residuary surplus, depended upon the preamble, and that he would also move to disagree with. But he should propose to insert the words which would secure to Parliament the control over the surplus during the interval of its being realized. Lastly, he should move to strike out the clause which had been inserted providing for what was shortly called "concurrent endowment."-There were two divisions on the preamble, the effect of the first being to restore the words prohibiting the application of the surplus to religious endowments of any kind by 346 by 222 votes, and the second striking out the words postponing the application of the surplus, by 246 to 164 votes. The other amendments of the Lords were rejected down to the seventh, with the exception of the fifth, agreed to, and the sixth postponed. On the 16th the amendment giving the Ulster glebes to the Church body was disagreed with by 344 to 240 votes, and the proposal to postpone the appropriation of the surplus by 290 to 218.

16. Dr. Vaughan, Vicar of Doncaster, gazetted to the office of Master of the Temple, in room of Dr. Robinson, resigned.

17.-Inquiry at the Marlborough Police Court into the charge of perjury preferred by Lord Carrington against Mr. Grenville Murray in connexion with his denial of the authorship of certain articles in the Queen's Messenger. The printer and publisher of the paper were examined, and gave evidence as to the authorship of the articles, as well as the general management of the newspaper.

18.-Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne departs from the French Embassy in London to assume the duties of Minister for Foreign Affairs, and is succeeded by the Marquis de Lavalette.

The University Tests Bill rejected in the House of Lords on the motion for a second reading, by 91 to 54.

The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Manchester on the occasion of the Royal Agricultural Society's show.

19. Mr. Warburton, High Sheriff of Queen's County, fired at while driving to Maryborough to swear in the grand jury.

20. The Thames Tunnel closed as a public footway.

- Corporal Brett, of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, shot in the camp at Aldershot by Private Dixon of the same regiment, in retaliation, it was presumed, for having his misconduct reported to a superior officer.

Fanny Oliver tried at the Worcester Assizes for poisoning her husband by prussic acid, with the double object, it was alleged, of concealing an improper intimacy she had formed with another person, and to procare money from a burial society with which her husband was connected. She was found guilty, and sentenced to be executed, after an incoherent address to the judge and jury, declaring her innocence of the crime and entire trust in the

mercy of Heaven. The extreme penalty was afterwards commuted.

20.-Disturbances at Cracow arising out of the discovery of an imprisoned nun in the convent of the Barefooted Carmelites. Acting on information furnished in an anonymous letter, a judge visited the convent, and found in a filthy cell, seven paces long by six paces wide, a half-naked insane woman known as Sister Barbara Ubryk, who, at the unaccustomed sight of light and human beings, folded her hands and pitifully implored, "I am hungry; have pity on me, give me meat, and I shall be obedient." The Bishop liberated the wretched sufferer, placed her under proper treatment, and censured the other nuns for their cruel neglect.

Animated debate in the House of Lords on the Irish Church Bill as sent back from the House of Commons. Lord Granville reviewed the amendments and counter-amendments. Of sixty-two amendments, thirty-five were a-lopted by the Commons, eleven re-amended, and only thirteen rejected.-Lord Cairns spoke scornfully of the so-called "concessions," which amounted to little more than the acceptance of grammati cal amendments. He was willing to let the Government have their own way in regard to the date of disestablishment and Ulster glebes, be the capitalization of life interests as a church fund, full compensation to incumbents and corates, and the postponement of the surplus wert vital points which could not be surrendered -Lord Grey could not help suspecting that the Government cared very little for the bill itsel certainly little in comparison with the opportsnity it furnished of giving a triumph to the House of Commons and subjecting the Horse of Lords to humiliation and degradation in the eyes of the public.-The Duke of Argyll sented the charges of that "chartered libertine of debate," Lord Grey, whom he accused 1 violating the decencies of debate. —Lord Sal bury said his objection to the preamble of the bill was, that it was false and foolish: false, be cause every one of the objects to which this surplus was to be devoted involved the emplo ment of religious persons in the hospitals, as lums, and reformatories which were to be se sidized; foolish, because the words had enacting effect, and could not bind Parliamen in the least. It was not the verdict of the nation, it was not even the verdict of the Ho of Commons; it was the will, the arrogant wiof a single man to which they were now cale upon to yield.-Lord Winchelsea likened the Premier to Jack Cade, hinted at the coming an Oliver Cromwell, and announced himse ready for the block, sooner than surrende Amid great excitement, a division then took place, the result being that 95 votes were giver for the retention of the words as to religion purposes, and 173 against. Lord Granve accepting the division as covering the what preamble, moved the adjournment of the debatt that the Government might consider their posi tion, and the House broke up.

