The Aberdare Times

JI ETR O SPECT 07 TOT < YEAR 1893. THE YEAR'S HOME AFFAIRS PARLIAMENTARY AND POLITICAL. Member* of both Houses of Parliament; have found their legislative duties arduous in toe extreme taring 1893. On Tuesday, JanuaryJUjtto second of the 13th Parliament U her Majesty was opened by Commission. In Commons, t e Address, moved by Mr. Libert and seconded by Mr. Beaufoy, was met by numerous amend- _ii b-j-- reiected Glad stone moved for LO V3«vbfnmcuc or irewmu on February 13, and for days later the motion wis agreed to, and the biV was wad at midnight a first time. On February 20, on the (,rder for Supply, Mr. Gladstone .noved' that Mr. Mellor take the ebair. This w-e agreed to, and pi-ogreas I reported, whereupon Mr. H. Fowler brought in a Registra- tion of Etafftors Amendment Bill; Sir George Tre- vetyan a Registration of Voters (Scotland) Amend- ment BMI; Mr. Mundella, Railway Servants' Honrs ef Labour Bill; and Mr. Axiquith the Employers' Liability Bill. On the 27th Mr. Gladstone moved that the morning sittinga of Tuesdays and Fridays, until Easter, be devoted to Government business: with reservation of the whole of those days if the Government of Ireland Bill was down. This was carried by a majority of 42. Sir William Harcourt moved for leave to bring in a Liquor Traffic (Local Control) Bill. The House remained in Committee of Supply, interrupted by discussion on a number of irrelevant subjects, for the space of six vs. when. on March 10, Mr. Gladstone moved that Motion for Supply a number of amendments were moved by the Opposition for reporting progress, but at 5.5 a.m. the bill passed through committee, and eeon after the House adjourned, after sitting fifteen hours and a quarter. On March 27, Mr. Balfour moved his vote of erasure on the conduct of the Executive in Ireland. This waa negatived by a majority of 47. On the 29th Mr. T. W. Russell asked permission to make a per- sonal explanation, and repudiated the charge made against him in the Daily Chronicle that be was a mercenary of Unionism. The next day Mr. Sexton called attention to a letter from the Serjeant-at-Arms to the editor of the Daily Chronicle newspaper warn- ing the writer of the statement, being on the list of thoee having access to the House," to be more care- ful in the future. The letter, although written with- out consultation with the Speaker, had, he said, his approval." On the e*me day Mr. Gladstone moved M that Government business have precedence after Easter on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with Fridays if the 3?vernment of Ireland Bill was down." This was carried by a majority of 88. On the motion for the second reading of the Employers' Liability Bill, Mr. Chamberlain talked it out, and at midnight the bill stood adjourned. The Easter Recess lasted eight 4Ays, and, on the re-assembling of the House on April 6, Mr. Gladstone moved the second reading of the Government of Ireland Bill. This was met by an amendment, made by Sj- Michael Hicks-Beach: That it beread tMs day iix months." The debate on the amendment was vigorously maintained for 12 days, and then negatived by a m ajority of 43. On April 24, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made his Budget statement, and moved resolutions on tea and itanap duties. On May 1, Mr. Fowler brought in a bill for the Equalisation of Rates in London, and it was read a first time. On the 6th the Government of Ireland Bill was at length got into Committee; Clause 1, however, was not carried until the 12th, Clause 2 on the 17th, and on the 19th several bills were forwarded, and the House adjourned over the Whitsuntide holidays. Up to this date the House at on 79 days, and one all-night sitting. On May 29, on the re-assembly, 320 amendments were staring the Government in the face; 140 of these were subsequently ruled out of order. Twenty- sight sittings had now been given to the bill in Com- mittee*, and four clauses only agreed to at the end of lune, whereupon, on the 30th, Mr. Gladstone moved a resolution limiting the debate on various sections with the view of getting the bill through Committee by July 27. Forty-nine sittings ultimately served to bring the Committee stage to a close. OB the date last mentioned the Chairman rose, in pursuance of the order of the House, to pnt 4J-- iuo""ua, when a some of wild disorder broke out on the Opposition side of the House. Mr. Vicary Gibbs, refusing » bey the Chair, shouted out an accusation against Mr. T. P. O'Connor, one among other members who called oat" Judas "while Mr. Chamber- lain was speaking. In the babel that ensued, Mr. Hayes Fisher seized Mr. Logan, and assisted by Sir Ashmead Bartlett, thrust him forward out of the seat he had taken on the wrong side of the House. This act provoked a general scrimmage; the strangers in the gallery testified their feelings by loudly hissing. After the lapse of some minutes, the Speaker, being sent for, quelled the tumultuous rioters. On the re-assembling of the House, on the 31st, the two members more im- mediately implicated-Mr. Fisher and Mr. Logan- apologised to the House. The event, however, was said to be unparalleled, since no record can be found of any approash to such a scene for upwards of 200 years. Up to this time the variation in the Government majorities was not a little remarkable. The lowest point reached was while the ninth clause of the bill was under discussion, when in one of the many divisions taken the majority fell to 14. The highest point reached was when Clause 28 was under discussion, and the Government for once recei ved the support cf the main body of their opponents, and the majority ran up to 159. Clause 9, relating to the retention of Irish members, was regarded as critical, the Unionists first supporting an amendment to re- tain the whole 103, then for the retention of 40 only, and finally for their entire exclusion. When, on August 7, the Report stage of the bill was some- what unexpectedly reached, by the Speaker's ruling two and a-half pages of amendments out of order, the vexed question of the retention of the Irish members again came to the front. The Opposition once more proposed to strike out Clause 9 and insert a clause taken from the bill of 1888, drawn with the intention of excluding the Irish members, but with a rider added: "Except- ing when a bill was before Parliament for amending the Irish Government Act." The debate on this amendment extended over two nights, the Opposition once more voting for two propositions—the retention of the 103 Irish members for all purposes, and then to turn them out altogether. This was rejected. On the 14th the dis- cussion on the proposed new clauses