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UNION BANK.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. Incorporated by Act of Colonial Legislature.

Capital Thirty Thousand pounds Currency, in 3,000 shares of Ten pounds each, pay- able by instalments in three years.

PROVISIONAL MANAGING COMMITTE.

C. Palmer, Chairman, Hon. W. W. Lord, M.L.C. |

Hou. G. Beer, M-L.C. Hon. James Pope, MP. P Henry Haszard, Esq, Geo. F.C. Lowden, Esq Ww. E. Dawson, Esq. William Heard, Esq. James D Mason, Esq. Thomas Dodd, — Alfred Phillips, Esq Wm. KR. W atson, Esq

J. A. Darey, Exc Owen Connelly, Esq George Davies beq

rgytliSs BANK is formed to supply an addition to the money circulation of this Is

land. the want of which fiw for some time been seusibiy felt increasing population, an expanding Commerce, and f the enlarged production of an industrious and energetic people. Incredible as it may seem, unul the vear IX

the Bank of Prince Edward Island was called into existence; and while it bas fuc litated the trade and commercial business gene rally, it. bas largely contributed to the develope

i ®imiliar becesel'y

ment of the resources of the Countrv, and its results | are suppose d to have been sutisfact ry two the |

Shareholders, having for some years past paid them an annaa! dividend of ten per cent The increase in the population since the year 1855, the large addition to our trade snd commerce, ¢ jecreasing Revenue, the breadth of arable land cleared and caltivated, the growing imerease of furmaing stock, the augmented export of grain and

necessary ft appears from the census of 1860 and from other authentic sources, thut in the preceding §ve years

the inerease in the population of this Island was | breadth of land under |

9 361 persons; increase of cultivation 45,000 acres; merease in the quantity of

reots and cereals exported $42,000 bush That in the yeur 1861, the lmports amounted to £314,902, | eurrency the Experts, including shipping, to)

£MG ALI, « narreney, (showing a balance of trade in favoor of the Island Phat in twenty years, from 1838 to 1859, the revenue more than doubled itself, the fiwures being, in 1039 £17,011; in 1859 £41,000

Whilst to carry ou this widitioual trade, the pub

lic Banking accommodation up to 1855 was nil, and since that time it bas never exceeded £52,000 per unnum, or about thirteen shillings per bead for the population, a eum so small as to be almost iucredi ble; while the Banking accommodation of the neighbouring Drovinee of New Brunswick, it is believed, amonnts te thirty shillings per head

The effect of the large additions above re ferred

‘ nereasing annaai demand for Dis- | o: ec te. has been um ipcrensing annual demane ihe bad oltea pressed me to pay him a visit

| As long as [ can remember, | had been an )

’ count, aud for a larger Cirealation o:

r amount of Floating Capital; but as the Bank of Prince Ed ward Island did nut provide this, the Public in

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their hecessity were driven to the private discoun tér for accommodation, at very heavy rates, and tt hae been cstimated that at Liese rates & Bul) bears

equal w the Capital of the proposed Bank is an

j rally discounted

Deeply impressed with the importance of this evil, and feeling that there is in this Island a auple field for the secare and profitable action of a second Bank, the promoters have set on foot the proposed Establishment; and in submitting this prospectus to the Foreign as well as Island Capi talists, as a safe and protitable investment, they beg to refer to the Act of Incorporation of the Caio: Bank, now before the Legislature, and to those

parts of it especially intended for the security of Shareholders and the public generally, namely, Meetion Mth, where by Stoekheiders are declared personally linble for redemption of all Dills issued by the Corporat.on, amd ail debts dae tl ereby i ee to the Stock they respectively hold vat no Stockholder shall be lable for any sum ex

ceeding twice the amount of Lis Stock, in addition the Stock held by him And also Section 20, wherein it is enacted that

the total ameonnt of debts le posile exce, ted) which the Bank shall ut any time owe, shall not exceed three times the amount of the Capital Stoek paid

in. The Directors being made liable in their pri vate capacities for any excess

Subscription | or Stocktak jready largely |} ne fa: : ; d ; : , . 'rsecuti ; 3 Dabetrivtion fists for Stocktakers (aiready lances |my fatber made more than one jesting allu-| cousin, in a pleasing point of view before Not that I was unjust enough to deny that of wild rambles among the woods or tripe|Pp:'secution of the Raskolniks. In vain,

subseribed fur) are iu the bands of ewel of the provisional committee Charlottetown, April 1863

- BAZAAR

ST. DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE.

Under the Patronage of His Lordship the Bishop of Charlottetown.

