Vol. XIV.

Charlottetown, Prince: Edward Island, Monday, ‘March 14, 1864.

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A Weekly Hournal of Politics, Literature, and Alews.

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New Series.---No. 15.

Marine Insurance Company PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. sTEAMER FROM ST. JOHN. N. B. rated t4th April, 1863, To Halifax and Charlottetown.

Fine chance for early Spring Goods!

Incorpe PRESIDENT:

WILLIAM HEARD, Esquire.

DIRECTONS: GATLON CO’S POWERFUL STEAMSHIP

HON. DANL. DAVIEs, | I1ON. JAS. C. POPE, ye PRINCESS OF WALES,” 1000 tons burthen,

HON. W. W. LORD, HON GKO. BEER, |B. Evans, Commander, will leave ST. JOHN, N

> INCAN, Ese. | LIEN HASZAKD. Ese |B. for HALIFAX and CHARLOTTETOWN, on SAM DYECA oe ae - eee | or about loth April, Por FREIGHT or PASSAGE

> » japply in st. Jobn, N. B. to Tuomas Hanrorp ; DANIEL J. ROBERTS. | Halifax, to THoMas Boiron ; ie a Riske taken daily at tbe Offices in Water-street | Joes Ines. May +. | Charlottetown, Feb. 22, 1864. 4i

~ FE. P. NORTON, _ Tombstones, Tombstones,

Auctioneer & Commission Merchant. Marble Mantle-Pieces, &c. | (Kent Street, next door to Dr. Johnson's.)

GEORGETUWN - - - P. E. ISLAND | | scensilielaneiiniaatn M ARBLE WORK of all kinds executed

Charlottetown, to

Queen Insurance Company OF LIVERPOOL.

by the Sabscriber, with neatness aud dis | puteh, and of the very best material.

PPE P. K. ISLAND STREAM NAVI-!|

FIRE AND LIFE! | FAYE Subscriber, having been appointed

agent for tlie above first class Insurance Com

pany, is prepared to take iske on all descriptions of |

preperty J. 38. CARVELL. | a uf

2 rarlottetow n, Feb. i¢

Newsparens.] On veference to 4 return made to Parliament. and | ate red My the House of ( ommons to be printed, 7th | Jane, 1861, it will be seey that the increase of Duty fer the yeur, paid by the “QUEEN,” was £2567, being upwards of £1000 more than paid by any ether office ever yet esta! lished in this City. {Peom Gore's Genera! Advertiser, Oct. 24, 1861.) “Indeed, we believe that we are perfectly justi fied in saying that ne ether Company, within the | same period. ever attained so large an incorae in | either the Fire or Life Departments as the Queen | Insurance Company. In making this statemwent,we | make no exception even in favor of our older local companies, namely, the Liverpool and London, the Reval, and the Lancashire Insurance Companies.” jFrom the Civil Servier Gazette, Nov. 2. 1861.) | *“ Among these important institations stands emi- Reut for its selidity, as well Queen Insurance Company,’ its annesl meeting of proprietors in Liverpee!

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as fer its success, “the which last week held

made by this association since its foundation. Such

guceess is, Indeed, rare ly attained ; and it attests at

| adve of their merits for themselves.

te MLLLSTONES made to order. Parties requirugy any of the above articles are

respectfully requested to call and examine my |

Steck before purchasing else where. te” TERMS LIBERAL. 43 JOHN CAIRNS.

Cent Street, Charlottetown, ie 7 Feb. 29, 1864. : RW dins Nore —I beg to inform the Public generally that Lhave employed no Ageut to solicit orders on my account; therefore can afford to sell cheap My material and workmanship are scattered over the Island, and I leave it to a discerning public to J.C

Furniture Warerooms. GEORGE DOUGLASS,

Manufacturer and Importer of Furnitur and Uphilstery Goods,

l SSPECTFULLY solicits the attention

of such as are in want of FURNITURE to

call at his New and Spactous WaRkE-rooMs, onthe

corver of ‘ut Street and King’s Square, directly

A | Opposite the Store of Beer & Sons, and examine as | and fencing stalf reference to the ample report in another page wil] | good und complete an ASS RTMENT OF FUR. | excellent DWELLING HOUSE, % x : fullv sutisfy every reader of the signal progreas | NITI RE, comprising many new and beautital | containing Nive Rooms, all well finished, with «| duals, and have no right tu intrade them-

designs, as con be found in this City. His long e

PRINCE STREET

Esinia ‘BOOK AND STATIONERY STORE,

(Near the Temperance Hall.)

