Vol. ALY, UNION BANK

«yp PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. Incorporated by Act of Colonial Legislature. Capital Thirty Thousand pou: ds Currency, io 3,000 shares of Tea pounds each, pay- able by instalments in three years.

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PROVISIONAL C. Palwer, Chairman, Hon. G. Beer, MLC Heury Haseard, baq., W LE lDuw Sarl Faq James DD. Mason, Psq., Alired Phillips, F=q.. om Darey, Esq, George Davies, Eaq.,

FEXUIS BANK is formed to supply an

MANAGING COMMITTERP

Hon. WoW. Lord, M.L.C Hon. J. Pope, MPL? Geo. F.C Lowden, Esq ‘ William Heard, Fag , ‘Thorsaa Dodd, Eaq.. Wm. R. Watson, Psq., Owen Connelly, Esq

addition te the menev cireultnion of this ls land, the want of which has for some time been acusibly feic. It is the natural consequence of aa juecreasing population, ap expanding Commerce, and of the culurved production of an industrious and

enetget people Tucredible ae it may seem, antil th ¢ vear INOS, there never was a Bank established in this Ietame; mm that vear, under the pressore of a similar necwssity, the Bank of Prince Kaward Jsland wus called inte existence; and while it has facilitated the trade wud commercial business gene- rally. i hae largely contributed te the dle Ve lupe mre Dt of the resources ol Lhe Country _ wind its reaulis are supposed to have been satisfactory to the Share holders, bacing fer some yours pass paid them an anual dividend of ten per ceut

Che iuereuse fv the population since the year $835, the heeve addition to our trade and conunerce, the tucreasing the breadth of arable hwad cleared and celuvated, the growing increase of farming stock, the augmented export of grain and

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zyricultural produce of all kimds, Lave rendered Town Lots, Pasture Lots, and Farms for! turther Banking operations in this Islaued abselutely |

wecessary it appears from the censusof 1860, and from other authentic sources, that in the preceding five years the imerease im the population of this Island was 9% Jol persous ; ealtivation 45,000 uecres ; inerease iu the quantity of reots and cereals exported 842,000 bush the vear (S61, the Imports amounted to £514,902, enrreney; the Experts, including shipping, to £UI3,46H, currency, showing « balance of trade iu favour of the Island Chat in twenty vears, from 1839 to 1859, the revenue more than deabled itwelf, the Gvures being, iu [83U £17 ULL; in D859 £41,000 Whilst to carry on Us wdditional trade, the pub lic Banking accommodation ap la ISS5 was nil, und since that time it bes never exceeded £52,000 per anu, or about thirteen shillings per head for the ~pulation, a sum so small as tu be almost incredi while the Manking accommodation of the neighbouring Province of New Brunawick believed, anmeunts to thicty shillings per head The effect of the lerwe additions above referred to, has been an increasing annual dewand for Dis- ecuunt, and ter a laryer steount of Cireulation or Fiesting Capital; but as the Bank of Prince Ed

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ward Isfeand did net provide this, the Publie in|

their Necessity were driven to the private diseoun ter for ion, very heavy rates, and it hax been estinated that at these rates a sum nearly equal to the Cupital of the proposed Mank is an- nually diseourted.

Deeply impressed with the importance of this evil. and feeling that there ie m thie Island an simple Held fur the secure and profitable action of a second Mauka, the promoters buve set on fovt the proposed Establishment; and im submitiing this prospectus wo the Foreign aus Ww el as Tslaial Capi taulists, us a safe and proliuible investment, they beg refer to the Act of ucorporation of the Union Bank, now before the Legrmlatare, avd to those varts of it especially imtemied for the seeurity of Shareholders and the public generally, namely, Section Ah, whereby Steekhoulders are declared wre tally liable for redemption of all Bills issued . the (orp ration, wud all debis due thereby in ropertion to the Stock they respectively bold; re nw Stuckholder ahall be liable for any sum ex ceeding twiee the amount of his Stock, in uddition

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the tata amount 6f dett« (deposits excepted) which | the Munk ehall at auy tine owe, shall not exceed three times the amount of the apie Stuck paid | iu. The Directors being made liable in their pri- | Wate capacities for any excess

Subseriptien lists for Stocktukers (already largely sulacrihed for) are iu the bands of cavh of the previdonal committee

Charivttetuwn, April 20, 1863.

