3. Two gamekeepers (Robert Fyfe and Bernard McCoughtrie) shot on the grounds of Devol, near Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire.

7.-Died at Rydal, aged 72, William Wordsworth, the last surviving son of the poet, and for some time distributor of stamps for Cumberland.

Died at St. Petersburg, Cajetan Andryecvich Kossovich, the first Sanskrit Professor at St. Petersburg, to a great extent self-taught. Besides his studies in Sanskrit, of which he left an unfinished dictionary, he devoted much study to cuneiform inscriptions.

8.-Christopher Dowling tried in Dublin for the murder of Constable Cox, whom he shot on the 25th November last. A number

of detectives engaged in watching the movements of several men, among whom was the prisoner, were crossing the street to arrest the latter when he presented a revolver at Cox and shot him dead. For the defence it was contended that the conduct of the police had been reckless, and that Cox had been shot by his comrades. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and Judge Harrison pronounced sentence of penal servitude for life. Messrs. Davitt, Healy, and Quinn were arrested this morning and conveyed in cabs to Kilmainham Gaol. No public excitement was caused by the execution of the warrants. Two farmers, named Coleman and Smyth, were also arrested near Newtown Hamilton, County Armagh, on a charge of conspiracy to murder certain landlords and Government officials in Armagh and Monaghan, and of being members of the Irish Patriotic Brotherhood. They were returned for trial at the assizes, together with an approver named O'Hanlon, who refused to give

evidence.

9.-Died at Oxford, aged 56, Professor Henry Stephen Smith, a noted Rugby student, Double First in Classics and Mathematics, Oxford (1849), successor to Baden Powell in the Chair of Geometry, and in pure mathematics judged to be almost without a rival in England or the Continent. Professor Smith was also a classical scholar of wide knowledge and exquisite taste.

10. Miss Booth, of the Salvation Army, and her companion, Miss Charlesworth, expelled from the Canton of Geneva; Miss Booth, for not producing an account of a collection made at a Salvation meeting in December, and Miss Charlesworth because she was not furnished with the written authority of her parents to reside in the Canton, and because after being examined for three hours on Saturday, in camera, she objected on conscientious grounds to undergo a second examination on Sunday.

10. Died in Broadmoor Lunatic_Asylum, where he had been confined since 1837, John Goode, formerly a captain in the 10th Royal Hussars, grievously afflicted with the notion of being the sovereign power in Great Britain.

Died at Wartle, Basingstoke, aged 78, General Sir Henry Drury Harness, K. C.B., Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers, He served during the Indian Mutiny, commanding Royal Engineers at the siege and capture of Lucknow.

12. Mr. John Bright, M.P., presides at the opening of the new Infirmary gifted by Mr. Thomas Watson to the town of Rochdale.

13. Fire at Crofthead Thread Works, Neilston, near Glasgow, the damage being estimated at £40,000.

Two of the heavy bankruptcies which followed the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank finally disposed of. The London Bankruptcy Court granted formal orders for the closing of the bankruptcies of Matthew Buchanan and Co. (Matthew and Fairlie) and James Morton and Co. (Morton and Taylor), the trustees having carried out the arrangement entered into between the liquidators of the bank and the creditors of the firms. In the former case a dividend of 37. per 1 on the debts of the firm, and a dividend of rod. on the separate debts, and in the latter dividends of Is. and 6s. respectively, were paid. The residue of the estates was handed over to the liquidators of the bank. The total liabilities of the two firms amounted to about three millions and three-quarters.

Died at Venice, aged 70, Richard Wagner, composer of Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, and many other marvellous musical dramas. Wagner was born in Leipsic, and received his first education at the Kreuzschule, Dresden.

Died at Siena, aged 83, Padre Pendola, founder of the well-known Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb by means of the vocal system.

14. Concluded at Liverpool Assizes, an action by the Blackpool Winter Gardens Company against Messrs. Hollingshead and Meyer, theatrical agents, London, to recover damages for Madame Sarah Bernhardt having on the 28th August last refused to complete a performance of La Dame aux Camélias, A disclaimer by Mr. Hollingshead that he was responsible in the engagement was accepted by counsel for the plaintiffs. The jury returned a verdict against the other defendant, Mr. Meyer, and the damages, it was understood, were by mutual consent fixed at £150.

