18.-Revolution in Spain. The banished generals return from the Canary Islands and raise the standard of insurrection in Andalusia. The fleet pronounce against the present Government, as does also the garrison of Cadiz. Great excitement in Madrid, but no fighting. It was rumoured in the capital that the Queen, then at St. Sebastian, had consented to abdicate. Reports from the provinces were for several day's confused and contradictory.

21.-Gobazye said to have crowned himself Emperor of Abyssinia.

22.-Telegram received at Madrid that the whole of the provinces of Andalusia, Gallicia, Corunna, and Santander, with the whole of the soldiers and sailors in Ferrol, had pronounced in favour of the revolution. There was sharp fighting at Santander, terminating in the defeat of the Government party. In several places the statues of the Queen were thrown down. Her friends also admit to-day that she could not leave San Sebastian with any reasonable hope of reaching the capital in safety. The country declared to be in a state of siege.

24.-Died, at Queen's-hill Lodge, Ascot, aged 77, the Very Rev. Henry Hart Milman, Dean of St. Paul's, author of "The History of the Jews,' ""Latin Christianity," &c.

25.-Fall of the "Old Sugar House" at Hull. Seven people employed on the premises were killed and two boys in the street.

Bouverie - Mill Correspondence. - Mr. Edwin Chadwick, C. B., having appeared as a candidate before the electors of the Kilmarnock district of burghs, armed with a strong recommendation in his favour by the member for Westminster, Mr. Bouverie now complains of this as tending to divide the Liberal ranks, and wanting in that toleration for minor differences, without which party action was impossible.-Mr. Mill replied, from Avignon, that every man should consider first not his own claims and wishes, but the public interest. "For my own part I can disclaim acting ungenerously towards yourself when I warmly support the candidature of Mr. Chadwick, because I would very gladly put him in my own place if I saw a probability of success. I consider Mr. Chad

wick to be an altogether exceptional man, to whom it would be an honour to any other man to give way, because, however superior he may consider himself, or might actually be to Mr. Chadwick in some things, there are others (of extreme importance in Parliament) in which Mr. Chadwick has not his equal in England, nor, so far as I know, in Europe." To this Mr. Bouverie replied:-"If I were to act on your advice, the result would be a substitution of your individual opinion for the free choice of the constituency. In Westminster, where Mr. Chadwick is, perhaps, better known than in Scotland, I have your high authority for the statement, that the constituency would not be likely to accept him, even upon your recommendation. Upon what knowledge, may I

ask, of the Kilmarnock burghs do you presume that he would be more acceptable to them? If you are a fit judge of Westminster in this matter, may not I be permitted to form a judgment of Kilmarnock? If I knew anything of my present constituency, I should say they would be extremely likely to form opinions for themselves without the aid of anybody, however eminent, and that those who have just been added to the register will not be a whit less keen and discerning than their neighbours in forming and exercising their own judgment. You will pardon me, therefore, for declining your invitation to give way for the purpose of obtaining the return of Mr. Chadwick, as unconstitutional, unwise, and not likely to be attended with success; and if you will permit me a word of advice in return, I would say that the best hope of our common political adversaries lies in the Liberal constituencies being exposed to a contest among Liberals, and that those who aspire to play leading parts among us would do well not to exaggerate this evil."

27.-Died, aged 58, Count Walewski, formerly French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's.

Explosion at the Moxley Steel and Iron Works, Wolverhampton, killing II puddlers, and injuring others, some of them at a great distance from the furnace.

29.-Encounter between the Spanish insurgent troops, under Marshal Serrano, and the Royalists, under the Marquis de Novaliches, at Ancola Bridge. The latter was defeated, and severely wounded. The provinces generally were now giving in their adhesion to the revolution, and at Madrid the Cabinet ceased even pretending to carry on the Government of the country in the name of Queen Isabella. Her Majesty left St. Sebastian on the morning of the 30th, and was accompanied to the frontier by Spanish halberdiers. Her Majesty breakfasted at Hendaye at II A. M., and arrived at Biarritz at 2.25, where she had an interview, lasting fifteen minutes, with the Emperor Napoleon, the Empress Eugenie, and the Prince Imperial. She arrived at Bayonne at 2.45 P.M. by special train, accompanied by the Prefect of the Lower Pyrenees. Queen was' received at the railway station by the Sub-Prefect, the Mayor, and several members of the late Spanish Ministry. Senor Gonzales Bravo had five minutes' conversation with Queen Isabella. The royal fugitives, with Marfori, Intendante of the Palace, her husband and family, took up their residence at the Castle of Pau, placed at her Majesty's disposal by the Emperor Napoleon. On the day of her flight the Queen issued a protest against the conspiracy which has "flung Spain into all the horrors of anarchy... If the towns and the provinces, yielding to the first pressure of violence, submit for a time to the yoke of the insurgents, soon public feeling, hurt in its most sensitive and

