"Gloves; no. I don't wear gloves." "Nor uncle with the leetle property spy, your in Warwickshire? Captain Clavering, he wears a glove. He is a handy man." Doodles stared at her, understanding nothing of this. "Perhaps it is in your waistcoat pocket," and she approached him fearlessly, as though she were about to deprive him of his watch.

"I don't know what you mean," said he, retreating.

"Ah, you are not a handy man, like my friend, the other captain, so you had better go away. Yes; you had better go to Warwickshire. In Warwickshire, I suppose, they make ready for your Michaelmas din

more."

and had ascertained by his own wit that no at the same table with Doodles any available assistance from that quarter was to be had in the matter which his friend had in hand.

It was some hours after this when the two friends met, and at that time Doodles. was up to his eyes in chalk and the profitable delights of pool. But Archie was too intent on his business to pay much regard to his friend's proper avocation. "Well, Doodles," he said, hardly waiting till his ambassador had finished his stroke and laid his ball close waxed to one of the cushions. "Well; have you seen her? "Oh. yes; I've seen her," said Doodles, seating himself on an exalted bench which ran round the room, while Archie, with anxious eyes, stood before him.

"Well?" said Archie.

"She's a rum 'un. Thank'ee, Griggs; you always stand to me like a brick." This was said to a young lieutenant who had failed to hit the captain's ball, and now tendered him a shilling with a very bitter look.

"She is queer," said Archie,—"certainly."

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Queer! By George, I'll back her for the queerest bit of horseflesh going any way about these diggings. I thought she was mad at first, but I believe she knows what

she's about."

"She knows what she's about well enough. She's worth all the money if you can only get her to work."

"Bosh, my dear fellow."

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"It's all bosh," repeated Doodles, coming back to his seat. "She don't mean to do anything, and never did. I've found her out."

She got

"Found out what?" "She's been laughing at you. your money out from under your glove, didn't she?"

"Well, I did put it there."

"Of course you did. I knew that I should find out what was what if I once went there. I got it all out of her. But, by George, what a woman she is! She swore at me to my very face."

"Swore at you! In French you mean?" "No; not in French at all, but damned me in downright English. By George, how I did laugh!-me and everybody belonging to me. I'm blessed if she didn't."

"There was nothing like that about her when I saw her."

"You didn't turn her inside out as I've done; but stop half a moment." Then he descended, chalked away at his cue hastily, pocketed a shilling or two, and returned.

You didn't turn her inside out as I've done. I tell you, Clavvy, there's nothing to be done there, and there never was. If you'd kept on going yourself she'd have drained you as dry, as dry as that table. There's your thirty pounds back, and, upon my word, old fellow, you ought to thank

me."

Archie did thank him, and Doodles was Why bosh? What's up now?" not without his triumph. Of the frequent "Bosh! Bosh! Bosh! Me to play, is references to Warwickshire which he had it?" Down he went, and not finding a been forced to endure, he said nothing, nor good open for a hazard, again waxed him- yet of the reference to Michaelmas dinners; self to the cushion, to the infinite disgust and, gradually, as he came to talk frequentof Griggs, who did indeed hit the ball this ly to Archie of the Russian spy, and pertime, but in such a way as to make the haps also to one or two others of his more loss of another life from Griggs' original intimate friends, he began to convince himthree a matter of certainty. "I don't think self that he really had wormed the truth it's hardly fair," whispered Griggs to a out of Madame Gordeloup, and got altogethfriend, "a man playing always for safety. er the better of that lady, in a very wonderIt's not the game I like, and I shan't playful way.

A CURIOUS fact is mentioned in the New paper published in New Jersey not many years York Times, which says:-"A paper called the ago; and it thinks it recognises the style of one Sunbeam has just been started by the convicts of these contributors in some verses in the Sun in the State Prison at Trenton, N.J. The beam. The editor states that, with but a sinNewark Advertiser remarks that it is not gen-gle exception, his is the only paper ever issued erally known that inmates of that prison fur- from a prison cell in any State of the Union.” 'nished prose and poetry for a certain campaign

RUSSIA AND AMERICA.