DR. SUTHERLAND

KES to \wtemare that he has just opened, Ex “ Uranus” and “ Prioress,’’ au extensive Stock of

Drugs and Chemicals, |

with additional daily expected, selected from the | best London establish ments

Medicines carefully prepared by bimeelf; there fore the public muy lave confidence in receiving a genuine article and at the cheapest rates possible

Toilet Artieles in Variety. Brown, White aud Faney Windsor Soaps, Ede and Rimmel's Perfumery, Jockey Club, Rondoletia, Verbena, Kids Me Quietiv, Milletlear, Queen's Own, Highland lerfume, Pomades, Hair Vile, Uiir Washes. Eau de Cologne, &c lisair, Tooth, Nail, Shaving, Hat and Clothes Brushes.

Nursery Articles in Variety. ! Feeling Bottles, Narsery Syphon Shields ;

Gam Rings, Ivory and Gutta Pereha ; Combe, all sizes? shapes and prices.

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etre. Baking Soda. Washing Soda, Baking cs Alun, DBtue, Vitrol, Cudbear, Cream of Tartar, Camphor, Castor O11, (best Enylish cold drawn); Turpeutine, beat London purified Cod Liver Oil, Mustard, Root and Powdered Ginger, Cinuamon Bark, Powdered Cinnamen, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, Olive Oil, Florence Oil, Almond Vil, biclloway's Pills and Ointment, (Euglish,) Delmon tine Candles, Pruno Candles,'&e &e. whe lish meat for Town and Country

C9" Advice given to the Poor gratis.

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Dr. Satherland can be consnited daily at his |

A Weekly Hournal of

Charlottetown, Prince Edward ‘Island, Monday,

BUSINESS CARDS. |

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ROSE & McINTYRE,

General Commission Merchants, SS Cedar-strect - - - New York. P ARTICULAR ATTENTION to Sales’ of OATS and other PRODUCE, and purehine of Merchandize for the British American markets Refer to AN. Brown, Esqr., 185 Greenwich street, New York; Messrs. Eiliot & Co., 16 Lemoine street, Montreal; Hon. P. Walker, Charlottetown,

PE. stand Cremest Mcineree June lo, Ine.

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MR, W. A. JOHNSTON, | OF HALIFAX, N.S.

Attorney and Barrister at Law, Notary Public. &e, &e. gor (Oreice—Mrs. McDonald's, next door to Mrs. Forsyth’s, North side of Queen Square,

Charlottetown, October 21. 1861. GEORGETOWN.

WILLIAM SANDERSON, Oommission Merchant, Wholesale und Retail General Agent, Auctioneer & Broker.

NOTARY PUBLIC.

Agent for Col. Lite Assurance Company in King’s County. Agent for Pictou Iron Founary.

Sale in King’s County, | Nov. 18.

Marine Insurance Company

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. ‘Incorporated i4th April, (1863.

PRESIDENT: WILLIAM HEAKD, Esquire.

VIRECTORS: HON. DANL. DAVIES, | HON. JAS. C. POPE, HON. W. W. LORD, HON GEO. BEER, JAMES DUNCAN, Ese. | HENRY HASZAKD,Ese i SECRETARY:

DANIEL J. ROBERTS.

Se” Risks taken daily at the Offices in Water-street. Muay 4

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Liverpool and London | FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. “J°HE Agent for the above first class

Huglish Fire Insurance Company begs to call the attention of the public to the advantages | offered by this Company, in respect to the security to the assured, and premptnessto pay losses, which, witheut

asserted to be superior to those atforded by aus other Company in the Istand. The Liverpool and

disparaging other Compan és, mart be safe ay

Londen F. & L. Insvrunite Company has been in successful operation silce [X36, with agencies all ever the world. and has paid im losses about twe millions and @ quarter ster ling. Its subsertbed ca- |

pital is £2,000,00 sterling, and its invested funds | alone amount te 04,312,000 sty.; and the fire pre- | tniame for LS6l amount to £500) 30 le 9d: wad in ad- dition to this very large capital, the Company, | having beeu established before the recent Linnited | Liability Act, the individual fortunes of each of the shawehoiders, compris some of the wealthiest | Herenaner tet Hewdon, are able for | the losses, should the whole of the aoe be swaps | In this respect it differs, it is believed, from

uny other Company established here

And lastiv, the Avent being appuinted by Power of Attorney directly from Englaud, is authorised to draw Bills the moment a loss occurs, and without rmaferring to the Home Company, Ww the exteut of dne thousaud poands sterling

With these superior advantages, the Company is uot disposed (though it might be we! justilied) to ask a higher rate of premjum than other English Companies, whieh do net present the same advan- tugeous features, andthe Agent has been advired that an aniform rate has been agreed upon by the Directors of this Company and the * Queen's,’ end that the Ayents here should, in this respect, * act) in concert.” W. A. JOHNSTON Ek,

Agent of the Liverpool utd London Nov. 10, 1862 Fire Lusarance Company

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- Queen Insurance Company

OF LIVERPOOL. FIRE AND LIFE! | FEXHE Subseriber, having been appointed agent for tle above first class Insurance Com- pany, is prepared to take risks on all descriptions of prop ity J. 8. CARVELL Charlottetown, Feb. 10. tf

(Extracts From Newsparers.]

