12.-Sir Bartle Frere arrives at Zanzibar.

13. The Chancellor of the Exchequer intimates to Sir Henry Rawlinson on the part of Mr. Goschen and himself that they saw no pressing reason why an Arctic expedition should be sent out this year. "We give no opinion as to the expediency of such an expedition at a future time, but we are clearly of opinion that it would not be right to send out a second scientific expedition precisely at the moment when the public revenue has to bear the main burden of the expenses of the operations intrusted to the Challenger. I believe it has been erroneously stated that the Challenger expedition involves very little expense. That is not so.

The cost has already been considerable, and nothing has been spared to ensure success. There will further be an additional annual outlay for three years.

Apologizing for inability to address his constituents at this time, Mr. Bright writes to a friend :-"There are two questions to which you refer that are probably too large to be undertaken with any degree of completeness in the last years of a Parliament. I allude to the state of the county representation and to the land question. They seem to me the great questions of the immediate future, and the more they are discussed by the public the more will Parliament be prepared to deal with them. The question of expenditure is one which demands resolute handling. If the present Government is unable to grapple with it, it should only show us how great are the interests which oppose themselves to economy, and how much an earnest public opinion is wanted to arrest the extravagant and scandalous expenditure which every statesman in turn condemns, and which not one of them seems able to diminish."

15.-Funeral of the Emperor Napoleon at Chiselhurst. Between 2000 and 3000 of the most prominent Frenchmen in all walks of life under the Empire took part in the procession, and upwards of 50,000 English people congregated to witness the passing of the cortège from Camden House to the little Roman Catholic

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Chapel dedicated to St. Mary. The distance between these two places by the carriage road is about a quarter of a mile, and along both sides of the common there was a dense mass of people, while carriages were ranged three and four deep on one side of the way. The chief mourners were the Prince Imperial, Prince Napoleon (Jerome), Princess Joachim and Achille Murat, and M. Rouher. A deputation was also present from the army of Italy. The Prince Imperial met the friends of the Empire in the afternoon, and was saluted as Napoleon IV.

15.-Died, suddenly, J. B. Bergne, for many years head of the Treaty Department of the Foreign Office, which he entered in 1817.

The Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland resolve, by a majority of 55 votes against 38, to forward a protest to Government regarding the appointment of the Rev. Dr. R. Wallace, of Old Greyfriars Church, to the chair of divinity and church history in the University of Edinburgh, as being likely to be prejudicial to the interests of religion in Scotland.

17.-A number of applications having been made by officers of the French army to attend the funeral of the Emperor Napoleon, the War Minister writes to Marshal McMahon "The Government understands and respects the feelings of gratitude and affection which a certain number of officers continue to entertain for the Imperial family. It will certainly attribute no blame to those of them who, on the occasion of the death of the Emperor, considered it their duty to address letters to the Empress individually in testimony of their respectful sympathy. Such a course only does honour to those who write them, and I am sure that it is consistent with the obligations imposed upon them by their duty towards the legal Government recognized by France, for men of feeling are always men faithful to their duty. But you will also understand that, if I may permit some individual and isolated expressions of feeling, I cannot at the same time allow the army to desert its purely military duties and mingle in an agitation full of danger to discipline and the peace of the country."

A column of United States troops defeated by Modoc Indians, intrenched in caves at Kalmath, Oregon.

18.-Died at Torquay, aged 67, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton, novelist, poet, and critic, and Secretary of State for the Colonies from May 1858 to June 1859. Interred in Westminster Abbey on the 25th. "With the exception," the Times wrote, "of Scott, who, like Shakespeare, wrote for all men and all times, it would be hard to find a novelist who contributed more largely to popular enjoyment.

To Lord Lytton belongs the credit of first popularising what, in the modern sense of the word, may be termed the political novel. His novels, while invariably providing the reader with entertainment and diversion, invited him as invariably to turn his faculties to account by study, observation, and reflection."

18.-Died, suddenly, at Euston Hotel, Mr. S. R. Graves, M. P. for Liverpool.

Sir Bartle Frere entertained at a banquet by the Sultan of Zanzibar.

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Dr. Gottfried Hessel, a German clergyman, arrested at Ramsgate on the charge of being the murderer of Harriet Buswell, Great Coram Street. After being repeatedly before the magistrate, he was freely acquitted of all suspicion on the 30th.

19.-Died at Ockham Park, aged 91, the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, engaged with Brougham and Denman in the defence of Queen Caroline, and judge for thirty years of the Court of Admiralty.

20. Died at Stanmore, aged 74, the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, an Evangelical clergyman who had seceded from the Church of England to the Baptist body.