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noblest parts, will shake off its torpor, and show the world that the eclipse of reason and of honour in Spain cannot last long. Until that time arrives, I have thought proper, as Queen of Spain, and after due deliberation and sound advice, to seek in the states of an august ally the security requisite to enable me to act under these difficult circumstances in conformity with my position as a queen, and with the duty that devolves on me to transmit unimpaired to my son my rights sanctioned by law, acknowledged and sworn to by the nation, and fortified by thirty-five years of sacrifice, vicissitudes, and tender affection. . . A monarchy embodying fifteen centuries of struggles, patriotism, victories, and grandeur cannot be destroyed by fifteen days of perjury and treason. Let us have faith in the future. The glory of the Spanish people was ever connected with its kings. The misfortunes of its kings ever fell heavily on the people. In my firm and patriotic hope that right, honour, and legitimacy will be maintained, I believe that your minds and your efforts will ever unite with the energetic decisions and maternal affections of your Queen."

October 1.—Sir Henry Lawrence appointed a member of the Council of India.

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2.-In his address to the electors of Buckinghamshire, the Premier writes: leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons seized the occasion of an expiring Parliament, which had proclaimed its inadequate representation of the country, to recommend a change of the fundamental laws of the realm, and to propose a dissolution of the union between Church and State. Her Majesty's Government offered and will offer to this policy an uncompromising resistance. The connexion of religion with the exercise of political authority is one of the main safeguards of the civilization of man. It instils some sense of responsibility even into the depositories of absolute power; but, under any circumstances, the absence or severance of such a tie will lower the character and duties of Government, and tend to the degradation of society... Instead of Ireland being made an exception to the fundamental condition of our Constitution, there are many important reasons why the Established Church should be maintained in that country. Its suppression would aggravate religious hostility and party rancour,

would suppress a resident class of men whose social virtues are conducive, as all agree, to the welfare of the country, and would further diminish the security of property in a land where its tenure and enjoyment are not as unquestioned as they hitherto have been in other parts of her Majesty's dominions. But even in Great Britain the spoliation of the Church in Ireland would not be without its effect. Confiscation is contagious, and wher once a community has been seduced inte plunder, its predatory acts have seldom been single. . . . Amidst the discordant activity of many factions, there moves the supreme purpose of one power. The philosopher may flatter himself he is advancing the cause of enlightened progress; the sectarian may be roused to exertion by anticipations of the downfall of ecclesiastical systems. These are transient efforts-vain and passing aspirations. The ultimate triumph, were our Church to fall, would be to that power which would substitute for the authority of our sovereign the supremacy of a foreign prince-to that power with whose traditions, learning, discipline, and organization our Church alone has hitherto been able to cope, and that, too, only when supported by a determined and devoted people."

2.-Taking advantage of the approaching dissolution of Parliament, Sir W. Heathcote retires from the representation of Oxford University, on the ground of ill-health. The Liberal party at once put themselves into communication with Sir Roundell Palmer, for the purpose of inducing him to come forward as a candidate. He at first consented; but the chances appearing to be against his election, Sir Roundell afterwards returned to his Richmond constituents.

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Successful experiments with the Moncrieff gun-carriage at Shoeburyness. They were repeated a week afterwards.

4.-Boat upset on the Thames, near Westminster Bridge, and four of the passengers drowned.

