... AN AGRARIAN MURDER. An agrarian murder of the worst type was com- mitted at Ballymahon, Countv Longford, on Friday evening. A respectable farmer, named Andrew Waters, who held 400 acres of land under the Hon. King Harman, recently resolved to emigrate to Australia, a.nd obtained permission from Mr. Har- man to dispose of the goodwill of his farm. He was about to complete an agreement with a, ...

... PROCLAMATION of the KING of ITALY. The following proclamation of King Victor Emma- nuel to the Italian people was issued in Florence on October 17th Italians Bands of volunteers, excited and seduced by a party without my authorization or that of my Government, have violated the frontier of the State. The respect equally due by all citizens to the laws and international stipulations sanctioned ...

... ^°nday ni&ht, Mr. Young, who is to command the Livingstone search expedition, reported that the steel boat is finished, and that he will leave England in the mail steamer on the 8th of this month for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he will proceed to the mouth of the ZambesL There the boat will be put together, and the party will go up the river to the Murchison Falls. Here the boat will be ...

... The inhabitants of Woburn-square, Bloomsbury, were annoyed during last week by largo numbers of the ragged and noisy population of St. Giles in quest of a ghost said to be a denizen of the square garden. So great and increasing has been the crowd that police have been told off for the special service of maintaining order and making the populace move on. The excitement appears to date from tho ...

... The Paris correspondent of the Standard sends the following particulars of an extraordinary case which has just come before the Tribunal For some time past a man named Picardat has been living at Bobigny (Seine;, where he keeps what he calls an encyclopedia; consultation-room, and where he appears to have passed himself off among the rustics as a lawyer, an agent of the police, and various ...

... A. correspondent of a London paper complains that coming up to town from a station eight or ten miles trom London, he found six first-class carriages oc- cupied by as many solitary lady passengers, and nearly lost his tram whilst he was looking for a less hazardous compartment in which to seat himself. Now, as un- protected male travellers have, all things considered, not unreasonably, a ...

... To the Editor of the Free Press. Sir,—It is high time that the attention of the public and the local authorities should be called to the dangerous state of the public road leading from, the tvrnpike road, beyond the Twmpath, to the Race Furnaces and Bhendare. This road i., I believe, the only available route between the town and the, populous neighbourhood about Blaendare but notwithstanding ...

... Holloway's Tills.Pure blood.—As this vital fluid, when in a healthy state, sustains and renovates every part of the living system, so when it becomes impo- verished or impure exerts a precisely contrary effect It is abundantly manifest that any medicine which does not reach the circulation can never exterminate the disease but any preparation capable of exercising a sanitary influence over the ...

... A letter from Lisle gives the subjoined details :— When the Empress went to the prison of Loos her Majesty visited the Penitentiary in its most minute details, inquiring into everything—the sanitary state, dietary system, and the general spirit of the inmates nothing indeed escaped her investigations. The Empress excited astonishment at the precision and multiplicity of her questions on the ...

... INTEMPERANCE A 7 snare in reply to two blicr* irhirJi appeared in 1 your columns last r-.cek. ] he-irhiy nciprocfjie. should done tl) slem the alarming increase of But, Sir, a.k, is that, object, to > be attained by letter-writing ? It must be obvious to the most superficial it is not. The last twelve- month Lee hare been continually favoured with notwithstanding this effort—a misdirected one ...

... BRITISH MiD rOSeiGN. Some of the Paris papers mention a report that several French officers belonging, or who have belonged, to the army of Africa are to be attached to the Abyssinian ex- pedition. At Wandsworth police-court. in London, a gentle- man has been fined in the mitigated penalty of el 5s., under the new Dog Act, for keeping two spaniels without a licence. The Americans have punned ...

... FORESTERS' FESTIVAL.—On Saturday the members of Court Loyal Britons celebrated their anniversary at the Hanbury Arms inn. They had a procession, which was headed by the brilliant brass ban(I of the 2nd Mon. Rifles of Abersychan, under the leadership of Mr J. Burt, bandmaster. Ahaut fcarteen .member^ r«rfe oa horseback, dressed in the costume of the order. They proceeded to Abersychac, and ...