19.-The Shah leaves Paris for Vienna by way of Geneva.

20.-Died at his residence, Lancaster Gate, aged 73, Richard Bethell, Lord Westbury, Lord Chancellor 1861-65, one of the most distinguished of modern lawyers, and a zealous advocate of reform in his profession. His lordship was busily engaged during the past twelve months as arbitrator under the European Assurance Society Arbitration Act of 1872, and had in that short time heard and decided many of the principal points brought before him. His decisions gave great satisfaction to the policyholders, especially his interpretation of the novation question, and the decisive way in which he dealt with attempted fraudulent transfers of shares. At the last sitting his lordship was so unwell as to require to be supported on his couch by pillows, and since that time he suffered acutely from inflammation of the upper vertebræ, and latterly from a cerebral disease.

21.-Most of the newspapers comment this (Monday) morning on the death of Dr. Wilberforce and Lord Westbury, the Times remarking that it was seldom that within one day England suffered such an intellectual loss. In the House of Lords the Duke of Richmond described the latter as attaining to the highest rank which it was possible for a layman in this country to occupy by his overwhelming talents and his great eloquence, while the former he had for many years the privilege and gratification of claiming as a most intimate personal friend, whose genial social qualities would leave a great gap among a wide circle of sorrowing acquaintances Next evening Lord Granville said that, sometimes in the House and sometimes out of it, their lordships were apt to depreciate themselves; but he thought it remarkable that two such losses should have occurred to that assembly within twenty four hours, and yet should have left the House not entirely bare.

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Melbourne, and that "she is supposed never to have forgotten the principles and party of her teacher;" his Grace declaring that he had never heard anything more irregular, more unconstitutional, or more uncommon than the remarks attributed to the Duke of St. Albans, and "without desiring to make too much of them," he protested that they were an insult to the Queen. The Duke of St. Albans defended his speech at Nottingham, but disclaimed any wish to make his observations personal.

22. Mr. Candlish's proposal to repeal the 25th clause of the Educational Act rejected in the Commons by 200 to 98 votes.

23. Mr. Trevelyan's Household Suffrage in Counties Bill "talked out," but not before Mr. Forster, and through him Mr. Gladstone, confined to his room by illness, had expressed their approval of the measure.

A Committee of the Upper House of Convocation submit a report describing the position of the Church with reference to confession and the exceptional cases in which she permitted its use. Such special provisions, however, it was said, "do not authorize the ministers of the Church to require from any who may repair to them to open their grief in a particular or detailed examination of all their sins, or to require private confession as a condition previous to receiving the Holy Communion, or to enjoin or even encourage any practice of habitual confession to a priest, or to teach that such practice or habitual confession, or the being subject to what has been termed the direction of a priest, is a condition of attaining to the highest spiritual life.”

Treaty of Commerce between England and France, signed at Versailles.

24. The Zanzibar Mail Contracts Committee report that they are of opinion that the contracts of the 8th of May should not be confirmed; but, seeing that the Union Steamship Company has incurred expenses, and has for six months carried out a service, the terms of which they only accepted in consideration of other advantages, consider that before offering the service to a rival company or putting it up to public tender, the Government should afford the Union Steamship Company the opportunity of electing to retain the service on fair and reasonable terms."

25.-Fighting at Malaga, in Spain, between General Solier, military governor of the city, and Carbajal, chief of the insurgents, in which the former is victorious. Cadiz bombarded next day.

Fire at Baltimore, destroying property in the centre of the city estimated to be worth one million dollars.

The late Bishop of Winchester buried at Woolavington, near Petworth, Sussex, of which manor he was lord, in virtue of his wife, Miss Sargent. The Queen and Royal Family were represented on the occasion, and most of the Winchester and Oxford clergy were present.

28. The forthcoming marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh announced in both Houses of Parliament, and a day fixed to make additional provision for his Royal Highness.

Message brought down from the Crown in answer to the recent address of the House of Lords relative to discontent in the army. The message concluded with a statement that certain cases which have appeared to fall within the principle of the Army Regulation Act, though they were not formally included within its words, would be submitted in annual votes to the favourable conside ation of Parliament, and that her Majesty has also directed that the allegations contained in the memorials of the officers of the army should be carefully examined by a Royal Commission, in order to ascertain whether any of them fall within the principle of, and may be properly dealt with by, the same form of proceedings.

