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22.-The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Wood) introduces the annual Budget. The increase of the revenue during the past year had exceeded all expectation, the surplus amounting to two millions beyond what was anticipated by Mr. Goulburn. This sum had been expended on public works in Ireland, and it would be necessary to provide an additional 8,000,000/. for the ensuing year. The revenue for that period he estimated at 52,515,000l. and the expenditure at 52,183,000l.

- The Mexicans defeated by General Taylor at Bueno Vista.

26. Came on for hearing before Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, the case of Fiestel v. the Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge, involving the right of fellows to assign the profits of their fellowships for money lent. After various arguments, Lord Langdale held that the assignment by Buller of King's College was not contrary to public policy in respect of the duties incident to his fellowship, and that there was nothing in the nature of the income from which it could be inferred that the emoluments are not assignable in equity, although the assignment was contrary to the implied intention of the founder of the College, and might have been a violation of Mr. Buller's duty to the College.

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27.-Prince Albert elected Chancellor of Cambridge University, by a majority of 112 over Earl Powis. The number polled was 1,790, being the highest on record. In accepting the honour, his Royal Highness informed the Senate: I have been influenced by a respectful deference to the wishes of a majority of its members, by a great unwillingness to involve the University in the probable necessity of another contest, but above all by an earnest hope that, through a zealous and impartial discharge of the trust which I undertake, I shall succeed in establishing a claim on the confidence and good-will of the whole academical body."

In the Court of Queen's Bench, a defendant named Dunn was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for perjury, in 50 far as he had sworn before a Registrar in Bankruptcy that Miss Burdett Coutts was indebted to him in the sum of 100,000l. as compensation for divers injuries and imprisonments. 28.-Carlsruhe Theatre destroyed by fire, and 104 people burnt in the ruins.

March 1.-At the bidding for the new eightmillion (Ireland) loan, the houses of Baring and Rothschild unite their interests, and offer at the rate of 894 Three per Cent. Consol Stock, which was accepted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

2.-Mr. Bouverie, by a majority of 89 to 61, obtains the appointment of a select committee to inquire whether, and in what circumstances, large numbers of her Majesty's subjects had been deprived of the means of reli

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Lola Montes writes from Munich to the Times, with reference to comments made by that journal on the influence she was exercising over the King of Bavaria: "I left Paris in June last on a professional trip, and, amongst other arrangements, decided upon visiting Munich, where, for the first time, I had the honour of appearing before his Majesty, and receiving from him marks of approbation, which you are aware is not a very unusual thing for a professional person to receive at a foreign court. had not been here a week before I discovered that there was a plot existing in the town to

get me out of it, and that the party was the Jesuit party. . . . Since my residence here I can safely say that I have in no way interfered in any affairs not concerning myself; and as I intend making it my future abode, it is particularly annoying to me hearing so many scandalous and unfounded reports which are daily propagated, and in justice to myself and my future prospects in life I trust that you will not hesitate to insert this letter in your widely circulated journal, and show my friends and the public how unjustly and cruelly I have been treated by the Jesuit party in Munich."

20. A general fast, fixed by proclamation, "on account of the grievous scarcity and dearth of divers articles of sustenance and necessaries of life."

26.-J. P. Kay Shuttleworth submits to the Lords of the Treasury an account of the balance remaining unappropriated from the grant for promoting education in Great Britain, the distribution of which is superintended by the Committee of Council on Education. This balance, including lapsed grants, amounted to 35,000l. Much of the expenditure for the ensuing year was reported as contingent and uncertain.

29.-Sa-da-Bandiera, the Portuguese insurgent leader, sails from Oporto with 1,250 men, collected by him to create a disturbance in Lagos, Algarve.

The city of Vera Cruz and the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa surrendered to the army of the United States.

30.-Lord Morpeth obtains leave to bring in a bill for improving the health of towns.

April 5.-A British force, under General d'Aguilar, destroys the Bogue forts, threatens Canton, and compels Commissioner Keying to accede to the demand made by the Governor for a redress of grievances.