BAZAAR, having for its object the raising of funds to aid in liquidating the debt jnearred by the re-eailding of St. Vanstan's College, will be held at the said College on WEDNESDAY amd THURSDAY. the Sth and Sth of JULY next The ladies of the Convent of Notre Dame are the prineipal organizers thereof, and are zealously BECO ded in their laudable efforts Ly many ladies of the city. The following articles will be disposed of by Lottery — 1. A Drawing room Chair, embroiderered on cioth and mounted. ........... 68 per ticket

2. A pair of Fire Screens. ...........3e

3. An elegant Sofa Cushion..........36

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5, Lio Bes MiGiucbsuvisd.. 28 ”

6. A Work Box, embroidered on purple velvet iotcennisahiesesane ”

7. A pair of Foot-stoolse...........1s 6d -_

8. A Work Box paixted on velvet... .9d ed

Contributions in money. fancy work, materials |

for fancy and useful works, &c., will be thankfully received by the following ;— The Ladies of the Convent, Mrs. McTeaac, Mrs. P. Walker, Mrs. D. Reddin, Mrs. O. Connelly, Mrs Gleason, Mrs. Ecketadt, Mrs. Gani, Mise McDonnell, Mrs. J. Marpby, Mias Reddin, Miss Kelly, Mies Longard, Miss McDade The ladies nnd gentlemen belonging to the coun try, as well as those belonging to the city, are respectfully solicited to send in their contributions a8 soon as possible to either of the ubove ladies Persons desirous of obtaining tickets for the Lot teries will also please send in their names to any of the same parties Charlottetown, June Ist, 1863.

CHARLES BELL,

MERCHANT TAILOR,

QUEEN STREET. CHARLOTTETOWN.

] EGS to intimate that be has JUST RECEIVED, via Helifax, bie SPRING AND

SUMMER SUPPLY, and ia now showing a large |

ind carefally selected STOCK OF NEW GOODs, *aita'le for the season, in CLOTHS, TWEEDS, DOESKINS, TALLORS’ TRIMMINGS, HATS AND CAPS, SHIRTS, SHIRT COLLARS, TIES, SCARFS, GLOVES. BRAC ES, UNDER CLOTHING, Gc... $e. $¢ FOR MEN'S WEAB. Inspection respectf illy solicited SB Remember the New Stand, QUEEN-STREET Charlottetown, June Ist, 1863 FLOUR! FLOUR! Idaho from New York and Carrie Rich

from Boston. JUST RECEIVED

400 Barrels FLOUR,

different grades For Sale at DODD'S BRICK

STORE. May 8, 1863. DODD & ROGERS.

NOTICE! s > . Wy HEREAsS. by Bill ef Sale, dated this oth day of JUNE, 1863, Mr ON ° perete, of SUMMERSIDE, in mee ped rinee Edward Island, Merchant, has THIS DAY sold, made over, and delivered to us all hig Book Debts, Notes of Hand, &e., PUBLIC NOTICE is _—- — to all Persons indebied to the suid Rona eDouald that we have appoiysed Wic. bLiamM Beainsto, of Sanmerstde, aforesaid, our Attorney, to collect said Debts and Notes, and who hlone is authorized to yrantdisehuryes for the same. WEIMORE & McCULLOCH, Of Halifax, Nova Scotia dune 8, 1803. is] 2m

It is the natural consequence of an |

», there never was a Bank established | 1 this Island; in that year, ander the pressure of |

! And o'er the soul she sheds a shower

} Reveals the coming dawn of heaven

ITTCAa T ‘TYT’ f ‘ " . * . - : F- A RUSSIAN SUITOR, stock, and which he esteemed the less from Was attentive certainly, visited often at my | traditionally suid to bave withs:ood more | innocence.

| brother — who had no son of bis own, and

,and his intercourse with my parents aud | myself was limited to correspoud-nce.

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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Menday, June 15, 1863.

