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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.

28.-The Earl of Durham, family, and suite arrive at Quebec. Next day, having taken the necessary oaths, the Earl issues a proclamation announcing that he had assumed the administration of the Government of Canada; that he would protect and encourage all loyal subjects without regard to party, race, or politics; that he would unsparingly use the power he held, civil and military, to punish the violators of the law; and that he invited the co-operation of the people of British America in the work of constructing a system of government that should protect the rights and interests of all classes.

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.

June 3.-Rupture between Great Britain and Persia. For the purpose, apparently, of lessening. British influence at Herat, the Ambassador at the Shah's camp was treated with studied disrespect, and some members of the mission directly insulted. To-day Mr. M'Neill addressed a letter to the Foreign Minister at the Persian camp, announcing his intention to depart for the frontier on the following day. "I feel myself called upon," he concluded, "to inform you that, until the reparation and satisfaction I have demanded for the indignities already offered shall have been fully given, the Queen of England cannot receive at her Court any Minister who may be sent thither by the Shah of Persia."

5. Mr. B. Disraeli writes to the Editor of the Morning Post :-" In opening the case of the petitioners against the return of Mr. Fector for Maidstone on Friday last, Mr. Austin stated, that Mr. Disraeli, at the general election, had entered into engagements with the electors of Maidstone, and made pecuniary promises to them, which he had left unfulfilled.' I should have instantly noticed this assertion of the learned gentleman had not a friend, to whose opinion I was bound to defer, assured me that Mr. Austin, by the custom of his profession, was authorized to make any statement from his brief which he was prepared to substantiate, or attempt to substantiate. The inquiry into the last Maidstone election has now terminated; and I take the earliest opportunity of declaring, and in a manner the most unqualified and unequivocal, that the statement of the learned gentleman is utterly false. There is not the slightest shadow of foundation for it. I myself never, either directly or indirectly, entered into any pecu

niary engagements with, or made any pecuniary promises to, the electors of Maidstone; and therefore I cannot have broken any, or

left any unfulfilled. The whole expenses of the contest in question were defrayed by my lamented colleague; and I discharged to him my moiety of those expenses, as is well known to those who are entitled to any knowledge on the subject. Sir, I am informed that it is quite useless, and even unreasonable, in me to expect from Mr. Austin any satisfaction for these impertinent calumnies, because Mr. Austin is a member of an honourable profession, the first principle of whose practice appears to be that they may say anything provided they be paid for it. The privilege of circulating falsehoods with impunity is delicately described as doing your duty towards your client; which appears to be a very different process to doing your duty towards your neighbour. This may be the usage of Mr. Austin's profession, and it may be the custom of society to submit to its practice; but, for my part, it appears to be nothing better than a disgusting and intolerable tyranny; and I for one shall not bow to it in silence. I therefore repeat, that the statement of Mr. Austin was false; and inasmuch as he never attempted to substantiate it, I conclude that it was on his side but the blustering artifice of a rhetorical hireling, availing himself of the vile licence of a loose-tongued lawyer, not only to make a statement which was false, but to make it with a consciousness of its falsehood." (See Nov. 22.)

11. At a banquet given in Manchester to Mr. Fielding, M. P. for Oldham, the Rev. J. R. Stephens thus sought to excite his hearers against the New Poor Law :-"I do think the country needs the stalwart arm, the mighty tongue, and the powerful energetic movements of brave people with arms in their hands, to say, 'We will shed the last drop of our blood on the field rather than submit to that law of devils.' Unless the people of England arm, and use their arms, if needs be, there will be no doubt of the fact, that the New Poor Law Bastiles are intended to be a chain of barracks round the country, each capable of holding from five hundred to a thousand men, and each intended to be garrisoned in part by the regular military, and in part by the Russellite Rural Police."

14.-Riot in the streets of Lisbon while the King with his Court and ecclesiastics were engaged in celebrating the festival of Corpus Christi. Sa da Bandeira was wounded in his carriage. Next day several battalions of the National Guard were disbanded.

16.-Duel at Wormwood Scrubbs between Lord Castlereagh and M. de Melcy, husband of Madame Grisi, arising out of a declaration of attachment made to the latter by his lordship. He was slightly wounded by the first shot, after which the parties left the ground mutually satisfied.

