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A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND ae

“This is true Liberty, When Frceborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak tree.**---Euripides.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD, ISLAND, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9,

FALL 1867. —

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By recent arrivals from LONDON, GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL ;'New Store. New Goods. BOSTON, MONTREAL and HALIFAX, ein

We have nearly completed our FALL IMPORTATIONS. OUR STOCK

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Large, varied and Well-selected.

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IT Purchased in the Best Ma

We respectfally solicit an inspection of same, b.lieving it will be

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rkets, and on the Best Terms. ’

found second to none in the city, either for quality or price.

Charlottetown. Nov. 4, 1867.

WINGER GOODS.

BEER & SONS. Ow

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CHEAP WINLER GOODS!

yY FALL SHIPS from London,

from Halifax and Boston, ve

Liverpool and Glasgow, Steamers have completed the

Largest and Cheupest Importation

OF

DRY

GOODS,

READY-MADE CLOTHING, HARDWARE,

GOCERIES, TEAS, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, TWINES AND

GENERAL GOODS,

we have yet oller

Sought in the Best Markets, at the Lowest RaTes, we will continue |“

ed to the public.

to give our Customers the VERY BEST VALUE

Fou

gg Wholesale Customers, FOR CASIL ONLY, supplied on | Market Mouse, at 2 o'clock, p.m.

CASH.

terms lower than can be imported from Halifax or St. John.

Queen Street, October 28, 1857

DAVIES & WEEKS.

School Books! Cheap for Cash,

HARVIE'S BOOKSTORE,

QUEEN STREET. ' Worcester’s Dictionary, Campbell's Geography, Advanced Reader, Leouie’s Grammar, ‘Thowpson’s Arithmetic, Greys Arithmetic, Spelitg Books in variety,

The NewSevies of School Bovka,

The Lriat Nationz| Series of De. Webster's, Johéon’s aud Walker's Dictivnaries, Copy Booka, Sites, Peas, Pencils, &c. &e.

pay Remember the Cheapest School Bovks are to be had d HAFVIE’S BOOKSTORE. September 2)867. STOUVES!SLOVES! STOVES! » COCK STUV E3. suitable for cogl aU warrated to WOKK WELL, cousisting ef MAWICIA, VICTURIA and HELPING HAND. DODD & ROGERS: ‘OOK STOVES FOR WOOD J WATr&0VU, BROADSIDE, PREMIUM, aud YARMOUHU COUK DODD & ROGERS pabvew BOLLEKS ali sizes. DODD & ROGERS pastry! ALK TIGHT aud SHOP STOVES DODD & ROGERS.

KGISTR GRAS wd MARBLE MANTLES.

DODD & ROGERS. — JRooFLe PITCH and FELT. DODD & ROGERS

qQ™ N.S Singer's Sewing Machine, DODD & ROGERS.

c s town, @.- 14, 1867 pi ist Ow

THE KEW SERIES OF

SCHOOL BOOKS. pu IMV SERLES OF R&ADING tivon f

BOOKS, aathorized by tie Board of Educe in the PUBLIC SCHUOLS vt Isiand noplete at

HARVE’S BOUNMSTORE, QUEEN STREETD. A Linen®. Discovuyrt allowed to Teachers and wholesde Dealers. be Plewse send iu your orders. Ch'town. Sipe. 30. 1867 f NOTICE 3 hereby gven that the SUMIJEKSI DE

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cai now be had «

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cement reenie

BANK hatog assigned to us ther interest 10 |

@ Bill of Sale, geen them by Meaars. PIDGEON

& STEWART, £ Clifton, New Load, of their |

Steck ia Trade, look Debts, Notes off land, &c All persons indebtd tw tue said Estate +f Pidgeon & Stewart are theetore requested to nake ln- wediale payweul tus

CARVELL BROTIERS.

Ch'town, June 24 1467

— en ——- $$ +

Alteration in Busitess. NOTICE [0 DEBTORS

"E‘HE Subscriber, iatending to clee his

préeseat businessthis Autumn, hereby oiities al! persous indebted te him, either by Loud ) ote, Kook secouut or otherwise, to make payueRya or before the bat day of Niveumber next. Allau, ants

vilectivg without furtacr notice. H. HASZAI9,

Charlottetown, Oct. ith 1867. JRON. 93 BARS 1 inch ROUND 1RON. tale cheap fur cush. Ch'town, June 24, 1867,

Joint Notes.

Fr G. & 8. DAVIES. |

HAY AND TURNIPS! A FEW thousand bustels of TURNIPS * for sale on the Subscriber's Faru. quantity of the best of LIAY.

GEORGE COLES.

Also, a

2th October, 1867.

Halifax, N.S.

