and 147 for the amendment. On the 26th the Rev. Mr. Robertson of Ellon, the Rev. Charles Hope of Lamington, Dr. James Bryce, and the Rev. John Wilson, members of Assembly, with seven other ministers not members of Assembly, appeared at the bar, in answer to a citation for having held communion with the deposed ministers of Strathbogie. Dr. Cook recorded a protest against the competency of the Assembly to found upon the charge an ecclesiastical censure. Dr. Bryce stated, in the name of himself and his brethren, that they appeared to the citation from respect to the Assembly, without intending thereby to acknowledge the competency of the Court to inflict censure. Captain Elphinstone Dalrymple called upon the Assembly to place the whole minority at the bar; avowing that he himself had shared in the act for which the others were about to be censured. After a debate, in which many bitter words were used, the Assembly affirmed the motion of Dr. Candlish, censuring the parties at the bar, and appointing a Committee to "deal" with them, and report to the Assembly on Monday. On that day, Dr. Makellar, the Convener of the Committee, reported that the conference had been carried on in an affectionate Christian spirit, but that the ministers still adhered to their former views; and he moved that they be suspended from their judicial functions as members of presbyteries and superior judicatories, until the first Wednesday in March next. After a sharp debate, this sentence was pronounced. On the 27th a majority in the Assembly deposed Clerk of Lethendy, and Livingstone of Cambusnethan, for resisting decrees of presbyteries; Duguid, of Glass, was declared to have forfeited his licence, on account of accepting induction at the hands of deposed ministers; and Mr. Middleton was rejected as the presentee to Culsalmond, on the ground of having violated the Veto Act. Next day Captain E. Dalrymple gave rise to a personal discussion, by charging Mr. Cunningham with having had his veracity impugned in the newspapers--a crime, he said, worse than any for which the ministers were deposed, and giving him good reason to object to Mr. Cunningham's commission. The Captain was ultimately induced to retract his expression. On the 30th the Assembly, taking into consideration the solemn circumstances in which the Church was placed, resolved and agreed on the famous Claim, Declaration, and Protest, which henceforward became a basis for the proceedings of the majority. It was forwarded with an address to the Queen, signed by the Moderator.

23.-Execution of Daniel Good for the Roehampton murder. He died affirming his innocence in the face of a yelling, tumultuous mob, larger, it was said, than any which had assembled since the execution of Fauntleroy.

25.-At a meeting at Stockport, to memorialize the Queen on the distress prevailing in that district, it was stated that the poor-rates had increased from 2,628/. in 1836-7 to 7, 120/.;

more than half the master spinners had failed, and 3,000 dwelling-houses were untenanted In the suburb of Heaton Norris, one-fourth of the houses were untenanted, and about 1,000 occupants had been relieved from the poor-rate on the score of poverty.

26.-The Copyright Bill read a second time in the House of Lords, and passed into Committee.

Lord Stanley obtains leave to bring in a bill for the better government of Newfoundland. It fixed the electoral qualification in the country districts at a forty-shilling freehold; in towns at an occupancy of 5.; which would include the great bulk of the householders. Instead of a separate Assembly and Legislative Council, the bill would unite the two as one Council; two-fifths of the united Council to be nominated by the Crown, three-fifths elected by the people. Money-votes to originate with the Crown. The bill, with certain amendments, proposed by Mr. Buller and Mr. O'Connell, passed through both Houses during the session, and received the Royal Assent.

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Grand ball in her Majesty's Theatre for the benefit of the Spitalfields weavers. Queen was present with a brilliant circle.

The British forces defeat the Boers at Port Natal, and occupy the place.

