Egypt. The magnificent choruses were excellently rendered, Miss Williams, Mrs. Hutchinson, Madame Patey, Messrs. Lloyd, Santley, and Brereton being the principals. Sir Arthur Sullivan conducted. At the evening performance Mr. Mackenzie's new cantata, The Story of Sayid, founded on one of Mr. Edwin Arnold's Pearls of the Faith, was produced under the baton of the composer, and was enthusiastically received. Madame Albani, Mr.

M'Guckin, and Mr. Watkin Mills were the soloists.

13.-New hospital at Burnley, the first ever built on the isolated ward system, opened by II.R.H. Prince Albert Victor.

First meeting of the Crofter Commission held at Dornoch, Sutherlandshire.

The ceremony of formally opening the new Clyde Trust Graving Dock at Govan performed by Lord Provost M'Onie in presence of a large concourse of spectators.

14. The Craig-Ard Hotel, Oban, almost entirely destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. Some of the occupants experienced considerable difficulty in making their escape, but happily no casualty occurred. The damage was estimated at about £10,000.

15.-A fierce gale rages over Great Britain, causing much damage and loss of life at sea, not fewer, it was thought, than 100 sailors being drowned.

The Australian Colonies reported as displaying a more favourable attitude towards the proposed Imperial Institute. According to telegrams published to-day, Victoria will probably contribute £10,000 to the Prince of Wales's scheme, while the total sum to be raised by the six self-governing colonies was estimated at from £30,000 to £40,000.

16. The Leeds Festival brought to a close, the chief interest centring in the production of Sir Arthur Sullivan's new cantata, The Golden Legend, the libretto of which had been adapted from Longfellow's wellknown lyrical drama. The performance was a brilliant success, and at the close Sir Arthur was thrice re-called amid continuous rounds of applause and a shower of bouquets. was given at the evening concert.

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At the Manchester City Sessions to-day the Rev. James Mackie, M. A., minister of the Scottish National Church, was indicted for having inflicted grievous bodily harm upon Mr. John Carswell, an elder of his church. The evidence showed that for some time past disputes had been in progress in the church with respect to the management of the funds, and a few months ago, during one of these disputes, the minister assaulted Mr. Carswell in the vestry, and was subsequently bound over to keep the peace. When the recognizances expired the disturbances were renewed, and on

the 19th of September culminated in an affray, during which the minister stabbed his elder with a butcher's steel. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

16.-The business portion of the town of Salisbury, Maryland, with property valued at one million dollars, and the greater part of the town of Eastport, Maine, involving a loss of 800,000 dollars, destroyed by fire.

Died, aged 66, Baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild, chief of the great banking-house at Frankfort-on-the-Maine; the first Jew who had a seat in the Prussian Upper Chamber.

Died at Passy, aged 70, Hon. and Rev. George Talbot, son of Lord Talbot de Malahide; he was for nineteen years cup-bearer to Pope Pius IX.

18.-Inauguration of Mansfield College, the first Nonconformist establishment Oxford.

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At the Belfast Riots Commission to-day evidence was given by the Rev. Dr. Hanna. He attributed the strong feeling among the Loyalists to the position of Mr. Gladstone's Government and the remarks of Mr, Morley, but the riots would not have reached a head had not the constabulary so obviously sided with the Catholics against the Protestants. The only hope of future peace was the reorganization of the police in Belfast on a less military basis, and their subjection to local control.

An extraordinary scene takes place at an On eviction near Clonakilty, County Cork. the bailiffs, who were accompanied by a force of thirty police, approaching the dwelling, the tenant appeared at a window and declared his intention of making a resistance. The house was found to be barricaded and defended by between thirty and forty men, who showered down boiling water and all sorts of missiles on the bailiffs. Possession of the bottom floor was obtained, and the furniture removed, but the resistance became so vigorous that it was I decided to abandon any further attempt to effect the eviction.

An inquest respecting a recent tragedy at Fulham was held to-day before Dr. Diplock, the coroner for West Middlesex, Mr. Leader, the father of the three children whose bodies had been recovered, gave evidence as to the quarrel in consequence of which it was believed that Mrs. Leader left home. An assistant stated that Mr. Leader had always been kind to his wife and family. The jury returned a verdict of found drowned.

