having fired through the door of a dwellinghouse a shot which wounded the wife of the owner in three several places so as seriously to endanger her life.-Michael Hayes was convicted of having, in company with another, waylaid and fired at John Ryan. It appeared that each of the persons concerned had fired, and that one of the shots took effect and killed the horse upon which Ryan was riding. The day after the Commission rose (Sunday) another murder and attack on property was reported from the townland of Dolla.

2.-Food riot in Dumfries, and the shops of various mealmongers on each side of the Nith plundered.

- Festive entertainment at Cambridge in honour of the installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chancellor of the University.

3. A deformed youth named Bean levels a pistol at her Majesty when passing from Buckingham Palace to the Chapel Royal, St. James's. He was committed to trial for misdemeanour, the capital charge being abandoned. The pistol was loaded, but it did not go off. Bean was not caught at the time-a circumstance which led to the apprehension of a large number of humpbacked people in the metropolis. Throughout London and its suburbs they only were safe who, like Prince Hal, "were straight enough in the shoulders and cared not who saw their backs."

4.-Execution of Cooper for the murder of Constable Daly at Highbury.

-The Tariff Bill read a second time in the House of Lords, an amendment by Lord Stanhope being rejected by 59 to 4 votes.

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-Lord Ellenborough suggests to General Nott that he might move from Candahar by going forward in the direction of Ghuznee, Cabul, and Jellalabad, and that General Pollock might assist this so-called withdrawal of the armies by moving forward upon Cabul. reaching Ghuznee, Nott was instructed to despoil the tomb of Sultan Mahmoud. "You will bring away," wrote the Governor-General, "from the tomb of Mahmoud of Ghuznee his club, which hangs over it, and you will bring away the gates of his tomb which, are the gates of the temple of Somnauth."

5.-An Anti-Corn Law Conference assembles in London to discuss the present alarmSo ing position of the manufacturing classes. far as the Corn-Laws were concerned, Mr. Bright said the people themselves had the power to compel a settlement.

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other weapons than those of war; there were other weapons beside those which wounded the body; there was a most beautiful and admirable system which the people had in their own power, to which he was fully persuaded they were rapidly drifting, which, if put into active operation, would not fail to bring the struggle to a successful issue." During the sitting of

the Conference accounts were daily received of the state of the country. At Sheffield it was reported that 10,000 people were suffering extreme distress; in the Wolverhampton district 62 blast furnaces were at present idle; and at Stockport, a poor-rate, which in 1839 at Is. 8d. had produced 5,000l., now failed to produce 3,600l. at 25. At Manchester, shopkeepers and operatives were meeting almost daily to devise measures of relief. The poorrate here was presently 35. 4d. per pound. At Burslem the people became greatly excited, and the military required to be called out.

5. In the House of Commons Lord Worsley draws the attention of the Secretary. at-War to the reports regarding certain disrespectful words said to have been used by Colonel Henry Dundas when speaking of the Queen. Sir H. Hardinge stated, in reply, that the Colonel having failed to absolve himself from the grave offence, was now dismissed from the position of Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and placed on the half-pay list.

6. At a Free-trade Conference in Sheffield, the Rev. W. Bayley uses language regarding Sir Robert Peel which was afterwards commented on in Parliament. "It was not words would move Parliament, but force: this should have effect, if they did not change their system. He had heard of a gentleman who in a private company said, that if a hundred persons cast lots among them, and the lot should fall upon him, he would take the lot to deprive Sir Robert Peel of life. He felt convinced no such attempt should be made, on any pretence whatever; but was persuaded of this, that when Sir Robert Peel went to his grave there would be but few to shed one tear over him."

8.-Conclusion of debate on Mr. Wallace's amendment to defer the prorogation till measures were in operation for relieving the distress throughout the country. For amendment, 49; against, 174.

to seven years' transportation, or imprisonment with corporeal chastisement.

13.-Death of the Duke of Orleans, eldest son of the King of the French, from the effects of a fall out of his cabriolet near the Porte Maillot. The French funds were injuriously affected by the event, the Three per Cents. falling as low as 76f. or nearly 4 per cent.