15. The fourth session of the tenth Parliament of Queen Victoria opened by Commission. The Royal Speech dwelt on

the success of the Ministerial policy in Ireland and Egypt, and the maintenance of friendly relations with foreign States. The reorganisation of the Egyptian Government would be submitted, it stated, to the Sultan and the Powers. Cetewayo's restoration in Zululand was justified on the ground of the previous unsettled state of the country, and as a guarantee of future peace. Prominence was given, in the legislative proposals, to a Criminal Code Bill, a Criminal Appeal Bill, a Bankruptcy Bill, and a Patents Bill. After these came the Corrupt Practices Bill and the London Municipal Reform Bill "if time should permit."

15. The reward offered in connection with the recent explosion at Tradeston Gas Works, Glasgow, increased from £100 to £500. The water was, by this time pumped out of the tank, and further inspections made by Colonel Majendie, on behalf of the Government, and by Mr. Hawksley on behalf of the Corporation, the result tending to confirm both gentlemen in their first impression that the explosion was caused by the application of some external agency. In connection with the mysterious box found the same night at Possil Bridge, Colonel Majendie stated that it was undoubtedly intended to cause far more serious disaster than actually occurred, and had the apparatus been more effective the bridge might have been blown down and the water of the canal let in upon the city.

16. By a fire which broke out at an early hour this morning in the house of a Nottingham artisan, a woman named Mrs. Knowles, together with her three young children and her aged mother, was burned to death. The cause of the outbreak was the overheating of the flue of a copper in the cellar, and when the flames were discovered the whole lower portion of the house was on fire. The husband appeared to have made his escape regardless of the fate of the other members of the family, and his conduct was censured by the coroner's jury.

17.-Councillor James Carey enters the court at Kilmainham as an informer. This Carey had conducted himself all through the course of the investigations thus far with a cool effrontery. His position among the other prisoners was peculiar. He belonged to a somewhat better class in life than the rest. His place on the Town Council he owed to the fact that he was an ex-suspect. He had been arrested under the old Coercion Act on suspicion of being concerned in an outrage in Amiens Street. After his release he stood at the municipal elections for Town Councillor, and was elected by a very large majority over a Liberal and Roman Catholic opponent. His demeanour during the early part of the investigation was noisily defiant.

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tested loudest when first arrested. He swaggered out of the prison van to the first examination smoking a cigar, ostentatiously

dressed to mark the distinction between his position and that of his fellow prisoners; he was next heard of as losing his temper and assaulting the Governor of Kilmainham Gaol. But after the evidence of Farrell and Lamie his audacity appears to have broken down. He determined to save his own neck at all hazards, and turned informer.

17. The inquiry into the Phoenix Park murders was resumed to-day at Kilmainham, when twenty of the prisoners were placed in the dock. On the usual roll of names being called over, it was at once observed that the list did not include James Carey, the Town Councillor, and all doubt as to the meaning of his absence from the dock was removed when he was called as the first witness for the Crown. Carey now appeared on his own showing to be the basest of all the assassins. He had lured other men into the association, had plotted murder, had arranged the Phoenix Park assassinations, and given the signal when the deed was to be done. In his first examination to-day, lasting over five hours, the informer coolly described the constitution of the society, formed fifteen months ago, for "the removal of tyrants," which bore the name of the Irish Invincibles. It was composed of "picked men belonging to the Fenian Brotherhood, and was not intended to number more than 250 members throughout the kingdom, fifty of whom were to constitute the Dublin branch. Witness and James Mullet, Edward M'Caffrey, and Daniel Curley were appointed to select members in Dublin and to organise the society by a man named Walsh, and afterwards by Captain M'Cafferty, and still more recently by an individual only known to witness as "Number One." Carey revealed the details

of a plot against Mr. Forster, which was attempted to be carried out on the 3rd of March last, and on several subsequent occasions, but each attempt was frustrated, either by the fortuitous presence of police at the spot, or by the non-appearance of the ex-Chief Secretary himself. Mr. Forster, Earl Cowper, and Mr. Burke were the first three named for assassination, and in the case of the last unfortunate gentleman the assassins met on several occasions before the 6th of May, but failed to accomplish their purpose until that day. Carey corroborated Kavanagh's evidence regarding the occupants of the car, and said that he himself went into the cab driven by Fitzharris. Witness said he waved a white handkerchief for a signal as he and Smith were being driven to the spot where the main body of the men were gathered. The latter numbered seven-Joseph Brady, Timothy Kelly, Daniel Curley, Joseph Hanlon, Edward O'Brien, Thomas Caffrey, and Patrick Delaney. After telling them that Mr. Burke was coming witness left them, having previously sent Smith away, and proceeded towards Island Bridge. He looked round as he went, and saw Brady strike Mr. Burke with his left hand.

