whose sides are entirely filled with windows. The effect of so large a lantern or clerestory (51 ft. by 30 ft. in its place) suspended over-head would not have been pleasing; and as any order of the usual proportions would have confined the space too much, eight slender iron pillars-four beneath each of the longer sides of the lantern-have been adopted. Known to be of metal they do not suggest the idea of weakness and fragility, and they are rendered ornamental in themselves, while the other decorations are in accordance with them. These pillars are continued down through the floor into the basement or cellarage beneath, which forms a store for grain (of which it is capable of containing nearly 800 tons), and whose ceiling is further supported by twenty-four other smaller cast-iron pillars having grooves and flanges up their sides, so that boards can be let in between the flanges to separate one parcel of grain from another. There is, besides, additional cellarage, &c., under the pavement in Hope-street.

XVIII. CHRONICLE OF OCCURRENCES,

From September, 1842, to November, 1843.

1842. Sept. 6. Ghiznee retaken by General Nott.

8. Admiral Dupetit-Thouars takes possession of Otaheite and the surrounding group of islands in the name of the King of the French.

16. General Pollock, after forcing the Passes, re-occupies Cabul, and plants the British flag on the Balla Hissar. From Jellalabad to Gundamuck, but especially from the latter place to Cabul, the Afghans maintained an irregular but formidable contest, assembling in great numbers on the heights, and obstinately contesting each post.

21. Lady Sale, Lady Macnaghten, and the other prisoners who had been detained by Akhbar Khan since the disasters at Cabul in January, arrived in safety in General Pollock's camp.

Oct. 1. Lord Ellenborough, Governor-general of India, issues a proclamation from Simla, which states that the disasters in Afghanistan having been avenged upon every scene of past misfortune, the British army will be withdrawn to the Sutlej.

12. After destroying the fortifications, Cabul is evacuated by the British troops, who arrive at Jellalabad, in three divisions, on the 22d and two following days.

Nov. 5. The Dutch and Belgian plenipotentiaries sign a treaty at the Hague, for the settlement of the disputes which ensued on the separation of the two countries.

13. Disturbances break out at Barcelona, which in a few days assume a serious complexion. The troops are driven out of the city with great loss, and retreat to the citadel of Montjuich. On the 17th a junta is established. The principal watchwords of the insurrection are, "Down with Espartero and his government!" and "Justice and protection to national industry!" 14. The Spanish Cortes opens, and the opposition carry the election of the president, vice-president, and the four secretaries, on which the Regent dismisses the ministry.

21. The Income Tax Commissioners for the City of London commence their sittings for hearing appeals against assessments.

23. By direction of the War-office, the Park and Tower guns are fired to celebrate the receipt of the news from India and China. The same news was received at Liverpool with firing of guns and ringing of bells. In the manufacturing districts the intelligence gave a marked stimulus to trade.

Dec. 3. The bombardment of Barcelona from the fort of Montjuich commences, and after continuing for fifteen hours, is suspended, and the authorities are called upon to surrender. In the morning the inhabitants elect a new junta, the revolutionary factions are disarmed, and Van Halen is informed that his troops can enter the city.

5. Mr. Howard, the attorney, obtains a verdict, with 1007. damages, against Sir Wm. Gossett and other officers of the House of Commons, for a trespass committed in breaking open his house in search for him.

10. Death of Lord Hill, the commander-in-chief, aged 71.

20. The Moniteur' announces officially that Rear-Admiral DupetitThouars had taken possession of the Marquesas Islands in the name of the King of the French.

27. A meeting, at this time called "a great Repeal meeting," held at Ennis, although the number of persons present did not exceed seven or eight thousand. Resolutions were passed in favour of repeal, and fixity of tenure, and condemning the new poor law.

