... AGRICULTURAL NOTES, Farjers, as well as othcrs interested in the agricultural indusrr, are uncertain1 as to thle effect that tile yast two weelks will have onL their tradc. The wheat crop until the frigid gales of the past week came was looking mnost healthy and stroung, and the good rainfall has now solidified the soil on light lands around all the other growing crops - so that, taken as a ...

... I AFTER more than twelve years the Egyptian flag again floats over Kassala. - It is worth while now to cast a glance back upon the circumstances of its hauling down in 1885, but at the time the siege of twenty months attracted scarcely a tithe of the attention it deserved. Thle British public, 'unhappily, had just then too ma y discreditable surrenders and betrayals.to divide its indignation ...

... Hall Mail Salcttt offirt 18, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C. [FROM OUR CONTINENTAL C0RRESPONDENTS 1 The Duke of Cumberland and his eldest son, Prince George, are expected at Cannes about the middle of January for a lengthy 50jour Their Royal Hightuesses intend to remain there until the beginaing sofurn The Duchess of Cumnberland will this winter present her eldest dau-ten the Princess Marie Louise, ...

... MIXED BLOOD. If the distinct types of race are interesting, the indistinct are sympa- thetic; moreover they have a nationality of their own. A marriage of Orient and Occident creates a child that looks newer than the mere dividing and joining of hereditary characteristics could make him. The sobu of Persian and English, the daughter of English and Greek, have a fresh quality, remarkable for an ...

... REFORMS IN TU RKEY.| T HE DETERMINED ATTITUDE OF COUNT MURAVIEFF. CoNsTANT lNor.E, Tuesday.--Thlle Sultan ha ving verbally communicated to the British, I renh, anid ussiajn lbassies his intention or despatching a ccimnllSSiO- to SuplvIse the ex~ecultioiun o the projectcd retorms, alnC hin]g reauested them to ?? ?? to represent them el the C0o1minSsioit, tke three ?? tephied that they could not ...

... Mr. Luttrell, who has achieved the distinction of passing the first bill of this Session, was one of the few private members who succeeded in getting a measure through all its stages in the crowded Session of last year. The bill which he conducted to a successful issue in the early hours of this morning is to amend the qualifications for elections to parish councils, by providing that any ...

... WHAT'S GOING ON. In spite of the fact that business remains very dull, the Stock Exchange still manages to keep up a number of small excitements, which are, at all events, something to talk about. The Indian Fampine Fund is eagerly watched, and those gentlemen who go round at different intervals to pencil in the names of fresh con)ibutors to the subscription list command a small crowd at each ...

... ?? ~: Of 1n 1 18, CHARING CRoss ROAD, W.C. They Prince of Walears will hold two levees at St. James's Palace before his departuret for theliviera. There are to be five levees altogether in. the course of the: season, and probably -one of them will be .held by the Duke of Coinnaught, and; another by ?? of York. The State apart. nen ts at St. James's Palace are being redecorated. There are also ...

... SECONDARY education experts to left of. us, experts on secondary education, to right of us, onward we are forced to thunder into the jaws of the deadly compulsion to write about them. The . whole paper is speckled and ringstraked with them this morning. If the T'eachers' Guild at King's. College .doos not satisfy your appetite, you can turn to the Incorporated Association of Headmasters at ...

... pV4I1TING FOR SOM1lETHING TO TURN UP. IN THE HOUSE. BY AN OBSERVER. vwaiting for something to turn up never presented a more mllelancholy spectacle of lofty morality and austere virtue than Sir William lHarcourtL When, after the usual baiting of Mr. Curzon, the right hon. gentle- man presented himself at the table, there was an indulgent cheer. Mr. L.abouchere felt sure that he had drubbed his ...

... TIHEl JEVS IN CO NGRESS. MIAX N ORDAU'S PROGRAMIME. (FROM OUI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) B xsuI, August 30.-As you have already been informed by telegram, the Congress has adopted a programnle Which brings Palestine riearer to the masses of tthe Jews. Max Nordau, who is Cynic and Zionist by turns, brouolht up the progranmme in the fornm of lour resolutions with a preamble, setting fortlh ...

... IT is highly probable that one of the results of MIr. Escombe's confer- ences with the Colonial Office will be the annexation, or rather absorption, by Natal of its neighbour Zululand, on which the colony has long cast covetous eyes. And the change wvill come about this year, if all goes well, and the consent of the constituencies is obtained to what has long been an unrealized ideal of ...