Mr. Guildford Onslow, M.P., and Mr. Whalley, M.P., fined 100l. for contempt of court in speeches made at Tichborne defence meetings.

The Pope receives a deputation from the British section of the League of St. Sebastian, recently organized to maintain the temporal powers of the Holy See.

21.-Defending Roman Catholic loyalty at Sheffield, Archbishop Manning asks: How could Catholics, who believed that the Church was one, identify themselves very closely with a State which admitted all creeds and all forms of worship on the same level? How could they be in sympathy with a State which encouraged secular education? Was there any wonder that under such circumstances as these Catholics should isolate themselves? But who was in fault? Catholics remained true to the principles which had united the Christian world, and they could not compromise those principles. But outside that circle, and in all things that did not hinge upon their duty to God, they were the staunchest and the most loyal of Englishmen. Lord Denbigh some years ago defined the position clearly when he declared that he was a Catholic first and an Englishman afterwards. Dr. Manning then went on to remark that it was said that Ultramontanism was opposed to progress, but he could not pretend to understand this assertion. The Christian world was created by Christianity. Christianity was the Church; the Popes were the head of the Church. The Papacy was Ultramontanism, and Ultramontanism, therefore, had brought about the advancement made up to the sixteenth century.

21.-The masses at Paris for the Emperor Napoleon attended by large numbers of friends of the Empire.

22.-A crime of unusual magnitude and inhumanity was committed this evening near midnight about two miles off Dungeness, by the Spanish steamer Murillo running down the emigrant ship Northfleet, and heartlessly leaving over three hundred people to perish without the slightest offer of assistance. The ship Northfleet, Captain Knowles, 895 tons register, bound from London to Hobart Town, with a cargo of railway iron and emigrants, was at anchor or at the tress at eleven o'clock, with mast-head light burning, when she was run into and sunk about three-quarters of an hour afterwards. The panic on board was described as terrible. The screams of the women and children were heard for miles, but the foreign steamer took no notice, nor could she be identified for several weeks. The pilot on duty said that when he was sitting in the saloon he heard the anchor watch cry out, "Pilot, pilot, come out!" He immediately rushed on deck, and was just able to see a steamer backing out from amidships. He saw that the riding light was burning properly. He instructed the captain to give orders to set the pumps to work, and then conferred with the captain as to what should be done next. The latter instructed that signals of distress should be burned. All the rockets that were on board the ship were sent up in succession. During the time there was great confusion among the passengers, and signs of distress among the women when they saw the ship was sinking. The quarterboats were lowered, and the captain, who retained perfect self-possession, ordered that the women and children should at once be got into them. There was a great rush of male passengers towards the boats, and, as far as witness could see, a boat, full of men, was cut away from the ship's davits. Two boats put away full of people. The ship was then rapidly settling down, and witness went into the rigging. He saw a number of persons struggling in the On recovering himself he was just able to see the mizzentop crosstree out of the water, and swam towards it. He clung to it till he was taken off. Out of the 412 passengers and crew only 85 persons were saved, and brought in a steamer and a lugger to the Sailors' Home at Dover. The wife of the captain was among the survivors. One man was shot in the leg by the captain, while endeavouring to prevent the passengers from crowding into the boats; the unfortunate commander, who displayed great heroism, went down with his vessel. Besides Mrs. Knowles, a woman with her baby and a little girl were saved.

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in the metropolis, argued in the Court of Queen's Bench, and the conviction of the police magistrate affirmed, thus establishing the validity of the new rule.

23.-Establishment of a parcel post between England and India.

Prince Arthur of England received by the Pope at a special audience at Rome.

24. The St. Petersburg Official Gazette announces that the recent "exchange of ideas" between the English and Russian Governments has been friendly, and shows "no divergence of views."

A deputation from the National Education Union wait upon Mr. Gladstone to urge "that compulsory education should be made general, but that in districts where no school boards have been elected, and where, owing to there being sufficient school accommodation, it is not desirable that any should be elected, the compulsory provisions should be carried out by the boards of guardians; and, lastly and chiefly, that the right of parents to select the school to which their children shall be sent, as embodied in the 25th section of the Education Act, shall be maintained." Mr. Gladstone thanked the deputation, and promised consideration of their requests.

26.-Died, at Lisbon, the Dowager Empress Amelia of Brazil, widow of Pedro I.

Died, at Florence, Miss Jane Blagden, authoress, the faithful companion and nurse of Mrs. Browning.

27.-Died, at Trinity College, Cambridge, aged 87, Adam Sedgwick, LL.D., an eminent geologist and Woodwardian Professor, who had graduated at Trinity as far back as 1808, when he was fifth Wrangler, the late Lord Langdale being senior, and the late Bishop of London, Dr. Blomfield, third. Professor Sedgwick was senior of his college at death.