Carey saw Daniel Curley the same evening in Dublin, and the latter told witness that Brady attacked Mr. Burke, and afterwards stabbed Lord Frederick Cavendish. Witness also saw Brady himself that night, and he detailed the course of the murders, saying that he stabbed Mr. Burke on the left shoulder, when Lord Frederick Cavendish struck Brady with his umbrella. Brady then struck Lord Frederick Cavendish on the arm, followed him into the roadway, and there, as he said, "finished him."

Witness further stated that the mysterious person known as "Number One had given him to understand that there would be no limit to the money supplied to them. He did not know where the money came from, but in the course of conversation between himself and his confederates the impression was that it came from the Land League. This, however, was not established in evidence. The cross-examination of Carey was adjourned.

18.-The embalmed body of Richard Wagner, which had been brought from Venice to Bayreuth, interred with stately ceremony in the tomb built by Wagner himself within the grounds of his villa Wahnfried.

19. In the House of Commons to-day Sir Herbert Maxwell gives notice of a question as to the antecedents of the man Sheridan, one of the persons implicated in the conspiracy of the "Irish Invincibles" by the evidence of James Carey. In reply to Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Trevelyan said he believed Sheridan was the person referred to in the memorandum sent to the members of Her Majesty's Government at the time when the release of the suspected members of Parliament was under consideration in April last.

Died, aged 65, Charles J. Eyston, of East Hendred, Berkshire, the head of an old Roman Catholic family, whose property had been held for five centuries of unbroken descent. He lived a retired life, devoting himself to mathematical and astronomical study.

20. The depositions having been read today in Kilmainham Court-house, the prisoners, twenty in number, were committed for trial on the charge of conspiracy to murder certain Government officials and others, and of having in pursuance of that conspiracy murdered Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke. Whelan was committed on the charge of treason-felony, but admitted to bail, himself in £50 and two sureties in £25 each. Writing to a clergyman who had asked permission to dedicate to her a sermon on the late Chief Secretary, Lady Frederick Cavendish requested to see the MS., lest it should contain " any word that could be turned into a desire for vengeance," adding an earnest prayer that neither her sorrow nor the wickedness of her husband's assassins may ever blind herself or any of the English people to the duty of patience, justice, and sympathy with regard to the Irish people.

20. The steamer Strathdee sunk off the Isle of Arran by coming into collision with the Allan Liner Buenos Ayrean, and eleven of her crew of twelve drowned, including the captain.

21. The new Parliamentary Oaths Act Amendment Bill issued to-day is found to be endorsed by the Attorney-General, Lord Hartington, Sir William Harcourt, and the Solicitor-General. It provided that every member of either House may, if he thinks fit, instead of making and subscribing to the oath of allegiance, make and subscribe a solemn affirmation in the form of the oath, substituting the words 'solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm" for the word " 'swear," and omitting the words "so help me God."

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Died, aged 76, William Tatton Egerton, first Lord Egerton of Tatton, a member for Lymington in pre-Reform days, and later (as a Conservative) for North Cheshire, 1832-58, when he was raised to the peerage during Earl Derby's second Ministry.

