... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... PROGRESS OF THE NEGOTIATIONS. There is very little material change in the positlon of faire dince last week, and the reports published relate mainly to the warlike preparations that are beiqg pushed on at home end abroad. The hopes of a peaceful iesue are however rapidly gaining greund, and it is said that Count Schouvalof'a visit to St. Petresburg, hba been made for the purpose of smoothing ...

... tent er. ADMIRAL }RORNBY'S INSTRUCTIONS. tly A telegram from Constantinople to the Daily Chronicke pay says :- Mr. Layard's visit to the Admiral is sought to be connectea with the instructions which Admiral Hornby has by received from his Government, and which command him to yor be ready to prevent the Russians occupying the Bujukdere ies- lines by anticipating them. Admiral Hornby is said to ...

... The miners' strike is o'er. Why is a sweet flower like silence ? Because it gives a scent (assent). One swallow cannot make a summer, but one lion can make a spring. In some sentimental verses in a country newspaper the writer defines tears as the juice of sadness. A Washington woman baa applied to be appointed a constable, in despair of catehing a men any otber way. When a girl ...

... %Mwman's VfxlttA flI Rqg Cost {tO'IA~lTTCIT ql ,er (ESTABLISHED 1763) IS T2lE OLDEST AND MOST BXTRNSIJELY C0JCULA TED UONSBAVAT TI YEIV.BWSPIAPYBR IN THE WEST OP ENGLAND. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1878. TustEEhasbeena lull in Eastern affairs, caused probably by the illness of Prince GoaRsCHAYc-Osr. Whatever the cause the result has been j to stimulate the effect of the Russian privateering scheme upon ...

... I v!_v.A AA w-l-AA I The annual prize meeting was continued on Wednesday of at the Clyst Valley Range, and the following competitions res took place, with results as given. pri CLAss G-CIO10 l9., given by the East Devon county members us (Sir L. Palk and Sir J. H. Kennaway), and Association prizes ;in open to all efficient Devonshire volunteers who have never wonl at a prize at a Wimbledon or ...

... Lt anv Drice Darty have had The peace at any price party have had a Conference meeting at Birmingham, from the which, according to advertisement, politics were to be excluded. This narrowed the debatable ground considerably and con- fined it necessarily to England, since it would not be possible-unless by a miraculons interpretation-that an international question of peace or war could be ...