MDSCOW.

(1'l'om the News of the World.)

As Moscow, the sacred city of the Rus- sians, is just now the scene ofan extraordi- nary pageant, to which the eyes of nearly all the nations ofthe earth are turned, with more or less of curiosity and interest, a brief description of the leading local and

historical features by which it is distin- I

guislied may not be out of place. .

In point of antiquity, Moscow yields to several other Russian cities. Vladimir, Novogorod, Kiel, are each of far more an- cient orign. The rich foundation of Mr a- cow does not date earlier than the ear H17; and it was not till the thirteenth century that it becauie the residence ‘of

rinces sprang from the family. of Rank.

he orign of this famous city is involved in obscurity ; but it istraditionally referred to an adventure ofone of the grand princes some tizne prior to the incursions of the Tartars. He had heard tniich ofthe beau- tiful wife ofs chicftain, who owned a do- main in the district, and sent orders for both in appear before him. Suspei-ting his intentions, the husband refused to obey upon which he was accused of contumacy, and pot to death. The grand prince visited the \\'lllbW ; and often remained ti consi- derable time in the neighbourliood,in order to renew such attentions. This led to temporary dewellings being erected to ac-'-

coniiiiodate his attendants, who attracted‘ traders and other persons to the sIl0._|'e°‘ quiring tenements. Thus, by inseiisible degrees, Moscow arose, destined to become, the seat of empire, and to experience vi-' cissitodes which have been rarely_ paral- leled in the history of any other city, and certainly never surpassed.

Whether this l.l‘il€lll.l0Il«ll arc-iunt ofthe, foiindiiiion of the city be correct or not, it is certain that l‘I'U|n ll“? l“”'l"d 0326"’ when Archbishop Peter tinsferi-ed to it the‘ inetropolitaii see, made it the seat of his resideiicc, induced Ivan l. to I uild a oath-E edral there, and. finally, with ii prediction ofits future greatness, i-njoined that his bones might rest within its‘ wall~i—it is (‘er-_. tain that, from that time, .\l«..u-oiv has over been held in the iluepi-st I't.‘\'l‘I‘l‘llCe by the whtile Rtisgiun ponulutltlll. l"l'tIlI| llltl l‘tiUl'-. tceizth ceotitrv all the mist i-ciiiiii-knhle vents in the iititioiial history are i: )lllll‘l‘l' cd with this city. lt hccatiic the centre of the contest wliiizli SOOX. to ik place with the. ‘M0ng.,l,i_ [i was there that Dimitri [van- ovilcli ilispliivt-il his black lﬂlmlefi “'l“*" he went to prepare, in the fields of l\'ouli- kolf, the deliverance of his native land, and to earn the glorious surname of the Con- qm-..-nr nfthr Don. Cleghero, the warlike Grand Prince ofthe Litliiianiaiis, was stop- pcd under the walls of the Kremlin ; the Khan Toktamyscli, with better fortune, onto:-ml it, and laid everything waste with fire and swoid. “ But the blood of the inai-tvr.-.” stirs Schnitzli,-r, “was like it bapii".-in l‘r)rlll.I3 new capital ; thus sancti- fied, it zippi-ared venerable in the eyes of all; religion niuliiplied,tlii.-re the number ofits tniraalcs, and the glory of the tliau- inatiirgic saints of Moscow made every heart heat from one extremity ofthe coun- try tothe other." The picture of the Vir- gin of Vladimir, painted by links, is said to have preserved the city from the furv of Tiinour ; but Jedi-ghei, his brother in ‘arms, occasioned once more a dread- ful devastation, frotn which the unfortunate city had much ado to recover. Neverthe-

ed tribes of the famous Golden Horde,‘

terrible utid prolonged contest between the t

'ence and othusiastic love. lpeasant

c _ bless himself. "