1843. Jan. 3. Espartero dissolves the Spanish Cortes, which are to meet in April.

9. At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association Mr. O'Connell announces that "1843 is and shall be the great repeal year." In a letter to the people of Ireland he enumerates five great measures which are to combine all Irishmen in the struggle for accomplishing this prophecy:-1. The total abolition of the tithe rent-charge. 2. Fixity of tenure for the occupying tenants. 3. The encouragement and perfecting of Irish manufactures. 4. Complete suffrage and vote by ballot. 5. Abolition of the present poor law and augmentation of well-regulated charitable institutions.

20. Mr. Edward Drummond, private secretary to Sir Robert Peel, shot at Charing-cross, about four o'clock in the afternoon, by a man named M'Naughten. The ball entered behind, near the inferior angle of the shoulder-blade. The assassin drew another pistol, when he was arrested. Mr. Drummond died on the following Wednesday, the 24th, at seven o'clock in the morning.

26. One of the largest non-political meetings ever held in Dublin, to consider the propriety of erecting a testimonial to Father Mathew, whose exertions in the cause of temperance are so well known. The Duke of Leinster in the chair.

Feb. 8. An earthquake in the West Indies, by which Point-à-Pitre, in the French island of Guadaloupe, was entirely destroyed. The shock was severely felt at Antigua and Martinique; but, with the exception of Antigua, the visitation passed lightly over other British islands.

17. A severe action between the British troops under Sir Charles Napier and the forces of the Ameers of Scinde, when the latter were defeated; and on the next day the Ameers surrendered themselves prisoners of war. The Ameers had signed a treaty with the British on the 14th, and on the following day they treacherously attacked the residence of the British Commissioners with a large force. On the 20th the British occupied Hyderabad, the capital. Subsequently the Governor-General annexed Scinde to the British empire.

22. At a general Court of the Proprietors of University College, it is stated that the number of pupils in the session of 1841-42 was 886; of whom 336 were students in medicine, 155 in the arts, and 395 were pupils in the

junior school. The receipts from students were 12,7561., of which 36757. accrued to the college; and the year's income from other sources was 40397. 22. About the end of the month the newspapers announce "an insurrectionary movement," as it is called, in Wales. A leader appears in woman's clothes, surrounded however by others dressed as women, "Rebecca's daughters," with a number of men undisguised, and they break down the toll and turnpike gates. The leaders are well mounted; and their movements are so ubiquitous that neither troops, yeomanry, nor police, who have been on the alert, are able to arrest any of them.

Espartero, at the instance of the French Government, yielding to necessity, disavowed the charges against Lesseps, the French consul, who, it was alleged, took an active part in promoting the insurrection at Barcelona. A bill is introduced into the senate of the United States by Mr. Linn, to make provision for the occupation of the Oregon territory, which was carried.

March 3. Five waggons and a cart, conveying Chinese silver to the value, it is said, of 1,000,0007. sterling, entered the Mint, escorted by troops and followed by a large crowd.

4. The trial of M'Naughten at the Central Criminal Court for shooting Mr. Drummond concluded, after having continued two days. The jury found him "Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity;" and in a few days afterwards he was removed to Bethlem Hospital.

15. The Anti-Corn Law League commence a series of weekly meetings at Drury Lane Theatre.

17. A comet, or supposed comet, become visible in our hemisphere. Sir John Herschel, writing on the 19th of March, gives the following account of this phenomenon :— Its tail, for such I cannot doubt it to be, was conspicuously visible, both last night and the night before, as a vivid luminous streak, commencing close beneath the stars Kappa and Lambda Leporis, and thence stretching obliquely westwards and downwards, between Gamma and Delta Eridani, till lost in the vapours of the horizon. The direction of it, prolonged on a celestial globe, passes precisely through the place of the Sun in the Ecliptic at the present time; a circumstance which appears conclusive as to its cometic nature. As the portion of the tail actually visible on Friday evening was fully 30 degrees in length, and the head must have been beneath the horizon, which would add at least 25 degrees to the length, it is evident that, if really a comet, it is one of first-rate magnitude; and if it be not one, it is some phænomenon beyond the earth's atmosphere of a nature even yet more remarkable.-Eight P. M.: The tail of the comet, for such it must now assuredly be, is again visible, though much obscured by haze, and holding very nearly the same position." The comet was seen in the United States, the East Indies, New Zealand, &c.