6. The Anti-Corn-Law League having given up the occupation of Covent Garden Theatre, it was re-opened to-night by M. Albano for Italian opera. Madame Grisi appeared as the Queen in Semiramide."

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the first time by the Peers. The first stone of the fabric was laid without ceremony at the south-east corner of the Speaker's House, 27th April, 1840.

19.-Lord John Russell submits the details of his plan for the education of the people, based upon the grant of 100,000l. to be asked for during the session. Roman Catholics were in the meantime to be excluded from the grant, but their case would be afterwards taken up separately. He thought that the proposal for making the education given by the State purely secular was opposed to the opinion of Parliament. Amendments proposed by Mr. Duncombe and Sir W. Clay were negatived by large majorities.

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20. Return issued relative to the Railways for which Acts were obtained in 1846. The stock amounted to 90,298,430. and the sum actually subscribed to 57,675,690. Borrowing powers existed for 42,318,9387. The amounts for the two preceding years were on a greatly inferior scale, though described as not inconsiderable at the time. In 1844 the stock amounted to 11,121,000l. and the sum authorized to be borrowed to 3,672,000/.; in 1845 the stock was 43,844,9071. and the loan 15,768,619. In 1846 the deposits made on Railway Bills, in virtue of the Standing Order of the House of Commons, amounted in England to 11,396,7837. 9s. 10d., and in Scotland to 2,323,3717. 10s.

24.-Petitions presented to the French Chamber of Deputies on the subject of slavery lead to an exposure of the monstrous cruelties practised in Guadaloupe and Martinique.

Average of wheat 75s. 10d. per quarter,

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Prince Albert presents to Mendelssohn a copy of "Elijah," with the inscription : the noble artist who, surrounded by the Baalworship of corrupted art, has been able by his genius and science to preserve faithfully, like another Elijah, the worship of true art, and once more to accustom our ear-lost in the whirl of an empty play of sounds-to the pure notes of expressive composition and legitimate harmony; to the great master who makes us conscious of the nicety of his conception through the whole maze of his creation-from the soft whispering to the mighty raging of the elements-written in token of grateful remembrance by ALBERT."

28. The emigrant brig Exmouth wrecked on the island of Islay, and about 240 people drowned.

30.-Died at Vienna, in his 76th year, the Archduke Charles-Louis of Austria, famous as a military commander in the wars with France.

May 3.--The Ten Hours Factories Bill read a third time in the House of Commons.

4.-Jenny Lind appears for the first time in England at her Majesty's Theatre, as Alice, in Robert le Diable." "For a moment," writes the Times, "she appeared a little overcome by her immense reception, but it was for a moment only, and as a singer and actress she had perfect possession of all her powers throughout the evening."

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The life of the Queen of Spain attempted by La Riva. He was sentenced to death by the cord," and executed June 23d.

12.-Triple murder at Mirfield, Yorkshire, Mr. and Mrs. Wraith, with their servant Caroline Ellis, being found in the house dead, and mangled in a shocking manner. From information furnished by a hawker named McCabe, Patrick Reid, tinker, was apprehended, and tried before Mr. Justice Wightman at the York Assizes, on the charge of murdering Mr. Wraith. It was established in evidence that he was seen near the house about the time the murders were committed, a portion of the stolen property was traced to his possession, and the soldering-iron, with which some of the injuries might have been inflicted, was found along with the key of the house in the garden well. From the reasonable suspicion attaching to McCabe's evidence, the jury could not come to a unanimous decision, and a verdict of Not guilty was returned. The prisoner, however, was kept in custody, and tried along with McCabe at the following winter assizes, when a verdict of Guilty was returned against both for the murder of the two women. Reid was executed.

13. The United Associate Synod of the Secession Church, under the Moderatorship of Mr. Newlands, and the Relief Synod, under the Moderatorship of Mr. Auld, meet together in Tanfield Hall, Edinburgh, and formally become one body under the designation of the United Presbyterian Church. The first question of public interest taken up by the united body was the Government Education Bill, when a resolution was agreed to," That it is not within the province of civil government to provide for the religious instruction of the subject; and that this department of the education of the young belongs exclusively to the parent and the Church.'

