A correspondent of the Times complains of the mode of
doing business at the Bank of Etiglant
" If the Directors of the Bank of England were men of business, an alteration would speedily be made in all the rail, and bill departments, where they are at least a hundred years behind the rest of the world. Let any one go to pay in, or to receive there : with notes, post- bills, bills, or draughts, or money, he has to go to four different departinelita, when all his business might be done at one ; besides being detained double the time at each place that he should be, or would be at any private banking-house."
This is perfectly true. It is a plague to have even the simplest transaction at the Bank of England. Nobody who has not an hour to spare should think of getting a check cashed there. The object of the self-important gentlemen whose business it is to wait on you, seems to be to create as much delay and annoyance as possible; and the regulations of the establishment favour the de- sign most admirably. The Bank of England should be a model for other banks. But, on the contrary, it is quite true that in some of its departments it is "a hundred years behind the rest of the world." Not only in England, but on the Continent and in the United States, the banks offer much greater facilities for the speedy despatch of business, than are to be found at the Bank of England.
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