Although the British economy began to be weak in the late Victorian age, it is true that the service sector of the City more rapidly developed in comparison with the manufacturing sector in the north-west. This development means that the character of the British economy has been changed from “the factory of the world” into “the shop of the world” or “the clearing house of the world”. Recently G.H.H. Green insisted that the bimetallic controversy in the 1880s represented the conflict between the City and manufacturing industry associated with agricultural producers. He seems to admit tacitly the views that the economic decline was due to the monetary policies which had benefited rentiers at the expense of industry and agriculture. If so, was the bimetallic controversy in the 1880s the most important issue among various discourses of the intellectuals about the British economy? It is true that Britain had experienced intense economic slump at the times. We can find many writers to analyse the economic situation through several news papers and periodicals at the times. Was bimetallism really one of the important problems which many writers tried to argue in order to find the way to the escape from depression? This article aims at examining how the intellectuals at the time saw the economic situation and what problem they thought important, especially by way of the articles published in the main periodicals. In conclusion, bimetallism was not a predominant issue in the economic discourses, but one of several influential issues in the late Victorian age.