances, which had not
been thoroughly apprehended, were now made plain,
and' though the most experienced Members of the
Committee still adhered to their view of the general
principles .of banking, they agreed that it would not
be advisable to change w system which had been found
so practically useful. The views of the Committee will
be detailed in a Report, which will probably be laid
before the House-of Commons early in next week. It
is thought that the. same considerations apply, in great
part, to Irish banking. The privileges of the Bank of
Dublin make a' difference to the disadvantage of the
Irish banks ; but, upon the whole, it is not impro-.1
bable that, the Committee may recommend that the
Jzish banks, as well as, those of Scotland, may be left
on their present footing.

DIM REPRESENTATIVE.] •
The Journal des Debats of Sunday, says " The
hopes which we had founded on the Russian note of
the sth of April, appear to us well supported, in spite
of the' efforts which different Journals have made to
diminish in sonic degree the importance of the docu-
silent, the text of which we do not pretend to
but the substance is as we have reported it.. Russia
demands as a preliminary the departure of the Turks
'from Wallachia, and the
,setting at liberty of the Sen..
vian Deputies ; then she proposes to discuss the other'
somplaints which she had against the Porte, in the num-
ber of which are included the cruelties exercised towards
ahe' Greek Clergy and individuals of the Greek nation
furnished with- protections, particularly in the Morea and
the islandi. It is -pasy to see that some g,reat change in
Russian politics has been operated, and that the turn
which she -takes is not that of a power which fears war.
",4et.us hope then that the 'lurks, blinded by the
aunfidence which they place in the friends;iip of some
Powers, will adopt vexatious measures against Russia.
M. -Minziaki will leave Pera : he will then go to
General Sabanief, and probabably it will not be long
before we, see the flag of Saint Nicholas floating on
hanks of the 'Danube. It. is then that Greece
will rise--up .to that time she will support herself."—
There id no doubt that the Russian Government has,
for a long, period, been very desirous of acquiring pos.
session of the-Northern Provinces, and even the me-
tropolis, of Turkey ;. but w 4,) should be very sorry to
"see them in 'her: hands, even though the pretext by
hid) she acqared, them, was as magnanimous and in-
.t ooting as that ,writer ,in, the
French newspaper with. admiration. With respect to
our own interests,, it is indisputably more , advan-
tageous for us that these provinces should.be held
by an indolent, demi-civilized nation, who have nei-
Aber the power nor the inclination of doing us- harm,
than by an empire whose might_ is. y: so. great,
and which has shown so strong an ambition to ex-