Died, aged 77, Albany William Fonblanque, formerly proprietor and editor of the Examiner, and latterly head of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade.

14. Mr. J. S. Mill, writing from Avignon, explains to a Nottingham association his views. on their programme described in "The Law of the Revolution." "There is no real thing called 'the revolution,' nor any 'principles of the revolution.' There are maxims which your association, in my opinion, rightly considers to be essential to just government; and there is a tendency, increasing as mankind advances in intelligence and education, towards the adoption of the doctrines of just government. These are all the facts there are in the case, and the more clearly and unambiguously these, and nothing but these, are stated, the better people will understand one another, and the more distinctly they will see what they are disputing about and what they are avowed to prove.

I cannot conclude without expressing the great pleasure with which I have seen the full and thoroughgoing recognition by your body of the claim of women to equal rights in every respect with men, and of minorities proportionately to their numbers with majorities, and its advocacy of the federal principle for the security of this last."

Opening of the new Japan railway from Jeddo to Yokohama.

15. In the course of an audience at Balmoral, Lord Hatherley formally surrenders the Great Seal, and is succeeded by Sir R. Palmer, now Lord Selborne. In taking leave of his constituents at Richmond, the latter wrote:--"In the high office to which her Majesty has been pleased to call me I trust I may be enabled, by God's blessing, so to act as not to forfeit your good opinion, nor give you any cause to regret that my name has been so long associated with the borough of Richmond."

15.-Unveiling of a statue erected to the memory of Sir Humphrey Davy at Penzance, where the great natural philosopher was born in 1778.

The Count de Chambord writes to La Rochette from Ebenzweyer :-"As a whole France is Catholic and Monarchical; it is for us to caution it against errors, to point out the rocks, and to direct it towards the port. I trust that I have never failed in that sacred duty, and no one will ever be able to seduce me from my path. I have not one word to retract, not an act to regret, for they have all been inspired by love of my country; and I insist upon my share of responsibility in the advice which I give to my friends. The day of triumph is still one of God's secrets, but have confidence in the mission of France. Europe has need of it, the Papacy has need of it, and therefore the old Christian nation cannot perish."

The Emperor of China married at Pekin. There was no public ceremony outside the palace, beyond the procession to bring the bride, the Lady Aluto, daughter of Chungchi, a doctor of the Imperial Academy.

17.-Correspondence with Russia regarding the disputed Afghan boundaries. Earl Granville writes to-day that her Majesty's Government considers as fully belonging to the Ameer of Cabul (1) Badakshan, with its dependent district of Wakhan from the Sarikol (Woods Lake) on the east to the junction of the Kokcha River with the Oxus (or Penjah), forming the northern boundary of this Afghan province throughout its entire extent. (2) Afghan Turkestan, comprising the districts of Kunduz, Khulm, and Balkh, the northern boundary of which would be the line of the Oxus from the junction of the Kokcha River to the post of the Khoja Saleh, inclusive, on the high road from Bokhara to Balkh. Nothing to be claimed by the Afghan Ameer on the left bank of the Oxus below Khoja Saleh. (3) The internal districts of Aksha, Seripool, Maimenat, Shibberjan, and Andkoi, the latter of which would be the extreme Afghan frontier possession to the north-west, the desert beyond belonging to independent tribes of Turcomans. (4) The western Afghan frontier between the dependencies of Herat and those of the Persian province of Khorassan is well known, and need not here

be defined. Prince Gortscnakoff's reply to this despatch, of date St. Petersburg, December 7, stated that General Kaufmann, owing to various difficulties, had been unable to carry out his investigation as speedily as the Russian no less than the British Government desired. The conclusions drawn by the Russian Government did not much differ substantially from those of the British Government, but Russia was unable to find any traces of sovereignty exercised by the Ameer of Cabul over Badakshan and Wakhan; 66 on the contrary, all our information upon the subject goes to prove that these districts should be regarded as independent."

17. Mr. Justice Denman sworn into the vacant judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas.

The Prince of Wales, now on a visit to the Earl of Tankerville, engages in a wild bull hunt in Chillingham Forest, and brings down with his rifle the king of the herd, about seven years old and weighing upwards of sixty

stone.

Lord Northbrook holds a public durbar at Umballa. In a brief address the Viceroy referred to the loss which the native princes had sustained by the death of Lord Mayo, and thanked them for their prompt action on the occasion of the Kooka outbreak.

A Great Eastern express train runs off the line at a cutting near Kelvedon, killing one person, injuring twenty others, and destroying several carriages.

Died suddenly at Campbeltown, Dr. Finlayson, Scotch clergyman.

