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THE JSANK OF ENGLAND. 259
This hall is flanked with a justice room, a sword-
bearer's room, and a very handsome apartment called
Wilkes's parlour. The area over the roof of the Egyptian
Hall being left open, the apartments of the upper stories
constitute a surrounding quadrangle with communicating
galleries. Of these apartments the chief is the ball-room,
frequently used as a supper-room, equal in length to the
Egyptian Hall, but considerably narrower; a withdraw-
ing room, and a chief bedchamber, the state bed of which
displays in its appointments regal splendour. Such is the
official abode of the Lord Mayor of London, judiciously
placed in the centre of that great commercial emporium
over which he presides, uniting with the functions of the
lawgiver those of the liberal host, around whose hoard as-
semble not only his fellow-citizens, but individuals dis-
tinguished for their rank, their talents, their achieve-
ments, of every shade of politics, and of every country.
. THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
Tins great national establishment is situate in Thread-
needle-street, at the end of the Poultry, a little to the
north of the Mansion-house. Its boundaries are Princes-
street on the west, Lothbury on the north, Bartholomew-
lane on the east, and Threadneedle-street and the Royal
Exchange on the south. The existing structure is a hand-
some stone edifice, to which that eminent architect, the
late Sir John Soane, imparted its present appearance.
The several elevations are of Corinthian design, chosen
and adapted from the Syhilline Temple at Tivoli. The
building covers about four acres of ground. The square
contains several open courts, which yield light to the va-
rious offices, there being no windows in the external walls.
A brief biography of the " Old Lady of Threadneedle-
street," as the Bank is familiarly denominated, will pro-
bably have more interest than an elaborate detail of its
architectural features, and this we accordingly submit to
om readers. The Bank of England, often called the Bank
of the World, was proposed by William Paterson, a Scot-
This hall is flanked with a justice room, a sword-
bearer's room, and a very handsome apartment called
Wilkes's parlour. The area over the roof of the Egyptian
Hall being left open, the apartments of the upper stories
constitute a surrounding quadrangle with communicating
galleries. Of these apartments the chief is the ball-room,
frequently used as a supper-room, equal in length to the
Egyptian Hall, but considerably narrower; a withdraw-
ing room, and a chief bedchamber, the state bed of which
displays in its appointments regal splendour. Such is the
official abode of the Lord Mayor of London, judiciously
placed in the centre of that great commercial emporium
over which he presides, uniting with the functions of the
lawgiver those of the liberal host, around whose hoard as-
semble not only his fellow-citizens, but individuals dis-
tinguished for their rank, their talents, their achieve-
ments, of every shade of politics, and of every country.
. THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
Tins great national establishment is situate in Thread-
needle-street, at the end of the Poultry, a little to the
north of the Mansion-house. Its boundaries are Princes-
street on the west, Lothbury on the north, Bartholomew-
lane on the east, and Threadneedle-street and the Royal
Exchange on the south. The existing structure is a hand-
some stone edifice, to which that eminent architect, the
late Sir John Soane, imparted its present appearance.
The several elevations are of Corinthian design, chosen
and adapted from the Syhilline Temple at Tivoli. The
building covers about four acres of ground. The square
contains several open courts, which yield light to the va-
rious offices, there being no windows in the external walls.
A brief biography of the " Old Lady of Threadneedle-
street," as the Bank is familiarly denominated, will pro-
bably have more interest than an elaborate detail of its
architectural features, and this we accordingly submit to
om readers. The Bank of England, often called the Bank
of the World, was proposed by William Paterson, a Scot-