W. & C. MURDOCH & CO,

EG to announce the completion of their Fall Importations of a large and well assorted Stuck of every description of DRY GOODS, suitable for the Season, and to the in of which they iuvite their friends und

wholesale buyers generally.

sped tion

ALsv oN Hanp— Chests half chests superior Cougou TEA, in bound or duty paid,) Soft Aladras LNDIGU. Pentazon Building, Orduance Square, ? Ne} [S67

~mber 30 3m

Was FALL IMPORTATION, Per Ships ABEONA § LC. OWEN,

JUST ARRIVED

AT Queen Square House. WM. HEARD.

Charlottetown. October 21, 1867.

Co-partnership Notice. pue SUBSCRIBERS bave this day entered into CO-P ARTNEKSHIP as

lmaine, slyle aya lini vl ALLLY & DAVIES. OFFICE - - - - QUALLORAN’s BUILDING. GREAT GEORGE STREET. UKORGE ALLEY, LUUI3 H. DAVLES.

Charlottetown, Oct. 18, 1867. tf NEW GOODs.

‘WENIIE Subseriber has lately received a LARGE ASSORTMENT OF

Dry Goods and Hardware,

~\ which have been bought at Auction, and will be

sold very low. GEORGE HOWATT. | . Crapaud, August 2. 1867.

Yarmouth Stoves, —

(MAE Subscriber bas Jusr Kecetven. ex Schoon+r ‘M.E. Banks,’ direct frown YAR- MOUTH, his USUAL SUPPLY of those Celebrated Cook and Box Stoves, which will be seld cheap for Cash or approved

R. J. CLARKE.

Orwell, October 14, 1867 tf Insurance! Insurance! FIRE & LIFE

Royal Insurance Company,

LIVERPOOL, G. B. Capital, $10,000,000.

Annual Income exceeds $5,000,000, and rapidly increasing. Axyyregate losses paid in Province of Nova Seotia during last 12 years, @ quarter of a million dollars.

General Avent for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Isiand—HUGH HARTSHOKNE, Esq, Halifax.

‘fEXUE Subscriber having been authorized

to accept Risks for this Office, in all parts of

Prince Edward Island, reapecttully intimates that

he is prepared to receive proposals in both branches

from parties desiring Policies.

| liberality possessed by Luis Olive is the best guar- antee to Insurers.

ey Rates moderate, aud every information furnished | ex 1°" | on application, The Company's blanks will be and proposals may be seut,

| transmitted on request ; pest paid, to JOS. F. ELLIS, Getieral Com. Merchant aud Lusurance Ayeut, Pictou, N.S.

September 16, i867, 6 mos

FALL i867. _

BAR- | | RISTERS and ATTORNEYs-Al-LAW, uuder the |

unpaid at ihe above diy will be handed ovr for | The well-known character for promptness and | o ’ |

TINE undersigned having removed to his New Store, .o!d Stand. Reddin’s Corner, where hie has increase ! facilities for carrying ona

| genet il Dry G rods, Grocery, Liqnor and China ind Earthenware Business, he respectfully beys i leave to inform his friends, and the publie gene- that he ia now prepared to supply them

lsinthe above line, utas low

rally, with all kinds of Goo

prices as can be found in the City.

The Stock conmsists of: Grey and White Shirtings,

' Blne, White and Fanev

F'annels. Bedticks, Osnabnrgs, Towelings, Red, White and Blue Cotton Warp, Cotton Handkerchiefs, Blankets, Coburys, Orleana Wincevs Faney Prius; Gala Plaids, Tweeds, Doeskine Pilot Cloti 8B, | Homtery, Gloves, Paper Collars Hats and Caps, Neckties. Flannel Shirts. Umbrellas, Oil Cloths,

&c.; Tea. Sugar, Tobacco, Molasses, Kice, Starch, Blue. Indigo, Soap and Candles ; Kerosene Oj} Brandy, Gin, Rum, and Whiskey, Port and Sherry Wine, always on hand at the usual low prices ; China aud Earthenware

In Great Variety.

The Subscriber, thankful for past favors, respect-

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fully solicits a continuance of the same, and (asis, |

by attention to basiness and to the wauts of his Customers, to merit an lucreise Oo!

extension of business.

Bults aud an

, Orders from the Country personally attended to und promptly exec uted.

B. D. REDDIN. Old Stand, Reddin’s Corner, 2 , ‘ November Lith, 1867. 5 ih p 6in

7 Younger's Pale Ale. |p US! received aud on Sale at the Sub- seriber’s Room— 6 Hhds Younger’s Best Pale ALE, “0 Cases Old low GLN,

30 do Glenary WHISKEY. | ALSO, | 100 Boxes Cavendish TOBACCO,

100 Sides Prime Sole LEATHER, 100 Bbls Sup. and extra FLOUR, 150 Boxes, half boxes and quarters RAISINS, 20 do Valentia RAISINS, 3 Cusks CURRANTS,

100 Buxes SOAP. WILLIAM DODD, Queen Square.

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Ch'town, Nov. 11,1867,

UCTION SALES continued every

FRIDAY and SATURDAY EVENING, from to 10 o'clock, at the Subscriber's Auction Rooms, | Reading Room Building.

