a rude hut and fence. He would not allow any one to approach him for the remaining days of his life except Majwara and Susi, although they all called daily at his door to say "Good morning.' During these days the traveller was in great pain, and could keep nothing, even for a moment, on his stomach. He so far lost his sight as hardly to be able to distinguish when a light was Kindled, and gradually sank during the night of the 4th of May. Only Majwara was present when the Doctor died, and he was unable to say when breathing ceased. Susi, hearing that he was dead, told Jacob Wainwright to make a note in the Doctor's diary of the things found by him. Wainwright was not quite certain as to the day of the month, and as Susi told him the Doctor had last written the day before, and he found this entry to be dated 27th April, he wrote 28th; but on comparing his own diary on arrival at Unyanyembe, he found it to be the 4th of May: and this was confirmed by Majwara, who said Livingstone was unable to write for the last four or five days of his life. The closing entry in the traveller's diary was a touching reference to the loss of his servants :-"Very weak to-day. The good boys have carried me to the vil" (village). The spot where Livingstone breathed his last was put down at 11° 25" S. and 27° E.

5.-International Commission appointed at Constantinople to determine on matters relating to Suez Canal shipping dues.

The Greek Government abolishes all its foreign legations except one at Constantinople.

- Fall of a bridge at Dixon, Illinois, crowded with people witnessing a baptism; fifty persons, mostly women, reported to be drowned.

Anti-Ritualist memorial presented to the Archbishop at Lambeth Palace, praying the Bishops-"1. To exercise all the authority vested in your lordships for the entire suppression of ceremonies and practices adjudged to be illegal, and in the event of that authority proving insufficient, to afford all other needful facilities for the due enforcement of the law. 2. To take especial care that in the consecration of new and in the restoration of old churches, no form of architectural arrangements and no ornaments be allowed that may facilitate the introduction of the superstitious practices and erroneous doctrines which the Church at the Reformation did disown and reject. 3. And, lastly, in the admission of candidates to Holy Orders, in the licensing of curates, and also in the distribution of patronage, to protect us and our families from teaching which-though it may not subject the individual offender to judicial condemnation-is, when taken in its plain and obvious meaning, subversive of those truths to which our Protestant Church, as Keeper and Witness of Holy Writ, has ever ble its faithful testimony.

5.-On the proposal to read the new Judicature Bill a third time, the Marquis of Salisbury moved an amendment intended to transfer ecclesiastical appeals to the new Court of Appeal constituted by the bill, and thus put an end to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council. The Marquis objected to the present constitution of the committee when dealing with ecclesiastical appeals, on the ground that among its members were bishops, who, though unlearned in the law, were called on to decide legal questions, and who were also, for the most part, pledged beforehand to a particular view on the subjects which came before them as Judges. The arguments of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in reply, tended to show that in a Court of Ecclesiastical Appeal bishops should be present as Assessors rather than as Judges; while the Bishop of Winchester expressed a wish for the removal of the Episcopal element from the Judicial Committee, as likely to cause the decisions of the committee to be received more impartially by the great body of the clergy -an opinion shared by Lord Cairns and Earl Carnarvon. Ultimately, the Marquis of Salisbury assenting to the objection of the Lord Chancellor that the subject was too large for discussion at that late stage, withdrew his motion, and the bill passed.

Mr. Fawcett's University Bill passed by the Commons.

6. Sir Charles Dilke's motion calling for redress in the inequalities of the distribution of electoral power over the kingdom rejected by 268 to 77 votes; and Mr. Trevelyan's resolution against honorary colonelcies rejected by 80 to 40 votes.

The Irish Court of Queen's Bench pronounces judgment in the O'Keeffe demurrer case. The Roman Catholic Judges Barry, Fitzgerald, and O'Brien, held that the rescript of the Pope under which Cardinal Cullen acted in suspending Father O'Keeffe was illegal, but that Father O'Keeffe under his contract with the Church had submitted beforehand to the Cardinal's authority, and that, therefore, he could not allege that in publishing in Callan the suspension pronounced upon him, although under an illegal rescript, the Cardinal had libelled him. Judge Fitzgerald contended that an agreement to refrain from having recourse to the public tribunals is not against the public interest or any contravention of the law, and is a very wholesome rule of practice and discipline. Chief-Justice Whiteside, on the contrary, insisted that the communication was not privi

leged, and that the object-one which the Courts could not sanction-was to exempt a numerous clergy from "intercourse with the civil magistrate." He also said it was "apparently thought that the present was a favourable time and Ireland a favourable country" for reasserting the foreign authority, which many ancient and modern statutes had repudiated and forbidden. His lordship also held that a priest could not be suspended even for criminal conduct without regular proceedings, except in time of visitation, and never after induction could the priest be removed at the mere discretion of the bishop.As the other three Judges were of the opposite opinion, the case was unaffected by the ChiefJustice's view.

