his creditors by reporting the robbery. He was, however, liberated on 26th July.

24.-Launch, at Limehouse, of the steamship British Queen, intended to carry goods and passengers between Liverpool and New York. She was considered the largest vessel in the world, being 275 feet in length, and 40 feet in breadth between the paddle-boxes; tonnage, 1,860 tons.

26.-Eliza Grimwood found murdered in her bedroom, Wellington-terrace, Waterloo-road. She was wounded in several places, but the immediate cause of death was a wound in the neck, extending nearly from ear to ear, and severing the windpipe. Her left thumb was also cut, as if she had struggled with the murderer. The unfortunate woman lived with a person named Hubbard, a bricklayer, separated from his wife, and had been in the habit of taking persons home with her from the theatres. On the Friday night she was said to have met with a person in the Strand, who had the look of a foreigner, and dressed like a gentleman. At the inquest, the person able to speak to Eliza Grimwood's latest movements was a companion named Catherine Edwin, who was with her in the Strand when the foreigner came up. He was an Italian, but could speak English fluently, and had been acquainted with the deceased for months. He frequented the neighbourhood of the Spread Eagle, Regent-circus, and wore a ring given him by deceased, bearing the words

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Semper fidelis." He also carried a claspknife, with which the wounds might have been inflicted. With this person she entered a cab, and drove home about midnight. He was not afterwards seen, and how or when he left the house was never ascertained. Hubbard slept in an apartment alone, and discovered the body (he said) when going out to work in the morning. He awoke a commercial traveller who slept in the house with another woman, and then alarmed the police. The deceased was about twenty-five years of age, of sober habits, and had saved a little money. At the inquest a verdict of wilful murder was returned against some person or persons unknown. On the 11th June Hubbard was committed to Horsemonger Lane prison, in consequence of an anonymous letter purporting to come from the person who accompanied Eliza Grimwood home, but no evidence being forthcoming before the magistrate he was discharged, and afterwards went to America. On the 13th June the effects of the murdered woman were sold on the premises, and realized high prices.

28. Riotous proceedings commenced at Boughton, Kent, under the leadership of John Thom, alias Sir William Courtenay, a character who had formerly made himself conspicuous in the neighbourhood of Canterbury. He had been for some time confined in a lunatic asylum, but since his release had been living among the peasantry of Boughton, boasting of his birth, and the great possessions unjustly

withheld from him. He also blasphemously styled himself the Saviour of the world. In the character of a political reformer, and under pretence of relieving them from the terrors of the New Poor Law, he gathered a band of nearly 100 ignorant and discontented people, and drew them up near Bossenden farm on the evening of the 30th. On the following morning he deliberately shot a constable named Mears. The country now became alarmed, and a party of military was sent from Canterbury to break up the gang. On seeing the soldiers advance, Courtenay again deliberately drew his pistol, and shot Lieut. Bennett, of the 45th regiment, who was riding in advance of his party, and fell dead upon the spot. The soldiers then immediately fired, when Courtenay and eight others fell dead, two were mortally wounded, and a number crippled for life. Before the engagement Courtenay administered the Sacrament in a wood, and addressed his followers as their Saviour. At the close of his harangue several of the deluded victims knelt down at his feet and worshipped him. So earnest were they in their belief, that for some time after his death they actually expected him to rise from the dead as he had promised, and at the burial of the body the officiating clergyman, being apprehensive of a disturbance on this ground, omitted that portion of the service relating to the resurrection of the dead.

31.-The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in the course of a discussion touching the settlement of Mr. Young in Auchterarder, resolved, by a majority of 183 to 142, that it would regard any application to a civil court by its members as a breach of ecclesiastical discipline. The case originated in the exercise of an interim act of Assembly passed in 1834, enacting "That it shall be an instruction to Presbyteries that if, at the moderating in a call to a vacant pastoral charge, the major part of the male heads of families, members of the vacant congregation, and in full communion with the church, shall disapprove of the person in whose favour the call is proposed to be moderated in, such disapproval shall be judged sufficient ground for the Presbytery rejecting such person, and that he shall be rejected accordingly.