After three trials Sub-Inspector Montgomery is found guilty of the murder of Mr. Glass, bank cashier, Newtonstewart, and sentenced to be executed on the 26th of August. On the verdict being announced the prisoner made a long statement, confessing the murder, and saying that he had been a drunken man for twelve months previously. The weapon, he afterwards explained, was lying on the bank table, unconcealed. Mr. Glass saw it and asked him what he was going to do with it. The prisoner replied that he was dangerous, and commenced brandishing it about his head, but the deceased only laughed. Mr. Glass then turned round to look at a map on the wall, and the prisoner struck him a heavy blow on the head. He turned round and looked, but he was powerless to do anything. Afterwards he fell on the floor. Montgomery sat down and began to read the Belfist Newsletter till Mr. Glass was dead. He hid the weapon and money in his sleeve in the exact way shown by Sergeant Armstrong. He was splashed all over with blood with the exception of his boots, and the notes were also stained. He washed the marks out the next morning with a sponge and water. One of the bundles of notes had not been recovered, and he did not know what had become of it. He hid the notes in Grange Wood immediately after the murder, but he did not place either the sovereigns or the weapon in the place where they were found.

Archbishop Manning expresses approval of a desire manifested among the Catholic laity to enter upon a pilgrimage to Paray-le Monial, a small village some distance from Paris, which acquired its reputation as a centre for pilgrimages from the fact that, according to the Roman Catholic belief, just 200 years ago the Saviour appeared there to the "blessed" Mary Margaret Alacoque, and intrusted to her a message to propagate the worship of the Sacred Heart. It is," wrote the Archbishop, "an act of faith in the sight of the world, which seems every day becoming more and more unconscious of the presence and power of God. The defiance and derision with which the world has treated the pilgrimages in Italy, Germany, Belgium, and France is an explicit reason for the Catholics of England to claim their share also in their inheritance of our common cause. Moreover, it will be a witness to the power of prayer, which has, of late, like all other supernatural facts, been tossed to and fro in the hands of our men of culture. Lastly, it will not fail to has'en the day when the reign of wrong shall cease. The present state of Europe cannot last long; and men will find that they will have to pay dear for the dishonour they have heaped upon the Vicar of Jesus Christ. The pilgrimage was advertised to start from London on Tuesday, September 2: the pilgrims to reach Paray-le-Monial next day, and having performed their devotions at the shrine on the 4th, might, if so disposed, find themselves back in London by the Friday night or Saturday morning.

The Shah arrives at Vienna.

31.--The second reading of the bill for adding 10,000l. to the Duke of Edinburgh's annuity of 15,000l. carried by 162 to 18 votes.

The House of Lords affirm the decision of the Master of the Rolls in the case of Peek v. Gurney.

The Indian Budget introduced by Mr Grant-Duff. Taking the actual year ending March 1872, the regular estimate for the year just ended, and the budget estimate for the year ending next March, he showed, with regard to the first period, that there had been a surplus of over three millions-the largest known since the China trade was thrown open. The second period showed a surplus of nearly a million and

a half, and for the coming year it was estimated that there would be a virtual equilibrium, the revenue being 48,286,000?., against an expenditure of 48,066,000l. The disappearance of the surplus Mr. Grant-Duff attributed to the cessation of the income tax.

August 1.-Died at Kensington Palace, aged 84, Cecilia Letitia, Duchess of Inverness, formerly Lady Buggin, and afterwards privately married to the late Duke of Sussex.

2.-Early this morning a serious accident happened to the express known as the tourist train from London to Scotland, consisting of twenty-five carriages, one of the heaviest of the season. As it was approaching Wigan at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, seven carriages at the end of the train were, through some cause never ascertained, wrenched from the others at a pair of facing points, and rushed up a siding at the London and North Western station at Wigan. Four carriages were destroyed, one bounded on to the platform and turned bottom uppermost, two others followed and heeled over, and a portion of one was thrown over a high wall into a foundry yard, a female passenger dropping with it. Ten persons were killed and thirty injured.

- Constantinople news makes mention of the proposed canalization of the Isthmus of Corinth The Greek Government granted to the concessionaires, Lubini and Xenos, 30,000,000 square yards of building land for the construction of the new town and docks, the mines, woods, forests near the canal, the mineral waters of Lutraki, the railways and tramways, the Lake of Stymphalia, for the irrigation, monopoly of shipping, and numerous other privileges.

Mr. Boord, Conservative, elected M.P. for Greenwich by a majority of 745 over all the other five candidates put together.

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The Germans withdraw from Belfort.

Pastoral issued by Cardinal Cullen, directing the performance of a Novena," preparatory to the Feast of the Assumption.