22. In the course of an adjourned debate on the Address, Mr. James Lowther criticised and condemned the policy of the Government with regard to Ireland, and hoped the Ministry would give some assurance that their more recent policy of vigorously vindicating the law would be persevered in. Mr. Forster followed with an eloquent speech of two hours' duration, in the course of which he defended his own administration of the affairs of Ireland, explained the divergence of view between himself and colleagues in the Cabinet-which arose to a large extent upon the question of the time when fresh powers should be asked forwarmly eulogised the administration of Lord Spencer and Mr. Trevelyan, and called upon Mr. Parnell to justify his position as head of the Land League in the light of recent revelations. While the right hon. gentleman was speaking he was frequently interrupted by Mr. O'Kelly, who was ultimately named by the Speaker, and (under the new rules) suspended for a week. The debate was carried on by a large number of hon. members, and at a late hour Mr. T. P. O'Connor delivered a fiery denunciation of the administration of Ireland by both political parties, and accused the British people of a blood frenzy towards his fellow countrymen. A pause then occurred in the discussion, and the Speaker had commenced to put the question when Lord Hartington He explained that he had waited expecting the hon. member for Cork either to address the House in vindication of his position, or to move the adjournment of the debate. At the close of the speech of the noble Lord, the debate was adjourned on the motion of Mr. Parnell.

rose.

In Paris M. Jules Ferry announces before the Chamber of Deputies the formation of a new Ministry under his Premiership, and

gave an outline of its political programme. The law of 1834 was to be applied, which would have the effect of depriving Princes serving in the army of their commissions. A number of bills on domestic questions were specified as shortly to be taken in hand, and as regards foreign policy, peace, so far as was consistent with the maintenance of France in the rank among the Powers to which she is entitled, was to be the chief aim of the Cabinet.

22.-The heart of Pius IX. solemnly deposited in the vaults below St. Peter's, and permanently placed in a marble urn close to the tomb of the Stuarts.

23.-Died, aged 93, Baron Jules Cloquet, French anatomist and surgeon.

In the House of Commons Sir Stafford Northcote gives notice of his intention to move that a Committee be appointed by the Committee of Selection to inquire into the circumstances connected with the liberation from Kilmainham Prison in the spring of 1882 of Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, and O'Kelly, with power to examine witnesses on oath.

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debate on Mr. Gorst's amendment to the Address was resumed by Mr. Parnell, who said the utmost he desired to do was to make his position clear to the Irish people at home and abroad from the unjust aspersions cast upon it by a man who ought to have been ashamed to devote his ability to such work. The hon. member did not attempt any defence or justification of his position in the light of recent events, but devoted himself to one long, vehement, and bitter denunciation of Mr. Forster. Mr. Trevelyan followed with an exhaustive defence of his administration of Irish affairs. Among subsequent speakers were Mr. Justin M'Carthy, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Mr. Chamberlain. On a division Mr. Gorst's amendment was rejected by 259 to 176.

Mutiny at the Missouri Convict Penitentiary, Jefferson City, the ringleaders setting fire to the building, and cutting the water-hose preparatory to making an ineffectual attempt to escape through a cordon of citizens hastily drawn round the burning prison.

24.-John Morley, journalist, elected M. P. for Newcastle in the Radical interest, by 9,443 votes against 7,187 given to his Conservative opponent, Gainsford Bruce, Q.C.. The vacancy arose through the retirement of the junior member, Mr. Ashton Dilke.

the world. He belonged to the family of Stirling-Maxwell, and married the widow of the fourth Duke of Montrose.

25.-The Duchess of Albany delivered of a daughter (Alice Mary) at Windsor Castle.

A decree published, signed by the French President, and countersigned by the Minister of War, placing on the retired list those Princes of former reigning families who are now serving in the army.

26.-Lord Hartington declines to give any facilities for the consideration of Sir S. Northcote's motion for a Committee on the Kilmainham transaction. The debate on the Address was again resumed by Mr. Parnell, who moved his amendment condemning as tyrannical and unjust the working of the Crimes Act by the Crown authorities in Ireland. The hon. member contended that the Government, after the Phoenix Park assassination, had thrown away the best opportunity that had ever occurred of enlisting the sympathies of the people of Ireland in the cause of peace and order. He denounced the whole operation of the Crimes Act, asserting that innocent men were being sent to the gallows by packed juries and corrupt Judges, and that Lord Spencer with his present powers was as much an autocrat and irresponsible Governor in Ireland as the Czar was over Russia, with this difference, that the Czar had a large proportion of the people with him, while the present administration in Ireland was detested by everybody. He concluded by calling on the Government and the House to devote their energies to giving justice to Ireland, and instanced the Land Act as. one measure demanding immediate amendment. The Attorney-General replied, and the debate was carried on by many hon. gentlemen on both sides. On a division, the amendment was rejected by 133 to 15. The debate on the Address was again adjourned.