| = | JOHN S, BREMNER

H’s constantly for sale, ut the lowest

prices, a general assortment of

Books and Stationery,

Inclading all the SCHOOL BOOKS in general nse, | together with a great variety of new and standard |works. Pocket and Pen Knives, Work Boxes, &c. |} Avcso— Bibles and Testamenta, Commentaries, | Prayer Books, Chureh Service, Wesley's Hymns,

Psalm Books, &c, in various sizes and styles of

Binding.

English and American BOOKS and PERIODI.- | CALS imported to order, aud supplied on tavourable | terms. —_—-—

A LARGE VARIETY OF

‘NEW AND POPULAR MUSIC. PRIZE EXHIBITION (1862)

| SCHOOL ROOM MAPS. ARTISTS’ MATERIALS.

| {= All kinds of JOB PRINTING and |BOOK-BINDING executed with neatuess jand on moderate terms. Charlottetown, Jan’y 25, 1864. ow MOLASSES! MOLASSES! "PHE subseriber hag IN STORK and for sale on liberal terms— 30 bhds Muscovado Mucasses,

o0 tierves Cienfuyos Do 3U barrels Do Do J. 8S. CARVELL. Ch'town, Dec. 28, 1863. tf

‘Valuable Leasehold Farm NEAR THE CITY. T°? be sold by PRIVATE CONTRACT

the Leasehold Interest in

100 Acres of LAND,

jat One shilling per acre rent, lease “OY veurs, front- ling on the Royalty Koad, near te Wright's Mill, 60 | acres of which are cleared and ina high state of }eultivation; the remainder is covered with Lougers There is onthe Premises a very

24 feei,

good Cellar and Dairy, 7 feet deep, with a stone

enence in the business with facilities | wall; BARN, 42 « 23 feet, witha horse and cattle |

once the excellence of its manazement, and the pub. | for prosecuting the same to advantage, combined | Stable underneath, supported by a stone wall of 8

hie conhdence in iis constitution

{From the Liverpool Mereury, Nov. 2, 1861.]

} With moderute expenses, enables him to sell bis ; ; . GOODS at much less per cent than any other Far | 24 ‘Tons ot Hay was cut off the place last year, be- i eminently deserving of the name. Their an- Every article required | sides other greeu crops, and the greater part of the | nals are rich in incident, and the lives of all

niture store in this Island

|feet; a good Well of Water close to the House.

“It must be yratifyine to the public generally, fur Housekeeping supplied at this Establisbment.| Land has been manured with Lime quite lately

and especial ¥ to the proprietors, to find that its im

A few of those celebrated Clothes Wringers, a

| As the owner is about to wake an alteration in bis

come Guring the past three years has increased at {most convenient article in a good Housekeeper's | busicess, the Terms of this Property to a good pur

wnagm. We believe thut n the same short period, nerease either im the Fire

the rate of £20 U0U per ne wmther Company, wit ever attained so large an

er Lite Department 1 sis speaks highly fiw the act vuy and zeal of the management, While the promptness with which all the claims, arising eut of the late disastrous fire in Louden were met, tes. | tiles be their finwnetal al] ty aud the care and pra

ivettment of these furds.”’

deace which marked the

The Liverpool and London

' FIRE AND LIFE ¥ y 7 . INSURANCE COMPANY. Tee Ageut for the above first class Eugliah Fire Ineurance Company begs to adfi the attention of the public to the advantages | @flered by this Company. wi respect to the security | te the assured, and pre y leases, which. witheet disparaying othe r Companies, may be safely asserted to be superior to those afforded by any oo Compony in the lstawd. The Liverpool and

Andou F. & L. Iusarsace Company has been in euccessful aperation since 1836, with agencies al! ever the world. aud bu» puid in losses alout two millions and a quarter werling. Its subweribed cu pital is £2.000,000 steriiag, aud Us invested fuuds slone amount to £1,312.000 stg.; and the fire pre- | piemefer IMO; amount te £360,130 1% td: and in ad- dition to this very larye capital, the Company, having been established before the recent Liunted Liability Act, the indivi of the | sharehelder, compriaiiy some of the weulthiest | merchants in Liverpowt and London, are liable for the losses, should the w ole of the capital be swept away. In this respect ic differs, it is believed, from auy other Company est: plished here.