After a protracted search the body of Countess Laura von Arnim found at Murz, near Gernobach, in the Black Forest, whither she had wandered and committed suicide. A large sum of money and valuable jewellery was found upon the body.

18.-Died, aged 75, Most Hon. Ernest A. C. Brudenell-Bruce, third Marquis of Ailesbury; he was twice Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Victoria.

19.-Lord Rosebery presides to-night at the annual dinner of the Liberal Club at Newcastle-on-Tyne. There was a large attendance, and several members of Parliament were present. In proposing the toast of the evening

"Success to the Liberal Club"-his lordship briefly glanced at general politics. There were, he said, three great topics on which the country would shortly have to make up their minds. The first and greatest was that of Ireland, the next was the pressing question of the currency, and the third was the position to be taken in regard to affairs in the East. Proceeding to consider the state of the Liberal party, he said their present position was unprecedented. They were engaged in a kind of triangular duel, and in the position of receiving two fires, not being able to reply to both at once. If the present state of affairs were allowed to continue it would become irrevocable, and would necessitate a new and most melancholy departure. Looking to the causes of the schism, he said the Liberal majority from various causes had been decreasing since 1880, and the downward progress culminated in the objections to Mr. Gladstone's Irish proposals,. He did not believe the judgment of the country as given at the last election was against those proposals, and contended that the defeat of the late Government showed a desire for more time to consider a difficult and complicated question..

A great number of witnesses, whose names had been suggested by counsel for the Loyalist Defence Committee, were examined to-day before the Belfast Riots Commission. The most important evidence was that of Dr. Lewis, surgeon, practising in Shankhill Road, who stated that during the riots he had treated 80 persons, 44 suffering from scalp wounds, 18 from rifle balls, 15 from buckshot, and three from revolver bullets. Five had died. The substance of the evidence of the other witnesses was that the constabulary had fired recklessly on the people, and on various occasions beaten them with their truncheons without any provocation. It was stated that the police and military were still needed at the docks. The inquiry was again adjourned.

20.-The Dean of Westminster, having received from the secretaries of three Protestant societies a protest against permitting the Roman Catholic pilgrimage to the shrine of

Edward the Confessor at Westminster, replied that he could not interfere with private devotions,

20.-Died at Prome, on the Irrawaddy, of fever contracted during the operations against the dacoits in Upper Burmah, Major-General Sir Herbert Macpherson. Sir Herbert was the youngest son of the late Colonel Duncan Macpherson, 73th Highlanders, of Ardersier, Inverness-shire, and was born in 1827. He entered the army in 1845, and his career was one of heroic valour and rapid distinction, He received the Victoria Cross for his conduct at Lucknow, and many other high awards of merit for his services in other Asian campaigns. He commanded the Indian division in Egypt, and was present at Tel-el-Kebir. In 1885 he was promoted to the command of the Madras army, and in the same year was the appointed to supreme command in

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21.-General Sir Frederick Roberts, Commander-in-Chief in India, appointed to the command of the army in Burmah, rendered vacant by the death of General Sir Herbert Macpherson. At a meeting of the Viceregal Council at Simla yesterday, the Viceroy expressed deep sorrow at General Macpherson's death, and added that he had received a telegram from the Queen conveying her profound regret at the calamity which had thus suddenly overtaken the country.

Origin of the "Plan of Campaign." In connection with the "no rent agitation in Ireland "a Plan of Campaign" is sketched by the Nationalist organ, United Ireland. It was proposed to form on each estate a committee to take charge of the half-year's rent of each tenant. The tenants were to take three pledges (1) To abide by the decision of the majority; (2) to hold no communication with the landlord or any of his agents, except in the presence of the body of the tenantry; (3) to accept no settlement for himself which was not given to every tenant on the estate." Further, on a certain sum of rent being offered and refused, each tenant was to pay the amount into a common fund, "which shall be held by one reliable person, whose name should not be known to any but the member of the committee." This estate fund is to be absolutely at the disposal of the committee " for purposes of fight, and to relieve evicted tenants," but none of it was to go in law costs, except to defend a tenant who retakes possession of his house.

