He would endeavour to deal with all the questions of interest allowed, surplus money, responsibility of trustees, and to make the necessary restrictions towards carrying on the banks safely. And leave was quickly given to proceed with the bill. Nothing transpired in the passage of the bill through Parliament of much moment: so little hold were questions of this nature supposed to have on the public mind, that it is barely alluded to in the pages of _Hansard_. It seems never to have occurred to the reporters of the day, that posterity might wish for a detailed account of the steps by which institutions, such as these we are considering, arrived at some important position, and so important indeed as to make every step of that progress interesting after the lapse of years. Two or three little incidents have survived this neglect. _Mr. Lewis_, for example, during the second reading of the bill, proposed a clause for preventing the National Debt Commissioners from taking more than 20,000,000_l._ from the Savings Bank Trustees, and ordering that, when that amount had been invested, the funds should be declared full. The answer which Mr. Goulburn, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave to the hon. member was, that he "would take a day or two for consideration, after which he should be able to say better whether such a clause ought, or ought not, to be agreed to." Two or three days before there had appeared in the _Times_ newspaper a well-written lampoon on the new Ministry, over which, it will be remembered the Duke of Wellington presided as Premier, and one verse ran-- "To rest from toil our Great Untaught, And soothe the pangs his warlike brain Must suffer when, _unused to thought_, _It tries to think, and--tries in vain_."