town next day and proceeded to Tipperary, where an enthusiastic welcome was given. Mitchel declared himself in favour of Home Rule, the overthrow of the Established Church, and universal tenant-right. Kenealy's unscrupulous advocacy of the Tichborne case had led to his being disbenched, disbarred, and removed from the list of Queen's Counsel.

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18.-Debate in the Commons Tipperary election. In answer to Sir H. James, the Attorney-General said that Mitchel could not now be proceeded against, either for his unfinished sentence or for prisonbreaking; but having been adjudged a felon, and not having been purged either by pardon from the Crown, or by having completed the term of his sentence, he remained a felon, and as such could not sit in the House of Commons. Mr. Martin, member for Meath, brother-in-law of Mitchel, said, if John Mitchel had forfeited his honour, he (Martin) had done so too. The Opposition having suggested the appointment of a committee to consider the question, Mr. Disraeli said it was no part of his duty to teach hon. members what a felon was, but it was a part of his duty, he added, "if a felon is returned to Parliament, comes to this table, and claims to be a representative of the people, as long as I am sitting in this place to call upon the House of Commons to avenge its outraged principles and to say, 'Until either by the favour of the Crown, or by your own dutiful conduct, you shall have cleared yourself from this flaw, you shall not take your seat in the House of Commons."" A proposition for adjourning the debate was negatived by 269 against 102 votes, and Mr. Disraeli's motion agreed to as it stood. A new writ for Tipperary was thereupon moved for.

21.-Augustus Raymond Margery, of the consular service, murdered by Chinese troops at Manwyne. Mr. Margery had been selected by Sir Thomas Wade to journey across the Chinese Empire from Shanghai, for the purpose of meeting the British expedition sent up the Irrawaddy to explore the Yunen trade routes, eastwards. Starting on the 4th September last, he travelled 1,500 miles, and on the 17th January joined Colonel Brown's party at Bhamo. Incited, as was supposed, by Burmese agents, the Kakhyen guide-troops proved so unruly as compelled Colonel Browne to select what was known as the upper-route "for returning. Arriving at Manwyne, about four marches north-east of Bhamo, hostile demonstrations were made by the natives, and Mr. Margery with five Chinese went into the town for the purpose of reconnoitering. The next day was spent walking about the streets and conversing among the people, with whom the young traveller appeared to be on the best of terms. On the evening of the 21st some of the Chinese offered to show him certain hot springs in the

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neighbourhood, but when in the act of mounting his pony to proceed thither, he was struck down from behind and afterwards attacked with swords and lances. Several Chinese servants were also murdered, and the heads of the entire party struck off and placed upon the walls of the town.

22.-Died, aged 78, Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., F. R.S., F.G.S., the most eminent and popular of modern geologists. Interred in Westminster Abbey on the 27th.

23.-Foundation stone of Birmingham Science College laid by Sir Josiah Mason.

The Prince Imperial entertained at mess by officers of the Royal Artillery stationed at Woolwich.

Opening of the trial of Mulhar Rao, Guicowar of Baroda, for attempting to poison Colonel Phayre, British resident. The commission was divided in opinion, the native members holding his guilt not proved; but Her Majesty's Government deposed him on the ground of obvious incapacity and misconduct. Gopal Rao, eldest son of the preceding Guicowar, was appointed in his room.

After an adjournment of several days in consequence of the severe indisposition of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, the trial is resumed of the action raised by Mr. Charlton against Sir John Hay, M. P., and other directors of the Canadian Oil Works Corporation, for alleged false representations in the prospectus of that company. According to Sir H. James, who opened the case, the Oil Works were almost worthless, yet the defendant, in spite of warning, had formed a company and agreed to pay 480,000l. for the property. The jury now retired twice over, but failing to agree upon a verdict on either occasion, were discharged.

25.-The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council affirm the decision of Sir Robert Phillimore as to the legality of the new reredos in Exeter Cathedral.

