before its formal prorogation, by which the House was in the complete power of the Premier. Motion lost by 209 to 142.

24.-Destructive storms reported from various parts of England, the flood at Bath being the highest recorded since 1823. Much damage was reported from Warwickshire, the district round Nuneaton presenting the appearance of an inland sea. North Staffordshire and Dorsetshire also suffered severely.

26.-A vote of thanks to the army in Egypt discussed in both Houses of Parliament. In the Lords Earl Granville moved and the Marquis of Salisbury seconded. The House afterwards adjourned to Nov. 10. In the Commons Mr. Gladstone moved and Sir S. Northcote seconded. Sir W. Lawson moved

the previous question, which was seconded by Mr. Storey, and negatived by 354 to 17. The resolution of thanks was carried by 230 to 25. The Procedure Resolutions were then considered.

Boehm's statue of Thomas Carlyle unveiled by Professor Tyndall on the Thames Embankment, nearly opposite Great Cheyne Row, where the philosopher spent the greater part of his long life.

Died at Berlin, Edward Mandel, a German engraver of high reputation.

27.-Died at Southampton in the footh year of his age, Commander James Charles Atkinson, a blind old naval veteran, who had seen much active service for thirty years, from 1803 when he passed from the merchant service to the Royal Navy. He had been on the retired list for close on half a century.

The village of Grindelwald, in the Bernese Oberland, devastated by a hurricane which raged for four-and-twenty hours.

- Fire in Cecil Square, Margate, destroying the Assembly Rooms, the Royal Hotel, a ladies' school, and several private houses, including the vicarage.

-Debate on Procedure Resolutions renewed in the Commons. Mr. H. Chaplin moved to substitute individual for general Clôture. This was ruled out of order. Mr. O'Donnell moved to exempt debates on privilege and business of the House. Lost by 93 to 35. Mr. Storey moved that the Speaker shall give as his opinion that "the subject has been adequately Agreed discussed," before closing debate.

to. Mr. Gorst moved that the sense of the House in favour of the application of the Clôture be "general" as well as "'evident." Lost by 130 to 74. On the 30th Mr. Bryce moved that the Speaker or Chairman shall put the Clôture in operation only on request of a Minister or member in charge of a motion. Lost by 152 to 100. Mr. H. Palmer moved that 20 members shall rise in support of the Speaker. Lost without division. Mr. Gib on

moved that the Speaker, before putting the Clôture, shall give a discretionary notice of his intention. Lost by 149 to 88.

28. Sir Garnet Wolseley lands at Dover on his return from Egypt.

29.-Dr. J. T. Arthur, of the Government Medical Service in Ceylon, burned to death in a Pullman car while travelling on the Midland Railway from St. Pancras to Aberdeen. The car, as appeared from evidence given at the inquest, was set on fire by the reading lamp of another passenger.

30. Rev. S. R. Driver of New College, Oxford, appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew to that University in succession to Dr. Pusey, deceased.

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31. In the Commons the Rt. Hon. E. Gibson (Dublin University) moves that in no case shall the Clôture be enforced unless with the support of two-thirds of those present. vigorous debate ensued, and was closed on Nov. 2 by Sir S. Northcote and Lord Hartington. Mr. Gibson's amendment was negatived by 322 to 238. Majority for Government, 84.

At the Guildhall the Lord Mayor unveils busts of Lord Beaconsfield and Mr. Gladstone, which had been executed for the Corporation of London.

-Announcement made that the Prussian Government had secured the greater and most valuable part of the Hamilton collection of manuscripts. It had been arranged that the papers should be publicly sold in London, but the Prussian Government privately managed to come to terms with the owner beforehand. Among them may be mentioned a psaltery, dating from the seventh century; and a grand manuscript folio copy of Dante's great work, with illustrative drawings from the hand of Sandro Botticelli. Another valuable work was written in golden uncial letters on purple velvet, and dates from the seventh century, the copy of the Gospels in Latin presented to Henry VIII. by Leo X. on the occasion of conferring on him the title of Defender of the Faith.