Mr. Stuart Wortley obtains the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the operation of the law prohibiting marriage with a deceased wife's sister.

15. Died at the Hôtel Feder, Genoa, on his way to Rome, Daniel O'Connell, in his 72d year. When the news reached Dublin, the event was made known by tolling of church bells and by intimation at Conciliation Hall. The Repeal Association issued an address to the people of Ireland, condoling with them upon the national calamity, and stating that the operations of the Association would be carried on under the same rules and in the same spirit as its founder had originally laid down.

16. Died at the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin, John William Ponsonby, fourth Earl of Besborough, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He was succeeded in office by the Earl of Clarendon. (See Table of Administrations.)

20.-Died at St. John's Wood, Mary Lam, sister of the Author of the "Essays of Elia."

21.-Conference at London between the representatives of Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal, for settling the disorders prevailing throughout the last-mentioned kingdom.

The Queen of Spain revokes the sentence of exile passed against Don Manuel de Godoy, Prince of Peace, Prime Minister of Charles IV. 1795-1808, and favourite of the Queen Maria Theresa of Parma.

24.-Accident on the Chester and Shrewsbury Railway, at the bridge crossing the Dee. Proceeding at its usual pace along the line, the train had crossed two of the arches of the bridge when, without a moment's warning, the iron girders of the third arch gave way, and the whole of the carriages were precipitated into the river, a depth of about thirty feet. The engine and tender having cleared the broken arch were separated from the train, and continued the journey across the bridge, till the tender was thrown across the line, and the engine brought up. The accident was seen by many people, and assistance of all kinds was at once rendered, but the work of extrication was necessarily slow and difficult. Five people were found drowned or bruised to death, and all the rest seriously injured, with the exception of one man who contrived to leap out of the window into the river, and swim ashore. the lengthened investigation which followed various opinions were given by eminent engineers as to the cause of the accident. Mr. Yarrow thought it arose from repeated concus. sion loosening the stonework of the pier, and so displacing the girders; General Paisley, that the engine had broken the girder in passing over it, causing the masonry to give way; and Mr. Stephenson, that the engine and tender had been off the line, struck the girder laterally, and so broke it.

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A company of Italian commercial reformers entertain Mr. Cobden at a banquet in Turin. During an audience on the 26th, the King announced his intention of making reductions in the tariff as soon as possible. Venice the Free Trade champion issued his address to the electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Mr. Disraeli, who had recently entered on the estate of Hughenden, issues an address to the electors of Buckinghamshire announcing his intention of standing for that county at the first general election. "The temporary high price," he wrote, "that is stimulated by famine is not the agricultural prosperity which I wish to witness, while in the full play of unrestricted importation I already recognise a disturbing

cause which may shake our monetary system to its centre, and which nothing but the happy accident of our domestic enterprise has prevented, I believe, from exercising an injurious effect on the condition of the working classes of Great Britain. Notwithstanding this, however, I am not one of those who would abet, or attempt factiously or forcibly to repeal the measures of 1846. The legislative sanction which they have obtained requires that they should receive an ample experiment. . . . In the great struggle between popular principles and liberal opinions, which is the characteristic of our age, I hope ever to be found on the side of the people and of the institutions of England. It is our institutions that have made us free, and can alone keep us so by the bulwark which they offer to the insidious encroachments of a convenient yet enervating system of centralization, which if left unchecked will prove fatal to the national character. . . . Amid the universal crash of parties I advance to claim your confidence with none of the commonplaces of faction. I am not the organ of any section or the nominee of any individual. All that I can offer you is the devotion of such energies as I possess; all that I aspire to is to serve you as becomes the representative of a great, undivided, and historic county that has achieved vast results for our popular liberty, our parliamentary reputation, and our national greatness.'

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26.-The Free Church Assembly adopt a series of resolutions relative to the Government Education scheme, in which, without absolutely approving of the scheme, an intimation is given of the Church's willingness to take whatever money can be freely and voluntarily given under it for her own educational institutions.