13. The first of a long series of commercial failures made public to-day by the announcement that Messrs. J. C. im Thurm & Co., Merchants of Leadenhall Street, had suspended payment, with liabilities estimated at over £3,000,000 sterling. Messrs. Siordet & Co., Mincing Lane, and the General South American Company fo lowed on the 17th, each with liabilities of about £400,000.

15.-Died, aged over 90, Field Marshal Sir W. M. Gomm, G. C. B., D. C. L., &c., Constable of the Tower, who had carried the colours of the 9th Foot through the campaign in Holland, under the Duke of York, in 1794, and in addition to much other active service in the interim, was present at Waterloo as Quartermaster General to Sir Thomas Picton's "fighting divison." The remains of General Gomm were interred in Christ Church, Rotherhithe, on the 24th.

17. The Commons appoint a Select Committee to consider the Law of Bankers authorised to make and issue notes in the United Kingdom.

The Marquis of Lorne sworn as a Privy Councillor.

18.-Regimental Exchanges Bill read a third time in the Commons, its design, as explained by Mr. Gathorne Hardy, being to allow an officer on half pay to exchange with an officer on full pay, such exchanges, however, to be on purely military grounds.

19.-Fire at Eugene Rimmel's perfumery manufactory, Beaufort Buildings, Strand, de stroying the greater part of the fabric in which it originated.

20.-Double parricide in Essex, Thomas Johnson, residing near Colchester, murdering his father and mother.

Died, aged 60, John Mitchel, the returned convict who had recently been elected M.P. for Tipperary county.

Died, aged 54, the Comte de Jarnac, French ambassador at the English Court.

23. The Peace Preservation (Ireland) Bill read a second time in the Commons by a majority of 195.

24.-The Athenæum cast in damages to the extent of 1,2757., for a libel on Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston, geographical publishers, Edinburgh.

27.-Died, aged 72, Edgar M. Quinet, French historian and philosopher.

29.-Died, aged 63, John Martin, M.P. for Meath county.

31.-Dean Stanley installed as Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews.

April 1.-The King of Denmark confers Grand Cross of the Dannebrog on Hans Christian Andersen, the popular novelist, on attaining his seventieth year.

3.-The Tower of London opened free to the public.

5.-Captain Paul Boyton exhibits his lifepreserving dress in Cowes harbour before the Queen and Princess Beatrice. A series of successful experiments had previously been made in the Thames.

6. The Prince and Princess of Wales take part in the installation ceremonies connected with the removal of Merchant Taylors' School to new buildings at the Charterhouse.

Meeting of King Victor Emmanuel and the Emperor of Austria at Venice.

7. Alfred Cooper, railway inspector, whose overlook led to the Thorpe accident, found guilty of neglect of duty and sentenced to eight months imprisonment.

9.-The Lord Chancellor explains that in proceeding with the Judicature Amendment Act he would propose the repeal of the clauses providing for a Court of Final Appeal, and recommend a Court of Intermediate Appeal

instead. The sections of the Act of 1873 abolishing the jurisdiction of the House of Lords were to be suspended until the 1st Nov. 1876, and it was provided that until that date

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an appeal may be brought to the House of Lords from any judgment or order of the court "in of appeal," constituted by the present bill, any case in which any appeal or error might now be brought to the House of Lords or to Her Majesty in council, from a similar judg ment, decree, or order of any court or judge whose jurisdiction is by the principal act transferred to the High Court of Justice or the Court of Appeal.' The jurisdiction of the House of Lords as a Supreme Court of Appeal for the United Kingdom was thus retained for another year,

10. Captain Boyton attempts to swim across the Channel from Calais in his life-saving dress, but is compelled from rough weather to abandon his design, after being in the water about fifteen hours, and accomplishing a distance of nearly fifty miles.

11.-Died, aged 81, Count Philip Brunnow, formerly Russian Ambassador at the Court of St. James's.

13.-Messrs. N. M. Rothschild and Sons issue the prospectus of a new Russian loan, bearing interest at four-and-a-half per cent.

14.- Died, aged 86, Thomas Wright, prison philanthropist.