stood adjourned at twelve o'clock, bnt on the day following was brought oO a close at an early hour by a substantial majority. On the 16th, however, another long list of amendments took the place of those cleared off ¡I the day before, the like of which," said Mr. Glad- stone, had not been seen or heard in the House since 1832." The Speaker expressed a hope that the fnture debates would lead to some practical results, and not be confined to a repetition of what had already been said. The consideration of the bill was resumed on the 22nd, and the only notable occurrence during the sit- ting was the motion made by Mr. Stuart to auiend the standing order of the House which governs bills pro- moted by the London County Council, and thereby restore the power of introducing bills for borrowing and raising money, as in the case of private bills. This was agreed to without a division. On the 25th the Report stage of the bill came to a close, after a tremendous struggle, through shoals of debate and tortuous ingennities, extending to 80 sittings of the House. On the 30th the final stage of the bill was entered upon. Very rarely has it happened that the debate on any question has lasted to the end of August; but the history of the Home Rule Bill has been very exceptional throughout, and the measure maintained this character to the end. The Prime Minister moved its third reading in a speecn of re- mukable power. Mr. Courtney followed with an amendment for the rejection of the bill, which occupied two days of the time of the House. This was rejected by a majority of 34, and at one o'clock on the morning of September 1 the bill was sent up to the House of Lords, and read a first time. Oa the 5th, its second reading was moved by Earl Spencer, to which an amendment for its rejection was moved by the Duke of Devonshire. The debate on tbis lasted four days; when the House proceeded to a division, and the numbers announced were—for the second reading, 41; against, 419. The further sittings of the House of Commons, extending to over three weeks in September, were chiefly devoted to Eunolv. The Irish Votes occupied a couple of days, and the vote for the Constabulary a few hours only, which Mr. BexteD spoke of as a magic change, attributnole to the better govElrnment of Ireland." The !a"t week was mainly given to the Appropriation Bill and the Indian Budget, whpn Parliament stood adjourned to the first week in November. On the 2nd of November, on the re-assembly in the Commons, Mr. FowUr moved the second read- ing of the Parish Councils Bill, and this Government measure and the Employers' Liability Bill absorbed the attention of the HOO-qe-whon questions about Matabeleiand and other maters were not being asked -right up to the rising for Christmas, the House of Lords meanwhile holding a few sittings, chiefly devoted to routine work. During 1 ~i'J3 a few changes in the personnel of both HOUBIM occurred through death a1\d other a ceases. The principal alterations in the composition of the Peers' Chamber were occasioned by the demise [ of the Earl of Derby and Lords Brabourne and St. Oswald, for, although the Dukes of Bedford and Leinster and the Earl of Warwick and several other peers died during the year, they were chiefly silent me in ben. By«-«leotions for representatives in the Comnons took place in a number of constituencies, the most notable returns being as follows Sir A. Hayter (G.) for Walsall, Viscount Cranborne (C.) Rochester, Messrs. P. Stanhope (G.) Burnley, Shaw (G.) Halifax, Mclnnes (G.) Hexham, Crossland (C.) Huddersfield, J. Gibney (N.) North Meath, Johnstone (C.) Horsham (in place of Sir Wm. Barttelot, deceased), Whiteley (C.) Stockport, Lawson (G.) Cirencester, Jordan (N.) South Meath, Sir W. Wedderburn (G.) Banffshire, W. Allan (G.) Gateshead, William (G.) Swansea, Hope (C.) Linlithgow, E. Heneage (U.) Grimsby, Nussey (G.) Pontefract (after the successful petition), Abraham (N.) N.E. Cork, Dr. Commins (N.) 8.E. Cork, Cooke (C.) Hereford, and P. Ffrench (N.) Sbuth-West Meatb. Vacancies were also created by the retirement of Sir William Marriott from Brighton, and at Accrington by Mr. Leeee's acceptance of the KflcOrdership of Manchester. Daring 1893 many political demonstrations and other gatherings were held by the various parties and sections of parties, the Home Rule question being the chief topic of discussion. Reference may particularly be made to the Conference of the Conservative party at the Carlton Club in March, the Parnellite Con- vention in Dublin a day or two afterwards, the Leinster Hall Unionist meeting in the same city, and the conclave of leading Liberals at the Foreign Office on March 27; the Belfast Unionist demonstrations in April, the big endorsement of the same at the Albert Hall in London, the protest meeting in May at the same place against the Welsh Suspensory Bill, the Whit-Sunday Home Rule demonstration in Hyde- park, Lord Salisbury's Ulster speeches in mid-May, the Rural Labourers' League anniversary in London in early Jane, and excited Orange gatherings in Ire- land in July. At the National Liberal Club a protest was raised in September against the House of Lords for rejecting the Home Rule Bill, Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Goschen's Scottish recessional speeches, the J ex-Premier's Preston and South Welsh addresses, and some notable speeches, too numerous to specify, by Mr. Asquith, Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Charles Russell, Sir Edward Clarke, Sir Geo. Trevelyan, Mr. Chamberlain, and other prominent politicians. THE YEAR'S HOME EVENTS: SOCIAL AND GENERAL. To begin with, the weather proved most remarkable throughout 1893. The year opened with a spell of ?old and severe frost which lasted several weeks. In February, however, a change of temperature took place; the ice broke up and quickly disappeared altogether. Quite early in March winter was suc- ceeded by spring, it may be said by an almost unin- terrupted summer, lasting until September. The spell of dry weather in 1893 entirely eolipsed all previous recoids. The drought lasted for no fewer than 112 days, or 54 days longer than any drought of the past 28 years. The period when the drought became more seriously felt was when the heat exceeded that of the ordinary English summer. At the latter part of June and July—that is, about the third week in June—the temperature rose te 88 deg. The average of the week exceeded 80 in the shade and in the sun at Green- wich 140 deg. On one day the reading was 90'4 in the shade and 146 in the sun. Only two similarly warm periods in June during the last 40 years are on record; these occurred in 1857 and 1878. In the autumn a plentiful and general rainfall occurred, but too late to help the farmers much in the matter of pasturage. November, the fog-month, was conspicuous by its freedom from unpleasant atmospheric density; indeed, the sunshine which gave such mark to 1893 continued dominant in the main right on into winter. Trade was somewhat under a cloud in many branches by reason of financial depression and indus- trial disputes—some of them, the dockers' and colliers' —prolonged and disastrous; and there was a good deal of distress among the poor as a consequence. Towards the end of the year influenza and pulmonary diseases were troublesome and destructive. Now to briefly particularise the most notable domestic and general events in Britain during 1893. JANUARY 1. New Railway Rates came into force. Visit of unemployed to St. Paul's Cathedral. 