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19.-Admiralty minute in the case of the Agincourt issued. "Their lordships are of opinion that the primary cause of the disaster was clearly the unsafe course steered by the squadron in obedience to signals from the flagship. It appears that Vice-Admiral Wellesley, on leaving Gibraltar, conducted the squadron under his command so close to the western shore of the bay that, with the weather fine and clear, and the wind light, the leading ship of the in-shore division struck on the Pearl Rock, and was in imminent danger of being wrecked. Their lordships cannot but feel that due care was not exercised by the Vice-Admiral in command to insure that a safe course should be steered by his squadron; and they greatly regret that, with such large and valuable ships in his charge, he did not satisfy himself, by examination of the course proposed, and by seeing them laid off on the chart, that the squadron would be taken a safe distance from a wellknown and dangerous shoal." As the result of their deliberations, their lordships superseded Vice-Admiral Wellesley and Rear-Admiral Wilmot, and placed Staff-Commander Kiddle on half-pay.

20.-Celebration of the Beethoven centenary, commenced at Bonn, under the direction of Franz Liszt.

21. An insane woman at Stow Bedon, named Hamer, wife of a labourer, murders one of her own children by cutting its throat, and also a deaf and dumb idiot, 18 years of age, the daughter of her husband by a former marriage.

-Parliament prorogued by Commission, the Royal Speech read on the occasion, making special reference to the Treaty of Washington, as embodying certain rules for the guidance of neutrals, "which may, I trust, ere long obtain general recognition, and form a valuable addition to the code of International Law."

Hurricane and earthquake at St. Thomas causing the loss of much property, and the injury or death of over 100 people.

23. Festivities at Inverary in connection with the arrival of the young Marquis, and Princess Louise, at the castle. The rejoicings extended over three days.

-Renforth, a famous Tyne oarsman, seized with fatal attack of apoplexy while rowing in the Anglo-Canadian boat-race at St. John's, New Brunswick. It was at first thought that some drug had been maliciously administered to the champion puller, but a postmortem examination made it clear that death resulted from causes which could be otherwise accounted for.

24.-West Surrey, vacant through the death of Mr. C. Buxton, carried by Mr. Watney, Conservative, against Mr. Leveson Gower, Liberal, the numbers being 3,912 to 2,749.

24.-Stormy debate in the French Assembly on a proposal made for the immediate dissolution of the National Guard. A compromise proposed by General Ducrot was adopted, which provided for such gradual dissolution as might be permitted by the reorganization of the army.

27.-Illness of the Queen at Balmoral. Various recent rumours as to her Majesty's health received some confirmation from the announcement in the Court Circular :-"The Queen has been suffering from severe sore-throat, headache, and grave general illness. Although greatly better, her Majesty was not sufficiently recovered to attend Divine service."

28.-The freedom of Glasgow presented to Lord Shaftesbury.

-Died, aged 78, Paul de Kock, French novelist.

29. It is announced from Vienna that a "League of Peace" has been formed at Gastein, to be directed against any power seeking to disturb the peace of Europe. Not only Austria and Germany, but Italy also, and perhaps even Russia, were described as likely to join the League.

September 1.-Walter Montgomery, late manager of the Gaiety Theatre, and who had been married only two days since, committed suicide by discharging a pistol through his head in a bedroom adjoining an apartment Occupied by his young wife. Deceased was interred in Brompton cemetery on the 5th, when Mrs. Montgomery dropped on the coffin the wreath of orange blossom she had worn so recently at the altar.

2. The Court at Versailles pronounced judgment on the first group of Communist prisoners. Ferré and Lullier were condemned to death; Urbain and Trinquet to imprisonment for life with hard labour; Assi, Billioray, Champy, Régère, Paschal Grousset, Verdure, and Ferrat to transportation to a fortress Jourde and Rastoul to simple transportation; Courbet to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 500f.; and Clément to three months' imprisonment. Descamps and Parent were acquitted. The Court afterwards engaged in the trial of forty women, charged with being concerned in firing Paris with petroleum.

3. Another riot in Dublin, a disorderly mob returning from an amnesty meeting attacking the police, and injuring about a score of them severely.

