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The History Of Russia. Livesoftlesovemgn...
THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA . LivesoftleSoveMgnsofR ^ By George Towler . Tols . I . W 11 ^ ^ ^ »« S ^ ' . ^ J ^ l ^^ b ^^ ' wi ^ SSsfer ^ s ^ - £ 3 ? = £ ? sffl ? tnrougu- iue waciO ^^ D ; rinvnfi ., « v rtna v a new work . It Kurik Paul
= tf * e l ^ Xe "S « a ^ 'V ^ s 7 » to I ., and , 'Xn completed , % m bringdown the narrative to tl . e access . on of Alexander f ^ hs t ^ s ^ s ^^ s ^^ SS Sb & s- s _ ss- _ sst' ^ ffs ^ ssws ^ TheX ^ of the book is excellent , and the materials collected by Mr . ^ SS ^^ - ^^^^^^^ r ^ O \ an nisioiiau « i «« # j i ^ : ^ r ~ nm ; + « vUp nmonn- the shadows
^ Kcovio i ^^ ry Ke ' mysTery of PauK murd ~ er In the preface wolSKn ^ le o ^ hc verbal a ^ Wiirdno » an ^ ta gmty to ^ co » - »> < tr e ^^^ on : hr : ^ - of isf < kj * ftg £ SK $ ^ I ^^ TS ^ e ^ n ^ syl ^ Si iS f & I thafMr . Fowler finds his explanations difficult to "" Xui ^ ldkted to his views of Russian history are above the average , lhough addicted to praisl U e empire and admire its emperors-which is true ot most travellers Fn that part of Europe-he is seldom exaggerated in Ins cstinuiites of <*™ ™ £ and avoids the repetition . of vulgar anecdotes . H . s chaptei , ™ th , * ai y lew «««
irT ^ hich the writer , in the language ^ f terror and contrition , appeals to her forWdon on account of his atrocious act . Now , we regard this testimony as worthless if urged in favour of Catherine , but damnatory if directed against W Alexis Orloff was the treacherous poisoner , who won upon the emperor ' s confidence bySigning his wife , who accepted his hospitality and introduced aM , mixlur / into his wine , and who afterwards strangled him , vS the aid of Baratinski , the governor of the state prison . Would- Baratinsk * ha « Tassifted in the assassination of Catherine ' s husband without Catherine ' s consent ? But Catherine was undeniably an . accomplice after Se fact altCg h she took care to preserve the exculpatory letter of Alexis Orloff in a casket , and bequeath it to the Czar Paul , who then confessed S £ tL w Seated his mother of being a murderess , which she probabl y ¦ the is also evidence ag
" TT ^ r-W iner Hriffuage after hearing news ainst fcr -My horror S this death is inexpressible-it is a blow which strikes me to the earth ! " It was a blow which raised her to the throne of all : me to tne earia . j . horror of which she was fully prepared to ! ^ noSiUe advance Her poisoned and strangled husband ' s body , take all P ° f ™ le a £ ™ 2 J £ a proclamation in which the empress attributed : 7 £ \& ° ?| 1 Jho ^ naTatoS hemorrhage ; but the multitude was not pernot
. I nitteu-Ts custom prescribed , to kiss the lips ot the aeaci czar ana Tanyhour elated * before Catherine in another ^ f ^ J ^ I * * mpmmvbv every artifice of malevolence . And what became of Alexis SrSff who had inflicted upon the empress this blow j hich struck her to the earth " He was created a count of the empire , and we do not find that itv ^ Tnski was knouted . So far from being satisfactorily disproved , CntSne ' s in ? amy appears to us to have been clearly established It must Sways be re ^ em ^ ered that , as a woman and a ruler , she was capable of any "S AnTvet it was Catherine who elicited from Edmund Burke the to
homa ge of his " utmost possible respect and veneration" uer . -mga ana l tS virtues " which " formed the happiness of so large a part of the SviHSed worl ' d . " Mr . Fowler , also , has been led away ^ by the enthusiasm of mperial historians in forming his estimate of Catherine ' s intellect , if not in hu t of her morality . Notwithstanding these doubtful passages , however Ss work is o « r of real historical merit , which may be read with interest ev ^ en by those to whom the narratives of Schnitzler and Kararnsm are familiar . .- ¦ - ¦
history of Russia , while disligureu by a leaning , o wu . c , . " ;; y clear outline of all that is critically known , and lead broad y and directly to the recorded succession of the czars , to the gradual civihzntion ot the empire to the reigns of the Ivans and Boris , and to the- accession . ot iS- ' surnumcd the Great , who experimented upon the po . somng . of children , and who built a city , as his satir » ts . ^^\^ ^ mi-ht have a window opened in the Avails ot the internal Noith , to a le out upon the imbitalKe parts of the globe . _ lr . Fowler ofcoune , is iu it «» ...