Goods of every description re ceived and sold to order. Terms Cash. Sule positive. No reserve

Auction sales of Hors’s, Cattle, Farming Imple ments, New and Second-hand Furuiture, Stoves, d&ec.,

uttended to on market days, iu frout of the

A. McNEILL, Auctioneer. Reading Room Building, ? | November 135, ldui 5 | rey Ample room for the reception of all kinds of Goods, both at Auction Roos in hing Root Bull ling, and at Wureroom lu Market H puse base

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A. MeNEILI,

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Great Bargains! Great bargains! Great Redaction in Prices!

£7000 Worth of Goods. |

YEXHE Subscriber, intending to close bis | present BUSINESS, has determined ou | Selling off the whole of his valuable STOCK IN TRADE, conprising a general assortment of

Dry Goods, Hardware, Canvas, Cordage,

Groceries,’ lron, &c. XC, tevether with a large and well selected supply daily expected P.! Lotus” from London, and |

other fall ships from Liverpool, thereby making | it one of the most valuable stocks ever placed in the market

On und after the 10th October, inst, the Goods will be sold for a tew weeks at GREATLY REDUCED prices such as to induce purchasers The Stock remaining on hand after that nme be sold at AUCTION. without reserve, on liberal Ferms, of which due notice will be given,

H. HASZARD.

Charlottetown, Oct, 7th, 1867. isl

Norning Schoo! for young Ladies.

pes the SuperinreNDENCE of the Principat of the CHARLOTTETOWN Aca pemy. Terms for Tuition in Buglish, £f per | quarter; French, £1 per quarter; Music, £1 Ls

per quarter. Terms,in all cases payable in advance. A qruarter’s notice required previous to the removal jofa pupil, For farther particulars, apply to Mrs. McDONELL, Great George Street.

October 2b. P8067.

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Charlottetown A rademy for young:

Ladies.

\"ESERMS, including Board and Tuition io Envlish, French, and Music, £12 10s quarter, payable in advance. Day p ipils £5 per quarter. Voeal Music, German and Drawing, extra 4 quarter s notice required previous to the removal fof a pupil. For further particulars, apply to the Principal, Mrs. McDONELL,vr to the Kev. D I itz-

Rector of Charlottetown, P. E Island. Di Classes not puplis tM the

} per quarter,

Keraia

N. B. French, German, and open to young ladies who are Academy. Instruction iu Music £

awing

| October 21. 1867 ¥OR SALE. ?() Uhbds. bright SUGAR, deed 25 Puns MOLASSES, 100 Sides No. | SOLE LEATHER, 80 Bags CORNMEAL, 25 Cases fine old Pale BR ANDY. 10 Qr. casks Hennesy’s BRANDY, 3 Puns. fine cid Demerara RUM. A.H. YATES. | Telegraph Buildings, Water Street, June 10, }867.

Final Notice!

HEREBY give notice to all parties iudebted to me by Note of Hand, Book Account or otherwise. that unless the several aieunts are paid on or before the Ist day ol December next, legal proceedings will be taken fur the recovery of

the sume, without farther notice JAMES SCANTLEBURY.

Keut Street, Charlottetown, ? November 4, r. \ i

TOWNEND’S HATS AND CAPS. LARGE SLOCK of the above, received ex” LuTUs.”’ trom Lé IN De IN, vi tbe pewesi

STYLES and SUAPES— Good Silk HATS, 73 6d to 14s. Paris Velvet do, 20s 278 6d. | Townend’s best do, 32s 6d. Boys & Gent's FELT HATS, in great variety. A large Stock of Tweed and Cloth CAPS, And alsvia Ladies’ STRAW HATS, &c¢.&e. u. & S. DAVIES.

June 7, 1267. ed Halifax.

Charlottetown to Notice to Travellers. N consequence of the TRAINS from PICTOU to HALIFAX leaving one hour earlier than formerly, the Steamer ** PRINCESS OF WALES” will leave Charlottetown, for the lrermainder of the Season, at the bour of FIVE o'clock in the Morning instead of Six as heretofore. F. W. HALES, 8. N.C. 98, 1867.

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To Ship Owners and others. MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY of P. \K. Island have resotved not to insure any Grain | Laden Vessels, or Cargo in the same, if any deck load of Timber or Deals be carried thereon. F, W. HALES, Sec’y. Chtown, November 11, i507,

} out 3 feet deep, and OU feet wide. j

| ; feet wide up to the ducks, aud trom side tu side | within the ducks.

OTLICE is berehy given that the |

LITERATURE.

