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In the British Empire the month has not been unattended by anxieties from without and disasters at home, the latter, although non-political, involving wholesale destruction of human life under exceedingly painful circumstances. The suffocation of 182 children in a public hall at Sunderland will rank among domestic calamities which become historic, and the oversetting of the steamship Daphne on the Clyde, and consequent drowning of 130 workmen, was another fatality equally unlooked for and lamentable. Politically, the month has been rife in foreign complications, which, although not imminently serious, tended to disturb those who are responsible for British policy. Internally, on the other hand, it has been a period of prosperity and promise. Queen Victoria, having returned to Windsor, continued to avoid the fatigues of State ceremonials, but the reports of Her Majesty's health witnessed to a gradual restoration of strength, and incidents arose, when, as was particularly the case with the Sunderland calamity, the Queen's womanly sympathy with her afflicted subjects brought her into intimate relations with the outer world. The Prince of Wales presided at various Court entertainments, and also accompanied his younger son on board the Canada into the Channel when Prince George sailed for

his prolonged cruise on the North American station. The Prince of Wales's elder son, Albert Victor, is about to go into residence at the University.

Parliament has shown greater activity than in the earlier part of its session. The House of Lords roused conflicting prejudices to a high state of excitement by its inconsistent course with regard to the Bill for legalising marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister. The second reading of the measure was carried by 165 votes against 158, chiefly by means of the support given it by members of the Royal Family. Their lordships were then thought to have finally settled the question, which has been in suspense for many years, but on the third reading of the Bill a vigorous effort was made by the minority, acting under the influence of the Bishops, and the Bill was thrown out by 145 votes against 140. The House of Commons, after working for a considerable period under extreme pressure, has consented to employ its whole time in the consideration of business introduced by the Government, thus enabling the Ministry to proceed with a considerable proportion of the Bills they introduced at the beginning of the Session, Mr. Gladstone at the same time announced his intention to persevere in an experiment, undertaken with the object of relieving the Legislature of some part of its duties, by committing the detailed consideration of technical Bills to Committees.

Meanwhile, the bye-elections in the United

Kingdom have been generally favourable to the Government, with one notable exception, that of the return of Mr. Healy, an Irish Nationalist, for the Ulster county of Monaghan, which at the general election had returned a Liberal candidate by a large majority. But on this occasion Mr. Healy obtained 2276 votes and the Liberal candidate only 274. Mr. Parnell, in discussing the election, declared it to be the precursor of a restoration of independent legislative powers to Ireland. On the whole, Ireland has shown increased tranquility. tion from the pauperised districts in the EmigraWest, which had been carried on actively with Government aid and by help from private sources, was checked by a decision of the American Government, rejecting a large number of the emigrants on the ground that they were paupers. Empire, both the South African dependenIn the Colonial cies and the Australian Governments have been to some extent at variance with the Imperial authority. In South Africa the native question is at issue, and the Australian colonists are much moved by the refusal of Mr. Gladstone's Government to sanction a policy of extension which would bring Oceania as a whole within the Empire.

India is still agitated by the delay which attends the final decision of the authorities upon the Ilbert Bill, by which natives would be rendered capable of exercising judicial authority over the Europeans. In England as well as in India political agitation on this subject has developed to considerable proportions. An outbreak of cholera in Egypt, which spread panic among the maritime populations bordering the Mediterranean, excited some apprehension at the English ports, but the Government decided to abide by the practice of the past fifty years and to enforce no quarantine.

formance in London Mr. Irving Bishop claimed to have won £1000 from Mr. Labouchere, M.P., as forfeit upon a wager.

dence from the Duke of Cambridge, comChannel Tunnel Committee received evimander-in-chief of the British Army, against the construction of the tunnel.

ham of the twenty-fifth year of Mr. John June 13.-Public celebration at BirmingBright's representation of the town in Parliament.

June 14.-Mr. Gladstone's Government government of Basutoland, the Cape Colony announced their intention to resume the having been unable to maintain order there.

dynamite conspirators, Thomas Gallagher,
Penal servitude for life awarded to the
Whitehead, Wilson, and Curtin, who were
found guilty at the Old Bailey, London, of a
buildings in England.
treasonable plot for the destruction of public
and Ansburgh, two of the men accused, were
acquitted.
Bernard Gallagher

suffocated in a crush on the stairs of the
June 16.-Nearly two hundred children
Victoria Hall, Sunderland, where they had
been present with 2000 others at an enter-
tainment.

Camp.
June 17.-Military riots at the Curragh

in Parliament to declare Mr. John Bright
June 18.-Sir Stafford Northcote proposed
guilty of breach of privilege for language
used at the Birmingham festivities respect-
ing the Conservative party. Motion de-
feated by 151 to 117.

of Wales at the International Fisheries ExFisheries Conference opened by the Prince hibition.

pugned in parliament by a motion of Mr. P.
June 19.-Compulsory vaccination im-
A. Taylor, but upheld by a vote of 286 to 16.

British Fisheries, written by the Duke of
At the Fisheries Conference a paper on
Edinburgh, was read by the Prince of
Wales.

