The marshal of theprovince in whose hands the law had placed the control of so many important public functions--the guardianship of wards (the very department which was giving Levin so much trouble just now), the disposal of large sums subscribed by the nobility of theprovince, the high schools, female, male, and military, and popular instruction on the new model, and finally, the district council--the marshal of theprovince, Snetkov, was a nobleman of the old school,--dissipating an immense fortune, a good-hearted man, honest after his own fashion, but utterly without any comprehension of the needs of modern days.

He had spent a whole month in Moscow with nothing to do, when Sergey Ivanovitch, who had property in the Kashinskyprovince, and took great interest in the question of the approaching elections, made ready to set off to the elections.

The union is composed of seven coequal and sovereign states, and each state orprovince is a composition of equal and independent cities.

The union of Utrecht, says another respectable writer, reposes an authority in the States-General, seemingly sufficient to secure harmony, but the jealousy in eachprovince renders the practice very different from the theory.