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Basi! Olgoff over Henry Walton. He was! The winter went on with its biting cold, | I accepted my uncle’s invitation; we set | ‘Eh! Monsieur Niklas, has the baron a baron, to be sure, but what of that ! ite snowstorms, its keen winds, its nights of out together as soon as the snow was tho-| offended you then?’ asked I, with a laugh. I suppose I must have spoken the last starry splendour, and its constant round of| roughly melted, and travelled by easy stages) * And you—you whom he bas supplanted | sentence aloud, for my uncle readily rejoin- | festivity. There might be suffering in the | to Vailinga. My uncle's house, built of the | —do you not bate him ? asked the priest, ‘ed: ‘ What of that, indeed! Why, Harry, suburbs, where the tshernot narod left their | soft stone common iu the province. stood on giving me a searching glance that made me, | you must not set my Caroline down as on a| wooden hovels to seek warmth by huddliog | a sort of bluff or rising-ground, fringed with too, start. I had never mentioned Caroline's | par with those silly Eoglish girls who fling | in the steaming halls of the vapour-bath, and trees, and so situated that a sinuous twist of name to the papas at all, and yet be bad ‘themselves away on the first foreign puppy | where bread and sour cabbage were dear, and | the Volga almost converted it into an island. | guessed my attachment. However, bis cunn- that flashes his trumpery title, real or fieti- vodki scarce, but there was no stint of revelry | On three sides, indeed, the shining river | ing was at fault. 1 did not hate Olgoff, and tious, before their foolish eyes. We have and mirth among the stately streets of the | made a moat around it, cutting it off from I was not unjust enough to say that he who seen tou much of the grand world in these city. I stayed, although every successive the village of Vailinga, which was ouly ac-| had known Caroline longer than I had sup- ‘latitudes to be so easily gulled. My daugh-| week and day proved more and more clearly | cessible by a ferry, without a long detour. | planted me in her regard. Some impulse, ‘ter might have been a princess twice, at|that Caroline's affections were engaged by The view from the terrace and windows of nowever, checked me as I was about to deny ‘least, since she came out in Russian society, | the gloomy young Russian, and though it was | the bhoase was fine; the eye roamed freely | the imputation, and I held my peace; while ‘had she and I fancied those who sought her | manifest that she only cared for me as a near | over the seas of swayitg pines, whose dark | the priest, chuckling over his own keen in- bund, and who were higher aud wealthier, | relative and not a disa reeable companion. | tops were mottled here and there by the sight into human motives, went on to speak ‘ten times over, than Olgoff.’ Yet L stayed, though [ cau hardly explain | light green of birch woods, far away beyond more freely. He then went on to tell me that the latter | the mixtare of feelings which prompted me| which were bare and stony plains; while in| ‘ The accursed Agag!’ said he; ‘ let him was a neighbour of theirs in the country.|to linger on at the aorthern capital. My the horizon towered, blue and gigantic, the have acare what he does. Thut is the third My uncle had purchased a small estate on | own hopeless attachmeut had a smaller share crests of the Ural range, dividing Europe time he bas brought youder arch-worshipper ‘the banks of the Volga, not very far from | iu this resolve than 1 was perhaps willing to from Asia, (of Baal into my parish ; but the orthodox | the city of Nevskoi Novgorod, and it was | allow, but I was in truth much interestedia) — As for Vailinga itself, it was one of those are not always to be mocked with impunity.’ | ‘there that he and his daughter spent the the strange semi-barbarous country, its won-| Villages so common among the steppes of I asked the papas what be meant. ‘summer. Olgoff lived hard by, on a pro- | derful contrasts, and quaint peculiarities ;| Russia, of Hungary, or wherever the land is

LITERATURE, TWILIGHT.

Softly it melts, yon fading ray,

Like love's last look, all faintly given Calm, as some aoul that dies away

And fades from earth to rise in heaven Over the still dark woodlands dim

The fluttering breeze of evening dies, Or faintly sings day's parting hymu

Beueath the sweet, the twilight skies

Is not the twilight memory’s hour,

| Who, while its failing gleams may last,

Sits oft beneath their sombre power,

| Te mourn o'er that dear dream—the past

Dim as yon lingering beams they rise— The scenes, the lost, the love jof yore—

Shadowed on memory's tear-dimmed eyes,

Who whispers * they can come no more.”

Pure as von fading sky's faint light Each baried face remembered seema, :

‘ otephen, eou of Constantine, is the most

|perty small indeed as to value and extent, ‘and, as habit lessened the pain of seeing | occupied by a peop'e of Tartar descent, It) famous preacher of his biaspheming band of

And each loved form comes softly bright, And fair as childbood’s holy dreams;

Yet ah! how changed, how cold they rise—

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voices, Caroline's and Olgoff’s. For a mo- ment I stopped, aud an indefivite thrill of jealousy ram through wy veins; bat I crushed the pitiful sentimeot, and was ad- Vaocing, resolved to lese no time in - ing My warning, when the window alee lently flung open, and Basil Olgoff

out, and strode fast across the green conte with flushed face and wild gestures,

I was springing to meet bim, when smothered cry, oa the sound of a fall ate tracted my notice; I burried to the open window, entered, and found Caroline lyi in & swoon upon the ground. A enw confusion followed, several of the volable but half-useless Russian servarts crowded into the room at my impatient summons; my uncle came with a frightened face; we placed the poor girl on a sofa, and tried the usual remedies to revive ber, and with suc- cess, Poor Caroline! sbe only regained her senses to commence sobbing as if her beart would break, and her expressions were so incoherent and broken by weeping, that it was long before we oould distinguish their purport. At last we learned that Basil

but which bad been handed down from fa-|anothor preferred to myself, I came gra-| was large enough to merit the name of town, heretics,’ was the answer; but the babitual ither to son for a length of time most unu- | dually to take much interest in Olgoff him- | but in its straggling and rustie disorder, in | caution of the papas bad revuroed, aud he) ‘sual in Russia, where fortunes are commonly | self. He seemed a problem worth sulving, ite lack of public buildings, shops, and pave- | would say no more. ‘ (of quick growth and rapid decay. He was, this dark, stero young man, whose reserve | meut, it was thoroughly a Village, It had, | A few days later an unexpected stir took ‘the bir of ove of those ancient families of aud gravity were out of tune with the light | however, a police-court with a small prison place ia the tranquil village. This was, | Boyards, the old squirearchy of Muscovy, | fippancy of metropolitan manners, and who, attached, two churches and a vapour-bath, | caused by the sudden arrival of a squadroa | | poor and barbareus im the eyes of the mush- seemed a living protest against the social | The latter was a shabby affuir; but the of light horse, detached from the sotnia of | ‘room nobility of Si. Petersburg, but who sysiem of the place. I have olten watched | churches were large, and theic Byzantine | Cossacks in garrison at New Novgorod, and |

| ‘ : | w ite! » | render to that brilliant and corrupt court | my successful rival, sowbre and thoughtful, domes were gorgeously adorued with purple | whose tents were now te be pitched on the |

Those loved of youth's dear, vanished duy ; Melting from sad affection’s eyes,

As phantom-like as twilight's ray.