Accident on the French Northern Railway at Seclin, near Lille, a Paris express running into an ordinary train from Douai. Ten passengers were killed.

-The Bishop of Winchester, presently the guest of Mr. Ellice, M.P., Invergarry, preached in the parish church, Glengarry, observing the usual Presbyterian form. The Archbishop of

York officiated in the same place the following Sunday.

6.-Explosion in the Moss Colliery, Wigan, causing the death of sixty-nine men and boys employed in what was known as the nine-feet seam. As soon as the surface damage could be repaired, a band of explorers descended one of the shafts and found that the men working in another part of the mine were safe. They were drawn up, along with some who were nearest the shaft in the part where the explosion had occurred. Another explosion took place while the explorers were below; and although they came up uninjured the sides of the pit were reported to be on fire. It then became necessary to close the shaft, so that all hope was given up of saving any other of the large body of workmen known to be in the pit.

Meeting at Salzburg between the Emperors of Germany and Austria, to complete, it was given out, certain details of the League of Peace.

7.-Died unexpectedly, of puerperal fever, in her 22nd year, Sybil Grey, Duchess of St. Albans.

Brighton poisoning case, the magistrates to-day committing Miss Christina Edmunds for trial on the charge of attempting to poison a lady named Boyes by sending her a cake with arsenic in it. A charge of murder in reference to the sudden death, with symptoms of strychnia poisoning, of the little boy Sidney Albert Barker was next gone into. The theory of the prosecution in this case was, that the prisoner had conceived a guilty passion for Dr. Beard, with whose family she was on visiting terms; that she had attempted to poison his wife with a chocolate cream; and that then, Dr. Beard suspecting her, she had procured a number of such sweetmeats, put strychnia upon them, and returned them to the shop of Mr. Maynard, a confectioner from whom they were procured, in order that other persons might be made ill, or even killed, and suspicion diverted from her in respect of the attempt to poison Mrs. Beard. After the inquest on the boy his father received three anonymous letters to the effect that there was a general feeling of indignation in the town at the proceedings at the inquest, blaming Mr. Maynard strongly for having sold the chocolate creams after having been warned, urging Mr. Barker to take further proceedings; and stating that if he did not prosecute Mr. Maynard other parties would, and that, having made three persons ill, he ought to be prosecuted. expert who had examined the letters believed them to have been written by the same hand as others known to have come from the prisoner. On being committed on this capital charge she exhibited no signs of emotion or regret.

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8.-The appointment of the Rev. R. W. Church to the Deanery of St. Paul's gazetted.

10.-Died, aged 77 years, Richard Bentley, publisher, founder, in conjunction with Charles Dickens, of the periodical known as "Bentley's Miscellany."

11.-Foundation-stone of a new Seaman's Orphan Institution laid at Newsham Park, Liverpool.

13. Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, the first train, with the engineer, Grattoni, and some friends, passing through to the northern outlet in 40 minutes. The maximum temperature inside the carriages was 25 deg. centigrade. Two hours later the train returned to the Italian side, the journey occupying 55 minutes. The tunnel was then found entirely clear of the steam discharged during the previous journey. The formal opening of the tunne! took place on the 18th, when a banquet was held to celebrate this great achievement of engineering skill, and a statue of Poleocapa, Minister of Public Works for Sardinia, was unveiled by the King at Turin.

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The King of Spain enters Barcelona in the course of a tour through the eastern portion of his dominions.

14. Continued anxiety being still manifested regarding the health of the Queen, the British Medical Journal announces that her Majesty has passed through a trying and severe illness, from which she is now happily recovering.

16.-First mimic battle of the campaign undertaken by three divisions of regular troops, militia, and volunteers, in the district round Aldershott fixed in the "Military Manoeuvres Act" of last Session. The first division, comprising the Guards, under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Hope Grant, representing the British army in defence of the road to London, was engaged at the same time in repelling the attacks of the second division, under Major-General Carey, and of the third division, under Major-General Sir Charles Staveley.