On reference to a return made to Parliament, and ordered by the House of Connnaons to be printed, 7th June, 1861, it will be seen that the increase of Duty for the year, paid by the “ QUEEN,” was £2567, | being upwards of £1000 more than paid by any other ane ever yet established in this City.

{From Gore's Geuveral Advertiser, Oct, 24, 1861.]

“ Indeed, we believe that we ure perfectly juati- fied in suying that no ether Company, within the same period. ever attained so large an income iD either the Fire or Life Departments as the Queen

{{nsuranee Company. In making this stateiment we |

nuke no exception even in favor of our older local

rowpanies, namely, the Liverpool and London, the oyal, and the Lancashire Insurance Companies.”’ |

| jFrom the Civil Service Gazette, Nov. 2. 1861.]

Queen Street, June 22, 1865, “ Among there important institutions stands emi- | - ~— | nent for its solidity, as well as for its success, ‘the MENNIE COCHRANE, WD. Qeees litmince Crspany,” which last week held All thi Ph os ’ | its annual op < proprietors in Liverpool. i 0 1c sicjan | reference to the ample report in another page wi - ou = y oes : : fully satiefy Gueke tober ot the canal peearess AKES great pleasure in announcing to wade by this association since it* foundation. Such the Citizens of Charlottetown that she has just | success is, indeed, rarely attamed, and it attests at arrived in the City, and is prepared to aftend to the | once the excellence of ita management, aud the pub sick at all hours, at the Massiox House. She | hie confisience in its constitution.” a oe pe a (From the Liverpool Mereury, Nov. 2, 186).] $ u . P : a ’ Rerofals, Dyspeppia, Cancers, Croup, Dropxy, Cu “Jt must be gratifying to the public generally, turrh, Asthma, Consumption, Nenraliia. Eplipsey, | and e« vecially to the proprietors, to find that ite in- give her « eall, wud before undertaking your case, | come during the past three years has increased at she will tell you if your disease cau be cured. the rate of £20,0W) per annum. We believe that SB. Ladies desirons of having teeth extracted | n0 other A OMpAany, within the same short pers. would do well to give Dr. C. « cull, as she bus | ever attained so large - era Fire studied with the best Dentists in New York or Life Dopectnens. his speaks high y for the PS. Dr. Coehrane will be ever ready tq attend | activity an zeal of | the ae atone while the Obstetric Practice. | promiptnéss with which all the « aims, arising out Charlottetown, October 12, 1863. (of the late disastrous fire in London were met, tes-

tifies to their financial] ability and the care and pru- P R I N Ti N G Tr Y P us, dence which a : ND all other Painting Marexiats, are JOHN & ROBERT SCOTT, offered for Sale at ts "ae ‘a Pea © 4 ‘Coach & Sleigh Builders, Bu oa" S Kent Street,

New York Type-Foundry,

'ENFORM the inhabitants of Charlotte-

town and the Country generally that they have

at THE LOWEST PRICES. pow on hand a number of new and second-hand

Kenna hor-savi uotations, , CarmtiGces, open and covered, of different styles,

Pavey ree Abate e s which will be wid eheup for prompt payment.

ean Tipe Ornaments, 0 unetually attended to.

Gernawn Type, Leads, Brows Dasher, a eee 7

Mave Type, Cireular Quads, es fe ee) ee

Ghen and Checker Tepe, Corner (Quad UNION HOTEL,

Brass and Met! Rafes, Ornawental Corners, . ih

Bran and KlecteoCircies Metal Furniture, Centreville, Bedeque. | und Ellipses Benes Galleve.