7. Sir W. Lawson's Permissive Bill thrown out in the Commons by 321 to 81 votes.

The Marquis of Lorne proposes to the Archbishop of Canterbury to raise amongst the laity a central fund large enough to make it certain that no incumbent of any living belonging to the Church of England should have less than 200l. a year. "Should your grace approve the estalishment of such a fund, the Princess and I would be anxious to assist in raising a subscription." His grace promised to co-operate in the scheme, and secure also the countenance of the episcopal bench generally.

The Upper House of Convocation adopt a "declaration" for the removal of doubts and to prevent disquietude in the use of the Athanasian Creed, solemnly declaring "that the Confession of our Christian faith, commonly called the Creed of St. Athanasius, is not to be understood as making any addition to the faith as contained in Holy Scripture, but as a warning against errors which from time to time have arisen in the Church of Christ; secondly, inasmuch as Holy Scripture in divers places doth promise life to them that believe, and declares condemnation of them that believe not, so doth the Church in this Confession declare the necessity for all who would be in a state of salvation of holding fast the Christian faith, and the great peril of rejecting the same. So that the warnings in this Confession of faith are to be understood in no otherwise than like warnings in Holy Scripture. Moreover, as all judgments belong to God alone, we are not required or allowed to pronounce judgment upon any particular person or persons. Furthermore, we are to receive God's threatenings, even as his promises, as they are set forth in Holy Scripture." The Bishops of Norwich and Exeter opposed the Declaration, being desirous to abolish the use of the Creed in public worship.

8.-Died, at Avignon, from erysipeias, aged 67, John Stuart Mill, author of many valuable works on logic and political economy.

9.-The Upper House of Convocation discusses a petition signed by 430 members of the Church of England, praying for the ap. pointment of "duly qualified confessors."

Panic on the Vienna Bourse, leading to the fall of over 200 firms, and the suspension of the Bank Act.

12. -Apologizing to Mr. Cubitt, M.P., for his inability to attend a Lambeth Conservative banquet, Mr. Disraeli writes:-"You will have an opportunity of impressing on the metropolitan constituencies that at the impending general election the country will have to decide whether they will maintain the integrity of the kingdom, as well as of the empire, and whether they will uphold and cherish that great body of laws and customs and traditions which have converted a small island into one of the mighty Powers of the world. There is no part of the Queen's dominions in which Conservative elements are more rife than in her capital city. But as happens frequently, when the area and population are alike vast, there is a want of leaders and organization. But without leaders and organization nothing can be done; and the metropolitan constituencies must show themselves equal to the occasion, and rise to the emergency.'

Mr. Stansfeld carries a motion in the Commons for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire and report whether the existing areas and boundaries of parishes, unions, and counties may be so altered as to prevent the inconveniences which now arise from their subdivision.

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At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Mr. N. Elias, the gold medalist of the year, and the first European who had travelled through Western Mongolia, reads an interesting paper on that remote region.

13. The Dublin University Bill read a second time in the Lords.

Mr. Crawford's motion for an address to the Queen condemning the scheme of the Endowed Schools Commissioners for dealing with Emanuel Hospital, Westminster, rejected by 286 to 238 votes. Anne, Lady Dacre, widow of Gregory, the last Lord Dacre of the South, and sister of Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and Earl of Dorset, the poet, in pursuance of whose will the Hospital in Tothill Street was erected, died on the 14th of May 1595, having survived her husband only a few months.

Died, in the hospital of the Prussian Deaconesses, Alexandria, aged 42, Emanuel Oscar Deutsch, an accomplished authority in Rabbinical and general oriental literature.

14.-One quarter of a King's share in the New River Company sold in four lots for 12,240, the income for the last year having been on this quarter-share 4487. In 1858 a share sold in the open market at the rate of 19,000l. Twelve years after the share was sold

Intimation given of a concession granted by the Shah to Baron Reuter, and to any company which he may establish, of the exclusive right to construct railways, tramways, and other public works throughout his dominions, tọgether with the exclusive right of working the mines and utilizing the forests of the country. By the second article of the concession, Baron Reuter's company obtained the exclusive right of making, and of working for seventy years, railways throughout the country. The lands necessary for the purpose to be given by the State, so far as possible; and in case lands which are private property should be required, the Persian Government undertook to use its influence to prevent exorbitant prices being charged, and would, if necessary, compel the owners to consent to a forced sale. materials to be free from import duties, and all persons engaged in the works to be exempt from taxation. The company to pay to the Government 20 per cent. on the net profits of the working of the line.

