Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-02-06
The BdMk OF England.

The B0Mh OF England.
ITs EXTENT, ARRANGEMENT, GOVERN
MENT, AND SOMETHING ABOUT IRIS
BUSINESS.
The London correspondent OF the
Hartford, (Conn.,) Post, writes as fol-
lows respecting the Bank Of England:
1t is great affliction to
have much mo. cy. One never has any |
peace until he gets rid of it. Here now
this great bank can hardly sleep nights
for fear something will be thieving its
treasures. IT has a company Of soldiers
come down from the tower OF London
every night to stand guard within its
walls. AS for its daylight hours, why,
il has a whole force OF work people,
800 strong, ready to fly to arms in any
emergency, they being organized and
Disciplined a. n military force, and ev-
ery man knowing his exact place shoul
an ala m be raised. And you may go
clear around that four acres of granite,
window. 1t is all wall and nothing
else And al the way around are stones
so arranged that they can be suddenly
displaced for the protrusiOn of rifles.
And when you are visiting the interior,
as you pass from room to room, bells
ring and guards fly about until you
might think they had taken you for
king, and were paying you honor, but
that isn't it q bit. 1t is because you arc
probably thief; and will be pocketing
thousand pound notes or great bars of
gold if you Lave q chance. And they
never permit you to enter the vaults
IL I,,1l ics in In IN
ence of director of the bank. With us
the president himself went, we being
more than ordinarily suspicious charac-
ters, l suppose. for while clergyman,
by virtue of his office and pretensions,
|, is under special pledges not to steal, by
virtue of his poverty he is under I'M
common temptation to do it. When
we went into the room where their coin
and bank II otes are gathered in almost
fabulous sums, (the treas
ury,) four men watched us, with, &c
f not know how man, more hidden be-
bins serefp so rn1 aSSTd the entire Mth
| building did not quake. They expected
me to quake, / presume, but / didn't
half as much as l do when L draw nv
monthly salary at home. Now, what
is the use of being immensely rich and
living in perpetual CONSERVATION, like
that great bank: L would not change
places with it for the world. The pres
ident of the concern has great salary.
| was told, Il wa: about to put down
here how much, but do not dare trust
my memory on the subject, but name
any figure you please and it is more
than that,) but what is that to peace of
mind?
They have wonderful balances in this
bank. balances that know more than
men do, for in weighing coin. if any
pieces are of under weight, the machine
detects it forthwith, and discharges the
under weight into receptacle all hy
themselves, while the full weights are
sent in another direction.
The bank does its own printing, too,
and does it splendidly, using machines
1or numbering and registering, that can
DO everything except speak.
Some 800 900 persons go annually TO
the counters of this bank to receive di
vidends. | think they ought to retake
and give us all an opportunity before
we die. But England is rather feudal
country, and once in always in, seems
to be the rule from the Queen down.
When they had told me their big
stories till they saw l was in a perfectly
receptive state of mind, and wide omen
TO anything, they said that they used
W nave tnere, III thelr employ, man
seven feet high, and that he was in such
lear that the anatomists would be after
him as a curiosity, after his death, that
he begged to be buried in the court ward
OF the bank, and was which teaches
us that much height, like much money
orexcess in any direction, is n curse. ~
| said before.
L lett the vast building in PERFECTLY
dazec condition, confused by the enor-
nous and unaccustomed figures and
facts which they had dispensed to me.
perfectly turned round by the MANY
rooms, halls and sta.rcases through
which | had been led, wondering how
any one in England could be poor with
such mighty affair as that making
money in full run all the time, specu.
latlng as to what rank among human
occupations ought to be assigned to this
handling of money, and sure that nv
pockets were just as empty as when
went in.
How A WESTERN CITY GRows.-
One OF the most noted examples of rapid
growth in recent times is furnished i'm
the case of the infant city of Cheyenne,
Wyoming Territory. On the 4tH July
1867, 1t consisted of but single house
Now it boasts a population of 1000 I
There are four hotels aiphf lawyar,,,,I