15.-Budget introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the revenue for the current year being estimated at 75,685,000l. and the expenditure at 75,268,000l. Sir Stafford Northcote had to reckon among the disappointments in last year's income the deficient returns of the Telegraphic Service since it had been taken in hand by the late Government, also a falling off in excise and stamps. The only alteration in taxation proposed related to brewers' licences. The most prominent feature of the budget, and which gave rise to considerable discussion in the House, was his proposal for gradually reducing the National Debt by a new kind of Sinking Fund involving an annual This charge in every budget for 28,000,000!. would only come into full operation in 1877. Sir Stafford calculated that by 1885, 6,800,000/. of debt would be paid off, and in thirty years as much as 213,000,000/.

Minister at Paris, addressed to Mr. Lowe as Chairman of the Foreign Loans Committee, reflecting on the conduct of Captain Bedford Pim, M.P., in connection with that inquiry, the printers of these newspapers now attend the House and express their readiness to appear at the bar. Mr. Disraeli had, in the first instance, given his assent to this resolution, but on the matter coming up again for discussion in the afternoon, he moved that the order commanding the attendance of the printers should be read and discharged, and, further, that application should be made to the Foreign Loans Committee to give the House such information in regard to the matter as it desired. Agreed to.

In connection with the above privilege case Mr. Sullivan proposed a revival of the Standing Order of the House with a view to relieve the public press from the hazards at which it now discharged important and useful functions towards that House and towards the country. Mr. Disraeli declining to interfere, Lord Hartington moved resolutions to secure proper recognition to reporters by giving the power of excluding strangers to a majority of the House instead of letting it rest, as at present it technically did, on the objection of any single member. Lord Hartington's resolutions were rejected by Government on the ground of their giving opportunity for debate when the question should be raised; but ultimately Mr. Disraeli, though professing reluctance to take action in the matter at all, was induced to move a resolution by which proposals to exclude strangers were to be put to the vote without debate, the Speaker still retaining the power of closing the House when he should think necessary.

19.-Centenary of the battle of Lexington celebrated with rejoicing in various parts of the United States.

20.-Mutiny and murder at sea on board the American ship Jefferson Borden. Two mates killed and thrown overboard. The prisoners concerned in the murders and mutiny were committed from Bow Street for trial in America, in terms of the Extradition Treaty.

Burials Bill rejected by the Commons on the proposal for a second reading.

23.-Pressed on both sides of the House to bring forward his long-threatened vote of censure on the judges concerned in the Tichborne case, Dr. Kenealy now moves for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the conduct at the trial at bar. After a debate joined in by Sir Henry James, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Bright, and in which full justice was done to the able and upright bearing of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Lord Coleridge, the member for Stoke found on a division that, besides Mr. Whalley and himself as tellers, he had only one supporter— Major O'Gorman-against 433 on the opposite side.

24.-Died, aged 69, Rev. (Canon) William Selwyn, B.D., Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge.

Died, aged 36, Winwood Reade, author and journalist.

26.-Lord Coleridge in the House of Lords makes a personal explanation in reference to the statement of Dr. Kenealy in the Commons to the effect that he had, when AttorneyGeneral, put before the jury documents which he knew to be forged in relation to the Tich. borne case. In the Commons Sir Robert Peel indignantly denied having ever affirmed that he heard the Chief Justice say the jury had made up their minds to convict the Claimant.

27.-Died, aged 62, Hon. Sir Gillery Pigott, Baron of the Court of Exchequer.

28. The Prince of Wales installed as Grand Master of the Freemasons at the Albert Hall amid great ceremonial splendour.

30.-Explosion at Bunker's Hill Colliery, North Staffordshire, causing the death of fortytwo men and boys, the entire company of workmen employed in the workings at the time.

6.-Foundation-stone of a Memorial Hall to Dr. Isaac Watts laid by Mr. Morley, M. P., at Southampton.

Died, aged 53, Rear-Admiral Sherard Osborne, C.B., F.R.S., Arctic navigator.

Died at Rome, Rev. Robert Buchanan, D.D., a prominent member of the Scottish Free Church body, and author of "The Ten Years' Conflict." Buried in Glasgow May 18th.