out the day. The procession left Buckingham Palace soon after 10 o'clock, and passed up Constitution-hill, along Piccadilly, St. James's-street, Pall Mall, Charing Cross, and Parliament-street, to Westminster Abbey, which was reached about half-past 11. Her Majesty was received with immense enthusiasm by the multitude of eager spectators who lined the route. At the door of the Abbey she was received by the great officers of state, and then proceeded to her robing chamber. 12 o'clock the grand procession passed up the nave into the choir. As the Queen advanced slowly towards the centre of the choir to the chair of homage, the anthem, "I was glad," was sung, and the Westminster boys chanted, "Vivat Victoria Regina." On reaching a chair placed midway between the chair of homage and the altar, the Queen knelt, and

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repeated her private prayers. The "Recognition" then took place by the Archbishop of Canterbury: "Sirs, I here present unto you Queen Victoria, the undoubted Queen of this realm; wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage, are you willing to do the same?" The universal acclamation then burst forth, "God save Queen Victoria." The prescribed prayers, Litany, and Communion Service were then said by the Archbishop; and a sermon, on 2 Chron. xxxiv. 31, preached by the Bishop of London. Then followed the administration of the oath, the Veni Creator, the anointing, and the coronation. The Dean of Westminster took the crown from the altar, and passed it to the Archbishop, who reverently placed it on the Queen's head. From every part of the crowded edifice there then arose the enthusiastic cry, "God save the Queen.' The peers and peeresses put on their coronets, the bishops their caps, and the kings of arms their crowns ; trumpets sounded, drums were beat, and the Tower and Park guns fired by signal. The presentation of the Bible, Benediction, and Homage were the next features in the ceremony, after which the Queen received the two sceptres, and an anthem, "This is the Day,' was sung. The Sacrament was then administered, at the conclusion of which her Majesty was invested in her royal robes by the Lord Chamberlain, and proceeded to the west door of the Abbey, wearing her crown, and holding the sceptre with the cross in her right hand and the orb in her left. It was about a quarter to 4 o'clock when the royal procession passed through the nave in the same order in which it had entered. In their return to the Palace the Queen wore her crown, and the royal and noble personages their coronets. Amo:.g many foreigners of distinction present, Marshal Soult (French Ambassador) was particularly noticed and applauded. In the evening the Queen entertained a dinner-party, and witnessed from the Palace the discharge of fireworks in the Green-park. The Duke of Wellington also gave a grand ball at Apsley House. The theatres and nearly all the other

places of amusements were, by her Majesty's command, opened gratuitously for the evening. The immense concourse of people which filled London during the day conducted themselves with the greatest order, and no accident of any moment occurred.

During the Coronation-rejoicings at Liverpool the first stone of St. George's Hail was laid.

29.-Died at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Alexander Jolly, Bishop of Moray, in the eighty-third year of his age and forty-second of his episcopate. During his long life he presented a rare union of simple piety with profound learning.

30.-Musical Festival commenced in Westminster Abbey, where the Coronation decorations were still kept up. The rehearsal was on this day and the performance on July 2.

July 5-Grand Review of Artillery and Engineers at Woolwich, for the entertainment of distinguished foreigners visiting the Coronation.

9. Grand Review of Cavalry and Infantry in Hyde Park, attended by the Queen, Duke of Wellington, Marshal Soult, Princes Esterhazy and Schwartzenberg, and other foreigners of distinction.

12. John Rickey, a soldier, tried for shooting Sergeant Hamilton of the 12th Lancers, at Hampton Court. He was found guilty, and sentenced to death, but afterwards received a pardon.

13. Banquet at Guildhall to Ambassadors extraordinary, and other foreign visitors. The Duke of Wellington and Marshal Soult were toasted together.

17. The Court of Chancery decides the Leeman baronetcy case, and the immense accompanying fortune, in favour of a poor Nottingham mechanic of that name.

20. Marshal Soult, his son, the Marquis of Dalmatia, and a party of French gentlemen, leave London for a tour in the manufacturing districts.

Died, at East Lodge, Enfield, aged 80, Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, G. C.B. He commanded the Donegal from 1805 to 1811, and was engaged at Trafalgar, where he took a Spanish three-decker. Among his last important appointments was that of Commanderin-chief on the St. Helena station during the residence of Napoleon.

29.- Departure of Marshal Soult for France. 31. The Marquis of Waterford, and others, tried at the Derby Assizes, on the charge of riotous and disorderly conduct, near Melton Mowbray, on 5th April last. Fined 100/. each.

Debate in the House of Lords regarding Lord Durham's Ordinances. Lord Melbourne intimates next day that Ministers had resolved on disallowing them.

International Copyright Act passed.

August 1The negro population of Jamaica enter on the full enjoyment of their freedom. The governor and the bishop of the island both describe the conduct of the people as in the highest degree praiseworthy.

