... LN E hear more and more in these days about Free Land-about tl e advantages to be derived from a system of peasant properties and small farms. We have been invited to cast our eyes upon the Continent-to observe the agriculturists of France, Holland, r-egium; to mark their industry, their intelligence, their frugality, anrd to remember that each head of a family in those favoured regions is the ...

... TiHE German traveller, Dr. Nachtigal, writing on the i9th of August last from El Obeid, sends to the Cologne Gazette some interesting information about the war between Egypt and Darfur. He says that when he was in Borna in 1870 and 1871 news. arrived that the Baharas, a tribe of traders and slave and elephant hunters, had plundered and occupied part of the country to the south of Darfur. These ...

... PUBLIC MEN ON PURLIC ArLPMRS. On Monday the annal dinner of the Preston licensee victuallers was hold at the Castle Inn, under the presi- dency of the Solicitor.General. The Solicitor.General (Sir J. Holker), in proposing the toast of the evening, Prosperity to the Preston Licensed Victuallers' Association, referred to the importance of the trade, and said it bad a capital of 117 millions-a ...

... QAR DE N I NGi 1o0 THE WEEK TuEiATITNA 5 NOVEsxPE 7TH, BY MR. GLENNY. OUR WEEKLY CALENDAR. THEi IFLOWi GARDEirN. The weather that affects all out-door gardens troubles the window- eardeners hlt little. Thiey have opportiiuities olevater- leg, shading, washing, and coaxing their plants, which eutof- door gardenlers havos tint. The burning salt, the pelting 'rain, the te:aring winds, chilly ...

... | GENERAL FOREIGN .NEWS. | (TMMu1as IMUTE' WAGENCO.) FRANOE AND ROUMANIA. PARIS, Nov. 2. There is no foundation for the statement recently made by a London newspaper that the French Government bus supported the claim of Roomania to conclude commercial arrangements independently of the Porte. THE PORTE AND ROUMANIA. VIENNA, Nov. 2, EvnNIax. It is confidently expected in official quarters that ...

... I MIfLAND RAILWAY OF CANADA. . , , ; . . ., _ I A meeting of the mnortgage bondholders of this company was held at the Loudon Tavern yestqrday, 'to receive a report as to its condition and prospects, and to take such. action thereon as mav be deemed expedient, The meetin= was numerously 4ttended. At ffi-4 there was some dwfficqlty in inducing anv one to talie the chai, Mr. Lyons, of Glasgow, ...

... REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE GERMAN BUDGET. BERLIN, Nov. 3.-The Financial Bill of the German Empire for the year 1875 has been submitted to the Reichstag to-day. The ordinary expenditure is estimated at 396,523,455 Reichsmarks, and the extraordinary expenditure at 125,277,684 Reicbsmarks, forming a total of 521,801,139 Reichsmarks, which is balanced by the estimated revenue. The Imperial Chancellor ...

... ARCHITECTURE IN OXFORD. To Ike EDITOR of fhe PALL MALL GAZETTE. SI, -Visitors to Oxford who may chance to enter the great Quadrangle of Christ Church cannot fail to be struck by the changes now taking place. The central lawn is fringed by a series of long lawV walls which, projecting at right angles from the terrace, infersect the turf at short intervals. At a first glance one might suppose ...

... 0 0 TiE Prince and Princess of Wales have been spending this week in Warwickshire, where they have had a most hearty reception. On their return from the Continent last week they stayed a few days in town. The Czarewitch lunched at Marl- borough House on Saturday, and in the afternoon the Prince and Princess drove to Kew to see the Duchesses of Cambridge and Mecklenhurg-Strelitz, while in the ...

... his , 2 _ > v I j 1 2 I L THE EXPILOSMON AND LOSS OF LMIE AT T$T h.IOUSLOW POVMlR MAMIS.. E Yesterday aftemron, Dr. Diplpck, aoroner for Middlesex West, 'hel an inquiry in tho carpenters' depart- mientg ,fthe Works into the ciroumstances attending the deaths of George Todd, 23; John Dnv, 22; Win. henry Archer, ?? andi Stephen 3tlei, 18, who vere killcd in an explosionat the ?? IPowder DMills ...

... Chid Obrninq?? VtW?. SPANISH FINANCE, S parish correspondent, writing on October 30, says :-The Government state of complete destitution, and can neither beg, borrow, nor steal. lCIL lias becn raised, or rather groped for in every unstatesminlike ma-nner, paning of valuable mines, to the cession of the telegraph revenues of t to l(-cal spcculators for ready-money advances farbelow their value. ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. R E UT E 'S TEL E G R A M S. SPAIN. MAuDRID, Nov. 6, Morning.-Official despatches announce that General Jovellar has entered Teruel. The Carlists take to flight as he advances. Some considerable Carlist bands in the Maestrazgo are said to intend surrendering to the Republican authorities. The Government has sent large reinforcements to the Noith. A Carlist force has ...