28.-Lieutenant Gore, of the Franklin Polar Expedition, leaves the following written memorial of its presence at Point Victory: "H.M. ships Erebus and Terror wintered in the ice in lat. 70° 5' N., long. 98° 23′ W., having wintered in 1846-7 [1845-6] at Beechey Island in lat. 74° 43′ 28′′ N., long. 91° 39′ 15′′ W., after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77°, and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island. Sir John Franklin commanding the expedition. All well. Party consisting of two officers and six men left the ship on Monday, 24th May, 1847. Wm. Gore, Lieut.; Chas. F. Des Voeux, Mate." Round the margin of the paper (writes the discoverer, Capt. M'Clintock) upon which Lieut. Gore in 1847 wrote these words of hope and promise another hand had subsequently written the following words :-"April 25, 1848.-H. M. ships Terror and Erebus were deserted on the 22d April, five leagues N. N. W. of this, having been beset since 12th September, 1846. The officers and crews, consisting of 105 souls, under the command of Capt. F. R. M. Crozier, ianded here in lat. 69° 37′ 42′′ N., long. 98° 41' W. Sir John Franklin died on the 11th June, 1847; and the total loss by deaths in this expedition has been to this date nine officers and

fifteen men. (Signed) F. R. M. Crozier, Captain and Senior Officer; James FitzJames, Captain H.M.S. Erebus. Start to-morrow, 26th, for Back's Fish River." (See Sept. 21, 1859.)

29.-Libel upon Eliza Cook. The Advertiser writes: "Considerable anxiety has been excited on the part of the public who do not read the poetical contributions of the Dispatch, to know what really can have induced its proprietor to present their subscribers with the portrait of a woman who has murdered her own child. Such is fame among the masses: a murderess is a heroine and a poetess unknown." The first proceedings with reference to this calumny took place in the Rail Court, where Miss Cook's affidavit was produced. It concluded: "And this deponent further saith that she never had or gave birth to a child; and that, on the contrary, she is a spinster of strict honour and perfect chastity; and she further saith that she has never murdered, or been concerned, or charged to have been concerned, in the murder or death of any child whatever." A retractation was published in the Advertiser, explaining that the criminal reference was made, not to Eliza Cook the poetess, but to a person of the same name more familiar to many readers of the Dispatch, who had just been executed for child murder. In the Court of Queen's Bench on the 11th of June, Mr. Phinn showed cause why a criminal information should not be granted against the proprietors of the Advertiser. Lord Denman concurred, stating that he did not think the paragraph was intended to cast any imputation on Miss Cook.

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Wheat average, 102s. 5d. per quarter. 30.-Affray off Labuan, between Rajah Brooke and a band of Borneo pirates. Five boats were captured or destroyed, and about a hundred of the pirates killed. The loss on the Rajah's side was trifling.

31.-Found dead in his bed this morning, Thomas Chalmers, D.D., Edinburgh. Intending to give in the Report of the College Committee to the Assembly to-day, the reverend doctor, on going to bed last night, had placed writing materials beside him, that he might carry on his work during the night if so inclined. He appeared to have been sitting up when overtaken by the stroke of death, as he still in part retained that posture. The arms were peacefully folded on the breast. There was a slight air of heaviness and oppression on the brow, but not a wrinkle nor a trace of sorrow or pain disturbed its smoothness. The features wore an expression of deep repose, and the air of majesty on the countenance was thought even greater than had ever been perceived on the living face. A large company of mourners followed his remains to the grave in the Grange Cemetery on the 4th June. Dr. Chalmers was born in 1780.

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June 1.-The Earl of Lincoln carries his resolution for an address to her Majesty, praying her to take into consideration the means by which colonization might be made subsidiary to other measures for the improvement of the social condition of Ireland. The House of Lords appointed a Select Committee to inquire into the subject.

Medals ordered to be struck to commemorate the naval and military engagements between 1793 and 1815.

