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23. A severe heat wave visited New York and the Eastern United States generally, and caused many deaths.

24. At Christie's, Turner's "Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons" was sold for 12,000 guineas, and Constable's "Arundel Mill and Castle" 8,400 guineas. Sir John Millais's "Rescue" realised 1,200 guineas.

In Paris, the Hope diamond was sold by auction for 16,000%.

25. The King's birthday was celebrated, but the trooping of the colours and the review at Aldershot were postponed owing to heavy rain. The Honours List contained no new Peers. Mr. J. X. Merriman, Mr. C. G. Hobhouse, M.P., Sir Hudson Kearley, M.P., Mr. Russell Rea, M.P., and Mr. James Stuart, M.P., were made Privy Councillors, and Lieutenant-General Sir W. Butler, G.C.B., Mr. Justice Wylie and two Irish Estates Commissioners, Privy Councillors for Ireland. The thirteen new baronets included the Lord Mayor of London, six Liberal M.P.'s and Mr. H. H. Longman, Chairman of the Surrey County Council. Among the thirty-five new knights were four members of Parliament, and Mr. H. W. Lucy, Professor S. Dill, of Queen's College, Belfast, Mr. Francis Galton, Mr. Edwin Pears (Daily News correspondent for over thirty years at Constantinople), Mr. R. H. Palgrave, editor of the "Dictionary of Political Economy," Dr. F. J. Campbell, the blind Principal of the Royal Normal College for the Blind, Mr. Pinero, Mr. H. Beerbohm Tree, and the Sheriffs of London. The G.C.B. was conferred on General Sir Bindon Blood, General Sir O'Moore Creagh, Sir Ernest Cassell, Sir G. Maunde Thompson, and four others; and Lord Kitchener received the G.C.S.I. The honours list occupied more than five columns of the Times.

26. It was announced that owing to ill-health Lord Fitzmaurice had resigned the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster and Mr. T. R. Buchanan the Under-Secretaryship for India. Their successors were respectively Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P., and the Master of Elibank, M.P.

The Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, was opened by the King and Queen.

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The Imperial Press Conference concluded. (See English History, Chapter IV.)

At the Central Criminal Court, Francis King, a cashier of the London and South-Western Bank, and Bernard Robert, a young Dutch journalist, were sentenced respectively to seven years' penal servitude and eighteen months' hard labour for a daring and ingenious fraud committed by Robert in the name of "D. S. Windell" on the London and South-Western Bank in September, 1908.

27. The Grand Prix de Paris was won by Baron Maurice de Rothschild's Verdun. Time, 2 mins. 283 secs.

29. Suffragist disturbances at the House of Commons. (See English History, Chapter V.)

30. At Portsmouth Quarter Sessions Wilfrid Tomey, a petty officer, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for stealing nearly 3,000l.

from H.M.S. Indomitable at Sheerness, and Sidney Alston, leading seaman, and Ethel Stagles, wife of a seaman, to twelve months' and three months' hard labour respectively for receiving part of the money. On the 28th Charles Hobbs, a leading seaman, had pleaded guilty to receiving and been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Only a small part of the money was recovered.

JULY.

1. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir W. Curzon Wyllie, K.C.I.E., and Dr. Cawas Lalcaca, a Parsi physician of Shanghai, were shot at the close of an entertainment to Indian students at the Imperial Institute, by Madhar Lal Dhingra, a Punjabi student of engineering at London University. (See English History, Chapter IV., and post, July 23.) At Messina, Mileto, and Reggio there was a violent earthquake shock; two persons were killed.

2. At the Alexandra Dock extension works at Newport, Mon., a dam collapsed; over thirty men were buried; and about twenty-five were killed and seven injured.

At Christie's, Rembrandt's "Descent from the Cross," dated 1651, brought 7,800 guineas; Turner's "East Cowes Castle, the Regatta beating to Windward," 6,500 guineas; Raeburn's "Master Thomas Blisland," 3,400 guineas; and Romney's portrait of Admiral Sir John Orde, 1,680 guineas.

3. The King visited Rugby School, opening a new Speech Room and planting a young oak tree.

5. The King presented colours at Knowsley to the West Lancashire division of the Territorial Force.

6. The King and Queen visited Manchester and formally opened the new infirmary.

At the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Calvin's birth at Geneva, the first stone was laid of an international monument to commemorate the Reformation.

The Civil List Pensions granted during the last financial year were as follows:

Miss Kate Norgate-in consideration of the value of her historical writings, 1507. Rev. Canon Thomas Kelly Cheyne, D.L., D.D.-in recognition of his great services to Hebrew scholarship and to Biblical criticism, 751.

Mrs. Robert Atkinson-in consideration of the services to scholarship and linguistic studies of her late husband, Professor Robert Atkinson, and of her straitened circumstances, 751.

Mrs. Mildred Shenstone-in consideration of the services to education and to physical science of her late husband, Mr. W. A. Shenstone, F.R.S., and of her straitened circumstances, 751.

Mrs. Emily Van Praagh-in consideration of the services of her late husband, Mr. William Van Praagh, in introducing the oral system of teaching the deaf and dumb, and of her inadequate means of support, 501.

Mrs. Henrietta Page Pope, Miss Annie Wilberforce Pope, Miss Ethel Pope (jointly, and to the survivors or survivor of them)—in consideration of the valuable contributions to the study of Tamil of the late Rev. G. U. Pope, D.D., and of their straitened circumstances, 501.

Mrs. Esther Fraser-in consideration of her late husband, Superintendent Fraser's long and faithful service to her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and of her straitened circumstances, 501.

