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London, England, 1859-01-01 00:00:00

Amount received in the (Natter ended Sept. 30, 1858, in repayment of Advances
for Public Works; ac

Balance, being the deficiency on the 31st Dec., 1858, upon the charge of the Con-
solidated Fund in Great Britain, to meet the -Dividends and other charges
payable in the Quarter to March 31,1850, and for which Exchequer Bills (De-
ficiency) will•be issued in that Quarter

CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS OF TRE
YEAR IbsB. _

JANUARY.

1. Murder of Mrs. Kelly in Ireland ; the great slander
case.
China : War preparations at Hong Kong and Canton.
4. Westminiter Abbey, evening services commenced.
Burnley, fearful militia riot at ; many persons
wounded.

Railway Accident : Sunderland, Durham, and Hartle-
pool ; one woman killed and two others seriously injured
by being run down bya train while walking on the railway.
" 5. Railway Accident Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire ; a guard killed while uncoupling trucks.
6. Burnley Militia riots.
Radetzky, death of Marshal.
Rachel, the great tragic actress, diad.
Ilchester, the Earl of, died. . _

7. India.: ljeith-of General Haiebiek ; retreat of General
Windham before the Gwalior mutineers, -who were subse-
quently defeated by Sir C. CaMpbell.
9.. Lord Stratford de Radcliffe arrived-in England.

Red Sella Pacha, death of.
15. Attempt to assassinate the Emperor and Empress of
the French ; several lives lost,
19. Marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal,
ceremonial to be ebserv.ed at the.
Lady Boothby (Mrs. Nisbett), death of.
21. Vice -Admiral Sir J. Coode,-K.C.8., died.
Railway Accident: North Staffordshire; collision
near Norton Bridge; many persons injured.
Attempt to assassinate the Emperor of the French ;
suppression of La Revue de Paris and Le Spectateur.
22. Murder at Over Darwen; apprehension of the wife
of the.deceased.
Attempt to assassinate the Emperor of the French I
Great meeting of British residents in Paris.. :1" -

23. Arrival of lug Royal Highness Prince Frederick
William of Prussia at Dover.

25. Royal Marriage : The marriage of her Royal High-
ness the Princess Royal of England and his Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick William of Prussia.
27. Oude, death of the Queen of, in Paris.

Bridal presents to the Princess Royal.
28. Marriage of a Turk and a Christian in Stoke Da-
merel ; commission issued against the rector by the Bishop
of Exeter.
FEBRUARY.

1. Leviathan, the, launched on 28th ult , and moored off
Deptford.
2. France : A regency; a patent conferring the regency
upon the Empress, and constituting a council of regency
by letters patent.
3. The Princess and Prince Frederick William of Prussia,
departure of their Royal Highnesses from London.
4. Colliery explosion at Ashton-under-Lyne ; 40 men
killed.

5. The Prince and Princeis Frederick William of Prussia
arrived, at Antwerp.

6. Earl of Suffolk's pictures, valued at £lO,OOO, recovery
of; stolen in October, 1856.
The Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prus-
sia arrived at Brussels.

9. " Conspiracy to Murder" Bill, introduction of by
Lord Palmerston.

13. India Bill, Government of, introduced by Lord Pal-
merston.

15. China : Capture of Canton by the English and
French troops.
Royal British Bank, trial of directors of the, in the
Court of Queen's Bench, before Lord Campbell and a spe-
cial jury.
16. Attempt to assassinate the Emperor and Empress of
the French : Arrest of M. Bernard, and examination at
Bow-street.

20. Conspiracy to Murder Bill. The ministry defeated
by a majority of 19 on an amendment proposed by Mr.
Milner Gibson.

22. Resignation of the ministry. The E arl of Derby re-
quired to fornia new ministry.
China . Capture of. Commissioner Yeh at Canton.
25. Foreign passport difficulty, application to magistrates
respecting.
26. Ministry; the new list of, published.
27. Haymarket, murder in Arundel-court, dreadful case
of.

ing chains 'having broken ; happily the accident was effi-
ciently repaired..'
8. Birmingham workhouse, alarming 'entente at ; 600 of
the inmates, stonebreakers, paraded the town, in conse-
quence of the absentees' relief tickets being Bi:o:Ted.
'--Major Reed, late M.P. for Andover, died in indigent
circumstances.

Indian Mutiny : Assault Lucknow ; storm and
capture of several positions. Retrcat and pursuit -of tfie
robeli.

9. Indian Mutiny : Further successes before Lucknow.
10. Cotton Supply Association; First annual meeting in
Manchester.

Indian Relief Fund, gift of the colony of Victoria of
£25,000 to the. • •
The Chevalier Neukomm died at Paris, aged SO.
Haymarket, murder in Arundel-court : Lani convicted
of the, and sentenced to death.
12; Humphrey Brown's name struck off ihe magisterial
roll of Tewkesbury.
13. Mutiny in India : Great operations in Oude.
Attempt to assassinate. Louis Napoleon: Trial of
Simon Bernard.

Glover, Edward Auchmuty, sentenced to four months'
imprisonment for making a false representation as to his
qualification on taking his seat as M.P.
16. Malakoff, arrival of the Duke de, an ambassador of
the French.