5.-Interview between the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Papal emissaries regarding the forthcoming Ecumenical Council called at Rome. On behalf of the Greek Church the Patriarch declared the convening of the Council vain and fruitless, so long as Rome held (1) That there is in the Universal Church of Christ any bishop, supreme ruler, or head, other than the Lord. (2) That there is any patriarch infallible and unerring, speaking ex cathedra and above Ecumenical Councils, in which latter is infallibility, when they are in accordance with Scripture and Apostolic tra dition. (3) That the Apostles were unequal. (4) That the Pope had pre-eminence of seat not by human and synodical arrangement, but by Divine right. After an appeal from the Latin priests, based mainly on the decrees of the Council of Florence, the Protosyncallus

was directed to return the Papal letter to the bearers.

5.-A Provisional Government installed at Madrid, presided over by Generals Serrano and Prim and Senor Olozaga.

7.-General Prim enters Madrid, and is enthusiastically received by the people.

The Herald announces that the Queen had nominated the Very Rev. the Dean of Cork (McGhee) to the See of Peterborough; and that the Rev. Henry Longueville Mansell, D.D., Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, and Canon of Christ Church, had been appointed to the Deanery of St. Paul's.

Lord Ranelagh addresses a letter to the South Middlesex Corps, of which he was colonel, for the purpose of explaining his connexion with the Rachel affair. He described himself as the victim of "an idle curiosity," which tempted him, in common with other gentlemen, to drop occasionally into Rachel's shop, and thus give her an opportunity of using his name, and making him a mark for public scandal. He also complained of the conduct of Mr. Serjeant Ballantine during the progress of the case, and expressed a reluctance to change moralities with him. "If those who live in glass houses should abstain from stonethrowing, surely those who occupy regular crystal palaces should be still more guarded in that respect."

8. The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Glasgow, and lay. the foundation-stone of the new University buildings on Gilmore-hill. The Lord Provost (Lumsden) was knighted soon afterwards, in acknowledgment of the magnificent reception accorded to the Royal visitors.

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9.-Mr. Gladstone issues an address to the electors of South-west Lancashire. After reviewing the facts connected with the downfall of the last Russell Ministry, he passed on to advocate a repeal of the rate-paying limitations in the Reform Act, and condemned as unnecessary the addition of 3,000,000l. more, by the present Government, to the public expenditure of the country. In the removal of the Irish Establishment he saw the discharge of a debt of civil justice, and the disappearance of a national, almost a world-wide, reproach. the manner of proceeding we ought, I think, to be governed by three considerations: a regard for Irish interest and feeling; an enlarged equity to those who would lose in point of civil privilege; and a careful heed to the spirit of equal dealing throughout the detailed arrangements. After all that these rules can warrant has been done, there may remain a considerable property at the disposal of the State. The mode of its application can only, in my judg ment, be suggested to Parliament by those who, as a Government, may have means and authority to examine fully the provision made by law for the various public and social wants of

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Ireland, and to compare, in each case, both the emergency of the demand and the facility of meeting it with general satisfaction. would, however, ill consist with the principle of the measure for which we are now contending, if the State, having disestablished the Church, were to apply its funds to the teaching of religion in any other form. To sum up this great subject: Rest as we are, by common consent, we cannot. Endowment of all, after the events of the last session, is out of the question. Retrenchment or mutilation of the existing Church, by reduction of its spiritual offices, has been proposed by a Royal Commission; but I do not yet learn, from the last and most authentic declarations of the Ministry, that they adopt it, or indeed any other method of proceeding. We (the Opposition) have done our part.. The matter now rests with you. Our path at least lies before you, broad, open, and well defined; our policy has advocates who do not shrink from its avowal. It is the policy of bringing absolutely to an end the civil establishment of the Church in Ireland. It has received the solemn sanction of the representatives whom the nation chose in 1865. For the line of action, the only one just and the only one available, I confidently ask your approval." Mr. Gladstone spoke within the next few days at Warrington, Liverpool, Newton Bridge, and Southport.

9.-Died, in Edinburgh, aged 79, Sir George Sinclair, of Ulbster, a popular and accomplished country gentleman, who had been greatly mixed up in Scottish ecclesiastical controversies.

