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24. The opening of the Law Courts after the long vacation preceded by services at Westminster Abbey and the Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's Inn, and largely attended by the judges and members of the bar.

— A modus vivendi arranged between the British and United 8tates Governments with reference to the Alaska boundary, pending a definite understanding.

— General Yule, in command at Glencoe, ordered to fall back on Ladysmith, which he did in excellent order, but after two exhausting night marches, his retreat being meanwhile protected by a sharp fight at Rietfontein, to which Sir G. White had despatched a covering force.

25. News received that the Khalifa, having learnt of the assembling of British and Egyptian troops at Khartoum, had quitted Jebel Gedir and retired into the fastnesses of the interior.

— The Hamburg branch of the Pan-Germanic League and the , Anti-Semites passed a resolution urging the German Emperor to abandon his projected visit to England.

— The Queen sent a message through the Governor-General to the people of the Canadian Dominion, thanking them for their manifesta- tion of loyalty and patriotism. Similar messages were sent to the Australian colonies, which had equipped volunteers for South Africa.

— At Newmarket the Cambridgeshire Stakes won by an outsider, Captain E. Peel's Irish Ivy, 3 yrs., 7 st. 11 lb. (K. Cannon). Twenty-five started.

26. The Chinese authorities refused to allow the removal of obstruc- tions in the Yangtse-Kiang, on the ground that they were a necessary protection against foreigners.

— Lord Pauncefote returned to the Hague to sign on behalf of Great Britain two of the conventions of the Peace Conference : those relating to the pacific settlement of disputes and the codification of the laws and usages to be observed during wars on land.

27. Parliament prorogued after a short session of ten days, occupied only with voting men and supply in view of the South African war.

— The Bow and Bromley election, consequent upon the resignation of Hon. L. Holland (C), resulted in the return of Mr. W. M. Guthrie <C.) by 4,238 votes against 2,123 recorded by Mr. H. Spender (R.).

— Lord Rosebery visited Bath, and was presented with the freedom of the city, and after unveiling mural tablets on houses occupied by Lord Chatham and William Pitt, made an important speech on the political situation.

— Sir H. Stafford Northcote, M.P., appointed Governor of Bombay in succession to Lord Sandhurst.

28. Lord Rosebery elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University by 829 votes against 515 given Lord Kelvin, and obtaining a majority in each of the " nations."

— Right Hon. J. P. B. Robertson, President of the Court of Session, and Lord Justice-General for Scotland, appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the room of Lord Watson, deceased

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