Great eruption of Vesuvius commenced. 4.-John Drew Woods, pedlar, murdered at Dundee, whilst in a state of intoxication. His father and mother were afterwards tried for the crime, and the former condemned to death.

6.-A Radical meeting held at Birmingham, and addressed by Attwood, Scholefield, and Feargus O'Connor. Resolution adopted, praying the House of Commons to use their utmost endeavours to get a law passed granting to every male of lawful age, sound mind, and unconvicted of crime, the right of voting for members of Parliament, and enacting voting by ballot, annual parliaments, the abolition of all property qualifications by members of the House, and the payment of those attending to its duties.

9.-A number of the followers of Courtenay, or Thom, tried before Lord Denman, at Maidstone assizes, for the murder of Constable Mears and Lieut. Bennett. They were all sentenced to death, but their punishment was commuted to various terms of imprisonment.

14.-Inquiry regarding the explosion on board the Victoria steamship, resulting in a verdict condemning the construction of the boiler. A deodand of 1,500l. levied on the boiler and steam engine.

16.--Parliament prorogued by the Queen in person. During this session the House sat 173 days, and spent not less than 1,134 hours in public business.

Various meetings held throughout Lancashire to discuss national grievances, and a document known as the "People's Charter" circulated among the people.

18. Meeting of British Association at Newcastle: Pres. Rev. Prof. Whewell.

22.-Duel on Wimbledon Common, between John Flower Mirfin and Francis L. Eliot, the former of whom died from his wounds.

24.-Birth of the Count of Paris.

September 4.-The King and Queen of the Belgians visit England as the guest of her Majesty.,

Wreck of the steamer Forfarshire, trading from Hull to Dundee, on the Fern Islands. Her machinery becoming disabled, the vessel drifted southward for about five hours, when she struck at 3 o'clock A. M. on the outer rock. The hull almost instantly parted, and, with one exception, the whole of the cabin passengers, twenty-five in number, were drowned. The captain was washed overboard with his wife in his arms. Of a crew of twenty-two, ten were drowned; eight were preserved in an open boat and taken to Shields. Four of

the crew and five steerage passengers were taken off the wreck by the dauntless intrepidity of Grace Darling and her father, the keeper of Longstone lighthouse. She induced her father to enter the lifeboat, and with great difficulty they reached the wreck, when Darling himself picked the survivors off, while his heroic daughter managed to keep the boat from being dashed to pieces.

6. Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, crowned at Milan.

17.- London and Birmingham Railway opened throughout.

21.-Young and Webber, two of the seconds in the Mirfin and Eliot duel, convicted of murder, and sentenced to death, afterwards commuted to one year's imprisonment.

24. John Larner, under pretence of being the proper heir, makes a forcible entry into Stanfield Hall, Norfolk, then in the possession of Isaac Jermy. The house was afterwards surrounded by military, who conveyed Larner and all his disorderly followers to prison.

25.-Lord Durham writes from Canada that he has resolved on quitting a post which has been rendered untenable by those from whom he expected every assistance in maintaining it.

October 2.-The Perth and Edinburgh coach, Coburg, upset into the sea over the pier at South Queensferry. Two foreigners

and two horses drowned.

3. A parachute descent successfully performed at Cheltenham, by an aeronaut named Hampden. At an altitude of 9,000 feet he freed his parachute from the balloon, and descended gently to the earth in the space of thirteen minutes.

5. Fire in warehouses, Robert-street, Liverpool, destroying cotton, indigo, oil, turpentine, and spices to the value of 200,000/.

9.-Lord Durham proclaims the Act of Indemnity in Canada, and announces her Majesty's disallowance of his Ordinances.

12.-Upsetting of the Oxford coach at Ted dington, with death of Mr. G. Broderick, o Brasenose College.

15.-Died at Cape Coast Castle, South Africa, Letitia Elizabeth, wife of Governor Maclean, famous in the literature of her time as L.E.L.

24. Died at New York, aged sixty-eight years, in consequence of being run over by a wagon, Joseph Lancaster, originator of the Lancastrian system of education.

26.-John Teulon, printer, sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment for attempting to extort money from the Duke of Devonshire, by the publication of a pamphlet entitled "The Secret History," relating to the late Lady Mary

Hill.

Lord Palmerston instructs Lord Clanricarde to obtain from Count Nesselrode an explanation

of the conduct of the Russian officials at the Persian Court.

