of cheering and shouting which led in some instances to assault and battery.

22.-Came on before the House of Lords the appeal of Mrs. Ryves from the judgment of the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, which declared that Olive Serres was not the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Cumberland, and that there was no valid marriage between the Duke and Olive Wilmot. Their Lordships, without going into the merits of the case, dismissed the appeal, on the objection that no application being originally made for a new trial, and no bill of exceptions having been tendered to the ruling of the learned judge in the Court below, an appeal under such circumstances did not lie to their Lordships.

- Fire at Bremen, destroying several tobacco warehouses and two timber yards.

Her Majesty holds a "breakfast" in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

23.-The Scotch Reform Bill read a second time in the House of Lords.

The Pope delivers an allocution respecting religious affairs in Austria. His Holiness deplored and condemned as abominable the marriage and other laws depriving the Church of control over schools, and establishing freedom of the press and liberty of conscience. The Pope declared these laws null and void, censured their authors, approvers, and executors, praised the conduct of the Austrian bishops as defenders of the Concordat, and hoped that the Hungarian prelates would follow in their footsteps.

24.- The Servian elections show a majority in favour of the accession to the throne of Prince Milan, nephew of the late Prince Michael. He was proclaimed by the Skuptschina on the 2d July.

Address presented to ex-Governor Eyre by 240 merchants largely interested in West India property.

25.-Inauguration of the Luther Monument at Worms. Queen Victoria forwarded the following message to the King of Prussia :-"Pray express to the committee for the erection of the Luther Memorial my most hearty congratulations upon the successful completion of their task. Protestant England cordially sympathises with an occasion which unites the Protestant princes and peoples of Germany."

In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr. Grant Duff's criticism on the Premier's speech at Merchant Taylors' Hall, which he described as a repetition of the Slough offence of 1858, Mr. Disraeli owned to the correctness of the report so far as our foreign relations were concerned when the present Government acceded to power, and stated further that the words so reported expressed the literal truth of the state of affairs. It was not his intention however to cast any imputation on the abilities of the Earl of Clarendon, who had been in the Foreign Office only a few months before. Earl Russell was the Minister mainly responsible for

the untoward state of our foreign relations.Mr. Gladstone censured the Premier for indulging in exaggerated eulogy upon his own policy, and censuring political opponents whom it was well known Lord Derby wished to include in his Cabinet.

25.—In an unusually large House Earl Granville moves the second reading of the Irish Church Suspensory Bill. It was opposed by Earl Grey, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and the Earl of Derby. The latter protested against the bill as an invasion of the rights of property, and because it was based on principles which, when applied to Ireland, could not fail to be extended to England, creating confusion and dissension for a lengthened period on subjects that were most likely of all others to produce angry feeling and contention among different classes. On the second night of the debate the Earl of Carnarvon said that, bearing in mind the attitude of the Government towards the clergy of the English Church in their education scheme, he regarded the policy of the Government with distrust and suspicion, whose courting of the Roman Catholics with one hand and the Orangemen with the other could only result in discredit and failure. It would be safer for the Irish Church, whilst still unbroken by defeat, to come to terms with her declared opponents than to place trust in her professed friends. The debate was continued over a third night, June 29th. A division took place about 3 A.M. the following morning. Contents, 97; Not Contents, 192 majority against the bill, 95. Apart from the spiritual Peers, there were 6 Dukes, 4 Marquises, 25 Earls, 3 Viscounts, and 59 Barons on the Liberal side; against 7 Dukes, 7 Marquises, 56 Earls, 15 Viscounts, and 85 Barons on the Conservative benches.

Humaita evacuated by the Paraguayans, after a siege protracted over two years.

26. The Duke of Edinburgh arrives at Portsmouth in the Galatea. He was met by several members of the Royal family and the Mayor and Corporation, who presented an address. His Royal Highness proceeded in the evening to Windsor, where he was received by the Queen.

27.-Mr. Adams, late American Minister, leaves England.

Completion of the Solway Viaduct, 1,940 yards in length, and designed to carry the railway across the Frith.