7.-Trial trip of the Bessemer saloon steamer, in the course of which she damaged the southern pier-head of Calais harbour.

The German iron-screw mail-steamer Schiller, running from New York to Hamburg, but calling at Plymouth and Cherbourg, wrecked on the Retarrier Ledges near the Bishop Lighthouse, Scilly, and over 300 lives lost as well as the entire cargo. The Schiller left New York on the 27th of April, having on board fifty-nine first-class passengers, seventyfive second class, 120 in the steerage, and a crew of 101 officers and men all told, making a total of 355 persons. She also brought the Australian and New Zealand mails, in all 250 bags; specie to the value of 300,000 dols. for Cherbourg; and a full general cargo. For three days before the catastrophe heavy weather had been experienced, and on that night, the fog becoming denser, sails were taken in, the engines reduced to half speed, and the lookout increased. Almost immediately after these precautions had been taken the Schiller struck heavily on the Retarrier Ledges. She made four lurches and then settled on the rock, the sea washing over her as she lay on her broadside.

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Captain Thomas, with the officers and crew, succeeded with difficulty in launching two gigs, which were instantly filled by men, who thrust back women and children in the eagerness of self-preservation. The starboard lifeboat was then launched, but capsized, and a great many people having crowded into the remaining boats, it was found impossible to clear them, though the captain fired his pistol over the occupants to compel better order. About midnight the funnel fell, smashing two boats, and other two were swept away. o'clock, A. M., a heavy sea, which ran up to the top of the mainmast, carried away the deckhouse, containing nearly 200 persons, mostly women and children, whose shrieks and cries were for a few seconds heard above the tempest. The officers and some people on the bridge were next swept overboard, and the survivors crowded the rigging, the deck being swept fore and aft by the sea. At about six the masts fell, and those not killed by the fall or entangled in the rigging floated about supported by life-belts, spars, and parts of the cargo. Some of these were picked up by fishing-boats. Two of the ship's boats, containing 26 persons, reached Tresco. In all 43 persons were saved alive; of these only one was a

woman, Mrs. Jones, whose husband had obtained a place for her in one of the boats. Sir Cloudesley Shovel, with a number of his officers and crew, and a portion of his fleet, was lost on the Retarrier Ledges, Oct. 22, 1707.

8.-Wrecked in the same fog which led to the loss of the Schiller, the ship Cadiz from Lisbon to London with a general cargo, on the Wizard Rock, off Brest. There were thirtyfive passengers on board and a crew of thirtyone. Of these only one English seaman and three Portuguese were saved.

9.-Fenian demonstration in Dublin at the funeral of Mullens, an Irish-American member of the brotherhood.

- Died, aged 83, Rev. John William King, of The Hall, Ashby-de-la-Launde, an enthusiastic sportsman and successful breeder of horses, one of them being "Apology," the winner of the One Thousand Guineas, The Oaks, and St. Leger last year.

10.-Arrival of the Emperor of Russia at Berlin on a visit to the Emperor of Germany. His Imperial Majesty remained three days.

11.-A magnificent service of plate, of the value of 3,000 guineas, voted with acclamation by the Corporation of the City of London to the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh in honour of their marriage, presented to their Royal Highnesses at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor.

The Queen gives a party to her grandchildren at Windsor. The Princess of Wales and her family on returning to town make a narrow escape from a stone discharged by a catapult near Eaton Wick.

13.-The Duke of Edinburgh opens the Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures at Leeds.

19. Garibaldi arrives at Velletri to celebrate the battle fought there in 1849. Next day the Italian Senate voted him a pension of 50,000 francs per annum.

20.-Died, aged 48, Dudley Baxter, author of various works on national taxation and statistics.

Banquet at Portsmouth to Captain Nares and other officers of the Arctic expedition. 22.-Memorial-stone of Glasgow new Public Halls laid with masonic honours.

25.-The Supreme Court of New York appoint President Jewett receiver of the Erie Railway on account of the company's insolvency.

26. The Dublin Court of Common Pleas award the seat for Tipperary to Captain Stephen Moor, the minority candidate in the second contest with the late John Mitchel.