... NE BULGARIA, THE FETE OF ST. CYRILLUS AND d ST. METHODIUS t IFROM OUR SPECIAI, CORRESPONDENT.) c IiHILIPPOIOLIS, MAY 22. To-day is a general holiday here, in comnreruora- s tion of the snints whose names are mentioned above, I and who, a thousand years ago, are said to have I done great deeds for their country-Bulgiaria. I fear that within the last fewv hours I have fallen off greatly in the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Wiif am Allen, of Arthur-street, Batter- sea, was - summoned to Wandsworth on Thursday by Captain Pasley to show cause why an order should not be made for his son ?? attended, and said the son had been. attending a Roman Catholic scioiol, because he.was dis- missed from the Board ?? Pasley said the boy was dimissed for bad ?? to Captain Pasley, the wife said she alld her husband were ...

... PARISu ndaydr. lYESIERr'AY a deplorable scene took place in the Senate, which showed itself quite as tumultuous as the Chamber in one of its excited moments. INor -as a facility for flying in a passion and losing all self-control the only characteristic exhibited by the 1Grand Council of the Com. munes of France. The Right thought it saw a fair opportunity of placing the Government in a ...

... THE MINISTRY AND CONGRESS. The Daily News observes that the voices of admiration and sympathy here in England are already proclaiming in anticipation the complete success of Lord Beaconsfield at the Congress. There is one consequence of any manner of seeming success, were it nothing more substantial than what is called a diplomatic triumph, for which English constituencies cannot Le too soon ...

... AGRICULTURAL EDUCA TION. A FEW days ago we printed a letter from a country clergyman describing the light in which the recent diffusion of elementary education is regarded by agricultural labourers and their wives. If the materials were forth- coming it would be interesting to inquire whether the hostility to the Education Acts which our correspondent describes is general or local; and if it ...

... ; U v iIjI.C1L X L J & ?? , - . Most of the representatives of the Powers invited to attend the Congress leave to-day or to-morrow for Berlin. The Italian Cabinet, after some dis- cussion, has decided that the Premier, Signor Cairoli, is not to accompany Count Corti. According to a Constantinople telegram Prince Lobanoff, the Russian Ambassador, has renewed his demand for the surrender of the ...

... IE3 COLLISION IN THE CHANNELs. During the short period of two months be- tween six and seven hundred lives bave buen lost at sea within a very short distance from Kohore, simply and solely through lubberly sea- *aanship. T'he siniag of the E~urydise was ?entirely attributable to the unski1~ulness of .ter captain; and bat of the Gernman ixonclad o~ff ?? tS thte shtepy of one or both -of those ...

... A CON=ASW, The perturbatigns of the people of England just now Lare manifold. Their country is in iinmine~ot danger of deatdly enconuter with the Colosses of the North; one of their greatest industries is threatened with palsy, through the deter41ined Strike of thousands of the cotton opera tives; Be gian wool and iron are cutting into their home usanufaectures of the same-inaterialsn; hey are ...

... I VE RDICT ANID SENTENCES. Tho trial of the seven prisoners for fraud and conl8s1reov to defrauid, inl connection with loan offices of Lib'on Life Assurasice Socitywa srumdad coneludod onx Saturday, at the Central Criminal Court, ft)1 bcefoer Mr. Justico Hawkins. tri Mr. Gorst, Q.C., Mr. Poland,'and Mr. Straight con- duoted the prosacution: Mr. Bosley and M. Sims do- qu felided Wood; Mr. ...