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AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

SALE OF FREEHOLD LAND,

Situated at Stanley Bridge, New London. | ype be Sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, on FRIDAY, the Twenty-first day of FEBRUARY next, (1268,) atthe hour of 12 o'clock, noon, at the Colonial Building, in Charlottetown, under and by virtue of a I was looking over some ola family pa- power of sale contained in @ certain Indenture pers in my library one cold winter's night, | of Mortgage, hearing date the 3rd day of some years ago, when [ met with the fol- July, A. D. 1866, and made between Davi a) . 7. " iy ‘“ lowing strange story. [I well remember the | Bell, of Township Namber Twenty-one, in. 7 erie ’ eircumstauce, for it was the last night of

Queen's County, and Jane M. Bell, nis wife, of the one part, and the Honorable William the old year, and there was a deep snow on After a snug dinner in the

Warren Lord, of Charlottetown, of the other | the ground parc: All that tract, piece or parcel of Land, library, all alone, I had the fire made up, situa‘e, lying and being on Township Namber put my feet on the fenter, and was fast go- i wenty-one, bounded as follows, that is to ing off in a doze, when | remembered that Bay : on the Ss uth by land now im the occd-' [ had Jeft unfinished a box of old family pation of Themas Bigger, on the Hast bythe! ire : : hed t orl shore of Stanley River, on the North by the pape " which a ewyer 7 <i _ road téin Byls's Povey; aikiay tha Wan'by for my inspection a week ago. I drew the | land parchased hy James McKay, containing ‘9 box well up on the bearth-rug, Forty-eight (18) acres, a little wore or less, | dive, and fetched up a packet of yellow pa- | together with all and singular the bouses,| pers tied up with red tape. Expecting | buildings and erections thereon, with the ap-'some old deed or other, [ was somewhat | lee piece of land belong- surprised when my eyes “ - = ne For further particulars and conditions of ing words : ‘The Dead Man s Hand ; or, ruth is Stranger than Fiction.

sale apply at the office of the Honorabie

Joseph Hensiey, Charlottetown, or to the! I bave since ascertained that the papers)

subscriber. in question were the property of my grand- |father, who was a barris'er.

had a large practice at the bar, before he

THE DEAD MAN'S HAND.

made a

; W. W. LORD. Ch'town, Nov. 4th, 1867. is]

hy, NY! f O} - EN { retired on coming into his property. The LON DON H USE * only other fact 1 knew about him was that}

, the place is still shown in the ha-ha, where, jafter a hard ran with the Downshire |hounds, he was thrown from his horse, and carried home to rise uo more.

ESTABLISHED 1820,

FALL & WINTER GOODS,

i Y Fall Ships & Steamers from England, Bosten, Halifax, Moutreal and Barbadves, the Subseribers have completed their

[mportations for the Season,

which, having been purchased by one of the Firm at some of the Frrst Houses in England and Seot and, they are enabled te offer their large STOCK OF GOODS at the lowest prices for CASH.

The ‘ Dead Mau’s Hand’ was not a live- ly subject on a dark December night, with ‘two feet of snow on the ground, and the winter wind howling wildly through the elm trees, and dying away in a sullen roar iu the distant chase. However, I snuffed | the candles, stirred up tue fire, and cast a

The present Inportation gomprises : |raddy glow in the dark corner where the

Chests & alf chests prime Bales Wrapping Paper, | old book case stands, and read as follows : Congo TEA * Paver Hauyings,

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. | Some years ago | was engaged in a very ‘ Huberdashery, \Bundles Sheet Iron, singular case, the leading poiuts of which | © Kea ly made Clothing Cusks assorted Cutlery, | will eudeavor to reeall. [ remember it!

and Rubber Coats, [loes, Shot & Traces : " i “ Ludies’ and Gents’ Setts Ploush aletal. | 24de @ deep impression on me at the time ; i Prot ess tadils eee and Spikes, jwod even now, some of the Circumstances |

eis tem Aseaited Fuinte, ‘aud persons comme to my memory paiutuily | distinct. The face of one old woman often |

> ee Bagging and Grain Sucks,

Cases DRESS GOODS.) * * Shawls & Muautles, | * Millinery, Tons Bar Iron,

Rubber Shoes and Hhds Print, Sweet and Overalls, Seal O11, &e. |

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t { ** Towuend's Hats and Hhds. Granulated Sugar, | haunts me—there—L see her now, in the| aud Boys’ Fur Caps,|Bbis. Currants, Crushed ‘her face, and her eye—what an evil eye it} Bales Carpets Woollens, Kegs Cudbear, Powder und White Calicoes, Boxes Raisins, Lozenges, canning. Lwasa young man then, and| ** Butfiloes, Cotfee , i : those days, were godsends indeed. [ re-| | “Wh and Colored &c. &c. dignitied with the name of clerk, had sat all | Ch’town,. Nov. 11, 1367. Few steps ever got past the} Moe Southporr and te: , Tenders for Dredging the Southport and ‘critieal juacture—yes—uo—yes; on it came} airy ener Tenders are required to be | covered with hundred guinea abstracts aud | “ twenty guinea settlements. JANUARY next, at twelve o’elock, noon, by any