From the Fortnightly Review. sequently found to be a nobleman of very high official position in his own country. He has lately borne a prominent part in the entertainment of the American envoys. THE friendly interchanges between Rus- In the course of frequent conversations sia and America are naturally beginning to which we had concerning our respective excite attention by reason of the ingenuity countries, I found him disposed to claim a with which occasions for them are discov- high degree of liberality for Russia, espeered, and of their elaborateness. Many at- cially on the ground of the emancipation of tempts on the lives of Emperors have been the serfs, a step which had been taken, as made, but never before has it occurred to he frequently urged, without pressure from the American Congress to express, in an any political party. He was proud of the emphatic_resolution, its thankfulness at the undoubted influence which this act had had escape of one, much less to transmit the on the American mind. He had noted the same in an ironclad five thousand miles, at emphatic references which had been made an expense of two hundred thousand dol- in Congress to that act by Senator Sumner lars. There have been various interpreta- and other representatives of the Northern tions of this matter in Europe, as is very States, which had before been silent amid natural, because the phenomenon itself is the general friendliness toward Russia exthe result of a great variety of causes. As pressed in other sections of the Union. yet the interest of Europe in it may be There was now, he thought, nothing in the assumed to be purely philosophical, such an way of a cordial reciprocity of feeling beinterest being invited by demonstrative tween the two countries, which would probfamiliarities between the hardest of abso-ably mature into a very desirable alliance. lute monarchies and the most radical of The reception which had been accorded the republics. It would be particularly interesting to know what is the predominant Russian idea, and what the American; and whether the two have the same meaning to any extent in this paradoxical friendship. But here we are met with official reserve by both parties. On the American side there are only the egotistical utterances of one Fox, an obscure and incon-ments with cruel ones, provided the former siderable personage, who is exhibiting, as a sea-going triumph, an ironclad ship which had to be towed over the Atlantic until it came in sight of the English coast. On the Russian, nothing better than the following from Prince Gortchakof: "This understanding does not rest on geographical proximity. The abyss of seas separates us. No more does it rest on parchment. I do not find the trace of a single parchment in the archives of the ministry entrusted to me. It is instructive; more, I dare to call it PROVIDENTIAL. I felicitate myself on this understanding. I have faith in its duration. In my political situation all my cares will tend to consolidate it. I say cares and not efforts, because no efforts are required when there is a spontaneous and reciprocal attraction." One is tempted to label such a reference to providence as this with the remark of the French Encyclopædists, on refusing an article on the word " God". La question de Dieu manque d'actualités

officers of the Russian fleet visiting New York the year before had created a wild enthusiasm throughout his country, and there was a strong desire to reciprocate it. Europe hated Russia because Europe was morbid on the subject of nationalities. The populace would carry the "nationality principle so far as to replace mild govern

were not, and the latter were exercised by persons immediately belonging to the section of country governed. But America was engaged in fusing nationalities, and had just been crushing, magnificently, an attempt at her own subdivision into what must have become a set of warring and jealous nationalities. She was thus the

only nation that could understand a great nation like Russia, and judge her by something better than the European standard, which was that of national egotism. When I inquired whether he thought that an alliance between the two nations would secure any great practical advantage for either or both, the reply was very general, and I almost concluded that he more than anything else valued the prestige which his "much-denounced" country was getting from the public admiration of the American Republic. There was, however, a vague intimation that in the case of another Crimea, or less happily settled Trent affair, More than a year ago on the Continent, the countries might possibly be of service to I was accidentally thrown into relations each other. My Russian acquaintance has with a Russian, whom I soon discovered to had so many opportunities lately of exbe a man of unusual intelligence, and sub-pressing these views in public, without

availing himself of them, that I must which pervaded Europe. "They rather reserve his name.