VEXHE subscriber begs to tender his thanks w his friends and the pub.ic generally for — : r rq mati am that

former patronage, and would acqnaint them he bus ms to his large and comimodious new | house, and is now prepared to afford every comfort |

Labor saving Leads, Compositor’s Numbered &e. &e all ers ean also be anpplied with Presses from the different manufactarers, Printing Ink of all

Le bor svi Kales, Lebor raving SI en, Slugs,

= a laa fl ‘ cade | avellers, aud trusts by atrict attention to merit | toons eee ee eeaeins a cuntinumnes'e6 their support. — | order to gave the credit of the house, which tutorials. at the saikeiaieses prices. | (Good Stabling for Horses. The beat Liquors aul’ te destroyed unless its acceptance, | ARS, Publisver of a newspaper, who choones to | constantly on band, DANIEL NOONAN. now due in about fourteen davs, could be | UTE dive tess int L beet day aed: Bedeque Corner, November 2, 1863. iy” ‘met ; and oe the — ates and a | ber, 18 and fo 7 ames een at | << war of exchange, this was, he leared, impossible. | taining i, wilt he ane wed Wie bat pr ne fine of THOMAS 'TUP LIN ’ The cnpenpsendent. to whom M. Bellebou, 4 #4 purehase from ineof my own manufaetares, showed the etter, would not hear of compli-

ve Umes the amount of said bill,

GEOKGE BRUCE,

et’ 13 Chamber Street, New York.

Farrier, &c. Margate Road, near Kensington, | pRINCE BDWARD ISLAND, |

WN. B. Horses attended to at all tunes. Satisfactozy

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Apprentice Wanted. ANTED, by the subscriber, a steady references eau be given Cabinet segs. Aon 16 years of age, to leary the October 26, L863, oe Preferred 0 ueiness, One from the country ——————

: Judson’s

JAMES GARLAND Kent Street

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LITERATURE.

aA SARA Reet LATE SNOWDROPS. Why droop se so, Pale children of the tempest and the snow— The first-fruits of the Spring, Feathers just fallen from her flying wing? Do ye regret Phe atar-crown that the frost about you set, Or are ve jealous of thelviolet 4 Lift up your heads ; For now bright summer at a distance treada. And through the arches dark, Where grow the dank, cool mosses ou the bark, And from the thickets where the ring-doves meet, We hear the echoes of her hastening feet, Poor falterers! ye can but vainly wait So simple-hearted in such virgin guise, With modest downeast eyes, Patient and trembling, at her golden gate. We love you none the less— Rather the more—for ye come out alone ; Ye are our friends when all the rest ure gone ; And timidly our lonely feet caress, Even as they Chat do not in the winter fall away

Love such as yours,

| That through the sharp times of the frost endures,

And changes not for all the changing skies, We are too slow to prize. Yet we will not forget Che pale sweet face, with early tear-dropa wet, Lifted to ours ; Because of finer flowers Ev'n now ye droop and die, | And take your simple farewell of the sky; |} Ev'n now your weary heads | Lie here and there upon the mossy beds ;

No smmmer air

Shall bring your blossoms back where once they

were ; No antumn rain Shall ever waken yon to life again ; Your very tracefshall pass,

) And vanish like a shadow from the ggiss ;

Yet shall your memory live Ihe rather for the solace that ye give, Making our hearts glad with the thought of Spring, When Earth can spare no other living thing; Aud when, next year, amid the fallen snow, We see you, where before ye used to grow, Yeo shall couse back as they That have been absent only for a day.

WEARINESS.

O little feet, that such long years

Must wauder on through doubt and tears, Must ache and bleed beneath your loud!

T. nearer to the way-side Inn,

Where toil shall cease and rest begin,

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Am weary, thinking of your tuilsume roac

© little hands, that, weak or strong, Have still to eerye or rule sa lony, Have stil! so long to give or ask! I, who so mach with book and pen Have toiled among my fellow-men, *

Am weary, thinking of your task.

© litthe hearts, that cheoh and bent With such impatient, feverish hear,

Such liwitlese and strong desires ! Mine, that so long has glowed and burned, With passions inio ashes turned,

Now covers and conceals its fires.

© little soul, as pare and white And erystaline as rays of light Direct trom Heaven, their source divine! Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!

LEGAL METAMORPHOSES.

BY THOMAS WATERS,

The respectable agent of a rather eminent French house arrived one morning in great apparent distress at Scotland Yard, and in- formed the superintendent that he had just sustained a great, almost ruinous joss, in notes of the Bank of England aud commercial bills of Exchange, bevides a considerable sum in gold. Le had, it appeared, been absent in Paris about teu days, and on his return but a few hours previously discovered that

bis iron chest had been completely rifled |

dering his absence. False keys must have been used, as the empty chest was found locked, and no sign of violence could be ob- served.

