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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

when walking in his 1
neighbouring wood ; he hurried to the

he heard 'a
shot fired jo

turally placid temper was consk., __ ...•• ....,..-ge
young officer, with a pheasant at his fact. deliberat
reloading his gun. As the young man. however, repji
to his rather warm expressions by a polite apology,
Gurney's warmth was somewhat allayed ; but he co •
not refrain from asking the intruder what he would dois
he caught a man trespassing on his premises ? " I Tvolli
ask him in to luncheon," was the reply. The seranity„,?;
this impudence was not to be resisted.—Memoirs of
_.,,
T. F. Buxton. lAs good an instance of what is kuowi
at college as " Sporting Face," has been current sail
time at Cambridge. A grave and much-respected pro,,,c'
tor, who has a horror of tobacco, was much grieved
find an esteemed under-graduate inveterately addicted t°o
cigars, and called him, after early chapel, to his rooms, b
inflict a mild expostulation. " So, sir," began the pr
tor, " you are, I hear, very much in the habit of smolii".

' Your are very good," was the brazen inter'
ruption, " very kind ; but, thank you, I never smoke 9t/
early in the morning." This attempt to convert a lectel:,
against the weed into an invitation to smoke, upset t
proctor's gravity and broke up the conference.—Deit'
News. -

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ORTHOGRAPHIC COMBATS : SOUTHEY'S PROFICIESCI::
—Twice during the twelve months of my stay great int'A
rest was excited throughout the commonwealth by a grail':
spelling match, for which poor Flowe deserves some efe
dit, if it was a device of his own to save himself troil°,,
and amuse the boys. Two of the biggest boys chose the,
party, boy by boy alternately, till the whole school
divided between them. They then hunted the dictiono"
for words unusual enough in their orthography to puzzide
ill-taught lads ; and, having compared lists, that the ssol,,
word might not be chosen by both, two words were do:
vered to every boy, and kept by him profoundly sedv
from ail on the other side till the time of trial. On a dof
appointed we were drawn up in battle array, quite as a 0;
ious on the occasion as the members of a cricket-club it
the result of a grand match against all England. Arabi'
tion, that " last infirmity of noble minds," had its rUP
share in producing this anxiety ; and, to increase the e%,
citement, each person had wagered a halfpenny upon UP,
event. The words were given out in due succession 01/'
each side from the biggest to the least ; and for every 013,
which was spelt rightly in its progress down to s,PI
enemy's ranks, the enemy scored one ; or one was scored
on the other side, if the word ran the gauntlet safely'
The party in which I was engaged lost one of tliese
matches and won the other. I remember that my word
for one of them were crystallisation and coterie, and the
li
I was one of the most effective persons in the contest'
which might easily be.—Southey's Life.
DEATH OF BURKE'S ONLY SON.-131Irke'S son, uP°ll
whom his father had conferred something of his ol
celebrity, beard his parents sobbing in another rooral
the prospect of an event they knew to be inevitable. t"
rose from his bed, joined his illustrious father, and enact'r
voured to engage him in cheerful conversation. Burlie
continued silent, choked with grief. His son again mac?'
an effort to console him, " I am under no terror," he said'
" I feel myself better and in spirits, and yet my heart flat'
ters, I know not why. Pray talk to me, sir ! talk of reit'
gi on, talk of morality, talk, if you will, of indifferent sub'
jects." Here a noise attracted his notice, arid he ei
claimed, " Does it rain ?—No ; it is the rustling of PS
wind through the trees." The whistling of the wind sfl,„.
the waving of the trees brought Milton's majestic lines sw_
his mind, and he repeated them with uncommon grad
and effect:—

"His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow,
Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye pines;
With every plant, in sign of worship wave !"
A second time he took up the sublime and melodioll
strain, and, accompanying the action to the word, woe"
his own hand in token of worship, and sunk into the arros
of his father—a corpse. Not a sensation told him that in
an instant he would stand in the presence of the Creator,
to whom his body was bent in homage, and whose praise 4
still resounded from his lips.—Quarterly Review.
WEIGHING DEPARTMENT OF THE BANK OF ENGLASP:
—One of the most interesting and astonishing depar'll
ments within:the whole compass of the Bank of Eaglaiw
is the weighing department, in which, with the rapidity
of thought, and a precision approaching to the hundredth
part of a grain, the weight of gold coins are determined"
There are six weighing machines, kept working by the
same agency which applies all the mechanical power in the
bank, and three weighers attend to these. Rolls of sove",
reigns, or half sovereigns, are placed in grooves, and 11,„
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shaken, one at a time, by the motion of the machine, into
the weights. If they are of standard weights they Rrt
thrown by the same mechanical intelligence into a box 00
the right hand side of the person who watches the opera'
tion : if they have lost the hundredth part of a grain 00
are cast into a box on the left. Those which stand tbe
test are put into bags of 1,000 sovereigns each, and tbos,,e
below par are cut by a machine, and sent back to t',";
Mint. Between 1,000 and 2,000 light sovereigns are thu7
daily sent out of circulation. The silver is put up irate
bags, each of £l,OOO value, and the gold into bags of
thousand, and then those bagfuls of bullion are
through a strongly guarded door, or rather window, in
the treasury. The treasury is a dark gloomy apartments
fitted up with iron presses, which are supplied with 1105
locks and bolts, and which are perfectly fire-proof. Go' 't
silver, and paper money ready for circulation to the amcuito
of £22,000,000? sterling were in the treasury when Ft
visited it. One of the gentlemen in that departme%
placed 1,000 sovereigns in our hand, and at the same 00
pointed to seventy bags full of gold in the little recess
which he had thrown open, making in all the modest sur,
of £70,000. He placed notes to the amount of half aow
lion also upon our palm, which no doubt had its own 5,,,e,11;
sation as the precious deposit trembled on its top. 1`;
heads of departments meet is the treasury every even_io7
and there all the accounts ara balaliced3r2Holl'B Week IA
Instructor.'