21.-Married Woman's Property Bill read a third time in the House of Commons.

-- Small boat upset in the Clyde, near Cardross, and a family of M'Craes and Thomsons, eight in number, drowned.

Another explosion in Evans and Co.'s Queen Pit, Haydock, Wigan, causing the death of fifty-eight workmen, about half the number who had descended in the morning.

22.-The new Albert Docks at Hull opened by the Prince of Wales.

At the Middlesex Sessions, Lord Carrington is found guilty of assaulting Mr. Grenville Murray, but under strong provocation, and ordered to enter into his own recognizances in 100%. to appear for judgment when called upon.

Compromise agreed to between the Lords and Commons on the Irish Church Bill. Lord Cairns conceded the clauses extending the date of disestablishment from January to May 1871. Government consented that the liability of incumbents for the salaries of curates should be confined to the case where a curate had been

employed for five years. As to diocesan commutation, the Government had added another 5 per cent. (12 per cent. in all), and made the acceptances of three-fourths instead of four-fifths of the clergy of a diocese for a commutation sufficient. The Government had also agreed to exempt from the commutation any residence. and land in an incumbent's own occupation, if the incumbent should so desire. there was the question of the disposal of the surplus. The Government, on this point, had consented to amend clause 68, to the effect that it should provide for the employment of the surplus for the relief of unavoidable calamity, and in such manner as Parliament should hereafter direct.

Lastly,

23.-Compromise on the Irish Church Bill accepted by the Commons.

Indian financial statement submitted to the Lords by the Duke of Argyll. In respect to the construction of railways, a plan was detailed for Government taking them all into its own hand, making new lines, also on its own account, and for borrowing the necessary capital on its own credit instead of through the medium of boards sitting in London.

Story's statue of the philanthropist Peabody, at the Royal Exchange, unveiled by the Prince of Wales.

24.-Engagement between Carlists and Spanish troops at Manzanares, Ciudad Real. The former were defeated.

The case of Furlong v. Bowland, in which the defendant, an Irish priest, was charged with denouncing the plaintiff from the altar in the most relentless terms, compromised by the defendant paying 200/. in money for damages and

costs.

26.-Royal assent given to the Irish Church Bill by Commission.

26.-The grand jury at Londonderry Assizes return a true bill against ten policemen for firing on the mob during Prince Alfred's visit to the city. A farm-labourer named Foley found with his skull beaten in near Tralee.

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At the sitting of the Foreign Budget Committee of the Hungarian Delegation, Count Beust took occasion to discuss the foreign relations of the Austrian Empire. Since she had relinquished her Italian territories her interests had been identical with those of France, while with Prussia he had endeavoured to establish more cordial relations than those which existed, but had not been met in a similar spirit. (See Aug. 4.)

27. Mr. Longfellow, the American poet, at present on a visit to England, receives at Oxford the honorary degree of D. C. L.

The Rev. Julius M. Elliott, of Brighton, killed by falling from a glacier on the Schreckhorn.

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The Select Committee on Election Practices report in favour of the ballot, that it presented many advantages-that it would put an end to some of the evils in our electoral system, and that it would tend to mitigate rather than to aggravate those which it would not entirely remove.

28. Marriage of the Crown Prince of Denmark and Princess Louisa, daughter of the King of Sweden, at Stockholm.

The monster iron dock, designed for the use of naval vessels at Bermuda, arrives safely at its destination after a voyage of thirty-five days from England.

29.-Mr. Grenville Murray failing to appear to-day to answer the charge of perjury, and the police magistrate refusing to give credence to the plea of a sudden attack of illness in Paris, whither he was said to have gone to see his son, his recognizances were ordered to be estreated and a warrant issued for his apprehension.

30.--The New Law Courts' Site Committee decide by 9 to 7 in favour of Carey-street.

The House of Lords pronounce judgment against the appellant in the Sheddon case.

The Emperor of the French sends the first message through the new Atlantic cable to President Grant.

Died Sergeant M. Cantillon, of the Old Imperial Guard, who obtained considerable notoriety as a legatee of Napoleon I., in consideration of having attempted to shoot the Duke of Wellington in 1815.