29.-Formal promulgation of the Pontifical Bull summoning a General Council of the Catholic Church to meet in the Basilica of the Vatican on the 8th December, 1869. All ecclesiastics entitled to be present were enjoined to appear, or, if prevented, to be represented by proxy. The Bull expressed a hope that princes and other rulers would afford the ecclesiastics all possible facilities for making the journey to Rome-the object of the Council being to secure the integrity of the faith, re

spect for religion and the ecclesiastical laws, the improvement of public morals, the establishment of peace and concord, and the removal of the ills afflicting civil and religious societies. The Bull finally adverted to the necessity for maintaining the temporal power, the sanctity of matrimony and the religious education of youth, and deplored the efforts of the enemies of the Church to overthrow these principles.

30.-The Irish Reform Bill read a second time in the House of Lords.

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New writ moved for Bristol, Mr. Miles being unseated on petition..

July 1. The University Tests Bill read a second time in the House of Commons by 198 votes to 140.

Sir Robert Napier entertained by the British Ambassador at Paris, and presented with an address. He arrived at Dover the following morning, and was received by the Mayor and Corporation. He proceeded to London during the day, and in the evening to Windsor on a visit to the Queen.

2.-Thanks of both Houses of Parliament voted to Sir Robert Napier and the army of Abyssinia. In the Lords the resolution was moved by the Earl of Malmesbury, and seconded by Earl Russell; in the Commons, by Mr. Disraeli, and seconded by Mr. Gladstone. Speaking of the difficulties encountered by the Commander-in-Chief, the Premier said:" He had, in order to enter the country which he was about to invade, to construct a road over a wall of mountain, using the bed of an exhausted torrent for this purpose, and actually entered a high table-land, wild and in great part barren, continuously intersected with chains of mountains of a very high elevation, sometimes breaking into gorges and ravines which appeared unfathomable.

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this country, for more than 300 miles, he guided and sustained a numerous hostmany thousands of fighting men-as numerous a following of camp attendants, and vast caravans of camels, which in number exceeded both. He led cavalry and infantry over this country; and, what was perhaps the most remarkable part of this expedition, he led the elephants of Asia, bearing the artillery of Europe, over broken passes, which might have startled the trapper, and appalled the hunter of the Alps. (Cheers.) When he arrived at the place of his critical rendezvous, he encountered no mean foe; and if the manly qualities of the Abyssinians sunk before the resources of our warlike science, our troops had still after that engagement to scale a mountain fortress of such intrinsic strength that it would have been impregnable to the world had it been defended by the persons who assaulted it. (Cheers.) Thus all these difficulties and all these obstacles were overcome, and that was accomplished which not one of us ten years ago could have fancied

even in his dreams, and which it must be peculiarly interesting to Englishmen under all circumstances to recall to mind; and we find the standard of St. George hoisted upon the mountains of Rasselas."

2.-During a discussion in Committee on the Boundaries Bill in the House of Lords, Earl Beauchamp proposed to amend one clause so far as to enlarge the boundaries of Birming ham and Birkenhead. Earl Granville and Earl Russell protested against this course as a violation of the understanding come to in the Commons respecting the settlement embodied in the bill. Earl Malmesbury supported the alteration, and said "the House of Lords could not be controlled in its action by the Commons." Seeing the Government determined to press the alteration, the Opposition Peers rose in a body and left the House. Earl Beauchamp disowning any attempt to take the House by surprise, thereupon consented to adjourn further discussion on his amendment till the 6th. Next night, however, after explanations by Earl Malmesbury, it was withdrawn altogether.

The Common Council of Vienna protest against the offensive expressions used in the Papal Allocution; and affirm that Government possesses their entire confidence.

4. The Duke of Edinburgh, with the Prince and Princess of Wales, visits the Crystal Palace, and receives an enthusiastic reception.

President Johnson proclaims an amnesty to all parties engaged in the late rebellion, except those under indictment on a charge of treason, and restoration of all rights in property, except as to slaves.

Information received at the Foreign Office that the port of Mayatlan, Mexico, was blockaded by the British war vessel Chanticleer, in retaliation for injuries to British subjects. The step was disapproved of by the British Admiral in the Pacific, and instructions at once sent to raise the blockade.

6. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was this morning safely delivered of a daughter-Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary.

8.-The brothers Smith, aged respectively 12 and 14 years of age, sentenced at the Old Bailey, one to seven years' penal servitude, and the other to eighteen months' hard labour, for the murderous assault on Mary Anne Nunn, housekeeper.

The House of Commons Building Committee issue a Report recommending the construction of a new and more commodious chamber on the site now occupied by the common court and the dining-rooms.

The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier ordered to leave Spain on the ground of stirring up disaffection to the existing Government.

9.-The House of Commons, by a majority of 124 to 104 against Government, resolve to add another amendment to the Lords' amendments on the Scotch Reform Bill, providing that occupiers under 47. a year, if otherwise qualified, should for the present year be entitled to vote though they had not paid rates. The amendment was rejected next evening by the Lords, and not further insisted on.

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Professor Longfellow entertained dinner in the Langham Hotel. The health of the poet was proposed by Mr. Gladstone.

10.-The House of Commons assent to the proposal contained in her Majesty's message, of voting 2,000/. per annum to Sir Robert Napier and his next heir male. It was announced, at the same time, that her Majesty had been pleased to advance him to the dignity of Baron Napier of Magdala.

11. The Moniteur of this day publishes the official announcement of the concession for twenty years granted to Baron Emile Erlanger of Paris and Mr. Julius Reuter of London, for laying and working a submarine telegraph line between France and the United States of America. The concession required that telegraphic communication shall be established before September 1869, unless prevented by accidents which cannot be controlled, and which must be duly notified to the French Government.

12.-Orange riot at Monaghan, resulting in the death of one Roman Catholic.

13.-Lord Taunton carries a motion in the House of Lords that no railway bill which proposed to increase rates should be read a second time until a special report from the Board of Trade was laid on the table.

14. Mr. Bright entertained at Limerick, and presented with an address. Referring, in reply, to his sojourn with Mr. Peabody in the valley of the Shannon, he said that Ireland could be made one of the fairest flowers of the earth. He suggested to the Imperial Parliament to undo the legislation of the last 300 years, without doing any great injury to the ecclesiastical arrangements of the country, and so as not to affect individual interests. referred to the land question, showing that his

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plan was to restore to the farming classes a proprietary right, without any spoliation of the interests of the present owners of the soil. Speaking of the Established Church, he said that it was to the earnest, thoughtful, and honestly-minded Protestants in the country that the argument was to be addressed; and were he addressing a similar number of those men to that of which the meeting was composed, he would ask them if they approved of the ecclesiastical settlement of the country made 300 years ago, or whether the present state of the country was satisfactory? The hon. gentleman concluded as follows:- "We are met in the city of the violated treaty-violated, as I admit, incessantly during almost centuries of time. Let us make a new treatynot on parchment, not bound with an oath. Its end should be this-justice on the part of Great Britain, forgiveness on the part of Ireland. (Cheers.) It shall be written in the hearts of three nations, and they would pray to the common Father of all, in whose hands were the destinies of nations and of States, that He would make it last for ever and ever.'

15.-Inauguration of the Memorial Window set up in Guildhall by the operatives of the Lancashire cotton districts in acknowledgment of the sum of 500,000l. raised by the Mansion House Relief Committee during the cotton famine.

16.-Professor Henry Morley publishes in the Times an Epitaph which he considers to be the work of Milton, and to have been written by him on the blank leaf of the Museum copy of Milton's English and Latin Poems, 1645. The genuineness of the Epitaph was disputed by competent critics.

Engagement at Humaiti between the Brazilian allies and Paraguayans, in which the former were reported to have lost between 4,000 and 5,000 men. The garrison was afterwards withdrawn from the fortress, and joined the army of Lopez on the Tebicuari.

17. Six boys drowned while bathing near the village of Prestatyn, North Wales.

Prince Gortschakoff writes to Russian representatives at foreign Courts: "Russia having assented to the proposals of the Berlin Cabinet, that commissioners and experts from the different Governments should meet at St. Petersburg to draw up a protocol, excluding the use of explosive missiles in future warfare, these commissioners will assemble on the 13th October."

