the clerks of the bank could not make their balance come right by a hundred pounds.

This was a serious case in a concern which requires such great accuracy, and a delegation of clerks from each office, spent a considerable part of the night in trying to rectify the mistake, but without any satisfactory result.

On the following morning, one of the clerks felt a suspicion that the mistake, had occured in packing some boxes of gold, which had been sent to Southampton for shipment, and this suspicion he mentioned to the cashier on the Monday morning.

The suggestion was immediately acted upon; here was a race of lightning against steam! and the steam with forty eight hours start. Instantly the wire asked "whether such a vessel had left the harbour?" "Just weighing anchor," was the answer,-"Stop her!" franticly shouted the Electric Telegraph, and it was done.

"Have upon deck certain boxes, marked so and so, and carefully weigh them;" they were weighed, and one of them was found heavier by just one hundred sovereigns than it ought to be.

"Let her go," said the mysterious telegraph, and the West India office was debited with just one hundred pounds more, thus the error was corrected without ever looking into the boxes, or delaying the vessel an hour. Now, this is what may be called "doing business."

Clocks and watches are nothing more than a simple arrangement of wheels of different diameters, and numbers of teeth, so as to indicate seconds, minutes, hours, days, and even moons.

Clocks are set in motion by a weight which turns a cylinder, and this cylinder sets the whole in motion: watches are kept in motion by a coiled spring, which in

seeking to uncoil itself, exerts a power that gives motion to one wheel, which turns all the others.

LESSON LXXXIL

THE BLACKBURN FARMER, CONCLUDED.

The demand for the novel wares of the Blackburn farmer, became so urgent that he could not produce them fast enough for his customers, he had therefore, to impress the services of his whole family—his sons aiding in the printing, and his wife and daughters working early and late in ironing out the printed cloths, after the colouring matter was dry.

The ironing process consumed a great deal of time, and although the females bent over their flat irons with unceasing diligence, yet they could not meet the demand, and the orders, that now poured in could not be executed in time.

To overcome this obstacle, the farmer set his wits to work to contrive a machine to supersede the use of the flat irons, and in the end he succeeded.

Instead of ironing his pieces of printed cloth, he now wound them carefully round small wooden rollers, which he placed in a smooth bed beneath a heavy box of stones; this box, by means of a rope and a handle, was drawn forwards and backwards till the necessary finish was given to the work. This invention was the origin of the mangle used in the present day.

This machine answered its purpose admirably, and, by releasing his wife and daughters from the ironing table, increased by so much the producing power of the family.

He now worked with redoubled diligence, and the more cottons he printed, the more people wanted them, and as he had taken especial care that no one should become master of his mystery, he retained the trade in his own hands.

As years flowed on, wealth poured in, and the small farmer of the village became the principal of one of the largest, and most prosperous manufacturing houses in the country.

He took his eldest son into partnership, and applying his capital to the production of machinery* to facilitate cotton printing, he succeeded in transferring his patterns from blocks to cylinders, and thus wonderfully shorten the whole process.

In the course of time, the farmer's son became a man of immense wealth and influence, and at a time when the burden of war weighed heavily upon the resources of the country, he raised and equipped a regiment of horse, and presented it to the government, which in gratitude for his generous patriotism, created him a baronet.

This patriotic baronet's eldest son was not brought up to the manufacturing business, but placed under skilful instructors, and when old enough, sent to the university, where he set a noble example of obedience and diligence, displayed abilities of the highest order, and won distinguishing honours.

This grandson of the Blackburn farmer afterwards obtained a seat in Parliament, where he served his country with great fidelity; after filling some important offices, he became Prime Minister of England, and in that capacity he devoted himself to the welfare of the people, steadily working to extend the freedom of trade, to improve the poor man's lot, and to cheapen his loaf.

* Ma-she'-ner-y.

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In this noble cause he signally triumphed, but in the midst of his success, he met with an accident which caused his death, leaving behind him a name and a fame dear to Britain, and honoured throughout the world.

It is perhaps, hardly necessary to add, that the name of the Blackburn farmer, that of the wealthy and patriotic baronet, and that of the champion of free trade, is one, and the same, namely, ROBERT PEEL Abridged from the Leisure Hour.

LESSON LXXXIII.

MISELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

In the early ages of the world, the fathers of families were their governors, and this kind of government was called patriarchal ;* the histories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are beautiful illustrations of this state of human society.

Every man in a society or nation, is bound to respect its welfare, to do nothing injurious to its members, and to conform himself to the rules or laws by which it is held together, maintained, and protected.

In England no man can be tried for any offence unless twelve of a grand jury have declared that there is cause for trying him; and he cannot be convicted or punished, except a verdict has been unamimously given against him by another jury, composed of twelve honest and unexceptionable men.

A man who has committed a crime is charged with it before a magistrate, or justice of peace, who issues his warrant to the constable for his apprehension.

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The magistrate commits him to the custody of the sheriff, in the county gaol, on the oath of the accuser, who, at the assizes must repeat his charge to the grand jury; if they find a true bill, he is tried before the petit jury, and if found guilty, he receives from the judge the sentence of the law.

All property is divided into real and personal; real property consists of lands and their appendages, and other buildings; personal property signifies money, moveables, goods, cattle, and every thing in which the holder has but a temporary interest.

Man is at the head of the animated creation, and unites all the advantages of strength, beauty, and structure, which are but partially possessed by other animals.

His Creator has also endowed him with the faculty of reasoning better than other animals, and with the power and will to adapt the single contrivances of other animals to his own varied wants and luxuries.

Man supports his body erect; and his face turned towards the heavens, displays the dignity of his nature; his soul is painted in his visage, and his majestic and resolute step, announces the nobleness of his rank; his arms and hands were not given him for support, but to second the intentions of his will, and to adapt to his purposes all the gifts of nature.

What animals effect by imitation and natural capability, man effects by invention and by combined power. Birds build their nests, bees frame their cells, and beavers construct their habitations, with convenient, but unvarying uniformity; but the works of man possess every possible variety, and afford evidence of his possessing intellectual powers of superior energy.

The clear complexion of the Europe'an is best adapted to express the passions of the soul, and the health of