4. Collision between the State liner Alabama and the steamer Abeona, off Instrahull, Ireland, the latter sinking with all on board excepting three picked up by the boats of the Alabama. A Board of Trade inquiry resulted in a verdict that Flint, master of the Alabama, merited the severest censure for the lack of judgment he displayed in this calamity after the collision, and he was accordingly severely reprimanded. Further, that George Hutchings, second officer of the Alabama, was guilty of a grave default in the performance of his duty as officer of the watch on the night of the collision, and therefore his certificate as master was suspended for eighteen months. The court intimated that it would

call the attention of the Board of Trade to the practice of passenger ships carrying the whole of their boats turned in on the chocks and covered. The court recommended that such boats be turned outwards.

5.-Parliament prorogued by Commission, the Royal Speech making reference to the Zanzibar, French, and Brazilian treaties, and to the Supreme Court of Judicature and Education Amendment Act, among the useful measures passed during the session. The Standard described the speech as fitly closing the record of a barren session, and reflecting the exhaustion of an expiring Ministry. "In this empty catalogue of feeble achievements, these long-drawn-out platitudes, these sounding commonplaces, these disjointed conclusions and inarticulate congratulations, we may trace the spirit of an Administration which, after living as long as it can on the faith of a few energetic acts at the beginning of its career, is consciously ap proaching its dissolution.' "The army, wrote the Pall Mall Gazette, “the police, the civil service, the diplomatic service, the public spirit, the public conscience, the independence of the Legislature, even the judicial bench have every one of them been wounded and dispirited by Mr. Gladstone's Government; and that is something far more serious than passing a bad bill, or neglecting to pass a good one, or failing to advance some fundamental principle.'"

Mr. Baxter resigns his office of Secretary to the Treasury, on the ground that Mr. Lowe had not consulted him with reference to recent contracts, and declined to follow his advice.

The Comte de Paris visits the Comte de Chambord at Frohsdorf, and acknowledges him as the head of the royal house.

Mr. James Baird, of Auchmeddan, a member of the Scotch firm of ironmasters, passes over to a body described as the "Baird Trust" the sum of 500,000l. "to assist in providing the means of meeting, or at least as far as possible promoting, the mitigation of spiritual destitution among the population of Scotland through efforts for securing the godly upbringing of the young, the establishing of parochial pastoral work, and the stimulating of ministers and all agencies of the Church of Scotland to sustained devotedness in the work of carrying the Gospel to the homes and hearts of all."

5.-The Pope writes to the Emperor of Germany that the measures recently adopted by his Majesty's Government aimed at nothing short of the destruction of Catholicism, and could have no other effect than that of under

Majesty will receive my observations with your usual goodness, and will adopt the measures necessary in the present case. While offering to your most gracious Majesty the expression of my devotion and esteem, I pray God that

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He may enfold your Majesty and myself in one and the same bond of mercy.' "" On the 3rd of September the Emperor replied that Catholic priests in Italy sought by intrigue to disturb the peace which had existed for centuries. willingly entertain the hope that your Holiness, upon being informed of the true position of affairs, will use your authority to put an end to the agitation carried on amid deplorable distortion of the truth and abuse of priestly authority. The religion of Jesus Christ has, as I attest to your Holiness before God, nothing to do with these intrigues, any more than has truth, to whose banner invoked by your Holiness I unreservedly subscribe. There is one more expression in the letter of your Holiness which I cannot pass over without contradiction, although it is not based upon the previous information, but upon the belief of your Holinessnamely, the expression that every one that has received baptism belongs to the Pope. The Evangelical creed, which, as must be known to your Holiness, I, like my ancestors and the majority of my subjects, profess, does not permit us to accept in our relations to God any other mediator than our Lord Jesus Christ. The difference of belief does not prevent me living in peace with those who do not share mine, and offering your Holiness the expression of my personal devotion and esteem."

6.-Duel at Creteil between M. About and M. Hervé, arising out of comments, said to be disrespectful, made by the former regarding the Comte de Paris. M. About was wounded in the hand, and declared unable to continue the contest.

7.-Application having been made by the minister and churchwardens of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, to be allowed to erect a baldacchino in the church, the Bishop of London writes :"The question of the legality of a baldacchino as an ornament of a church has never, I understand, been raised; and it is the more important that it should be decided once for all, because a structure of this kind was proposed by Dean Milman to be erected over the communion table in St. Paul's Cathedral, in accordance, as it is stated, with the design of Sir Christopher Wren, and has not, I believe, been abandoned by the present Restoration Committee."