31.-Renewed hostilities between the British colonists and natives of New Zealand.

At the Cardiff Assizes a jury give a verdict for 50%. damages against Mr. Thomas, a Baptist preacher, for the abduction of Esther Lyons, a Jewish girl, whom he had sought, in conjunction with his wife, to convert to Christianity.

August 1.-Died, aged 61, the Right Rev. Walter Kerr Hamilton, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury. He was succeeded by Dr. Moberly.

Mdlle. Tinné, an enterprising African traveller, and two Dutch sailors, her only European attendants, murdered in the Ouadi Berdjondi, one day's journey from Scharaba, and five days to the west of Mourzouk.

2. The reforms contemplated by the Emperor Napoleon submitted to the Chambers. The Ministers to depend only upon the Emperor; to deliberate in Council under the presidency of his Majesty; to be responsible, but to be impeached only by the Senate. They might be Senators or Deputies, and have the right of being present at the sittings of either assembly. The sittings of the Senate to be public. "The Senate will make its own parliamentary regulations, may indicate any modification of which it may consider a law susceptible, and decide that such law be sent back for reconsideration by the Legislative Body, and may oppose the promulgation of a law by the adoption of a resolution to that effect, accompanied by a declaration of motives. The Legislative Body will make its own standing orders, and will appoint each session its president, vice-president, and secretaries. The Senate and Legislative Body will have the right of 'interpellating' the Government, and may adopt orders of the day with preamble. Such orders of the day must be referred to the bureaux, if required by the Government. No amendment can be discussed until it has been referred to a committee and communicated to the Government. If the Government accepts it, the Legislative Body will then definitively pronounce upon it. The budget of expenditure will be voted by chapter. All modifications which may henceforth be made in the customs' tariffs in international treaties will only become obligatory on receiving the sanction of law."

Explosion at the Burg colliery, in the valley of the Planenscher Grund, near Dresden, causing the death of 269 workmen.

Drinking-fountain erected by Cowasjee Jehangheer Readymoney, in Regent's Park, opened by the Princess Mary of Teck.

Five persons drowned in the Mersey, by the sinking of a flat, laden with salt.

3. The mail steamer Germania, trading between New York and Hamburg, wrecked in Trepany Bay, Newfoundland.

The Indian Budget submitted to the House of Commons by Mr. Grant Duff. The gross receipts for the past year amounted to 48,534,412., and the debt was put down at 65,554,000/. He said that 4,000 miles of railway had now been opened, while 1,800 were then under construction.

Foundation stone of a monument to the German geographer, Mercator, laid at Duisburg.

4.--Resignation of the Portuguese Ministry

formed by the Marquis Sa de Bandiera, and accession to power of the Duke de Soule.

4. Despatch addressed by Baron Theile to the Prussian Minister at Vienna, contradicting Count Beast's statements as to the unfriendly feeling of Prussia towards Austria.

In the Court of Divorce, Lord Penzance grants a decree nisi, with costs, in the case of Vivian v. Vivian and Waterford-a petition for divorce presented by Captain Vivian, M. P. for Truro, and one of the Lords of the Treasury, for a dissolution of marriage with his wife. Florence Grosvenor Vivian, on the grounds of her adultery with the co-respondent, the Marquis of Waterford.

6.-The Chancellor of the Exchequer intimates in the House of Commons that he is

in favour of the scheme for reducing the bullion in the sovereign from 1234 to 122 grains; and intended to mature the plan during the recess.

7.—Finsbury Park, occupying the ground of Hornsey Wood, opened by the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

At Croydon Assizes, before the Lord Chief Baron, a jury give a verdict of 40% damages against Mr. Grant, of the Morning Advertiser, for publishing a libel on Miss Emiy Faithfull, in so far as he had described her as an atheist, with other "ladies of Freethough principles," in his work "The Religious Te dencies of the Times."

8.-Attempt made by a young man to shoot the clergyman celebrating Divine service in the Protestant Cathedral of Berlin, in order, as the author of the outrage declared, “to rouse the public mind from its apathy, and chase away the mists of superstition."

9.-The Scotch Education Bill, as amend by the Commons, rejected in the Lords by to 43 votes.