November 1.-The Municipal Elections in England and Wales, fought in many towns on party lines indicate a considerable increase of strength among the Conservatives.

3. Mr. Froude addresses members of the Midland Institute, Birmingham, on the subject of government by party, and insisted on the people being now the real sovereigns of this country.

3. In course of resumed debate in the Commons on the Procedure Bill, Colonel Harcourt (Oxford) moved that the majority shall be fiveeighths of those present.-Lost. Mr. Salt moved that the minimum of majority be raised from 200 to 300.-Lost. Mr. Brodrick moved

that the Clôture shall not be applied when the minority reaches 150.-Lost. Mr. W. H. Smith moved to give the right of protest to any number of members.-Lost. On the 6th Lord John Manners moved that votes in divisions for applying the Cloture be taken by ballot.-Lost by 139 to 55. Other amendments were ruled out of order. Sir Stafford Northcote moved a direct negative to the resolution as the main question when put by the Speaker. Debate adjourned from night to night till the 10th, when the first resolution was carried, on a division, by 304 to 260, being a majority for Government of 44.

4. Rev. S. F. Green, late minister of St. John's, Miles Platting, liberated from Lancaster Castle. To-day Lord Penzance sat in a Committee Room of the House of Lords to hear an application from the Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Fraser) for release of the imprisoned ritualist, who, however, had never made any movement in that direction for himself. After the disobedience by Mr. Green of the monition directing him to abstain from illegal practices in conducting divine service as vicar of St. John's, Miles Platting, an inhibition was issued on August 16, 1879, which was also disobeyed. On November 25, 1880, his contempt was signified to the Court of Chancery of the county Palatine; on March 8, 1881, a writ was issued by that Court, and on March 19, 1881, Mr. Green was arrested and lodged in Lancaster Gaol, where he had remained ever since. As more than three years had elapsed since the inhibition was issued, and the benefice had become void under the operation of the Public Worship Regulation Act, the Bishop, as the Ordinary of the diocese, now asked for an order relaxing the inhibition, and the liberation of Mr. Green. The grounds of the application were that Mr. Green had received an adequate punishment by the deprivation of his living, in addition to his sixteen months' imprisonment; and also that the sentence had practically exhausted itself. Lord Penzance, in the course of a long judgment, and after expressing his surprise that the application had not been made sooner, declared that having exacted obedience to its decree, the Court was well satisfied to be able, by a reasonable interpretation of the statute, to put an end to an imprisonment which Mr. Green appeared so little anxious to put an end to himself. obtain from him a recognition, however tardy, of the duty which he owed to his Sovereign and country, in rendering a willing compliance to the laws under which he lived, would involve a struggle with Mr. Green entirely beneath the dignity of the Court. He therefore pronounced Mr. Green to have satisfied his contempt; and

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Lord Dufferin lands at Alexandria from Constantinople and proceeds to Cairo, commissioned to unravel if possible the tangled skein of Egyptian politics, to suggest the best substitute for an English protectorate, and to lay down the basis upon which self-government might be established in the Nile Valley.

8.—A selected party of officers and men from Indian regiments which had served in Egypt arrive in this country on a visit, and are quartered in a house taken for them at Wimbledon.

9.-The State procession from the City to Westminster for the purpose of presenting the Lord Mayor to the Judges takes place for the last time.

11.-Justice Lawson has a narrow escape from assassination in the streets of Dublin. About half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, as he was walking through College Street, one of the army pensioners employed in protection duty observed a suspicious-looking man on the opposite side of the street. In Kildare Street the man, having got ahead of the party, crossed the road and turned back to meet the judge. The pensioner, who then saw a revolver projecting from the man's breast-pocket, rushed forward and knocked him down. After a violent struggle the revolver was seized, and by the aid of the other men who always accompanied Mr. Justice Lawson for his safety, the would-be assassin was secured and removed to the station-house, where he admitted his name to be Patrick Delaney.

thereafter as "Arthur Sketchley," the amusing author of "Mrs. Brown and her Sayings," as well as of various plays and books of travel.

