Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1880 — The Bank of England. [ARTICLE]

The Bank of England.

This old institution was incorporated in 1649. It covers five acres of ground, aud employs 900 clerks. No windows open on the street, and light is admitted through epen courts. No mob, therefore, can take the bank without cannon to batter down its immense walls. The olock in the center of the bank has fifty dials. It is guarded day and night by one company of the Guards. It is with our good intentions as with our days; to-morrow in but too often the hash of to-day.