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5.-Collision on the London and NorthWestern line at the Wolverton station. down mail-train for Liverpool, consisting of nineteen carriages, was heard approaching the station at the proper time. A signal indicating that all was right for the train to enter the station was hoisted, but, to the astonishment of the officials, the engine turned off into a siding, and dashed through a mineral-train stationed there. The fifth and sixth carriages of the mail-train were smashed to pieces, and the passengers crushed in the most frightful manner. Seven were killed on the spot. The pointsman at the Blue-bridge was apprehended, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, for neglect of duty.

A large portion of Maudsley's engineering establishment, Westminster-road, destroyed by fire.

A small company of Bosjesmans exhibited in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

10. Sir Charles Wood moves a series of resolutions (based on the report of a Select Committee) permitting shareholders in certain cases to suspend railway schemes, and limiting the power of speculators to lock up capital in prospective and accumulated schemes.

New writ ordered for Cork county in room of Daniel O'Connell, deceased. A Repealer (Dr. Power) was elected.

11. Mr. Hume introduces a debate extending over three nights, censuring Ministers for needlessly interfering in the affairs of Portugal. No division took place.

12.-Meeting in the great room of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, to promote the erection of a monument to William Caxton in Westminster Abbey.

A Council of Ministers nominated by the Pope to carry out various reforms designed by his Holiness.

15.-The Queen and Prince Albert, with their suite, visit Her Majesty's Theatre to hear Jenny Lind in "Norma."

The Portuguese insurgent General Sa-daBandiera, and a large number of his followers, submit to Queen Maria II.

17. The Irish Relief Commission report that out of the 2,049 electoral divisions of Ireland 1,677 are now under the operation of the Temporary Relief Act, and are distributing 1,923,361 rations per day gratuitously, at an

average cost of 24d. per ration, besides 92,326 rations sold. Of the divisions under the Act, 1,479 have received loans or grants.

22. In the course of a discussion in Committee on the Manchester Bishopric Bill, the Bishop of Exeter objected to the preamble in so far as it contemplated the election of a bishop who might not be summoned to the House of Peers. Lord Coke, he said, and Sir Matthew Hale laid it down that the Crown was bound ex debito justitia to issue a writ of summons to Parliament to every bishop qua bishop, not only in the case of bishoprics already existing, but of every one that might exist. The original clause was affirmed by 44 to 14 votes.

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Mr. Disraeli, now a candidate for the representation of Buckinghamshire, addresses the farmers at Amersham market on the important position occupied by their county in the political history of the kingdom. "The parlia mentary constitution of England," he said, was born in the bosom of the Chiltern Hills; as to this day our parliamentary career is terminated among its Hundreds. (Cheers and laughter.) The parliamentary constitution of England was established when Mr. Hampden rode up to Westminster surrounded by his neighbours. Buckinghamshire did that for England. It has done more. It gave us the British Constitution in the seventeenth century, and it created the British Empire in the eighteenth. All the great statesmen of that century were born, or bred, or lived in this county. Throw your eye over the list-it is a glorious one-from Shelburne to Granville. Travel from Wycombe to Buckingham, from the first Lord Lansdowne, the most accomplished minister this country ever produced, to the last of our classic statesmen. Even the sovereign genius of Chatham was nursed in the groves of Stowe and amid the templa quam dilecta. of Cobham; and it was beneath his oaks at Beaconsfield that Mr. Burke poured forth those divine effusions that vindicated the social system and reconciled the authority of law with the liberty of men. (Great cheering.) And in our own time, faithful to its character and its mission, amid a great parliamentary revolution Buckingham called a new political class into existence, and enfranchised you and the farmers of England by the Chandos clause." (Vehement cheering.)

Proclamation issued at Rome announcing the intention of the Holy Father to persevere with wisdom and prudence in the cause of reform, but warning his subjects against being excited by desires and hopes beyond the limits of practicability.

24. A new Poor-law Administration Bill read a third time in the House of Commons.

25.-M. Emilie Girardin discharged by the French Chamber of Peers, before which body he had been summoned on the charge of imputing corrupt conduct to Ministers in sub. sidizing theatres, the conferring of decorative

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