... SWANSFEA AND GLAkfORGCAN HORTI. CULTURAL AND FLORAL SOCIETY. | f The fifthl exhibition of flowers, fruit, and vegetables, in connevtion vwith this society, was held on Thursday, on the Swansea cricket-field, at Bryn-y-mor. The weather was obi e delightfully fine, and a large number of visitors weref n present. The attractiveness of the show in itself was Co j, enhanced by the engagement of the ...

... IMPORTA2NT SCHOOL BOAfRD MEETING I-liT PONT'YPOOL. Yestcrday. an influentinl meeting, convened by circular, was held at the Town-hall, P1ontypool, to considler the re- port of tie 1nspector of Schools a1S to tlhe '1eficency of Echool accommodation in the parish of Trevutbin. Mlr. C. J. Pmulcee, J.P., presided. The 13ev. J. C. LLEWELLTN, vicar of Trevetbin, read the report of the Inspector, Mr. ...

... Di8TBRT 1NTO, i;9rtO] UARDIPF. .* A COUNWriY OUTINGr FOic POOnR CicaoDcuce. -'iSS Mdegan Watts hats mest kindly forwarded blr.-Evau.Jea-, kitown missionary of this town, it Polt-cofficeo order for c:,teobjecot of thle donation being to girs a treat to~tho ebilidreni ~f, tho Cardiff Town Mission Sunday School, Cliarlotte. strlet.-- ;Asi.AvilN~IN rili Pot,mri.'-,At tlln.pliicucohirb ?? diy, ...

... TE:E AZTECS' CALENDAR STONE. -4 ?? ?? .- ,.I I . . _ _ _ The American Minister to Mexico has forwarded to the Governor of Indiana a model of the ?? stone of the Aztecs, the discovery of which shows how accurately those ancient people of Mexico mneasured the lapse of time. Mr. Nelson accompanies the gift with an interesting letter, in which he explains that this calendar remained buried fromu ...

... MONMOUTlTI3 E ANDM CABRL19ON ANTIUAIRIAN ABSOMIkflN. Ma' y. The annual ?? this aesocirtion wee hold on Toes. 3d day at Raglan Castle, instead of 'Us, Castle, as aunounceid - by advertisement. At%-very Short pseniod before the meet. -y, ing the change of place wag siignified to- the members by ns circular, and although the notice was very brief, a large, hie nulmber of ladies and gentlemen ...

... | THE WELSH MEMBERS O PARLIAMENT i : | DDURING THE RECESS. |1 3t, Several suggestions, having for their object the _ improvement of the mode in which the business 93 of the House of Commons is managed, may be M 7t found in an article in one of the recent numbers in of the Biginburgh Beviezo. In the opinion of the aec - writer of the paper to which we refer, there are ma or two remedies which ...

... )fl in One of the remotest regions of the worli, between the A S.~ Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan, there lips a country at 3:Present almost unknown, hot which a few months may Per- haps suffice to bring within. the sphere of international re intercourse and modern civillisation. The now story of the Amiericans in the Corea so exactly resembles a hpeof o -le own experience that we can ...

... @ . e t(REUTEr'S TELEeGRAMSr) t THE ENTRANCE OF THE VERSAILLISTS B c INTO PARIS. e Vr1ESAILLES, MAY 21, NIGHT. -AT. Thiers has I i sent a despatch to the Prefocts stating that tho , gate of St. Cloud was forced down by the fire of 3, thc Versailles guns, and General Douai then rushed t d with his men into the interior. The troops under 0 ,s Generals Ladmirauilt and Olitlehamnps were at Iv Is ...

... ?? EFF IOlENCY OF THE A.RMY., Under the we-ight of an unconstitutional pros sue Our IIwhich should never have been applied, thc House -tl [Iof Lords, on Friday, consoutod to the third read- nug Ir big of the Army Bill, and that measure has now -r b.become law. Owing to the persistence of- the ratl Government, in opposition to the declared opinion, of of one branch of the Legislature, the ...

... g C(FROZ OUR. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) y DUBLIN, SUNDAY. Early yesterday morning advertisements were issued, summoning a monster meeting of Irishmen for to-day (Sunday), in Phcenix Park, to demand the release of the Fenian prisoners who still remain in custody in England. It Was stated that at four o'clock the chair would be taken by Mr. P. J. Smyth, the nationalist member for West- meath. Late ...

... A correspondent of the Pelfgraph writes, con- cerning hops and hoppers, as follows:- First as to the garden. The gentleman to whose courtesy I am indebted for my information revealed to me much that, however valuable to anyone intending I to start a plantation, would not be found partiou- larly interesting to the ordinary reader. He entered into pathetic details as to the various diseases the ...

... 1WAINEA HORTIOULTURAL AND FLORAL SOCIETY. The following is ai cenipleto list of the prizes awarded at hi the fifth annual exhibition, in connection with this society, Y, 0 on Thursday:- tb Id CLASS .-rrPArNTS ANnD YLOWBPRS (Opeu). Y Stove Plants, best 12: Ist prize, £2, Charles Bath. dI Flowering Stove Plants, best 3 (in bloom): 1et, £1, W. H. tl Brown. Geranium, best 12, varigated, zonal, ...