Sir George Honyman takes his seat in the Court of Common Pleas.

28. - The French Commission of Thirty adopt the principle of a Second Chamber, but without deciding on the way in which it is to be elected or what are to be its functions.

29. Mr. Skipworth, barrister, sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a fine of 500%. for contempt of court in his speeches at various towns on the Tichborne case. The Claimant was also ordered to find bail for three months.

Intimation made that Government would be prepared, under the exceptional circumstances of the apprehension and examination of Dr. Hessel, to defray the reasonable costs in. curred in his defence, and also to provide the necessary funds for the passage fares to Brazil of Dr. and Mrs. Hessel. "I am further," writes Mr. Cavendish, of the Treasury, "desired by Mr. Gladstone to request you to express to Dr. Hessel his sympathy for the painful position in which he has been placed." The doctor was afterwards presented with a public testimonial of over 1000l. as a mark of sympathy under the unmerited indignities to which he had been subjected.

4.-The London coal merchants advance the price of coals from 37s. to 45s. per ton.

5.-The Burmese mission take leave of her Majesty at Osborne.

6.-Parliament opened by Commission, the Royal Speech making reference to Sir Bartle Frere's mission to Zanzibar, the decision of the German Emperor on the San Juan reference, the Geneva arbitration, and the French Commercial Treaty. On the Central Asian question it was said:"It has been for some years felt by the Governments of Russia and the United Kingdom respectively, that it would be conducive to the tranquillity of Central Asia if the two Governments should arrive at an identity of view regarding the line which describes the northern frontier of the dominions of Affghanistan. Accordingly a correspondence has passed, of which this is the main subject. Its tenor, no less than its object, will, I trust, be approved by the public opinion of both nations." Bills were promised for settling the question of University Education in Ireland, and for the promotion of a Supreme Court of Judicature, including provision for the trial of appeals. Address agreed to without a division.

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8. The Count de Chambord writes to Bishop Dupanloup "Believe me, notwithstanding all its failings, France has not so far lost the sentiment of honour. It no more understands the head of the House of Bourbon denying the standard of Algiers than it would have understood the Bishop of Orleans consenting to occupy a seat in the French Academy in company of sceptics and atheists. I have not learned with less pleasure than the true friends of the country the presence of the Princes, my cousins, at the Chapelle Expiatoire on January 20; for, in appearing there to pray publicly in that monument consecrated to the memory of the Martyr King, they must have felt the full influence of a place so propitious to great teaching and generous inspirations. I have, then, neither sacrifices to make nor conditions to receive. I expect little from the ability of man, and much from the justice of God. When I am too bitterly tried, a glance at the Vatican re-animates my courage and strengthens my hopes. It is at this school of the illustrious captive that one acquires the spirit of firmness, resignation, and peace-of that peace which is assured to everyone who takes his conscience as his guide, and Pius IX. as his model."

Kew bridge opened free of toll, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs marching across at the head of a procession.

8.-The French Committee of Thirty appoint the Duc de Broglie as their reporter.

9.-Died, at Vienna, aged 83, the Dowager Empress Caroline Augusta, widow of the Emperor Francis.

10. Mr. Charles Reade obtains 2001. damages in an action against the Morning Advertiser for a criticism judged to be libellous on the plaintiff's dramatic piece "Shilly Shally.”

The Home Secretary submits to the Commons the new rules framed under the Parks Regulation Act, superseding those previously put in force by Mr. Ayrton. The new regulations provided that no public address of an unlawful character, or for an unlawful purpose, could be delivered in the Park, nor any assembly of persons permitted unless conducted in a decent and orderly manner.

11.-King Amadeus of Spain announces to the Cortes his intention to abdicate. It was a great honour, he said, to preside over the destinies of a country, however profoundly disturbed it might be, and he had resolved to keep his oath and respect the Constitution, believing that his loyalty would compensate for the errors due to his inexperience. "My good wishes," adds the King, "have deceived me, for Spain lives in the midst of a perpetual conflict. If my enemies had been foreigners, I would not abandon the task, but they are Spaniards. I wish neither to be the King of a party nor to act illegally; but believing all my efforts to be sterile, I renounce the Crown for myself, my sons, and heirs." The President then proposed that the King's message should be sent to the Senate, and that both Chambers should unite and assume the sovereignty. The abdication of the King was unanimously accepted, and the Cortes appointed a commission to draw up a reply to his Majesty's message. It was therein declared that "if any human forces could restrain the inevitable course of events, your Majesty, by your constitutional education and your respect for constituted right, would have completely and absolutely averted them. Penetrated with this truth, the Cortes, if it had been in their power, would have made the utmost sacrifice to persuade your Majesty to desist from your resolution and withdraw your abdication. But the knowledge they have

