... W11l) iFE IN A SOUTIHI-RNV COUIVTY. - n .,l[ l.- . . 1 .1- - - - - lx-BIRi)S OF1 T'lll CORN-FIELDS. I hk l llthorn hedge runs along some distance below the earth- X t he foot of the steepest part of the hill. It divides th 4 h onfrom) the ploughed land of the plain, which stretches tr flutc miles wide, across to another range opposite. A few stunted ~ e~o at itervals among the bushes, which ...

... HENLEY REGATTA, *; to-moirow night all the leading crews and clubs entered for this regatta mill have made their appearance on the scene of action. To a lover of rowing there is hardly a more interesting sight than the evening practice over the course during the last few days before the regatta. There is then more facility for studying the style of the various competitors than during the hutly ...

... THE CONGRESS. The Times observes that on all sides it seems assumed, and probably with good reason, that the Congress will secure a peaceful solution of the questions at issue. There can, at all events, be no doubt that this is the object which is profoundly desired by every one of the statesmen who will next week assemble in Berlin. It has become evident to them that a war would involve such ...

... chi? TIhE CONSTITUTIONAL FETE AT ROME. Onr loman correspondent, writing on the 3rd inst., says :-The Festival if the Statuto, which is kept on the first Sunday in June, was celebrated ,,terday in the usual fashion. In the morning there was a grand military dviw byi the King, accompanied by his staff and all the military attachrs of evayio mbassies. The streets were lined with spectators, among ...

... RY .LLL A~ .- -s - VI.-CURIOUS PONDS. THE general deficiency of moisture characteristic of these chalk hills is such that it is said agriculture flourishes best upon them in what is called a dropping summer, when there is a shower every two or three days, the soil absorbing it so quickly. For the grass and hay crops down below in the vale, and for the arable fields there with a stiff heavy ...

... DISSOL UTION AND CONGRESS. (FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.) BERLN, June 10. TiE Government have come to a wise resolution. They are going to appeal to the nation. The Reichstag will be dissolved, and the people wil have to decide to whose hands they choose to confide their destinies. It is further satisfactory to see in the proposal addressed to the Federal Council that the Chancellor ...

... lr for a moment we recur to a matter which every one who cares for the reputation of the English Parliament would be glad to forget, it is because more than one of the comments which have appeared upon the affair are of a nature to increase its disagreeable significance. It has been frequently declared of late that the House of Commons has deteriorated in character-morally as well as ...

... Lord Beacor.sfield arrived at Berlin last evening, and was received at the railway station by Lord Odo Russell, Herr von Bdiow, and all the members of the British Embassy. Lord Odo Russell conducted the Prime Minister to the Kaiserhof Hotel. The Marquis of Salisbury arrived two hours later, and was re(cived at the railway station by all the members of the English Embassy. H is lordship went to ...

... The Poles are of opinion that they have some right to be considered I by the diplomatists assembled at Berlin. A correspondent at Lemberg, C writing on the 16th inst., says :- We Poles are much exercised about l the Congress, and many of us think that some means should be devised for bringing the Polish question before that assembly. Very little hope is felt of the Congress leading to any ...

... rtji~ ebetnin'd Rb e. '-rE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN BELGIUM. 01l c03ia ~Aiiir Be/ge of ta-day publishes the news, announced by i yesterdaY afternoon, that the Belgian Ministers have resigned, and :o[Ptl ,~e(9rbafl has been entrusted by the King with the formation of I'lr.CeW iJnet. Cr ftresselsS Correspondent writes -The _7omrnal &i Li4'de, the organ of ^re t declares to-day that if he is to ...

... CAR MEN.) 'IAIN is a country inhabited by gipsies, smugglers, bull-fighters, and ,ulkteers; on whom a semblance of order is imposed by soldiers only a little less undisciplined than the rest of this gaudily attired, recklessly Lehaved population. The military have a disastrous habit of falling in love with the bright-eyed daughters of the gipsy tribes, some of whom, Yke Carmencita or Carmen ...

... AUb1IAsaN ZLUL-k-1 1.A LIn rin Xx j,1t\eie g account of the Eastern policy of Count Andrassy is given in a },Xipiiet entitled The Verdict of Facts, by an Austrian, which has jst Lon published at Leipzig. The writer says that in 1867 Count And15s' , on being appointed Prime Minister of Hungary, had a conversa- tifl en the foreign affairs of the monarchy with Count Beust. The latter 2tcClitCd ...