Admiral Sir Edward Thornborough, and admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, were elected knights grand crosses of the Bath. Died, Sir James Bland Lamb, bart. D. C. L., who under his former name of Burgess published several poetical aud dramatic pieces of merit.

Jan. 20. The Custom-house in Thamesstreet, was discovered to be in a dangerous state, part of the long room having fallen in.

Jan. 22. The Enterprize, steam vessel, was launched, its destination being for the East Indies.

Feb. 2. A treaty of friendship, navigation, and commerce, was signed at Buenos Ayres between Great Britain and the united provinces of Rio de la Plata.

Feb. 8. His Majesty opened the session of Parliament by commission.

Feb. 8. His grace the duke of Northumberland was appointed ambassador extraordinary to the court of France, on occasion of the coronation of Charles X.

The right hon. Frederick Lamb was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to his most Catholic majesty.

Feb. 9. John Quincey Adams was elected president of the United States of America, his opponent was general Jack

son.

Feb. 10. Mr. Goulbourn moved in the House of Commons to bring in a bill for suppressing improper and dangerous associations in Ireland, with a view of putting down the "Catholic Association," after a debate of four days the House divided, for the motion 278, against it 132; it was carried by a majority of 130 on the third reading, on the 25th.

Feb. 12. A fire broke out in the town of St. Thomas, in the West Indies, which totally destroyed the greater part of the town; nearly 500 houses were burnt or greatly damaged.

Feb. 14. The fair usually held at Greenwich was suppressed by order of the magistrates.

Derbyshire, Sir C. H. Hastings, bart.
Devonshire, George Strode, esq.
Dorsetshire, C. Spurrier, esq.
Essex, P. Du Cane, esq.
Gloucestershire, Sir James Musgrave,

bart.

Hants, H. P. Delmé, esq.
Herefordshire, T. A. Knight, esq.
Hertfordshire, T. N. Kemble, esq.
Kent, W. T. G. Tyssen, esq.
Lancashire, John Hargreaves, esq.
Leicestershire, C. M. Phillips, esq.
Lincolnshire, Sir J. Trollope
Monmouthshire, James Proctor, esq.
Norfolk, John Harvey, esq.
Northamptonshire, Thomas Williams,

esq.

Northumberland, A. Gregson, esq.
Nottinghamshire, George Gregory, esq.
Oxfordshire, Sir F. Desanges, knt.
Rutlandshire, John Neal, esq.
Shropshire, J. W. Dodd, esq.
Somersetshire, John Quantock, esq.
Staffordshire, Sir G. Pigott, bart.
Suffolk, Sir H. E. Bunbury, bart.
Surrey, J. B. Hankey, esq.
Sussex, J. H. Slater, esq.
Warwickshire, Chandos Leigh, esq.
Wiltshire, E. Warriner, esq.
Worcestershire, Sir T. Phillips
Yorkshire, John Hutton, esq.

WALES.

Anglesea, Thomas Meyrick, esq. Brecknockshire, H. Allen, esq. Cardiganshire, E. P. Lloyd, esq. Caermarthenshire, D. Jones, esq. Caernarvonshire, H. D. Griffiths, esq. Denbighshire, W. Egerton, esq. Flintshire, J. L. Wynne, esq. Glamorganshire, John Bennett, esq. Merionethshire, F. Roberts, esq. Montgomeryshire, P. Morris, esq. Pembrokeshire, George Bowen, esq. Radnorshire, P. R. Minors, esq.

Feb. 18. William Probert, the accom plice of Thurtell in the murder of Mr. Weare, was apprehended on a charge of

1825.

Bedfordshire, S. B. Edwards, esq.
Berkshire, E. F. Maitland, esq.
Buckinghamshire, John Dupre, esq.
Camb. and Hunt. Sir C. E. Nightingale,
bart.

Cheshire, J. Daintry, esq.
Cumberland, M. Atkinson, esq.
Cornwall, William Baron, esq.

