were foreigners, and both considered as infidels. 4 Invading a poor country, and one unequal to supply our wants, especially our large estabishment of cattle. 5. Giving undue power to political agents. 6. Want of forethought and adue confidence in the Affghans on the part of Sir William Macnaghten. 7. Placing our agazines, even our treasures, in indefensible places. 8. Great military neglect and mismanagement after the outbreak.

25.-Storm in the Frith of Clyde; much destruction of property, both on shore and at

2.-General Nott advises General England either to remain where he is at Quettah or to push boldly through the Kojuck. "Your moving into Pisheen with a convoy known by the whole country to be intended for Candahar, and then halting or retiring to Quettah, will have the very worst effect throughout Affghanistan, and will be more injurious to my present posinon than 20,000 of the enemy in the field.”

4. The series of resolutions embodying the Income-tax scheme of the Government, carried rough the Commons with only a slight attempt at opposition.

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The Edinburgh newspapers publish a letter from Dr. Candlish, containing a scheme for reconstructing a new Church should the Estabhshment be broken up. On their separation

the State he proposes that the Nontrusion party still adhere to one another, and

a "protesting and testifying" Church, to Le entitled the Non-Erastian Church of Scotland." Funds for the maintenance of the Sergy and the building of churches are to be d by large donations at the commence, and afterwards by monthly or weekly estributions; the money raised is to form a mon stock, out of which the ministers are be paid at the rate of 150/. or 2001. a year; ster Presbyterian bodies are to be invited to operate with them; parishes left in the Bands of Erastian incumbents are to be dealt

as vacant, and all the funds raised are to be placed at the disposal of a large central Committee, composed of elders, deacons, and municants, exclusive of ministers. 5-At half-past 3 A.M. the troops under the command of General Pollock commence their march to force the Khyber Pass. From

Jumrood on the east the pass extends for twenty-eight miles towards Jellalabad. As far as the fort of Ali Musjid it is deep and uninterrupted. For seven miles beyond the ascent is somewhat uniform, till near Sundu Khana, where for two miles it runs along the face of. a frightful precipice, like the galleries of the Simplon. General Pollock found the mouth strongly fortified, and the enemy in force on the heights on either side, but two columns advanced and gained the crest of the hill, driving all before them. On the 9th the advance guard reached Sundu Khana, and the whole force had cleared the pass before the 14th, being the first instance of an army forcing its way through these defiles against an enemy.

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5.-Concluded in the Commission Court, Dublin, the trial of Robert Caldwell, attorney, for assault with intent on the person of Mrs. James Corbett. The outrage was alleged to have taken place in Mr. Corbett's house. soner's counsel pleaded previous familiarity, and submitted letters said to have passed between the parties. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.

6. In committee, Lord Mahon's Copyright Bill receives various modifications, Mr. Macaulay arguing strongly in favour of the period being fixed at forty-two years, or the death of the author, whichever was longest. The other periods proposed, he contended, would either have the effect of checking the reproduction of certain popular works, or give undue protection to the early and immature writings of men of genius. Mr. Wakeley caused some amusement by alluding to the slight claim certain kinds of literature had for any protection at all. "If they gave a poet an evening sky, dew, withering leaves, and a rivulet, he might make a very respectable poem. (Laughter.) Why, anybody might do it. (Laughter, and "Try it !") Try it! he had tried it. (Great laughter.) And there" (pointing to Mr. Monckton Milnes) "is an honourable gentleman who was a poet of the first water. He thought a member of society might employ his talents to much better advantage than in the composition of such productions as he had quoted. Who could not string such lines together by the bushel? He could write them by the mile." (Laughter.)

The police discover in the stable of Garnard Lodge, Roehampton, London, part of the body of a female. The police were drawn to the place in consequence of a pawnbroker in Wandsworth having charged the coachman Good with stealing a pair of trousers from his shop. Good evinced great concern when the officers entered the stable in search of the missing garment, and when their attention was directed to the fourth stall he suddenly rushed out, locked the door upon them, and fled. that stall, beneath a little hay, they found an object which at first they could not understand, but which turned out to be the trunk of a