19. In the course of a debate raised by the Marquis of Londonderry regarding the treat

ment of the British Legion in Spain, an altercation causing considerable excitement in the House takes place between the Marquis and Lord Lyndhurst with reference to the phrase “catastrophe" or "dire catastrophe❞ used by the latter. The noble Marquis vehemently protested against the frequent interruption to which he was subjected.

19.-A British expedition enters the Persian Gulf, and takes undisputed possession of Karrack. The expedition was despatched by Lord Auckland to hold itself in readiness for any service upon which Mr. M'Neill might deem it expedient to employ it upon "with a view to the maintenance of our interests in Persia."

21.-Fire in the Christian quarter of Cairo, destroying two streets.

23.-Twelve coronation peerages gazetted. 24.-The Persians make a desperate attack on Herat, but are driven back by the Affghan garrison, aided greatly by the courageous example of young Eldred Pottinger, who had been within the city for weeks as the adviser of Yar Mahomed.

25.-Great storm in Lancashire, accompanied by destruction of life and property.

26.-Sir E. Knatchbull obtains the appointment of a select committee to inquire into all the circumstances connected with the discharge of Thom, alias Courtenay, from Kent Lunatic Asylum.

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- Lord Auckland involves Great Britain in the politics of Affghanistan, a treaty of alliance and friendship being executed this day between Maharajah Runjeet Singh of Lahore and the exiled ruler of Affghanistan, Shah Soojahsol-Moolk, “with the approbation of, and in concert with, the British Government." main design of the treaty was the destruction of the power of the Barukzye Sirdars, as represented by Dost Mahomed, and the replacing of the old King on the throne. It was also provided that Shah-Soojah's rights over Sindh and Shikarpoor should be arbitrated and adjusted by the British Government.

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28.-Coronation of Queen Victoria. The rather morning (Thursday) dawned towardly, but cleared up in the forenoon, and continued favourable throughout the day. The procession left Buckingham Palace soon after 10 o'clock, and passed up Constitutionhell, 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 enthusiasm by the multitude of eager spectators who lined the route. At the west door of the Abbey she was received by the great officers of state, and then proceeded to her robing chamber. At 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

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chanted "Vivat Victoria Regina." On reaching a chair placed midway between the chair of homage and the altar, the Queen knelt, and repeated her private prayers. The "Re cognition" 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. Among many foreigners of distinction present, Marshal Soult (French Envoy Extraordinary) was par. ticularly noticed and applauded. In the even ing 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. A fair was also commenced in Hyde Park which continued to the end of the week. immense concourse of people which filled London during the day conducted themselves with the greatest order, and no accident of any moment occurred.

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that five of the most prominent rebels who
had acknowledged their participation in high
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by permission of the Governor-General of her
Majesty's provinces on the continent of North
America and High Commissioner for the ad-
justment of certain important questions de-
pending in the provinces of Upper and Lower
Canada, or, if there shall be no such Governor-
General and High Commissioner, by the per-
mission of the Governor-in-chief, or Governor,
or other person administering the government
of this province as hereinafter provided, be
found at large, or come within the said pro-
vince, they or he shall in such case be deemed
and taken to be guilty of high treason, and
shall on conviction of being so found at large
or coming within the said province, without
such permission as aforesaid, suffer death ac-
cordingly."

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.

Mrs. Fitzherbert's marriage to Prince Regent. Lord Stourton writes to-day the to the editor of the Edinburgh Review:"The ceremony was performed, not out of the kingdom, as you have stated, but in the drawing-room of her house in town, in the presence of an officiating Protestant clergyman, and two of her own nearest relatives. All the parties being now deceased, to ordinary readers this discrepancy will appear of little moment; as the ceremony, wherever it was performed, could confer no legal rights; and no issue followed this union. But when I inform you that, in the one case that stated in your article-it would have been an invalid marriage as affecting the conscience of Mrs. Fitzherbert in the sight of her own Church; and that, in the other case, it formed a conscientious connexion in the opinion of such portions of Christendom as hold communion with the see of Rome, I am confident you will permit this statement, under my name and responsibility, to appear in your journal. moreover, add, that the conscientious validity I shall, of the contract depended upon the fact that the discipline of the Council of Trent as to marriage has never been received in this country.' (22)

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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 decided the Leeman baronetcy case, and the immense accompanying fortune, in favour of a poor Nottingham mechanic of that name.

18.-The Rev. Mr. Gathercole convicted at York Assizes of publishing in The Watchman a libel imputing improper practices to nuns at Darlington and Stockton.

