Litchfield enquirer., 1857-10-22
The Bank of England,

The Bank Of Euyland must be seen on the inside as well as out, and to get into the inter- l for of this remarkable building, to observe the operations of an institution that exerts more moral and political power than any sov- erelgn in Europe, you must have an order from the Governor of tile Bank. The building oc- cupes a., irregular area ot eight acres of ground -an cd ice of 10 archite, tural beauty, with not one window toward tilc street, being light ed altogether from the roof of the encos d area.
 wasltd, ol presenting my card of admission, into prlvate room, where alter delay of q few moments, q messenger came and conducted me through the mighty and myst,rous build ing. Down we went into room where the notes of the Bank r,c vtd the day beO,e were now examined, compared w:th the entries in the books, and stoiet away. The Bank of England Il vtr is ue> tn. siA e note second tine. It receives, in the orlinary colrse oi business, atou: $4,00o,O0o, daily in notes :: t'ese are put up iu parcels according to their denom''t ons, -boxe! up with the date of the,r reception, and are kept ten years ; at tn; ex- p:r"tion 0. which p,rod they are taken out ! and ground up M the milf which saw running, aud made again into paper If in the course of u ose ten year, any dispute in bu>iness or law suit, sLould-arise concerning the payment of any Iet", the Bank can produce the ldent.cai bill.
 To meet the demand for notes so constantly used up, the Bank has it's own paper makers, its own enSr .vtrs, its own printers, all at woIk under the same root, ami It even makes the machinery, by which the most of it's own work is done. A compile ted but beautiful opera ton is register, extending from the printing office to the banking offices, which marks eve- ry sheet of paper, that is struck off from the press, so that the printers cannot manufacture d single sheet of blank notes that is not recor- ded in the bank
 ca the same principle of eXnctness, a shaft is made to pass from one apartment to another 1 connecting clock in sixteen business wings of the establishment, and regulating them with such prec:s:on that the "hoe of then are al- ! ways pointing to the same second of time. In aLo:h room was machine, exrceti .yly sim | pie, for detecting HgM god coins. A row of them dropped one by One upon spring scale. If the piece of gold was of the stau;nr.i weight, the scale rose to a certain height, and the coin slid off on the side of the box if less than the standard, it rose little higher and the coHr slid off upon the other side 1 asked the person weighing them what was the average nui,.o"l of light coins that came into his hands, anG strangely enough, he said it was a questiol Ii, was not allowed to answer
 The next room 1 cutcrrd was that in wllic the notes are deposited, which are ready lol l issue. " We .ave thirtv-two m li;ot,s of pounds sterling in this room,' the officer remarked t. me will you take little of it !' 1 told him it would be vastly agreeable, and he hand cd me million sterling, winch i received with many thanks for his lterality, but he insisted on my depositing it with him again as it woud be hardly safe to carry so much mon"y into tht street. l very mu,h fear that 1 shall never sce that money again In the vault le cath the door was dir ctor and the cashier counting the bags of gold, vii ch men were pitching
 down to them, each bag containing thouSauc
 pounds sterling, just from the mint Thi:
 world of money seemed to realize the fables O
 Eastern wealth. and gave me new and stron:
 impressions of the magnitude of the bushes
 done here, and the extent of the relations 0
 this one institution to the commerce of tn
 world