11. The Orient Line steamer Austral founders in Sydney harbour while coaling with her portholes open. All on board were saved except two, the purser and second engineer.

Died, at Dalzell House, Lanarkshire, of typhoid fever, aged 42, Lady Emily Hamilton, youngest daughter of David, tenth Earl of Leven, and wife of John Glencairn C. Hamilton, Esq., of Dalzell.

12.-Birth of a daughter to the Queen of Spain.

Died at his seat, Craigends Castle, Stirlingshire, aged 75, Sir Andrew Buchanan, G.C.B., engaged in the diplomatic service from his youth, and ambassador at various times to the Courts of Prussia, Austria, and Russia.

13.-The Foot Guards receive a warm welcome at Victoria Station on their return from Egypt.

Manchester Chamber of Commerce unanimously pass a resolution asserting that the scheme for constructing a Ship Canal should be carried out.

14. According to the final report of liquidators of City Bank, Glasgow, the total cost of liquidation amounted to £194,000, or 1 per cent. of the sum passing through hands of liquidators. There were 1,300 shareholders when the Bank stopped (see pp. 1295-6, &c.), of whom 360 were women and 174 trustees. The first call of £500 per share produced onehalf of the nominal amount, and nearly ruined one-third of the shareholders. The second call of £2,250 per share was paid by only 176 shareholders.

The Marquis of Queensberry protests from his stall in the Globe Theatre against certain sentiments attributed to Secularists and Freethinkers in Tennyson's Promise of May.

Mr. Gladstone makes his promised statement regarding Egypt. He said that the native army had been reduced from 30,000 to 12,000 between October 4th and November 4th. Affairs in Egypt were in a provisional state only, and a Convention was to follow as soon as convenient. Sir S. Northcote protested against the withholding of complete information.

15. The Second Procedure Resolution prohibiting motions for adjournment at question time, except with the leave of the House, carried. Next day the Third, enabling the Speaker or Chairman to confine motions for adjournment strictly to the point and forbidding a second motion by the same member, was also agreed to.

16.-The engineering works of Messrs. Horne & Co. at Millbank destroyed by fire.

16. Mr. Shaw Lefevre announces in the Commons that the Queen intended to open the new Law Courts on 4th December.

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Mr. Gladstone moves the Fourth Procedure Resolution providing that on a division being challenged, the Speaker or Chairman may call on the challengers to rise, and if fewer than twenty, may declare without a division. A confused discussion arose technical points; ultimately an amendment by Mr. Parker, confining the rule to divisions after the order of the day and notices of motion, was carried by 85 to 15. Other amendments were accepted; one by Mr. Gibson, providing that offending speakers shall be warned before being silenced, was lost by 120 to 52.

Shortly before midnight a destructive fire broke out in the extensive premises of Mr. Whiteley, of Westbourne Grove. The fire originated in the toy and foreign department. Several engines were promptly on the spot; but the flames raged for nearly five hours, and were with difficulty got under, although the wind was not high. A block of buildings, extending from 43 to 55 Westbourne Grove, was partially destroyed; the upper portion by flames, the lower part by water. The damage was roughly estimated at over £100,000. The origin of the fire was not accounted for.

17.- Died at Canterbury, aged 78, George Gulliver, F.R.S., formerly Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology to the Royal College of Surgeons.

18. About 8,000 troops of all arms recently returned fron service in Egypt reviewed by the Queen in St. James's Park. Medals were distributed at Windsor on the 21st, 22nd, and 24th.

Died, at London, aged 64, Carl Engel, an accomplished writer on national music, and justly ranked among the highest authorities upon the historical and ethnological development of musical instruments.

19.-Died, the Earl of Harrowby, aged 84; and on the same day his brother, the Hon. Fred. Dudley Ryder, aged 76.

