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party. "In the case so submitted on behalf of the United States, large claims have been included, which are understood on my part not to be within the province of the arbitrators. On this subject I have caused a friendly communication to he made to the Government of the United States. The Emperor of Germany

as undertaken to arbitrate on the San Juan water boundary; and the cases of the two Governments have been presented to his ImDerial Majesty." Bills were promised in connection with education in Scotland, regulation of mines, licensing system, secret voting, and corrupt practices at elections. The Address

was agreed to in each House without a division, Mr. Disraeli criticising with some severity the misunderstanling which had been permitted to grow out of the Washington Treaty. Her Majesty's Ministers had adopted a new system of vindicating their policy during the recess, and might be said for the last six months to have lived in a blaze of apology.

6.-Died, General W. F. Beatson, chief of the Bashi-Bazouk force during the Crimean War.

7.-The Speaker, Mr. Denison, announces his intention of resigning, as the labour of the House had increased of late to an extent which greatly overtaxed his strength. Mr. Gladstone thereupon gave notice of his intention to move a vote of thanks for his fifteen years' distinguished services in the chair, and for an address to her Majesty that she would be graciously pleased to bestow some signal mark of her Royal favour upon the Speaker. On the subject of the pension usually given to retiring Speakers, Mr. Denison had previously written to the Prime Minister :-"Though without any pretensions to wealth, I have a private fortune which will suffice, and for the few years of life that remain to me I should be happier in feeling that I am not a burden to my fellowCountrymen."

Came on before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the case of the Rev. John Purchas, of Brighton, charged with not having obeyed the monitions as to the discontinuance of certain vestments in the Holy Communion service, and the performance of ceremonies he had practised in the services; as also in the use of lighted candles, incense, and mixing water with the communion wine, and likewise as to wafer bread. Mr. Purchas was further cited for not paying the taxed costs of 2,0967. 14s. 10d. incurred in the former proceedings. Mr. Purchas did not appear. The Lord Chancellor said their lordships were clearly of opinion that several acts of contempt had been proved against Mr. Purchas, and the order they would pronounce would be that Mr. Purchas be suspended ab officio for one year from the time of service of the order. As to the costs, their lordships would direct that Mr. Purchas be pronounced in contempt, and a sequestration be issued on his lay property.

7.-Convocation meets for the despatch of business, the Bishop of Winchester presenting a memorial from the Church Union to the Upper House, praying that any alterations made in the Prayer-book may be based rather upon the first Prayer-book of Edward VI. than upon any subsequent revision of that book, and that such alterations may only be made after mature deliberation by the Convocation of the two Provinces "ratified by the full authority of the whole Sacred Synod of the nation, as was done on December 20, 1661, after the last revision of the book."

Died, at Notting Hill, aged 77, the Right Rev. S. Hinds, formerly Bishop of Norwich.

Died at Baltimore, aged 62 years, the Most Rev. John Spalding, D.D., Roman Catholic Primate of the United States.

8.-Lord Redesdale gives notice of his intention to ask the Foreign Minister a hypothetical question on the subject of the Alabama claims.

Died, aged 72, Joseph Pease, a leading member of the Society of Friends in Darlington, and connected by marriage with the Gurney and Fry families.

Assassination of Lord Mayo, GovernorGeneral of India. The Viceroy left Moulmein on the 6th, and reached Andaman Island this morning. After inspecting the public institutions in all the dangerous parts of the convict colony, he ascended Mount Harriet, for the view, accompanied by a superintendent, a staff of seven, and an armed police guard. They reached the top near sunset, stayed ten minutes, and walked down with Count Waldstein and Captain Lockwood in advance, the rest close together, with the Viceroy's guard on both sides and in the rear. About 300 yards from the hill darkness came on and torches were lit. No convicts were near, except on barrows, with overseers, on a line off the road. About a quarter to seven they reached the pier, a narrow erection with steep stone sides. When about twenty-five yards from the boat, the superintendent, with the Viceroy's permission, dropped a little behind to give an order. was now quite dark. The armed escort was close to the Viceroy on both sides, the police and his body servant in the rear, and Major Burne a few paces to the left. The Viceroy advanced a few paces along the pier, when a person unseen sprang in a moment out of the darkness, and stabbed him twice, on the top of the left shoulder and under the right shoulderblade. The assassin was immediately seized. The Viceroy ran a few paces forward and fell over the pier into shallow water on the left, but got up himself, and was helped out, his shoulder bleeding copiously. Lord Mayo walked firmly, felt his shoulder, and said, "I don't think I am much hurt." He was laid on a cart, the blood now flowing rapidly. When being carried to the boat after his