November 3.-Lord Durham's Secretary, Mr. Ellice, carried off by the Canadian rebels. They muster in strong force at Canghuawagu, and are dispersed by a band of loyal Indians.

7. Twenty-five men employed on the Plymouth Breakwater drowned in a squall when attempting to pass in an open boat to the Cat

water.

8. Fire at an hotel in Tamworth, and six servants of the house suffocated.

9. The rebel army in Canada quit their strongholds at Napiersville, and Sir John Colborne concentrates his troops there.

16.-Raphoe Palace, then unoccupied, destroyed by fire.

Died at Paris, in his seventieth year, the Rt. Hon. Robert Cutlar Ferguson, Judge Advocategeneral and M. P. for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Mr. Ferguson won a foremost place at the bar, both in England and Calcutta, and was one of the most prominent members of the Reform party in the beginning of the century. He was tried along with the Earl of Thanet for aiding O'Connor in his attempted escape from Maidstone Court-house, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in the King's Bench.

20.-Count Nesselrode acquaints Lord Clanricarde that Count Simovich had acted at the court of the Shah in a manner entitling Great Britain to complain, and that the ambassador had been in consequence recalled.

21.-Riots at Todmorden, caused by the refusal of Overseer Ingham to collect a rate imposed by the guardians under the New Poor Law. The constables who attempted to execute a distress warrant on Ingham were forced to promise to execute no more warrants, and were then stripped and beaten.

22. In the Court of Queen's Bench Mr.. Disraeli, M. P. appeared to receive sentence for a libel on Mr. Austin, a barrister, judgment having gone against him by default. Mr. Disraeli said that as to his offence against the law he threw himself entirely on the mercy of the judge. He thought his apology was such as a gentleman should cheerfully make, and with which the offended party should be content. As to his offence against the bar he appealed to the Bench to shield him from the vengeance of an irritated and powerful profession. Apology accepted, and prayer for judgment withdrawn.

24. Rev. M. A. Gathercole sentenced to three months' imprisonment for libels published in the Watchman newspaper concerning nunneries in Stockton and Darlington.

Court-martial assembled at Kingston for trial of Canadian rebels. Nine sentenced to death, and a number to various periods of banishment.

26.-Lord Durham arrived at Plymouth from Quebec, and received congratulatory ad

dresses from various public bodies on his

return.

27.-Count Lobau, Marshal of French army, died at Paris, aged sixty-eight.

30.-Queen Pomaré and the chiefs of Tahiti send a letter to Queen Victoria, praying for the assistance and protection of England against the encroachments of French residents on the islands under her sway.

December 4.-Fracas in the Tuileries garden between Mr. Somers, M. P. and Mr. Wentworth Beaumont, Mr. Beaumont's counsel stated in the Court of Correctional Police that Mr. Somers had made a demand for money to suppress a letter, and, on receiving a refusal, struck his client with a whip.

5.-A woman performed penance at the door of Walton Church, by order of the Ecclesiastical Court, for defaming the character of her neighbour.

7.—John Millie, clerk in the Newcastle Savings Bank, found murdered in his office, and Archibald Bolam, actuary of the bank, discovered in the same room, apparently insensible and slightly injured. Bolam, on recovering, sought to fix the crime upon a rough-spoken man who attacked them both, intending to rob the bank; but at the inquest the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against himself.

12. Proclamation issued, declaring Chartist meetings illegal.

19.-The Times' publisher (J. J. Lawson) tried for libel on Sir John Conroy, in an article printed on the 19th March, imputing to him fraud and mismanagement of the affairs of the Duchess of Kent. Sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and payment of a fine of 2007.

20. Meeting in King-street, Manchester, for considering measures to be adopted to secure the total and immediate repeal of the Corn Laws. This was the beginning of the Anti-Corn Law League.

27.-Apprehension, near Manchester, of Stephens, a Wesleyan preacher, and one of the most violent agitators against the New Poor Law. At the examination it was shown that he had repeatedly denounced people by name, and sought to incite the crowds who followed him to acts of destruction. He was liberated on bail, and soon afterwards addressed a meeting of 5,000 at Ashton-under-Lyne, declaring that with the aid of a rural police the Poor Law Commissioners intended to destroy all children above the number of three born of poor people.

