Mr. H. Barkley publishes in the Times some intelligence from
Bulgaria which might make a third-rate English squire's mouth water. He has recently been offered 3,000 acres of deep alluvial soil, able to grow anything, and within two miles of a port on the Danube, for 26,000. "-A a further inducement to purchasers, a farmhouse, extensive farm-buildings, two steam thrashing-machines, a steam-mill, 1,200 sheep, 100 oxen and eows, and a drove of horses, are thrown in. Largo oak woods -cover a part of the land, which, I am informed, might be cut and sold, to cover the entire cost of the estate." There are many such estates in the market, and labour is cheap and good, while deer, wild boar, partridges, black game, and all kinds of waterfowl, abound. There is a prospect for a young squire, with 210,000, good health, plenty of energy, and no hope of doing anything in this over- stocked country ! He will, however, we imagine, go to New Zealand, and leave Bulgaria to the painstaking German, who will enter it, as he does Poland, civilise it, and become as hated as the Englishman in India or in West Ireland.
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