4. Skating on the Thames at Teddington. 6. Con- ference at Shrewsbury on university for Wales. 9. Mr. Gladstone left Biarritz for London. 16. Archbisheps Vaughan and Logue created car- dinals. 21. The Prince of Wales presided over a meeting formed to raise a Memorial Fnnd to the memory of Sir Richard Owen. 30. A large meeting to protest against the increase of railway rates held at the London Mansion House. Bubear beat Hosmer in the Sculling Championship of England. 31. The cremation of the remains of the Welsh "Arch-Druid." FBBRUAKY 1. The first report of the Royal Com- mission on Lighthouses published. 2. The Labour Commission concluded its sittings. 4. Lord Salisbury opened the Overhead Railway at Liverpool. 10. A depu- tation waited on the Postmaster-General respecting an Imperial Penny Postage. Northumberland miners refused to agree to a five per cent. reduction. 14. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York present at the Hunterian Oration at the Royal College of Surgeon* London County Council ya15"ecI a new xectinical Education Scheme. Football France beaten by Park House by two goals and two tries to one try (14 points to 2). Departure of 500 British pilgrims for Rome, 20. First Levee of the season held by the Prince of Wales. 21. Shire Horse Show opened at Islington. 22. Waterloo Cup Fuller- ton beaten by Full Captain in the second round. 23. Deputation and presentation of addresses from both Houses of Convocation of Canterbury to the Queen. 24. Waterloo Cup won by Mr. Cotterell's Character. 27. The Queen and Empress Frederick arrived at Buckingham Palace. MARCH 1. Royal visit to the Horse Show. Severe gales. 2. Remains of the late Duke of Clarence re- moved in the Albert Chapel, Windsor. 4. Farewell banquet to the French Ambassador, M. Waddington, at the Mansion House. 9. Queen held a Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace. 12. Meeting of un- employed in Trafalgar-square. 13. Football: England beat Wales by six goals to nil. 18. The Prince of Wales presided at annual meeting of National Lifeboat Institution. Performance of "Becket" by oommand of the Queen at Windsor. 20. The Queen left Windsor for the Continent. 22. Deputation waited on the Lord Chancellor respecting the appointment of county justices. Oxford won the University Boat Race by 2 £ lengths in 18min. 47sec. 23. Arrival of the Queen at Florence. The Princess of Wales, Prince George, and the two Princesses had an audience of the Pope. Oxford beat Cambridge in the annual sports by seven events to two. 24. Termination of the great Lancashire cotton strike. 27. End of the Liberator case. 29. Oxford beat Cambridge in the Racquets Doubles Handicap by four games to nil. 30. Maundy Thursday alms dis- tributed in Westminster Abbey. APBIL 3. Easter Monday. Fine weather for the volunteer mancsuvres. Duchess of Fife gave birth to a daughter. 4. Empress Frederick left England for Germany. 7. Hull dock strike; conflict with the police. 8. Nonconformist Martyrs' Commemoration held in Hyde-park. Winchester Cathedral 800th anniversary. 10. Hull strike; employers refused arbitration. Order issued prohibiting further im- portation of arms into Ireland. 13. Mr. Gladstone received a deputation from the Imperial Federation League. Statement by Lord Mayor Knill to the Court of Common Council re toast of Pope and Queen." 16. Duchess of Teck opened new schools at Old Brentford. 21. Death of the Earl of Derby. 23. Hull Dock Strike incendiary fire in docks—damage £60,000. 28. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg, arrived at Wind- sor from Florence. 29. Royal Academy Banquet. MAY 3. Betrothal announced of the Duke of York to Princess May. 4. Mr. John Burns, M.P., intro- duced a deputation to the Lord Chancellor re the ap- pointment of working-men magistrates. 5. Riots at Hull—several injured. 6. Arrival of Lord Roberts at Dover. 7. May Day demonstration in Hyde-park. 8. The Queen came to London from Windsor. 9. The Pope and Queen": two memorials received at the Court of Common Council protesting against the Lord Mayor's proceeding. 10. The Queen opened the Imperial Institute in person. Lord Sheffield's team beat tho Australians by eight wickets in the opening match of the tour. 13. Opening of Gardening and Forestry Exhibition at Earl's-court by the Duke of York. 15. The Rev. A. H. Baynes appointed Bivhop of Natal. 18. Jubilee of Free Church of Scotland celebrated. 19. The Queen left Windsor for Balmoral. Settlement of the Hull dock strike. 20. Return of the Princess of Wales from Greece. Co-operative Congress at Bristol. 22. Hampton C)url Park thrown open to )he public by order of the Queen. Cart Horse Parade in Regent's-park. New pier opened at Dover. Openinll.o.f Bostall Woods to the public. 24. The Prinoe of Wales visited Devizes. The Queen granted a Charter of Incorporation to the Royal British Nurses' Association. 25. The Prince of Wales's new outter, Britannia, won the principal race at the Royal Thames Y.C. Regatta, the Inverna being second. Royal Military Tournament opened at Islington. Bill introduced for abolishing the Spin- ning House, Cambridge. 26. The Prince of Wales's Britannia won the first prize in the Now Thames Y.C. Regatta. 29. The Di.ia of Connaught opened new laboratories at University College, London. 31. Mr. M'Ci»lmont'e Isinglass won the Derby. JUNE 5. The Prince of Wales and family attended restoration dedication service at St. Bartholomew's Church. 6. The Prince of Wales laid the founda- tion-stone df new wing of the United Service Institu- tion. 7. The Archbishop of Canterbury unveiled a statue of the late Mr. Henry Fawcett in Vauxhall- park. 10. The Duke of York opened the Richmond Town Hall. Important demonstration in support of the Direct Veto Bill in Hyde-park. 12. Lord Roberts entertained by the Lord Mavor of London at the Mansion House. 