18.-Explaining his position as mediator in the strike still pending among the engineers, the Mayor of Newcastle writes:-"I was asked by Sir William Armstrong whether I was authorized by the representatives of the men to make such a proposition. I replied that, for obvious reasons, I was not, but that, nevertheless, I believed that if I, as a neutral party, proposed it equally to both parties, they would accede to it. Some further conversation ensued, on which I retired. I believe that the unwillingness of the masters to agree to this proposition arose from the hard and fast line adopted by the men as to the nine hours, and

from their great haste in commencing the struggle, as evinced by their indisposition to lengthen their notices-a great mistake, in my view, on their part. But I was then and am still of opinion that, even with both parties equally resolute in their own views, a conference of explanation, undertaken at the request, through myself, of influential inhabitants of the town, might have ended in some modification on one or both sides, and have so brought this conflict, sad in every respect, to an end, and it was with this view I proposed it." Mr. Burnett also wrote on the part of the men, blaming the employers for continuing the strike.

18.-Died, aged 69, G. A. Hamilton, for many years Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, and latterly a member of the Irish Church Temporalities Commission.

19.-Died, aged 73, Rev. Richard William Jelf, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, and formerly Principal of King's College, London.

20.-Chief Justice Norman stabbed at Calcutta by a fanatical Wahabee named Abdoola, a native of Upper Bengal. The assassination took place as Mr. Norman was entering the Calcutta High Court, when his assailant suddenly rushed upon him in the vestibule and inflicted a deep wound in the abdomen with a dagger. As there was no one at hand except a native solicitor and a court servant, Mr. Norman ran back, but was followed by the assassin brandishing his dagger, and again stabbed in the back close to the spine. After this, Mr. Norman kept off his assailant for a few seconds by picking up stones and throwing them at him, till a punkawalla connected with the court, attracted by the cries, ran up to the Mussulman and knocked him down with a piece of wood. The assassin struggled violently, but was soon disarmed and prevented from doing further injury. The stabs he had already inflicted, however, caused mortal wounds, and Mr. Norman only lingered all shortly after one o'clock next morning. The murderer, who at first pretended insanity, was quickly tried and executed, and his body burnt.

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Dr. Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, murdered by natives of Santa Cruz, in revenge it was thought for gross outrages recently committed by Europeans engaged in the slave

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"labour" trade. Mr. Brooke, with another clergyman, the Rev. J. Atkin, an alumnus of St. John's College, Auckland, and one or two native Christians, had been left for a few months, in pursuance of the regular plan of the Mission, at Florida, a small member of the Solomon Islands group, some distance to the north-west of Santa Cruz. At the end of August, the Bishop called for them in the Southern Cross, and took them aboard. After visiting several islands on the way, they made for Santa Cruz, and on the 20th of September,

reached, not the large island which gives its name to the group, but one of its small outliers, Nupaka, at which the Mission schooner had been accustomed to call first, in order to procure an interpreter for Santa Cruz itself, where the language had not yet been mastered. On this occasion no boats put off to meet them. This was an unusual circumstance, which in itself gave an indication of danger. But four canoes hovered near the reef, and the Bishop, taking with him Mr. Atkin and three natives, put off in a boat to join them. The boat could not cross the reef, and the Bishop, leaving the rest of the crew in charge, went ashore in a canoe belonging to two chiefs whom he knew, Taula and Motu. The boat remained near the reef at about ten yards distance from the canoes. Suddenly, with

out any warning, a volley of eight arrows was poured from them into the boat's crew. Every shot at that short distance took effect. Mr. Atkin was shot in the left shoulder, one of his companions in the right, and Stephen Taroaniara was trussed with six arrows in his shoulders and chest. The boat immediately pulled off to the ship. The wounded crew were replaced by a fresh one, with the exception of Mr. Atkin, who, in spite of his wound, was obliged to act as pilot; and they started again, with sad presentiments, to ascertain what was become of the Bishop, who had been left ashore. The tide had risen and the boat pulled over the reef. What followed may be told in Mr. Brooke's own words:-"No canoes approached—but a tenantless one, with something like a bundle heaped up in the middle, was floating alone in the lagoon. The boat pulled up to this, and took the heap or bundle out of it and brought it away, a yell of triumph rising from the beach. As they pulled alongside, they murmured but one word