• Tdonts the heroic view of his career , ana careuu « . « .. » - _ tercstin- as possible , although we think he misses aomc important elucidations to ° be Icovcrcd in memoirs illustrative of Unit per . otl , -but he is generally judicious in his appeal to authorities , and steers < i middle course hetween ^ oltaire and the rabid Polish and German b . ographer . Wo e consulted i giuui ^
not aware , so far , whether he lias « e . . v ^ ™ - ^ ; almost the onl y Russian history of Russia , which has never yet boen tn nslnlod ' into the English language ; but that author ' s statement oi 1 clci b aclneyel ; ments , while coloured 1 , y ' courtly preferences is angularl y tree irom . the extravagance customarily found in accounts of Pet « 1 . Mr . 1- owlcr might I also with advantage have consulted the Memoirs oi the Ihiko <» i bt . bunon for characteristic passages relative to the czar ' s conduct when on his " Upon several controverted points avc think Mr . Fowler arrives at a con-¦ ¦ . ; elusion with suspicious facility . Thus , lhe question ha « long been disputed whether Catherine 11 . was an accomplice in the murder o her husband . Mr . lfowlcr decides in the negative . But upon what evidence f Mmply on that of a letter attributed to Alexis OrloiV and addressed to the empress ,
Emigration. Nova Scotra Considered As % ...
EMIGRATION . Nova Scotra considered as Field for Emigration . By P . S . HamUtoa ^ J-rist e ^ Law , Halifax , Nova Scotia . The remnant of those Scottish clans which escaped the sword and the execution " ? at the suppression of the rebellion of 1745 , were . exiled to ! ova Scotia , and there ^ ecame the pioneers of a civilization which has now covered the land with opulent villages , large herds of cattle , orchards Srdens . and all the usual accessories of rural abundance Lying within a be reaciieu uk ^
1 weeks' sail of Great Britain , and to oy , / =- »""» - passa-e of any to our Transatlantic colonies-about one-fourth the cost of h to Australia-Nova Scotia offers a most desirable ^ of ew ^ Uoa ^ the agricultural class , and to none more decidedly than to the poor tenantfarmer whose condition at home is infinitely worse , more precarious and dependent , than that of the labourer he employs . In this colony , indeed I ? S price of good land is so loW as to be rather a disadvantage , fmce it causes husbandry to be carried on in a slovenly , improvident style , the cultivator Wy trebling himself to renew exhausted fertility by the apph-Sn of manure ; he at once , like a savage of . Borneo , . forms another deariU , only to repeat the same extravagant and unscientific process . The ulual price is , at present , about one shilling and sixpence per acre . la Yarmouth county , where the upland soil is nearly of equal
quality throughout , owing to a higher average temperature , . «««* u «««^ 2 ood cultivatfon yield ve ° ry satisfactory returns . Two tons of pumpkins fourteen thousand ears of Indian corn , three and a half bushels ot shelled beans , four bushels of shelled peas , ten bushels of shelled corn , five bushels of carrots , . and three bushe s of turnips , . realizing altog ether upwards of 80 / ., may be got from a single acre . Iruit of the finest quality-cherries , plums , apples , pears-abound everywhere , especially m ? he western counties , vrhere tliey make cider of the primest quality ; and in the beautiful vale of Annapolis , which is she tered by two parallel mountain ranges extending upwards of a hundred miles , the peach and vine rip £ ? A £ . ^ ni ^ mnortant inducement to the indigent emigrant is
the extent and value of the Acadian fisheries . No country on the lace ot the -lobe can equal , in this respect , the neglected colony of Nova Scotia . Possessing a coast line of more than a thousand miles , there is no portion on which a highly profitable fishery might not be pursued . Cod , delicatelyflavoured shad , the alewifo , haddock , turbot , salmon , & c . may be caught in indefinite quantity by nets and the rudest description of sea-angling . In the opening spring , smelts—retailed in London by twos and threes at a I JSl ? LtJnn . v % n Bcooncd un by pailfuls from all streams nowing into
| the 6 ay of Fui dy . Bass , * a delicious fish , sometimes weighing fifty pounds I each ? arc easily taken by the deep-sea line ; so arc halibut-equal y choice e ? ing-of live hundred pounds ; and the tunny , so pmed by the inhabitants of the Mediterranean coast , here measures from six to twelve feet in length . ti , « « l , nrpa nf Chodahucto Bav are visited by shoals oi mackerel several tut
miles in extent , forming a mass so dense us to impede the passage ot smaller class of trading waft . Here , then , the hundreds of unoccupied pea-, sants gaunt with hunger , who now lounge in compulsory idleness at the Mown '* end" of maiiy an English , Irish , and Scotch village ^—here our whole pauper population might be conveniently located with the certainty of their obtaining a superabundance of nutritious , palatable food at small labour and free of cost , A lad of a dozen years old with halt a dozen fish-hooks and a hank of water-cord , by the exertion ot a single day could obtain sufficient animal food to feast his whole family for a week . IJio seniors , now in possession of what in their most sanguine dreams , of foitunc they had never aspired to at home , v . k . a freehold oi > omu scoio acres of iorest hind , woiid do their parts , and by its clearance and cultiva
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Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1858, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01051858/page/17/
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