7.-Violent hurricane experienced over the island generally, but most destructive on the west coast and in Ireland. The Pennsylvania, St. Andrews, Lockwood, and many other vessels wrecked, with great loss of life. The Edinburgh and Carlisle mail coach blown off the road near Selkirk. In Liverpool and neighbourhood, about 100 lives were lost; and throughout the south of Scotland most of the towns presented the appearance of having suffered a severe cannonading. The anemometer of the Birmingham Philosophical Institution showed that the pressure had risen from 2 lbs. per foot on Saturday night to 30 lbs. per foot on Monday morning.

The Académie Française reports on the invention of M. Daguerre.

10.-Meeting of magistrates of Meath to consider steps necessary to restore order to that district. Suspicious of aid from the Irish Executive, they resolve to appeal to the people and Legislature of England.

15.-A Special Commission opened at Clonmel for the trial of various persons charged with murder, and other Whiteboy offences.

18. Three lives lost on the ice at Duddingstone Loch, Edinburgh.

19.-Correspondence between Lord John Russell and Mr. Frost, a magistrate of Newport, South Wales, on his complicity in the proceedings of the body calling itself "The National Convention."

21. In the Arches Court Sir H. Jenner Fust gives judgment in the case promoted by Capt. Grant against his wife, for adultery with Capt. Vincent. Separation granted.

Great Anti-Corn Law meeting held in Edinburgh, presided over by the Lord Provost, Sir James Forrest.

22.-The Queen goes in state to Drury Lane Theatre.

28.-Died, Sir William Beechey, R.A.

February 1.-Case of Lady Flora Hastings. -Lord Melbourne informs Sir James Clark, M.D. that a communication has been made by Lady Tavistock respecting Lady Flora Hastings (in the Duchess of Kent's household), whose appearance had given rise to a suspicion in the Palace that she might have been privately mar ried. Sir James stated, that while deprecating such suspicions he was bound to admit that Lady Flora's appearance in some degree countenanced them, but would not venture to give an opinion without more ample means of observation than she had permitted. On the 16th Sir James acquaints Lady Flora with the existing suspicions, when she stated that for these suspicions there was not the slightest ground. Next day Sir James Clark and Sir Charles Clarke signed the following certificate :--"We have examined with great care the state of Lady Flora Hastings.... and it is our opinion, although there is an enlargement of the stomach, that there are no grounds for suspicion that

pregnancy does exist, or ever did exist." Lady Flora Hastings thereafter continued her duties at the Palace, and received many marks of sympathy both from the Queen and the Duchess of Kent.

4. The Baptist missionaries of Jamaica address the Governor on the willingness of the blacks to work, if reasonable wages are given, and describe their own sect as distinguished in the island by "the misrepresentations and calumnies of unreasonable and wicked men."

6. Parliament opened by the Queen in person. The Speech contained the following allusion to the Chartist agitation :-"I have observed with pain the persevering efforts which have been made in some parts of the country to excite my subjects to disobedience and resistance to the law, and to recommend dangerous and illegal practices. For the counteraction of all such designs I depend upon the efficacy of the law, which it will be my duty to enforce, upon the good sense and right disposition of my people, upon their attachment to the principles of justice, and their abhorrence of violence and disorder." In the debate on the Address in the Lords, Lord Brougham made a bitter attack on O'Connell, for insinuating, at a public meeting in Dublin, that Lord Norbury had been assassinated by his own son.

8.-Lord Glenelg resigns the office of Colonial Secretary, and is succeeded by Lord Normanby.

9.-Discovery of the Balleny Islands, a group of five, in lat. 66° 22' of the Antartic circle.

11.-Lord Durham's Report and other papers respecting Canada laid on the table of the House of Lords by Lord Melbourne.

15. Five of the Canadian rebels executed at Montreal.

18. Lord Brougham proposes that the petitions in favour of the abolition of the Corn Laws be referred to a committee of the whole House, and that evidence be heard at the bar. The motion was negatived without a division.

Explosion of fire-damp in the William mining pit, Cumberland, and loss of twentythree lives.

19. Mr. Villiers's annual motion on the Corn Laws was this year defeated by a majority of 371 against 172.

March 5.-Three prisoners tried at Cavan for attempting to assassinate the Rev. M. P. Beresford, when proceeding to church on the 22d of July last. The principal of the gang. was sentenced to transportation for life.

An attempt made to injure Madame Vestris, by sending her a box filled with explosivematter. The design frustrated by a carpenter at the theatre forcing the lid in instead of out.

7.---During a debate in the House of Com-mons on the condition of Ireland, O'Connell.