18.-Died at Auburn, aged 70, W. H. Seward, late Foreign Secretary for the United States.

Collision between two mineral trains at Woodhouse Junction, near Sheffield, causing the death of an engine driver and stoker, with great damage to rolling stock.

19.--A man and woman, names unknown, found dead in their lodgings in Golden Square. A phial labelled strychnine was on the table. There was also, in a man's handwriting, a note in English to the following effect :-"Our last will. We wish the trunk and the contents to be given to Mrs. Cunningham in return for the trouble given her. The rest may serve to pay the expenses of the funeral. Nobody is to blame, as we both took strychnine, and we wish to remain unknown. We have done no wrong to anybody. O Lord, forgive us all, and pardon us, for Thine infinite mercies. We leave 5., 17. to be given to Mrs. Cunningham for one week's rent. The rest for the burial. "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me: Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.' "No papers of any description which could lead to the identity of the persons were found, but from the appearance of the grate in the room a number of papers were destroved

The Emperor of Germany, as arbitrator in the San Juan difficulty, gives an award that the claims of the United States fully accord with the true interpretation of the treaty of the 15th of June, 1846, and that the boundary line has, therefore, to run through the Haro Channel.

22.-Died, aged 54, George Mason, A.R. A., a prominent English landscape-painter.

Died, aged 82, Simon Thomas Scrope, of Danby Hall, York, the representative of a house which during the last 300 years produced two earls, twenty barons, one Chancellor, four Treasurers, two Chief Justices of England, five Knights of the Garter, and numerous baronets.

23.-Died at Paris, aged 61, M. Théophile Gautier, dramatist and journalist.

24.-Addressing his constituents at Exeter, Sir John Coleridge said that no Ministry in the world ever fulfilled the expectations that were raised about it, and no man that ever lived, not Pitt, nor Peel, nor Palmerston, ever maintained the power with which he began. It therefore would not surprise him, Sir John Coleridge said, if after four years of administration the foes of the Government were found to be more active and its friends somewhat more disunited than in the winter of 1868. The Tories were always united. There are five hundred ways of going forward, but one way of standing still. To stand still and observe the Government seemed to be their best idea of a policy. To

tell the persons who listen to them that the Government has alienated the colonies and humiliated the country is about the limit of their topics. Now, neither of those charges was true. The colonies are not alienated, and he could see no trace anywhere of the waning influence of England in her attitude toward foreign Powers. "I see none, for instance," he said, "in the eagerness of the French Government to conclude the new French Treaty. I can see none at all even in the Treaty of Washington, or in the Geneva award. I admit there is a good deal in the caustic language of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I admit that there is still more in the splendid specimen of reason and eloquence which we owe to the matured vigour and extraordinary powers of the Lord Chief Justice of England. I admit that there is a good deal in this and other things to make an Englishman's face hot and his blood to tingle. I admit that when one reads some of the American arguments, though I am a man of peace, my fingers itch. I admit that it is not a matter for great pride, but it is a matter for acquiescence. I cannot help feeling that on the whole we are well out of a bad business."

Two Roman Catholic Bishops consecrated with great ceremony at Salford.

30.-Died, aged 57, John Chubb, inventor and maker of the well-known locks which bear his name.

Died at Oxford suddenly, Thomas Combe, M.A., printer to the University of Oxford, and founder of St. Barnabas' Church and the Chapel of the Radcliffe Infirmary.

Died at Hartrigge, Lord Kinloch, Senator of the College of Justice, Edinburgh.

The Suez Canal Company erect a monument at Suez to the memory of Lieutenant Waghorn, the enterprising pioneer of the Overland and Red Sea Route to India and China.

31. Sixty thousand persons reported to be rendered homeless in Italy by floods.

Dinner in Willis's Rooms, presided over by Earl Stanhope, to Mr. W. J. Thoms on the occasion of his retirement from the editorship of Notes and Queries, which he had held since its commencement in November 1849. On the same evening a dinner was given in the same place by the Royal Geographical Society to Sir Bartle Frere, previous to setting out on his special mission to Zanzibar,

The trial of Mayor Hall at New York for participation in the Tammany frauds ends in the discharge of the jury on account of their not being able to agree upon a verdict. They were locked up from 9.30 P. M. on the 31st of October till 11 A. M. on the following day, and it was reported in court that they had spent the night in political discussion,

2.-The Morning Post announces that it enters this day on the 101st year of its existence, its principles having been during that time uniformly "loyal and national."

Launch of the Hansa, the first German ironclad built in a German dockyard.