Aud lastly, the Ayeut being appointed by Power of Attorucy directly from England, is authoriaed to | draw Bilis the moment « loss occurs, aud witheut referring to the Home Company, to the extent of } one thousand pounds sterling. i

With these superior ulvautages, the Company is Ret disposed (Cheval it might le well justified) to sk a bigher rate of premium than other English Companies, which do not present the same advan- tayeous features, and the Avent has been advised | that an aniform rate has been agreed apou by the |

lesa Lad paca

ual fortunes of euch

Directors of this Company aud the * Queen's,” and , that the Agents here stvald, in this respect, “ act iu concert.” W. A. JOHNSTONE,

Agent of the Liverpool und Lendou

Nov. 10, 1562 Fire Insurance Company

Dr. W. G, Sutherland, | ]* returning thanks for the very liberal patronage bestowed + .ce commencing business, trasts that the same mn still be continued towards him. He wishes further to state his present large stek of DRUGS and CHEMICALS, choice Perfamery, Toilet Articles, &c. &e. The best des cription of every thiug convected with the trade, elected in LONDON from the best establishments by those competent of doing justice to the business The Dissensury Depattument will be under bis own immediate superintendence Dr. Sutheriaud bes also to observe that he trusts the fact of having practised im Scotland several years. and nearly twenty years of extensive colonial pructicein every branc! of his profession, combined with anremitting assiduity and persoual attendance, will not fail to obtain confidence and ensure satis faction (9 Advice to the poor gratis. Queen-street, Chitown, P. E. Island, 2 December 7, 180} 5

JOHN & ROBERT SCOTT, each oi ee ll Senne,

NFORM the inhabitants of Charlotte-

town and the Country generally that they have fow on hand a number of wew and second-hand Cakutaces, open and covered, of different styles, which will be sold cheap fer prompt payment. b2” All orders punctually attended w. April 14, 1862.

ROSE & McINTYRE,

General Commission Merchants, 88 Cedar-strett --- New York. |

ARTICULAR ATTENTION to Sales of OATS and other PRODUCE, and purchase f Merchandize for the British Americau markets. Refer to— A. N. Brown, Esqr., 185 Greenwich- @treedt, New York ; Mesers. Elliot & Co., 16 Lemoine etreet. Montzea}; Hon. P. Walker, Charlottetown, P. E. laland Cremenr McIntyre. Jane 15, 1863.

W. A. JONNSTONE, Late of Halifax, N. 8. Attorney and Barrister-at-Law, Notary Public, &e. &. LF Orrice — Mes McDouald’s, next door to Mrs | Forsyth’s, nort!: aide of Queen Square. | _ Charlottetown, Gevober 21, 1863.

North American Hotel,

Kent-street, Charlottetown.

T S HOTRL, formerly known as the | “GLOBE HOTEL,” is the largest in the | City, aud ceatrally situated; it ie now opened fur the reception of permanent asd transient | Koarders. The subscriber trusts, by strict atten- | tien to the wants and comfort of his friends and | the public geaarully, to werit a share of public patronage. fe" The Best or Liqvogs always on hand. Good Stabhng for any wuwber of horses, with a! careful hustler in attcudanece. : JOEN MURPHY, Proprietor. _Ch. Tows, P. E. 1., Nov. 23. 1863. ly TOBACCO! TOBACCO! N STOCK and FOR SALE~ 20 keys Cavendish TOBACCO, 20 small boxes Extra Do 30 Do Honey Dew Do

J. 8. CARVELL. Char'town, Dec. 23, 1863, tr i

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orm are www yy Ors we

138 chests CONGO TEA,

0 ''M bbls. BREAD,

Laundry.

N. B.—One Superior Rosewood, 7 octavo PIANO | information, please apply to the Subscriber, at his | never ludged ‘ for in each of these three rooms

FORTE, London make GEORGE DOUGLASS.

Corner of Kent Street and King 5 Square.

Charlottetown, Nov. 30. IS€3

NOTICE.

Marine Insurance Company Of Prince Edward Island.