46th year of sovereignty.
June 20.-Celebration of Queen Victoria's

June 22.-Collision off Portland between
sank, with loss of 25 lives.
the Hurunui and Waitara, in which the latter

The Empire has been embroiled in petty warfare with natives of the West Coast of Africa, and, nearer home, French journalists and politicians have continued to express jealousy with regard to their neighbour's proceedings, more particularly in Egypt, Oceania, and Madagascar. which arose respecting the Suez Canal are, The difficulties however, in course of friendly settlement, M. de Lesseps having passed some time in London upon the invitation of the Government, with the result that bases of agree-removed. ment for the construction of a second canal have been arrived at.

June 11-Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Bill read a second time in the House of Lords, by 165 votes against 158.

First prize, International Chess Tournament, awarded to Dr. Zuketort.

James Carey, the approver in the Phoenix Park tragedy, declared by the Irish Courts not to have vacated his seat in Dublin Town Council.

stationed at the public buildings in London.
June 23.-Military guards, which had been
on account of the dynamite conspiracy, were

June 26.-Exhibition of Irish lace opened.
and Duchess of Connaught.
at the Mansion House, London, by the Duke

Severe earthquake shocks reported from
the West of England.

Meeting of Anglo-Indians in London to native magistrates of India jurisdiction over protest against Government proposal giving Europeans.

Outbreak of cholera reported from DamiJune 12-At a "thought-reading " per- British troops were endangered. etta and other Egyptian towns, by which

June 27.--Sir Charles Tupper, K.C.M.G., High Commissioner for Canada, in succession to Sir Alexander Galt, arrived in London. Oxford and Cambridge yearly cricket match at Lords'. Cambridge won by seven wickets.

June 28. Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Bill rejected on third reading by House of Lords-145 votes against 140.

June 29.-Irish emigrants refused by the United States Government as paupers.

June 30.-Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., presides at the annual dinner of the Cobden Club, and comments upon the withdrawal' of several Whig noblemen and gentlemen from the Club, on the eve of his presidency. July 2-Lord Derby announces in Parliament that Government will not permit the annexation of New Guinea by Queensland.

: Nationalist triumph at Monaghan election, Mr. Healy being returned-voting, Healy (Nationalist) 2276, Monroe (Conservative) 2011; Pringle (Ministerialist) 274.

July 3.-Disastrous fatality at the launch of the Daphne steamship, on the Clyde; the vessel overturned, drowning 130 persons who were on board.

July 4. Manchester Ship Canal Bill passed the Parliamentary Committee.

Mr. Henry Irving entertained at a public banquet, the Lord Chief Justice of England presiding, in recognition of his public services as an actor and manager, he being about to visit America..

Pigeon-shooting matches declared a nuisance by Mr. Justice Stephen.

July 5.-Rumoured annexation by France of the New Hebrides Islands between Australia and New Caledonia.

Ironworkers' riots in Staffordshire. Twenty thousand men " on strike " assemble to coerce men who continue at work in face of reduced wages.

Queen Victoria holds the first investiture of the new order of the Royal Red Cross, founded as a recognition of the services of ladies in nursing the sick and wounded during war.

July 6.-General Booth, leader of the Salvation Army, is declared in the Court of Queen's Bench to have forfeited for breach of covenant the Eagle Tavern, which had been purchased for twenty-thousand pounds by public subscription.

Women's suffrage negatived in the House of Commons by a majority of 130 votes to 114. July 7.-City of London College, for the benefit of clerks and mechanics, which had been erected at a cost of sixteen thousand pounds, opened by the Prince of Wales. The new College opens with four thousand students at evening and other classes.

July 9-Twenty-fourth annual gathering of riflemen at Wimbledon; the number of volunteers present the greatest on record.

Mr. Bradlaugh having written to the

Premier that he would come to the House of Commons and take his seat, regardless of the prohibition of the House, is excluded by a majority of 232 votes against 65 on the motion of Sir Stafford Northcote.

Mansey and Naughton sentenced to penal servitude at Sligo, for attempting to blow up premises in Galway with dynamite.

James Carey, the approver of the Phoenix' Park trials, is reported to have been sent out of Ireland clandestinely, having been refused either the reward or the written pardon which he claimed.

July 10.-The Channel Tunnel scheme is reported upon by the Joint Committee of Lords and Commons. Six members out of ten are averse to the making of the Tunnel, but on different grounds.

An arrangement between the British Government and the Suez Canal Company for the construction of a second canal is announced in Parliament.

THE UNITED STATES.

WHILE the full tide of prosperity witnessed in some past years is not shown by the latest revenue statistics to have continued, the prospects of the coming harvest are reported to be excellent, notwithstanding the severe climatic influences of the recent months. Great storms have again been reported; in New England cyclones have occasioned much loss of life and property, and similar losses have taken place in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Indiana from tornadoes. An international question of a practical but not very difficult character has arisen in connec tion with the deportation of large numbers of poor people from the West of Ireland to the States. Among them many were found who had lately left poorhouses in Ireland, and were likely to become chargeable upon public funds in America, and the authorities of the ports instituted a stringent examination of all third-class passengers landed. No ill-will between the two countries resulted from this, and while communications were proceeding, American marksmen, who are to take part with a British team in the International Match at Wimbledon, sailed for England, where they have been hospitably received.