Rev. C. Voysey celebrates in St. George's Hall, Langham Place, for the first time, the service of "dedication and benediction of children," a substitute for the ancient ceremony of baptism.

Correspondence between the Duke of Marlborough and the Attorney-General regarding the eviction of certain labourers from the Blenheim 'estate. "The Duke" writes Sir John, "denies that his estates have ever been granted by the State. It is hardly worth controversy; but I was under the impression that they were granted and inalienably settled by Act of Parliament soon after the battle of Blenheim. If I am wrong in this I shall be happy

to apologize. The Duke says I am 'pleased to style him a Tory duke,' and seems annoyed that I have done so. I meant no more offence than he would mean if he called me a Liberal Attorney-General. I have heard the great leader in whose Cabinet he served speak of himself as 'the leader of the Tory party in the House of Commons; but, as the Duke objects to the epithet, I regret that I used it, and should I have occasion to allude to him again in public I will take care to avoid it." To this the Duke made answer :- "What I denied was that the vast estates' to which he alluded in his speech in connection with my cottage property had ever been so granted. I beg to refer him to 3 and 4 Anne, cap. 6, an Act to enable the Queen, by letters patent, to grant to the Duke of Marlborough the honour and manor of Woodstock and Hundred of Wootton. will there see the identical lands granted, with their names and admeasurements, and will be able to form his own opinion what proportion they bear to the total acreage of my landed property. For the information of the public I may say that they are almost exclusively park, pleasure-grounds, and woods, and comprise little over 500 acres outside and adjoining the park itself; and, with the exception of lodges and keepers' houses, there are no cottages whatever upon the lands in question. The AttorneyGeneral, if he cares to peruse this Act, will perhaps be candid enough to admit that he has been indulging in the same strain of rhetoric to which in his letter of to-day he has already pleaded guilty.'

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4.-Anti-slavery meeting at the Mansion House, called to strengthen the mission about to be undertaken by Sir Bartle Frere to suppress the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa.

Discovery of human remains at Cropton, near Pickering, Yorkshire, supposed to be those of Joseph Wood and his son James, tenants of the farm, who had been missing since May last, and whose residence was now occupied by a person named Charter, pretending to have authority to act for the Woods.

5.-Dr. Cookson, Master of St. Peter's College, elected Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University by 40 votes against 26 tendered for Dr. Atkinson, Master of Clare College.

The new Library and Museum erected by the Corporation of the City of London opened by the Lord Chancellor in the presence of nearly 2,000 guests. Lord Selborne, in a brief address, dwelt on the zeal for education which the City of London had uniformly manifested, even as far back as what were sometimes called "the dark ages," and said that in building this beautiful library the City was only adding the finishing touch to a work which had been going on consistently for ages. The speech of the Lord Chancellor was received throughout with much enthusiasm, and, at its close, his lordship was conducted through the building, and inspected the works of art and objects of antiquarian interest there displayed. The Crypt

M. Rochefort granted a temporary release from prison for the purpose of marrying the mother of his illegitimate children, understood to be dying at Versailles.

7. Mr. E. J. Reed, replying to criticisms on his recent letters on the Navy, writes :— "In spite of our recent and even present strength, so many powerful ships are springing up abroad that we are falling astern in the chase, and by our total inaction, extending now over years, are losing even the chance of competing. I have not sought to excite apprehension of imminent danger. My forecasts necessarily go into the future, and I maintain that, looking to the future, our recent policy has been involving us in very serious risks and disadvantages."

8. In his closing visitation at Tonbridge, the Archbishop of Canterbury expressed his gratification that the Church of England had worthy and prominent representatives at the recent meeting of the Old Catholics at Cologne ; and while sympathizing with the endeavours that have been made and are still making to promote a better understanding among the Episcopal Churches, he looked back with pleasure to what he did ten years ago as Bishop of London towards giving a kindly welcome to pastors from Germany, from France, from Switzerland, and from the Waldensian valleys. He recognized the fact that, both historically and doctrinally, the Church of England has affinities to very different forms of Christian thought and organization, and contended that these varied affinities give the Church a particular fitness for attempting the work of reconciliation. The Archbishop also took occasion to speak of the comprehensiveness of the Church of England as combining the perfection of civil and ecclesiastical society: "There are certain names which occur to us of famous ministers of the Church of England-Archbishop Whately, Thomas Arnold, Frederick Denison Maurice, Frederick Robertson-to name only those who have gone to their rest. These are not the names of the clergy who are the most popular throughout England; but I am bold to maintain that they are the names of men who have done a good work in their day and generation, for their very presence among us has been a

standing protest against any notion that inquiry and a fearless love of truth can be inconsistent with the Gospel which we preach. If these men had lived under another system and in another age, it might have been very difficult to say what would have become of them. They certainly could not have joined the Church of Rome without crushing their convictions, as many have done in past ages under the weight of overwhelming tyranny, or seeking relief from their doubts and scruples by a silence akin to death. But, also, I say that these men could not well have found a home in any of the ordinary sects which exist among us. It is then, I am bold to say, no blame to the Church of England, but rather it may be its pride, that it is able to inclose within its fold the most active and inquiring intellects, and that it has no fear lest a bold examination of truth should destroy those truths of God in which it teaches men to hope for their salvation."