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female, with the head and limbs cut off, the abdomen cut open, and the entrails extracted. The whole of the cuts through the flesh had been made with a sharp knife, but the bones were hacked with some blunt instrument. The stable-door was at once burst open, the alarm given, and on further search a quantity of burnt bones belonging to the body was discovered in the fireplace of the harness-room. It was impossible to identify the remains, but from inquiries instantly set on foot there was no doubt they were those of a brought by Good or his wife to the Lodge the preceding Sunday. At the inquest the jury found the body to be that of Jane Jones, or Good, and that Daniel Good had wilfully murdered her. Good eluded pursuit for nearly a fortnight, but was then discovered working as a bricklayer's labourer at Tunbridge by a man who had formerly been in the police force at Wandsworth. He was at once taken before the magistrate. While under examination he took a comb from his pocket and with it turned back the hair from his forehead, as if to hide a bald place-a circumstance which corresponded with a known peculiarity of the murderer Good. He persisted in stating that his name was O'Connor, and knew nothing about the murder. He was committed to Maidstone jail, where he was again identified by two officers, and conveyed by them back to London.

7. At daylight this morning Sir Robert Sale attacks the besieging force of Akbar Khan outside the walls of Jellalabad. "The Affghans," he writes, "made repeated attempts to check our advance by throwing forward heavy bodies of horse, which twice threatened to force back the detachments of foot under Captain Havelock; but in a short time they were dislodged from every point of their position, their cannon taken, and their camp involved in a general conflagration. The battle was over and the enemy in full retreat in the direction of Jughman by about 7 A. M. The defeat of Mahomed Akbar in open field by the troops whom he had boasted of blockading has been complete and signal." Colonel Dennie, of the 13th Light Infantry, was shot during the engagement.

8.-Lord John Russell introduces an amendment on the Government Income-tax scheme, on the ground that it was inquisitorial, unequal, and had hitherto been considered in the light of a war reserve only. The debate lasted till the 13th, when, on a division, Ministers had a majority of 106, in a House of 510 members.

ability by M. Berryer, was found guilty. Judg ment deferred.

8.-Lord Melbourne submits a resolution affirming the principle of a fixed instead of a fluctuating duty on corn, but is defeated by a large majority.

14.-Presenting a petition to-day from the farmers of Essex to the House of Lords, Lord Western complained that the agriculturists had been deceived by Sir Robert Peel, who had framed the new Corn Law, and by their representatives in Parliament who had supported it. The Duke of Wellington instantly replied: "The noble Lord should have waited for the opportunity of stating the when, and the where, and the how, and in what words, my right honourable friend has deceived the public. But, my Lords, I deny the fact; and, as for. mally and emphatically as the noble Lord has stated it, I say it is not true; and that's the end of it."

16. The troops under General Pollock entered Jellalabad amidst enthusiastic greetings on both sides. The garrison mounted the walls of the fortress, and loud cheers, mingling with the roar of cannon, attested the joy with which the beleaguered troops welcomed the arrival of their deliverers.

17.-A religious service performed by signs to the inmates of the Deaf and Dumb Refuge, Holborn.

18. The Corn Importation Bill read a second time in the House of Lords by a majority of 117 to 68. It was read a third time, and passed without a division, on the 22d.

21.-Lord Ellenborough issues from Benares a notification regarding Sale's victory over Akbar Khan : "That illustrious garrison, which by its constancy in enduring privations, and by its valour in action, has already obtained for itself the sympathy and respect of every true soldier, has now, sallying forth from its walls under the command of its gallant leader, Major-General Sir Robert Sale, thoroughly beaten in open field an enemy of more than three times its numbers, taken the standards of their boasted cavalry, destroyed their camp, and recaptured four guns, which, under circumstances which can never again occur, had during the last winter fallen into their hands.' A salute of twenty-one guns was ordred to be fired at every principal station of the army.

23.-Commencement of the sale of the Strawberry Hill collection. A wooden building was erected on the lawn for the purpose of accommodating the visitors, no apartment in the dwelling-house being large enough. The sale opened with the library of books, to which six days were devoted.

24. Serious fires, supposed to be the work of incendiaries, take place in Huddersfield, Kidderminster, and Bridport.

25.-Meeting in Freemasons' Hall to honour the memory of Dr. Birkbeck by founding a Professorship of Machinery and Manufacture University College, London.