‘PPHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE) SHAREHOLUVERS in this Company will be | C[wenty chains t» the property of G. W. Debiois, | a list of this pedigree of paintings, for from held at the Otfices in Warer Street, on THURS- | Esquire, and directly fronting the residence of the the tawny pannel of Mabuse which represents | rethe in Acre lots to suit Eeacimueentiee the black-bearded Gwynne who fought for the 2 none Aye tpg | Tudor at Bosworth, down to the pink and

| the 2d day of MAY NEXT, it will then be olered| white ivory of Cosway whereon simpers the

DAY, the o'clock, a.m By Order of the Board of Directors, DANIEL J. ROBERTS, Sec'y. Charlottetown, Feb. 22nd. 1864

Iith day of MARCH, 13804, at 10

Tea, Sugar, Holland Gin,

Tobacco, Molasses, &c. Te be sold by Auction, oo SATURDAY, the 19th inst., at J1 o’elock, in front of the Subscriber's ROOM, Queen Square :— 12 puns. choice P. R. MOLASSES, 4hhds. BRIGHT SUGAR, 8 bbis Deo Do warranted good), 6 boxes Cuvendish TOBACCYU, 3 * Woodstock PIPES, 14 boxes RAISINS, 50 bbls. FLOUR, i2 ** asserted Crackers, in Soda, Oyster, Water, 40 “ CORN MEAL, 18 Coils CORDAGE, 10 “ Puratine Pitch, 20 kews No.1 White Lead, 3 bhds HOLLAND GIN, 5 pna. DEMERARA SPIRITS, 2 casks Kerosene Oil. 10 boxes Crackers, 10 eases SHERRY WINE, (1 dozen each) Ss * PORT Do Do 10 doz. Painted PAILS, 16 doz. CORN BROOMS, 5 boxes Ground COFFEE, 6 boxes CANDLES, 10 )6©*©6=|6 STARCH, 3 boxes SUGAR, And a few articles of HARDWAKE. WILLIAM DODD, March 7, 1864. isl Auctioneer.

| UNION BANK —

OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

i accordance with a resolution passed at the General Meeting of the Stockholders of the above Bank, held at the Colonial Building, Char-

lotetown, on tne iith instant, acall is hereby made | 4D. 1864, at the same place, and at twelve o'clock, | those which are usually found with browo

of 35 per cent on the Subscribed Stock, which

amount the Stockholders are hereby requested to |

pee into the hands of the Chairman of the Board of directors, at his office, in Charlottetown, ot or before Tuesday the 22nd March next. CHARLES PALMER, Chairman. Dated 22nd February, 1864.

AT a Meeting of the above Directors, held -~% on Monday. the 15th Febroary, instant, it was Resoivep, That inasmuch as the Stock has not all been taken up, and some of the Subscribers have

expressed a wish to be permitted to pay up a larger | the shore, Where abundance of sea manure can be| jg at one moment and said within myself,

chaser will be made easy—for which and any other

| Oitice, Queen Syuure. | WILLIAM DODD. i Ts!

March 7, 1864

‘PASTURE LOT FOR SALE. iM be sold by PRIVATE SALE, that

beautifully sitaated PASTURE LOT, No. 42,

in the Royalty of Charlottetown, having a front of | depicting the grim lords and beaatiful Jadies |

Six chains on the Western side of the Mountj Ed- ward Road, and extending back by parallel f

Honourable Colonial Seeretary.

| Should the above not be sold by Private Sule before

Plan of the Property cun be seen at the Office

| of the Hon. Dr. Youns, or at the Office of |

} A | WILLIAM FORGAN.

rw mou £ pro

a

May 7, 18 | tar SALE OF

‘Valuable Freehold Property, 'fBXO be Sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, | at the Colonial Building, in Charlottetown, |

on the Fourth day of MARCH next (1364), at the

fhour of Twelvy e o'clock, neon, by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in a certain Indenture of

Mortyayve, dated the Teuth day of December, 1860,

land made between the Honorable William Forgan, of the Royalty of Charlottetown, and Susan Kemys,

| his wife, of the one part, and Daniel Hodgson, of | Charlettetown, aforesaid, of the other part, and by lsaid Duniel Hodgson assigned to me,—All those Tracts, Pieces or Parcels of Land, being Pasture