13. Mr. Balfour unveiled a bmt of the late Mr. W. H. Smith at St. Martin's Town Hall. 14. Monument to Shelley, unveiled at Oxford. 15. Announced that the Queen had de- cided to confer the title of Lord Mayor on the chief magistrates at Manchester and Liverpool. 18. Mr. j and Mrs. Gladstone celebrated their golden wedding. 21. The weather became cooler, after a long spell of drought, and some rain fell. 24. The Prince of j Wales an veiled memorial to the late Duke of I Clarence at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell. The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-street: N pw wing opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales. 27. London County Council resolved to issue new two and a-half per cent. stock to the amount of £1,500,000 sterling. 28. The Queen unveiled a statue of herself by Princess Louise in Kensington- gardens. 29. Memorial fountain to the late Lord Shaftesbury unveiled at Piccadilly-circus. 30. King and Queen of Denmark and the Czarewich arrived in London. State ball at Buckingham Palace. JULY 1. The Prince of Wales opened the National Workmen's Exhibition, Agricultural Hall, Islington, 3. The Prince and Princess of Wales opened a bazaar at Westminster in aid of the Alexandra Hospital. Royal Geographical Society refused to admit women as Fellows." 4. A State-commanded opera at Covent Garden; brilliant scene. Princess May and the Duchess of Teck arrived at Buckingham Palace. Cambridge beat Oxford in the Inter-'Varsity cricket match, at Lord's, by 264 runs. 5. Garden Party at Marlborough House. First day of Henley Regatta. 6. Marriage of the Duke of York and Princess May of Teck at the Chapel Royal, St. James's imposing scene: general illuminations. 8. Grand reception of the Kine and Queen of Denmark, the Czarewitcb, Prince Waldemar, and the Prince and Princess of Wales by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London. 10. TheQueqn published a letter of thanks to her loyal people respecting the marriage of her grandson. 12. Baronetcy announced for lord Mayor Knill and knighthoods for Sheriffs Renals and Wilkin. 14. The Queen received deputations at Windsor Castle from the London and Edinburgh Corporations and a body of Presbyterian ministers.1 18. International Maritime Congress in London. 20. The Prince of Wales laid the first stone of the east piei at Dover Harbour, am id great rejoicings. 22. Ser- geant Davies, 1st Welsh, won the Queen's Prize at Bisley. 25. Quincentenary of Winchester College. 28. The coal crisis: 100,000 men reported out on strike. AUGUST 1. The German Emperor's yacht Meteor won the Queen's Cup at Caves. The American yaoht Navahoe beat the Satanita, Calluna, and Iverna in the first-class match of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club. Welsh National Eisteddfod at Pontypridd. 5. Mr. Gladstone distributed prizes gained at the National Workmen's Exhibition, and delivered an interesting address. 11. Shoeburynees: The sixth detachment of the 2nd Essex won the Queen's Cup. The Queen bestowed a knighthood on Dr. Josepk Henry Gilbert, F.R.S., the eminent agricultural chemist. 14. The Britannia won the Royal Albert Y.C. Cup at Cowes, Intense beat all over the king- dom. 16. The Prince of Wales left for Homburg; the Princess and Princesses Victoria and Maud left for Norway. The Coal Strike Rise of prices on the London Exchange; riots at the Ebbw collieries, nearly 300 arrests made. 17. Lord Roberts received the freedom of the Dunbar burgh. 18. Several deaths reported owing to the great heat; 95-! deg. Faùr. From the 10th to the 18th 96 deaths reported from drowning. 23. The Duke of Edinburgh succeeded tc the dukedom of 9axe-Coburg-Gotha on the death of his uncle. 25. Mr. Gladstone received a deputation from the Scottish Disestablishment Council urging him to press on the Scotch Disestablishment Bill. Coal Strike Only about 25 per cent, of the pits under the sliding scale in South Wales in operation. 28. The Queen left Osborne for Scotland. SEPTEMBER 5. Coal Strike: Serious rioting in the Midlands, great damage done and many people injured. 6. The Labour Congress decided to form a fund for the payment of expenses of local and Par- liamentary labour candidates. Mr. H. McCalmont's Isinglass won the Doncaster St. Leger. 8. Firiu meeting of the Opium Commission. 9. The Austra- lian cricketers ended their tour with a defeat a» Hastings. 10. The Royal Commission on Agricul- ture held its first meeting. The Queen laid the foundation-stone of Crathie Church, and made a speech on the occasion. 11. Sir Horace Davey, Q.C., appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal. 14. Meeting of the British Association—opened at Nottingham. Duke of Connaught appointed Commander-in-Chief at Aldershot. 15. Several fatal cholera oases re- ported in England. 25. Lord Roberts received the freedom of Inverness. 26. Chambers of Commerce meeting at Plymouth. 28. M. Zola feted in London. 29. Alderman Tyler elected Lord Mayor of London. OCTOBER 2. Several thousand miners returned to work. 6. Funeral of Dr. Jowett. Church Con- gress protest against praise of M. Zola. 9. Meeting of Mayors fails to effect settlement of coal orisis. 11. Lord Elgin appointed Indian Vioeroy. 15. Miners' meeting in Hyde-park. 19. Commencement of Featherstone riots inquiry. 30. Lord Chancellor at Hull. NOVEMBER 1. Public schools military manoeuvres. 7. Mr. C. B. Harness attacked by a London paper; decision to wind-up the Medical Battery Company. 11. Funeral of Sir Andrew Clark. Unemployed demonstration in Trafalgar-square. 15. Sir John Gorst defeated Mr. Asquith in the contest for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow. 17. Rosebery Con- ference brings about a settlement in the coal crisis. 19. Terribly destructive storms. 28. Russell Lowell memorial at Westminster Abbey unveiled. DECEMBBR 2. Jowett memorial meeting in London. 4. Smithfield Club Cattle Show, 12 honours awarded to the Queen. 9. Funeral of Professor Tyndall at Hazlemere. 11. Scotch miners resume work. 12. Meeting of London merchants urging the strengthen- ing of the navy. 14. Dr. Gregg chosen Primate of All Ireland. Ship C&oal inaugurated by a Press party. lo.Court went to Osborne for Christmas. THE YEAR'S CHIEF CALAMITIES, CRIMES, AND CIVIL CAUSES. JANUARY 4. Fire at Lady Orde's London residence, narrow escape of the inmates. 5. Great fire at Liver- pool, two firemen killed. 10. Flooding of the Wheal Owles Mine, Cornwall, 20 miners drowned. 15. Loss of the Channel steamer Brighton. 16. Fire at the Military Hospital, Stoke, Devonport. 21. Release of James Egan from Portland Prison. 26. Mr. Mark Mel ford obtained B50 damages from the People for libel in a dramatic criticism. 