The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

CHEAP PLATE-GLASS, called SHEET
PLATE-GLASS.
Important to Architects, Builders, Printsellers, and the Public.
Nothing so much improves the external appearance of dwel-
ling-houses and public buildings, and at the same time contri-
butes in no small degree to the enjoyment of the inmates, as
windows glazed with Plate-glass ; and it is only owing to the
high price that the use of it has been so limited until now.
The British Public will therefore hear with satisfaction that
the same enterprising manufacturers who lately introduced the
manufacture of Sheet-glass in this country, have improved this
article so much as to, be enabled to work it into Plate-glass hy
a new process, secured by Royal Letters Patent, and by which
they produce an article quite as good as the British Plate-glass,
with the important advantage of being considerably cheaper,
thereby affording the facility of glazing dwelling-houses and
public buildings with Plate-glass at moderate prices. This
new Plate-glass is also particularly well-suited to Drawings,
Engravings, &e.
Sold, wholesale and retail, by CL AUDET and HOUGH-
TON, at their Glass Warehouse, 89, HIGH HOLBORN;
where printed lists of prices may be had.

rpm POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL, for
DECEMBER, Price One Shilling, contains :

Continuation of the Phansigars of Hindostan—On the Cos-
tume of Ancient Sculpwre—lmpressions on viewingffindsor
Castle—Sir George Caylev's Air-engine—lnstitution for the
Instruction of Engine-drivers on Railroad s— Norwich
Polytechnic Institution—Reviews and Notices—Proposed
Cure for Hydrophobia—Sketches of Sweden, by a re-
cent Tourist— Railway Improvements, with an engrav-
ing, and account of Mr. Dirck's Patent Metallic Rail-
way Wheel—Salter's Picture of the Waterloo Banquet
Proceedings of the Learned Soaieties of London, viz. Linnscan
Society, Botanical Society, Society of Arts, It oy al Medico-
Botanical Society, Microscopical Society, Horticultural So-
ciety, Entymological Society, Zoological Society—Dr. H.
Willshire's Journey to Morocco.
Published at the Office of the Polytechnic Journal, 13, Wel-
lington-street, North Strand.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

LETTER V.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In thanking you for the insertion of my pre-
ceding letters, I beg to announce the present one as
the last on this important subject.
My object has been to place before the public a plain
statement of facts extracted from the report of the
Bank Committee, showing what are the precise circum-
stances of the Bank of England in reference-
-Ist—To the security of its issues, inasmuch as the
Government being indebted to the Bank in nearly the
same amount, it follows that we have the security of the
Government in addition to that of the Bank for the
payment.

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21—To the security of the Baak of England, alto-
gether independent of the Ge%cruntenl, intanueh ae. I
have shown they have a capital and surplus profits
amounting to no less than seventeen and a half millions
after discharging all their liabilities.
3d—The amount of its profits and losses, showing a
consolidation of interests greater than ever was before
known, and manifesting a degree of ability and skill in
the management unequalled in the history of this or any
other country.

I have also endeavoured to 51i,',17.7 that a very
considerable portion of its functions have been sus-
pended, or to a great degree super:A;ded, tb,
operation of very natural causes, viz., the growth
and accumulation, since the war, of private capital,
which has had the effect of transferring nearly the
whole of its trade in discounts to the hands of private
capitalists through the medium of a class of men called
Bill Brokers, and that any pressure for money or de-
mand on the Bank for discount is a sure and certain
evidence that some p.,r*.,r. of the. comrYniritv
travelling too fast in advance cif the tiztic•c,
assistance of the Bank is then:invoked, not to SuppOtt
the legitimate trade of the countryi but to extricate in.