Laps, eetie Musé¢ovado Molasses, : ° } ' Ladies’ Fars.& Men’s'Sides Sile Leather, | Witness-box, haggard and withered as a! witch ; a@ malevolent smile playing round | ** Ladies’ Straw & Felt Sagar, Washing Soda, j Llais and Bonnets, Epsdin Salts Ginger, : z ‘ . . was — gleaming with a wild light; the, * Cloths & Doeskins, Tobacco, Mustard, | whole countenance indicative of suppressed } * Printed, I unbleached Baking Soda, . j “ Check and Woollen Soapmand Candles, had not at that time met with the SUCCESS | h ngs. &c, &e sag: Doty . a , go A ss eek i | Shirtings, &c, Kc, Bags Pepper, Rice and which afterwards fell to my lot. Briefs, in| * Blankeis and Horse Dozs. Brooms & Buckets, sug, Coils Muauiila Rope, &c. member very well, that L had sat all day 10 Cotton Warp, ‘my dull lonely chambers, and my small boy, | G. & S.-°DAVIBS. : : day in his duller wad lovelier room, woea | sa creak, creak, creak, came a footstep on the TENDERS. second floor, so [ listened anxiously at that! ‘} . ‘ ‘ . i i Charlottetown sides of Charlottetowu | past the capacious miw of Mr. Deedes, | x» . ‘ . Ferry- that eminent conveyaucer, whose table is| sent inte the Colonial Seeretary’s Oljice, on or before THURSDAY, the Fourteenth day ot person or Company who may be Ww illing to coutraet wits the Government to petioral the three lellow-

Lat-tat-tat came the knock at the door; | off rushed the clerk in such a hurry that | he upset the iuk over my‘ Reports,’ for | which be was threatened with instant dis- missal on the next provocation, my wrath | being only appeased by the extremity of | penitence and humility te which he was thereby reduced. I believe we should real- ly have parted shortly afterwards, when I caught the young scamp in my wig and) gown, patomiming out of the back window, had L not remembered his wretched home! in Seragg’s Court, Fetter Lane, and his mother, whe plaiutively said she was a * lone, lorw widder, with thirteen childer.’

Bat this by the way. My quick ear) caught the word‘ Brief.’ muttered by a! strange voice in the passage, and [ waited | in some anxiety, apparently plunged in a) mass of papers—Viner’s Abridgmeut, the | | Statutes at Large, aod other works of the | same light nature, forming a sort of breast- work round me. My clerk, who seemed suddenly to have inereased in height aud |self-importance, and to be a clerk in bigh practice, inquired in a sufficiently loud voice | if [ could see Mr. —— trom Messrs. : a large and wealthy firm—their very names wade my wouth water—or should be wait till. &e, Ke.

The attorney's clerk was shown in Why had he wanted to see me, for he had nothing to say, bis only observations being about the hour of consultation? I know that attorney’s clerk saw ion a moment the »mount of busivess to a T, aud I was glad The briet was large

jag works, that is to say:

Ist. To dredge the Southport side of Charlotte- town Ferry, as follows:—A channel to be cut througu the flats from the main channel to the landiug slip at the Southport si le ; the first 150 feet, leading from the maia channel, to be dredged

2Qndly. The remaining distance up to the outer edge of the statiouary Wiart and under the Flvat- ig Blocks, (supposed to be about tour 400 feet.) to be dredged out 2 teet deep Uirougtout, aud OV

3rdly. The public docks on the Charlottetown side of said Ferry, tu be dredged out and deepened | in the same tmanner from side to side, three feet deep at the least, from the ¢ ud of the slip to the ehannel

The abeve works to be respectively completed, | to the satistaction of the Superintendent of Public Works, or other person or persons appointed by the Government to jnspeet the same, on or before the First day of October, A. D. 12863.

The soil dredged opt to be removed and depo- sited in such a place as not to obstruct the navigation of the Hillsboro’ or other rivers.

Tenders to be accompanied by the names of two sufficient securities fur the due performance of

the abeve Contracts. The Government is not to be considered as bound to accept the lowest Tender in auy case. *EORGE COLES, Culonial Seeretary. | November 11, 1867.

Public Lands. ’ when he was gone.