30.-John Francis attempts to shoot the Queen. Colonel Arbuthnot, one of the Equer ries, said: "At the time, between six and seven o'clock, we were coming down Constitution. hill. When about half-way down I observed the prisoner, and on the carriage reaching hin he took a pistol from his side and fired it in the direction of the Queen. He was not above seven feet from the carriage, which by instruc tion was proceeding at a rapid rate then; he should say twelve or thirteen miles an hour.' The Queen exhibited her usual calm demeanour under the outrage. Francis was seized instantly by private Allen of the Fusilier Guards and police-constable Trower, who was attempting to dash the pistol out of his hand when the shot was fired. He was taken to the lodge adjoining the palace, where he was searched, and a ball, with a little powder and the still warm pistol, were taken from his person. Francis preserved a dogged silence regarding his motive, and refused to give any explanation about his antecedents; but it was soon ascertained that he was the son of a machinist in Drury-lane Theatre, and had for some months been out of employment. He was examined in the first instance before the Privy Council, and then committed to Newgate. On the news being conveyed to the Houses of Parliament the Lords and Commons adjourned in confusion, as it was found impossible to carry on the public bui ness in the excitement the attempt had occasioned. Congratulatory addresses were voted next day by both Houses of Parliament, and many were afterwards forwarded by corporate bodies throughout the kingdom. Her Majesty

attended the Italian Opera in the evening, and received an enthusiastic welcome.

The Irish papers of this month give accounts of many outrages on the persons and properties of landowners and agents, particu rly in the Tipperary and King's County

stricts.

June 1.-Ann Friesdale, a young woman of remarkable beauty, found drowned in the Reget's Canal, supposed to have been thrown in. - In answer to Mr. Disraeli's charge of utilating Sir A. Burnes' Cabul correspondence, Sir J. Hobhouse explains that the bluebook recently issued purported to be only extracts, but no omission had been made which affected the spirit of the originals.

- Strike of colliers in the Dudley district.

3.-In Glasgow large masses of the unemployed muster on the Green, and having formed themselves into marching order, commence a begging tour through the city.

4-Explosion at Apothecaries' Hall, caused by the bursting of a bomb-shell, on which Mr. Hennell, the principal analyser, was operating. He was blown to atoms, and everything in that part of the building destroyed.

8.-Ely Cathedral injured by a fire which broke out in the roof of the fabric.

10. In reply to Mr. Fox Maule, Sir James Graham states that after the late proceedings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Government had given up all inten. tion of interfering in the dispute, and Mr. Campbell's bill, which was set down for the 15th, would be opposed, as it interfered with the rights of the Crown. This statement was reiterated by Sir Robert Peel on the 17th.

12.-Died, after a few hours' illness, of heart disease, the Rev. Thomas Arnold, D. D., Head Master of Rugby School, aged 47.

13. In the House of Lords, the judges decide the case of Lady Hewley's Charity in favour of Trinitarian Protestant Dissenters, and against the claims made by Unitarians to participate therein.

14.-Lord Campbell brings under the notice of the House of Lords the case of police-constable Simpson, whose evidence had been rejected on a trial at Stirling, on the ground that he lay under suspicion of being an Atheist. After an explanation by the Lord Chancellor, the motion for the production of papers was withdrawn.

15. A female monster in Liverpool mutilates the body of her new-born infant by cutting off its head, legs, and arms with a pair of scissors.

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17.-Trial of Francis at the Central Criminal Court for attempting to shoot the Queen. He was found guilty, and sentenced to death. the conclusion of Chief Justice Tindal's address he fell insensible into the arms of one of the turnkeys, and in that state was carried out of the court. The sentence was afterwards commuted to transportation for life.

18.-Royal Assent given to the bill imposing duties on profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices, until 6th April, 1845.

19. Shanghai captured by the British, and the garrisons thrown open to the people. A number of the public buildings were destroyed during the excitement incident to our entry into the city.

Died, aged 45, Frederick H. Yates, a comic actor of great popularity.

23. Came on in the Court of Common Pleas, the case of Macready v. Harmer, being

an action for libel raised by the eminent tragedian against the publisher of the Dispatch newspaper, which had spoken of the plaintiff's regulations to exclude women of the town from the body of the theatre as insincere, ineffectual, and dictated by improper motives. The jury gave 57. damages.

24.-Royal proclamation, announcing the issue of half-farthings, but no one to be compelled to take more in payment than the value of sixpence.

25. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford thrown out of a carriage when driving through their grounds. The Marquis escaped unhurt, but her ladyship was severely cut and bruised.