- Captain Colin Mackenzie, one of the Cabal prisoners, arrives in General Pollock's camp with proposals from Akbar Khan for a Errender of all the hostages. The conditions being considered improper and extravagant, no result came of the negotiations at this time.

- Died suddenly at Paris, M. Humann, French Minister of Finance. He filled that office in seven out of the nineteen administratons which had existed since 1830.

27.-Meeting of the electors of the City of London, to demand the resignation of Lord John Russell on account of his "factious opposition" to Sir Robert Peel's new tariff. An amendment in the form of a vote of confidence was carried by a large majority.

-The Marquis of Tweeddale sworn in as Governor of Madras, and Sir George Arthur as Governor of Bombay.

28.-The Duchess de Nemours, daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg Gotha, gives birth to a son, the Count d'Eu.

29.-Bungaree, the Australian pugilist, dies from injuries received in a fight with Broome at Newmarket.

May 2.-Demonstration of Chartists in the metropolis on occasion of taking their monster national petition to the House of Commons. The procession mustered in the square of Lincoln's Inn Fields about one o'clock, and proceeded by way of Holborn, Tottenham-courtroad, the New-road, Langham-place, and kegent-street, to Westminster, which was reached between three and four o'clock. The pection, described as having 3,317,702 names appended, was borne on the shoulders of sixteen

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Being too large for admission at the door of the House, it was broken up and carried in ecemeal by a long line of men. Next day Mr. Duncombe moved that the petitioners should be heard at the bar by counsel. Mr. T. B. Macaulay opposed the motion, drawing special attention to one passage in the petition complaining of the obligation to pay the National Debt, and to another remonstrating against the monopoly of property in land. Robert Peel opposed the motion because it was an impeachment of the whole constitution and social order of the kingdom, and the business

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of the country could not be suspended while the House inquired whether it would be fitting to sponge out the National Debt and repeal the Union. Mr. Roebuck described the petition as drawn up by a cowardly and malignant demagogue. On a division there appeared, for the hearing, 49; against, 287.

2.-Lady Chantrey presents to the Univer-. sity of Oxford her husband's valuable collection of original busts, and copies from the antique, on condition that a permanent place is assigned to them in the sculpture gallery.

Eighty-seven clauses of the Income-tax Bill passed in committee to-day with little dis

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3.-Died at St. Petersburg, aged 62, Sir Robert Kerr Porter, K.C. H., traveller.

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4.-The Boers of Port Natal, unable, as they alleged, to obtain redress of grievances within the limits of the Cape Colony, are unsuccessfully attacked to-day on the frontier by Sir H. Smith. He lost two officers and fourteen men. The Literary Association of the Friends of Poland give a fête at Stafford House, in which Madame Rachel takes part, and the sum of 876/. is raised in aid of poor Poles. At another entertainment in the Guildhall, where Miss Adelaide Kemble and Miss Rainforth appeared, 7367. was collected.

A mode of compromising election petitions, which afterwards led to a parliamentary inquiry, was this day adopted with reference to the recent Nottingham contest. "Memorandum :-It is expedient to settle the petitions now pending; and it is agreed that, I. All the petitions shall be abandoned; 2. Within four days from this day one seat will be vacated; 3. The sum of 1,000l. to be paid in consideration of expenses incurred in connexion with petitions; 4. It is understood that Mr. Walter is to be returned at the election resulting from the above-mentioned vacancy.' Similar compromises took place at Harwich, Lewes, Reading, Falmouth, and Bridport.

Dr. Lushington gives judgment in the Consistory Court against the legality of a new Braintree church-rate, levied by a minority of the vestry. At a meeting in July last, called for voting a rate for the repairs of the parish church, a motion was made for a rate of two shillings in the pound, and duly seconded; an amendment was then moved, and carried by a large majority, denouncing all connexion be. tween Church and State in general, and against church-rates in particular. After this the majority of the parishioners left, and the churchwardens and others of the ratepayers carried the original resolution without opposition.

5.-A policeman shot, and two others wounded, by an armed footpad who had been prowling for some days about the neighbourhood of Highbury-barn. On being pursued to Highbury-vale he appeared to have resolved on keeping his pursuers at bay. He placed his

back against a hedge, and pulled out another pistol in addition to the one he was seen to foad. Police-constable Daly approached nearer than any one else to him, and advised him to surrender. He refused, and said he would murder the first man who touched him. Daly, assisted by a broker named Mott, then went up to take the ruffian into custody, when he fired both pistols off at once. Daly and Mott fell, the former being shot dead through the heart, and the latter badly wounded. The assassin then gave himself up, and was conveyed to Islington station. He gave his name as Thomas Cooper, bricklayer, Clerkenwell, and stated that starvation had compelled him to take to the road.

