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

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

1862.
The following is the House List of the Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuill°
vim. :

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

Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq'visck
Arthur Edward Campbell, John Benjamin Heathy.iid,
Esq. Henry Lancelot 1101'
Robert Wigram Crawford, Esq.
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Esq. John Gellibrand
William Cotton, Esq. E
James Pattison Curre, Esq. Thomasq. sNewman'FT—ullt
Bonamy Dobree, Esq. Charles Fredei ick Huth,
Benjamin Buck Green, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
Charles Pascoe Grenfell, E sq. Sheffield Neave, Esq. do*
Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. George Ward e Norman, et,
*John Saunders Gilliat, Esq. Edward Howley Pal'
George Joachim Goschen, Esq.
Esq. Thomas Charles Smith, pq.
James Alexander Guthrie, *Clifford Wigram, Esq.
Esq.
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tors on Wednesday, the 9th April, from ten o'clock ill
forenoon till four in the afternoon.

Co It is rumoured in diplomatic circles that Co
Bernstorff, the late Prussian Minister, is likely bes-tile
long to reassume his former duties as representative e'
King of Prussia at the British Court.
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FlRES.—Yesterday morning, between the 1, '-•- oi
of four and five o'clock, a fire broke out on the prselit/eO-odo
Mr. Franklin, confectioner, 36, Road-side, Mile-end-r
which was not subdued until the lower part of the foe
was burnt out. Cause unknown.—Another destructicemot
broke out on the premises of Mr. A. Taylor, corn and i 0
dealer, Matthias-place, Stoke Newington. The houS:00
question was in the joint occupation of three families
had to make their escape by the windows.
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A WOMAN IN MAN'S CLOTHING FOR SIX YO'it to
—Yesterday, a woman dressed as a man was charged ~eloal
the Manchester city magistrates with annoying the lancl•Ao0
of a lodging-house in that city, by creating a disturfreof
and threatening to beat another woman named Sarah IV
with whom the prisoner had been living as husband. ji#
prisoner's name is Ann M'Gaul, alias Ann Hughes, :00
John Jones. It appeared that she had dressed as s'a: 6‘l'
and passed as one for the last 6 years, in order to earu''Oe
a day at man's work, instead of ls. a day at woman's' tlo
one occasion the prisoner had slept four nights wi"-,o°
lodging-house keeper's son, owing t o shortness of room liar
establishment, without the sex being discovered. ..00r
time also she had worked as banksman in a collierP,„1008'
own account was that she came originally from
and thai she had no clothes but those she stood in. 00
was discharged on promising not to repeat the ann°37o, 0
to the landlady, but had to be kept in the dock awl)"
protect her being mobbed outside the court.
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SPIRITUALISM IN FRANCE.—In France the
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turf of fate and necromancy, which was strewn bre
over the land by the colporteurs, did not fail to attrael'aill
notice of a " paternal" government, and was
suppressed a few years ago. Le Petit Albert alliooeot
Grand Grimoire aro still smuggled through the Prov
where the peasants prize them all the more highly e'it 0
count of their condemnation by the authorities ; lib.' 're
course, the circulation of such works is very tele or
stricted. The " Triple Liegeois" of Martin 1-I_4%pa
berg now limits its predictions to the weatherf
the disposition of children born under the signs: 500
Zodiac. "The prognostication of the future,..,, jot
the editor, is best accomplished by a study of the past. ~
so, under the head of " Productions for each Mon‘tf,,,of,
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extinction of such trash as-the " Gipsy Oracle' ay._".ei thD
"Prophetic Almanac" to the progress of education_ such
spread of cheap and wholesome literature. Betere..,lsooo
potent influences the books of fate must vanish as suilio
mists before the sun or ghosts at cockcrow ; and in the
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