Lots Numbers Ninteen (19), Twenty-six (26), Thirty- |

| four (34), aud Forty-two (42), in the Royalty of | | Charlottetown, aforesaid, as the same are delineated | and laid down on a certain Map or Plan of the said

LITERATURE. terioue coat of French polish which could

THE WORLD IS WHAT WE MAKE IT. | only be administered st the court of Maria Theresa's beautiful daughter. For a time the Squire had nothing to complainof. The Duchess wrote that the young Englishman had the true air. He had been noticed at the Trianon. He had made a success. Mr. Uorace himself thought Paris a charming) place. He had ae in @ private a

Oh, call not this « vale of tears, A world of gloom and sorrow ;

One half the grief that o’er us comes From self we often borrow.

The eatth is beautiful and good : How long will man mistuke it?

The folly is within ourselves— as a Milord Anglais, in which a Royal Per-| The world is what we make it sonage had appeared as a Grisette Francais.

’ He was very well seen. Nevertheless this

Did we but strive to make the best was not altogether aa to the Squire.

He had the notions of a Roraan on the subject of the stage, and would never have acknow- ledged the celebrated comedian of his name

Of troubles that befal us, Instead of meeting cares half-way, They would not so appal us.

ices of Madame la Duchesse de Hautenbas tween them. When the Squire called for! desire to speak. For a moment the Mr. Horace Gwynne would receive that mys-| Harry to read him the Gaze/te, or to write a | shone with a brighter lustre in the flickering

lay | companion.”

eyes letter to the bailiff, the fair Bessie sulked | fame of the burning packet, hismouth made over her harpsichurd. And if, perchance, a convulsive effort to form a word, and he the Squire said, ** Bessie, will you write as I | fell heavily back on his pillow, dead. dictate?’ or, ** Bessie, I am going to be There was an awful silence for a space, and lifted into the coach, and to driven to then Elizabeth burst forth in a wail of sorrow Minchester,”’ it was. ‘* Papa, won’t Harry and remorse. She had killed her father. do it better?” or, ** Papa, Harry knows all) She had better die to join him. about the crops, and will be a more amusing) ** Kill me, kill me, Harry !"’ she shricked. : But the atter desolation of grief that was ex- These observations were, unlike some’ pressed in her cousin's face silenced her owa others of the young lady's, Porat true; sobs. Kneeling down by the side of the and the Squire was gradually and uncon-| bed she hid ber headin ber bands, and was sciously beginning to act upon them. His’ still. great affliction made it hard for him to bear, Then came doctors and domestics. ‘ An- with the caprices of bis daughter, and day | other stroke !'’—*‘*Poor Squire; and only atter day he becaime less able toendure Harry | five-and-forty. ’’--** And how did Miss

as a kingwoman, even if she had honestly raised herself to fame by ber acting, and not by—by other means. He did not like the’

Earth bas a speil for leving hearts— Why should we seek to break it /

Let's seatter tlowers instead of thorns— The world is what we make it. of grinning Frenchmen, though a Queen had |

If truth and love and gentle words capered af his side.

We touk tie pains to nourish,

Majesty's leisure? The seeds of discontent would die,

idea of his boy’s capering before an audience | jul nephew.

out of his sight. He was growing prema- Gwynne get to her father’s room ?"’—*+ Did turely old and prematurely peevish, and his| he know hee before he died ?”’

exactions taxed all the patierce of his duti-| All these things were said as she was borne in a dull stupor to her room. Harry alooe

Mies Bessie’s temper, too, grew worse in-| knew the truth. He saw ber laid on ber bed

Indeed, was it well for| stead of better. Once she had even flown and in custody of her women, and then re- the Queen so to occupy her most Christian | into a passion before her crippled father, and | tired to his own grief and the many duties All this was not quite! had not been calmed by his appealing look. he had to

perform.

ines | Of their house.

, longed to one of the most noteworthy of the

| pieture is by Reynolds, and professes to re-

And peace and concord flourish. Oh, has not each some kindly thought 1 Then let's at once awake it; Believing thut, for good or ill, The world is what we make it.

