... THE meeting of the Ba:h and West of England Agricultural Society in Bristol this year appears to have been successful beyond all the meetings of former years, as will be seen in the following figures which we take from the Post of Wednesday FIRST DAY. Visitors. Receipts. 1864 Bristol 2419 £3al5 12 0 1863 Exeter 325 Ill 2 0 18(32 Wells 181. 58 17 0 ISlii Truro 152 53 3 1860 Dorchester. 178 63 0 ...

... Cardiff pipping Jntdligeixa. NOTES FROM THE DOCKS. THURSDAY EVENING. THERE is nothing of interest to report from the docks this week. A few ships continue to arrive daily, but there is ample accommodation and a free stem to both* decks. The west dock gates are now thoroughly repaired and in good working order, so that ships are now only required, to cause a good trade. ...

... (ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 1810.) Open every Saturday from 10 till 2: and on Saturday and Monday Evenings, from Seven till half-past Eight. Received this week £14:3 9s. 4d.; repaid £ 487 19s. 8d. The gentlemen next to be in attendance are—on Saturday Mr. Nell and Mr. Griffith Phillips; Saturday evening Mr. Pride Monday evening Mr. Francis William Joy. ...

... At the Town Council's meeting at Brighton this week it was resolved to after some of the bye laws. It appears that bathing at present may be continued after one o'clock from a machine. The charge for every male person bathing alone is to be 8d., and every female 9d. A HINT TO AGRICULTURISTS.—The Prefect of the Loire- Inferieure has just created, at Nantes, a pubic laboratory for the analysis ...

... DISTRICT NEWIE. ABERDARE. SUDDBN DBATH.—On Sunday last Mr. Abel S. Jones of the Commercial Inn, expired very suddenly; Deceased had been complaining for a couple of days previously, but nothing alarming occurred to any of the inmates of the house. He did not take his usual quantity of food during the day, and in the afternoon about half-past four, Mrs. Jone, went to the sofa whereon lie was ...

... Contracts were recently let for several large build- ings in Penartb, among them a hotel to make up at least 100 beds; also for a Custom-house Dock- office, Harbour Master's house, twenty sets of mer- chants' offices, and 100 cottages. These and other enterprises are projected in view of the rapid ap- proach to completion of the new dock. ...

... CABMABTHEH AND CARDIGAN RAILWAT.Capt. Tyler the Government inspector, has been over this line from peQ! cader to Llandyssul, and, having expressed satisfaction at the manner in which the works were completed, it is expected that the certificate will be granted, and that this portion of the line which passes through an important district will soon be opened for traffic. FALL OF A FLOOR WITH ...

... VESSEL STRANDED-—The Bremen ship Augusta, bound for New York. with 350 emigrants, was during a thick fog stranded on the Rocks of Hooken, Linklet's Bay, North Ronaldshay, about five o'clock on the evening of the 8th inst. She was got off again at the top of the first flood tide, and is now lying at anchor in the bay. We understand there was a considerable sea running when she struck, and it is ...

... BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY. This Society was first established in the city of Bath, on the 8th of September, 1777, under the de- signation of The Bath Society for the encourage- ment of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Com- merce, within the counties of Somerset, Wilts, Gloucester, and Dorset, and the city and county of Bristol. Other associations of a similar character soon sprung ...

... VOLUNTEER APPOINTMENTS. TENTH RIFLES.—Orders for week commencing June 20 :-MonJay and Friday, target practice, at 6.0 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, aiming dtill and blank cartridge, at 7.0 a.m.; recruit drill, 7.30 p.m.; position drill, 8.0 p.m.; Wednesday, company drill, 7.30 p.m., uniform shako. Orderly officer for the week, Lieut. Stephens. Non-commissioned officers for the week, Colour-Sergt ...

... COVERDALE'S COURTSHIP.- On Tuesday Vice- Chancellor Kindersley gave a judgment in the case of Keenan v. Handley, in which the plaintiff, Ellen Keenan, claimed an annuity under very sin- gular circumstances. She had lived with the de- fendant, Captain Handley, as his mistress, from 18HJ to 18(12. Duritig their residence at Surbiton they were ki own as Mr. and Mrs. Covei dale, and, under the ...

... battle fields, and made a name that time *• preserve with greater lustre than even those of weece or Rome. The amateurs have now had their reward, and the Amended schedule classing the competitors more equitably, will open out a fair field and no favour. But the committee having done their part. and shown a perfect willingness to smooth down every difficulty to a free and fair competition ...