Townships Nes. we 2 oY, Ste 12,43, 44, 45, and the fee a heavy one; and my leader ea a tae was Mr. Serjeant Wasp. Why and how

NOTICE had it been given to me? Had Messrs,

To the Tenants on the above named & —— observed my indefatigable

fownuships, and all persons desirous of purchasing Wilderness Land thereon. os Commissioner of Publie Lands will | uttend at the Tollow)n; pe hereiuafter stated, for the receipt of

mavner in court—of doing nothing? Or was legal success written ia wy couuten- ance ¢

But I was too anxious for much specula. | tion, and lightly laying to my soul the flat-

aces, On the days, 1] wmoutits

due on the purchase of Pub Lunds, and for the . 4 ln of Wildsenens Lanes tering unetion that I certainly deserved it, On Monday. the 2nd day of December next, at | wherever 1t came frow, unfolded it.

soa at. Mr. Jubu Covey's, rund River. Rous Brief for plaintiff. [t was an action of On Tuesday, the 3rd dav of December, at 10, a ejectment, ani there wis, of ¢ urse, the at Mr. Kichard Burdett's, Dandas, Lot 99. _ (usual fictitious per-onage, Joho Doe; but the On Thursday, the Sti day of Deceuiber, at L0,a ; ; ‘b ‘ m.and on Friday, the 6th day of December, at substantial plaintiff was acertain Rev. Jobu Mrs. Patrick Seally’s, Souris, Let 44. Miller, and he sued to obtain possession of “ age : ie ogy . ie . - 0 7 ee : certain estates in O—shire, now io the oc- Mrs. Sut verlumda, St Peter s Bay. Lot i. ax cupation ot Lady Woodlands, widow of Sir _ On Wednerday, the Lith day of December,at 10.| Harry Woodlands, &¢, baronet. The ay My. D. Pocky's Moth. Lag ~~" whole question turos upon the will made by

Sir Harry Woodlands, iv favor of the Rev. ‘John Miller, leaving him sole devisee of ail his estates, to the eatire exclusion of his widow, Lady Woodlands, and bere two daughters. The defendants dispute the will, but do not, we believe, intend to call witnesses. Of the three attesting witness- es two are dead, (curiously suon!) but the third, Sarah Varley, will prove testator’s signature, aud that it was execated the day before the testator died. Such was the substance of my instructions, ‘Turning to RNING the * Landed Gentry,’ [ touad *‘ Woodlands, LL — Pb i I R Sir Harry, of the Woodlands and Fair- eageas enee er ane lawns, C—shire, baronet, high-sheriff, 17 tions, Pv anes hae Pre erwise, ire finally nenitied a ae ding up my brief, | found on that the amounts remaining dae and ed by. the back. ‘ Consuitation at Serjeant \ asp's thei must be pai wo the Suberiberia! Mis off°e chambers, on ‘Thursday next, at ove” On ings will be takeu tu eufores payment without fur that day and hour, punctual to a minute, 1 | ree GEORGE ALLEY. S¥ocked at the chambers of Serjeant Wasp, | Now. 11, 1867) n't & & i was admitted, and on the Serjeaut’s looking Nora up, | ventured to remark : * Miller v. Woodlands, consultation to- day, sir, at one,’ pulling owt my watch to

| NULLC«. | POBRsONS wishing to send EWES to point the observation, ‘Ab,’ said the Serjeant,

NODTECE.

Those Tenants who have not accepted the provisions of the Land Purchase Act, and have omitted to pay their rent, are hereby finally notified that, uuless paymeut is made to the Commissioner, at the time and place jabove named, distraints will be issued for its revovery.

JOHN ALDOUS, Commissioner.

| . Land Office, 26th October, 1807. isl

unsettled bry

Im

the IMPORTED RAMS at the Stock Farm, | will please apply to the Secretary. | tg Terms the sume as last year. Ch'town, Noy. WU, 1307. dim | \

| ‘Ah!’ he continued in a kindlier tone. las if thawing from a ‘egal frost into every

| day life. «* Mr. RB , any relation to London Me rald, writing on Oct. 23, thus des- Mr. B of shire ?’ cribes the bride aad bridegroom, and the

I believe he!®

i how time

ithe only one of the three attesting witnesses

‘three hours. Tae judge summed up briefly,

rising and’

1867, | [ NO. 5

|slowly rubbing his hands together, * Good MISCELLANEOUS. ‘morning, Mr —Mr.—’ aati ‘ MARRIAGE OF THE KING OF GREECE TO TUE GRAND DUCHESS OLGA OF RUssia. | The St. Petersbargh correspondent of the

[ hastened to supply my name, which he repeated slowly. i

[ intimated [ was his son. ceremony :—

The august bride and bridegroom are both very young: the bride, eldest daughter of the Grand Duke Constantine and of the Grand Dochess Alexandra, nee Princeas of Sake Alcenbarz, was bura August 22, 1851, consequently she has scarcely entered her seventeenth year. The bridegroom, George I, King of Geeece, was born December 24, 1845, therefore he ia Dot yes twanty-twe. Very few marriages are recorded where hus- band andwife do out make up thirty-nine years ' ; together; and the oceurrence is stall more which lasted a (quarter of an hour at least, striking when the young spouses already daring all which time be seemai to exhale wear a royal crown. The nearest instances warmth and summer. During this time || to it is, 1 believe, the marriaze of Her thought. ‘Could the great serjeaot bave given Majesty the Queen with the lamented Primew me a helping hand, and mentioned me as a | 7 a ig se — oe when