Great depression in trade in the manufacturing districts, manufacturers and shopkeepers alike urging upon Government the necessity of doing something to relieve them. To-day the Leeds Mercury records that 4,025 families in that town, or about one-fifth of the entire population, were dependent on poor

rates.

Disturbance in the Italian Opera-house caused by the substitution of "Beatrice di Linda" for "Il Puritani" on account of the illness of Persiani.

Died, near Geneva, aged 69, M. de Sismondi, historian.

27. Cook's circus, on Glasgow Green, destroyed by fire, originating in an escape of gas. The horses were got out, but portions of the properties were destroyed. Occurring at an early hour of the evening, there were only a few people in the gallery, and they escaped without injury.

Lord Denman withdraws his Oaths Affirmation Bill, but on the suggestion of the Bishop of London it is agreed to refer the whole question of oaths to a Select Committee.

The Paris Moniteur publishes a Royal ordinance augmenting the import duties on foreign linen and linen yarn.

28. The new Tariff Bill passes through the House of Commons, Sir Robert Peel taking leave of the measure with a frank acknowledgment of the support he had received from political opponents as well as friends. "Looking," he said, "to the whole changes that have been made, and to the complicated interests involved, he could not help thinking that the reflecting body of the community would be of opinion that the Government had exercised its influence for wise purposes, and that they had effected as great changes as it was possible for them to do without violently disturbing the various interests involved. For his own part, he was unwilling to disturb, by political feeling or party recrimination, that general assent which, greatly to the credit of the House, had prevailed during the discussion of this measure; and he now bade adieu to it, with an earnest

hope that the object of the present Government would be answered, and that, doing as little individual injury as possible, the ultimate result would be to promote the commerce of the country and to give new openings for its domestic industry. Such was his earnest hope; and if that end should be attained, he felt that all their labour would be more than recompensed by such a desirable result."

29. Mr. Roebuck reports to the House that the Committee on Election Proceedings desire to conduct their inquiry privately, and with only the witnesses under examination present. The inquiry, he said, was not designed to be of a personal incriminating character, but merely to discover the process by which certain things had been done as illustrations of a general practice. A committee was appointed to search for precedents.

30.-Destructive fire in Bermondsey, the damage to property being estimated at 100,000!.

July 1.-Royal Assent given to the Copyright Bill.

Arrival of the Overland Mail with news of General Pollock's relief of Jellalabad, and the safety of the captives carried away by Akbar Khan.

In a discussion on the distress presently prevailing throughout the country, Sir James Graham solemnly declared his belief that it could not be alleviated by the immediate repeal of the Corn Laws. Such a step would only displace and discourage agricultural industry and condemn agriculturists to common ruin with manufacturers.-Mr. Disraeli attributed the distress to the neglect of completing a commercial treaty with France, and to the dis turbance which had been caused to our commerce by the war with China. --Sir Robert l'ee! praised the forbearance of the people, but deprecated the introduction of motions making Government responsible for providing them with sustenance and employment, or deferring the prorogation till specific remedies were devised.

2.-Tipperary Special Commission closes today, conviction being obtained in most instances against parties concerned in agrarian outrages. Patrick Byrne was convicted of the murder of Robert Hall, the proprietor of land rented by one Kent and others, by shooting him in mid-day. Kent was charged with having instigated Byrne to commit the murder, out of revenge for an ejectment which had been served against a relation of his by Mr. Hall.-Ti mothy Quilty, alias Woods, was convicted of murdering Michael Laffan; who was dragge from his house, and shot in the open road, i the morning, and in the sight of several per sons. The body was afterwards left on dunghill, none of the inhabitants being willing to admit it into their houses; the inquest wa held in the street.-John Pound was convicted

having fired through the door of a dwellingLase a shot which wounded the wife of the owner in three several places so as seriously to endanger her life.-Michael Hayes vas convicted of having, in company with other, waylaid and fired at John Ryan. It appeared that each of the persons concerned had fired, and that one of the shots took effect and killed the horse upon which Ryan was ring. The day after the Commission rose Sunday) another murder and attack on property was reported from the townland of Dolla.

2.-Food riot in Dumfries, and the shops of various mealmongers on each side of the Nith plundered.

- Festive entertainment at Cambridge in bnour of the installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chancellor of the University.