28. The deferred celebration of the silver wedding of the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany celebrated in Berlin with much pomp and enthusiasm.

Two Irish elections result in the return of Conservatives. In the County Dublin contest Colonel King-Harman had the large majority of 1,086 over the Parnellite, while at

Portarlington, where there are only 138 voters on the register, the Nationalist candidate was defeated by 13 votes.

28. Further Parliamentary papers issued regarding the cost of the Egyptian expedition. From these it appeared that the charge for army services to the Imperial Exchequer is about £1,640,000, of which £900,000 has been voted already, and that in like manner the charge for navy services is about £1,776,000. of which £1,400,000 has been already voted. Thus the total charge for the Imperial forces is about £3,416,000, of which £2,300,000 has been voted already, leaving about £1,116,000 to be provided, of which £1,078,000 will come into course of payment before the close of the current financial year. The charge to the Indian Exchequer is estimated by the Government of India at £1,142,000. The Government proposes to ask Parliament to grant £500,000 during the current financial year as a contribution towards the charge incurred by the Government of India in conducting its share of the expedition.

Captain Warren's investigations result in bringing to justice the murderers of Professor Palmer, Captain Gill, and Lieutenant Charrington. It was found that none of the money carried by the expedition had ever reached the rebels, the Sheik in charge of Professor Palmer's party having secreted it while the proposal of killing the prisoners was being discussed among the Arabs. This fact seemed to have aggravated the fanatical hatred of the Arabs, who condemned their prisoners to leap over the brink of a high precipice, the ruffians shooting them as they fell. Thirteen of those concerned were caught and tried, and five of the actual perpetrators of the crime were hanged at Zagazig to-day.

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March 1.-In the Court of Queen's Bench counsel are heard against the rule for a criminal information against Mr. Edmund Yates, the proprietor of the World, charged with libelling Lord Lonsdale and a lady of high rank. Court, in delivering judgment making the rule absolute, remarked on the discreditable circumstance that persons of high rank contributed scandal to newspapers for money.

G. W. Foote, J. Ramsey, and A. H. Kemp, editor, printer, and publisher of the Freethinker, charged at the Central Criminal Court with having published blasphemous and impious libels in the Christmas number for 1882. The jury were unable to agree, and Mr. Justice North intimated that he would try the case again on the 5th. At the same Court, Henry Cattell, a newsvendor, was found guilty of selling the Freethinker, but strongly recommended to mercy. Sentence deferred.

2.-Sergeant Goold, of the Scots Greys, shot dead by accident at Ballincollig Barracks, County Cork. He and two others were en

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gaged on special patrol duty on the lawn in front of officers' quarters, certain suspicious circumstances having recently occurred. night was very dark, and Goold ran against Lieut. Torrens, the orderly officer, who was going round inspecting the guards. The lieutenant thought he had been attacked, and lifting his hand, in which he held a pistol, to defend himself, the pistol suddenly went off, and the bullet entered Goold's breast, killing him almost instantly. The coroner's jury, which sat on Saturday, gave a verdict of accidental death, entirely exonerating Lieut. Torrens.

3.-The ceremony of confirming the election of Dr. Benson as Archbishop of Canterbury takes place at Bow Church, Cheapside, in the presence of the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of London, Durham, Lichfield, Rochester, and Exeter, and a crowded congregation. The enthronization took place at Canterbury on the 29th, in presence of a distinguished company who crowded the Cathedral.

5.- Destructive fire in Trinidad, five stores being consumed, and damage caused to the estimated amount of £40,000.

In the House of Lords, some discussion took place on the second reading of the Braithwaite and Buttermere Railway Bill, Lord Mount-Temple, who moved its rejection, contending that the proposed line would destroy some of the most charming scenery of the Lake District. Bill read a second time.

At a meeting of Dublin Corporation a letter was read from the Town Clerk drawing the attention of the Council to the fact that James Carey, the representative of Trinity Ward, had confessed his guilt in several grave felonies, and asking advice as to whether he should proceed to take steps to remove his name from the roll. On the motion of Mr. Webb, a Land League member, it was agreed that, as James Carey had acknowledged on oath his complicity in a conspiracy to murder, he was not a proper person to hold the office of councillor, and that he be removed from office.