: | 7 > “a o . ‘ . ’ jerTe hited. lee

deserving junior ¢ No; it was ridicu- otdene as ‘Is the coond teal — lous ; Cesarvae, wie, has won all hearts in ber

When this story was over [ again s8Ug- | adopted country; therefore the imperial gested, * Miller v. Woodlands.’ family of Russta ts to be united to the royal

‘Ab! [ know,’ said he. Great wi!! case! vi Deamark by another matrimonial at © assizes. Let me see, to-day's

Thursday; come on aboat next Wednesday; go down Tuesday—cowe to my chambers on Tuesday evening at eight—vonsultation with our side. Good morning, Mr B . remember me to your father. Dear me, flies!’ said the Serjeant, once

‘Dear me!’ said the Serjeant, shaking ine by the hand—a genial smile lighting up his face—the frost seemed entirely gone— ‘dear me! Your father a very old friend of wine—hava't seen him for these ten years—at college together—livel to- gether on same staircase in Plump Court. Ah! he hadu’t come into his property thea. [ remember once —’

An then followed a story of other days,

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Kight o'clock struck when the procession

came to the church. Under the porch the Ea peror, Kang George and bis bride, and the imperial family were received by Monsignor [sidore, the Metropolitan of St, Pesersburg. 4 the members of the U ay Synod, and the clergy of the impertal chapel. The Metro-*

more turning to his papers. The summer politua offered the holy water to the august z phase was past, and he seemed again frozen ee enor ; up into a kind of legal iceberg. So ended i@ religious service then began in thas #

impressive inanner peculiar to the Greek rite, —When the officiating prelate pronounced . the words, *U Lord, the Kung will rejoice in : thy strength,’ the Emperor led the august bride and bridegroom to the raised seats re- served for them opposite the centre of th® — , ikonostas. [oa all tue Greek churches, baile in the fourm of a cruss, the taberaucle, at the eastern end and in which the priest only can penetrate, is separated by a partition called the ikondstas. in the imperml chapel the ikonostas, with its doors and balastradés, ig covered with precious metals, which reflect- ed the lights of a’ thousand wax candles. Meantime, the Grand Duke Nicholas, the : eldust brother of the bride,-and the Prises Romanovski Leuchtenberz held up a rozal crown over the head of the bride aad bride-

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my consultation with Serjeant Wasp.

The following is from my diary :—

‘C——, Tuesday, March 2ist, 1867.— Just back from the consultation—great ex- citement ubout this will case—the Wood- lands family known and respected about here —great sympathy expressed for Lady Woodlands. I am told the estate has been in the family three huudred years. What was the motive of Sir Harry in cutting them off? No evidence of his ever having had a quarrel with Lady W.—very odd! That’s vot my busiuess ; ours won't be the popular side to-morrow. By-the by, the Serjeant calculated quite correctly about the case

coming off to-morrow. Lady W. bas gor) 60m. | : Vissird, Q. C., the leader of the cirowit,| : The bride wore a dress of magnificent silver cloth, and over ita maatie of crimson velvet :

against us, and Slimy for Junior. The

Rev. John Miller cawe to the consultation! Tye bridegroom wore the uniform of

tu-night—large stout mau with small eyes. colonel of the Greek army, with the Order of q

I don't like him, avd found a difficulty io | the Redeemer.

being polite to him—says he was at college, Never were a young coaple so much ad~

with the late Sir Harry—pities Lady W.— tired. Prodigally gitted by nature, possess- ms

offered a compromise, which was resolutely | ‘4 all accomplishments educativa can be?

declined,’ N: B:—~E-don’t believe a word otow, yet their deportment and manners were i s0 simple aud so modest, thas they enlisted

of it, ali hearts in their fayor.

lined with ermine.

citmbecwt Taam ae : 3 Wednesday, March 22nd,—Plajotiff’s| The Eaperor, the Grand Dake Constantine, bis case over—crowded court—Lady W. sat it) the Crown Prines of Doamark, and the other ; # out. I am afraid she hasn’t a ghost of a! oe oy at che right of the ikonostas,, eS \ the é i thess Cx tant *

chanee. By the way, she looked more like | ee beeper 8 satay anting and sheother é — . sasds Ub f ‘ . a

a xbost than a living being—the case Was) After the Bvangile-the prayers for the im= ai quite straight forward—l opened the plead-! perial family were read, and the olicistiag !

ings—the Serjeant made a musterly speeth| prelate made the following addition tu those