—09 > o—— —

Fe ‘THE WRATH OF MISTRESS GWYNNE,

Every family has iwownromance. Every house of decent respectability and antiquity | has its own ghost. Fawilies posgessing | neither romance ror ghost rest their claims to respect on the achievements of some myste- rious hero, who by battle, by duel, or by) rapine, has won renown; or, better still, of | /some heroime slain by a harsh husband, drowned in an ancestral moat, or immortaliz- led by the fame of her beauty. Those who lean boast neither thrilling history, nor hero, | whether natearal or spiritual, can scarcely be ‘called families at all. They are merely a | zoological congeries of uninteresting mdiyi-

| selves on public notice. It has lately been my fortune to have been staying in the country-house of a family

their kith and kin would make upa (by no | means contemptible) history of England. In | three rooms in their old dwelling guests are

|a white lady, or a black knight, or some | other incomprehensible inhabitant is sure to } molest a stranger. Their portrait gallery is |asrich in character asin art. The Gwynnes have always prided themselves un their pic- | tures, and [ cannot but think that painters ‘must have rejoicéd over the opportunity of

It is not my intention to give

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by Public Auction on the premises. high-girdied Gwynne who captivated the Re- |

gent, that list would be very long. I shall confine my tal4 to one picture and its subject. That one pictue chained dowo my attention the moment I saw it. I was glad to learn by my subsequent inquiries that the remarkable face that seemed to live on its sursace be-

family, and one who had ber own story. That story may seem very tame in comparison with the melodramatic horrors of much family romance, but such as itis, I beard it with interest. Whether I can repeat it with ip- | terest [am too modest to predict.

The story belongs to no dark ages of Smithfield fires or of bloody battles, for the

present the grandmother of the present Squire vt Gwynne. She appears to be about thirty years old. Shé is standing, and seems of a

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stature greater than that of the mass of her

Royalty made and now kept in the Office of the/sex. ler head is turned over her shoulder, |

| Reyistrar of Deeds and Keeper of Plans for the | and her face looks tae | own. : terms of Sale, é&c., high-bred gentlewoman, as is the attitude ol |

janid Island, reference being thereunto bad will more fully and at large appeur- For further particulars and } apply to the Subscriber or his Solicitor. | Dated at Charlottetown this Jist August, | A. D. 1863 WILLIAM H. HOBKIRK. | Joseph Heyscey, Solicitor. | \fEXHE above Sale is POSTONPED until

Dated the 29th February, A.D. 1864.

| noon. 3 WILLIAM H. HOBKIRK.

| foliage of the background, and the arrange-

WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of Juve next, | strongly marked, and much darker, than

fur mere beauty. ‘The eyes are of that dark

spectator full in his The attitude is that of a graceful and

all Reynolds’ ladies. Nor is there anything | more than Reynolds’ customary success in the

| ment of the grey drapery of the dress. It is t ° .

the face alone wich isremarkable. The fore- | head is high, and the brows are much more

‘hair. They are arched, and too nearly meet

satisfactory. But worse news followed. Mr. | She remembered the day when she was al! in|

ln the morning the old housekeeper came

Horace was seen no more at the little Trianon. | ali to her parent, and now she was as noth-|to him and brought tidings of her lady.

Joseru HENSLEY, Solicitor.

nt | BOY which flashes with the fiercest of all fire The Great Land Commission a failure! |when it 1s roused. The expression of the

Madame de Hautenbas was compelled to| ing. Not were there wanting those evil in- | Elizabeth had slept a little in the night, and

ignore him. He had imbibed the strangest

ideas, and was ussociating with the most uu-| never wanting in # court or in a large house- sin. ' noticeable people.

He openly professed sym- pathy with the third estate. became sceptical as to the advantages of monarchy, and, so far from preserving the principles of the paternal toast in a strange land, he was suspected of being acquainted with men who thought as little of Church as

in which he avowed himself an Atheist. It was a bitter trial to the Squire, but he did

‘not flinch from his duty. He furbade the{ also her firm faith that his wishes entirely

name of his son to be mentioned in his hear- ing. The estates of Gwynne would descend to the male heir, only in default of direct

‘testamentary disposition on the part of the

head of the house. The Squire could leave

the property away from his unworthy son if had been said to rouse all her rage, aad from | go away !—you leave Gwynne !

he so willed. No Gwynne had made a will for many generations. Whether the Squire had broken the custem no one knew.