5. A fearful conflagration bursts out in Hamburg, lasting five days, and burning the largest and wealthiest part of the city. On the evening of the 6th a witness writes: A great part of this rich and flourishing town has fallen a prey to a fire which hourly sweeps in volumes through street upon street with merciless fury. It burst forth at twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, and has so gained up to this time, aided by high winds, in the midst of misdirected efforts to extinguish it or arrest its progress, that it rages now with increased violence over a space so wide, that I believe it will yet require the sacrifice of nearly one-half the remainder of the town to place a sufficient gap to bar its continuance to the destruction of the whole of this ancient city. Three of the five principal churches were destroyed, the Borsenhalle, the Old Exchange, the Senate House, the Post Office, and domestic dwellings to an extent that made a fifth of the population houseless. From 150 to 200 lives were also sacrificed. The total loss was set down at 7,000,000!., about 1,000,000!. of which fell on English insurance offices. Large sums were collected in this country for the relief of the sufferers.

6. The Income-tax Bill passes through committee. Three divisions took place to-day. In the rules for assessing incomes under Schedule D, Mr. Hume moved that the profits of trade be calculated on the profits of the last year only, instead of the last three years; but the original proposition was affirmed, by 76 to 27. On clause 88, he moved as an amendment, that the Act should be in force till the 6th of April, 1843, instead of the same day in 1845. This was rejected by 174 to 52. Mr. Redhead Yorke moved a clause to exempt attorneys, solicitors, and proctors from the tax to the amount of the duty on their certificates, but this also was rejected by 183 to 18.

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Mr. Roebuck brings under the notice of the House of Commons the suspicious circumstances connected with the withdrawal of several election petitions-the result, as he alleged, of a corrupt compact between the parties interested. He put the question direct to various members whose case had been postponed by the Committee, but they generally repudiated his right to interfere with their private arrangements. The

House, however, consented to the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the subject.

6.-Explosion in Hodge's Distillery, Churchstreet, Lambeth, and great destruction of spirits and other property by fire.

7.-Earthquake at St. Domingo, demolishing the town of Cape Haytien, and destroying, it was calculated, not fewer than 10,000 lives. A fire broke out afterwards, blowing up the powder magazine, and with it the remnant of inhabitants who had escaped the earthquake.

8.-Horrible occurrence on the railway be tween Paris and Versailles. A train of seventeen carriages, filled with from 1,500 to 1,800 passengers, who had been taking part in the King's fête, left Versailles about six o'clock, drawn by two engines. Between Meudon and Bellevue the axle of the first engine broke, and the body fell to the ground. The second engine smashed it in pieces and passed over it, when the boiler burst and the unfortunate stoker was thrown into the air. The impetus which the carriages had received, aided by the engine behind, brought three of them over the wreck. Here they took fire, and the doors being locked, the whole of the passengers were consumed after frightful sufferings. The next three carriages also took fire, and though the whole of them were not entirely consumed, only two or three of the passengers escaped by crushing About 150 themselves through the window. people in the carriages behind were crushed and broken in the most dreadful manner. list of killed was officially set down at fifty, but it was generally thought many more perished in the flames. In some of the compartments there was no possibility of separating or iden tifying the charred masses of humanity. Two stokers, at first stupified by the smoke, and then calcined by the fire, remained for a considerable time after they had expired standing at their post and grasping the tools they had been using.

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12.- The Queen gives a fancy dress ball in the Throne Room, Buckingham Palace, with a success and magnificence unrivalled since the days of Charles II. Her Majesty appeared as Queen Philippa, consort of Edward III., and Fince Albert as Edward III. himself, the costumes of those of her Majesty's own circle belonging mostly to this era. The Duchess of Cambridge was received in state as Anne of Brittany at the head of her court. Dancing sas engaged in for some hours. At one o'clock the Lord Steward conducted her Majesty and the Prince to supper, which was served amid a blaze of splendour from costly salvers, vases, tankards, and jewelled cups. After supper the Queen danced a quadrille with Prince George Cambridge, their vis-à-vis being the Duchess of Buccleuch and the Duke of Beaufort. Her Majesty left the ball-room at half-past two. The tent of Tippoo Sultan, erected within the Corinthian portico adjoining the Green Drawing-room, was used as a refreshment-room.