He handed in full written details of the property carried off, the numbers of the notes, and every other essential particular. The first step taken was to ascertain if any al the notes had been tendered at the bank. Not one had been presented; payment was of course stopped, and advertisements des-

_criptive of the billa of exchange, as well as’

of the notes, were inserted in the evening and following morning papers. A day or two afterwards a considerable reward was offered for auch information as might lead to the apprehension of the offenders. No result followed ; and, spite of the active exertions of the officers employed, not the slightest clue could be obtained to the perpetrators of the robbery. The junior ;artner of the firm, M. Bellebon, in the meantime arrived in England, to assist in the invescigation, and

was naturally urgent in his inquiries; but) the mystery which enveloped the affair re- |

mained impenetrable. At last a letter, bearing the St. Martin le Grande post-mark,

was received by the agent, M. Alexandre le | Breton, which contained an offer to surrender |

the whole of the plunder with the exception of the gold for the sam of one thousand pounds. stracted amounted to more than ten times ‘that sam, and had been destined by the French house to meet some heavy liabilities falling dae in London very shortly. Le | Breton bad been ordered to pay the whole amount into Iloare’s to the account of the firm, and had indeed been severely blamed for not having done 80, as be received the

‘notes and bills; and it was on going to his} immediately on his retarn from Paris, |

chest for the purpose of fulfilling the peremptory inetructions he bad received, that M. Le Breton discovered the robbery.

The letter went on to state that should the offer be aceeded te, a mystically worded ad- vertisement—of which a copy was enclosed —sbould be inserted in the ** Times,’’ and then a mode would be suggested for carrying the agreement into effect. M ' balf inclined to close with this proposal, in

ance with such @ ne ae prosecution for composition of felony if M. Bellebon persisted in doing sa. The adyertise- ment was, however, inserted, and an im- mediate reply direceed thet Le Breton, the agent, should prevent himself at the Old

Manor-house, tended, af four 0°

noon, bringing with him, af course, the stipu- lated sum, io gold.

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lt was added, that to prevent any possible treason (frahison, the letter was written in Frenel), Le Breton would find a note for bin at the tavern, informing him of the spot —a solitary one—and far away from any place where an ambush could be concealed—where | the business would be concluded,and to which he must proceed unaccompanied, and on foot ! | This proposal was certainly quite as ingenious }as it was cool, and the chance of outwitting such cunning rascals seemed exceedingly |doubtful. A very tolerable scheme was, however, hit upon, and M. Le Breton pro- , ceeded at the appointed hour to the ald Manor _House. No letter or message bad been left | for him, and nobody obnoxious to the slight-

est suspicion could be seen near or about the — day another |

tavern. On the following missive arrived, which stated that the writer was quite aware of the trick which the police had intended playing bim, and he assured _M. Bellebon that such a line of conduct was | 4&8 unwise as it would be fruitless, inasmuch as if ** good faith’? was rot observed, the securities and notes would be inexorably des- itroyed or otherwise disposed of, and the , house of Bellebon and Company be conse- ‘quently exposed to the shame aod ruin of bankruptcy. :

Just at this crisis of the affair [ arrived in town from an unsuccessful tiunt after eome fugitives who had slipped through my fingers ut Plymouth. The superintendemt laughed heartily, not 80 much at the trick by which I had been duped, as at the angry mortifica- | tion I did not affect toconceal. He presently

added, ‘+ 1 have been wishing for your re-

turn, in order to intrust you with a tangled affaiz,in which sucecss will amply compensate ‘for such a disappointment. You know | French too, which is fortunate ; for the 'ventleman who has been plundered ander- stands little or no Enyvlish.’? He then re- Hated the foregoing particulars, with other ‘apparently slight circumstances; and after a long vonversation with him, I retired to , think the matter over, und decide upon the | likeliest mode of action, After much cogita- tion [ determined to see Mr. Beilebon alone ; and for this parpose I despatched the waiter of a tavern adjacent to his lodgings, with a note expressive of my wish to see him in- stantly on pressing business. He was at ‘home and immediately acceded to my request. _T easily introduced wyseif; and after about (4 quarter of an hour’s conference, I said | carelessly—for | saw he was too heedless of speech, too quick and frank, to be intrusted |) with the dim suspicions which certain trifling indices had suggested to me—** [Is Monsieur le Breton at the office where the rubbery was committed ?”"

*» No: ie is gone to Greenwich on business, and will not return till late in the evening. Bat if you wish to re-examine the place, | can of vourse enable you to do so.”