The Squire had lust his heir, but he was not childiess. He had still his nephew to

ride with him to cover, and discuss the stir- a certain day, in the course of the weal, the

ting history of the times over his not im- moderate cups. And Harry Gwynne was a bold and merry lad, frank and out spoken, modest and true, and in all respects such as might comfort a fatherly old uncle’s heart. Harry and his uncle were great friends, bat not such friends as were the Squire and his daughter.

fluences of gossip and attery which are | hold. There were voices which whispered, |

|Squire’s health is fast failing. Will you, like to leave the manor, or live in it as Mas- | | ter Harry’s guest? For to Master Harry, | the Squire will assuredly leave it.”’

| At this Mistress Elizabeth Gwynne quite

} |of King. At last a letter arrived from him | forgot that she desired nothing better than |

|to stay at Gwynne all her life, with this. treacherous Harry, as his wife, and forgot

agreed with her own. She only remembered that she was the daughter of the elder branch ; that there was a suspicion that she

| was to be disinherited ; that—that—indeed jshe was not very clear what. Bat enough

that day the notion of a will never failed to | raise the devil at her heart. | She and her cousin dined daily in her fa. 'ther’s own study. It was the only occasion on which the three were long together. On

| Squire looked across the table contrived to

| fasten to his couch, and said : ** Harry, lad, has Griffithe gone to Min-' chester ?”’ ** ite went at ten o’clock, sir. He rode} Brown Hanover. He wanted to have Straw-_ ) berry, but [ know she isn’t up to his——”’ | “ Papa, what have you sent Griffiths to_

was calm now. She wished to see her cou- She received him with great gentleness, and as one who had had her life-lesson. She

ess openly be|** Madam, look out for the estate, the trusted her grief would be safficient punish-

ment. Ste could out insult ber cousin in his own home with her presence, after what had occurred. Immediately after the funeral she should leave Gwynne. Mre. Griffiths bad promised to go withher. She had enough to maintain her in decent res bility from what her mother bad left hee for pocket- money. She should not require much, for she should not live long.

‘And, Harry,” she added, “ when you hear that I am dead,will you let me be buried with papa in our own churchyard?” Shs looked him tearfully in the face.

** © Bessie, Bessie !’’ he broke out; “ you It is I that It is yours—it is all yours! The willleftitalito you. O Bessie! Wow could you—how could you—-—?” But hastopped in the middie of his reproach. * Bessie, [ come to bid you good-bye. You would not have me stay? It is better for us to part.’’

I cannot chronicle the precise words in which Miss Gwynne, as soon a8 she was satis- fied thet she was mistress, and not invited her cousin to stay. But he did stay. {t was perhaps undignified in him ; he had surely had warning. But he did stay. He atayed some half century longer ; and there is no record in the family of bis wife having

must go!

Mistress Elizabeth Gwynne, at nineteen | Minchester for? You know 1 was going to ever flown in a rage with her lord.

years of age, was said to have been particu- larly beautiful.

the loveliness of the girl. She was very beautiful and very clever; but her temper was high and passionate. The visitor, who should see her unruffied and serene, might deeni-i! impossible for so gentle a being to

| transcend the orditery limits of the anger of

her sex. But on the compiravively rare oc-

| casions, when her passion mastered herbert | Few cared | gone | lincbester -

paroxysins of rage were fearful. to encounter her, and none to offer opposition Che presence of her father was the only in- fluence which stilled her wrath. When her father approached, her love conquered he- anger, and she was sp: edily (a med.

Tuis untameable damsel Harry Gwynne had worshipped with an untiring constancy, ever since he had been oid enough to hold any opinions at all.

they both wore frocks, she had been, ia an imperial sense, the mistress, and he the slave. He had played with her, and ridden with her, and quarrelled with ber, and obeyed her. He had broken in a mare for her; he had planted an Italian garden for her; he had acted in all things as one whose existence was ordained for her convenience. All this she had received as her due. She admitted to herself, if ever she thought about the mat- ter, that she was disposed to play the meek maiden, waiting modestly for the kerchief of the sultan. She used her slave's services with magnificent indifferance, him sometimes with @ smile, and sometimes with a fit of rage.