to the traveller ; but when, on arriving

you stop on the brow nfilie hill, where it

gardens, meadows, and that immense plain

ll \S'I..\itti';-' ti \'/.5-‘.‘l t

at the commencement of the seventeenth: century, the Kremlin was the theatre of it’

rue sons of the country arid the foreign: orthodox Church‘ Moscow was trans~l

“ The:

l or, “a heart, breaking spectacle for al pious people, iierved the strength of all and again engendered miracles. It was religion, also, that gave the signal of resis- tttnco ; the patriarch Herniogenes calle the people to arms, and the quarter of St. Sergius was covered with culverins and other cannon. All the ellorts ofthe Poles were powerless against its walls ; and girded with the sword of Gideon, the Rus- sians rim to assist in delivering the Kermlin where shortly afterwards, the representa- tives ofthe nation, raising the house of Romanoff to the throne, hailed with an- bounded i nthusiasm the accession of a new race of orthodox Czars, and the triumph of the national cause."

Such is the tale which the mime of Mos- cow suggests to every Russian". “ There is not it nobleman," says the Baron Von Haxthtiusen, “ in all the immense empire from Arch-angle to Odessa, from Tobolsk to Novognrod, who does not ‘speak of Mos- cow, ‘the Holy Mother,’ with deep rever- Every Russian when, after travelling hundreds ofleagues, he first sees the towers of Mos-

ow, will reverently take off his hat and

invasion--hetwnon the arid the Latin scliisiii.

formed into a real lie|il_ of battle. humiliation oftheir religion," says Schnitz-

The conllagration, which followed upon the French invasion of l8l2, has given to Moscow ii tnore modern appearance; but the Kremlin reinains,with its peculiar cha- racter an strange style, with its messy, whiti washed, uneven walls, enihattled and pierced with loopholes, siirinoutited with towers ofrvery style imaginable, Gothic or llvziintine, and displaying in its interior a whinisiczil ti.-isc-nililtige nfcliurchcs, mon- astcrios, and places, crowded together in ll narrow space. This ensemble, which call:-' to Illilld the intitnrte llnlotl of religion and p vlity, appeals strongly to the imagin- tion. A vast number of domes, tnostly C')\'t'l‘0(l with gilded iron, sutinounts this inultitudrofcliurchcs, and on their sum- niits i-iso innumerable cross;-s,li|(e a forest of spu-nrs, the highest of wliicli—-tliat of lvati Veliki—.<ecni.s to be stutinioiiing this whole muntry to prayer. “ .-\|l this,” says Schnilzler, “ is national. iiud what is more

1’

it is grand.

“On approaching Moscow, by the road from St. Peti-rsburg,” says the same writer, “ the capital does not display itscll

from the soutli,by the road from Kalouga

declines towards the bed ofthe Moskwn ; or when, choosing the most iidvantagcous ‘view, you take your stand on the Sparrow Mountain above the river,thcn that won- derful panorania displayed before you excites an involuntary exclamation of astonishment. At your feet meanders the Moskwa ; and the angle it makes before entering the town forms a boundary to

devoted to popular festivals, which owes its name of Devitchc, Pole (the Plain of Nuns) to the convent situated at its extrem- ity. On the outside ofthis angle, on your

right, rising above the Moskwzi, are those

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OCTOBER 15.

there is an abundance ofsuinptuous pala-

catne and burnt Moscow once more. Next, ice. ; they occupy a great space, captivate