8.-Increasing dissensions in the Ministry lead to a re-arrangement of offices, the Times making the announcement to-day that Lord Ripon and Mr. Childers would retire. "Mr.

Bruce," it was said, "will receive a peerage, and succeed Lord Ripon as Lord President of the Council. Mr. Bright will succeed Mr. Childers in the Duchy of Lancaster. Mr. Lowe, who will leave the Exchequer, will succeed Mr. Bruce in the office of Home Secretary. The Chancellorship of the Exchequer will be held by Mr. Gladstone together with the office of First Lord of the Treasury." In a few day Mr. Ayrton was made Judge-Advocate, and Mr. Adam First Commissioner of Public Works.

8.-The Shah leaves Vienna for Brindisi, on his way to Constantinople.

9.-The Potomac river steamer Wawasset destroyed by fire, and over forty of the passen. gers suffocated, burnt, or drowned.

10. The clipper-ship Dunmail, belonging to the White Star Line, wrecked at the mouth of the Mersey, having become unmanageable in a heavy sea.

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Sir George Jessel appointed to the Mastership of the Rolls.

Died, aged 58, Mr. Chisholm Anstey, who represented Youghal for several years in the House of Commons, where he made himself conspicuous by persistent attacks on the policy of Lord Palmerston.

13. The English yacht Deerhound seized by a Spanish gunboat off Fuentarrabia, laden with arms and ammunition for the Carlists,

14-An African West Coast naval expedition, while exploring the river Prah, fall into an ambuscade and suffer great loss at the hands of the Ashantee tribe. Commodore Commerell was severely wounded.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland turns the first sod of a new graving dock at Waterford. Sudden prorogation of the Parliament of Canada, the Governor-General announcing the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the Pacific Railway scandal.

15.-The Right Rev. Dr. Edward Harold Browne, Bishop of Ely, recommended to be elected to the see of Winchester, in room of the late Dr. Wilberforce.

Imperialist fête at Chiselhurst, about 1,000 Bonapartists being received at Camden House by the Empress and Prince Imperial, the latter of whom affirmed the principle of national sovereignty.

16. The London Carlist Committee issue a despatch that "the Royal forces of Tristany and Saballs, under the command of his Royal Highness the Infante Don Alfonso, and numbering 2,400 men, after evacuating Berga, engaged and completely routed three columns of the enemy, numbering 7,000 men, between Caserras, Gironella, and Berga. We have,

18. The British Iron and Steel Institute commence sitting at Liege.

The Shah arrives at Constantinople. His Majesty left for Teheran on the 25th.

Died at Geneva, aged 69, Charles, exDuke of Brunswick. He left the greater part of his large fortune to the city in which he died, subject only to the charge of a princely funeral and the erection of a magnificent mausoleum in which his remains were to be entombed amidst statues of bronze and marble. Among the gems discovered in his treasure-chest was the famous onyx vase of Mantua.

Commenced at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Archibald, the trial of Austin Biron Bidwell, aged 27, no occupa tion; George Macdonnell, 28, clerk; George Bidwell, 34, merchant; and. Edward Noyes, 29, clerk, who were placed at the bar to take their trial upon several indictments charging them with forging foreign bills of exchange, and thereby defrauding the Bank of England of over 100,000l. The trial lasted till the 26th, when the whole of the prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life. The chief evidence was given by bank officials who had transacted business for the prisoners, engravers who had prepared plates under their inspection, hotel-keepers where they had resided, and a young woman named Ellen Vernon, who had lived some time with George Bidwell.

19. Mr. Gladstone presides at the Welsh National Eisteddfod opened at Mold, complimenting his hearers on the fact that 800,000 people still clung to their nat ve tongue in spite of all the pressure which had been put upon them. Such was the loyalty of Welsh people, however, that their heart never had been alienated from the throne and the laws of the country. The Welsh were a people of deep and strong religious sympathies, but on those sympathies they had been deeply, most unjustly, and even madly thwarted. To their own great honour they had made provision themselves for their own religious wants.

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25.-Archdeacon Denison calls attention to the fact that certain bishops propose to exterminate the Catholic element in the Church. "Well," he writes, "if the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, or any other bishop or bishops, will have open war, let it come. they like to 'snub' every Catholic and 'pat on the back' every ultra-Protestant, let them follow their inclination. If they elect to stimulate popular ignorance and passion by calling us dishonest,' 'disloyal,' 'plotters,' 'traitors,' so let it be. If they prefer to administer their dioceses inequitably, let them so administer, as some are doing now. If they propose to repeat the policy which drove out Wesley a century