Land Nationalisation Abroad.

The robust activity of Land Nationalisation abroad—in America, and especially in Australia, if not so much in New Zealand—seems to satisfactorily increase. "Under date of December 4th, an Australian paper, adverse to the movement, states that over 4,000 people had lately migrated from South Australia and Victoria owing to depression of trade, and that still the distress seemed unabated. This paper also makes the significant statement that a mass meeting of 2,000 persons held in Adelaide Town Hall to consider the condition of things was chiefly composed of members of the South Australian Land Nationalisation Society. It seems, therefore, that the public, even in our thinly populated colonies, are beginning to realize in a practical, though bitter way, how much the monopoly of the material source of life and wealth causes trade depression, by barring the natural flow and employment of labour and capital, by preventing the just diffusion of wealth, by minimising consumption; and, incomparably more than anything else, by promoting chronic pauperism.

It is cheering to record, further, that a movement to Nationalise the land has commenced in the capital of Prussia.