the eye at once, and form the striking parts ofthe picture. In the middle rises ofthe hill ofthe Kremlin,abrupt on the side ofthe river, and shelving on the opposite toward the \Vhite Town, which forms a semicirle round the Kremlin and the Chinese City, an interesting quarter, from which on the cast, it is separated by its walls, and large open space. All around this hill wind the embattled walls,witli their wliim- sical towers, belonging to every style im- aginable and above the ramparts stand forth in an order more apparent than real, clusters ofthose churches, convents, and places of no less fantastical and diversified forms than those already alluded to. “ Be- holding this,” exclaims Schnitzler, in a fervour ot' admiration, “ Europe is forgot- ton ; this heterogeneous mixture of donjons of the tiiiddle ages, of Moorish minarets, and Indian piigodas. hovering like an aerial city, above the town kneeling at its feet, perplexes the senses, and confounds the imagination of the spectator dazzled more- over by the sparkling rays with which the rellectioii ofthe. sun surrounds all these richly gilded and brilliantly polished metal- itic cupolas.” The Baron Haxthauscn, hoiiever tells us that, on entering :he gates of Moscow, the impression of grandeur produced from the outside is lost ; the city is then like any other : nay, has less ofaii historical aspect, than ttiaiiy ofthe quaint old towns of Germany and the Nether- lands.

Such is Moscow " the lioly"- -Mo‘-cow “ the white walled mother ofthe Russian citics.’,

A gentleman at Opoito has been "astoni- shing the natives” by walking on the river! lle attached to his for! two large limit- fashiont-d shoes of tin, and, tlitis prepared, accomplished in safety a rather loiig“trutiip" oti the waters ofthe Uuoro !

A \’ii.t.v 0 or \Vo,\it:N.—'l'lie following account appears iii the .*1itgsbtit','; Gazelle :—-- "Tlic villiage ol'.'\lnilaiin, ivhich is about li0 Eiiglisli miles from Ratscliiiid, in \\'ull: - chia, otfcrs at tho pl‘(‘.~‘l'lll iiionicnt ll ('llI'l02'~l etlinograpliicul Slll;_'ltlttl'll_V, havitig been in- habitcd by notncn only tor the last 30 yca~'~‘. At one period this li-tiiiilc population was "Ill". The lndirs did not live like tvarriors, like the Aniazons of old ; but, aroidiiig .ill intercourse with l.lt‘ll, tlt'o\'i: ll\'i‘u_\' train their territories: all \\ ho appcari-d with inat- iimonial intentions. The anti social settle- ment is now supposed to be oti the decline; at least no more recruits are made from the (listtppoinlcd or love-crossed, and the llI(‘.llll)Cl's of the population are rapidly ilcci-casing."

..A\ treaty of peace and commerce between England and Siam has been Ctincllldtd, and has been published in the Govornnieiit Gazelle. The provisions rcfer for the most part, to Custom-lionsc regulations -.o be obscrvctl by British vessel.-i and the natives of this country who may sojourn in Siam.

LADY Giia.\'vit.t.r.’s Loss AT 'rttr. Conn- N;i1'toN.—Tnc Moscow (:0l'l'(‘§pi)lltlt.'tll. ofLe Nord gives the following curious :~lul'y :— "Oti the day ofthe coronation and at the niomoiit when the cortege was entering the Kremlin, a niagniliccnt pearl neckl ice worn by Lady Granville broke, and the

less, the faith of the people never l‘Cli1X(‘d|CllFll'llllllg woody hills, drilled with (:oiintr_v pi zit-ls, each of wliich was of gzrcat \tll'lL‘,

for an instant.

After so many fires and liouscs, wl;crc the Neski-iisclia =itti-.ict- tho ‘.'it‘l‘t' sviittt-ii-tl at her foot.

llur liidys'iip

devastations, preceded, tnoi-cover, by lhﬁ’DlUl‘.l'y-lnlllilttg crowd, mid the llospittil did not i-riiicc tho sligliti-st emotion at the plague, and ilivers aﬂlictions,every‘one re- (nalistsin opens its gates to sink paopi.-rs. circuuistziiici-.~, but procceilod on ll(‘l' way, bum I is dwelling, and laid, also, his oll'cr- But what an cnoiqnous mass of houses, lcziving behind her llw i-ouinzints ul an or- ing or the altar to repair the, |.av,,c wm.'some of wood, others of stone, hrs lICr0l'0;fll|lll('lll whiiali would he ii foi-‘iino to any mittei in the temples, to '-tnbellisli those,yo_u ; the latter surmounted with iron roofs one loss wealthy than the lady oftlie ling- asyliviiis, and inctigasa the(i:r_ number. §3ut"plaii:]ted rpd| or green, alptl lllrc flat-mor over“ gli-li iimlnissiiilor.”