;Christiania, nearly the whole of the city of, destroyed
by fire.
19. Attempt to assassinate the Emperor; Napoleon : Dr.
Bernard, tried as anaccomplice, acquitted after several days'
trial at the Old Bailey.
29. Dodson, Sir John, death of.
MAY. •

L Desperate escape of two prisoners (who were linked
together) from a railway train, by jumping down off a car-
riage,while the'train was at speed, near GrPenhithe.
Indian Mutiny : Further brilliant 'Successes of the
British army; capture of Jhansi, great slaughter of tho
rebels; and capture of Kotah, &c.
6. Royal British Bank : Queen v. Humphrey Brown,
Kennedy, and others ; Queen's Bench sitting in banco ;
Motion for setting aside the verdict refused ; verdict con-
firmed. •

7. Halifax, murder in a newspaper office at.
Queen of Portugal arrived at Buckingham Palace.
11. India : Governor General's proclamation in Oude ;
Mr. Card:well's notice of motion respecting.
12. Calvert and Co.'s (the brewers) affairs ; meeting of
depositors at the London Tavern to prevent bankruptcy.
14. Storm in Lambeth and Southwark, attended with
great damage to roofs of houses and property.
15. India : Lord Canning's proclamation in Oude ; Mr.
Cardwell's resolution of censure on the government ; debate
commenced.

18. Jenner Memorial, inauguration of, by his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort.

20. Ketteriag Bank in bankruptcy.
Iron stone pit .explosion near Chesterfield, four lives
lost.

22. India : Lord Canning's proclamation in Oude ; con-
clusion of debate on withdrawal of resolution of censure
proposed by Mr. Cardwell.

24. Duchess of Orleans, funeral of the, at Weybridge.
31. Anti-slavery Society, great meeting of, at Free-
masons' Hall, Lord BrOugham in the chair.

Peel, K.C.8., Captain Sir William. intelligence of the
death of, in India.

JUNE.

1. Ministry : Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton appointed ono
of the Secretaries of State.

7. Thunder-storm in the metropolis and suburbs ; great
damage done by lightning.
8. ➢Mutiny on board a French " free-labour ship ;" part of
the crew murdered, and massacre of 200 of the negro pas-
sengers.

9. Ministry : Sir Edward B. Lytton, Bart., re-elected
for the county of Herts, on his accepting office as Colonial
Secretary of State.

12. Buxton, Batt, M.P., Sir E. N., died.

14. Justice Coleridge, retirement of Mr., from the bench.

15. Launch of a novel steam vessel at Greenwich on the
plan of Mr. M'Sweny, in three distinct sections, which are
held together by bolts 11 inches in diameter, the breaking
strain of which is 10,000 tons.

21. Norway Wharf and immense premises adjoining, at
Limehouse, destroyed by fire.
22. Paper Duties : Debate in the House of Commons on
M. Gibson's resolution-thereon. • -

26. Murderers of Policeman Clarke at Dagenham, in
1846, reported discovery of the.

29. India, Mutiny in : Capture of Calpee ; reenpturo of
Chundaree ; Gwalior plundered by the insurgents.

30. London Docks, great fire in the.
JULY.
1. Railway official, extensive embezzlement by a, on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

Thames, Parliamentary committee on the filthy state
of the.

2. Railway Accident : South-Eastern ; the crank axle-
tree of the engine came off, near Chilham ; the carri,ges ran
off the line ; nearly 30 persons seriously and dangerously
injured, many cases pronounced hopeless.
3. Boiler explosion at the Atlas Locomotive Works,Man-
chester ; seven persons killed and several wounded.

6. Atlantic Telegraph Cable : Arrival of part of the
squadron at Cork, after the accident and breakage of the
cable.

12. Jeddah, massacre of Christians at.
13. Bill of the Earl of Lucan read a third time and passed
in the House of Lords.

14. Colliery explosion near Rotherham ; many lives lost.
15. Great Yarmouth, opening of the New Britannia
Pier," at.
Atlantic Telegraph Expedition : Return of, unsuc-
cessful, to Queenstown.

16. The City Chamberlain, Sir John Key, Bart., died.
17. Great firework factory explosion at Lambeth : in-
quest on several bodies.

20. Jeddah, massacre at; questions respecting put in
the House of Lords. -

21. Railway Accidents : London and North-Western ;
collision, near Longwood station, between a passenger train
and some coal waggons ; 23 persons seriously injured.
24. Mr. Morley, late proprietor of the Burlington Hotel,
died, leaving about £136,000, to be approimiated to specified
charities.

26. Great conflagration at Acorn-wharf; Rotherhithe.
27. Wellington, the Duke of; The chapel in St. Paul's
Cathedral, in which the sarcophagus is placed, was opened
to the foreign ministers, members of Parliament, &c.
29. India, mutiny in : Flight and pursuit of the rebels
from Gwalior ; brilliant victory over the rebels near Luck-
now by Sir 11. Grant.
30. China : Capture of the forts of the Peiho, Supple-
mentary Gazette referring to.

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