27. Judgment for plaintiff in the Morley will case. FEBRUARY 3. London bank messenger robbed of £700. Disastrous earthquake at Zante. 8. Fatal accident to a lady gymnast at Leicester. Wreck of the Anchor Liner Trinacria off Cape Vilano, many lives lost. 9. Panama Trial Sentences MM. Ferdi- nand and Charles de Lesseps sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined 3000f. each, MM. Fontane and Cottu to two years and fined 3000f., and M. Eiffel to two years' and fined 20.000f. Messrs. H. and W. Barker, London bankers, charged with obtain- ing money by false pretences. 11. Terrible gales. Disaster to the Allan Liner Pomeranian, twelve lives lest. 16. Dublin Court of Appeal confirmed the right of polioe protection for writ-serving by night. 20. Severe gale and blizzard in the United States. 02. Suicide of Mr. Hilton Barker, the banker. Fatal railway accident in Pennsylvania. MARCIl 1. Severe gales. 2. Howard de Walden divorce case verdict for Lady de Walden. 4. Land subsidence at Sandgate great damage. 6. Further destructive 'subsidence. 14. Trial of the Monte Carlo Wells at the Old Bailey; sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. 15. Managing director, auditor, and accountant of Anglo-Australian Bank imprisoned for fraud. 16. Samson Simons sentenced to three months' hard labour for perjury in the Stepney Election petition. 27. Liberator frauds: Hobbs and Wright sent to 12 years' penal servitude, Newman five years. 31. Great fire in Queen Victoria- street, London. APRIL 6. Channel steamer Louise Dagmar sunk a French vessel off Boulogne. 11. Terrible disaster at the Great Western colliery, Raondda Valley, South Wales; many lives lost. 12. Destructive cyclone in Kansas. 14 and 15. Trial of Mr. Ben Tillett at the Old Bailey; verdict, "Not Guilty." 15. Lord Hastings' appeal at the Middlesex Sessions successful; conviction quashed. 18. The Dowager Duohess of Sutherland committed for contempt of court; fined jE250 and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. 21. Great fire at Westminster. 23. Incendiary fire at the Alexandra Docks, Hull. 26. Hansard Union defendants acquitted. MAY 2. Another big fire at Hull. 5. Strike riots in Hull; several injured. 6. Explosion at the Four Courts, Dublin. 8. Explosion on H.M.S. Daphne. 12. Fatal fire in Wych-street, Strand two children suffocated. 14. Collision between the s.s. City of Hamburg and the Countess Evelyne; 24 lives lost. Loss of the 8.8. Londoner. 15. Fatal accident at the Channel Tunnel works. 16. Bishop of Sodor and Man'i1 house, n*ar Ramsey, burned. 19. Disastrous landslip in Norway. Great fire at Thomas-street, Limehouse. Fire at the workhouse, Poplar. 22- Fatal accident on the Tralee and Dingle railway, train fell into river. 29. Release of the Dowager Duchess o' Sutherland from Holloway Prison. Earthquake shocks in Greece. JUFS 1. Destructive fire at the Outer Temple, Strand. 4. Great fire at Cardiff; destruction of the Western Mail printing offices. 7. Disastrous fkods in Austria. 9. Collapse of Ford's Theatre, Washing- ton, U.S.A.; many killed and injured. Fatal acci- dent, to Lieut.-General Sir John Hudson, Commander- in-Chief in the Bombay Presidency. Pontefract election petition, seat declared vacant. 13. Terrible fire in atenement building, Montgomery-street, New York; great loss of life. 15. Court of Cassation declared convictions in Panama case invalid. 20. Gatti v. Farqu- harson action for libel; verdict for plaintiff, damages £5000. 21. Attempt to blow up with dynamite Senor Castilo's house at Madrid. 22. Loss of H.M.S. Victoria: Admiral Tryon and 358 officers and men drowned off the coast of Tripoli after collision with the Camperdown. Portsea Island Building Fociftty frauds, Pratt Wills, secretary, convicted. 21. Serious typhoid outbreak at Worthing. 26. Cholera epidemic in the East, 1000 deaths in Mecca alone on this day. JCLY 1. Fatal railway accident at Blackpool. 3. Fatal students' riots in Paris. Brothers Benham sent to penal servitude for frauds in connection with the London and General Bank. 4. Terrible colliery explosion at Combs Colliery, Thornhill, Dewsbury; 140 lives lost. 5. William Noel committed for trial on charge of murdering his wife at Bamsgate; he was acquitted at the ensuing assizes. 8. Yachting fatality at Skegness; 29 lives lost. Great thunder- storm in London. 10. Fatal fire at Chicago Exhibi- tion, 30 lives lost. 18. Great fire in St. Mary-axe, London 30 warehouses destroyed; estimated damage, £500,000. 19. Fatal accident to a Post- Office train near Glasgow. Eighty-nine deaths from I typhoid on this date at Worthing. 20. Gatti political libel suit, damages reduced to £2500. 22. Dynamite outrage at Broadstairs. 25. Execution of Police-oonstable Cook for the Wormwood-scrubbs murder: 920 fever cases and 93 deaths at Worthing on this day; contamination of water by sewage. 26. Libel action: J. H. Wilson, M.P. w. Evening JVetpf and Post; verdict for defendants. 27. Victoria court-martial, officers acquitted. AUGUST 3. Earthquake in Leicester. 6. Great fire in Liverpool. Suicide of Daisy Hughes, the music hall singer, at the Grand Hotel, Brighton. 7. Boat accident at Port Talbot; 24 lives lost. 8. Fatal boat- ing aocident at Weymouth. 11. Religious riots at Bombay. 12. Terrible railway accident at Llantris- eant Junction, on the Taff Vale Railway; 12 persons killed, many injured. 15. Behring Sea Arbitration award, favourable to Britain. 16. Shocking boating accident on the Lower Shannon, Ireland; 17.penonl drowned. Disastrous floods in Hungary. 22. Boat- ing disaster at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire; 10 persons drowned. 24. Destructive floods in Switzerland. 25. 500 houses burned at Chicago. 26. Fatal gun accident to Mr. H. D. Llewelyn, the well- known cricketer. Technical assault in the Lobby of the House of Commons on Mr. Harry Furniss, Punch caricaturist, by Mr. Swift MoNeill, M.P. Accident on the New York Rockaway Beach Railway; 16 killed and 50 injured. Great fire and rioting in Rome. 29. Terrible cyclone in America; 600 lives reported lost. 31. Celliery riots in Derbyshire and elsewhere. 8EPTKMBBR 1. Railway disasters: Collapse of a bridge near Chester, Mass., over which a train was passing—15 killed and many injured; collisions near Swansea and in Paris. Appearance of cholera in Grimsby and in Hull. 4. Fatal fire at Fulhain; five lives loot. 6. Rioting amongst miners in South Wales. Ardlamont shooting mystery, Mr. Monson committed for murder. 7. Serious mining riots at Featherstone; soldiers fire on the rioters; three men killed many wounded. 12. M. Charles de Lesseps released from Erison. 