3. A deformed youth named Bean levels a pistol at her Majesty when passing from Beckingham Palace to the Chapel Royal, St. James's. He was committed to trial for misdemeanour, the capital charge being abandoned. The pistol was loaded, but it did not go off. Bean was not caught at the time-a circumstance which led to the apprehension of a large number of humpbacked people in the metropolis. Throughout London and its suburbs they only were safe who, like Prince Hal, "were straight enough in the shoulders and cared not who saw their backs."

4.-Execution of Cooper for the murder of Constable Daly at Highbury.

Lord Ellenborough suggests to General Not that he might move from Candahar by ing forward in the direction of Ghuznee, bul, and Jellalabad, and that General Pollock t assist this so-called withdrawal of the es by moving forward upon Cabul. On hing Ghuznee, Nott was instructed to deI the tomb of Sultan Mahmoud. "You bring away," wrote the Governor-General, from the tomb of Mahmoud of Ghuznee his Cab, which hangs over it, and you will bring

ay the gates of his tomb which are the gates of the temple of Somnauth."

5.-An Anti-Corn Law Conference assemBbs in London to discuss the present alarmposition of the manufacturing classes. So fas the Corn-Laws were concerned, Mr. ght said the people themselves had the wer to compel à settlement. "There were her weapons than those of war; there were ether weapons beside those which wounded the body; there was a most beautiful and admirable system which the people had in their own power, to which he was fully persuaded they were rapidly drifting, which, if put into active

eration, would not fail to bring the struggle , a successful issue." During the sitting of

the Conference accounts were daily received of the state of the country. At Sheffield it was reported that 10,000 people were suffering extreme distress; in the Wolverhampton district 62 blast furnaces were at present idle; and at Stockport, a poor-rate, which in 1839 at Is. 8d. had produced 5,000!., now failed to produce 3,600l. at 25. At Manchester, shopkeepers and operatives were meeting almost daily to devise measures of relief. The poorrate here was presently 35. 4d. per pound. At Burslem the people became greatly excited, and the military required to be called out.

5. In the House of Commons Lord Worsley draws the attention of the Secretaryat-War to the reports regarding certain disrespectful words said to have been used by Colonel Henry Dundas when speaking of the Queen. Sir II. Hardinge stated, in reply, that the Colonel having failed to absolve himself from the grave offence, was now dismissed from the position of Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and placed on the half-pay list.

6. At a Free-trade Conference in Sheffield, the Rev. W. Bayley uses language regarding Sir Robert Peel which was afterwards commented on in Parliament. "It was not words would move Parliament, but force: this should have effect, if they did not change their system. He had heard of a gentleman who in a private company said, that if a hundred persons cast lots among them, and the lot should fall upon him, he would take the lot to deprive Sir Robert Peel of life. He felt convinced no such attempt should be made, on any pretence whatever; but was persuaded of this, that when Sir Robert Peel went to his grave there would be but few to shed one tear over him."

8.-Conclusion of debate on Mr. Wallace's amendment to defer the prorogation till measures were in operation for relieving the distress throughout the country. For amendment, 49; against, 174.

Died, at St. Ann's Hill, Chertsey, aged 94, Elizabeth Bridget, widow of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, the eminent rival of William Pitt in the councils of the nation.

9.-A body of Anti-Corn Law delegates, numbering 144, obtain an interview with Sir Robert Peel on the subject of their grievance; but the Premier refuses to give them any pledge as to immediate relief.

In the case of the Vicar of Gedney and the Wesleyan Methodists, the House of Lords pronounce a decision affirming the judgment of the Court below, in favour of lay baptism.

11. Mr. Villiers' motion, that the House resolve itself into a committee to consider the laws relating to the importation of corn, lost on a division by 117 to 231.

12. Sir Robert Peel introduces a Bill for the better protection of the Queen's person against minor offences, making offenders liable

to seven years' transportation, or imprisonment with corporeal chastisement.

13.-Death of the Duke of Orleans, eldest son of the King of the French, from the effects of a fall out of his cabriolet near the Porte Maillot. The French funds were injuriously affected by the event, the Three per Cents. falling as low as 76f. or nearly 4 per cent.

