AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 4:7 



actionaries have been disappointed. A recent 

 traveller says : 



&quot; There has been no bloodshed, no excess, no social dis 

 order, no decline of industry. Twenty-three millions of 

 people have been raised at once from the degradation of 

 chattelism to the dignity of freemen, by the fiat of one 

 man, in the space of two years, in the face of a most formi 

 dable opposition of nearly the whole Russian nobility. The 

 bitterest opponents now admit that as the operation had to 

 be performed some time, it was well to do it at once. In 

 tellectual and social energies which had been frozen up for 

 centuries, are set free ; the peasantry are a promising race 

 of people, and they know how to appreciate the boon of 

 liberty. Among the first financial results is the general rise 

 in the price of land all through Russia, at least a million of 

 serfs having already purchased the land which they formerly 

 cultivated for a master. The Government systematically 

 loans money for this object, and all the money which was 

 formerly hidden in earthen pots is brought out and invested 

 in land. Every peasant feels a new incentive to industry 

 and economy, that he may be able to buy land. More 

 houses are now built in a year than used to be built in half 

 a dozen years. The new wants of the people give a sur 

 prising impulse to trade. The nobility, who used to spend 

 their incomes in Paris or in Germany, are coming to live 

 on their estates, and spend their lives in seeking to promote 

 the improvement of the people. The appraised value of 

 property in the kingdom is already enhanced almost beyond 

 computation. 



&quot; The educational and religious efforts are equally signal. 

 Already eight thousand schools have sprung into existence 

 among the peasants, by their own efforts, aided by friends, 

 the Government having no hand in it. Two years ago such 