15. Several deaths from cholera in Eng- ind. Mutiny at Aldershot. 16. Railway collision in Box Tunnel, Great Western Railway; many injured. 19. Fatal fire at Whiteohapel; five lives lost. 20. Tragedy in Regent-square, King's-cross two men and a woman murdered. 26. Three cholera deaths at Hall. 29. Body of a farmer found terribly mutilated sear High Wycombe. Qcrosra 3. Murder and suicide at XaHng. 6- Cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico; 2000 livee lost. 11. Boating fatality near Kirkwall; six drowned. 18. Railway accident near Jackson, Michigan; 18 killed, and 34 injured. 17. Coal strike rioting near Leeds; police overpowered. 21. Mr. and Mrs. Phelan sen- tenced at Chester to hard labour for brutally assault- ing their infant children. 26. Suicide of the Hon. F. C. Howard. 30. At the Central Criminal Court the four Indian oculists," indioted for conspiracy to defraud, were found not guilty. 31. Inquest on body of Mrs. Blowse; verdict, suicide whilst insane, proved to have been on intimate terms with Hon. F. C. Howard. NOVEMBRR 2. Earthquake shocks in Cornwall and West Wales. 3. Sharp T. Sharp and Walton divorce case. Queen's Proctor's intervention dismissed. Terrible catastrophe at Santaader in Spain, dynamite- laden ship blew up, wrecking the town and killing and injuring hundreds of the inhabitants. 8. Libel appeal of Mr. J. H. Wilson, M.P., dismissed. Shocking bomb outrage in the Lycee Theatre, Barcelona 30 persons killed and 80 injured. Commencement of the prosecution of Mr. C. B. Harness and some of his assistants for alleged fraud in connection with the advertisement and sale of electropathic belts," &o. 15. Great fire near Newgate prison. 17. The Rose- bery conference concerning the disastrous coal dispute resulted in an agreement between masters and men. 18 & 19. Great gale swept over the United Kingdom unparalleled loss of life on land and sea. 21. Bomb outruge at Valencia. 27. Explosive pack- age found near Aldborough barracks, Dublin; later, a man named Reid, who had been suspected of com- plicity, found mysteriously murdertod. 29. Court of Appeal dissmissed Miss Mighell's breach of promise suit against the Sultan of Johore. DECEMBER 3. Two arrests in connection with an Anarchist disturbance in Trafalgar-square. 4. Prof. Tyndall inadvertently poisoned by chloral. 6. Fall of a gallery at Bristol drill hall; several injured. 7. Featherstone riots Commissioners exonerated soldiers from blame in the death cases. 8. Murder of a governess at Henley. 9. Sensational bomb outrage in the Paris Chamber of Deputies; many persons in- jured. 12. Commencement of the Ardlamont trial. Great gale in the south of England. 13. Fatal gun- powder explosion at Waltham Abbey. Zeirenberg libel suit: verdict for Mr. Labouchere. 15. Fatal fire at Portsmouth. 17. Social democrats arrested in Trafalgar-square for obstructing the police. 19. Woman burnt to death at Fulham. 20. Terrifio gale in Channel—much damage. NOTABLE FOREIGN AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS OF THE YEAR. On January 5 particulars were received at Wady Haifa of heavy losses sustained in a fight with the Dervishee. Princess Marie of Edinburgh and Prince Ferdinand of Roumania were married on the 10th at Sigmaringen. Our Government objected on 15th to the appointment of Riaz Pasha as Premier of Egypt. King Milan and Queen Natalie of Servia were recon- ciled on the 19th. On the 20th a riot at lchang was quelled by an English gunboat. At Vienna, on the 24th, the Archduchess Sophia and Duke Albrecht of Wurtemburg were wedded. The Earl of Jersey resigned the Governorship of New Sooth Wales on ttieTMune oate, ana ijoM JJuffenn m* flay rollowing made known to the French Ministry the decision arrived at by her Majesty's Government with regard to the increase of the British garrison in Egypt, Princess Margaret of Prussia and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse were married on the 25th. Presi- dent Kruger, of the Transvaal Republic, was re- elected. Severe fighting was reported in Upper Burmah on February the 1st, and on the 7th the commission ap- pointed by the French Chamber to enquire into the Panama frauds recommended a prosecution of 10 persons concerned. On the 9th MM. Ferdinand and Charles de Lesseps, Fontane, Cottu, and Eiffel were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, and mulcted in fines in connection with the scandal. Jules Ferry was chosen President of the Senate on the 24th. On the 27th 500 English aid Scottish pilgrims were received at the Vatican by the Pope on the occasion of his Jubilee. President Cleveland withdrew from the considera- tion of the American Senate the draft treaty for the annexation of Hawaii early in March, and on 15th the first of a series of Antipodean banking sensations was published, the managing director, auditor, and accountant of the Anglo-Australian Bank being sen- tenced to long terms of imprisonment for malprac- tice. Queen Victoria arrived at Florenoe on the 23rd, and the same date the Princess of Wales and her daughters had audience of the Pope. The Behring Sea Arbitration was opened in Paris on the 24th, and on the 30th the French Ministry resigned. The latter date saw also the floating of H.M.S. Howe, and her towage into Ferrol Harbour. M. Dupuy formed a Cabinet in France on April 4, which was also the date of the closing of the doors of the Commercial Bank of Australia; its reconstruction took place a few days later. On the 13th King Humbert visited Queen Viotoria at Florence, which date also witnessed a coup q; etat at Belgrade, whereby the Regency was dissolved. In mid-April great dis- turbances were reported from various Belgian towns; and on the 20th Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria was married to the Princess Marie Louise of Parma. The English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank suspended payment on the 12th, and eight days later the Australian Joint-Stock Bank at Sydney followed suit, while on the 25th the London Chartered Bank of Australia was announced to be in the same unenvi- able position, the Standard Bank of Australia joining its foregoers in trouble on the 28th. The World's Fair at Chicago, opened on the 1st of May, on which date was also announced the suspension of the National Bank of Australia. The Colonial Bank of Australia added to the finaneial oanic on the 5th by notifying a similar condition of things; and the Bank of Victoria suspended on the 9th. On the 11th announcement was made of the appointment of Lord Aberdeen as Canadian Viceroy, and on the 15th the Antipodean crisis was intensified by the suspension of the Queensland National