When no more letters came from Paris, aud the Squire began to act as though he had no son, Mistrees Bessie evidently deemed berself of increased importance. She had never pretended any love for the disinherited Horace. His airs and graces annoyed her. He cvuld say prettier things than Uarry, and danced a minuet better than—hurdly, at least, better than Harry, for that rustic geu- tleman could not dance at all. But be had once craned at a hedge ; and, on the whole,

I have described the features | of the woman, and from them may be guessed | than you, my Bessie.’

~ He was a year or two older { groom brought round ber mure, but she said | than his mistress, but from the days since | she had changed her mind. She would not

| ride over this afternoon.”’ ** Something that Griffiths could do better | ‘There was a significant look in the inva-| | lid’e eyes. | | “Harry, what did he go for? Oh! very | well. If you won't tell me! pray keep, your secret !”’

And she cooked her spleen. it was not, indeed, a very merry meal.

** Hannah, do you kaow why Griffiths has

+ Griffithe. Se Minchester, ma‘am ?

a letter to Mr. Deeds.”’

Now Deeds was the family lawyer. The | plot was out. ‘The Squire was going to! make a wiliin Harry's favour. The deepised | daughter of the house sat brovding in her | room, and ber face grew very dark. The

ride that day.

Late in the afternoon she saw Mr. Deeds) and a clerk drive up the avenue in a chaise. | She heard them ushered into ber father’s bed-room. The Squire had felt weaker than usual, and had retired to his room imme-| dixstely after his mid-day meal. The noise. | of the footsteps on the marble, and the shut- | | ting of the ducrs, was as oil on fire. Ehiza- | | beth Gwynne was all but in the last stage of | | passion. She chated and fumed ie her own | | room till suspense became unbearable. She |

| rang a band-bell that summoned a maid, and |

and rewarded | seot @ message.

** Tell sowe of the people toask Mr. Harry | if he will epeak with me immediately.

Presently the girl returned.

“*Mr. Harry was busy with the Squire, and could nct come.”

Had it come to this? Was she, the once- ‘loved daughter, to remain silent in her room, | while her natura] father was signing away |

her patrimony to her cousin? fiad not she | a right to be with her father? He was doing |

something important, or he would not have |

W hen Mr. Deeds had driven over from Min- chester, he had brought over the draught of @ will, uasigned, leaving the whole estate to Elizabeth. S» he had been ordered ; but he strongly deprecated the notion of the Squire's disinheriting his son for what he termed the errors of youth. He bad some stormy dis cuesions with his aoa. and at last a0 i house, leaving the will yet unsigned, de- claring that, if Mr. coos was determined, some uther lawyer must do his work. The Squire immediatly signed the will that was a. terwardsSburned, and Larry's was the only

[ think [ heard hive say_he was going to take evideace that couid secure the property to

18 to the succession, news arrived at Gwynne that Horace had been killed in a duel. He had married a French lady who bore him no children, and who, at his death, came to re- side in London, and was said to have made a great impression at Carliun House.

After seeing the picture, aud hearing the story, | was shown the state bed-room. There stoad still the broidered bed, with Queen Anne's lillies and lions, and the brazen dogs on which the will had mouldered. I was strangely interested, | own, in Mistress Elizabeth Gwynne.

“MISCELLANEOUS,

Benerits ov Exercise.—Exercise is health producing, because it works off and out of the system its waste, dead and effete matters ; these are all converted into a liquid form, called by some ** humors,’’ which have exit from the body through the ** pores’ of the skin, in shape of perspiration, which all have seen, and which all know is the result of exercise, when the body isin a state of health. Thus it is that persons who do not perspire,

| who have a dry skin, are either feverish or

chilly, and are never well, and oever caa be as lung as that condition existe.—So exercise, by working out of the system its waste de. eayed and useless matters, keeps the human

i tse

Before, however, any difficulty could arise

sent for Deeds. 1t was her plain duty to be

with him. machine * free ;"’ otherwise it would ego

clog up, and the wheels of life would stop

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| alvle terns. There is a portion of each of those Farms cleared and under enitivution; they front or

|mouth is a strange mixture of passion, of tenderness, and of resolution. The lips are compressed, but they are too tall for and too wavy fur malice. The The whole face I Jooked at

| meanness, | chin is prominent and large. beams with intelligence and life.

propertion of their Subscribed Stock than 30 per ‘had. A Building Lot or two ix Charlottetown or | that woman must have been fearful ina rage.

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