19.-Discussion in the House of Commons on the Million Loan (Ireland) Bill and the payment of Irish tithe arrears. to an amendment proposed by Mr. Hume, In opposition Lord John Russell, by a large majority, carried his motion: "That Exchequer Bills, to an amount not exceeding the residue of the sum of one million, remaining unappropriated under an Act of the 3d and 4th of King William the Fourth, chapter 100, and under an Act of the 6th and 7th year of his said Majesty, chapter 108, be issued and applied, together with the instalments paid, or which may be paid, under the first-mentioned Act, to the relief of the owners of compositions for tithes in Ireland, for the years 1836 and 1837.• and that the Commissioners of her Majesty' Treasury be authorized to remit such instal ments in such cases.

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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. commanded the Donegal from 1805 to 1811, He 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 Napolcon.

23.-The Irish Tithe Bill read a third time in the House of Commons by a majority of 148 to 30. 26. The first stone of two new wings to Bethlehem Hospital laid by Sir P. Laurie.

The Internal Discipline of the Church Bill read a third time in the House of Lords, the object of the measure being to abolish the jurisdiction of diocesan courts in certain cases, and to bring clergymen charged with offences at once before the Arches Court.

29.-Departure of Marshal Soult for France. 30.-Lord Brougham draws the attention of the House of Lords to the highly illegal character of the Ordinances issued by Lord Durham for "Even securing the peace of Lower Canada. "who had committed with persons," he said, the crime of rebellion, they ought to have been tried; they could not be put to death without trial, and without sentence of death in due course of law. Even if the Queen-if the Crown-had in a certain case commuted the sentence of death to that of banishment, the man returning from banishment could not be put to death. It was only after trial that a man could be ordered to be put to death. The returning from transportation was made a capital felony by Act of Parliament in certain cases; but here death was ordered without a trial, and without the regular sentence of the law to sanction it. This, however, was going upon the vulgar error, that a man who returned before the period of his banishment had expired could There was, then, be put to death by any one.

the case of M. Papineau and one or two others, who had not confessed themselves guilty of any crime."-Lord Lyndhurst: "Their confessions would only be evidence."-Lord Brougham: "But they had not confessed; and men had been acquitted notwithstanding their confession. Yet Papineau and the others were to be put to death, not confessing anything, and not having been tried. Nothing was more monstrous than this The Act authorized Lord Durham to make a general law, but not to hang men The subject was without the form of law." resumed in the Lords on the 5th August, when Lord Brougham introduced a bill declaring the true intent and meaning of the Act passed by the British Parliament, making temporary provision for the government of Lower Canada. Lord Glenelg admitted the illegality of that part of the Ordinances which related to Bermuda; but the best course would be to write smply to the Governor, informing him that the prisoners were free. The second reading of the bill was carried against Ministers by a majority of 18 in a House of 90.

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.

International Copyright Act passed.

August 1.-The 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. The event was celebrated in a festive manner in various towns throughout England.

1.-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. This manifesto came to be known as the National or Chartist petition.

9. A number of the followers of Thom, or Courtenay, 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.

10. Lord Melbourne announces that Ministers had resolved upon disallowing Lord Durham's Ordinances, and would accept Lord Brougham's Indemnity Bill with certain alterations.

On the third reading of the measure the Lord Chief Justice (Denman) said the proceedings of Lord Durham were perfectly indefensible, and a violation of the first principles of the Constitution.

11.-Colonel Stoddart arrives in the Persian camp with an ultimatum that the Shah The must quit Herat or fight Great Britain. Shah undertook to raise the siege, and called off his troops in the direction of Teheran early in the following month. Towards the close of the year Stoddart was despatched by Sir J. M'Neill on a mission to the Ameer of Bokhara, from which he never returned. He was at first received favourably; but the tyrant Ameer, taking offence at his letter to the Queen being answered by the Governor-General of India, afterwards treated the mission with disrespect and cruelty.