15.-Affair of honour between Captain Boldero and the Hon. Craven Berkeley. The meeting arose out of an article in the Morning Chronicle, purporting to record expressions made use of by Captain Boldero in the library of the House of Commons, regarding the punishment to which Col. Dundas had been subjected for using language disrespectful of the Queen. "If any one," he was reported to have said, "drunk or sober, chose to swear at the Queen in my presence, I should take no notice of it; I am not an eavesdropper." Berkeley denied all knowledge of the article, but affirmed the general correctness of the report. The parties met in the neighbourhood of Osterley Park, and exchanged shots without effect. Explanations then took place, and the principals left the ground with their friends.

18.—Meetings held this day in Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds, to consider the great and daily increasing distress of the country, and with the view, if possible, of inducing her Majesty's Ministers to take steps, before the dissolution of Parliament, for carrying out some remedial measure. Deputations were appointed to wait on Sir Robert Peel and other members of the Government.

The Lord Chancellor's bill for extending the jurisdiction of the County Courts, read a second time in the Upper House.

19.—A trotting-match takes place in the grounds attached to the Rosemary Branch Tavern, Hoxton, when a grey pony, twelve hands and a half high, is ridden by one of Mr. Batty's monkeys, dressed in racing costume, and accomplishes a distance of fourteen miles in fifty-seven minutes.

21. The city of Chin-Kiang-Foo, commanding the entrance to the Grand Canal, stormed and taken by the British forces under Sir Hugh Gough. The Tartar general, when he saw that all was lost, retired to his house, which he commanded his servants to set on fire, and sat in his chair till he was burned to death. One of the scaling-party writes :"It is impossible to compute the loss of the Chinese, for when they found they could stand no longer against us, they cut the throats of their wives and children, or drove them into wells or ponds, and then destroyed themselves. In many houses there were from eight to twelve dead bodies, and I myself saw a dozen women and children drowning themselves in a small pond the day after the fight." The first man who reached the top of the battlement was Lieut. Cuddy, of the 55th, who planted the

English ensign on the walls, under the fire of the enemy, and then coolly assisted the foremost of his party up the scaling-ladder. The killed and wounded on the British side amounted to 169.

26.-Captivity of Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly at Bokhara. Lady Sale records in the journal of her captivity: "Colonel Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly are prisoners at Bokhara. The latter had been enthusiastically employed in endeavouring to effect the release of slaves in Kokhan. The King of Bokhara conquered the chief of that country, and placed Conolly in confinement at Bokhara. He and his fellow-prisoner, by the last account, had been 126 days confined in a dungeon under ground without light; they had never changed their clothes or washed, and their food was let down to them once in four or five days. A native who had compassion on them received a message through the person who took their food to them, and through him Conolly has communicated with his family here, who also are now powerless to assist him."

The King of the French opens an extraordinary session of the Chambers, rendered necessary by the death of the Duke of Orleans. His Majesty was much affected during the reading of the address, which made reference to the great calamity that had befallen his house, in the death of "that dearly beloved son whom I considered destined to replace me on the throne, and who was the glory and support of my old age."

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28. Mr. Roebuck moves a series of resolutions based on the report of the Election Compromises Committee, declaring that such arrangements cannot for the future pass unpunished; that they violate the franchises of the people and the privileges of the House; and that the issue of writs for the places implicated must be suspended until measures be devised to protect the purity of elections. the debate which ensued, Mr. Russell, one of the members for Reading, and a person implicated in the inquiry, taunted Mr. Roebuck with being an unfit person to have the conduct of such an inquiry, having himself sat in the House as the paid agent of the rebel colony of Canada. The first resolution was negatived, after a debate, by 136 to 47 votes, and the others without a division.

The Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol, elected Head Master of Rugby School.

August 1.-Opening of the Thames Tunnel. About 500 visitors pass through from the Wapping side to Rotherhithe.

The colliers and iron-miners in the Airdrie and Coatbridge districts strike work for an advance of wages. They were joined in a few days by the workmen in the Glasgow district, giving rise to great inconvenience throughout the west of Scotland.

2.- Intelligence from Western Africa of this date announces the final breaking up of the African Civilization Colony on the Niger. The steamer Wilberforce took away the last of the colonists from the model farms.