Yet, on the brow of twilight’s hour,

A dim, but deathless glory plays,

Of thoughts, akin to heavenly rays;

And wid ber faint spiritual light,

| i j | B sale } Q 1 *e , | ai 7 iQ: 3¢ j 2 $ t j arricaltaral produce of ali Kinds, bave rendered seorn for seorn, and hatred for dislike. The | io saloon full of lace, diamonds, and gay and gold, laid on iu somewhat theatrical taste, borders of the forest, hard by the outskirts i

fu ther Banking operations in this Island absolutely |

Oit to the heart a glow is given, ; : : 7 : |» Oe Son ps : Oly: ffs were one of those families which | unilorms, of fluttering plames and fans, and | but which shone in the sua like the speckled | of Vailinga. The commander of this force

Peter the Great had failed to remodel ac-| the mingled bum of mus.¢ and merry voices, | plumage of a starling. Most churches in | happened to be a young Russian of princely | cording to his imperial fancy. They bad) until [ could have fancied him some Puritan | eastera Europe, indeed, can boast of guy aud family whom [ had often an in the clubs | given up their beards and eaftans at bis will, ‘of the seventeenth century, saddening by his | tawdry decorations that contrast sharply wiih aad ball-rooms of St. Peters ure. and who but they had never flocked to his new me- mournful presence the butterfly court of the mean ugliness of the huts around them, was communicative enough both with respect When 1 call him my successful | and so it was at Vailioga. to his errand and his present banishment from | }they kept aloof from the frowns or favours rival, L am not perhaps wholly accurate. In| As for the residence ot Basil Olgoff, that the court. lot the sovereign. Basil's father bad, how-| the first plaee, [ bad, | am bappy to say,| #4s on the opposite side of the Volga, and, * Figure to yourself, tres cher, that yor lever, been cajoied or forced into the military | been too prudent or diffident to breathe one | within sight of my uncle's house. A quaint) hebold au unhappy exile from civilized so- ‘service, had risen to the rank of general.| word of love in Carolive’s unwilling ear; /abode itis; that barovial mansion of the | siely, said the little couat, lashing his var- ‘and had received tke title of baron—a dis- | and in the uext place, Basil Olgoff had never | long descended Olgoffs, with its oue beavy | nished boot with a gold-mounted riding whip, | tinction little valued by a boyard of ancient | formally offered bimself as a suitor, He | tower of sulid masonry—a tower that was | and putting on @ most amusing air of injured * | spent a little too mach, lived | ’ ; sharing it with the meanest of the Uzar’s | uncle’s house, appeared at every bail or con- | than oue Siege in the days of the Tartars -- ;® little too fast, and see the consequence. By wecle, Mr. Jomep Ladiow. was one! Peach and German sycophants. The old cert where my cousin was invited, and never «nd the more medern bu ldings of wood,| My monster of an uncle, the old prince, who main coe . aes be general had reudered some service to my showed the slightest sign of caring for avy | mens with'ag gad snake, aud mrongly oe . hg - ~ ail Was A 5 S: uncle in times jong past, and on this account other feminine sociery, but he remaiued mute, | resembling a series of barns. There was a shocked at the list of my debts, that he would | ihe Ludlows bad ulways been kind and bos-| and I often wondered why. | Jarge garden in which a few flowers bloomed | ouly pay them on condition of this frightful at ea a ' .. | pitable to his son, their neigh boar. At last, towards the end of the season, ) Swoag the frait-trees, and close up to the | sacrifice—of my exchanging into this bideous | especial favourite of this uncle—my mother's | And now the mischief was done. My, when the melting snow was pouring torrents | Suany peach-wall came the dark rustling fir- Cossack corps, and giving up the Imperial hopes were nipped ia the bud; my uncle's | of dirty wa‘er down the streets, till lately | trees of the forest. A melancholy fature guard, of which I was, I flatter mysel a, neue dendines Us Giana’ ails tg Sheena pian for his daughter’s settlement in life) paved with a pure white crust of glittering | meme, I thought, for a young girl like cousin en nity _8o — see ee | aaeeienitant eects however, these perio. | 72° Overturned, asd the kouse of Ladiow crystals, when siedgedmwere thrust into the | Caroline. . a “a Sa—-aotuany Coing Cates: | ste Ke “ J int winiee haste Ya land Gregg bad fair to come to an end with | coach-house, and carriages began to splush | The O!goff property was not large, and | takers’ work, and sent here oleae Out & nest | Lod! “7 Y er ” : a ae wee | the earthly tenure of its present chief. Mr and struggie along the quays, Baron O gott I believe the young boyard was often strait- | of beretics—I, a \ oltairean ! sudlow’s heaith was not what it bad been, Ludlow was very much vexed, but he was spoke out. My uncle came to me in sowe_| ened for means, but I am sure he was not | ‘ Heretics ! I exclaimed. : ‘the kindest of parents, and the idea of dudyeon. | actuated by mercenary views in paying his | , Yes, my friend ; some sort of pestilent | thwarting his dauzhter’s inclinations never! * Well, Harry, boy, you must give Curo- | court to Caroline. So indeed my uncle, fanatics, je n’en sais rien, mov! But | I scarcely remember how it came about | seriously entered his head. She was bis line joy—she is to bea baroness, afier all,| Who was a just man, grumbling!y admitted; | famous preacher of these wild fellows, one | that 1 was led to accept my uncle’s invita ouly child, had been petted aod indulged tor that dumb suitor of ours bas found his adding that the baron seemed to care no | Stephen Constantinoviteb, has been traced | (ion to pass a winter as his guest in the | fom the cradle, and be could not bear to | tongue, and be hanged to him | Don’t wince, wore what was seitled on Miss Ludlow, or here, and the wise-acres of the government Russian capital. Some und:ficed ideas of | Jive her pain, or to be harsh with her. He oephew. I'd rather bave given her to you, | '0 what manoer, than if every piue on his | 'magioe o revolution to be brewing, and bear-hunts aod wolf bunts, of gay balis and | thought it his duty to speak to Caroline op fifty times over, but 1 never thwarted my | barren acres were worth its weight in silver. | have sent my men, who are half heathens, | jsledging parties, tempted me to face the) the subject, but beyond a word of warning| gitl yet, aud I could not find the heart to| He was sincerely attached to Caroline; but jand myself, a philosopher as you know, to. Journey and the climate; while my father | and advice he would not go. Paternal pro-| say no, a8 | longed to do, when she came) 4i8s undemonsirative manner gave him aj Set matters straight, which is @ droll idea.’ | Was strongly in favour ot wy going. I sus-| pibitions and stern injunctions were as wuch | an hour ago, all tears and ‘blushes, to tell | cold and unpleasing air, though my cousin | Count Galitzin either did not kuow, or jpeet that Mr. Ludlow had written to my our of his Way as the impressive maledic- me of Olzoff’s proposal, Heaven bless ber; | herself would never listen to a word in his} would not tell, the name of the informer mother in more urgent terms thau tO my- tions and fine speeches of a theatrical heavy 1 hope she'll be happy, but 1 must soy | have | disfavour. who bad set the authorities on the track of self, for she more than once * wondered how | father, He spoke accordingly, praising my my doubts.’ My stay at Vailioga was a pleasant one | tg the preacher, but | could guess that [ should like my cousin Caroline ;’ while ‘unworthy self, doing his best to set me, her, Sobad I. Very serious doubts indeed. enough. There was plerty of shot, pleaty | tbé malice of Pope Niklas had prompted the

