New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-02-22
THE PRECIOUS METALs.-No. VI.
[Coulpiied Tor The Tribune mainly frn!n McCuhoci
Dictionary ri Commerce,

Dictionary Of Commerce.
Two Banks have been chartered By the General
Government OF the United States the first in Tn.
year l79l for twenty-onc years. 1t expired in
the year 1911. The other was chartered in 1916
Tor the Ike number Of years. and it expired in te
year 1886. Both Of the institutions had the same
name LIE BANK OF rHE=Us1rED STATES
From the familiar manner in which the words
Bank and Banker are used at the commencement
Of The Christian Err. banks must have been in
common Use. The period OF their introduction,
and how varying from banks Of later date We
haze no means OF a-ccrtaining.
The English word Bank is from the French
word Banc. the bcnch or seat on which the
Banker originally sat TO transact his business; or
the bench or table at whicf=hi- busnc>. was
transacted. The English word BaakeT Is from
tbs French word Baaqur.
ZCabes uses the Greck=word T.e-s;4 from
Toa-sle-ps. signifying public Banker: 1t Is ei-
ted by GroiuS. . Subducam ratiuncuIanl quan,illi
argenri mini apud =nope-iann< viii cast up
the amount Of the little money have at the Bank
ers,,
Parablcs are=onc Of tFiesirnplest az we'll as enc
OF themosl Impressive forms of mparting instruc-
ton. They We're familiar to the Ancien,s. The
tables#ot Esop are in fact a book of parallels and
the amusing story OF Don Quixottc partakes Of
thi, character But they occupy more impc;-
tantpace. for they arc frequently used in the Sa
cred Records. They are nowhere more strik-
inglyrlsed 10 illustrate important truths than in
the New Testament. Here such tbings az crtst
IN Na{~re and IN organised Society al all pc
riods o. the rcoJld appear to be especially Sc
lectcd. We thus find the parable of the sower
that went forth to SOW; the parable of the cvcn
ilIat was hid in three measures OF meal the par
able Of the lost sheep, the parable of the lost
money; and strange il may appear to some. we
find parallels of Bankers and Banks. This fact
Is the more important as many well-meanins peo-
pie lmyc=1mblbed the opinion that banks are of
comparatively modern date, and instituted to I'M
pose upon the ignorant and crctluluus.
These parablcs assume and take for granted that
the subjects treated OF were we'll known and ta-
1nilial to those 10 whom they were addressed. and
thus calculated tounfold the more hidden and I'M
Por,ant truths that had been kept secret from the
foundation of the world.
The word Toe~eSqs is used By Matthew, and is
translated tabic. Mark uses the same word in II
parallel passage. Luke also uses the same word
and it is also trans lated table. Itisused the Acts
and is translated table. In Luke it is also used
and translated table. 1t used for an eating tn
bic by Xenophon. liz Hebrews and Corinthians
ills used in the same sense.
We quote from Matthew as in the English trans
lation#: Thou oughest therefore to have put my
money TO the e,rchamgcrs, and then at my coming
/ should have received my own with uSury. In
Luke the text reads: q Wherefore then cuyest not
thou my money into THE BANK, that at my COM
ing might have received ny own with lsury =