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23. The funeral of President Faure took place in Paris, and was made the occasion of an impressive spectacle. After a service at Notre Dame the body was conveyed to P6re-la-Chaise, where orations were delivered by several ministers and functionaries.

— The election for the Rotherham division of West Yorkshire consequent on the retirement of Mr. A. H. Dyke-Acland (L.), resulted in the return of Mr. W. H. Holland (L.) by 6,671 votes against 4,714 polled by Mr. Vernon H. Wragge (U.).

— Three French deputies of the extreme anti-Dreyfus faction, M. D£roulfede, M. Marcel Habert, and M. Millevoye, arrested for attempting to persuade the troops to take part in a manifestation against the Government.

24. News reached Cairo that the Khalifa had assembled a large force of his own tribe, the Baggara, in Kordofan, and was threatening the Nile.

— The Waterloo Coursing Cup won by Mr. E. Roger's Black Fury ; the Purse by Mr. T. Quihampton's Quite Bright, and the Plate by Mr. R. J. M. Wilson's Wild Oats.

— In the House of Commons Mr. John Morley's motion censuring the Government policy in the Soudan, made on the vote for its expenses (215,000Z.), defeated by 167 to 58 votes.

— The Paris correspondent of the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna expelled from Paris on the ground of having written too favourably of Dreyfus.

25. At Johannesburg the policeman charged with the murder of a British subject named Edgar acquitted by the jury before whom he was tried.

— At Paris domiciliary visits paid by the police to the houses of the leading Royalists, and in many cases papers were seized.

— The Due d'Orleans, who on the news of President Faure's death had suddenly come to Brussels, returned to Turin.

27. The Duke of Connaught laid the foundation-stone of the English church of St. Mark at Assouan.

— M. Pavloff, Russian Minister at Pekin, formally protested against the terms of the contract of the Niu Chwang railway extension loan.

— In the German Reichstag, the Foreign Minister, Herr von Biilow, stated to the Budget Committee that the agreement made between Germany and Great Britain in the previous autumn was to be kept secret for the present.

28. The English Church Union, at a meeting held at Cannon Street Hotel, adopted a resolution denying the right of the Crown or of Parlia- ment to determine the doctrine, discipline and ceremonial of the Church of England.

— The ex-Queen of Madagascar, who had previously been interned at Reunion, arrived at Marseilles on her way to Algiers.