4.-Alarming disturbances break out in the manufacturing districts. The spinners and weavers of Staleybridge strike, in consequence of a proposal to reduce their wages, and the men, banding themselves together, succeed in turning out all the hands in the Ashton and Oldham mills. Gathering strength as they went on, they entered Manchester in great force, but divided into sections when they saw the military approaching. The mills here were mostly stopped, and attacked by the mob, the rioting continuing, with more or less severity, over a week. During three days twentythree people were taken to the infirmary in consequence of affrays between the military or special constables and the mob. As in other towns, they were chiefly under the direction of Chartist demagogues. On the 7th, the town of Stockport was the scene of serious rioting. The mob forced an entrance into the union workhouse at Snowheath, and carried off 672 loaves and 77. in copper money. Next day a conflict took place between the workmen and military in Preston, when the latter were compelled to fire; two or three were fatally wounded. Stockport, Macclesfield, Dudley, Bolton, and Huddersfield were all kept in terror by bands of excited operatives, demanding "a fair day's wage for a fair day's work." On the 13th, a Cabinet Council assembled at the Foreign Office and sat for two hours. Shortly after orders were issued from the Horse Guards for the departure of troops of Artillery and Grenadiers to Manchester; they left the metropolis that evening, and were joined by others from Woolwich and Portsmouth. At the same sitting of Council motions were drawn up commanding the magistrates to use their utmost endeavours to apprehend the "lawless and disorderly persons who by force and violence were entering mills and manufactories, and by threats and intimidation preventing peaceable people from following their usual occupation.' During the week of greatest anxiety to the Government,from the 18th to the 25th,-a clerk was scut down from the London Post-office, with directions, under the authority of a Secretary of State's warrant, to open the letters of six parties named therein, all taking a prominent part in the disturbances. Two following warrants authorized him to open the letters of ten other per ons. Most of these parties were afterwards

apprehended, indicted, and convicted before the Special Commission appointed to try the parties charged with exciting the disturbances in the manufacturing districts. On the 15th, at Burslem, the house of Mr. Parker, a magistrate, was burnt to the ground, and the Town-hall, police offices, and several private houses ransacked. Here also the military were compelled to fire, killing three unfortunate agitators, and wounding a dozen others. In Dunfermline the weavers set fire to Watson's factory and had possession of the town for the greater part of a night. During the disturbances an anonymous letter was sent to Lady Peel, announcing the intention of the mob to burn Drayton Manor, and it was rumoured once or twice that the mansion had actually been fired. Another party were said to have been checked in their intention of occupying Leeds church, by an announcement that the vicar would be present and preach to them all night.

5.-The House of Lords give a final decision regarding Lady Hewley's bequest of "certain manors in York, in trust to support godly preachers of Christ's Holy Gospel," a phrase taken to designate Protestant Dissenters. In process of time the trust fell entirely into the hands of Unitarians, but attention was drawn to the subject by the report of the Charity Commissioners, and a bill was filed in Chancery to dispossess them. The Vice-Chancellor and Lord Chancellor decided against the claim of the Unitarians, Justice Erskine observing that those who denied the Trinity were, in Lady Hewley's time, considered blasphemers, and therefore could not be intended by the term "godly preachers." Lord Cottenham now pronounced judgment, affirming the decree of the Court below, with costs.

6.-Died at Windgap cottage, near Leinster, in the 42d year of his age, John Banim, author of the O'Hara Tales.

7.-General Nott leaves Candahar to join General Pollock at Cabul, his route lying along the valley of the Tumuk river up to its source in the hills near Muhoor. He encountered an Affghan force near Ghuznee, and scattered it without much loss on his own side.

9.-Treaty signed at Washington by Lord Ashburton on the part of the British Government, and Mr. Webster on behalf of the American, regarding the north-west boundary of the two countries, the suppression of the slavetrade, and the extradition of criminals-questions which had given rise to much correspondence between the two countries.

The House of Lords give judgment in the Auchterarder case, affirming the decision of the Court below, with costs. Lord Campbell said: "Since the days of Thomas à Becket there never had been a claim set up in England for a Church Assembly to be above the law; and he was not aware that the Scotch Roman Catholic Church had ever claimed in that respect a higher degree of power than the English Roman

Catholic Church. The Scotch Church of this day was a Church established by law, and must therefore act according to law: a Church which did not so act ceased to be a Church established by law, and became not the Church of the State conjoined with the State, but a mere sect in the country in which it existed. He called on the Church to follow the advice which it had received from its distinguished members, Moncrieff, Erskine, and Robertson, or he feared it would materially weaken its authority."

