Judge Keogh when giving judgment in the Galway borough election petition, he had expressed a hope that, as Parliament was then about to strike down one ascendency, the Roman Catholics of Ireland would prevent a more galling one from being set up. The attempt had now been made, but it had been met by a spirit of independence and intelligence by the Roman Catholic gentry of this great country, and he could not say that he felt otherwise than proud of his countrymen for having had the spirit and the courage and independence to do it. This judgment, which excited the keenest feeling throughout Ireland, occupied nine hours in delivery.

27. At the reassembling of the Commons to-day, after the Whitsuntide recess, Mr. Gladstone announces that the United States Senate had made "modifications" in the Supplementary Treaty. Earl Granville informed the American Minister next day that these "modifications" could not be accepted by the British Government.

28. The Burmese ambassadors make a private visit to Windsor.

Prof. Montague Bernard, one of the Commissioners for framing the Treaty of Washington, delivers a lecture on that subject to a large audience at Oxford University Museum.

29. The long-continued and animated debate on the French Army Bill closes amid stormy scene arising out of personal altercations between General Changarnier and Colonel Denfert, and an attack by M. du Temple on M. Gambetta. The principal speech of the day was delivered by Monsignor Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans. He described Prussia as the first barrack in the world, but not the first nation; and demanded guarantees for the liberty of conscience in the army and proper regulations and facilities for enabling soldiers to attend divine service. "Since you have thought it necessary," he said, “to call upon all youthful France to undertake active service, we require, at least, that the freedom of conscience should not be restricted in the army, and that soldiers should not be prevented froin being Christians."

30. A requisition, signed by about thirty Subscribers to the fund for the completion of St. Paul's, having been presented to the Dean, requesting him to call a general meeting of the subscribers, with a view to expressing an opinion regarding the appointment of Mr. Burges as architect, the Dean now writes to the Lord Mayor:-"The responsibility at this stage of the business rests with the Executive Committee, and I do not think that it is right to take it out of their hands and transfer it to any meeting of subscribers, necessarily collected in a chance way. I am fully aware that we are all of us on our trial-Mr. Burges, those of us who have confidence in him, and those also who have raised an opposition against him. But Mr. Burges can do nothing in St. Paul's

June 1.-The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive at Marlborough House from their continental tour.

· Died at Trieste, where he discharged the duties of British Consul, Charles Lever, novelist and critic, aged 63 years.

2.-Died, aged 72, James Gordon Bennett, editor and proprietor of the New York Herald.

3.-Died, aged 76, Johann Rudolf Thorbecke, Prime Minister of Holland.

4.-Debate commenced in the House of Lords on the oft-deferred motion of Earl Russell for an address to the Crown praying that all proceedings on behalf of this country before the arbitrators appointed to meet at Geneva, pursuant to the Treaty of Washington, be suspended until the claims included in the case submitted on behalf of the United States, and understood on the part of her Majesty not to be within the province of the arbitrators, have been withdrawn. The discussion, conducted mainly in a spirit designed to caution the Government against dangers before them, was brought to a premature close on the evening of the 6th, when Earl Granville produced a letter from the American Minister, General Schenck, affirming the sufficiency of the Supplemental Article for closing indirect claims.

Mr. Gordon's amendment to the Scotch Education Bill, substantially retaining the existing system of parochial schools, rejected in Committee by 222 to 167 votes.

Flooding of the Po near Ferrara; as many as 40,000 people said to be rendered houseless.

5.--Dublin Exhibition opened by the Duke of Edinburgh.