20.-An election arising out of Mr. Grenfell's acceptance of the post of Parliamentary Groom in Waiting takes place at Salisbury. Mr. Grenfell was defeated, polling only 852 electors against 955 who voted for Mr. C. Kennard, Conservative.

21.-Died, at Aberdeen, aged 75, Dr. Wm. Pirie, Emeritus Professor of Surgery in the University of that city.

21. The Gazette announces that Peerages had been granted to Sir Beauchamp Seymour and Sir Garnet Wolseley, the first to be Baron Alcester, the second Baron Wolseley of Cairo.

22.-Died, at New York, aged 85, Thurlow Weed, an American statesman, who had been an efficient wire-puller in his day both among Whigs and Republicans.

23. Before the debate on procedure, Mr. Parnell put in motion, for the first time, the newly-made rule enabling a member to move the adjournment of the House for the purpose of raising a discussion if backed by the rising in their places of forty members. On this occasion a hundred rose, whereupon a discussion on the Arrears Act ensued, Mr. Parnell contending that an extension of time is required beyond November of this year in which to lodge the year's rent to which the Government offer to add its equivalent. After the motion was withdrawn the Procedure Resolutions were considered, and the Tenth carried by 82 to 26. Next day, following Mr. Parnell's precedent, Mr. Yorke induced forty members to stand up in support of his motion for adjournment, on which an acrimonious debate ensued upon the "Kilmainham Treaty." Then the discussion of Procedure was resumed, and after various amendments had been considered, Rules 11 and 12 were carried, and the debate was adjourned.

Died at Highbury, aged 78, Andrew Pritchard, F.R.S.E., a high authority in microscopic studies, and one of the oldest members of the Royal Institution.

Died at Appley Tower, Ryde, Isle of Wight, aged 79, Right Hon. Sir William Hutt, K.C.B., member for Kingston-on-Hull in the first Reformed Parliament, and VicePresident of the Board of Trade in Lord Palmerston's second administration 1859–65.

25. The large shop of the North-Western carriage works at Wolverton burnt down, the damage being estimated at £100,000 while 1,500 workmen were temporarily thrown out of employment.

26. A bomb maliciously exploded in a gaming saloon at Monte Carlo, Monaco, but only a very few seriously injured, although the panic was of the most intense description.

27. Mr. Gladstone introduces his first resolution for the appointment of Standing Committees as an experiment for the next session only.

- Freedom of the City of Edinburgh conferred upon the Marquis of Salisbury, in recognition of his services as a statesman and man of letters.

Clevedon Court, near Bristol, the seat of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, Bart., destroyed by fire, from the fury of which, however, a large portion of the valuable library, and some of the silver plate, was saved.

- Denis Field, who had acted as foreman of the jury which found Walsh guilty of the Letterfrack murder, stabbed in Frederick Street, Dublin. The assassin escaped on a car which was waiting for him. An" emergency man named Mallor was also stabbed in Gardiner Street.

A railway bridge over the Turriff turnpike road gives way under a mixed passenger and goods trains on the journey from Macduff to Aberdeen. Five persons were killed on the spot, and several seriously injured.

28. Close of the five days' polling for Cambridge University, when Mr. C. Raikes, Conservative, was returned by a majority of nearly three to one, Professor Stuart, Liberal, polling only 1,301 votes, including persons and proxies.

29.-Sophocles' tragedy of "Ajax," in the original Greek, performed at St. Andrew's Hall for the first time by Cambridge undergraduates, under the direction of Professor Waldstein and other Hellenists of the University.

- A Hungarian peasant woman named Lynkas Kathi hanged at Steinamanger for being concerned in no fewer than twenty-six murders by selling poisoned cakes to persons who wished to get rid of their relatives.