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wounds were bound up, the Viceroy said twice, "Lift up my head.” He spoke no more, but expired shortly afterwards on his way to the ship. The assassin, who was seized on the spot, turned out to be a convict named Shere Ali, sentenced to penal servitude for a murder committed in Peshawur in 1867. Intelligence of the calamity reached London on the afternoon of the 12th, and in the evening appropriate tributes were paid to Lord Mayo's great merits in both Houses of Parliament. He was born in 1822, sat in the House of Commons as Chief Secretary for Ireland in Lord Derby's Administration, and was sent out to India by Mr. Disraeli as Viceroy in 1868. The body was taken in the first instance to Calcutta, where the utmost excitement prevailed for a time, and then conveyed by way of Suez to England.

8.-Died, aged 87, John Poole, dramatist, author of the once popular " Paul Pry."

9. Mr. Brand elected Speaker in room of Mr. Denison, his proposer being Sir Roundell Palmer, and seconder Mr. Locke-King.

10. Departure of the Livingstone Search Expedition, consisting of Lieut. Dawson, R. N., Lieut. Henn, R.N., and Mr. Oswald Livingstone, son of the traveller.

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cumstances connected with the recent appointment to the Rectory of Ewelme. He said that the Act severing the rectory from the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Oxford did not at all limit the area over which the Crown could exercise its patronage, except that the Crown was entitled to present only a member of the University of Oxford. He admitted that it was he who had recommended Mr. Harvey, of King's College, Cambridge, to become pr forma a member of the University of Oxford and that it was no part of his duty to ascertain by inspection of original documents whether he was possessed of the various qualifications which Mr. Mowbray had enumerated. would, however, make inquiries, and inform the House of the result.

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15.--Earl Stanhope moves the sense of the House regarding the elevation of Sir Robert Collier to the Bench of Common Pleas, strongly condemning the course which the Government had taken. After explanation by Lord Granville the motion was negatived by 89 to 88 votes. In the course of the debate the Duke of Argyll declared that the letter of the Lord Chief Justice was only the letter of Sir Alexander Cockburn; and throughout it he indulged in railing--he might almost say in ribald-accusation against the Government. When such was the case he denied that their

12.-M. Rouher elected to sit for Corsica in lordships were bound to attach any more weight the National Assembly.

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Lord Redesdale asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether, if A and B in partnership sue C in a court of law for injury done to their firm by fraud or otherwise, and C pleads and proves that B was acting with him in all the matters complained of, such plea would not be a complete answer to the suit, and render any recovery of damages impossible? Why a plea which is good law and which common sense pronounces to be just has not been considered by her Majesty's Government applicable to a new case in international law, and urged against the Alabama claims made on this country by the United States of America, in which the North and South are partners, inasmuch as all the acts for which this country is charged with being culpably responsible were done by the South, and that partner now joins in the application to be paid for having done them? Lord Granville declined to answer hypothetical questions on English law, and stated that it would be undesirable to discuss the Alabama claims at the present stage of the negotiations.

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to the obiter dicta of Sir Alexander Cockburn than to those of anyone else. Sir Alexander's vocabulary was so rich and spicy, or so sational," as Mr. Justice Willes called it-and that meant claptrap rubbish--(a laugh)—that he hardly knew how to deal with it. "Evasion," "impropriety," "subterfuge," were some of the pretty terms that were used; and he (the noble duke) took leave to tell him that their lordships were quite as able as he was to judge of the applicability of such phrases. letter, then, was simply the letter of Sir Alexander Cockburn, written, too, in a state of great irritation, and even of effervescence. And why? Because this Government, which was so addicted to jobbery, had actually kept a judgeship in the Queen's Bench vacant for two years.-Lord Westbury described this attack as unjust and indecent; and acting on the suggestion of mutual friends, his grace took an early opportunity of expressing his regret "for any words which may have justly seemed personally offensive to the Lord Chief Justice.” The Post thereupon remarked, "With respect to the apology made by the Duke of Argyll in the House of Lords yesterday afternoon it is enough to state, as we are in a position to state, that had such an apology not been made, either by the Duke of Argyll or some other member of the Cabinet, it would have been impossible for Sir Alexander Cockburn to continue to represent the Government on the Alabama arbitration. In the Commons a vote of censure on the Collier case was rejected by 268 to 241 votes.