8.-The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council give judgment in the case of Sheppard. Bennett, vicar of Frome Selwood, charged with maintaining the following heresies-1. The actual presence of our Lord in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. 2. The visible presence of our Lord upon the altar or table at the Holy Communion. 3. That there is a sacrifice at the time of the celebration of the Eucharist. 4. That adoration or worship is due to the consecrated elements in the Lord's Supper.' The alleged heresies were contained in publications by Mr. Bennett, in an essay on "Some Results of the Tractarian Movement of 1833," and in "Letters to Dr. Pusey," of which there had been three editions, and in which alterations had been made. The Dean of Arches gave a judgment in July 1870, and, admitting a retractation in a corrected edition of the pamphlet as to the visible presence in the Sacrament and the adoration of the consecrated elements, he arrived at the conclusion that to describe the mode of presence as objective, real, actual, and spiritual, was not contrary to the law of the Church of England. From that judgment the promoter appealed to their lordships, and the case was argued before a committee of ten members. Their lordships had had six conferences in private to consider the question. Their lordships now dismissed the appeal, but made no order as to costs, seeing the respondent had not appeared.

9.-Died at Hoddesden, aged 77, the Rev. Wm. Ellis, widely known from his missionary labours in the South Sea Islands and Madagascar.

10. The United States Congress adjourn without coming to any decision respecting the Supplementary Article.

The Anglo-American four-oared race between the London and Atlantic contested on the Thames from Mortlake with ebb tide, and won easily by the former.

The Ballot Bill read a second time in the House of Lords by 86 to 56 votes.

11.-The Daily News publishes a despatch from Earl Granville to Mr. Fish, proposing that on the meeting of arbitrators on the 15th a joint application should be made for an adjournment of eight months. The despatch was accompanied by a declaration that it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to cancel the appointment of the British arbitrator and withdraw from the arbitration at the close of the term fixed for the adjournment, "unless the difference which has arisen between the two Governments as to the claims for indirect losses referred to in the note which he had the honour to address to Count Sclopis on the 15th of April shall have been removed." Mr. Fish refused to unite in this arrangement, believing that the time could only be extended by a new treaty; "but if the arbitrators consented to adjourn on the request of Great Britain, the United States Government would not object."

Explanations were made in both Houses of Parliament in the evening. Earl Granville admitted that an adjournment had been proposed, but Mr. Gladstone omitting to do so drew down strong condemnation from Mr. Disraeli, who complained of the Premier's want of frankness.

11.-The Dublin Court of Common Pleas decide that Captain Trench was entitled to the seat which Captain Nolan had been deprived of at Galway. The sitting judges were Chief Justice Monahan, and Justices Keogh, Morris, and Lawson. The three latter concurred in the judgment by which Captain Trench obtained the seat, and the Chief Justice, in stating the grounds of his dissent, took occasion to say he had no doubt as to the truth of the allegations of undue influence and intimidation by Captain Nolan and his agents. When a motion was made by Mr. Gladstone to substitute the naṛne of Captain Trench for Nolan, in conformity with Justice Keogh's report to the Speaker, an attempt was made to raise a discussion on the point; but it was found that by the Act of 1867 the House had parted with all jurisdiction in election matters, and had no choice but to direct the amendment of the return.

12. The bicentenary of the birth of Peter the Great celebrated with great enthusiasm throughout Russia. At St. Petersburg the Emperor, with his brother the Grand Duke Nicholas, took part in the proceedings, while at Moscow the Imperial family were repre. sented by the Grand Duke Constantine.

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Opening of the first railway constructed in Japan, between Yokohama and Shinagawa. 13.-Died, aged 80, John Forrester, a wellknown member of the Mansion House police force.

14.-After a trial extending over three days Marguerite Dixblanc is found guilty of the murder of Madame Riel, Park Lane, and sentenced to death by Baron Channell, who presided at the Old Bailey. Under a belief that there had been a quarrel between the mistress and her servant, the jury recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the Court. Crown afterwards gave effect to the recommendation by commuting the extreme penalty to imprisonment for life.

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15.-The Irish Nation, lashed into fury by the deliverance of Judge Keogh on the Galway case, declares The man who sold them as Judas sold his God; the man who gave them the kiss, with the thirty pieces in his pocket; the man whose treason blasted the hopes of a confiding people, and sent thousands into exile, pauperism, or the grave, is the same who dares to come forward now in the rôle of moral censor and political headsman! Our rulers will discover ere long that a hundred 'Fenian

conspirators' could not do as much in ten years as Mr. Keogh has done in one day to fill this land with hatred of the law and rule that has its representative in him; and with resentment of the humiliation, the ignominy, the outrage of setting over us on the justice-seat, to revile our faith and destroy our liberties, a political traitor false to his country and forsworn to his oath!"