18. A deputation from the Hyde Park Demonstration Committee, headed by the notorious Finlen, waited upon Mr. Gladstone at his residence in Carlton-house-terrace to assure him of the continued support of the working classes, to express the hope that he would not be discouraged by the adverse vote of the House of Lords, and to inform him of the intention of the working men of London to hold a

demonstration in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon condemnatory of the recent vote in the House of Lords. Mr. Gladstone said he was always happy to receive a deputation of real working men, such as the one before him. He was not discouraged by the vote of the House of Lords, and had no doubt they would be alive to the public opinion as expressed at the next election. With respect to the demonstration, that was a matter for the consideration of themselves, and about which he was not called upon to express an opinion farther than to say that some good reasons had been urged by the deputation why it should be held. The demonstration was held next day (Sunday). This interview was referred to in the House of Commons by Sir Charles Russell on the 24th, when Mr. Gladstone defended himself from the imputation sought to be cast on his proceedings.

18. Mr. Fawcett's proposal to throw returning officers' expenses at elections upon the rates carried by 78 to 69.

20.-Government defeated in Committee on the Irish Registration Bill, the polling booth clause being thrown out by a majority of 84 to 74.

Came on at Carlisle Assizes, before the Lord Chief Baron, the trial of Jonathan Armstrong, yeoman, charged with forging the will of his late father with intent to regain possession of certain land, which his mother had sold under the real will. The prisoner's father died in December 1854, having previously made a will in 1847, devising his whole real and personal estate to his wife. The property was subsequently bought by a Mr. Cooke, of Camerton Hall. He having also died, his executors sought to recover possession of certain closes of land not mentioned in the devise of John Armstrong. On the solicitor of the plaintiff visiting York Court to inspect Armstrong's will, he found to his astonishment that it had been revoked by a new will giving to the wife only a life interest in the property, and insuring its reversion to the son on her death: this new will was followed by a codicil, which directed that the persons named therein should lose all benefits of its bequests if they disputed the validity of the will. The documents were put into the hands of an expert, who speedily showed that they were clumsy forgeries, and undoubtedly in the handwriting of young Armstrong. The spelling was bad, and the prisoner was connected by this bad spelling with other writing which was certainly his. Armstrong was found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.

In allusion to coercive measures alleged to be exercised by the Duke of Portland towards his tenants, his Grace writes :-"There is not a single individual in the kingdom thoroughly well acquainted with public affairs who, if a gentleman, would deny upon his honour, or, if otherwise, on his oath, (unless a fit subject for committal for perjury!) that

party motives, and party motives alone, have been the guiding star of the mover of the present onslaught on the Church and unholy alliance with Demagogues and Papists, whose openly-avowed objects are to pull down the best and most ancient institutions of the country, and set up Yankeeism in politics, and Voluntaryism and Popishdom in religion. I have only further to remark that the threat of swamping public opinion by force of money'a thousand pounds subscription, and others' you say is all of a piece with the farce of the whole article, coming, as it does, from so professedly virtuous and indignant a politician; and in regard to the mysterious allusion to 'drawing-room influence,' I presume that is a hit at the well-known opinions of the highest personage in the realm, our beloved Queenthe ablest, and best, and most patriotic sove. reign this country ever had the blessing to possess, and whose rare gift of insight into the true character of the public men around her has too truly taught her the danger of the advent to power of those who now so recklessly, at all hazards, aspire to it, no matter at what cost to the best interests of the country."

21.-The Government bill for acquiring the electric telegraphs of the kingdom passes through Committee.

23. In the discussion which ensued on bringing up the report of the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, the Commons reject the amendment formerly carried by Mr. Fawcett charging the expenses of hustings, polling places, &c., on the local rates.

Thomas Walls, railway porter, tried at Dover Assizes for shooting A. Walsh, station. master, Dover, on the 1st May. He was found guilty, and sentenced, in terms of the recent Act, to be executed within the walls of Maidstone Prison on the 13th August.

24.-Flood at Baltimore, destroying a large part of the town, and causing the death of many of the inhabitants.

Ministries of Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, and Earl Russell.