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17. Murder in Lambeth. While George Merritt, a stoker, was proceeding to his work at the Lion Brewery about three o'clock A. M., he was met by a man who at once fired a pistol at him. The first shot missed; then a second was fired, which also missed. Merritt now began to run, when a third shot was fired, which struck him in the neck. The assassin then came up, and, attacking him in a fearful manner, with a dagger, stabbed him several times, and then ran away. He was met at the top of Tennison Street by a constable, who stopped him, and took him back to the spot whence the reports of the pistol proceeded. The body of the victim was then found. the policeman turning his lantern on unfortunate man, the assassin said, "Why, that is not the man I wanted." The wounded man soon afterwards expired, and the assassin was taken into custody. He gave his name or names as William Chester Minor, and it was afterwards ascertained that he had at one time been a surgeon in the American army, serving with distinction during the late war. At his trial at Kingston assizes, before Chief Justice Bovill, the jury gave effect to a plea of insanity set up on the prisoner's behalf, and he was ordered to be confined during her Majesty's pleasure.

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18.-Died at Jersey, aged 86 years, General Charles Richard William Lane, C. B., of the Bengal Infantry, a veteran of the Mahratta and Burmese wars.

19.-Lord Shaftesbury's Ecclesiastical Procedure Bill thrown out in the Lords by 24 votes to 14, the principal speech against the measure being made by the Bishop of Peterborough. Of all men, he said, the clergy from the very nature of their profession stand most in need of protection. A clergyman is a person brought into collision-sometimes violent collisionwith the prejudices, passions, and party-spirit of the people, and yet it is proposed that he shall be liable to prosecution by these people. The squire of the parish whose wife may not have received a return visit from the clergyman's wife, may, with his gardener and bailiff, form the prosecuting trio. Or the trio may

consist of the publican, who has been offended by the vicar's last sermon against drunkenness, and two of his best customers. He admitted

that some years ago there might be a necessity for Church associations, but these vigilance committees were rapidly becoming a dangerous ruling power in the Church instead of the Bishops. "The Church Association is not the only association of this kind-there is also the Church Union. I admit that the object of that society is not to undertake prosecutions(cheers)-but after a time, when persecution has gone on incessantly upon one side, there is that in human nature, and in clerical human nature, to turn upon the other side, and what will then be the peace and harmony of the Church when it is divided between these rival persecutors, when each diocese is turned into a happy hunting ground for these rival societies --these theological Communists and Versail. lists-and when each in its turn proceeds tc mark out its respective hostages for ecclesiasti. cal execution? (Cheers.) A nice state of things for the clergy-the Church Association swooping down upon them from above, the Church Union rushing on them from below, while every now and then they find themselves hooked by a neat turn of the Episcopal wrist." (Laughter.) "Make the clergy," concluded the Bishop, "the slaves of a faction, or the victims of a party; destroy their self-respect and independence; and it will not be so much the clergy in the end as the laity who will suffer. Whatever degrades the clergy injures the laity of the Church, and therefore it is not mainly in the interests of the clergy, but quite as much in the interests of the laity, that I do most earnestly entreat your lordships not to vote for the second reading of this bill."

19.-Lady Charles Innes Kerr seriously injured in the hunting-field, her horse rolling over her when taking a fence near Langley Park. She was conveyed to Rowley Farm, and passed fully a month in a state exciting wide commiseration among all classes, from the Queen downwards.