9.-John Orr M'Gill, Jane Clayton, and two others tried at Liverpool Assizes for the abduction of Ann Crellin, a young woman of considerable property. She was decoyed from Liverpool, and taken in a state of perpetual intoxication, to Gretna Green, where some marriage ceremony was performed between her and M'Gill, with whom she found herself next day in bed, Mrs. Clayton being on the other side of the bridegroom. M'Gill was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, and the others, for aiding and abetting, to twelve months.

10. In moving for a return of the various bills introduced and abandoned, Lord Palmerston enters on a review of the session, and comments with some severity on the home and foreign policy of the Government. Sir Robert Peel seconded the motion and defended the ministry.

President Tyler vetoes the Tariff Bill for the second time.

12.-Parliament prorogued by the Queen in person. The concluding paragraph of the Speech expressed the confidence she had that when "my lords and gentlemen " returned to their counties, they would do their utmost to encourage, by example and exertion, that spirit of order and submission to the law, without which there could be no enjoyment of the fruits of peaceful industry, and no advance in the course of social improvement.

15. The trade delegates at Manchester, awed apparently by the military preparations of the Government, so far moderate their first outrageous demands on the masters as to agree to the following resolutions :-"I. That this meeting pledges itself to discontinue all illegal proceedings; and further, that they will endeavour to preserve the public peace. 2. That they could not exist with the present rate of wages; and that they are determined not to go to work until they obtain the wages of 1839. 3. That each master pay the same for the same fabric of cloth throughout the whole of the manufacturing districts. 4. That it is the opinion of the meeting that their political rights are imperatively necessary for the preservation of their trade rights when they gain them."

16. The Duke of Wellington gazetted as Commander-in-chief in room of Lord Hill,

retired.

17.-A seditious placard, urging the people to rise against the authorities, issued in Manchester by the Executive Committee of the National Chartist Association. "Englishmen!" it said, "the blood of your brothers reddens the streets of Preston and Blackburn, and the murderers thirst for more. Be firm, be courageous, be men! Peace, law, and order have prevailed on our side: let them be revered until your brethren in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are informed of your resolution; and when a universal holiday prevails, which will be the case in eight days, then of what use will bayonets be against public opinion? Intelligence has reached us of the wide spreading of the strike; and now within fifty miles of Manchester every engine is at rest, and all is still save the miller's useful wheels and the friendly sickle in the fields. Countrymen and brothers, centuries may roll on as they have fleeted past before such universal action may again be displayed: we have made the cast for liberty, and we must stand, like men, the hazard of the die. Let none despond. Let all be cool and watchful, and, like the bridesmaids in the parable, keep your lamps burning; and let your continued resolution be like a beacon to guide those who are now hastening far and wide to follow your memorable example."

18.-The welcome intelligence sent from the manufacturing districts, "The pacification of the North is completed."

19.-The Gazette announces the blockade of

the ports of Nicaragua by Sir Charles Adams to enforce British claims against the Government. Jane Cooper, a domestic servant, commits suicide by throwing herself from the top of the Monument. She took advantage of the momentary absence of the guard, to clamber over the railings, and precipitate herself into Fish-street-hill. Cooper was the sixth person who had committed suicide in the same manner. The City Lands Committee now resolved to enclose the top of the structure.

20.-Incendiary fires in two Liverpool timber-yards, supposed to have been caused by parties connected with the sawyers' combination.

Father Mathew visits Scotland, and distributes his temperance pledges to masses of people in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other cities.

General Pollock commences his march from Jellalabad to Cabul. The first conflict took place about two miles from Gundamuck, where 12,000 Affghans were repulsed and forced to retire upon Cabul.

The French Regency Bill (appointing the Duke de Nemours) carried in the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 216 votes, and afterwards in the Peers by 163 to 14 votes.