15. The arbitrators under the Treaty of Washington hold a private conference at Geneva.

Owing to the death of Mr. Blenkiron, a sale of yearlings takes place at Middle Park, sixty lots bringing 17,coo guineas, or an average of nearly 300 guineas. A colt by General Peel out of Danae sold for 1,750 guineas; a bay colt by Blair Athol out of Coimbra, 1,550%.; and a colt by Blair Athol out of Margery Daw, 1,150 guineas. Mr. Tattersall announced that Mr. Blenkiron's executors had received an offer from the Prussian Government for the whole of the stud, but declined it on the ground that they thought it right this country should have the opportunity of participating in its advantages.

Died at Glasgow, aged 60 years, Rev. Norman McLeod, D.D., a popular Scotch preacher, one of her Majesty's chaplains in Scotland, and editor of Good Words, to which he contributed many graphic tales and sketches of foreign travel.

17.-The Ballot Bill passes through committee in the Lords with two amendments, moved by the Duke of Richmond, designed to trace the voter, by marking on the counterfoil his number on the voting register, and to make secresy only optional.

19.-Count Sclopis, President of the Geneva Arbitrators, states that after the most careful perusal of all that had been urged by the United States on the subject of the indirect claims, they had arrived, "individually and collectively, at the conclusion that these claims do not constitute, upon the principles of international law applicable to such cases, good foundation for an award of compensation, or computation of damages between nations, and should upon such principles be wholly excluded from the consideration of the Tribunal in making up its award, even if there were no disagreement as to the competency of the Tribunal to decide thereon, with a view to the settlement of the other claims to the consideration of which by the Tribunal no exception has been taken on

the part of her Britannic Majesty's Government. On the 25th, Mr. Bancroft Davis stated that "the declaration by the Tribunal was accepted by the President of the United States as determinative of the judgment on the important question of public law involved; and that he, as agent of the United States, was authorized to say that consequently the above mentioned claims will not be further insisted upon before the Tribunal by the United States, and may be excluded from all consideration in any award that may be made." On the 28th the Tribunal adjourned until the 15th of July.

19.-A bill for the expulsion of the Jesuits passing the German Reichstag by 131 votes to 93; and another anti-clerical proposal making civil marriage and registration thereof compulsory, was approved of by 151 votes to 100.

Strike in the London building trade for increased pay and shorter hours.

20. The Synod of the French Reformed Church adopt M. Guizot's proposal in favour of the establishment of a definite creed to avoid the scandal of high Calvinists and Rationalists sitting together.

21. The Burmese Embassy received by the Queen at Windsor.

Compromise in the Thwaites will case; the jury, under instructions from Lord Penzance, finding against the sanity of the deceased, but discharged on the plea referring to undue influence. (See page 639.)

22. In the Treasury case of Edmunds v. Gladstone and others, Justice Mellor finds that the evidence had failed to prove the publication of the minute complained of, and a nonsuit was entered accordingly.

23.-Father Conway, one of the Galway priests censured by Judge Keogh, having died suddenly, Mr. Sullivan of the Nation declared at a meeting of Roman Catholics that he had never raised his head since the day he was made the butt of public ridicule. "He went

but once since to the altar where his consecrated hands so often offered the august sacrifice to the Most High. He was consigned to a bed of fever, in his delirium repeating the sentences of contumely that had broken his noble heart, and sent him to-day a murdered priest into his grave. (Sensation.) Father Conway has gone to appeal from Judge Keogh's judgment to the judgment of One who would not deny him justice, and before whose high throne and judgment seat on the eternal day Judge Keogh would find his sentence reversed." (Sensation.)