21.—Mr. William Longman writes to the Times urging the propriety of following precedents observed in 1664 and 1678, by opening on the Thanksgiving day "a Book of Subscriptions for the completion of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, made in the year 1872, as a Perpetual Memorial of Thanksgiving for the recovery of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from a dangerous sickness," and to keep this book, like its two predecessors, in the library of St. Paul's, as a permanent record of the year in which a crowning effort was made for the completion of the Cathedral. "In this book it is intended that the names of all those who may make contributions for this especial object shall be inscribed, and it is hoped that all who may be able to do so will, as was done by our forefathers, sign their names in it, as the interest and value of the book to future generations will thereby be greatly increased."

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Sir John Coleridge concludes his speech for the defence in the Tichborne case, having spoken for twenty-six days.

22.—The Army Estimates moved by Mr. Cardwell-total amount, 14,824,500l.; net decrease as compared with 1871, 1,027,000/.; number of men 133,460, against 135,047 in 1871. One object specially kept in view under the Reconstruction Act of last year, was the localization of forces-identification with a locality for the purposes of recruiting, of training, of connecting regulars with auxiliaries, and of connecting the reserves with those who are actually under the standards. He believed that the principles of localization, wisely carried into effect, "will attract to the standards classes which do not now join them, will spread abroad a knowledge of the advantages which are offered by service in the army, and will associate the army with ties of family and kindred. It will induce men from the militia to join the army, and it will destroy competition in recruiting between the army and the militia." It was proposed to divide the country into territorial districts, in each of which there would be a battalion of the line and two militia regiments, and with them would be brigaded the volunteers of the district under the command of a lieutenant-colonel of the regulars, acting as brigadier. Each district would have a local central depôt, at which the recruiting and training would be carried on not only of the militia, but of the reserves and of the recruits for the line battalions.

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27.-The Queen, with the Prince and Princess of Wales, and other members of the Royal Family, accompanied by all the high officers of the Crown, proceed in state to St. Paul's Cathedral, to join in a Thanksgiving Service for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. The feeling of loyalty excited by the long and severe illness, joined to the elaborate preparations known to have been made for this ceremonial, combined to make it one of the most enthusiastic displays seen in her Majesty's reign. If the crowds were not at all points equally large, or single decorations quite so gorgeous as on the occasion of the Princess Alexandra's arrival, there was on the other hand an equality of richness, a continued and unvarying appearance of wealth, magnificence, and taste, from Pall Mall to Fleet Street, from St. Paul's to Holborn, from Oxford Street back again to Buckingham Palace, such as had never been seen before. This was in great part owing to the provident arrangements of the citizens, by which, instead of decorations made according to the taste of each separate individual, a complete design was in most places followed out in every particular by a careful combination of means and minds beforehand, while the emulation in rich hangings, banners, lamps, and devices, which on former occasions caused a certain prodigality and waste of resource, was this year shared between whole parishes or streets, so that the loss of picturesqueness on one side was more than compensated by a sustained and long drawn out uniformity of magnificence, such as had been hitherto unknown in London. The weather had been for some days raw and gusty, and as it was known that this was the only circumstance likely to interfere with the Prince's attendance, the opening of the morning was looked forward to with some concern. The day turned out to be exceptionally dry and mild for the season, and by ten o'clock myriads had taken up their station within the barricades in the streets, at the windows overlooking the route of the procession, or on the endless platforms with which it was lined. A few minutes past twelve o'clock the procession set out from Buckingham Palace, and proceeded slowly to St. Paul's by way of the Green Park, Pall Mall, the Strand, Fleet Street, and Ludgate Hill. First came the carriages of the Speaker, the Lord Chancellor, and the Commander-in-Chief, followed by nine Royal carriages, six of them filled with ladies and gentlemen of the Court, the seventh with the younger brothers of the Prince, another by the Master of the Horse, and the last by the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Albert Victor, and the Princess Beatrice. In the Park the Royal party were first saluted by a band of 30,000

