... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... A MUTIN\N OL CONVICTS. - 1- _- ?? - i :J_ ?? A .\lu I L \ Iti bu' A d'stuibance took place on Friday among some convicts from Spike Island eqp~osed a, Haulbowline Dockyard. A quarrel occurred between a few of the cuncrs.u ad.d the warders on endeavouring to quell it were set upon by a nrrbei of the prisoners, who attacked them with shovels and other implements chid, they used at their work. ...

... BRITISH AND FOiREIGN TTNIT i A SSOC r^To'N.I a, Tisnutotlies I.cngeral mseoting, oi thi 's on Wedttesi~av C seilaq ilk Bsae'-streot Chspc' tiia, GhsoI 11 hbist precded. by Divine worship, .t it~ I eoc prof the service sees confluc 1. by ,he JR's i v of1X Nolugtn. ndte cron was prp ?? thp, NV, untol Biinns. of I tirlkcon..su, the C s Ljein f10 n, tl idleas Oft reitean io trrli ntterulr'n ...

... WE noticed a short time ago the recent triumph of China in the reconquest of Kasbgar, as a factor in Asiatic politics. But from another point of view China threatens still more effectually to traverse the field of our interests and power in Asia by her competition with us in opium, the source from whence one-sixth of our Indian revenue is derived. In a very able report of Mr. Baber's, one of ...

... >OREIGN SERVICE AND HOME RESERVES. 7' ao EDllo of ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. T1 ,-The proposal which you lately gave me the opportunity of l ;cgirg forward for doing away with foreign reliefs, and keeping one of ?? trg bttalions now associated together always abroad and one always on~e, way! have appeared at first sight of a somewhat revolutionary t ard inmlracticable to boot. But I believe that on ...

... THIE unprecedented manner in which the earthworks constructed byth. Tulks for the defence of Plevna held out against the most determined attacks made upon them by an enemy of vastly superior numerical strength has naturally aroused the curiosity of soldiers of all nations with regard to the details of the design, trace, profile, and interior arrangement of fortifica. tions mhich, although ...

... CAPETOWN (VA, Plymouth), May 14, Noon.-AP engagement took place in the Pirie bush on Wed- nesday, the 8thi, in which Captain M'Naughton, CosIoral M'Cabe, and Private Davies, of Calrinig- ton's horse, three soldiers, and 13 Fingoes were killed. Caiptaie NVWallev, alsoofCarrington'slhorse. was wounded. The fighting was continued the fol- lowin g day, anm on Thursday it was found that the enemy ...