10. Mr. Ruskin elected to the Slade Prefessorship of Art at Oxford.

In the Esmond will case, tried at Carlo Assizes, a jury give a verdict in favour of the validity of the document leaving proper amounting to about 21,000!. to Trinity College Dublin.

11.-Parliament prorogued by Commission Referring to the Act passed for disestablish the Irish Church, it was said to be her Majest hope that "this important measure may bes after be remembered as a conclusive proof the paramount anxiety of Parliament to reasonable regard, in legislating for each of three kingdoms, to the special circumstances which it may be distinguished, and to deal principles of impartial justice with all interes and all portions of the nation."

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Explosion of a steam-tug off the C tom-house quay, on the Thames, causing t death of three men.

Died at Richmond, aged 56, the R Hon. Sir C. J. Selwyn, Lord Justice of t Court of Appeal in Chancery.

12.-Banquet given at Brussels, in honour of Lord Clarendon, attended by the King and Queen of the Belgians.

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Jonah Detheredge executed at Portland, for the murder of a prison warder, manifesting on the scaffold the same hardened impenitence he had exhibited at his trial.

13.-Collapse of the Albert Life Assurance Company, an application being made to-day to the Court of Chancery for the appointment of a provisional liquidator. The actual liability on policies, assuming the office to be broken up, was about 3,000,000l., the value of the annuities 150,000/., and, in addition, claims admitted, annuities overdue, and general debts amounting to 110,000/., making an aggregate immediate liability of 3,260,000l., to meet which there were assets amounting to only 210,000l., and the possible produce of calls upon the shareholders, which under an absolute liquidation were estimated to yield not more than 100,000/. Died, aged 67, Field-Marshal Niel.

Riotous disturbance near Brighton, between Belgian and English workmen, arising from an attempt made by the former to force themselves into a Foresters' Court.

Tried at Croydon Assizes, the case of Allington v. Echoes' proprietors, an action for libel, in so far as the defendants, commenting on an assault committed in the Prince of Wales Theatre, questioned the plaintiff's right to describe himself as a gentleman, and suggested that he was probably the son of an eatinghouse keeper and a waiter in his father's employ. Damages, 500l.

15.-The Emperor Napoleon issues a proclamation granting a complete amnesty for all political offenders, in order "to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Napoleon I. by an act which responds to our feelings."

16. The King of Prussia's gift of a statue of Field-Marshal Keith unveiled at Peterhead, the birthplace of the old soldier.

20.-Inquiry at the Mansion House into the charges preferred against Clement Harwood, 33, Abchurch Lane, through whom Messrs. Harwood and Co., bankers, had been robbed and defrauded of 15,000l. by means of bills forged or stolen. The prosecution was afterwards withdrawn, and the young man, a relation of one of the prosecutors, sent out of the country.

23.--The inhabitants of Deal present an address to Mr. Gladstone at Walmer Castle, where he had been living for the benefit of his health.

24.-The Empress of the French and the Prince Imperial leave Paris on a visit to Corsica.

25.-Fire at Chawleigh, Devon, causing the destruction of twenty-one houses, besides much agricultural property.

Bill introduced into the Melbourne Parliament, providing for the gradual abolition of State grants to religion in five years.

26.-Died, aged 54, Baron Henri Leys, Belgian artist.

27. The International boat race between the Universities of Oxford and Harvard, won by the Oxford crew by a length and threequarters.

Dr. Lanigan, of Waterford, while in a state of excitement from drink, murders his wife, and then commits suicide by shooting himself.

28. Suicide of Joel Cousens, who threw himself into the Avon from Clifton Suspension Bridge.

29.-James Hunter, a Scotch farmer, residing near Newport, Mayo, shot dead when returning home on a car with his wife and family. The victim in this case had recently the misfortune to be successful in contesting his right to a piece of bog ground, over which a neighbour, named O'Neil, insisted he had a right to cut. On the same evening two young men and one elderly woman were barbarously assaulted near Mullingar.

30. Close of the session of the AustroHungarian Delegations by the Chancellor of the Empire.

The Rev. Charles Kingsley nominated to a canonry in Chester Cathedral.

31.-Don Carlos leaves Spain for England.