22. A motion to abrogate the vote by ballot in the French Chamber of Deputies negatived by 201 to 193.

25. The Thames Tunnel opened throughout for foot-passengers.

April 3. The Spanish Cortes opened. The opposition, consisting of Carlists, Christinos, and republicans, disqualified the ministerial candidate for the presidentship, on the ground of illegal practices at his election for Badajoz, on which the ministry resigned. On the 10th of May the Lopez ministry was formed. In consequence of their insulting demands they were dismissed by the Regent; and on the 26th of May the Cortes was dissolved.

10. At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, Mr. Thomas Steel states that he has been appointed by the Liberator to go from one end of America to the other to agitate the question of repeal.

21. The Duke of Sussex died this day at noon, at Kensington Palace, in

his 74th year. On May 2nd and 3rd the body lay in state; and on the 4th the funeral took place at Kensal Green Cemetery, which his royal highness had chosen as his last resting-place.

25. Her Majesty gave birth to a princess at four o'clock this morning.

May 7. A great meeting of the Irish Repealers on the Curragh of Kildare is spoken of as the largest assembly in Ireland since the visit of George IV., and may be considered as the first of the "monster" meetings.

11. Sir William Heygate elected chamberlain of the City of London, after a contest with Sir John Pirie, who resigned.

13. Serious frauds discovered in the Custom-house department.

18. At the opening of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the secession of the Non-intrusion members took place. The seceders are about four hundred in number, or one-third of the establishment.

Death of Sir Charles Bagot, late Governor-general of Canada, at Kingston.

25. Disturbances at Malaga in consequence of the dismissal of Lopez and his cabinet. In Catalonia symptoms of hostility to the government of the Regent appear. Early in June the insurrection begins to spread.

30. A deputation of eighty noblemen and gentlemen present an address to Lord Morpeth, bearing the signatures of 38,674 of his friends and supporters in the West-Riding of Yorkshire.

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Towards the end of this month the crusade of "Rebecca and her daughagainst toll-gates in Wales increases in activity and audacity. Numerous meetings are held during April and May to oppose the Factories Education Bill.

Natal is annexed to the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

Dr. Pusey's sermon, charged with containing opinions contrary to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, condemned by a University Board without reason assigned. The Vice-chancellor refuses to comply with an address, signed by resident members of convocation and bachelors of civil law, requesting him to make known the ground of the sentence on Dr. Pusey.

June 1. The new Post-office arrangements between this country and France come into operation.

4. The Rhadamanthus steamer, with four companies of the 61st, suddenly arrives at Waterford, having been dispatched from Dublin under the impression that an insurrection had broken out. The Repeal rent this week. amounted to 9047., a larger sum than any yet received. In the week following the rent reached 17171.

11. Through the corruption of some of the troops the revolutionary junta is re-established at Barcelona; but the citadel, which commands the town, is held by Colonel Echabeau for the Regent's government. The example of Barcelona in " pronouncing" against the Regent is followed between the 18th and 25th of the present month by Corunna, Seville, Burgos, Santiago, Cadiz, and a number of other places. Espartero left Madrid with 8000 men for the scene of insurrection.

19. The completion of a memorial to Hampden, erected on Chalgrove field where he fell, on the 18th June, 1643, was celebrated this day (Monday). 27. Mr. Murray, the eminent publisher of Albemarle-street, died, in his 65th year.

28. The Oxford Convocation, amid a scene of the utmost tumult, conferred the degree of Doctor of Civil Law on Mr. Everett, the American ambassador; the dissentients alleging that Mr. Everett was at one time a Unitarian minister.

July 1. The Repeal rent amounted to 24957.

3. The prizes offered by the Royal Commission for Cartoons for the deco