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20. M. Eugene Gue*rin, the leader of the Anti-Semitic League, who for thirty-eight days had defied the authorities and resisted arrest at his offices in the Rue de Chabrol, surrendered with his fourteen companions.

— Cardinal Cascajares and the Spanish bishops who had met in congress at Burgos, issued a statement of the principles on which Catholic union could alone be based, which were seventeen in number, claiming Catholic ascendency in everything, and the immunity of the clergy from civil restraints.

— The President of the Orange Free State, in answer to a memo- randum from the High Commissioner at the Cape notifying the •despatch of troops to watch the Transvaal frontier, gave it to be under- stood that the Free State and the Transvaal would stand together in the event of war with Great Britain.

21. A serious earthquake took place in the vilayet of Aidin, Asia Minor, doing enormous damage, and causing the death of fifty persons in Aidin alone.

— The president and 300 members of the British Association paid a visit to Boulogne, where they were most courteously received, and hospitably entertained by the authorities.

— At Algiers, M. Max R^gis, a leader of the Anti-Semites, provoked disorders in the town, which led to the looting of the Jews' quarter. M. Regis then took refuge in his villa, which he barricaded, but subse- quently fled, a warrant for his arrest on the charge of murder and attempted murder having been issued.

22. At Madrid the Supreme Military Court found Admiral Montijo guilty of negligence in surrendering his fleet at Manilla, and he was dismissed the service.

— The President of the Orange Free State, addressing the Volks- raad, declared that the Transvaal Government had been decoyed into making overtures to the British Government, and declared that if its independence were assailed the Free State would stand by the Transvaal.

— A Cabinet Council held at the Foreign Office, after which a further communication was made to the Transvaal, expressing regret at the refusal of the authorities to accept the last proposals of her Majesty's Government, which would forthwith proceed to formulate their own proposals for a settlement.

23. The Austrian Ministry of Count Thun, having promulgated the outstanding portions of the Ausgleich with Hungary, resigned their portfolios.

— The Cottage, Six Mile Bottom, a fine old Cambridgeshire mansion, containing many interesting relics, totally destroyed by fire.

— A court of inquiry held on board H.M.S. The Duke of Wellington in Portsmouth harbour with reference to two missing volumes of the " fleet signals."

— The liner Scotsman, from Liverpool to Montreal, struck on the rocks off Change Island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, and eleven persons were drowned by the capsizing of one of the ship's boats.