‘+ It will, [ think, be adviaxble ; and you

will, if you please,’’ | added, as we emerged inte the street, ** permit me to take you by ithe arm, in order that the official character

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was at home, but indisposed, and the servant said she would take the dog to her, though, if | would take it out of the basket, she her- self could tell me if it was Fidele or not. replied that I would only show the dog to the lady, and would not trust it outof my hands: This message was carried up stairs, and after waiting some time outside—for the woman, with natural precaution, considering my ap- pearance, for the safety of the portable articles lying about, had closed the street- door in my face—l was re-admitted, desired to wipe my shoes earefully and walk up. Madame Levasseur, a showy woman, though not over-refined in speech or manners, was , Seated on a sola, in vehement expectation of embracing her dear Fidele ; but my vagabond appearance so startled her, that she screamed loudly for her husband, M. Levasseur. gentleman, a fine, tall, whiskered, moustach- ed person, hastened into the apartment half- shaved, and with his razor in bis hand.

** Qu’es ce qu’il y a dune?” he demanded.

‘* Mais voyez catte borreax la,’’ replied the lady, meaning me, aot the dog, which | was slowly emancipating from the basket. fhe gentleman laughed ; and reassured by the presence of her husband, Madame Levas- seur's anxieties concentrated themselves upon the expected Fidele.

** Mais, mow Diea!”’ she exclaimed again as [ displayed the aged beauty | had brougit or her inspection, ‘‘why, that is not Fidele !°’

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depart. [also hurried up and slipped after him, and was quietly and slyly followed by Levasseur,

Afrer proceeding about a dozen paces, I looked furtively about, but not behind; rob- bed Mr. Trelawney of his pocket-book, which he had placed in one of the tails of his coat ; crossed over the street, and walked hurriedly away, still, I could hear, followed by Levas- sear. f entered another public-house, strode into an empty back room, and was justin the act of exami: ing my prize, when in stepped Levasseur. He looked triumphant as Lucifer, a8 he clapped me on the shoulder, and seid, in a low, exulting voice : ‘* I srw that pretty trick, Williams, and can, if I like, transport you!”

My consternation was naturally extre:ne, and Levasseur laughed immensely at the ter- ror he excited. ‘+ Soyez tranquille,’’ he said at last, at the same time ringing the bell: ‘shall not hart you.” He ordered some wine, and after the Waiter had fulfilled the order and left the room, said : ** Those notes of Mr. Treluwney's will, of course, be stopped in the morning ; but I think I once heard you

say you knew of a market for such articles.’ |

I hesitated, coyly, unwilling to further commit myself. **Come, come,’’ resumed | Levasseur, in a low but still mending tone, |**ne nonsense. L have you now ; you are, in | fact, entirely in my power; but be candid, and you are safe. ho is your friend ?”’ | ** te is not in town now,’’ [ stammered. | “Stuff—humbag! 1 have myself some

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ginnces of the young man; and as for Le Breton, he took little notice of anybody, At lust the terrible dinner was over, and the wine was pushed briekly round. L drank mueh more freely than usual, partly with a view to culm my nerves, and partly te avoid remark. It was nearly the time for the Jew's Appearance, when Dubarle, after a serutiniz- ing and somewhat imperious look at my face, said abruptly ** { think, Monsieur Williams, I have seen you somewhere before ?’’

_** Very likely,” I replied with as mach in- difference as I could assume, ‘* Many persons have seen me before—some of them once or twice tuo often.”’

* True!’’ exclaimed Levasseur with a \snout, ** Trelawny, for instance !"’

**I should like to see Monsieur with his wig off!’’ suid the clerk with increasing inso- lence,

** Nonsence, Dubarle ; youarea fool,’’ ex- claimed Lavyasseur, ‘+ and | will net have my good friend Williams insulted.”’

Dabarle did not persist, bat it was plain enough that some dim remembrance of my

features continued to haunt and perplex him. At length, and the relief was unspeakable, a knock at the outer door announced Jack- | son—Levi Samuel, I mean. We all jum \Up and ran to the window. It was the Jew sure enough, and admirably he had dressed |and now looked the part. Levasseur went out, and in @ minute or two returned, intro-

ducing him. Jackson could not suppress a

start as he caught sight of the tall, mous-

innocent surpriso. ** Vy, ere is her very | motes tochange. There, now, we understand | tached addition to the expected company ;

tail,’? and I held up the mutilatedextrem ity for her closer inspection. ‘The lady, how- ever, was nut to be convinced even by that

‘each other. What does he give, and how does he dispose of them ?’’