—the will was then put in—sarab Varley,| prayers.—* The Qaeen of the Hellenes, Olga

| Constantinova, aad her husband.” The Me-

tropolitan began the office by intoning « ;

psalm, between each verse of which the

choristers sung an antipbene, * Glory tu Thee,

our God! glory to Thee!’ The anthem boing faished the Metropolitan’

said, * George Christiacowiteh, hast thoa #*

good and uorestrateed will aod firw iatention®

to take unto thee to wife this womas Ogle

Constantinuva, whom thou seest bere beforé

living (the deaths of the other .wo witnesses is a curious circumstance, but their deaths were proved in the regular way), was called | to prove the will; au ugly old woman, and very deaf; she swore positively that Sir Harry, betore signing the will, expressed his entire satisfaction at it when it was

read over to him. in cross examination, ze 4 she was so deaf that Vizzard sat down dis- oe 4 : a ego . | King George answered in Greek, «I have, oN comfitted. The Serjeant summed Up bis! you: peyorend sir,’ : case, and the court theu adjourned, | ‘Lhe Metropolitan continued, * Hast thou a ‘ Thursday, March 23r3.—The case ig) 2° promised any other woman?, ~s

Tae bridegroom answered, ‘fi have ‘not Very eloquent-—ab rut | PF teed Gaeenee.”

; | Similar questions were then put to the bride, who made incidental responses, and” then the deacon asked the Metropolitan té rive the benediction, which he pronounced” thus :—* Blessed be the kingdom of. the Pather jand of the Sen and of the Holy Ghost, now and forever, even unto ages of ana The deacon then recited’ the ectinia, ‘a bidding prayer,’ in which was introduced the nawes of the bride and the bridegroom. | At the end A

over. ‘The defendants called no witnesses.

Vizzard’s speech

and the result was a verdict for plaintilf, There was a sapressed groau when the ver- dict was given. Lady W. bad fainted. Friday, March 241h.—My head awime, my baud sbakes as [ write, and L am hardly conscious of wy owu identity. | bave just | retursed from the strangest scene. On

leaving the court this afternoon, where [ of the ectinia the Motropolitam uttered an oa Was condusting a small case, My sleeve was | “8¢Tiption if praise to the H iy trinity, and Pi ¥ ' { ediately after ware ‘ ‘pulled by a tall woman, who asked to speak immediately aiterwards offered up @ prayer id : pe S very similar to one of those in the Eughioh 3 ‘a few words with me. I stepped aside into. ; : . | i 4 ale sil service Of matrimony. When the meation of an archway, ant the said, hurriedly, “Sarat tie couple being jommed together was made . Varly is dying. She seat me to fiud Mr. the whole asssuwbiage ervesed themsdl ves de- \a D , the attorney. [ can’t find him. | youtly. She says she would see you—she has some-| After this prayer the deacon approached! i , thing most important to say——some secret. the Metropolitan with a salver, oo which fay Come quickly, or she'll be dead,’ Over- two crowas, Taking these im his haods he ef come by the woman's eagerness [ followed ™ de the sign of the cross over the head of* ‘ Fr: er . ie ; . ha > . . - ner, and we passed through several back," bride, saying, * The servant of God, Olga ‘ ! g f «

Constantinovoa, is crowned for the bandman * of God, Gorge Christinnowiteh ?? and théa bh: a 4 the benediction was given. - The prokiaetion . ; was then sung to the eighth tane, thug:

‘Thou hast put crowns of precious stunés

upon their heads: they asked life of Tes, ie aad Thou gavest them a long life, for Thou

sbult give them the blessing of eternal iste.’ 7

he reader then read the -epistle, tekem

from the fifth chapter of the Epistle to’

the Ephesians. Afterwards came, with much incense, the reading of the Gospel by: thé Metropulitas, the pusdage chosen being from

1 chapter of St. John’s Gospel, nee

streets and courts, urti! she stopped at a door in a dirty court. ‘The woman pointed to an upper window, where a candle flickered and flared, and we passed up a creeking narrow stair, Sarah Varley was lying on a low bed iu the corner. She was bagyard an ghastly; there was a bottle wear her with a label, aud [ knew at once she had poisoued herself. She was apparently asleep —what if she were dead? What had she to confess? My fears were mowentary, for J fuund a doctor bad just left, who gave

the seeon

is . ' er riage d ‘ , 4 sligut hopes of hee recovering from the lating to th = ag ee ats ibe a f . : ad ha y bee ead, the Metropoutan toc t * large dose ef poison she had swatlowed, (!v'"2 ee han a - a ¢ Toe other woman took the eandle and bridegroom and the bride by the hand and i ne Ofner Women , turued them round three times, in aliasion te ; threw a yellow glare on the sleeper, saying, 1), Holy Trinity, the chow singing, * Bguls,