Lord Mure, in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, passes sentence on the Tiree crofters, who were found guilty on the 20th of mobbing and rioting and deforcing a sheriffofficer. He pointed out as a peculiarity in the case that the writ of interdict which they had obstructed involved no personal interest of theirs, and that it was nothing more than a

notice that a question had arisen between the landlord and the tenants concerned, and that they were to appear and expiain their rights. In view of the recommendation of the jury, to which he was always inclined to give attention, he felt warranted in passing a lighter sentence than he would have given some years ago. Five of the crofters were accordingly sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and three others to four.

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21.-Details now published of the attempted murder of Mr. Vandeleur, agent for a North Kerry landowner. Mr. Vandeleur was turning to Tralee on the night of the 19th after collecting rents at Causeway, and had proceeded about four miles on the Ardferd Road, when several shots were fired from the hedge. Mr. Vandeleur replied with three shots fron his revolver, whereupon another shot was fired from the hedge, grazing the horse's neck. The driver proceeded at full speed to the Ardferd Barracks, where information of the outrage was lodged.

Died, aged 53, Dr. Frederick Guthrie, F.R.S., Professor of Physics, Royal School of Mines.

22.-Opening of a new Liberal club in Leith, the principal speaker being the Earl of Aberdeen. A letter was read from Mr. Gladstone in which he said that all true Liberals must desire to see the re-union of their party, and he and his colleagues had been striving and would continue to strive to that end. Lord Rosebery, in a letter of apology for absence, said that in regard to Ireland the intentions of the Government were unknown, but he was afraid the Ministerial policy would not be one in which Liberals could concur. His lordship did not think the re-union of the Liberal party could be effected by the leaders, but he had unlimited faith in the common-sense of the rank and file to bring about by calm discussion during the autumn and winter that which they all so much desired. In the course of his speech Lord Aberdeen said he was not inclined to take a gloomy view of the position of the Liberal party. He argued for a change in the traditional policy of this country towards Ireland, and said that if a large measure of self-government were given to the Irish the influence and designs of unscrupulous men would be destroyed.

Messrs. Baring announced the purchase by a limited liability company of the business of Messrs. Guinness, brewers, of Dublin, for £5,200,000-partly in shares, and partly in debentures-and invited public subscriptions. In the course of the day the capital required was subscribed several times over, and the debenture stock was quoted at 16 per cent. premium, the preference 31, and the ordinary (10) shares at 51 premium. Before the period for subscribing (three days) had passed upwards of £100,000,0co was offered by the public.

25.-The proceedings of the expeditionary force in Skye to-day result in an unfortunate conflict on the estate of Colonel Fraser of Kilmuir. The force attending the sheriff officers was the smallest that had hitherto been sent out. There were seventeen marines and thirteen policemen. Sheriff Hamilton was again in charge. On reaching the township of Kilvaxter, Sheriff-officer Macdonald, accompanied by two policemen, left the main body, while Mr. Grant, with nine policemen and the whole of the Marines, proceeded to the township of Borneskitivaig. On arriving there the Marines halted, and the rest of the party went on to serve their papers. They were speedily confronted by a threatening crowd who opposed their operations, and it was only after considerable wrangling and angry altercation that one of the writs was served. On attempting to serve a second warrant, the officer found the In doorway of the house blocked with women. endeavouring to dislodge them the police excited the passions of the men, who at once proceeded to throw mud and sods and otherwise aid the women in resistance. The opposition soon grew into a riot, and a number of blows were struck. At length the assistance of the Marines had to be called in. With fixed bayonets these latter kept back the men, and the women were removed. Service was then effected by fixing the papers to the door after knocking repeatedly and obtaining no answer. In the course of the struggle six men, five of them fishermen, were arrested and taken away handcuffed.