13.-Report presented by the Select Conmittee appointed to inquire into the present rates and mode of charging postage, with a view to such a reduction thereof as may be made without injury to the revenue; and for this purpose to examine especially into the mode recommended for charging and collecting postage in a pamphlet published by Mr. Rowland Hill. The Committee sat sixty-three days, and, exclusive of Post-office officials, examined 83 witnesses of various occupations, professions, and trades. The petitions presented during the

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session amounted to 320 in number, bearing 38,709 signatures. So far as Mr. Rowland Hill's plan was concerned, the Committee reported "That considerable time would be saved in the delivery of letters; the expenses in almost every branch of the department, but principally in the Inland and Letter-carrier offices, much reduced; the complex accounts of the Bye and and Dead-letter offices greatly simplified, and the expenses greatly diminished. That the system of accounts between the deputy postmasters, which presents so many opportunities and facilities for combination and fraud, would disappear; the labour and responsibility of surveyors be curtailed; a system of complex and intricate duty, inseparable from the existing nature of the country part of the Post-office, give way to one of simplicity and uniformity; and the entire principle and machinery of the Post-office be changed in its character, greatly contributing to the security, comfort, and advantage of the community, in its connexion with the public correspondence. That in the opinion of all the witnesses, excepting most of the officers of the Post-office, the adoption of Mr. Hill's plan would occasion a very great increase in the number of letters posted; and in the opinion of most of them, a far greater increase than would be required to maintain the revenue at its present amount."

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

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16.-Parliament prorogued by the Queen in person. In the Royal speech reference was made, as usual, to the principal measures of the session. "The disturbances," it was said, "and insurrections which had unfortunately broken out in Upper and Lower Canada have been promptly suppressed; and I entertain a confident hope that firm and judicious measures will empower you to restore a constitutional form of government, which unhappy events have compelled you for a time to suspend. rejoice at the progress which has been made in my colonial possessions towards_the_entire abolition of Negro Apprenticeship. I have observed with much satisfaction the attention which you have bestowed upon the amendment of the domestic institutions of the country. I trust that the mitigation of the law of Imprisonment for Debt will prove at once favourable to the liberty of my subject, and safe for commercial credit; and that the Established Church will derive increased strength and efficiency from the restriction of granting benefices in plurality. I have felt great pleasure in giving my assent to the Bill for the Relief of the Destitute Poor in Ireland. I cherish the expectation that its provisions have been so cautiously framed, and will be so prudently executed, that, whilst they contribute to relieve distress, they will tend to preserve order and to encourage habits of industry and exertion.

I trust, likewise, that the Act which you have passed relating to the Compositions for Tithe in Ireland will increase the security of that property, and promote internal peace." During this session the House sat 173 days, and spent 1,134 hours in public business.

22.-Duel on Wimbledon Common, between John Flower Mirfin and Francis L. Eliot, the former of whom died from his wounds. The parties had previously quarrelled at Epsom races, and again in town, at a disreputable haunt known as the Saloon.

24.-The Duchess of Orleans delivered of a the Count de Paris.

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27. At a dinner at Cork O'Connell tells his hearers that matters are continually growing worse for Ireland in the British Parliament. "They fancy we will be put down. I tell you we will not. I'll raise my voice, and it shall sweep from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear, and Connemara to the Hill of Howth. I'll raise all Ireland to determination. will complain of the Tithe system. Without its extinction there can be no religious liberty. No man should contribute to that from which he derives no benefit or instruction. It was said I approved of it. I never did. I said directly the reverse. I said it shifted Whiteboyism from rags and friezes to Whiteboyism in broad cloth. I promise you that from Moore Park to Bantry you will no longer see Peep-o'-dayboys, but in the full noontide of the sun will be coming forward meetings-influential meetings to prove that rent-charge means tithes, and that abolition is the remedy for both one and the other."

30.-Died at Oodypore, the Maharajah Ju wan Singh. Two queens and six concubines were burnt on his funeral pyre.

31.-A report being busily circulated that Dr. Hook, Vicar of Leeds, had been dismissed. from his post of Chaplain at the Chapel Royal, on account of certain passages in a sermon, afterwards published with the title of "Hear the Church," the Doctor writes to-day: “I have received no notice whatever to that effect; nor have I any reason to suppose that her Majesty is otherwise than pleased with what I stated in my sermon when I was last in waiting I thought it necessary to publish that sermon, because many false reports of what had been advanced in it were spread abroad; and it is to these that allusion is made in the note which is prefixed to it."

September 1.--The aggregate average of the price of wheat for the six weeks ending on Saturday last was 725. 11d. per quarter, being within a penny of the mark at which the duty would have been lowered from 2s. 8d. to Is. A week later 735. was reached, and foreign corn was offered in market as "duty free." There was said to be a good demand for all descriptions, and a slight advance on previous rates was obtained.

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