The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-28 00:00:00

THE BANK OF ENt3L.LND.

1862.
The following is the House List of the Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing,
vie.:—

FOR GOVERNORS.
Alfred. Latham, Esq., Governor.
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.

Henry Hulse Berens, Esq.
Arthur Edward Campbell,
Esq.
Robert Wigram Crawford,
Esq.
William Cotton, Esq.
James Pattison Currie, Esq.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq.
Benjamin Buck Green, Esq.
Charles Pascoe Greiafell,E sq.
Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq.
*John Saunders Gilliat, Esq.
George Joachim Goschen,

Thomson Hankey, Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Es q.
Henry Lancelot Holland,
E sq.
John Gellibrand Hubbard)

Esq.
Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq.
Charles Fredei ick II uth,Esq.
James Morris, Esq.

Sheffield Nea.e., Esq.
George Ward e Norman, B sq•
Edward Howley Palnier,

Es
Jamesq . Alexander Guthrie,
Esq.

Esq.
Thomas Charles Smith, Esq.
*Clifford Wigram, Esq.

oast whose names an aster
or the Direction.
and Deputy-Governor will be
, the Bth April, and for Dirle
April, from ten o'clock in
noon.

N.B.—The gentlemen agai
is placed are new candidates fi
The Election for Governor
held at the Bank on Tuesday,
tors on Wednesday, the 9th
forenoon till four in the aft('

It is rumoured in diplomatic circles that Count
Bernstorff, the late Prussian Minister, is likely bofbrcia
long to reassume his former duties as representative of 111-
King of Prussia at the British Court.,
FlRES.—Yesterday morning, between the boll
of four and five o'clock, a fire broke out on tho premises 0,
Mr. Franklin, confectioner, 36, Road-side, Mile-end-roauf
which was not subdued until the lower part of the /101.s°0
was burnt out. Canso unknown.—Another destructive fir
broke out on the premises of Mr. A. Taylor, corn and 0110
dealer, Matthias. place, Stoke Newington. The houso
question was in the joint occupation of three families, w'
had to make their escape by the windows.
ltA WOMAN IN MAN'S CLOTHING FOR Six YEA
—Yesterday, a woman dressed as a man was charged bef°'d
the Manchester city magistrates with annoying the lanalaug
of a lodging-house in that city, by creating a disturbanc°
and threatening to beat another woman named Sarah JcT,,eif;
with whom the prisoner had been living as husband. -1;;$
prisoner's name is Ann M`Gaul, alias Ann Hughes, 14""
John Jones. It appeared that she had dressed as a viagalit
and passed as one for the last 6 years, in order to cam 2s. 40—‘
a day at man's work, instead of ls. a day at won,all's• ;
-1
one occasion the prisoner had slept four nights with the
lodging-house keeper's son, owing to shortness of room in t;
establishment, without the sex being discovered. f°,fra
time also she had worked as bankaman in a colliery- '''so
own account was that she came originally from Gill:a4;
and that she had no clothes but those she stood in• fie()
was discharged on promising not to repeat the annoYl-- to
to the landlady, but had to be kept in the dock awhile
protect her being mobbed outside the court.
SPIRITUALISM IN FRANCE.—In France the liter!;
ture of fate and necromancy, which was strewn broadc':;!o
over the land by the colporteurs, did not fail to attract trii
notice of a cc paternal' government, and was sumralriie
suppressed a few years ago. Lo Petit Albert and
cot
Grand Grimoire aro still smuggled through the provill
where the peasants prize them all the snore highly out of
count of their condemnation by the authorities; bu
course, the circulation of such works is very tolcil
• Lcolls
stricted. The " Triple Liegeois" of Martin
berg now limits its predictions to the weather rtto
the disposition of children born under the signs
,01_0,0
Zodiac. "The prognostication of the future,
the editor, is best accomplished by a study of the past- ,
so, under the head of " Productions for each Mont-12,
gives only a selection of meagre anecdotes from the 13.0
teur." In England, however, we may safely leaf"`' t'uo
extinction of such trashatshethier:g'
,Giviroyf af,ntsitich.
jot
"Prophetic Alinautio" to
;,r,r,f,(l of cheap and wholesome listreanrc. liefor'r
potent influences the books of fate must vanish as au
cuo
the a
years we may expect to see the Sibyl of
of a fewPa'
f a
mists before the sun or ghosts at cockcrow ; and in the cr:re;
Dials bum her last volume from sheer default, 0
chaser.— Once a Irk eck.