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Brussels, November 19.

Belgium proposes to license a gambling house for half a million francs per annum, and a tax of 700 francs per member. Brussels, November 21. Tlio City Market at Antwerp has been destroyed by fire. The damaged is estimated at .£SO,OOO. Berlin, November 18. In the Reichstag, the Chancellor (Prince Hohenlohe) said that, in accordance with the command of the Emperor, six officers were considering new rules rendering impossible verdicts of the Courts of Honour requiring the fighting of duels. This change, he said, was expected to have a wholesome influenco outside military circles. He declined to discuss the question of the royal prerogative. The Minister of War defended Lieut. Brusewitz, who killed an engineer in a cafe at Carlsruhe a short time ago, and said the officer acted in self-defence. Berlin, November 19. An explosion caused by fire-damp occurred in a colliery at Recklinghausen, in Westphalia. Thirty workmen were killed outright, and 00 more entombed. St. Petersburg, November 17. The Government proposes to expend eight million roubles on the navy during the next decade. St. Petersburg, November 19. The Novoe Vremya has received 1300 roubles for the relief of the sufferers from famine in India, and other papers have opened lists for donations.

that now is the oppor tu.ni.ty to open a vast market for wheat at reasonable prices, and suggests communicating with England as to the quantity required. Paris, November 22. In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Hanotaux, Minister for Foreign Affairs, was asked as to the terms of the Russian treaty, but declined to add anything to a statement which he recently made in Cherbourg. The existence of an entente cordiale with Russia was not denied, and wa3 not doubted.