Excerpt from The Theory and Practice of Banking, Vol. 2 The first volume of this Work was scarcely out of the press, when the crisis which every one conver sant with monetary matters knew to be impending, burst with the suddenness and the fury of a tornado, producing a series of Banking catastrophes greater than had ever before happened in the City of London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.