Which triamphing o'er sorrow’s night,

And not in vain does sorrow keep Her tender memories of the past; Nor idly does affection weep

vin } j ‘ Charles LL. O’er forma anJ scenes too dear to last; /tropolis among the Logrian swamps, and

But holy hepes from memory spring,

Reyotten by undying love, And faith, ou strong untiring wing Still soars to greet earth's lost abov,.

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who had always treated me with great kiad- |

sion to the probability of my coming back | Varoline’s eyes, and at the same time ex-| Basi! Olgoff was in some respects worthy of down the river, and we now and then re- | h¢wever, did the Cossacks scour the forests | Benedict. Now, Mr. Ludiow happened to pressing a vot unnatural wish that she his good luck. in spite of the young boy-| ceived an invitation from some neighbouring | lite sleuth-hounds on the trail of a wounde} | be a widower—a most uulikely man 10 con- | should marry a man of her own country and ard’s icy reserve, there were flashes of good proprietor, or two or three families would | der ; Io Vain did the priests of the different |tract a second marriage, and Caroline was | creed, in preference to an alien. and noble feeling which broke from him at/ drive or sail for leagues to accept myuncle’s patishes make rigid inquiry among their | his sole heiress. But Caroline's answer, though not quite | times, and 1 had discovered that bis princi- hospitality, for Mr. Ludlow bad a wide- fiacks, for no trace of the proscribed man | The invitation was accepted, but a num- direct, leftnahope. Sue liked me very well, ples and sentiments were modelled on a far | spread acquaintance. Tuen | found both | eojld be detected.

‘ber of trifling causes combined to postpone ehe said, as a cousin; she was in no burry higher standard than that of most of his amusement and interest in drawing forth | or my own part, I felt preity sure that 'my actual departure, and the winter season to be married, and so on. But it was plain equals in rank. But there was something | legends, anecdotes, and odd traits of national | the hunted fugitive was still close at hand,

bad bidden her adieu, had spoken fondly and in heart-broken aceents, but with s dreadful firmness of conviction of the neces- sity for their parting, and had entreated her to pray for him, and to cherish his memory. Then be bad torn himself away, abrupily as he had come, and the shoek of parting bad overcome her strength.

Mr. Ludiow was very angry at first. His notion was that his daughter's affections had been trifled with, and that some caprice had led O!yoff thus roughly to break off the en- gagement; but I did vot share this impres-

sion. Drawing my uncle apart, L told him

as cautiously a8 1 could what Galitzin had related to me.