27.—Trial of the Servian conspirators at Belgrade. With the exception of José Jeremiah, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, and against whom no proof of complicity in the assassination of Prince Michael was discovered, all the other accused persons who had been arrested, to the number of fourteen, were condemned to death to-day. Prince Alexander Karageorgewich, his secretary Trivowich, and Philip Hankovich, who had not been captured, were sentenced, in default, to twenty years' imprisonment. The condemned conspirators were executed next day in the Black Valley.

Lord Napier of Magdala takes his seat in the House of Lords.

28.-Lord Strathnairn, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, calls the attention of the House of Lords to the necessity which existed for increasing the number of polling places at Irish elections, in order that voters might have more adequate protection than had hitherto been afforded them. Lord Malmesbury said the fault in this matter did not rest with the Government, but with the Opposition, who had designedly and wickedly thrown out of the Corrupt Practices Bill a clause specially designed to increase polling places in Ireland."

29.-The marriage of Mdlle. Adelina Patti with the Marquis de Caux celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church, Park-place, Clapham.

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At a banquet given to her Majesty's Ministers by the Lord Mayor, Mr. Disraeli defended the past session from the charge of barrenness brought against it, congratulated his hearers on the peace which the Government had been able to keep with foreign countries, and spoke with great confidence of the manner in which the enlarged constituencies would discharge the trust now reposed in them. do not (he said) wish on this occasion to go into controverted matters, but I believe that on this great question the heart of the country is sound, and that they will return a House of Commons determined to maintain the institutions of the country, and also that civil and religious liberty on the security of which those institutions so much depend. (Hear, hear.) Making allowance for some infirmities and some mistakes, the retrospect of the present House of Commons is on the whole a noble

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It has moved forward in the path of progress and enlightenment, and done its duty to the country. I trust that when the new Parliament shall close its career, it may be able to point to a proud history, to many measures of usefulness, to a career of enlightenment, and that it may leave unimpaired that great Constitution which we have inherited

from our forefathers; and that, with the progress of ideas and expansion of trade and commerce, and greater freedom in religious matters, we may still look forward, come what may, to that bond of union between Church and State which has been the pride and glory and security of the country."

29. At a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Bishop of Capetown intimates that, as all difficulties with regard to the consecration of a Bishop of Natal had now been removed, it was his intention to proceed shortly to South Africa and consecrate Mr. Macrorie "as bishop for the faithful clergy in the diocese of Natal.

Garibaldi writes from Caprera :- 66 Our people, without abandoning the labour which preserves the body, should think of freeing their mind. For what kind of liberty is to be expected from a nation which every day falls down at the feet of priests, the pedestal of every tyranny, and the soldiers of the most atrocious of Italy's tyrants? I shall believe that our people mean freedom when I see the shop of St. Peter turned into an asylum for the indigent, when I see the flask of St. Januarius broken on the tonsured pate of the ludicrous sorcerer. Come what will, I shall die unhappy if on the day you fight for Italy's liberty-which I hope will be soon-I cannot follow you, at least in an ambulance."

30.-The Thames Embankment from Westminster Bridge to the Temple opened for traffic, with little ceremony.

Disastrous panic in Manchester, arising out of an alarm of fire raised in Lang's Victoria Music Hall. The occupants of the upper gallery, alarmed at the breaking of a gas pendant, rushed in large numbers down the winding staircase leading to the street, and with such fury that those who stumbled or fell were trampled to death by their excited neighbours. The centre rail of the stairs also gave way under the violent pressure to which it was subjected, and a large number of the terrified victims of their own fear were thrown in a mass to the bottom. When relief came, a few of those on the top were found to be alive, but others near the bottom were inextricably wedged together, and died from suffocation or bruises. Twenty-three were known to have lost their lives in this calamity, while at least an equal number suffered from external or internal injuries. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," but at the same time expressed an opinion that the staircase and handrails were quite insufficient for a place where such large numbers assembled, and that suitable provision should at once be made for the safety of future audiences. They further recommended that power should be given to the Corporation to appoint an officer to inspect theatres, music halls, and places of a similar description, and that no licences should be granted to the lessees of such buildings unless