Show I 1 the he bank of A correspondent of the new york obnere er ariti writing from london gives an interesting account of a visit to the old lady of Thread needle street as the bank of england P is sometimes soma timed called by the laudone londoners Lon doners rs he ha says saya I 1 h ivo been making int king a most interesting and instructive visit to the bank of england for admission into the interior of this rem building to observe the operation of in an institution th that at exerts ft more moral aud and political than chan any sovereign in Earo europe you emst have an order front the governor of the bink and thi abia I 1 wits was given me through h the aie B Lr bringa ingra whose kin dabu especially that thag of mr at sg I 1 have constantly esperie experienced aced the bank building occupies an area of eight acres ot of ground an edifice of no architectural beauty with not one window towards the streets ayE being lighted altogether f from rom the roof or the enclosed area the theor dir iary buan business ess apartments diller differ frona from those in our banks on only ily in their extent a thousand clerks being constantly st on duty and driven with basi ness nesa at th that ab I 1 but to form any adequate idea of what the bank is we must pene penetrate tAte wate its ita recess its vaults and icea 1 where meshall we shall see such operations as are not awa in in WU sire tare ei I 1 was lel lei on rio presenting my card af u f admission inlo a 3 private room raoul whose after the delay of a few moment came and I 1 we me through I 1 kl the mighty I 1 and I 1 bait building ding down wi WA went into ad a room where th w notes of the bank received ved yesLer yesterday day were now examined compared with the entries entries of the boils and stored away the unk bunk of england never never the same note a second time it receives in the ordinary of ba business about or daily in notes these theae are put up IQ in parcels pAi ceia accordi according tim to theira up with the date at reception i and are ara kept ten L en years a at C the expiration of which period they th eyare are taken out end and ground up in the mill which I 1 saw running an I 1 made again into paper if in the course of those ten years any an y dis dispute in business or law suit should hould ari arise se concerning the pa payment ament of any nose the baui bank can a produce the identical bill to meet the tha demand for notes so ao constantly const I 1 audi used up the B bank ink has its own ow a paper TO mikers ikera its ita own printers its 0 all at work under the same roof ana an i it even makes the machinery chiti ory by which most moat of ita wa own f work is id done I 1 A complicated but beautiful ul operation is a register registe r extended k ro nache printing prin ilg 9 offices if icea which marks every heet of papier hapep which is struck off from the press so that the printer cannot furnish a single aible shoot sheet of blank noces th tt it ot record d in the bank on th the same prin principle jila of exit exactness atness ashab a shaft is made to pass from one apa 0 another Lu other von son ti 4 clock LIA in lueen hi nines win windul the andl and refill atvin gr thoai with such ioa that titis whole 0 ahem are always pointing to th the same second of time in another room wag a inu hine exceed inkley sh simple aple for abet eating li ht guld coins A row ot of them are ze ne by one upon a ing I 1 scale if the thea piece of gold was w ot of the the scale rose wa certain heightland heigh tand the coin slid a off capoli upon oner side into a tin box boxi if fleas than n the standard it rose a little higher ani the coin slid ON off upon the other side 66 I 1 asked toe the er what was waa the nu niber of ligat coins that kaiue oania into his fila hands and strangely enough e n 0 11 ll he said it wv wag a question oj hi ha was not allowed to answer the next room I 1 entered was that in which the notes are deputed whish are ready tor for issue IWO we have thirty tw two millions millio ns of pounds sterling inthia in this room 1 the officer reyn rein akred to m wit win ta liti ettl of it I 1 told ho him that it would be vastly V astl agreeable I 1 and he handed ine a of pounds s aters ling five fi u 0 dollars s which I 1 1 I re with dinv iny thanen for his liberality but he on tny jo it with turn him agun wi AX it would wo did h hi I 1 it adly be wt to carry so money into the street I 1 very much fear I 1 shall never ieee diee that moni again in a tho the bene beneath ith the bloor wa wk a director dir cotor and ake fishier ci ct shier ahier counting the b bag of goia which man nen were pitching down dowd tot to them hem each I 1 bag at 3 a thousand pounds pt kerling eiling just from th the e mint this thio world of money seemed 0 to o realize re Aliee the bables of eastern nii ave me new ind and strong aprong 3 impressions I 1 of the magnitude of the done here and the extent odthe of this one institution aa on tha commerce of the a 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