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15. The Australian Colonies (Customs Duties) Bill, designed to repeal the Act forbidding the colonial legislatures to enforce differential duties as between the colonies and the rest of the world, read a second time.

Lord Hartington's motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the case of the Irish National Board of Education, Mr. O'Keeffe, and the Callan School, carried by 159 to 131 votes; Mr. Bouverie protesting against the proposal, as contrary to all precedent, seeing the House was or would soon be in possession of all papers bearing on the case.

18.-Reconstruction of the French Ministry announced. M. Casimir-Périer, Minister of the Interior, and M. Waddington, Minister of Public Instruction.

19.-Lord Salisbury's motion for an address condemning the scheme of the Endowed Schools Commissioners respecting King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham, carried by 106 to 60 votes.

Mr. George Smith, of the British Museum, at present engaged in Assyrian researches on behalf of the Daily Telegraph, writes from Mcsul:-"I am excavating the site of the King's Library, at Nineveh, which I found without much difficulty. Many fresh objects of high importance have rewarded my search. Since my last message I have come upon numerous valuable inscriptions and fragments of all classes, including very curious syllabaries and bilingual records. Among them is a remarkable table of the penalties for neglect or infraction of the laws. But my most fortunate discovery is that of a broken tablet containing the very portion of the text which was missing from the Deluge tablet. Immense masses of earth and débris overlie whatever remains to be brought to light in this part of the great Mound."

21. Mr. W. Fowler's bill for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act rejected by 251 to

128 votes.

The Chipping Norton bench of magistrates commit sixteen women to prison for several days on a charge of intimidating labourers employed in the room of others on strike.

22.-Died, aged 58, the Right Rev. Alexander Ewing, D.C.L., Bishop of Argyll and the Isles.

23. Died, aged 90, Alessandro Manzoni, Italian novelist and poet.

The Land Titles and Transfer Bill and Real Property Limitation Bill read a second time in the Lords.

24. The new Alexandra Palace on Muswell Hill opened.

By a majority of 360 to 344 the French Assembly adopt a vote of want of confidence in the new Ministry. M. Theirs thereupon resigned, and Marshal MacMahon was elected President. In accepting office, the latter wrote: "I obey the will of the Assembly, the depositary of the national Sovereignty, and accept the functions of President of the Republic. A heavy responsibility is thrust upon my patriotism; but with the aid of God and the devotion of the army, which will always be an army of the law and the supporter of all honest men, we will continue together the work of liberating the territory, and restoring moral order throughout the country; we will maintain internal peace, and the principles upon which society rests. That this shall be the case I pledge my word as an honest man and a soldier."

24.-The Dutch Chamber vote supplies for the expedition against Atchin.

26.-President MacMahon submits his first message to the Assembly, expressing a desire for the maintenance of peace, and the reorganization of the army, which "we shail actively persevere in effecting, animated only by a legitimate desire to repair the strength and retain the rank which belong to France. The home policy of the Government will be imbued with a character of social Conservatism. All the laws you have voted possess that characteristic. The Government is resolutely Conservative. We have numerous laws to enact. The bills on the reorganization of the army and municipalities and educational reform are drawn up, and I believe I have selected Ministers who are competent to discuss them. You will discuss the bills which you instructed our predecessor to submit to you and those already before you, and the Government will examine them and give you the result of thier careful consideration. But previously to that the Government must act, and introduce into and impress upon the Administration the spirit of Conservatism, and cause the laws to be respected by appointing agents who will make them respected and themselves respect them. The Government will not fail in this duty, and will defend society against all factions. The post in which you have placed me is that of a sentinel who has to watch over the integrity of your sovereign power.'

M. Thiers resumes his place as a member of the French National Assembly.

27.-The Italian Chamber of Deputies passes the Religious Corporations Bill by 196 to 46

votes.

The trial of the libel case of O'Keeffe v. Cullen terminates in a verdict for the plaintiff ---damages one farthing.

Fire in Grosvenor Mews, Berkeley Square, causing the death of six persons, and serious injury to several others in attempting to escape from the building.

New railway project submitted by M. de Lesseps, the main feature being to connect the lines of Russia with those of India, the first section extending from the north-east of the Caspian Sea to Samarkand, and the second from Samarkand to Peshawur.

28.-Austin Byron Bidwell, captured at Havana, examined at the Mansion House on the charge of being concerned with others now in custody in the recent forgeries on the Bank of England.

Died, aged 81, Alderman Sir James Duke, Lord Mayor of London in 1848.

cise of authority, and as calculated to weaken the position of the Church of Scotland, and injuriously to affect the rights of the clergy."