Miss Grace Keith Johnston-in recognition of the services to geographical science of her late father, Dr. Alexander Keith Johnston, and in consideration of her inadequate means of support, 501.

Miss Mary Angela Dickens, Miss Dorothy Gertrude Dickens, Miss Cecil Mary Dickens, Miss Evelyn Bessie Dickens-in recognition of the literary eminence of their grandfather, the late Mr. Charles Dickens, and in consideration of their straitened circumstances, 251. each.

Adeline, Lady Drummond Wolff-in consideration of the public services of her late husband, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., and of her straitened circumstances, 1001.

Mrs. Florence Blain-in recognition of the distinguished services as an officer of the Treasury of her late husband, Mr. William Blain, C.B., Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, and in consideration of the circumstances in which she is placed owing to his premature death, 100%.

Mrs. Pauline Mary Collins-in consideration of the contributions to literature and criticism of her husband, the late Professor Churton Collins, and of her straitened circumstances, 1007.

Mrs. Mina Strachan-in consideration of the scholastic attainments and the value of the Celtic researches of her late husband, Professor John Strachan, and of her straitened circumstances, 801.

Mrs. Sarah E. Waugh-in recognition of the great social and philanthropic services of her husband, the late Rev. Benjamin Waugh, in founding the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and in consideration of her straitened circumstances, 701.

Professor Henry William Lloyd Tanner, D.Sc.-in consideration of the value of his contributions to mathematical science, and of the complete breakdown of his health (in trust to two trustees), 501.

Mr. Alfred Neobard Palmer and Mrs. Alfred Neobard Palmer (jointly, and to the survivor of them)-in recognition of their joint historical researches, in addition to his existing pension, 251.

6. The King and Queen opened the new University Buildings at Birmingham, passing through Liverpool en route from Knowsley, and receiving an address of welcome from the Liverpool Corporation.

The German Emperor and the King of Sweden took part in the celebration of the opening of the Trelleborg-Sassnitz railway ferry. (See Foreign History, Chapter IV.)

7. The Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury passed a resolution declaring for the retention of the Athanasian Creed in the Prayer Book without the rubric directing its use, and recommending provision for its liturgical use without the warning (or “damnatory ") clauses.

The new science buildings at St. Paul's School, Hammersmith, erected to commemorate the 400th anniversity of the foundation, were opened by Viscount Curzon of Kedleston.

At Lord's, owing to rain, the Oxford and Cambridge match was drawn on the third day of play.

8. The appointments were announced of Mr. J. W. Gulland, M.P. for Dumfries Burghs, to be a Lord of the Treasury; Mr. C. F. G. Masterman, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board, to be Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and Mr. J. Herbert Lewis, M. P., to be Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board.

8. The King laid the first stone of the new buildings of the Imperial College of Science and Technology at South Kensington.

The Jubilee of the National Rifle Association was celebrated by a banquet at Prince's Restaurant, attended by the Prince of Wales.

Close of Henley Regatta. The Ladies' Challenge Plate was won by St. John's College, Oxford, against First Trinity, Cambridge; the Grand Challenge Cup by the Club Nautique de Gand against Jesus College, Cambridge; the Stewards' Challenge Cup by the Thames Rowing Club; and the Diamond Sculls by Mr. A. A. Stewart, Kingston Rowing Club.

9. At the Parliamentary bye-election for the Cleveland division of Yorkshire, caused by the appointment of Mr. Herbert Samuel to be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr. Herbert Samuel (L.) was again returned by 6,296 votes, Mr. Windsor Lewis (U.) receiving 5,325. At Christie's, at the sale of Sir Cuthbert Quilter's pictures, Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Venus and the Piping Boy," realised 6,400 guineas; a portrait of Mrs. Jordan, by Romney, 4,800 guineas; Turner's "Venus and Adonis," 4,000 guineas; Sir H. von Herkomer's "Sunday at the Royal Hospital," 3,100 guineas; Cecil Lawson's "Doone Valley," 2,250 guineas; Lord Leighton's "Cymon and Iphigenia," 2,250 guineas; Holman Hunt's "Scapegoat," 2,800 guineas; D. G. Rossetti's "La Bella Mano," 2,000 guineas; F. Walker's "The Bathers," 2,900 guineas. Among Old Masters, Murillo's "Immaculate Conception" realised 4,800 guineas; Velasquez' portrait of Queen Mariana of Spain, 2,300 guineas; and among pictures by modern Continental artists, Josef Israels' "Watching the Cradle," 2,250 guineas.

10. At Lord's, the Eton and Harrow Cricket match was left drawn owing to rain.

12. The National Rifle Association meeting at Bisley began. (For results of the more important competitions see opposite page.)

At Newmarket, the brood - mare Flair was sold for 15,000 guineas the highest price on record; and another, Lesbia, for 9,000 guineas.

14. Prince Bülow resigned the Imperial Chancellorship and Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg was appointed his successor. (See Foreign History, Chapter II.)

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At Lord's Cricket Ground the Players beat the Gentlemen by 200

The submarine C 11 came into collision with the merchant steamer Eddystone off the Norfolk coast and was sunk; eleven lives were lost. Attempts to raise C 11 were abandoned on Sept. 17 and the Burial Service read at the spot. Two other submarines, C 16 and C 17, came into collision in attempting to avoid the Eddystone.

15. At the Parliamentary bye-election in Mid-Derbyshire, consequent on the death of Sir A. Jacoby (L.), Mr. J. G. Hancock (L.-Lab.) was returned by 6,735 votes, Mr. H. S. Cresswell (U.) receiving 4,392.

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