... Weekly meeting, yesterday afternoon.-Mr. Governor Meortimer presided, and there was a large attendance. Pauper report: Indoor, 231-corresponding week last year, 253; outdoor, 1,187-1,180 out-relief, £122 3e. ld.- £119 12a. Sid. ; vagrante, 41-26. Balance due to the treasurer, £208 7a. Ild.-A question having arisen as to the conrectness of the minutes the DEPUTY GOVERNOR (Mr. Herding) euggeeted ...

... 'he annual meeting of this Society was held on Wedcoaday in the Victoria Hall. Mr. G. Franklin rosided and among those present were: Messrs. W. Ivllard and C. Mortimore, honorary seoralaries; Mr. H W. Sellera, treasurer; Mr. G. W. Lyon, conductor; Mecoro. Radford, Sheppard, WV. Ashtord, Miller, KE_ ayes, J. Hayes, J. Hales, G. Horwill, Jefferya, rDngally, Ford, Gregory, Dr. Ridgway, F. ...

... VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE n; DEvoN COUNTY VOLUNTEER AsesOcATioN.-The aunual On prize meeting of this Aasociation will be opened at the is. CIve Valley Range on Tueeday next, May 7th, and will be tS continued through the two followine days. Monday was 2iO the last day for entries, and the total receipts show an es. increase of nearly £;60 over the previous year, but it must he be remembered that ...

... Oregmanos fxttr l^ikg East - , - 'W dic (EffABIJJHBD 1168) TN1V Y d is YHB OZDE8T .AN.D MOST EXTNIEL di GIRGUZA TED 0ONsZRYPATXYB )fNRW81'd1'~t 11 IN TH.E WEST 0! BNOL-AIVD hol WEDNESDAY, MARcH 6, 157S3. Be Tue Russians have at last proved more moderate Co than their iaterpreters-the newspaper correapon- api dents-had given. ue reason to l.expeot to find them. Lil The terms of peace are hard, ...

... in the late parliamentary debate upon the motion of si Lord Hartington, the question of the prerogative was blan discussed in many, although not in all, of its hearings. had3 The Liberals and Radicals not daring to move a vote des( of censure upon the Eastern policy of the Government, did sought to embarrass them with a dry and adverse won question of prerogative, the tenour of which argument ...

... Though it occurred so long ago as the time of Henry IV. of France, the story we are about to relate formed one of the most remarkable law eases before the Parliament of Paris, when Benee Corbeau, a young lady of Angers, in Normandy, by her eloquence in a court of justice, and by her singular self-sacrifee, saved the life of a false and dastardly lover, to whom she was devotedly attached. In ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY.-The Duke of RICHMOND said he had no information as to when the principal plonipotentiariee !O would leave Berlin. The papers relating to the Congress, Ifl would he presented as soon as possible.- The Earl of SHAFTESBOURY asked if the Government meant to suppress g slavery in Cyprun, and the Duke of RICHMOND replied to a, the effeot that after receiving Sir Garnet ...

... M78CELLANEA. The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves; the liberty of a private mas in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and bie country.-Cciley. OPTICAL DECRPTIONS.-Optioal illusions are Capable of almost unlimited extension. One which produces great wonder in an audience in where a large ...

... LoNDON, May 13th, 1878. Crisis or no crisis P I take up the newspapers with mv tea and toast and find the country in the thick of a great crisis. I stroll into the streets and find not the slightest sign of anything out of the way. Piccadilly is full of the Bplendid turn-outs of the Four-in-hand Club. The Picture Galleries are crowded. In the Strand you see nothing but broad brims and white ...

... I A TDHE LANCASHIRE STRIKE. IA. i meeting of the committes of the Cotton Spinnera Association and delegates from the various districts affected iby the strike took place in Manchester yesterday. The icommittee declined to accept the proposals, and determined to maintain the resolution for a ten per cent reduction. THE IRISH SUNDAY CLOSING BILL A compromise having been agreed to between the ...

... FRIDLT.-W. Barnes, Esq., in the chair; F. Milford, J. E. C. Walkey, and H. Anson-Cartwright. Eeqre. Three boya belongipg to St. Thomas, named Coot, LANu, and GODBEEB, were charged with stealing a quantity a of growing fruit, the property of the Messre. Read. Mr. Floud appeared to prosecute. A man named Morris caught the defendants coming out of the walled garden at the back ; of Haven House, ...

... wrdunul's (ueter ?? bost -- - - - . -v - (ESTABLISHED 1768) 1S ME OLDBST AND MOST BXT.NSIYELI' IiRBULIATED CONSERVPATIVB NEPISPAI.MA IN THl WEST OF ENGLAND. WEDNESDAY, JiAuAwr 30, 187S. THosE mean and mealy-mouthed Britons who prefer peace and pelf to national honour have had a dreadful seare in the course of last week. The British Government became tired of being made a jest of by Prince ...