tinguished when empty and when actually plying for hire: For determining the period of the day during which coals may be delivered into cellars through openings in the streets: For appointing places at which Street Shoeblacks may stand to exercise their calling, and for determining the number of shoeblacks who may stand at each of such places, and for preventing unreasonable obstructions at such places.' Auy infringement of these Bye-laws subjects the offender to a penalty of not more than 40s. for each offence, and to imprisonment in case of non-payment. The Bye-laws are not to come into operation until one month from their having received the approval of the Secretary of State, and a month's public notice is to be given of the intention to apply for such removal. The Bye-laws are to be printed, to be publicly exhibited, and to be supplied to the public at a price not exceeding one penny. [The Lord Mayor and Aldermen on Oct. 20 issued the Bye-laws that are to be acted on after the necessary interval for approval and notice.]

XIII.-SUMMARY OF PUBLIC PETITIONS.

Session 26 & 27 Victoriæ.

I. Parliamentary.

XIV.-CHRONICLE OF OCCURRENCES.

From October 1862 to November 1863.

Oct. 23, 1862. In China the Imperialists sent a force from Ningpo, which succeeded in beating the Taepings out of Kah-sing, and on the 24th they took another town.

Nov. 7. A financial statement of the Empire of Austria for the year 1863, and the Report of a Special Committee, were laid before the Chamber of Deputies at Vienna; thus practically acknowledging the right of the representatives of the people to control the finances of the Empire.

9. An address to the Pope published at Turin, signed by 8,943 members of the Italian clergy, praying him to give up Rome as the metropolis of the new kingdom, and restore peace to Italy.

23. Prince Alfred declared King of Greece at Athens; but Russia declared, as early as Oct. 19, that all the families of the Protecting Powers were excluded from the throne. On Dec. 1, the Government ordered a plebiscite to be taken for the election of a King, the reason for the order being stated to be, that the English Government had declared that Prince Alfred would not accept.

Dec. 1. Message of President Lincoln to the Congress of the United States. In it he proposes a convention of all the States to revise the Constitution; enounces the freedom of slaves who have made their way within the lines of the Federal army; informs it that he has a balance of 14 million dollars in the treasury; that the expenditure had been 570 million dollars, of which, however, only a small part had been raised by taxation, and the rest by loan.

20. After a continuous increase of pauperism for eight months in the Cotton Districts, from this date began a slow and not always uninterrupted decrease. In April the number of persons on the relief books of the suffering Unions was 105,000; at the end of November it was 270,000, with, in the early part of December, a farther increase of between 4,000 and 5,000. To relieve this distress, on Dec. 20, the amount received by the Central Relief Fund had been 407,8307., and by the Mansion House Fund 236,9267.; in addition to contributions in other forms than that of money, and of that raised by assessment. The number receiving relief, as stated above, only includes those on the parish books; but many thousands struggled on without applying to the parish, though not refusing to accept relief from the Voluntary Contribution Funds.

Jan. 9, 1863. Buncher, Burnett, Williams, and Griffiths, four men charged at the Central Criminal Court with committing forgeries to a large amount on the Bank of England, chiefly by means of paper expressly manufac tured for the Bank, which had been stolen, were found guilty, and sentenced to penal imprisonment.-The British Legation at Rio Janeiro having demanded in vain an indemnity for the plunder of a British vessel wrecked on the coast, and also an apology for the imprisonment of some British naval officers, caused five merchant vessels to be seized. The vessels were given up, on an undertaking to pay the indemnity to be settled in London; the other question was referred to the arbitration of the King of the Belgians.

14. The Prussian Chambers opened their session at Berlin. The King's message stated that the financial condition of the country was satisfactory; that sanction would be asked for expenses incurred without their previous concurrence; and hoped that a durable understanding might be arrived at on the questions which had remained unsolved in the previous session. On the 22nd, in the Chamber of Deputies an address to the King was proposed, complaining that "the ministers have carried on the public administration against the constitution, and without a legal budget;" adding, that "our position imposes on us the most urgent duty of solemnly declaring that peace at home and power abroad can only be restored to the government by returning to a constitutional state of things." This

address was the subject of debate on several days, and was carried, although the President of the Council, Herr von Bismark, said, "The Prussian ministry quite different from the English. The latter, call it what you will, is only the ministry of the Parliament, but we are the ministers of the King."

22. The insurrection in Poland began on this day. A conscription for the Russian army had been carried on for two or three days, and had been submitted to quietly, until it was discovered in Warsaw that, instead of the usual plan, a selection was being made of all the young men of education and suspected of patriotic feelings. On this being ascertained, the young men left their homes in the town, withdrew to the woods, provided themselves with arms, and prepared for resistance. The discovery of the plan pursued by the Russian government aroused such general indignation, that in many places the Russian soldiers, stationed in small numbers, were massacred on this and the two or three following nights. The insurIrection spread rapidly throughout the kingdom. The insurgents broke up the railways, cut the telegraph wires, and dispersing themselves in small bodies, embarrassed the movements of the Russian military forces, and frequently succeeded in defeating them with considerable loss.

Feb. 3. The King of Prussia replies to the Lower Chamber: he refuses to the people the right to control the financial expenditure by means of their representatives.

4. The National Assembly of Greece declared the throne to be forfeited by Otho and his family; and that Prince Alfred of England had been elected King of the Greeks by 230,000 votes. On the same day it was stated in the Coburger Zeitung' that the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, who had been proposed, had finally declined its acceptance.

March 6. The Princess Alexandra of Denmark arrived at the Nore, and on the 7th landed at Gravesend, where she was received with every demonstration of delight. The Prince of Wales met her there, and the corporation and inhabitants presented an address to each. They came to the Bricklayers' Arms station by rail, and thence proceeded in an open carriage, with a large suite of attendants, through a continued crowd of welcoming spectators. At London Bridge, where a triumphal arch had been erected, they were met by the City Corporation in state, who preceded the procession, which had literally to force its way through the trimmense crowd which had flocked to meet them. Almost every house was adorned with banners or devices, and at length the procession reached Temple Bar. Here, disencumbered of the civic pomp, a quicker progress was made, and through applauding multitudes the royal carriages passed the Strand, and by Hyde Park, which was lined by Volunteers, they arrived at the Great Western Station, like that of the Bricklayers' Arms, richly decorated, and thence by rail to Windsor. The only drawback to the general joy was that, through mismanagement, the crowd in the City had been so dense that several persons lost their lives.

10. The marriage of the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra took place at Windsor, which they left in the afternoon for Osborne, receiving at Southampton addresses from the town. The event was celebrated by illuminations and festivities in every town and almost every village in the United Kingdom. In the City of London lives were again lost, through the pressure of the crowd.-Langiewicz, proclaimed Dictator of Poland, issues a proclamation calling on all Poles to arm against the domination of Russian barbarism.

18. After two successful engagements with the Russians, on the 16th and 17th, Langiewicz was again attacked at Zagos cie, and, after a desperate fight, the insurgents were defeated and dispersed. Langiewicz, with about 900 of his adherents, succeeded in crossing the Austrian frontier. He was lodged in the castle of Cracow, and the men were disarmed and imprisoned.-Prince William George of Denmark elected King of Greece by the National Assembly, and on the 30th unanimously proclaimed as George the First, and France and England approve of the nomination.