The body.'" That was indeed their melancholy freight; but it had been strangely and carefully prepared for them. It was no murder or deed of blind vengeance executed in the sudden fury of the moment. It wore the aspect of a deliberate judicial act, and suggested the idea of a sacrificial victim sent forth as a ghastly herald to announce its solemn completion to the foe. There lay the body, not mutilated or insulted, but wrapped carefully in native matting, and tied at the neck and ancles. Into the breast was thrust a palm frond on which were tied five thick knots! When the covering was removed, the manner of his death became apparent. He had probably been first shot by a volley of arrows, and then despatched by the blow of a tomahawk. The right side of the skull was found to be completely shattered, the top of the head was cloven by some sharp weapon, and there were numerous arrow-wounds about the body. Yet amidst all this havoc and ruin, says the narrator of the sad spectacle, "the sweet face still smiled, the eyes closed, as if the patient martyr had had time to breathe a prayer for these his murderers. There was no sign of

agony or terror. Peace reigned supreme in that sweet smile, which will live in our remembrance as the last silent blessing of our revered Bishop and our beloved friend." So fell at his post the first Bishop of Melanesia, happier in one respect by his immediate death than his two companions in martyrdom. Atkin died of his wounds on the 27th, and Stephen on the 28th. Bishop Patteson, the eldest son of the late Mr. Justice Patteson, was born on the Ist of April, 1827, went out to New Zealand with Bishop Selwyn in 1854, and was consecrated Bishop of Melanesia by Bishops Selwyn, Abraham, and Hobhouse in St. Paul's Church, Auckland, on St. Matthias's Day, 1861.

21.-M. Rochefort sentenced by the Versailles tribunal to imprisonment for life in a fortified place.

The Chief Justice of Utah territory instructs the grand jury, that bigamy there was a crime as elsewhere in the United States, and ordered his officers of Court, if they knew of anyone practising polygamy, to bring indictinents against them as criminals.

Inquiry commenced into the charges brought against the management of Hampstead Small Pox Hospital.

Murder and suicide in a railway carriage on the Manchester and Liverpool line, a man named Wanlen first shooting his wife, from whom he had been separated lately, and then himself.

22.-Placing the case of the Newcastle masters before the country in the Times, to-day, Sir William Armstrong points out the loss which would come to the employer by the shortened working of his plant. As a mere arithmetical question, a reduction from 59 to 54 hours a week represents a money gain to the workman of about 8 per cent. on the price of his labour. To the employer the direct loss is of course the same; but the indirect loss must be matter of estimate, varying in each particular instance. In my own case, I should certainly regard it as equal to the direct loss on wages, and I believe that engineers in general would concur in the sub. stantial accuracy of this estimate. Upon this view the reduction of time claimed by our men would be attended with a gain to them of 8 per cent. on the amount of their wages, and of a loss to us equal to 17 per cent. on the same amount, To suppose that the average profits of the trade have of late years been such as to admit of a deduction to that extent is absurd."

Opening of the Old Catholic Congress at Munich, presided over by Herr Wolf. A report read declared that they recognized the Roman Primate only so far as the same is recognized in accordance with the writings of the Fathers of the Church and the decisions of Councils. A hope was expressed that the reunion of the Catholic Church with the Greek and Eastern Russian Churches may be accom

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26.-Acknowledging the compliment of the freedom of the city of Aberdeen conferred upon him to-day, Mr. Gladstone said, if the doctrine of Home Rule were to be established in Ireland, they would be just as well entitled to it in Scotland; "and, moreover, I protest on behalf of Wales, in which I have lived a good deal, and where there are 800,000 people, who to this day, such is their sentiment of nationality, speak hardly anything but their own Celtic tongue a larger number than speak the Celtic tongue, I apprehend, in Scotland, and a larger number than speak it, I apprehend, in Ireland -I protest on behalf of Wales that they are entitled to Home Rule there. Can any sensible man, can any rational man suppose that at this time of day, in this condition of the world, we are going to disintegrate the great capital institutions of this country for the purpose of making ourselves ridiculous in the sight of all mankind, and crippling any power we possess for bestowing benefits through legislation on the country to which we belong? The Prime Minister admitted one grievance "a grievance with regard to university education, which is not so entirely free in Ireland as it has now been made in England; but that is an exceptional subject, and it is a subject on which I am bound to say Ireland has made no united demand upon England; still, I regard it as a subject that calls for legislation; but there is no demand which Ireland has made and which England has refused, and I shall be very glad to see such a demand put into a practical shape in which we may make it the subject of candid and rational discussion."