June 12.-Return of United States troops to Arizona, after a successful expedition against Apache Indians.

Tornadoes with loss of life reported from the West.

June 25.-Pauper immigration from Ireland being reported to have taken place to a large extent, the Emigration Commission and port authorities at New York detain 200 newly-arrived emigrants, of whom many are afterwards returned to Europe.

July 2.-Cyclone in New England. Fourteen persons killed.

July 3.-Messrs. Burne and Elam, news

paper editors at Richmond, Virginia, the latter a candidate for the State Governorship, fought a duel, in which Elam was seriously wounded.

FRANCE.

June 17.-International velocipede meeting at Bordeaux.

June 20.-Disturbances in South-western Tunis reported.

M. Jules Ferry, the Premier, opens the Museum of the French Revolution at Versailles, in the tennis-court of the Palace, where, on June 20, 1789, 635 National Deputies being excluded from parliament, began the revolutionary movement.

June 21.-Marquis Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador, has a protracted interview with M. Ferry, to discuss a friendly settlement of the differences of China and France respecting Annam.

June 23.-A letter from the Pope, remonstrating with the Republican Government upon its attitude to the Church, is received by M. Grévy, President of the Republic.

Hospital chapels in Paris closed by order of the Municipality.

June 25.-Louise Michel, Anarchist leader, sentenced to six years' imprisonment and ten years' police supervision, for participation in a riot in Paris.

Malagasy envoys leave Paris, by M. Jules Ferry's command, on their way to Madagascar.

June 30.-Comte de Chambord, Legitimist pretender to the throne of France, reported to be dying at his Austrian home, Frohsdorf.

AN aggressive colonial policy still appears to absorb the energies of M. Jules Ferry's administration. Bills authorising the formation of a special corps for foreign service have received the virtual assent of the Chambers, and large credits have been voted for military purposes, especially in connection with the threatened outbreaks in Tonquin, to which the melancholy death of Commandant Rivière has directed attention. China, as the suzerain of the Annamite king, has become involved in the differences of that potentate with the French, and during great part of the month the news from Paris related mainly to the efforts of M. ChallemelLacour and the Chinese Ambassador, Marquis Tseng, to effect a settlement of the disputed questions. At the same time attention has been directed to the military resources of the Pekin Government, which are vast though rude. The Chinese Government countermanded the sailing of a new ironclad, the Everlasting Peace, which had been completed by its order in England. In Tunis Si Slemari, the marabout who gave great trouble immediately after the annexation, has declared his readiness to submit, but another leader, July 8.-Comte de Chambord receives the Si El Haffron, now heads the insurgent Arabs | Orleans Princes at his bedside. of the South. Madagascar also continues to be the scene of French warfare. After taking possession of Majunga, on the north coast, the French admiral forwarded an ultimatum to the Queen of the Hovas, demanding recognition of a French protectorate over part of the island, payment of an indemnity of 1,500,000 francs, and a modification of the Malagasy land laws in favour of subjects of the Republic. This not being conceded, the Admiral has seized Tamatave and other parts and reduced the island as far as possible to a state of siege. Dynastic ques-doned. tions which had been latent since Marshal MacMahon's resignation of the Presidency, have been revived by the news unexpectedly received from Frohsdorf, in Austria, that the Comte de Chambord, the heir of the Bourbon kings, lay at the point of death. A pilgrimage of the Orleans Princes to Frohsdorf at once took place, and the Comte de Paris, head of that branch of the family, was received with cordiality by his dying cousin. June 10.-M. L'Hoste, an aeronaut, attempting to cross the English Channel in a balloon was blown to sea and eventually rescued from drowning by a lugger in the German Ocean.

June 15.-Plans for augmentation of the French army with a view to the establishment of colonial forces submitted to the Chambers, involving an outlay of 5,500,000 francs.

GERMANY.

ACUTE Conflict between Prince Bismarck and the parliamentarians of Germany continues to influence the Constitutional career of the Empire. Because of these differences the session of the German Parliament has been abruptly closed. The Prince-Chancellor has succeeded in obtaining the acceptance of his plan for a biennial budget, but his great Social projects have been aban

It is stated, also, that the divisions between extreme parties in the State have become intensified, and that moderate politicians have lost their influence. Serious inferences are drawn from the sudden retirement from political life of Herr Bennigsen, the most eminent of Constitutional politicians in Germany, and leader of the National Liberal party. Prince Bismarck, however, has carried an amended Ecclesiastical Law, which brings the Empire nearer to reconciliation with the Papacy. He has also concluded treaties of commerce with Italy and Madagascar, and arranged a meeting between the Emperor and the King of Denmark, the latter of whom is father-inlaw of the exiled heir to the Hanoverian throne, cousin of Queen Victoria. Germany at large, so far as it is Protestant, is preparing for the forthcoming celebration of the

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