26.-Annual conference of the National Union of Conservative Associations held at Bradford. Mr. Ashmead Bartlett presided, and there were upwards of 700 delegates, besides a number of members of Parliament, present. Lord Randolph Churchill, who on arriving at Bradford had been enthusiastically received by an immense crowd of spectators, entered the conference while Colonel Malleson was moving a resolution expressing confidence that the Government would pursue Lord Beaconsfield's policy in guarding British interests against Russian aggression. Having congratulated the conference on the victory of the elections and the prosperity of Conservative cause, his lordship referrel to the prediction of the Separatists, that the alliance between

the Tories and the Liberal Unionists could not be of long duration. He maintained that so long as the objects of that alliance existed the alliance itself would be maintained, and he strongly urged all sound Conservatives to reciprocate the loyal support that they have received from Lord Hartington, Mr. Chamberlain, and their followers. His lordship addressed a great public meeting in St. George's Hall in the evening.

26.-Presentation of a testimonial to Mr. Schnadhorst at Birmingham, on the occasion of his retirement from the presidentship of the Birmingham Liberal Association.

Died, aged 92, General Sir Abraham Josias Cloete, K.C.B., whose first services were in the Mahratta War of 1817-19.

27.-Two members of the Royal Engineers drowned in the Mersey through the capsizing of a punt in which they were making surveys for purposes of the defence of Liverpool.

In the Court of Queen's Bench a jury award Mr. Charles Williams, war correspondent, £300 damages against the Right Hon. A. Beresford Hope, proprietor of the Saturday Review, for libel. Leave was given to appeal. The action was for £2,000.

Died, aged 69, Rt. Hon. Robert Porrett Collier, first Baron Monkswell; AttorneyGeneral 1868-71, when he was appointed a paid member of the Privy Council.

- Died at Edinburgh, aged 73, Rev. John Kirk, D.D., ex-Professor of Practical Theology to the Evangelical Union, and author of several popular works.

28.-A collision involving the loss of seven lives occurred in the Thames about three miles below Gravesend this afternoon, between the steamers Minerva, of West Hartlepool, and Borderer, of Liverpool. The Minerva was proceeding down the river, bound for Sunderland, when the Borderer, which was steaming up the stream homeward bound from Boston, struck her on the starboard side abaft the engines, and she immediately began to sink. Some of the crew leapt into the water, and others took to the rigging, all being rescued by boats which put off to their assistance, with the exception of six, who sank before help could be afforded them; and the seventh, who was taken from the water alive, died while being conveyed to Gravesend.

Cleveland. The statue, of bronze, measures 151 feet in height, and is placed on a pedestal 154 feet high, forming the highest figure monument in the world.

28. The mansion of Berystide, near Windsor, almost totally destroyed by fire. A lady'smaid was burnt to death and two other persons severely injured. A portion of the Eagley Mills, Bolton, was also burned to-day, the damage being estimated at £35,000.

29.-A public meeting of the citizens of Glasgow held, under the presidency of Lord Provost M'Onie, to consult as to the proposed Exhibition in the city in 1888, and to take preliminary measures for organising the work.

Died, aged 80, George Stevens Byng, second Earl of Strafford, P.C., F.R.S.

Died, aged 84, George William Johnson, a writer upon horticulture and chemistry.

Text published of the speech made by President Cleveland in accepting the statue of Liberty as a gift from France to the American nation. Such a token, he remarked, of affection and consideration conveyed to Americans the assurance that in their efforts to commend to mankind the excellence of a government resting on the popular will they still had beyond the American continent a steadfast ally.

30. The island of Socotra formally annexed by Brigadier-General Hogg, British political resident at Aden.

Dr. H. Montagu Butler, Dean of Gloucester, late Head-Master of Harrow, appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in place of Dr. Thompson, deceased.

Triennial election of a Lord Rector for Edinburgh University, the candidates being Lord Iddesleigh, the retiring Lord Rector, and Sir Lyon Playfair, M. P. During the progress of the voting the students indulged in various pranks. The result was :-Iddesleigh, 1,094 votes; Playfair, 747; showing a majority for Lord Iddesleigh of 347 votes. The students had a torchlight procession in the evening, and the day's proceedings closed with a disturbance in the vicinity of the Exhibition.

The Edinburgh International Exhibition of Industry, Science, and Art, after having been open for six months, is formally closed this evening. The total number of persons who visited it was 2,769,779, the daily average being about 18,000, the lowest in any single day 9,165, and the highest 62,981. closing proceedings were marred by the misconduct of a body of University students. The final ceremony of locking the door was per

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formed by Miss Martin, daughter of Mr. William Martin, convener of the artisans' section.