24.-Bethnal Green Museum opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

25.-Addressing the Constitutional Association at the Crystal Palace, Mr. Disraeli said: "I have always been of opinion that the Tory party has three great objects. The first is to maintain the institutions of the country--not

from any sentiment of political superstition, but because we believe that the principles upon which a community like England can alone safely rest-the principles of liberty, of order, of law, and of religion-ought not to be entrusted to individual opinion or to the caprice and passion of multitudes, but should be embodied in a form of permanence and power. We associate with the monarchy the ideas which it represents the majesty of the law, the administration of justice, the fountain of mercy and of honour. We know that the estates of the realm, by the privileges they enjoy, are the best security for public liberty and good government. We believe that a national profession of faith can only be attained by maintaining an Established Church, and that no society is safe unless there is a public recognition of the Providential government of the world, and of the future responsibility of man." The Reform Act of 1867-8 was founded, he said, in a confidence that the great body of the people of this country were conservative. "I use the word in its purest and loftiest sense. I mean that the people of England, and especially the working classes of England, are proud of belonging to a great country, and wish to maintain its greatness-that they are proud of belonging to an Imperial country, and are resolved to maintain, if they can, the empire of England-that they believe, on the whole, that the greatness and the empire of England are to be attributed to the ancient institutions of the land." Mr. Disraeli exhorted his hearers to do their best to secure the triumph of their principles. The time was at hand—at least it could not be long distant-when England would have to decide between national and cosmopolitan principles. This observation was received with loud and long-continued cheering, as was also the prophecy with which the speaker concluded, on the assumption that the Conservative party would put forth its united strength :--" You will maintain your country in its present position. But you will do more than that-you will deliver to your posterity a land of liberty, of prosperity, of power, and of glory."

25.-Mr. Cowper-Temple's Occasional Sermons Bill rejected by 177 to 116 votes.

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Mr. M'Arthur's motion, "That a humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to take into consideration the propriety of establishing a Protectorate at Fiji, or of annexing those islands, provided that this may be effected with the consent of the inhabitants," rejected by 135 to 84 votes.

The Burials Bill defeated on the motion to go into committee, by 100 to 78 votes.

26.-Unveiling of a stained-glass window in Berkhampstead church as a memorial to the poet Cowper, son of the rector of the parish, and born there November 15, 1731.

The Ballot Bill read a third time in the

House of Lords and passed.

27. Miss Fox, adopted daughter of Lady Holland, married to Prince Liechtenstein at the Pro-Cathedral, Kensington.

Announcement made in both Houses of Parliament that America had accepted the declaration of the Geneva arbitrators excluding the indirect claims.

28.-The Lords' amendments to the Ballot Bill considered in the Commons. The optional ballot rejected by 302 to 234; the scrutiny accepted by 382 to 137; the extension of the hours of polling rejected by 227 to 190.

30.-William Edward Taylor, dealer in old iron, Bermondsey, murders a woman with whom he lived, named Hebden, their daughter Frances, aged five years, fractures the skull of his son James, and then attempts to commit suicide. A few hours after being conveyed to the hospital the maniac jumped out of bed, evaded the constable and the nurse who were in charge of him, rushed into another ward, seized the tongs and menaced the nurse, who escaped by springing from the second-floor window to the ground, fortunately without being injured. Taylor then dashed about the ward and the corridors, and wrote in blood on

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the wall, Poison me. Kill me. Let me die. Put me out of my misery." He ultimately ran to a window on the first floor and jumped out of it into the grounds beneath. The window, however, was only six feet from the ground, and he was not injured by his leap.

July 1. The Commons reject the Lords' amendment to the Ballot Bill limiting the duration of the Act to eight years, by 246 to 165 votes. After a conference with the Upper House the Commons accepted this clause, and the Lords withdrew the power of optional secresy proposed to be given to the voter.

– Disorderly scene in the French National Assembly between M. Thiers and M. Rouher regarding the tax on raw materials.