10. The German Polar Expedition return to Bremen.

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11.-Lord Westbury withdraws from the Scottish Law Inquiry Commission. will pardon me," he writes to Lord-Advocate Gordon, "if I see in what has passed clear proof that you and certain persons in Edinburgh had determined that Lord Colonsay should be the head and regulate the inquiries of the Commission, and that you were indifferent whether I assented to it or not. I have read the names of your Commissioners, and I decline to serve on. your Commission with much regret.' In a previous letter Lord Westbury had indicated ill-health, and possible absence from the country, as a reason for not serving on the Commission.

12.-General Prim, writing to Le Gaulois,

expresses astonishment at certain portions of the press alleging that Spain was not proceeding with the work of regeneration fast enough. "Eight days sufficed for us to overthrow a dynasty three hundred years old, and to establish a new Government. We shall not delay now to consolidate our position through a Constituent Assembly on the basis of our programme, which is known to you. We shall then have succeeded in attaining the political ideal contemporary Spain, namely, a really constitutional monarchy founded upon the most extended Liberal basis compatible with that kind of Government."

12. In the case of Glen v. the Caledonian Railway Company, the Lord Ordinary (Kinloch) recalls the interdict formerly granted against the payment of dividend declared at last general meeting of the Company.

14. The Bishop of Chichester inhibits the Rev. Mr. Purchas from carrying on his ritualistic services at Brighton.

· Died at Bristol, aged 46, Dr. Herapath, a well-known analytical chemist.

16.-General Peel announces his intention of withdrawing from the representation of Huntingdon.

19.-The Spanish Government issue a decree appointing Senor Rosas President of the Council of State. Another commanded the suppression of all convents and monasteries founded since 1837, and the reduction of all in existence prior to that date; property, movable and immovable, to revert to the State.

In the course of an electioneering speech at Sheffield, Mr. Roebuck referred to a speech he had made at a meeting in Paradise-square during the struggle between the Northern and Southern States of America, and to the opinion entertained of it by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston :-"The moment I got into his room-he was standing writing at his desk, as he always did he turned round and put out his hands, and said, 'Roebuck, Roebuck, what a devilish good speech you made in Sheffield !' (Cheers and laughter.) I said, 'My Lord, I am greatly obliged to you, and flattered for the kind phrase you have used about my speech' -though it was rather a hard one you know -(laughter)-'I am very much flattered.' 'Flattered?' he said. "Why, I am entirely of your opinion, but I dare not officially say so.' Now that struck me, according to the old woman's phrase, all of a heap,--that a man in power should say to me openly and without disguise, that he was entirely of my opinion, and lead the people of England directly the opposite way. That, said I, modern political morality. (Laughter.) I did my work with the gay and pleasant old Lord, and bowed my way out of his room."

20. In the Austrian Reichsrath, Count Taufe presented a bill relating to the military forces, particularly to the Landwehr and

Landsturm. He stated that the proposals sub mitted by him were based upon the principles of freedom. The term of service in the line would be three years, and in the reserve seven years. The strength of the army and navy on a war footing would be 800,000 men; and he showed that these figures demonstrated the unity of the two portions of the empire.

21. Mr. Bright declines to become arbiter on the claims of the different Liberals presently contesting Nottingham. "The question in dispute is one for the electors, and I do not see how any person or persons outside your borough can hope to be of use in an attempt to settle it."

22.—The Hon. Reverdy Johnson presented with an address, and entertained at Liverpool at a banquet attended by Lord Stanley, Mr. Gladstone, and others. The new ambassador referred to two of the questions in dispute between America and this country as all but settled, and the third as likely to be settled equally honourably. Lord Stanley said :-"I never like to look forward too confidently to the future, but if it should happen that in the next few weeks the American Minister and I should have an opportunity of settling those questions which are still pending between the two countries, and thereby throw over the last chance of difference, and the least pretext for a quarrel, I can only say I for one shall feel that result as in itself an ample compensation for all the delay, for all the responsibility, and for all the anxiety which is attached to that conspicuous but not always enviable position of being Foreign Secretary.' In replying to the toast of the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone spoke hopefully of the increase of commerce as likely to lessen the chances of war and bloodshed, and highly eulogized the new ambassador.

The Australian on her voyage from Sydney to London wrecked on the north of St. Christopher's. The crew, passengers, and 3, 100 ounces of gold were saved.