* Poor unhappy lad!’ he exclaimed, * it was a sad day when I agreed to give Caro- line to a Russian, especially one half-crazed, as he seems to be; but we must save him if we can.’

This seemed no easy matter. I spent the rest of the day in a fruitless search for Basil Oigoff, but could guin no clue to his retreat. While Mr. Ludlow stayed to endeavour to cousole his daughter, | was vainly interro- gating the young baron’s servants, vainly ranging bis grounds, or wandering from chamber to chamber in bis house, but without gaining the slightest information.

Weary and baffled, 1 returned home, and my uncle met me With an anxious face, to say that Caroline was quiet now, but so wretched that it made his heart bleed to lock at her. Poor thing! her white wan countenance and eyes that had grown dim with weeping, were sad to behold, and she was quite changed from the gay, light-heart- ed girl | had always known ber. Olgoff's conduct had been cruel and capricious, as I thought, aad J felt a glow of anger as | saw my pretty kinswoman suffer thus for his sake,

The woon rose, and presently the night wind began to sigh through the trees, and the hours stole op fast towards the fatal time when the meeting of the wild enthusiasts should be betrayed. I chafed at the inaetion to which I was condemned, and to my uncle that I had better go across to the village, and try to interest Galitzin in poor Olgoff’s behalf. It was a deaperate hope, for the young noble had the true Tar- tar nature under his varnish of western cle- fm but it seemed the only means left us.

quitted the room, and was leaving the bouse, when a little bare-footed girl, who weeded io the garden, came tripping up with # piece of paper in ber hand.

'was already far spent when I arrived at St. to her father that ber #ffections were en- hidden, something kept back. I often felt character, from the peasantry around us, | for @ great change came over Caroline's af- Petersburg, and took up my residence be-| gsged, and that if Basil Olgoff chose to make the conviction that Olgoff was uot entirely and found cause to be glad that I had the fianced husband, and I instinctively attri- neath my uacle’s roof. Before [ bad been | un offer, tbat offer would be accepted. My frang with us, but for my very life I could | pawer of conversing thus. Of -course, the buted this to the influence of his religious | many days an inhabitant of the northern | uncle groaned in spirit, but left bis daughter not have explained my reasons for 80 deem- | people spoke no tongue but the Muscovite ; | mentor. Basil Olgoff had always been si- | capital, | was as heartily in love with my | full liberty of choice. * Olgoff's not a bad | ing. _ However, I could not contemplate but L bad devoted much time at Si. Peters. | lent and melancholy, but now the cala | pretty blue-eyed cousin as the fondest of | fellow.’ he would say to me in moments of | Caroline's suony beauty beside his gloomy burg, under the guidanee of & shrewd | gravity of his manner gave place to the most match-makers could desire; but the worst | confidence over the mahogany. ‘ But a Rus-| brow and dark watehiul eyes, withoat an | teacher of languages, to the acquisition of abrupt alternations between unnatural viva- | ‘of the matter was, that my affection was|sian! the difference of religion and nation- | undefined presentiment of evil. | the Russian dialect, and having someaptitude clly and the very deepest depression. . At) ‘not reciprocated. Caroline — whom I had ality is so great, that such unions bave a| I do not think my uncle felt precisely as for the study, had made considera’ e pro-| one time be would oo absolutely gay, miribe | not seen since she was a little fair-haired | thousand chances of shipwreck ; and though |[ did. His objections to the marriage were| gress. My uncle, on the o:her hand, had | ful, and amusing, showing a play of fancy, child — met me with the frank kindness of | the lad is a good steady lad, and the sou! plain enough. He had wasted Caroline to never learned above a few words of the | and a store of anecdote that would have | bearing which our near relationship war-| of honour, as his father was before him, he choose an English busband; if ber cousin, | language; French bad always sufficed biw done credit to any lion of the salons, and at

‘ English lord, I found this beyond the shrubbery, and 1 took it home, and my mother said | should give it to some of the family, as it has most likely been and perhaps they would give ms a copeck.’

There was writing on the scrap of ° in Russian characters of course, bas" dees were familiar to me now, and | read, in Cigoff’s hand, the broken sentences that rau thus:

* Pity and fegivetian lot hae fallen—so happy esyour jover, your busband—mid- night—at the Iletman's Oak—pray for me, as for the dead.’