December 1.-For several nights preceding the present Procedure debate dragged itself along with painful slowness and frequent interruptions. The House was thinning each day, and there appeared a very general desire to get the Grand Committee Rules disposed of without further delay. Procedure debate was at length closed this evening, the Rules as finally amended and agreed to providing-1. That the Speaker or Chairman may stop the debate at his discretion, or if supported by more than 200 members; or if opposed by less than 40 and supported by more than 100. 2. Provides that motions for adjournment shall hold good for the discussion of a definite matter of urgent public importance if 40 members support it by

standing up. 3. Provides for limiting such debate to the subject in hand. 4. Provides for the taking of divisions. 5, 6, and 7 are technical rules for the Speaker or Chairman's guidance. 8. Makes it a standing order that no opposed motion shall be taken after halfpast twelve at night. 9. Regulates the suspension of offending members. 10. Gives the Speaker or Chairman the power to check attempts to secure delay by abuse of the rules. II and 12 are minor provisions, and 13 makes the first seven and last three resolutions into Standing Orders. Five additional rules relating to the appointment and working of Standing Committees were also made Standing Orders until the end of next Session.

1.-George Cole, a constable in the N Division of Metropolitan Police, shot dead at Dalston by a burglar while being taken to a lock-up about midnight.

2.-Parliament meets this afternoon (Saturday) for prorogation, when the Queen's Speech is read. This was the longest session of the present reign.

Wigan election results in the return of the Hon. Algernon Egerton, Conservative, by a majority of 622 over Mr. W. Wren, Radical.

Died at Cambridge, aged 78, Rev. James Challis, Plumian Professor of Astronomy, and author of many volumes of Astronomical Observations.

3.-After many delays in the way of preparation for trial, Arabi pleads guilty to certain vague charges of rebellion, and was sentenced to death by a court-martial on the following day. The sentence was immediately commuted by the Khedive into one of perpetual exile, a return to Egypt being punishable with death. The Egyptian Ministry, led by Riaz Pasha, Minister of the Interior, at once resigned, in order to mark their disapproval of the compromise, and, although Cherif retained the premiership, the Cabinet was reconstructed upon a more liberal, though possibly upon a less national, basis than that which had been in power since the return from Alexandria. Arabi was finally conveyed, with a few of his fellow-rebels, to Ceylon, where a life of peaceful ease was assured to him.

(Advent Sunday). Died at his residence, Addington Park, Surrey, aged 71, the Most Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury, and Primate of all England. His Grace, youngest son of Crau furd Tait, Harviestown, Clackmannan, was born in Edinburgh 22nd December, 1811, and educated at the High School, passing thence to the University of Glasgow, where in 1830 he was elected an Exhibitioner on Snell's

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foundation at Balliol College, Oxford. successively became Fellow, Tutor, and Public Examiner, and while there took a prominent part in opposition to the teaching of Dr. Henry Newman, especially as expressed in Tract XC. On the death of Dr. Arnold, in 1842, Dr. Tait was appointed to succeed him as Head Master of Rugby School, where he remained till 1860, when he accepted the Deanery of Carlisle. When Bishop Blomfield retired from the Bishopric of London, Dr. Tait was appointed his successor; and on the death of Dr. Longley, in 1868, he was translated to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, which he afterwards continued to occupy. Holding such a post he was naturally subjected to a deal of criticism, much of it of the most acrimonious description, especially from some advanced members of the so-called Ritualistic party; but he betrayed no resentment, and was much loved by all who had the honour of his personal acquaintance. His Grace was the 92nd Archbishop of Canterbury in succession from St. Augustine, and 23rd from the first Protestant who filled the see, Matthew Parker. On the 8th the honoured remains were laid in the churchyard of Addington, the funeral being attended by the Dukes of Connaught and Albany, a majority of the English bishops, many friends, and several prominent Nonconformist divines, as well as representatives of other shades of religious belief.

3.-Died, aged 82, Duke Bernard of SaxeMeningen, father of the reigning Prince placed on the throne by Prussia, 1866.

4.-The Queen opens the new Law Courts erected after the designs of G. E. Street, R. A. An imposing ceremonial was observed, her Majesty being received in the hall by the judges and representatives of the Bar. The Lord Chancellor (Selborne) was advanced to the rank of an earl, and the honour of knighthood conferred upon the treasurers of the various Inns of Court.