of the unbending character of your Majesty, the justice they do to the maturity of your ideas and to your perseverance in your resolutions, impede the Cortes from asking your Majesty to reconsider your determination, and bind them to notify you that they have assumed to themselves the supreme power and sovereignty of the nation, in order, under circumstances so critical, to provide, with the rapidity counselled by the gravity of the danger and the supreme crisis for the salvation of the democracy, the basis of our politics; of liberty, the soul of our rights; and of the nation, which is our mother, immortal and beloved."

11. Convocation of the Province of Canterbury meet in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, the Upper House engaging in a debate on an increase of the Episcopate, and the Lower on the Rubrics, the Burial Service, and Athanasian Creed. On the latter question, a Synodal Declaration was agreed upon after a long debate.

12.-Suspension announced of Peter Lawson and Sons, seedsmen, established in Edinburgh over a century.

Sir T. Chambers' Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill read a second time in the Commons by 126 to 87 votes.

The Spanish Assembly elect a government of Republicans and Radicals under the presidency of Señor Figueras.

King Amadeus and the Queen with their children leave Madrid for Lisbon, escorted by a guard of honour as far as the frontier.

13.-The Lord Chancellor introduces a measure for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature and a Court of Appeal. The Lord Chief Justice, he explained, was to preside over the High Court, composed of four divisions, representing respectively the Court of Queen's Bench, the Court of Chancery, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of Exchequer.

Each of these subordinate Courts was to have, in a general way, jurisdiction in all cases; and there would, therefore, be commenced a fusion of Law and Equity. The House of Lords was to cease from its judicial functions in English appeals, which were to be transferred to the Court of Appeal, consisting exclusively of Judges under the presidency of the Lord Chancellor. But the existing_procedure was still to apply to appeals from Scotland and Ireland; and Lord Selborne abstained from touching the subject of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, this being, as he observed, sui generis, and interfering with it at present would only diminish the prospect of passing any measure whatever.

Mr. Gladstone submits to the Commons his scheme for dealing with Irish University Education. He proposed to separate Trinity College, Dublin, from the Dublin University, and the Theological Faculty from Trinity College, Dublin. The precedent of England was to be followed in drawing a distinction, not merely theoretical, between the University and the College or Colleges in union with it; and the Theological Faculty was to be handed over to the Representative Body of the disestablished Irish Church, with a fund to be administered in trust to the purposes for which the Faculty had hitherto existed. The newly constituted Dublin University was to be a teaching as well as an examining body, though, on account of the unduly sensitive state of the Irish mind, neither theology, modern history, nor moral and metaphysical philosophy were to have a recognized place in the curriculum. The

Governing Body of the University would contain twenty-eight ordinary members, to be nominated in the first place by Parliament; but it was hoped that in ten years' time the University itself would be in a fit state to take its share in appointing its own governors. The University funds were to come in different proportions from the revenues of Trinity College, Dublin, from the Consolidated Fund, from the fees of students, and from the surplus of Irish ecclesiastical property. Trinity College, the Colleges at Cork and Belfast, and, if the rulers of those voluntary bodies thought fit, Magee College, and the so-called Roman Catholic University, would at once become members of the new University, which might hereafter be made still more comprehensive. The scheme was favourably received at first, but latterly gave rise to much hostile criticism both in and out of the House.

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17.-Monsignor Mermillod expelled from Swiss territory by the Federal Council. afterwards explained that the Holy See had appointed him to the office of Apostolic Vicariat because the Catholics had no longer a spiritual head, and because the form was one always used by the Holy See whenever there was a conflict of jurisdiction and it was desired to pave the way to an agreement. Monsignor Mermillod further declared that the Apostolic Vicariat was in no way identical with the erection of a diocesan see. Secondly, that the measure was temporary and provisional. Thirdly, that it attempted nothing against the rights of the State. Fourthly, that far from closing the pending negotiations between Church and State in Switzerland, it left the door open to every attempt at a treatment of the matters in dispute. The Bishop further added, that there were only three practical solutions of the problem of the relations of Church and State-viz., complete liberty, as in England and America; an agreement in the nature of a Concordat; or oppression. M. Mermillod was afterwards arrested and removed to Ferney.

18.-Joseph Xavier de Lizardi, of Lancaster Gate, examined at the Mansion House on a charge of obtaining 12,000. by false pretences from Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie and Co., in so far as he had handed over as part security a bill of lading for 1,300 quarters of wheat sold some