8.-Châlons evacuated by the Germans.

The Gazette sets forth the details of the new Commercial Treaty with France, Article 2 stating that the President of the French Republic having represented to her Majesty that the financial necessities of France imperatively require the imposition of new taxes in that country, and the modification for that purpose of the tariff stipulations previously in force, her Majesty, in "a spirit of friendship towards France," consents to such modification. The contracting parties guarantee to each other the treatment of the most favoured nation. The provisions with regard to tariffs are to remain in force until the 1st of January, 1877, and those with regard to navigation until the 1st of July, 1879.

Vice-Chancellor Bacon gives judgement in the case of the assignees of the Countess d'Alteyrac against the estate of the late Lord Willoughby d'Eresby. Under the award of Mr. Vernon Harcourt, the Countess was to receive a capital sum of 5,000l. in respect of her action, and Lord Willoughby d'Eresby to settle upon her an annuity of 1,200/. within a certain time, and in the event of his failing to legally secure it to her, an additional payment of 100l. a month was awarded until the annuity was purchased by his lordship. The annuity not having been purchased, the payment of 100l. a month was made until the death of his lordship in August 1870. In 1860 the Countess was adjudicated a bankrupt, and her assignees made the present claim. It was contended that the assignees were only entitled to the value of the annuity as if it had been purchased on the day of his lordship's death, and also that the Countess was not entitled to the additional payments of 100l. a month, as they were in the nature of penalties, and therefore void. The Vice-Chancellor held that the assignees were entitled to have an annuity of 1,200/. purchased, and that until the day of payment the annuity of 100%. was payable in pursuance of the award.

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9.-Commencement of a fire in Boston, U.S., laying waste a large portion of the business part of the city, and causing gigantic loss to those engaged in commerce. It broke out in the evening at the corner of Summer Street and Kingston Street, ran along Summer Street bota ways to the north-west and to the south-east, increased greatly in intensity by a violent northwesterly gale. Block after block of substantial granite buildings crumbled before its fury. four o'clock on Sunday morning (10th) twentytwo squares were destroyed, the burnt district at that time covering about sixty acres, bounded by Summer Street on the south-west, Big Broad Street on the south-east, Pearl Street on the north-east, Milk Street on the north, and Washington Street on the north-west. The Boston Fire Department was crippled by the epidemic among the horses, this also preventing to a great extent the removal of the goods. Aid summoned from Worcester, Providence, New York, Fall River, Lowell, Lynn, and other towns, was promptly sent. All the railways coming into Boston ran fast trains, bringing firemen from the neighbouring cities, many companies arriving before three in the morning. The police being unable to maintain order, the United States troops and marines stationed there were ordered on duty. Extensive plundering went on during the confusion; and 200 thieves, some of them women, were arrested. The loss of life was heavy, but it was impossible to tell the number accurately. The old South Church, the most interesting monument in Boston, where Warren defied the Royal authority, delivered his oration on the Boston massacre, where resistance to the teatax was organized, and for a century and a half the election sermons were preached to the Governors of Massachusetts, was among the buildings destroyed. Latterly the progress of the fire could only be arrested by blowing up blocks of valuable property. At noon Sunday it was believed the fire was under control, after lasting for twenty hours and destroying seventy acres of buildings. Shortly after midnight, however, flames broke out again, owing to explosions of gas, and destroyed six more large stores with the Exchange and Post Office. In all it was reported that 959 buildings were destroyed, 125 being private buildings; 35 persons were reported killed, 2,043 firms and individuals suffered pecuniary loss. The insurances were estimated at 48,000,000 dols., half the policies being in Massachusetts com. panies.

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Mr. H. M. Stanley, the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone, leaves Liverpool for America.

At the Lord Mayor's banquet to-night, Earl Granville, in the absence of Mr. Gladstone through indisposition, devoted the greater part of his speech to the new commercial treaty, declaring his belief that its principle and substance are strictly in accordance with free trade. On the subject of their general policy and procedure, Lord Granville claimed for the Govern