23.-Case of Mr. Doulton, M.P., heard before the Constitutional Tribunal, Brussels. Mr. Doulton negotiated the carrying out of certain public works (the purification of the Seine) in favour of the Belgian Public Works Company, and he further obtained a contract from a Belgian contractor, named Mention, to carry out certain works for the sum of 500,000/. This was afterwards discovered when the works were being carried out by the same contractor at a contract made with the Company itself, and negotiated by the defendant Doulton, of 600,000!. It came out in evidence at the trial of Mr. Doulton, who was charged with making a fraudulent contract with his contractor, that the sum of 100,000l. was to be handed over to Mr. Doulton, who actually received, at the rate of 16 per cent. on the payments made to Mention, about 148,000 francs; part of which, it was stated in evidence, was divided with Mr. Albert Grant, late M.P. for Kidderminster. Doulton was to have 100,000l. in deferred

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shares for his services, and become managing director, with a salary of 4,000l. a year. verdict of the Court was that Mr. Doulton had fraudulently received the money, and, in fact, had made a fraudulent contract; but the Court held he had not brought himself within the meshes of the Belgian Penal Code. The Deputy Procureur at once entered an appeal against this decision, but it was confirmed at the close of the year.

24.-The Devon, Government lighter, lost on the Prisson rocks, Penzance, and sixteen of her crew drowned.

Manifesto issued by the Spanish Provisional Government setting forth the results of the revolution, and promising to respect the popular decision regarding the future form of government.

25.-The Spanish Provisional Government recognised by England, France, Russia, and Portugal.

27. At a banquet given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Cotton Supply Association, the Marquis of Salisbury, speaking of the House of Lords, said the Upper House was not yet one of the subjects of the day; he expected that it would become one, and looked forward to that contingency with nothing of apprehension. Everybody was the better for being looked after, and he would abide by the principle that any institution which could not hold its own ground on the free and fair discussion of its merits should cease to exist.

Letters from Madrid mention that the Provisional Government were about to deliver up the Tornado, and pay an indemnification of 25,000l. to the owners, and 12,500l. to the crew.

Died at Stafford House the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes to her Majesty during the different Whig Administrations, till the death of the late Duke in 1861.

The chief point at issue was whether Mr. Kerr, as a judge of the City of London Court, had any legal right to dispose of cases at the Old Bailey, and the special object of the application was to obtain a record that the trial took place before him at the last sessions. Statement furnished.

27.-Inquiry at the Marlborough - street Police-court into the charge of bigamy preferred by Major W. B. Lumley against his reputed wife, Eliza Wright Haines.

30.-The Recruiting Bill passed by the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath; the army not to be increased in the meantime.

November 2.-Died suddenly, in Edinburgh, James B. Manson, of the Daily Review.

3.-Mr. Bright presented with the freedom of the City of Edinburgh. Referring to the exertions he had made, in company with Mr. Cobden, for the repeal of the Corn Laws, he said:"When I look back to him whose name must ever be foremost in any history or memory of that struggle-when I consider his remarkable industry, his wonderful sagacity, his enlarged information, the combined force and gentleness of his character, his most persuasive speech-when I look back upon his transcendant merits-I confess that I am amazed that it took all that, and the energy, and the labour, and the resolution of scores and hundreds and thousands besides, to repeal the Corn Laws. I say I am amazed that on so clear a question it should be necessary to make so great an effort to bring Parliament and the people to comprehend their true interests. . . I am one of those who have never believed that there is anything very mysterious in the art or knowledge of politics; that, with regard to what we call statesmanship-honest statesmanship-it is not an abstruse and a difficult branch of knowledge; that if, when we come to consider a public question, we were able to strip it of all the things which do not really belong to it, and to get at the pith and kernel of the matter, I think that our intellects are so much on a par, and that as a whole we are so anxious to act honestly and rightly, that nearly on all occasions we should be able to come to an early and a wise agreement as to the course which the public shall pursue.' Again, speaking of the Russian war, he said :-"I always said that no country justice--and there are not many of them who are very particular(laughter)—would send any man to jail for three months on evidence such as the people of England-I beg pardon of a gentleman in Glasgow who writes to me on the subject-I mean the people of Great Britain and Ireland