... LANDLORDS AND TENANTS. ?? subjoined letters were crowded out of our Satur- day's impression.] Tro the Editor qo the Mercury and 1osf. Sin-Your correspondent, A Family Man, has con- trived to put down so much that is fallacious about farm- ing that his letter might be safely left as far as those are concerned that know. But many may read it who do not know, so that it ought to be answered. ...

... THE IOwD SUBMISSION OF . 'Y.KOOB KHAN. l DAII.Y 1XEW2~ TsKgBoAMB5. :AIORE, SATuan Y.'-Thereprt that Yakoo 'EKhan bas made his submission at Jellalabad is confirmed. There bus been no further disaffection amongst the pathans or Afiredees in our pauks. Colonel Tytler's force returning from the BazarValley was attacked in the Khyber Paus by Afredees, and two soldiers of the 17th Foot were killed ...

... PEWRESSION IN TRADE AND COMMVEROT IN' 1878. To U EdUitor 0' Wh 1yereury .and Pat., Sin-This su~ject appears to be the 'mot pioniinent ln the minds of the public at the present time, and veq .properly so, inasiruch as it causes great anxiety foM our rationaland personal welfare. The depression'that surrounds us is not one of recent birth by any meanu.' It has been'expanding itself for five orsx ...

... 4pX 9Xetrt, IEbbse . BATH. TESTIMONIA TO T'HE MAYOL--Th5 MS ror, Alde3r- man Cliafln, having been one -of the orginxtr of the Hanoverianf Band Committee and an active pro- 'moter of the floral fdtes held during the summer, under its amupaces received yesterday a substantial proof Of the estimation In which his services are held by the rest of his colleagues. At a meeting held yesterday. at the ...

... TUE OPERATIONS IN THE PEIWAR pASS. BRILLIANT VICTORY OF GENERAL ROBERTS. ROUT OF THE AFGHANS WITH HEAVY LOSS. CAPTURE, OF I8 GUNS AND A QUANTITY OF AMMUNITION. OFFICIAL REPORT. The following has been sent to us from the India Office for publication:- (FnoM VxcEnoy, Dice. 5, 1878). Roberts attacked Peiwar 2nd; turning movement- during night of let successful; surprised and turned enemy, but ...

... MEETINO oi;' ?VBUOANS. A general maeeting of the 1f!lra and beer retailers of the city wa hel yseday lie. >I In the Assemnbiyiroom of the Gand hotel, Broad~eet, 7 to consider the claims of the two candidates to the sup- .port of the trade. There wud a large attendance. Mr.[ J. J. Sliest (cairkman of the Bristol Ldicensed Viotnaliers Protection Association) presided, and Mir. N. a). ...

... ?Thrrc?13 Ofl?tfltC. al ?it ers mseri te .cvomipeisn by the nsmne an *tdrssea o f the writers, not s esdeinv for psiklieatief, but for *1w sat isfartien of (1w E~dio. We cannot Id ea'tve to s'etnrn s'edected comrnuaicstisns. WVORKING LsIEN AND THIE ELECTION. So the £Wiies' of 11w &temirpsend Doil PAst, S am £in si rely glad to observe thot Mr. C~owit is not to engage the uttention of the ...

... v thu -of the as. There is very little news to hand relating to the Afghan expedition, and that little is not encourag- ing. The Viceroy, telegraphing from Lahore on Saturday, reports that firing has been heard in the Khyber and that a convoy has been stopped. The correspondent of the Daily News, however, in a message from Peshawur, goes farther than this, and asserts that the communications ...

... BRAN of tht gp. TFhe English Court and nation were plunged into mourning on Saturday by the early death of the Grand Duchess of ?? Darmstadt. Princess Alice, the favourite daughter of our Royal family, thus died on the 17th anniversary of her father's death, and lost her life through devotion to her youngest child during a fatal attack of diphtheria, which disease she herself contracted. The ...

... ; DESTRUCTION -OF HUNTSPILL CHURCH, SONRRSET, BY FIE. I . . . gR E ,B Early'yesterday morning, St. Peter's Church, HIunts-.. pill, Dear Bridgwater, and one of.the largest parishes Ia the Bridgwatdt: Union, was discovered' to be on fire, and in a few 'hours afterwards nothing but the: bare walls 'remained of what was considered to be, in all respects, one of the best country churches ...

... -IENG4! AN UE-d ?? Ai~tr,. IMV . ' TBE C$USSTION OF it',1 . l eceiRPnsW, iaceording to, a1Renter'5 teleVrM I iheld on Friday, enV-, ~g, under th l presidenY Sflir. Filter. J'FortY-AfV0 guests4 werepsit ?? Prhilip cunliftfe Owen, M. Letfly'~DeRUUIIe,Cati Harris, Mr.,'Mtrrayc C. At the conclusion ofithe banquet ,the (hairman pro- posed toasts in honour of Queen :Victoria, MarshaL MaAlchOla, and ...

... F =RHE =I- :AES FU7RTEER OfFICIAL PAPERS, The Press Association h ns received further con'. srondence respecting Ccntral Asia, which was to beoth HOuses of Parliament last night. It ceu ; ti of 16 despatches, rcausng in date from 'Selteiaber 5) November 28, 188. In a despatch from the Government of Indiia cvW L,, as an inclosnre, a rows letter from the Goveramenltag n at Pesbawur, dated ...