14 NOVEMBER 1863, Page 2

The late Mr. Gilbert, the well-known writer on the prin-

ciples and practice of banking, seems to have resented the esteem with which the public regarded his services. He has actually bequeathed a sum of money to trustees to be expended in " a monument, or other memorial," to himself, in circulating his works on banking, and in presenting an engraving of himself to all persons with whom he had been officially connected. A stranger instance of secret irritation against the world has seldom been recorded, for the motive of the bequest must have been a crave to compensate himself after death for what he considered the world's tardiness of appreciation.