| “He gives a third generally, and sends

and although he turned it off yery weli, it drove the Jewish dialect in which he had been | practising completely out of his thoughts and

evidence ; and as the gentleman soon became them abroad. They reach the Bank through | 5 ech, as he said, ‘* You have more company

impatient of my persistence, aud hinted very tona fide ard innocent holders, and in that than my friend Williams led me to ex

| jwaid Levasseur; ‘that is all. Come, sit

| intelligibly that he had a mind to hasten my passage down stairs with the toe of his boot, | [, having made the best possible use of my eyes during the short interview, scrambled | up with the dog and basket, and departed. ‘*No female relative or acquaintance | | hasn't he?’’? was my exulting thought as I ‘gained the road. ‘ And yet if that is not -M. le Breton’s picture between those of the ' hasband and wife, | am a booby. and a blind | one.”* I no longer doubted that | had struck | a brilliant trail ; and I could have shouted | with exultation, so eager was I not only to. retrieve wy as [ fancied somewhat tarnished | reputation for activity and skill, but to ex-, tricate the plundered firm from their terrible | diffieulties ; the more especially as young M. | Bellebon, with the frankoess of his age and nation, had hinted to me—and the sudden. tremulons light of his fine expressive eyes

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—that his marriage with a long-loved and |

saving the credit of his house.

That same evening, about nine o'clock, M. Levasseur, expensively but withal snobbistily | uttircd, left Oak Cottage, walked to Edmon- | ton, hailed a cab, and drove off rapidly to- | wards town, followed by an English Swell aa

vf my visit may not Le suspected by any one | there.’’ I lle laughingly complied, and we arrived. ‘at the housearw in arm. We were admitted | by an elderly woman ; and there was a young |}man—a moustached clerk—seated at a desk | }in an inner reom writing. He eyed me for | }a moment, somewhat askance I thought; but! (t guve timng Opportunity for a distinet view | jot my features; und | presently banded M. | Bellebon « dard, on whieh | bad eontrived to write, unvbseawed, ‘*send away the clerk.’’| | This was more naturally done than | antici- | | pated ; and in answer to M. Bellebon's glance | (of inquiry, I merely said, ‘+ that as {did not, iwish to be. known there as a police-officer, it} | was essential that the winute search I was | | about to make should be without witnesses ”’ | Le agreed, and the woman was also sent away | ive a distant errand. Every conceivable |pluce did I ransack ; every scrap of paper | that had writing on itl eagerly perused. At) \iensth the search over, apparently without | | result. | ** You are Quite sure, Monsieur Bellebon. | ‘as you infortied the superintendent, that | | Monsieur le Breton !:as no female relations ‘or acquaintanees in thig country ?”’ | ** Positive,” he replied. ‘* 1 have made | the wost explicit inquiries on the subject’ both of theeletk Duakarle and of the woman- | servanr,’’ Just then the clerk returned, out of breath | 'with haste [ noticed, and I took my leave | | without even affording the young gentleman | so clear a yiew of my face as he was evidently anxious to obtain. ** No female @equaintance !"’ thought I, as | [re-entered the private room of the tavern I | had ieft an hour betore. * From. whom, | ‘then, came thdse scraps of po: famed note- | paper | have found in his desk i wonder?’ |1 sat duwn and endeavoured to pieee them ‘out; but after eonsiderable trouble, satisfied “myself that they were parts of different notes, ‘and sv small, gnfortunately, as to contain ‘nothing which Separately afforded any in- | formation except that they were all written / by one hand, and that a female one. ' About two hours after this | wassaantering along in the direction of Stoke-Newington, | when I was desirous of making some inquiries ‘as to anotver matter, and had passed the 'Kingslaw Gate a few hundred yards, when a sinall discolored printed handbill, lying in a _haberdasher’s shop window, arrested my at- tention. It ran thus:—** Two guineas ‘reward. --l ost an Italian greyhound. The

(tip of its tail has been chopped off, and it)

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‘answers to to thename of ** Fidele.’’ Under- ‘neath the reader was told im writing to ‘inquire within,’?

« Kidele!’’ L mentally exclaimed. ‘* Any

' known [ believe to Englishmen, and which

| despair of cards, dice, or other implements of

| whiskered, and moustached as himself; this|

English swell being no other than myself, as_ prettily metamorphosed and made up for the |

part [ had intended playing as heart could

wish.

| case the Bank is of course bound to pay.’’

** Is that the law with respect to bills of exchange ?”’

‘+ Yes, of course it ia.”'

your iriend ?”

