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From all time the Great Seal of England has been regarded with almost superetitions reverence and invested with the most extra. ordinary powers, oven though the first known was nothing more imposing than a small piece of lead attched by a silk thread to a oharter of Edward the Confessor. A rough kind of waz Norman seized Britain; and he and his successors down to the present day sealed with green wax all instruments purporting to bare an unlimited duration, such as charter granted to certain torus, patents of peer age and the like. Other instruments, such as jetters patent or commissions that under the Great Seal, have the seat in yellow wax, which in certain circumstances is enclosed in a caso of buff-coloured leather, which case has the observe and reverse of the seat stamped on it. Nowadays, a private document, which Fat is of an official nature and is engrossed or parchment, is first relied up and then tied with a narrow gall-on string. A small piece of wax is then pressed on to the ends of the string, the official seal being considered to be made if the little bit of wax is merely touched with one of the hatras of the Great Seal.

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A change in a roler mesas a change in the seal. This change is ordered by the Sovereign Pris Council, and the royal engraver is ordered to atten and submit designs, which when otosen are duly au ied out, the new seal being delivered by the Sare

in to the Lord Chancellor, and the old one "dama or a fased. This is done by the Sovereign la Council ciking the seal with a small homeler. A "damiske saal is the porquisite of the Lord Chancellor; hat when William IV. came to the throne, Lord Lyndhurst's claim to George. IV's Great Seal was tioned by Lori Chancellor. The King settled the difference Brougha, who had bas¬me William's by having each half of the seal ast in a silver

alvor, and the twe Ministure drew lols for the obverse and reverse.

Culess the Great Seal a required, either at a Privy Connell or in the House of Lords, only the purs or bag is carried as an emblem before the Ford Chand. Hor. When the seal is going two officers attashed to the Great Seal, one to be used the attendance is commanded of the being known as the Sealer" and the other as the Chaff Wax. They are expert in bandling the unwieldy instrument and in obtaining per- fect impressica of this most important and in teresting relic of the history of Uroat Britsin.-- Daily Vau

ARMY FED ON FROZEN MEAT.

'WAR SECRETARY'S ECONOMIES.

Mr. Haldane said the other day that he was ancing between £50,000 and £6 1,000 a your on the most contract alone, that being the cost of a battalion. Yet the soldiers were getting the same meat as before.

To elucidate this economic problem a repre sautative of the Morning Post made inquiries in the meat trade. "The explanation is simple." sald one of the largest contractors, "the Army is now fed exclusively on frozen meat, with the exception of the tinned meats that are inevitable in war and on manoeuvres. Mr. Haldane has eliminated the clause that meat is to is home fad and home bred, and naturally the tenders drop. ped tremendously I may say that the business is highly speculative, and the prices are so low that a good many of the contractors are not disposed to tender again: The world's supply of frozen meat, particularly beef, is not so definitely regalated that we know for certain that w Can secure sufficient to fall! our contracts. If we have to fall back upon tho boof killed in the lairages at Liverpool and Deptford, which comes technically within the provisions as to home fed and home bred of precious contracts, thon a heavy loss is likely to ensue,"

From the rough-and-ready goals of the Middle Ages the present weighty and port entous affair has grown. The Great Ses! consists of two deep and heavy plates of silvor. They fit closely into one another. and lie embedded in valvat in a box about eight in obes square, on the lid of which are the royal anes in gold. Taken apart, the silver plaques show the two sides of the seal. The obverse shows the Sovereign enthroned and surrounded by figures symbolical of the virtues; the reverse displays the Sovereign riding in state on a wonderfully trapped horse. Although kings

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no longer the autooratio power that once was the keynote of monarchy, the bonours that surrounded the privileged holder of the King's Conscience" are but little curtail ed, though it is not possible to acquire the custody of the Great Seal by right of purebass, as was d ne by a certain Walter Gray in the days of King John, who, being in want of ready money, sold the Great Seni and all the profita that went with it for 5,000 marks-a very goodly anm at that time. Bat the endowment of a Another contractor pointed out that the War man with the small leather box wrapped in Office specifications were stringent as to weight the great embroidered purse, that is to well and quality of the meat supplied to the Army known to those who attend the House of Lords,We apply the very best frozen onross95, still carries with great dignity and immeasur- he said, which come from New Zealand and able patronage, both in Church and Stats.