Bank, the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, and the Bank of North Queensland, while the day following the City of Melbourne Bank also suspended payment, and on the 17th the Royal Bank of Queensland was added to the already appalling number. From Greece, on the 20th, the Princess of Wales returned to Britain. On the 25tb, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly passed a bill to afford immediate relief to depositors in the many sospended banks. Heavy fighting between the Ameer's foroes and the Hazaras was reported from Afghanistan on the 1st of June. On the 9th Lieut. General Sir John Hudson, Commander-in-Chief in the Bombay Presi- dency, was killed by a fall from his horse. A scene" occurred in the French Chamber on the 22nd, on the reading of extracts from documents alleged to have been stolen from the British Embassy—a charge which subsequently proved to have been unfounded. The text of the stolen docu- ments hoax was published on the 24th in the Cocarde, and read in the French Chamber by M. Millevoye, who paid JE400 for them to the forger Norton. At Malta on the 30th arrived the survivors from the ill-fated war-ship Victoria. Students' riots took plaoe in Paris at the commence- ment of July, many persons being fatally injured. On the 5th of the same month the Camperdown arrived safely at Malta. The New Zealand Mercantile Agency suspended payment on the same date. The German Army Bill was read on the 13th by a small majority. News was received on the 17th that the French had carried two forts on the Upper Mekong on which date also the court-martial concerning the lose of the Victoria opened at Malta. On the 20th a Matabele rising was reported from Fort Victoria. Lord Dufferin on the 21et wassent to Paris toexchange views with the French Government on the Siam ulti- matum, and on the 24th France announced its blockade of the Siamese coast, TheQueensland National Bank scheme of reconstruction was unanimously approved by shareholders on the 25th, and on the 27th the Victoria court-martial found the terrible disaster off the coast of Tripoli entirely due to Admiral Tryon's orders, and Captain Bourke and all survivors were acquitted of blame. The blockade was raised in Siam on August 6th, and the French flag hauled down from the island of Koh si-chang. President Cleveland, in his Message to the United States Congress on the 8th recom- mended the repeal of the Sherman Act. Serious rioting occurred in Bombay between Hindoos and Mabommedans on the 11th; the military was oalled eut, and 250 deaths were reported, 1500 prisoners being taken. A state of revolutionary turmoil waa announced at Buenos Ayres on the 14th, and the Behring Sea Arbitration award, promulgated on the 15th, was regarded as satisfactory to Great Britain. A revolt occurred on the 22ad at a British East Africa Company's station, Turki Kill; Mr. Hamilton, superintendent, assassinated. The Duke of Edinburgh succeeded on the 23rd to the Dukedom of Saxe- Coburg andGotha. Riots took place in Rome on the 24th; several tramcars burned and traffic stopped. The United States House of Representatives passed the bill for the repeal of the Sherman Silver Act by a majority of 129 on the 28th. It was confidently stated on the 4th of September by a missienary who had arrived in London from Ujiji that Emin Pasha had been murdered and his followers eaten by natives. An Electoral Reform Bill, conferring the Parliamentary franchise on women, waa on the 8th passed by the Legislative Council of New Zealand. The first day of the year 5654 of the Jewish era was celebrated on the 11th as a day of atonement. On the 12th was announcedthe establishment of a British Protectorate over the Solomon Isles. Rio de Janeiro was on the 14th bom- barded by insurgent warships. The French coal miners on the 18th, emulating their fellow workers in England, turned out on strike. Sir Henry Norman on the 20th withdrew his acceptance of the Indian Viceroyalty. While the Camperdown was leaving Malta harbour for a trial after undocking on the 25th, her helm jammed and she stranded, but the ahip was shortly afterwards floated. The blockade of Rio waa renewed on the 26th. On the 2nd of October it was reported from Fort Victoria that Captain White's scouts had been fired on by a body of Matabele. Heavy fighting took place at Melilla, in Northern Morocco, on the 3rd, between the Spanish garrison and Moorish tribes. Sir Mortimer Durand's mission to the Ameer of Afghani- stan arrived at Cabul on the 4th. A skirmish between the Matabele and Imperial police tcok place on the 6th; and the same day saw many persons killed and great alarm occasioned by the continued bombardment of Rio. Count Taafe, at the opening of the Austrian Reichsrath, on the 10th, introduced a bill for the extension of the franchise. The appointment of Lord Elgin as Indian Viceroy was approved by the Queen on the llth. The accouche- ment of the Crown Princess of Roumania took place on the 15th. Marshal Macmahon died in France on the 17th; and Gounod, the composer, next day. An engagement was reported on the 21st between the Matabeleand Mashonalandsettlers; 100 natives killed, Captain Campbell fatally injured. The Maharajah Dhuleep Sing died in Paris on the 23rd; and the 25th saw the funeral of Lord Vivian, British Ambas- sador to Rome. From Matabeland, on the 27th, oame news of the shooting of Lobengula's envoys. The Spanish General was killed on the 29th in the renewed fighting at Fort Melilla. Sir John Abbott, late Premier of Canada, died on the 31st. November 1 brought news of the total defeat of the Matabele and flight of Lobengula; 3000 killed and wounded. Another battle, in whioh aix officers and natives were killed, took place on the 8th. On the 7th was reported an attack upon a British Mission in the Shire officer and two soldiers stabbed to death. One thousand more Matabele killed in action on the 9th, Buluwayo being burned. M. Casimir-Perier was elected President of the New French Chamber on the 14th. Sir Robert Morier, British Ambassador to St. Petersburg, died on the 16th, and Prince Alexander of Battenberg the day following. An attempt to blow up the Nelson monu- ment in Montreal was happily frustrated on the 20th. The Brazilian rebel ironclad Javary was sunk, with all hands, on the 23rd; and towards the close of the month muoh alarm was occasioned at Marseilles and elsewhere on the Continent by Anar- chist activity. President Cleveland's Message to Congress, announcing important intentions as regards tariff reform, was read at Washington on December 4. A dastardly bomb outrage was committed by an Anarchist within the precincts of the French Cham- ber in Paris on the 9tb, great excitement following the sensational act, whereby many deputies and atrangerawere more or less seriously injured. 