It may be lessened; the bill-brokers may, and should, discourage as much as they can the deposit of money with them on demand, and encourage the deposit of it at distant fixed dates or long notice.

This will diminish the anomaly, but it will not cure it.

Practically, bin-brokers cannot refuse to receive money at call.

In every market a dealer must conduct his business according to the custom of the market, or he will not be able to conduct it at all.

All the bin-brokers can do is to offer better rates for more permanent money, and this (though possibly not so much as might be wished) they do at present.