** None, I believe, whatever.”’ : you must introdace me to |

** Well, then, him.”’ i

‘* No, that I can’t,’’ I hurriedly answered. **He won't deal with strangers.” }

‘* You must, 1 tell you, or [ will call an officer."’ :

Terrified by this threat, I muttered that | his name was Levi Samuel.

** Aud where does Levi Samuel live ?”’ } That,’’ 1 replied, * L cannot tell; but I know bow to communicate with him.’’

Finally, it was settled by Levasseur that I should dine at Oak Cottage the next day but |

to meet us there immediately afterwards.

five hundred for effecting the bargain.

‘Five hundred pounds, remember,”’ said | Levasseur, as we parted, ‘ or if you deceive | me, transportation! You can prove nothing |

hand.”’

‘Che superintendent and I had a long and | rather anxious conference the next day. We | agreed that, situate as Ouk Cottage was, in an ofen space away from any other building,

27 ** 4 frieund—one friend extra,Mr. Samuel,”

down, and let me help you toa glassof wine.

You are an English Jew, 1 perceive?” ‘* And is amount of any consequence to,

oye...

A silence of « minute or two succeeded, and then Levasseur said, ‘* You are of course prepared for business ?’’

“ Yes—that is, if you are reasonable.”’

‘* Reasonable! the most reasonable men in the world,’’ rejoined Levasseur with a loud laugh. -* Bat pray, where is the gold you mean to pay us with ?”

“ [f we agree, { will fetch it in half an hour. 1 do not carry bags of sovereigns about with me into all companics,”’ replied Jackson with mach readiness.

“Well, that’s right enough, how much discount do you cherge ?””

‘‘1 will tell you that when I see the

testified to the acuteness of bisapprehensions | one, and that I should arrange with Samuel securities.”’

Levasseur rose without another word, and

amiable girl depended upon his success in The notes and bills he had to dispose of, I) left the apartment. He was gone about tea | was to inform Samuel, amounted to nearly minutes, and on his return, deliberate! | twelve thousand pounds, and [ was promised | counted

out the stolen Bank of England notes and billsof Exchange. Jackson got up from his chair, peered close to them, and be- gan noting down the amounts in his pocket- book. I also rose, and ed to be

stylishly and snobbishly dressed, wigged, | regarding me, whereas | could settle you off | looking at a picture by the fire-place. The

moment was a nervous one, as the signal had been agreed upon, and could not now be changed or d The clerk Dubarlo also rose, and eyed Jackson with flaming but indecisive looks. The examination of the

M. Levasseur descended at the end of the| it would not be advisable that any officer ex- secarities was at length terminated, and

Quadrant, Regent Street, and took his way | to Vine Stree, leading out of that celebrated | thoroughfare. I followed and observed him | enter a public house, and [ unhesitatingly did the same. It was a house of call and. general rendezvous ior foreign servants out, of place. Valets, courtiers, cooks, of many | varieties of shade, nation and respectability | were assembled there smoking, drinking and | playing at an insufferably noisy game un-|

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must, I think, have been invented in sheer gambling. The sole instruments of were the gamester’s fing two persons playing suddenly and simal.) taneously up-lifted as many, or as few, as| they pleased, each player alternately calling | # number; and if he named precisely how many fingers were beld ep by himself opponent, he marked a point. The bubbub | of cries—** cing’ ** neat ’’ ** dix,’? &&e—was | deafening.

play

Lbe players—aimost every body | in the large roowm—were too much oocupied | to notice our entrance; and M. Levasseur | and myself seated ourselves, and calted for! something to drink, without, T was glad to, see, exciting the slightest observation. M.| Levasseur, | soon perceived, was an intimate | acquaintance of many there ; and somewhat | to my surprise, for he spoke French very | well, | fourd that he wasa Swiss. His name | was, I therefore concluded, assumed. Noth-| ing positive rewarded my watehfulnese, that | evening; but I felt quite sure that Levasseur | had come there with the expectation of| meeting some one, as he did not play, and) went away about half past eleven o'clock | with aun obviously discontented air. The following evening was the same; but the) next, who should peer iuto the room ahout half past ten, and look cautiously round, but) Monsieur le Breton! ‘The instant the eyes) of the friends met, Levasseur rose and went | out. J hesitated to follow, lest Lmight excite | suspicion ; and it was well I did not, as they both presently returned, and seated them- selves close by my side. ‘The anxious, haggard | countenance of Le Breton— who had, I should | have before stated, been privately pointed | out to me by one of the force early on the morning I visited Oak Cottage—struck me | foreably, especially in a contrast with that of Levasseur, which wore only an expression of malignant and ferocious triumph, slightly dashed by temporary disappointment.