ranted; bat I found no especial grace in| bas inherited some wonderful notions of his so much the better, but at any rate be dis- | in conversational iutercourse, and he bad another he would sink inte a state of such| I turned to the child, and asked if she or

her eyes, nor was I long in learaing that | own about church-matters—is not, indeed, an | liked ber union with a foreigner, a Russian, sever cared tO acquire a tongue which is | gloomy apathy that nothing could arouse |

her affections were engaged. orthodox member of the Russo-Greek com-| aud a member of a difereat church. It was | despised even by those who use it. i from bis sullen meditations. Mr. Ladiow, io bis blunt good-natured | munion, bat is what they eal! here a Rask-| painful to the sturdy British merchant to} 1t was not long before I began to learn, | These chaogeful moods caused Caroline

way, rated me soundly for the delay in my olnik—a dissenter, belonging to some wild | think of the old house of Ludlow and Gregg | thanks to hints and chance words, that a/ many an unhappy moment, aroused in my

atriva] at St. Petersburg, on which he laid sect. To us Englishmen it matters little how | changing its name, of bis grandchildren | great schism lay beneath the apparently dull | mind the gravest suspicions of Oigoffs)

ber parents couldread. The reply was inthe

jpegative. Satisfied, sv far, + Ssorged some

smal! coins into her extended hand, and she ‘darted off homewards. I remained behind, sorely puzzled. It was evident that this scrap of paper was part of an :ncomplete letter

lthe blame of the failure of plaus which be these people differ among themselycs about | growing up to speak the Muscovite tongue, | uniformity of the local system. Mo-t of the | sanity, aod even made my uncle, not habi- | which Olgoff had designed to eend to Caroline

|now avowed openly enough. ‘ritual aod discipline, picture-worship, and |to have Russian feelings and babits, and to/ villagers were of course of the orthodox faith, | tually xn observant man, unéusy with regard

«You see, Harry, my boy, it was the wish | genuflexions: but the Raskoluiks are eue-| bow before gaudy pictures and flaring can-| but there were many who were more than | to the future. His idea was that his future |

of my heart, years ago, that you and my mies of government, and I should have dies at the bidding of a Papas of the Greek | suspected of secret heresy, and to whom the | son-in-law might be in debt, and in his daughter Caroline should love each other. | preferred that my son-in-law should be at) fold