September 1.-In this month's number of Macmillan's Magazine an article appeared by Mrs. H. B. Stowe, entitled "The True Story of Lady Byron's Married Life." Mrs. Stowe asserted that the cause of Lady Byron's separation from her husband was an adulterous intrigue" of the latter "with a blood relation so near in consanguinity that discovery must have been utter ruin and expulsion from civilized society." This accusation was based on a direct statement made to Mrs. Stowe by Lady Byron in 1856. The article caused a vast amount of public excitement, and was keenly discussed for some time by the journals and periodicals of England, America, and the Continent.

The Prince of Wales elected a Past Grand Master of the Order of Freemasons. Opening of that portion of the Thames Embankment extending from Westminster Bridge to Vauxhall.

1.-The Catholic hierarchy publish a series oi resolutions adopted at a meeting in Maynooth College on the education and land questions. They condemned the mixed system of education, demanding complete secular education on purely Catholic principles, a share of the funds of the royal and endowed schools, and a re-arrangement of the Queen's Colleges on the denominational system. They added a general resolution on the land question, expressing their belief that its settlement was essential to the peace of the kingdom.

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Prince Napoleon, addressing the French Senate, declares that the Empire, which had hitherto been based upon the personal authority of the Emperor, had now been transformed into an Empire based upon liberal principles. He proclaimed his entire devotion to the Emperor and the Prince Imperial, and said: "It is necessary to be unreservedly liberal. Those who are opposed to the reforms which have already been introduced are the enemies of the Government." The Prince reminded the Senate of the expression used by a statesman, that everything could be done with bayonets but sit upon them; and added, in the same way, everything can be done with despotism, but make it last. He approved of the course taken by the Emperor in not having appealed to a plebiscitum, on the ground that such step should only be taken at moments of supreme importance. He then entered into a statement of the omissions of the Senatus Consultum, and said he wished at least

at the Government should be deprived of the faculty of choosing mayors outside the Municipal Councils.

3.-Destruction by fire of Day and Martin's noted blacking warehouse in Holborn.

4. Her Majesty, now residing at Inver trosachs, Stirling, visits Loch Lomond.

Serious illness of the Emperor Napoleon, causing a panic on the French Bourse.

Died at Melbourne, aged 77, John P. Fawkner, the first colonist who erected a habitation on the banks of the Yarra Yarra.

- Dr. Cumming, of the Scotch Church, London, having manifested an intention of taking part in the discussion at the Ecumenical Council, the Pope writes to-day, through Archbishop Manning, that no room can be given for the defence of errors already condemned, and that non-Catholics had only been invited to take advantage of the Council by "withdrawing from a state in which they cannot be sure of their salvation." His Holiness vaguely referred to Dr. Cumming as "Dr. Cumming of Scotland."

5. Festival at Prague, in honour of the Protestant Reformer, John Huss. Many Russians, Sclaves, Frenchmen, and Englishmen were present.

Severe thunderstorm in the North of England. Two lovers were struck dead by lightning, while crossing a footpath between Farsley

7. Mr. Arthur S. Sullivan's new oratorio of "The Prodigal Son" performed at the Worcester Musical Festival, in the Cathedral.

8. The National Guard at Madrid rise in mutiny.

9.-Died at his residence in the Museum, aged 58, Thomas Watts, keeper of the Printed Book Department.

The rumours regarding the continued illhealth of the Emperor Napoleon cause the French funds to fall to 70f. 15c., or 10c. lower than yesterday.

10.- Denis Vrain Lucas, the author of the pretended Newton-Pascal correspondence, ap prehended at Paris on the charge of forgin numerous documents with the intention deceiving M. Chasles and others.

11.-Died at Brockett Hall, aged 83, Lady Palmerston. She was buried in Westminsic Abbey on the 17th.

The Wallace Monument formally handed over to the keeping of the Town Council a Stirling. The total cost of the structure 13,4017. Is. 8d., of which sum 12,9027. 165. S had been up to this date collected by pub subscription.

12. "Triduum" Festival commenced Dublin by Cardinal Cullen, to celebrate the passing of the Irish Church Bill. The L Mayor was present at the opening, and twe bishops at the closing service on the 14th.

13.-The Peninsular and Oriental Company steamer Carnatic lost on the north edge of the Shadwan Reef, Gulf of Suez, with the Ind mails and cargo, and specie valued at 40,000 She struck about I A.M., but kept so well gether for several hours, that passengers a crew continued in an undecided state whe and in what manner she should be abandoned She ultimately broke in two amidships, the after-part sinking into deep water with seve people who had remained in that part of the vessel. The survivors made for the island