2.-Mr. Miall's motion for a Royal Com. mission to inquire into the origin, nature, amount, and application of the property and revenues of the Church of England rejected by 295 to 94 votes. Mr. T. Hughes's amendment directing the inquiry to ecclesiastical purposes generally was also rejected by 270 to 41 votes.

4. The Acrobats Bill, framed to protect young people from engaging in entertainments dangerous to their lives or injurious to health, read a second time in the House of Lords.

"Independence Day" celebrated by the arbitrators at Geneva, Mr. Adams responding at the banquet to the toast"The Day we celebrate."

After a debate protracted over six days the Upper House of Convocation resolves to refer the subject of the Athanasian Creed to a committee of both Houses.

5.-Experimental firing into the Glatton in Portland Roads, with results favourable to turret-built ships of her strength. The gun used was the Hotspur's 25-ton.

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· Judge Keogh having been appointed to take the Irish north-west circuit, the Dublin Nation writes :-" And so, guarded by special constables, watched over by spies, and protected by detectives, with gall on his tongue and venom in his heart, he returns to the land of his birth. Deeply as we may regret this issue, it leaves us some little grounds for consolation, like the shining jewel in the forehead of the toad of adversity. The spectacle afforded by Judge Keogh and his political surroundings may not be without its uses in Ireland, and the lesson which his presence in Ireland will inculcate is not wholly devoid of advantages. Others besides temperance lecturers have found the benefit of having a 'dreadful example' to point to, and Mr. Justice Keogh will serve as a living memento to tell the aspirants to public favour in Ireland the way they should not go."

8.-Convalescent Home at Highgate opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

A vote of 4,1337. for the legal expenses of Governor Eyre's defence against criminal prosecutions, carried by 243 to 130 votes.

At the Central Criminal Court, Henry Benson pleaded guilty to obtaining 1,000l. from the late Lord Mayor on the false pretence of relieving the destitute inhabitants of Châteaudun at the close of the war, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with such hard labour as he was able to perform.

9.-Explosion in Tradeston Flour Mills, Glasgow, causing the destruction of an extensive range of buildings, the deaths of fourteen people, and serious injury to twelve others employed in the building at the time. The calamity was at first attributed to an escape of gas, but scientific and practical evidence submitted to a court of inquiry held immediately afterwards, made it more likely to have beer.

caused by an accumulation of explosive dust generated in the process of grinding.

9.-The Democratic Convention at Baltimore nominate Mr. Horace Greeley as their candidate for the Presidency, and Mr. Gretz Brown for the Vice-Presidency.

- Justice Keogh and Justice Lawson set out from Dublin for the purpose of opening the assizes at Longford. The train by which they travelled was preceded by a pilot engine and two carriages containing a number of soldiers. At intermediate stations policemen were under arms, but there was no demonstration whatever. A large force of cavalry, infantry, and constabulary awaited the arrival of the train at Longford, where the judges were received by the high sheriff. Their lordships proceeded to their lodgings under a strong escort.

10. The greater part of the masons on strike in London resume work.

A cabinet of Staffordshire ware presented to Mr. Bright by workers in the Potteries district. In acknowledging the gift he took occasion to refer to the subject of Parliamentary Reform, mentioning that within the last few days they had seen how much progress had been made. "The House of Lords--which seems to be almost the last refuge of political ignorance and passion-the House of Lord has consented to the establishment of vote by ballot, by which perfect security and inde pendence will be given to every elector. They have, unfortunately, insisted on a reservation which shows how little they know of the signs of the times, which must infallibly create embarrassment, and contest, and party strife. This might have been avoided, for they, of all persons, have the greatest interest in dispersing with it.

15.-The Free Church Presbytery of Dundee engage in the consideration of a charge brought against the Rev. Mr. Knight, a member of their body, of having preached in the chapel of the Rev. James Martineau, London. After a long discussion, a motion was adopted, setting forth that Mr. Knight's conduct was highly censurable, but that in view of the offence being the first of the kind with which the Church had had to deal, Mr. Knight should simply be admonished, required to repudiate the Unitariar body as forming part of the Church of Christ.