13. In- surrection in Brazil. 14. Major Forbes's party attacked in Matabeleland, several wounded. 15. New Italian Cabinet formed. 18. Rioting in Sicily. 20. Anarchist outrage attempted at Prague. OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS IN 1893. AT HOME. In January died Mr. William Summers, MJP.; Mr. Thos. Shaw, M.P.; Prof. Westwood, *;he entomolo- lilt; Hawley Smart, sporting novelist; Fanny Kemble, actress; Dr. Wm. Price, the Welsh Druid Baron Elphinstone; Mr. Thompson Bat key, of the Bank of England; Lords St. Oswald, Duasandle, 60ft Stratheden and Campbell. During February there died Sir Walter Barttelot, M.P.; Mr. Louis Jennings, M.P.; Mr. J. F. McCarthy, M.P.; Lord Braboume; Quartermasatr-Geneial Sir Thos. Baker; Admiral Sir A. Cumming; Rev. F. O. Marris, natural historian; John Pettie, painter; Sir Chas. Lewis, ex-M.P.; Baron Northbourne; and Sir Andrew Walker, of Liverpool. The March death-roll contained the names of the IOUI i>uk..i U-d.C.J. o-.a^auey, m. 011. Bovill, Colonial Justice; Mr. Abington" Baird, sportsman; Sir Howard Elphinstone and Sir John Errington, both ex-M.P.'s; Sir G. Findlay, railway magnate; Prof. Minto; and Dr. Samuel Cox, of the Expositor. The April deaths included those of Mr. Vicat Cole, BoA. the Earl of Derby; Lord Mowbray and Stoughton; Lord Hampton; Lord Deramore; John Addington Symonds, poet and critic; and Father Coleridge, S.J. The May obituary opened with the name of Maria, Marohioness of Ailesbnry, and there died also during the Bame month the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire, Lord Wm. Paulet, and Baron Petre; Sir James Anderson of Great Eastern renown; Sir T. A. Jones, President Royal Hibernian Academy Prof. Pritchard, astronomer; Sir James Dormer, Commander-in-Chief of Madras; and Capt. Portal, of the Uganda mission. In June were recorded the deatha of Sir Geo. Tryon, drowned with between 300 and 400 of the officers and crew of H.M.S. Victoria off Tripoli; Mr. Francis Dymoke, the Queen's champion; Baron Calthorpe; William Cook, billard crack; Sir John Hudson, Commander-in-Chief of Bombay; Mr. Arthur Lockyer, many years editor of the Graphic Sir William Mackinnon, founder of the British East Africa Company Sir Lothian Nicholson, Governor of Gibraltar Sir Theophilus Shepstone, many years an African colonial official; and George Potter, prominent as a trade unionist. I Prof. Nettleship, Latin scholar, died during July, as well as Prof. Lushington, of Greek fame; Dr. John Rae, Arctic explorer; Frederick Burgess, the minstrel; Annie Pratt, botanist; Sir Thomas Martineau, of Birmingham; Baron Decies; and Messrs. Henri Josse and J. D. Allcroft, ex-M.P.'s. During August died Sir Edward Hamley, soldier, strategist, and writer; Sir Arnold White, her Majesty's solicitor; Mils Carlotta Leclercq, actress; Dr. Chester; Bishop of Killaloe; Sir William Cusins, "Master of the Musicke tbe Dowagei Marchioness of Huntley; the Dowager Countess of Jersey; and the Dowager Viscountess Middleton. September saw the deaths of Baron Belhaven and Lady Armstrong Principal Cunningham, of St. Andrews; Lloyd Morgan, Q.C., and ex-M.P. Surgeon-Major Parke, of the Emin Pasha Relief Ex- Sdition; Ix>rd Alfred Spencer-Churchill; Albert oore, painter and General Sir A. A. Nelson. In October died Dr. Jowett, Master of Balliol; David James, comedian Sir Stevenson Blackwood, of the Post Office; Ford Madox Brown, artist; Viaoount Stormont; Most Rev. R. B. Knox, Primate of all Ireland; and the Hon. F. C. Howard (by suicide). The November obituary included General Sir C. Teesdale, Master of Ceremonies to the Queen Lord Ffrench and Sir Andrew Clark, the famous medico. During December died the Duke of Leinster; the Dowager Duchess of St. Albans; the EArl of Warwick; Professor Tyndall; Sir George Elvey, Mns. Doc.; Admiral Sir John Corbett; and the Bishop of Nottingham. ABROAD. America lost in January two noted statesmen— Rutherford Hayes, ex-President, and ex-Secretary Blaine, and her most popular preacher, Dr. Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts. Other deaths of note abroad included Don Carlos's wife, the Duohess of Madrid, and Don Martoa, an eminent Spanish poli- tician. General Beauregard, Confederate officer, died at New Orleans in February; and the death was also announced of King George Tqtfeou, of Tonga. Daring March died the Saltan of Zanzibar; M. Jules Ferry, late President of the French Senate; Edhem Pasha, Turkish diplomat; and M. Taine, French historian. April saw the demise of Cardinal Appoloni at Rome; M. de Candolle, botanist; Manuel Gonzalez, ex-President of Mexico; Mr. John Ballance, Premier of New Zealand; Lucy Larcom, American poetess; and Prince Korsakoff, Russian Governor of Bulgaria. The Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont and Prince I George of Sohaumburg-Lippe died in May; as did Captain Richard Pike, Arctic navigator (at St. John's, Newfoundland); Privy Counciller von Bismarck, I brother of the Iron Chancellor Prof. Moleschott, eminent Italian physiologist; and Chung How, Chinese ambassador. In June the deaths were announced of Duke Max of Bavaria Edwin Booth, American tragedian; Sir William Fox, four times Premier of New Zealand and the Duo d' Uzes, African explorer. There died in July Guy de Maupassant, the French novelist; Baron von Bauer. Aostro-Hungarianat&tea- man; Rear-Admiral Earl English, U.S. Navy; and General Arias, Governor of Havannah. The August death-roll included the names of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Dr. Charcot, French medical specialist; General A. J. Gonzales, of Cuban celebrity M. Marinovitch, Servian Minister to London; Prof. MiilJer, of Diisseldorf; and Prince Bishop Zwrger of Styria. In September died Prince William of Holstein- Glucksburg; Jerome Napoleon Buonaparte; Sir Alexander Gait, Canadian statesman; General de Miribel, French soldier; and Count de Bylandt, Netherlands Minister to London. D"ring October the following deaths took place: General von Kanieke, ex-Prussian War Minister; Marshal MacMahon, eminent French soldier and statesman; Gounod, the composer; the Maharajah ) Dbuleep Singh M. Linoel, Vice-President of the French Senate; Lord Vivian, British Ambassador to Rome; and Sir John Abbott, the late Canadian Premier. The November death list included Cardinal Lauro Lawrenzi; Dr. Tschaikowski; Sir Robert Morier, British Ambassador to St. Petersburg; Prince Alexander of Battenberg. In December died Vincent Cordean, a famous marine painter of Toulon, and Professor von der Gabelentz, the eminent German Orientalist.