children, who sung the National Anthem 25 the procession passed. At Temble Bar they were received by the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Aldermen, and the Queen presented with the City sword, graciously returning it to its bearer. While the Court party were passing along the decorated streets, amid deafening welcomes, a vast company of 13,000 had assembled in St. Paul's, composed largely of members of both Houses of Parliament, representatives of the army and navy, the heads of the great City Companies, and civic dignitaries from all parts of the kingdom. Within the Cathedral nothing could be more complete than the arrangements, and nothing more perfect than their execution. The doors having been opened early in the morning, everybody got in without delay, and found places without confusion. At one o'clock the procession arrived at the great western entrance to the Cathedral, and streamed in through a vestibule erected on the steps, bearing the inscription, "I was glad when they said unto me, We will go into the House of the Lord." The Queen was received by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, and conducted with stately reverence to the Royal pew set apart for her household. She was dressed, it was noticed, in black velvet, broadly trimmed with white ermine, and the Princess in blue covered with a black lace mantle. The Prince of Wales wore the uniform of a general officer with the collars of the Orders of the Garter and Bath. Her Majesty, leaning on the Prince, led one of her grandchildren by the hand, the Princess of Wales another. The service began with the "Te Deum," followed by a few responses from the Liturgy and Lord's Prayer; then the ordinary prayers for the Queen and Royal Family, with a special form of thanksgiving. The Archbishop of Canterbury pronounced the benediction, and afterwards preached a short sermon from the text, Rom. xii. 5, "Members one of another." This was succeeded by a Thanksgiving Hymn specially prepared for the occasion, which brought the service to a close a few minutes before two o'clock.

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cession then re-formed at the Cathedral door, and set out on the return journey by way of Ludgate Hill, Old Bailey, Holborn Viaduct, Oxford Street, to the Marble Arch, Hyde Park Corner, and Constitution Hill to Buckingham Palace, all converging thoroughfares on the way being decorated as profusely and crowded with people cheering as lustily as the route traversed before. In the evening the illuminations were on a scale commensurate with the splendour of the reception accorded to her Majesty and family during the day.

27.-Although careful inspection was made of most of the platforms lining the route of the Royal procession to-day, a general regret was felt towards evening that several spectators had been hurt at different parts of the city by the falling of scaffolding and the excited crush in the streets.

27.-Collision in the Mersey between the Cunard steamer Parthia, bound for Boston, and the screw steamer Emiliano, inward bound from Singapore and Manilla. The latter had to be beached near Tranmere, and her cargo, consisting of tobacco and sugar, was almost destroyed. The Parthia afterwards ran into the Nina, from Vigo, and did her considerable damage.

Died, Rev. John McLeod Campbell, D.D., author of various religious treatises and sermons, some of which led to his being suspended from a charge in the Scotch Church at Row for heresy in 1831.

29.-The Queen writes from Buckingham Palace to Mr. Gladstone that she was anxious as on a previous occasion "to express publicly her own personal very deep sense of the reception she and her dear children met with on Tuesday, the 27th of February, from millions of her subjects on her way to and from St. Paul's. Words are too weak for the Queen to say how very deeply touched and gratified she has been by the immense enthusiasm and affection exhibited towards her dear son and herself, from the highest down to the lowest, in the long progress through the capital, and she would earnestly wish to convey her warmest and most heartfelt thanks to the whole nation for this great demonstration of loyalty. The Queen, as well as her son and dear daughterin-law, felt that the whole nation joined with them in thanking God for sparing the beloved Prince of Wales's life. The remembrance of this day, and of the remarkable order maintained throughout, will for ever be affectionately cherished by the Queen and her family."

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Assault on the Queen. past five o'clock, as her Majesty was entering Buckingham Palace after a drive, a lad suddenly presented himself at the side of the carriage, holding a paper in one hand and a pistol in the other. He tried at first, it was said, to attract the attention of Lady Churchill, mistaking her probably for the Queen, by whose side she sat, and then appeared to be about to address himself to her Majesty, going round the back of the carriage, when the equerries and the Queen's personal attendant, John Brown, followed him and gave him into the custody of the police sergeant on duty at the time. Queen showed no sign whatever of fear. lad was immediately disarmed of the pistol, which proved to be unloaded. It was an oldfashioned weapon, with a flint and steel lock, which was broken, and in the barrel a piece of greasy red rag was found. He had also a knife in his possession, and the paper to which reference has been made was found on examination to be a petition, written on parchment, for the release of the Fenian prisoners. He was taken forthwith to the King Street police-station, Westminster, where he gave the name Arthur O'Connor, and stated his age to be seventeen. Her Majesty at once caused a message to be

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