21. Died, aged 49, William Maginn, LL.D., scholar and wit.

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24.-Nicholas Suisse tried for robbing his master, the late Marquis of Hertford, of coupons for stock in the French funds, valued at 100,000frs. For the defence it was contended that the Marquis bestowed the most unbounded confidence in Suisse, left him a legacy, and was generally understood to act as agent in certain "delicate" negotiations which the Marquis carried on with loose women. One of these, Angeline Borel, was now put into the witnessbox. She said she was a Frenchwoman, twenty-four years of age, and became acquainted with the Marquis when she was sixteen. provided apartments for her; and she had dined at Dorchester House, with Mr. Croker: Suisse used to come and fetch her. [At a former trial of Suisse, Mr. Croker admitted that he had dined with Borel at the Marquis' table; but on another occasion, when the Marquis said he intended to call and drive her out, he (Mr. Croker) left the carriage rather than remain in such company.] She generally spent 7,000l. or 8,000l. a year: sometimes Suisse gave her the money, sometimes the Marquis, in sums of 200% or 300/. She had now an annuity of 15,000 francs left to her by the Marquis. once offered her coupons for 100,000 francs; which she, not knowing their value, refused, and he gave them to Suisse. On the same day, he gave her 211,000 francs. She continued to visit the Marquis till December; when she found another woman there, named Henriette, and then she refused to be his mistress any longer. Suisse was acquitted on the present indictment, as also on another laid against him the following day.

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- Five Colonial Bishops consecrated at Westminster, four of them being for the newly created sees of Gibraltar, Van Diemen's Land, Antigua, and Guiana.

- George White, a Birmingham Chartist, writes to Brother Cooper in Leicester: "My house has been surrounded with police these two nights, and a warrant has been issued for my apprehension. I have nevertheless marched with the sovereign people, and addressed them in defiance of their warrant. There was some ugly work last night. My body-guard chucked a raw lobster (a policeman) into the canal, and the town has been paraded by soldiers, our lads cheering and marching with them like trumps."

25.-Bean tried for assaulting the Queen with a pistol, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in Millbank Penitentiary.

26.-Treaty of peace concluded with China. 21,000,000 dollars to be paid within three years; Canton, Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghai to be thrown open to British merchants; and the island of Hong Kong to be ceded in perpetuity to her Britannic Majesty.

27.—The Abercrombie Robinson, with troops for Algoa, and the Waterloo, with convicts for Van Diemen's Land, wrecked in Algoa Bay. About 200 of the latter were drowned.

29.-The Queen and Prince Albert embark at Woolwich on their first visit to Scotland.

Died at Hampstead, from the effects of a fall off his horse, Thomas Norton Longman, a member of the eminent publishing firm, aged 72.

September 1.-The Queen arrives off Inchkeith about I o'clock this morning, and lands at Granton pier, at 9 o'clock, where she was received by the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Lieutenant of the county. The royal cortége proceeded by way of Inverleith-row and Cannonmill-bridge to the boundary of the city of Edinburgh, where it was expected her Majesty would be received by the lord provost and magistrates of the city. From a misunderstanding as to the hour of landing they had not left the council-chamber, where some of them had been sitting most of the night, and the procession continued its course through the city by way of Pitt-street, Hanover-street, Princes-street, and the Calton-hill. At Parsongreen the dragoons closed up to the royal carriage, and a quicker pace was continued along the road to Dalkeith Palace. Edinburgh was filled with visitors from various parts of Scotland, and great preparations had been made for giving her Majesty a truly royal welcome; but the enthusiasm was somewhat checked by the want of proper arrangements as to the precise time when the city would be reached. To make up, as far as possible, for the disappointment thus experienced, her Majesty reentered the city on the Saturday following (3d Sept.), and was received in great state by the magistrates. Sir R. Peel, who accompanied her Majesty in a separate carriage, was alternately cheered and hissed. The route, thickly packed with spectators, was from Holyrood, up the Canongate and High-street to the Castle, and then by way of the Earthen-mound and Princes-street to Dalmeny Park, the scat of the Earl of Roseberry. A gallery erected at the end of Princes-street-gardens unfortunately gave way, and between fifty and sixty people were more or less injured. The foundation-stone of Victoria Hall, designed for the use of the General Assembly, was laid this day, with a grand Masonic display, in honour of her Majesty's visit. The Queen attended Divine service in Dalkeith private chapel on the 4th, and gave a reception in the Palace on the 5th. She left Dalkeith on the 6th, and visited the Earl of Mansfield, at Scone, the following day; the Marquis of Breadalbane, at Taymouth, on the 8th (where deer-stalking was engaged in by Prince Albert); and Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, at Drummond, on the 9th. Her Majesty departed from Granton pier on the 15th, after a stay in Scotland of fourteen days. In a letter addressed to the Lord Advocate Lord Aberdeen was instructed to say: "The Queen will leave Scotland with a feeling of regret that her visit on the present occasion could not be farther prolonged. Her Majesty fully expected to witness the loyalty and attach