no son of my own to carry on the busine-s| These words rai-ed my curiosity. 1 knew | actual wedding as long as ke possibly could, olniks were pointed out to me, and were, as vexed when it was declined. a which Ludiow and Gregg have conducted as yet but little about the under-currents of | hoping, as he confessed to me, that the young | far as 1 could judge. inoffensive persons | mer went on, and the Cossack tents stil! here ever since the Emperor Puul’s reign. | religious feeling in Russia, but [ made iv-| people might change their minds, or that | enough—a trifle more industrious, staid, aud | whitened the fallows across the river, and You have been brought up to busincss-ha- quiries, and received copious information, | something might oceur to break off the thoughtful thao their neighbours. Io some | the patrols went trampling through the bits, will be well off when your father dies if not always of an accurate mature. 1 | match. Le insisted that the time of betrothal | cases they were residents in the village, but | woods, but no arrest took place, | I hope that it will not be yet, this many | learned that, in spite of the sheep-like doci- | should include the whole summer and au- iu most instances they were serfs of the | One day, how well 1 remember it! as I a year—and [never beard anything of | lity with which the great bulk of the narion | (umn, and that when the family returned to O'gotf estate, and were presumed to be seuutcred aloug the leafy shade of the trees “your ebaracter but what pleased me. Carry | had followed the beckoning-hand of the ezar- | St. Petersburg for the winter season eusuing, | under the especial patronage of the lord of | 0 the broad village street, beard the claok will be well off, very well off, aud is a dear,| pontiff, many sects still set themselves in| it would be quite time enough to celebrate the soil, There is suid to be an intolerant, of spurs and sabre, aud Cap‘ain Count Galit- _good girl, and a prerty girl.’ opposition to the state profession of faith. | the marriage. Spirit among ibe lussian mujiks, bur Lown Zin came up, radiant and brisk. His first ‘ Jud-ed she is,” eaid [, cracking a filbert These varied much, from the Nonunited| Yielding on all other points, on this Mr. | that in this case 1 saw Jiule proof of it. words were: ‘Congratulate me, Walton ; |with unnecessary vehemence. _Greeka to the sirange heretics who followed | Ludiow was inflexible, and it was settled | Tue dissenters were looked coolly upon, but give me joy of the probable termination of My uacle nodded, and pushed the decan- the doctrines of certain wild prophets and | that the wedding should be deferred till the | aot treated with any disrespect, and it my exile in Vailinga. Wee shall fivish with ters towards me, as he answered: ‘I wish | martyrs. os singular, but more obscure thav (Christmas following. In the meantime the seemed as if the peasants regarded the sup-| these pests to-night, and I shall have the you could bave bad her, Harry; but [ fear) Kniperdoling or John of Leyden, All these | affisnced couple would not be absolutely pression of religious differences as the pro-| felicity of conducting them, in chains, to she’s in love with that Russian fellow—con- | dissenters were more or less under the frown separated, since my unce’s summer abode | Viuce of government alone. But there was New Novgorod, where at least there are do- found him !" (ot imperial power, according to their grades | was at a place called Vailinga, situated, as | 99€ man in whose breast fiereer feelings ex © minoes and champagne, and where drinkable What Russian fellow? Although this |—tbe adherents of the old order of things | 1 bave previously said, near New Novgorod, | isted, and this was the priest who officiated coffee can be had. conversation took place on the tenth evening | being viewed with simple displeasure, while and om the banks of the Volga, while Baron | 10 the smaller of two churebes, Pope Niklas.‘ To-night! how ? asked e; ‘of my stay at St. Petersburg, we had al-| the partisans of more fanatical and danger-| Olgoff was his next neighbonr. Somewhat) Pope Niklas was an ambitious ama, it Galizin told me io his chattering style ready been a good deal in the gay society of ous teachers were actively persecuted. | to my surprise, Mr. Ludlow gave me a warm | Was suid; more able and better instructed that the Raskoluiks had a false brother ‘the town, and [ bad seen, with a jealous | Horrid tales were told of these ast, Ples invitation to spend the summer, Or at least | than the great bulk of the rural clergy, and among them, who, for a hundred roubles, pang. sandry wasp-waisted young officers and | of cruel torture, mutilation and death, rutb- | a part of it, on this small estate, in a country of a respectable family in Moscow itseli— had given tbe alert to government, a bad diplomates doing their best to fascinate the | lessly inflicted on voluntary victims, who | where, as he said, game abounded and sports- the Russian Mecca, He was able to speak betrayed the rendezvous of this wild sect. rich and pretty Koglish heiress. But when | thought to bay Paradise by creating for| men were scarce, and where travellers | Freach—a wonderful accomplishment for a The fanatics had lately made many converts | Mr. Lud!ow named Basil Olgoff as the for-| themselves a place of tormeot upon earth. seldom penetrated. I believe my worthy | papas; but I never liked the man, often as among the ignorant peasants around, and it tunate winner of Caroline’s heart, I could But the authorities took every means to huch | uncle, who was a tenacious, though a most [ conversed with him. His aspect was was deemed needful to cut short their prose- not help uttering an exclamation of incre- up such legends, and at the same time en- kindly man, secretly hoped that in the course rather imposing, in his dark robes, with his lytism by a sharp and tern example. dulous astonishment. 'deavoured by strict severity to extirpate this | of the summer something migut occur to | shaven temples, his long black bair falling | . Apropos,’ said the Count, that black- This Olzoff was a tall, dark-complexioned moral canoer from society. break the engsgement; that a longer ac- in snaky profusion over his velvet cape, aod looking, sulky marplot, Olgof, is to on tipo | young man, about two years older than my-; To which of these sects O!lgoff belonged, | quaintance with Olgof's “parently unat- | his fiery eyes glittering under brows that | to-night, and must take his choice of . meee iself, acd of a gloomy aspect and tacituro 'I bad not the remotest idea; nor, indeed, | tractive disposition might chill Caroline's | would bave become a grand inquisitor. It | thrust or a trip to Siberia. Better t e for- ‘demeavour. He was a constant visitor at could I glean any information on the subject feelings towards him ; aod that his daughter | was said that he had set his beart on be-| mer, for your sake, Walton, if you have an ‘my uncle's bouse, bat I had never folt the from my numerous acquaintances, who were might be tempted to transfer her affections coming ® bishop; and indeed I could not eye, as I suspect, to pat a7 ae ‘curiosity to ask any questions regarding in geveral only too communicative concern- |to ber kinsman—myself. I entertained few but recognise that he was of the trae Tor-|the savings of ce digne Monsieur aT ‘him; and I could not conjecture how Caro- | ieg their neighbors. Indeed, religion, ex- or no hopes of the sort. Indeed | was fast | quemada stawp, very unlike the tipsy boors| Aba! good-bye; I go to Pe este > line could be attracted towards him. | cept from a political point of view, was rarely schooling myself into viewing Caroline with who officiated in the parisbes around him, |The trap closes on the mice by “ nigh | Indeed. among all those gay uniforms, re- | spoken of; clegant roeptici-m, or an effee- merely brotherly iuterest, but I felt anjand for wh: the serfs had scanty reverence, This was wartios wae “3 wey 4 sonant titles, and sparkling orders, Olgoff’s tation of cosmopolitan indifference, reigned invivaible apprehension on her account ;| when outside -beir chapel doors. idoubt the a eo —_ ormation i plain black-eoat, gaunt figure, aod sad face, among the polished denigens of the St. and though I rather liked Olgoff, I could I was taiking to Pope Nicklas once in the | had receiv 2 nor, as a a o ee could | ‘had appeared to the utmost disadvantage, Petersburg palaces, and it was understood uot but regard the attachment ag an ill-| village street, when Basil Olgof passed by I aaers or a momen on oar hee to ‘and he was the very last person on whom that the orthodox Uniied Greek Church was starred one. Again, I was really curious in earnest converse with a man whom | had | pursue. — Warn ed 0 we | my suspicions would have fixed, Ic was an excellent church for the mujiks, the mer- to see provincial Russia, to enjoy the wild | never seen before, but whose long gray line’s sake, = ner er “ee ( us-— ‘difficult to guess what merits Caroline saw | chants, the soldiers, the * black people’ in sports of the forest, and to make an explor- beard and keen wrinkled face were worthy band from the peril that was eee, © nese | in such a suitor. Disposed as | was to take general. That the O\goff, in some outward ing expedition among the spursof the Ural, of notice. The priest started, aod muttered him. I burried to the ferry, cr the