15.-Affair of honour between Captain Boldero and the Hon. Craven Berkeley. The meeting arose out of an article in the Morning Chronicle, purporting to record expressions made use of by Captain Boldero in the library of the House of Commons, regarding the punishment to which Col. Dundas had been subjected for using language disrespectful of the Queen. "If any one,' he was reported to have said, "drunk or sober, chose to swear at the Queen in my presence, I should take no notice of it; I am not an eavesdropper." Berkeley denied all knowledge of the article, but affirmed the general correctness of the report. The parties met in the neighbourhood of Osterley Park, and exchanged shots without effect. Explanations then took place, and the principals left the ground with their friends.

18.-Meetings held this day in Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds, to consider the great and daily increasing distress of the country, and with the view, if possible, of inducing her Majesty's Ministers to take steps, before the dissolution of Parliament, for carrying out some remedial measure. Deputations were appointed to wait on Sir Robert Peel and other members of the Government.

The Lord Chancellor's bill for extending the jurisdiction of the County Courts, read a second time in the Upper House.

19. A trotting-match takes place in the grounds attached to the Rosemary Branch Tavern, Hoxton, when a grey pony, twelve hands and a half high, is ridden by one of Mr. Batty's monkeys, dressed in racing costume, and accomplishes a distance of fourteen miles in fifty-seven minutes.

21. The city of Chin-Kiang-Foo, commanding the entrance to the Grand Canal, stormed and taken by the British forces under Sir Hugh Gough. The Tartar general, when he saw that all was lost, retired to his house, which he commanded his servants to set on fire, and sat in his chair till he was burned to death. One of the scaling-party writes:"It is impossible to compute the loss of the Chinese, for when they found they could stand no longer against us, they cut the throats of their wives and children, or drove them into wells or ponds, and then destroyed themselves. In many houses there were from eight to twelve dead bodies, and I myself saw a dozen women and children drowning themselves in a small pond the day after the fight." The first man who reached the top of the battlement was Lieut. Cuddy, of the 55th, who planted the

English ensign on the walls, under the fire of the enemy, and then coolly assisted the foremost of his party up the scaling-ladder. The killed and wounded on the British side amounted to 169.

26.-Captivity of Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly at Bokhara. Lady Sale records in the journal of her captivity: "Colonel Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly are prisoners at Bokhara. The latter had been enthusiastically employed in endeavouring to effect the release of slaves in Kokhan. The King of Bokhara conquered the chief of that country, and placed Conolly in confinement at Bokhara. He and his fellow-prisoner, by the last account, had been 126 days confined in a dungeon under ground without light; they had never changed their clothes or washed, and their food was let down to them once in four or five days. A native who had compassion on them received a message through the person who took their food to them, and through him Conolly has communicated with his family here, who also are now powerless to assist him."

The King of the French opens an ex traordinary session of the Chambers, rendered necessary by the death of the Duke of Orleans. His Majesty was much affected during the reading of the address, which made reference to the great calamity that had befallen his house, in the death of "that dearly beloved son whom I considered destined to replace me on the throne, and who was the glory and support of my old age."

28. Mr. Roebuck moves a series of resolutions based on the report of the Election Compromises Committee, declaring that such arrangements cannot for the future pass un punished; that they violate the franchises of the people and the privileges of the House; and that the issue of writs for the places impli cated must be suspended until measures be devised to protect the purity of elections. In the debate which ensued, Mr. Russell, one of the members for Reading, and a person implicated in the inquiry, taunted Mr. Roebuck with being an unfit person to have the conduct of such an inquiry, having himself sat in the House as the paid agent of the rebel colony of Canada. The first resolution was negatived, after a debate, by 136 to 47 votes, and the others without a division.

The Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol, elected Head Master of Rugby School.

Thunder-storm in the metropolis; the lightning struck and injured the spire of the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

29.-The Lord Mayor (Pirie) gives an enter tainment to a number of the City trading com panies.

30. The remains of the Duke of Orleans removed with great pomp from the chapel of the palace of Neuilly to the Cathedral of Notre Dame, preparatory to interment at Dreux.