This is the only serious expression of opinion on the part of any one near the Czar, on the relations between the United States and Russia, that I have ever heard from any source. It is, however, important to know how the subject lies in the minds of the wealthy middle class of Russia, and herein, it would seem, Mr. Fox and "Veuve Clicquot " have not been fruitless of results. There were several speeches made at the grand banquet given at Moscow on the 25th of August, which are worthy of attention. Mr. Yakunchikof spoke as follows: :-"Gentlemen, as a merchant I rise with peculiar gratification to propose a toast having an intimate connection with the success of commerce. Gentlemen, there is a power which is both military and civilising. The development of this power extends, without conquest, the boundaries of nations possessing it; in war serving as the most powerful bulwark of national independence, and in peace as the most effectual means of commercial development. This power is the Navy. This power is recognised by the civilised world, which now must confess that the mightiest naval power of the earth is the great American Republic. The arrival of our honoured guests has shown the depth of their sympathy for us, and solved a great naval problem. This wonder of naval architecture, this vessel unique in its structure, this floating fortress. hitherto considered as only fit for shore defence, the Miantonomah, after sweeping through the vainly-opposing waves of the ocean, and proudly showing its impregnable towers in the Thames and to the shores of France, has come to us and united our Russia and America by a bridge which no artillery can destroy. To our enemies this bridge is inaccessible, for its foundations are hid in the waves of the ocean." An old Muscovite, Mr. Pogodin, also made a remarkable speech. In addressing himself to the reasons for the sympathy between America and Russia, he touched on the resemblance between the institutions of the two. "The United States is a republic, and Russia an absolute power; but here, as on the map, the extremities meet. In the Russian absolute monarchy there is a democratic stream that flows uninterruptedly throughout its history. As regards the forms, all of them have lost much of their precedent meaning." After recalling the sympathy for the Union felt by Russia during the late American war, he spoke of the different feeling

wished there should be two Unions instead of one. They regard with the same eyes the other new world-Russia." This feeling was ascribed to jealousy. The speech closed with a prophecy that the union between Russia and America would ripen from an ideal to an actual one, and both countries have a mighty future. The last noticeable speech was that of Mr. Schipoff, a leading merchant, who dwelt a little on the fact that Russia and America had never had any hostilities, compared their recent policies of emancipation, and then devoted the main body of his address to showing how the two were agreed on the principle of protection.

It should be perhaps mentioned that one of the speakers said that their honoured guests had already discovered "that the Russians, thanks to our gracious Emperor, - who marks a new era in our history,may canvass their ideas and reasons as freely as people do in New York." If the guests had not discovered this at that time, they must have received light on the subject from the denunciation put forth soon after by the commission of inquiry into the Karakozof "conspiracy," of an organisation framed to "promote socialist teaching, to destroy the principles of public morality, to shake the faith of the masses in religion, and to subvert the established order of the State." What would the Socialists, Paine Clubs, and heretical preachers' of New York say to a denunciation of that kind by their council, ominously connected with an execution?

Turning now to consider the American feeling which has given rise to these interchanges, it may be confidently stated that the Russian nobleman, referred to above, was right in assuming that the idea of the sanctity of nationalities is much weaker in America than in Western Europe. It was this evident apathy, when Italy was falling, that brought down on that country Mrs, Browning's Curse for a Nation;" and it is this that wrote and that reads Artemus Ward's sneers at the Fenians. The enthusiasm with which Kossuth was received in America fifteen years ago, when he came with the purpose of effecting an AngloAmerican alliance against despotism, may seem to disparage this statement. But that welcome, so far as it can be referred to any deep feeling at all, must be attributed to the traditional antipathy to Austria, and particularly to the Hapsburgs, which is now a century old. After the peace of Hubertsburg, Joseph II, the interested ally of