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Australia, Banos Ayres, and the Argentine generally. I say, as an expert, that the meat quite as good quality as British-fed meat. Secretary for War says he saves over £50,000 a year on the new contracts made this summer. That is a large som, in spite of the the Quartermaster General should know by his reduced prices of the successful tenders. Still accounts the difference in the east of feeding the Standing Army at home, though he is not likely to have a chance to save so much again when the present contracte expire.

First, and even in thess democratic days most important, the custodian of the Great Beal becomes the second man in the kingdom, Without commission, patent or appointment, be constitates himself the supreme Judge of the Court of Chancery, Lord Chancellor, and Speaker of the House of Lords, and enjoys Osed salary of £10,000 a year.

in numerable perquisites of all kinds with

In earlier days the power wielded by the Keeper of the Great Seal was so great that not infrequently the bestowal

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large meat company was. a King who had reason to doubt the loyalty he came to the War Office the prices charged called to Mr. Haldane's declaration that before of persons about his Court Indeed, wheat were too high for foreign meat, yet so low that Hoary III once had to travel into France to they would not "fetch home-bred meat." Few look after bis interests there, he could find no better person to invest with the powers of the people, it was explained, and few Army ofhears Great Seal than his wife, Queen Eleanor, who frusen meat of the best quality and British meat particularly could tell the difference between not only carried on the work and the traditions if the former was carefully handled and matured of the office, but even dispensed justice in the before being served. It was possible, therefors, High Court of Chancery, sitting there herself that in some cases the temptation had been to daily, till a domestic event of personal interest substitate foreign carcases in view of the cut- to her and ber lord obliged her to relinquiab her judicial duties for a short time.

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ting rates at which the contracts were obtained. Ju regard to tinned food Mr. Bat Great Seals have bad their adventures, Haldane's passion for economy bas led him to as did the Sovereigns whose pleasure and power place a large contract recently with a Chiengo, they have represented. During the Civil War fem, at a price so low that the English, Canadisa, the Great Seal of England was hunted up and and Australasian firms could not co opete except down the country by both the Royalist forces at a heavy loss. In view of recent revelations as And the Brandbeads. After some months of to the methods of the Chicago packing-houses. from the hands on wat rejoiced at receiving very stringent conditions have been imposed from of a faithful servant bis Great upon the contractors. Each tin has to have its Seal, for which the Parliament, which desired weight guaranteed within half an ounce, the to promulgate several instruments of importance, quality of the meat has to be inspected by experts, had been seeking so long. The King was at and the tins hava to be picked in the presence once able to issue various problamations. In of British Army officers. As the sanitary con- Loudon it was even founi impossible to issue write ditions insisted upon in the factory involve a to fill the places of decessed members of large expenditure, it is not understood by Parliament. Despite a law condemning to death colonial Arms how the contractors can make s Is man who might dare to imitate or forge the profit. The meat will probably be of good Grest Beal, one Master Symonds, an engraver, quality, bat here again it is not expected that ran the risk of execution for the sake of £101, | Mr. Haldane will be as fortuoste in his next and made an asset copy for the Parliament.. tenders. This forgery was used unil the establishment, Frozen meat, American cinned goods, and of the Commonwealth, when a new seal was American horseshows for the Army

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When James II. fed from England after b's abdication be dropped the Great Seal into the Thames mud as he was being farried by night across the river. A Beherman shortly after brought it to light, and was rewarded for returning it to the authorities. The Grast Seal held by Lord Thurlow in George III's reign wan however, really lost in 1784. His honse was stripped by burglars, and among the loot was the son, which was of bat somparativo- ly small intrinsic value in those days, as it was not till Waterloo year that it, was made of anything more precious than copper. On the Occasion of the robbery a Privy Council was called at once, and the loss was made good in law than two days

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