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in her Majesty's health, but he feared that a long time must elapse before her Majesty would be able to resume the performance of hose public and active duties which it was nce her pride and pleasure to fulfil, because they brought her in constant and immediate contact with her people. "The fact is," he added, "we cannot conceal from ourselves that her Majesty is physically and morally incapacitated from performing those duties; but it is some consolation to her Majesty's advisers to know that with regard to those much higher duties which her Majesty is called upon to perform, she still performs them with a punctuality and a precision which have certainly never been surpassed, and rarely equalled by any monarch of these realms.

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27.-Writing from Balmoral to Mr. Whalley, the Prime Minister replies to a question which the member for Peterborough had put, on the part, he said, of his constituents: "I quite agree with those of your constituents, on whose behalf you address me, in thinking that the question 'Whether the Prime Minister of this country is a member of the Church of Rome,' and being such not only declines to avow it, but gives through a long life all the external signs of belonging to a different communion, is a question of great political importance,' and this not only in the present,' but in any possible 'condition of the Liberal,' or any other 'party.' For it involves the question whether he is the basest creature in the kingdom, which he has a share in ruling; and instant ejectment from his office would be the smallest of the punishments he would deserve. If I have said this much upon the present subject, it has been out of personal respect to you. For I am entirely convinced that, while the question you have put to me is in truth an insulting one, you have put it only from having failed to notice its true character; since I have observed, during an experience of many years, that even when you undertake the most startling duties, you perform them in the gentlest and most considerate manner.

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Brigham Young arrested by the United States authorities, on a charge of lewdly cohabiting with sixteen young women. Troops were also despatched at this time to Salt Lake City.

Rev. C. Voysey, deprived of the vicarage of Healaugh by the Judicial Committee of

the Privy Council, opens regular services in St. George's Hall, Langham Place.

2.-The Spanish Cortes abandon the pro posed liquor tax, but impose a duty of 11 per cent. on travellers and merchandize conveyed by railways. Another duty was imposed on shares and bonds.

Mechanics' Institute at Bradford, erected at a cost of 32,500l., opened by Mr. Forster, M.P., with an address, in which he reviewed the recent action of Parliament on the subject of education.

Insurrectionary movements in the city of Mexico. The bulk of the garrison proved true to their allegiance, and shot, it was said, 150 of the insurgents.

Died at Dublin, aged 79, Sir Thomas Deane, architect, formerly President of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

4.-Triple explosion in the premises of an oil and colourman in Manor Street, King's Road, Chelsea.

Died, aged 77, John Scott, of Malton, the trainer of sixteen St. Leger and four Derby winners.

Mayor Hall, of New York, attends the Nashville Police-court to offer bail for his appearance to answer the charges of appropriating and misusing the public funds of the city.

6.-Newcastle strike closed after lasting nineteen weeks. The conditions of agreement conceded fifty-four hours per week, the men to work overtime when and to what extent might be required by the employers. Wages, both as to ordinary wages and as to overtime, to remain the same in the different factories as existed prior to the strike; and to be paid weekly at 12.15 P.M. on Saturday. The agreement to be for twelve months, with permission to either party to terminate it at the end of six months, by giving one month's previous notice. The men to go to work on the arrangement now existing in the shops (fifty-seven hours), and the new terms (fifty-four) to take date from January 1, 1872.

7.-Died, aged 89, Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, a Peninsular veteran, and commanding engineer at the siege of New Orleans.

8.-Murder of Mrs. Watson, Stockwell Crescent, by her husband, the Rev. J. Selby Watson, for twenty-five years head-master of Stockwell Grammar School, and well known in the literary world as the biographer of Warburton and Porson. This (Sunday) evening the servant left the house, and did not return to it until nearly ten o'clock. When she returned, Mr. Watson told her that her mistress had left for the country, and would be absent five or six days. On Monday morning, Mr. Watson called at the shop of Mr. Turner, a packing-case maker, carrying on business at No. 219, Clapham Roal, and requested to

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