30. The Church Liberation Society issue a circular, in which they state, with regard to Scotland, that it is now their duty to press the Disestablishment question as one of practical politics, without regard to the interests of political parties, and to insist that it should be included among the legislative changes essential to national progress.

The Great Sobranje opened at Tirnova to-day. In the speech read by M. Stanibuloff, one of the Regents, it was declared that the Government had striven, and with success, since the abduction of Prince Alexander, to maintain order, security, and peace in the country. It now became the duty of the Sobranje to elect a new Prince who would defend the liberty of the nation and lead it in the path of progress.

31. The cotton sheds on the north side of Wellington Dock, Liverpool, destroyed by fire, the stock of cotton, consisting of hundreds of bales, being rendered valueless. Damage estimated at £30,000.

November 2.-Lord Denbigh, speaking at a Conservative dinner at Rugby, stated that in a private conversation he had had with the Pope, his Holiness expressed appreciation of the justice and toleration of the British Government, and said he wished to help this country wherever his influence extended; but as he had no accurate means of knowing what was doing in Britain or what the Government wished, having no representative to tell him, it was impossible for him to act. Lord Denbigh thought that the Government had made a mistake in not sending a representative to Rome, because there was no doubt the Pope had a world-wide power with a whole heart to help England, and was able to help us in Ireland as no other at present could.

Colonel Fraser, as chief of the City of London Police, issued a notice proclaiming the Socialist procession announced for Lord Mayor's Day, and notifying that no other procession but that of the Lord Mayor would be allowed on that day within the City precincts.

3. Mr. John Morley, speaking to a resolution supporting Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule policy at the annual meeting of the National Liberal Federation to-day, declared that whatever else Liberals throughout the country intended, they meant to stand firm by the old policy and their old leader. The Liberal party stood in precisely the same position now as in June last. The late Government never said they wanted to carry the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill. They were still willing to accept suggestions made in good faith, but they intended to adhere to the principle of the bill. Speaking at a public meeting

in the evening, Mr. Morley said Mr, Gladstone was still the leader of the Liberal party, notwithstanding the combination against him to remove him from the service of his Queen.

3. The result of the polling in the New York mayoral election declared. Mr. Hewitt, the Democratic candidate, was returned with 90,216 votes, against 67,699 recorded for Mr. Henry George, Socialist; and 60,392 for Mr. Roosevelt, Republican.

Died, aged 72, George Clowes, last surviving son of the founder of the printing house of William Clowes & Sons, London.

4.-The Prime Minister declines to receive a deputation from the Social Democratic Federation on the subject of the distress in London. In intimating this decision Lord Salisbury remarked that the Government were deeply sensible of the severity of the suffering to which the poorer classes in London are frequently exposed by want of employment during this portion of the year, and would consider with attention any ascertained facts which may be laid before them bearing upon the prospects of the approaching winter. A manifesto was issued by the Federation stating that they will not take the responsibility of leading an unarmed crowd against staves and bayonets on Lord Mayor's Day, but they called for a meeting in Trafalgar Square to assert the right of the people to public meeting. They promised to carry on throughout the winter the agitation they had begun,

Explosion on board the Newcastle steamer Cartago Nova, at Hull. The vessel was discharging cargo at the Albert Dock, when her donkey boiler burst, killing six men and injuring between 30 and 40 others. Some idea of the force of the explosion may be gathered from the fact that one of the men was blown from the ship to the top of a high warehouse.

The trial of five men accused of assaulting Mr. Tabak, and robbing him of diamonds, ends in London to-night in a conviction. Various terms of penal servitude ranging from ten to five years were passed upon the prisoners.

Died at Sydney, aged 66, Sir James Morton, Chief Justice of New South Wales.

6.-The 250th anniversary fête of the foundation of Harvard University celebrated with great rejoicings, at which representatives from Oxford, Cambridge, and other universities were present and received degrees of honour. In 1636 (Oct. 28, O.S.) the colony of Massachusetts voted £400 for the establishment of a school at Newtown; and two years later the college took its present name in consequence of a bequest (his library and £800) from the Rev. John Harvard, a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and subsequently a Presbyterian Minister.