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ing confidence in the episcopacy, and sympathy with their efforts to secure a due observance of the rules prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer.

1. A sculling match, carrying with it the championship of England, rowed from Putney to Mortlake by George Towns (Australia) and W. A. Barry (Putney), the former winning easily by six lengths.

2. The Queen left Nice for England by way of Cherbourg, but was delayed in consequence of the strong winds prevailing in the Channel.

— Mr. Cecil Rhodes addressed in London a crowded meeting of the shareholders of the British South Africa Company, when he declared that the country was prospering, and its mineral riches becoming daily better known.

— The Russian Government appointed a commission to prepare a scheme for the reform of the national calendar.

3. The Italian Prime Minister, General Pelloux, announced the resignation of the Ministry in consequence of the hostile attitude of the Chamber on the Chinese policy of the Government.

— Ibrahim Ali, who had been sent to his uncle, the Sultan of Darfur, on a peaceful mission, arrived at Omdurman, his escort having been attacked by the new ruler of Darfur, Ali Dinar, and 120 out of 150 men killed.

— The Chester Cup won by an outsider, Mr. Teddy's Uncle Mac, 5 yrs., 7 st. 7 lb. (Finlay). Thirteen ran.

4. The Hungarian Prime Minister, M. Koloman Szell, made a remarkable speech in the Diet on the bill for the repression of electoral corruption. He strongly condemned the interference of the clergy from the pulpit in political matters.

— Great tension and excitement caused at Johannesburg and throughout the Transvaal by the publication of Mr. Chamberlain's despatch declaring the Dynamite Convention to be a breach of the London Convention.

— The Mahomedan population of Crete, notwithstanding promises of protection, emigrated in large numbers to the Turkish mainland and capital.

5. Lord Rosebery, speaking at a dinner at the City Liberal Club, advocated the revival of the old spirit of Liberalism as it existed before 1886, and expressed his belief that in this way the party would recover its power.

— M. Duruy, Professor of History at the ^cole Polytechnique, Paris, having been interrupted in his lectures by the disorderly con- duct of some anti-Dreyfus students, his course was suspended by order of the general in command. This action having been challenged in the Chamber, and the War Minister's action criticised, M. de Freycinet resigned.

— In Canada general disappointment felt and expressed in the Dominion Parliament at the niggardliness of the Imperial Govern- ment in the matter of the cable subsidy.