29.-Prince Frederick William, second son of the Prince Louis of Hesse and the Princess Alice, fatally injured by falling out of a window in the royal castle at Darmstadt.

30. Another serious fire at Boston, U.S.. about forty different buildings being consumed in the block between Washington and Tyler Streets. The Clickering piano manufactory and the International Hotel were among the more extensive properties destroyed.

31.-Explosion of fire-damp in the Bryn Hall colliery, near Wigan, causing the death of six shot-lighters, being the whole of the workmen employed at the time.

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Marshal MacMahon holds his first reception as French President. An immense number of friends were present, including all the members of the Diplomatic Body (with the exception of Count Arnim), the Ministers, all the deputies of the majority, some members of the Left Centre (such as M. Target), all the generals of the armies of Paris and Versailles with their staffs, the admirals at present in Versailles, numerous officers of all arms, the Princes of Orleans, the directors of all the State Departments, numerous eminent merchants and bankers, the leading members of the clergy, the editors of the Conservative newspapers, the members of the Court of Cas. sation, the Court of Accounts, the Court of Appeal, and the Tribunals of First Instar ca and Commerce, as well as several ladies.

The Great Eastern leaves Portland Roads to lay a fourth telegraph cable between Europe and America.

9. The recently opened Alexandra Palace on Muswell-hill destroyed by fire. It broke out a little before one o'clock, and owed its origin in all probability to the carelessness of a workman leaving a brazier of lighted coal on the roof when he went to his dinner. The fire found its way into some crevice of the roof amid inflammable materials, and half a dozen other men who were at work on the roof had barely time to escape before the whole dome was enveloped in flames. When the news of the fire was telegraphed to London, Captain Shaw speedily set out for the palace with a full complement of men and engines, but they had some six or eight miles of ground to cover, much of it being up-hill, and by the time they reached their destination, the ruin which had been effected was complete and irreparable. The supply of water was very inadequate, and although there were numerous hydrants in the building, with a large reservoir and the New River at the foot of the hill, there did not seem to be any arrangement for pumping the water up in quantities. By three o'clock nothing was left of the building but the outside walls. Most of the pictures, water-colour drawings, tapestry, and music were saved, but the loan collection of china was destroyed, with the exception of two vases contributed by the Queen. During the fire several accidents occurred.

10. Circumstantial accounts received of the capture of Khiva by General Kauffmann.

Died at Liverpool, aged 79, Michael James Whitty, newspaper proprietor.

11.-General Kauffmann enters Khiva without any opposition being offered. In their march the Russian troops traversed altogether 707 versts in eighty-nine days. The halts and the works executed en route occupied forty-five days, thus reducing the actual marching time to forty-four days. The average daily march was 16 versts, the longest march being 40 and the shortest 64 versts. It was ascertained that the Amoo Daria deviates in its course, and flows in a more easterly direction than is laid down in the maps.

In explanation of his retirement, M. Thiers writes to a friend of his at Nancy :"A government acting energetically against all disorder, and moderately, amicably, and peaceably towards all parties which are not factious, is the only government capable of appeasing political passions, and of restoring to France a certain amount of unity and well-being. Consequently, I have preferred to retire rather than to pursue a policy which was not my own, and which, in siding with the Right, was far from siding with the majority of the country. I turn to the repose of my books and to my friends, desiring nothing but the restoration of France."

12.-Replying to an address presented by the generals of monastic orders, the Pope said he fully shared in their sorrow at the sad posi tion in which the religious bodies had been placed. At the same time, he derived comfort from two reflections--namely, that souls beloved by God must be tried by tribulations, and that there were signs that the spirit of prayer was everywhere reawakening. The censures of the Church renewed against the authors of these acts would become a powerful weapon which God would employ for the defeat of his enemies. His Holiness concluded by exhorting the "generals" to trust in God and pray.

13. A company of British seamen and marines repulse an attack by Ashantees on the castle of Elmina. The town had previously been burnt, in consequence of the inhabitants giving arms and shelter to the Ashantees, some 3,000 of whom advanced upon the castle. They were met by the marines sent out from England in her Majesty's ship Barracouta, by small-arm men and marines landed from her Majesty's ships, and also a body of Houssas. The action lasted some hours, and the Ashantees were driven back with the loss of about 300 killed and a large number wounded. News from other than Admiralty sources made mention of an impending attack on Cape Coast Castle by Ashantees, mustering 30,000 strong, about fifteen miles from the town.

Died, at Crossmyloof, near Glasgow, aged 84, Mrs. Thomson, daughter of the poet Burns by Helen Ann Park-"Annie wi' the gowden locks" '-a servant at the Globe tavern, Dum fries, whose child was rocked in the same cradle with Mrs. Burns's own infant as "6 a neibour's bairn."