the “Mother of iisstnn lites was cs- sin owci iy [mm or y lll to trees ; a ﬁned to undergo new Tails‘, Wllllcll only :l:l|VI(;l,'__' pl-idc open spajcs llCl\\'Ct:llldll||l'lll,' R,,,.,,,,0,,,,, 1.-Hum,“ IN BUm“,”_'A gerv ad hoiieyer, to ren ml ile_r tie more I cl: hwri gtiruns, tpiiiiyiipiiiew, icii l,..,,.., ,,.,,m “rlpdm U, the ._,-m, “IL My!__ dﬁll l° .ll"", '"l''‘l-’'l““l'' " " “ ﬁm'.".m l cm.‘ 5‘ film‘? ‘ '"r°' " ‘ml ‘v ""«"‘ , “\\l‘. have this tnoi-mug heard it sound communicating from street to street by l.lIellV|l(! typo in which loot. ieiniill bulbous Cupt)-:“.|”ch ,1", rmplc up Bulgaria lmw, "0, wood pavement, once more totally consiim-llas are gt-oup('(l about the priiicipal dome, l imurl hr ngeé_ the ‘hound M." be” “mm ed ll 3 the l‘l°"° l‘9""°" ‘hm few '" "um' 3" scanty’ yet 9" .p""d°m"‘.‘ ‘ . the tlhi-i-4tim.s to chuich, in oidrr to than her, alone remained; but "10 “M098 ‘LN ll"-‘ N-‘Nl¢‘l_' ,|l|flg_0 “fl”? "llt'Cl"“’l :l‘" (1.01: that tl I‘ Sultan has hi,-en pleased to especiallv respected the picture of the wtiolc,_ who.-aha is int--rated that he has .,o-‘,___‘,‘,,,,_ M H, 0",. m,c,.,,. M-“,,,,.,,|,;l,_ ‘Vid_ Quocn ofthe Angels, over which, say the;f0re linn 400 Clllll'cllt‘.<, 2| cotirents, (lltl d,” is H“, ﬁrs, Bu,gm,i'm um" um, hm chsonlﬁlifli “WY lllld “° l"“"°"' rocirivril ti bell. The Turks li.ivo com-

Thirty‘lchapols,besidcit 152,000 houses ol wliichl can later, the Crimean Tartars, who 8,.’ only are of stone, the 0lllc'l‘S l><:iiig‘l,l,,,,,,.,i ,,, um p,,ch,, ﬁlm", 3,’ and hem“ rclcrrod tlictn to the sultan.“

‘]g|1-;,-,l‘(‘Jlftlﬂ9l. formidable'ofrll,t'he_scattcai-A made of wood. Ainoung the stone edifices

LOST. O“...‘i"..°‘1".7i“‘.::'l5°..:.:'.:'=."::;.':t':°.::.£t:':;;:r~ lined with checkered homespun, llﬂlotlglltg ,0 ‘up; front ofs sleigh. The tinder will be rewunlgd [ his trouble by leaving it at the oﬂice of llasziudli:

suite. Sept. Iﬁth, I856.

DRAIN warns rims. ii

_0lt 8Al_.E at the Q_usnt Batu‘; Hm," ‘a quiintit of superior Salt-glued Stone-vmg: _Ptp_¢s, Junctions. _Bsndn, gr.-., tom 8 iughgto I. III diameter, supplying ilis cheapest and most ellieiut method of conveying water under Igro

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and . i. an Charlottetown, and spat, 1856. HEARD‘

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