The West India Company's steamer Medina wrecked on a reef while entering at Turk's Island. No lives were lost; but the Earl of Elgin, the new Governor of Jamaica, who was on board with his Countess, was only able to save his despatches.

-A theological statute passed at Oxford, constituting Dr. Hampden chairman of the new Theological Board, thus virtually rescinding the judgment passed by the University in 1836, on the occasion of his appointment to the chair of Regius Professor of Divinity by the Whig Government. A formal motion to rescind this vote was afterwards negatived by 354 to 219 votes.

14. Trial of Daniel Good at the Central Criminal Court, before the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Alderson, and Justice Coltman. (See April 6.) His reputed wife, Mary Good, was so charged as being an accessary after the fat. They both pleaded Not guilty. The trial Daniel Good was proceeded with separately, d lasted till 8 o'clock P. M., when the jury ught in a verdict of Guilty. The Chief ke then passed sentence of death, after Which Good made a rambling statement to the Fect that a witness, Susan Butcher, produced the trial, was the cause of the whole, the man Jones having committed suicide in the through jealousy of his connexion with person. The body, he said, was cut up partially burned by a stranger, who offered do it for a sovereign. He concluded his ress"Good night all, ladies and gentleSea; I have a great deal more to say, but I

so bad I cannot say it." He was then moved. The woman, Mary or Moll Good, Was dismissed.

16-Died at Passy, the Count de Las Casas, companion of Napoleon at St. Helena.

18.-The Duke of Buckingham, popularly known as "the Farmer's Friend," presented at Aylesbury with a testimonial subscribed for

by his admirers in Buckinghamshire. In replying to an address presented, the Duke spoke of this as the last scene in his political life.

19. Lord Elgin sworn in as Governor of Jamaica, in room of Lord Metcalfe, who returned to England.

20.-The Metropolitan Parliamentary Reform Association meet for the first time in John-street, Adelphi.

23. "No change has taken place in our treatment," writes Conolly, in the last sentences he is known to have penned in the Bokhara prison. "About sunset, as Stoddart and myself were pacing up and down a small court of twenty feet long, which encloses our prison, one of the citadel door-keepers came and desired us both to sit in a corner; we complied, wondering what would follow, and presently saw heads peering at us from the adjoining roofs, when we understood that the Ameer's heir, a youth of seventeen, had taken this way of getting a sight of the Feringhee Elchees. We must have given him but a poor impression, in the remains of our clothes, and with heads and beards uncombed for more than five months." All precise trace of the captives is lost after this, though there is secondary evidence not to be lightly disputed, that they were both publicly executed by the Ameer when he returned glutted with conquest from the Kokund expedition. "The most credible witness," writes Kaye, "is one Saleb Mahomed, a youth whom Major Todd despatched from Herat to join Captain Conolly's suite. His story was, that in the month of June of this year (the 17th most probably) Stoddart and Conolly were taken out of their prison, and in the presence of an assembled multitude led into a small square. Their hands were bound together before them, their Stoddart graves were dug before their eyes.

was first marked for death. He cried aloud against the tyranny of the Ameer; and his head was cut off with a knife. Conolly was then offered his life, on condition that he would adopt the Mussulman faith. But he indignantly rejected the proposal. 'Stoddart,' he said, 'became a Mussulman, and yet you kill him : I am prepared to die.' And then Arthur Conolly, full of faith in the merits of his Redeemer, stretched forth his neck and died." Saleb Mahomed said his informant was one of the executioners. In the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Rev. Mr. Cunningham moves that "The Assembly, having considered the overtures on patronage, resolve and deciare that patronage is a grievance attended with injury to the cause of pure religion in this Church and kingdom, is the source of all the difficulties in which the Church is now involved, and therefore ought to be abolished." amendment, to the effect that it was inexpedient in the present circumstances to adopt the motion, was proposed by the Procurator. The debate lasted till 2 A.M. next morning, when a division took place; 216 voting for the motion,

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