Feb. 28. The hon. T. Ashley Cooper, son of the earl of Shaftesbury, was killed in a pugilistic encounter with his school, fellow, a son of colonel Wood, at Eton school.

A convention was signed at St. Petersburgh, between Great Britain and Russia, respecting the commerce, navigation, and fisheries of their subjects on the Pacific Ocean, and as to the limits of their respec

March 2. The first stone of a tunnel
under the Thames, at Rotherhithe, was
laid with great ceremony.

A tremendous earthquake, which con-
tinued at intervals for five days, desolated
the city of Algiers and its neighbourhood;
the town of Blida was totally destroyed,
and nearly its whole population was buried
in the ruins; of 15,000 inhabitants only
300 were saved, and those were much
mutilated.

March 3. The House of Lords refused,
by a large majority, to hear counsel at the
bar against the Catholic Association bill,
which was read a second time.

March 5. Colonel Stanhope, brother of
earl Stanhope, hanged himself in Caen
wood, near Hampstead, in a fit of tempo-
rary derangement.

March 6. Died, at Hatton, Warwick-
shire, the rev. Samuel Parr, L. L. D., in
his 79th year, one of the most eminent
scholars of the age.

March 7. The Catholic Association bill
passed the House of Lords on the third
reading without a division, and afterwards
received the royal assent.

March 9. Mr. Peel brought in a bill
in the House of Commons to amend the
laws relating to the impanneling of juries;
this bill received the support of both sides
of the House, and afterwards passed into
a law.

Died, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a moral
and religious writer in great esteem.

March 11. Died, William Owen, R.A.,
an artist of considerable merit, in conse-
quence of having taken a poisonous
draught in mistake for medicine.

March 13. Sir Francis Burdett moved
in the House of Commons certain resolu-
tions to consider the disabilities affecting
the Roman Catholics, which were agreed,
and leave given to bring in a bill to re-
move them.

The Kent, East Indiaman, took fire in
the Bay of Biscay, 85 persons were lost,
but the remainder, 557 in number, were
saved by the Cambria, captain Cook; the
East India company liberally rewarded
the captain and crew of the Cambria for
their humane exertions.

March 18. The court of proprietors of
East India stock, after a discussion of
several days, resolved, "that there was
no ground to impute corrupt motives to
the late governor general the marquis of
Hastings."

March 22. Charles Richard Vaughan,
esq. was appointed envoy extraordinary

March 29. The Lord Chancellor de-
clared, in the case of the Real del Monte
company, that the holders of shares in any
of the new companies were liable to the
debts of the concern to the full extent of
their property.

April 4. Henry Savory, esq. of Bristol,
was tried and convicted of forgery, and
received sentence of death.

Mr. Brougham elected Lord Rector of
the university of Glasgow; his opponent,
Sir Walter Scott, lost the election by the
casting vote of Sir J. Mackintosh, in favour
of Mr. Brougham.

April 5. Lord Harborough indicted
lieut. Graham, of the Preventive Service,
for sending him a challenge, upon which
he was found guilty.

April 7. William Probert was found
guilty of horse stealing, and sentenced to
death.

April 13. A meeting of the merchants,
bankers, ship-owners, traders, &c. of the
city of London, was held at the City of
London tavern, to consider the expedi-
ency of petitioning the legislature for a
revision of the corn laws, when a resolu-
tion was entered into to that effect, and a
petition was prepared and signed.

April 14. A numerous meeting was held
at the London tavern, to oppose the claims
of the Roman Catholics, when a petition
to the legislature was agreed to, depre-
cating any further concession.

Advices were received of the capture of
Arracan, in the East Indies, by the British
forces.

April 16. Died, Henry Fuseli, R.A., in
the 86th year of his age, a painter of the
first eminence in his profession, and keeper
of the Royal Academy.

April 17. The independence of St. Do-
mingo was acknowledged by the French,
in consideration of 150 millions of francs,
to be paid by equal annual instalments.

April 18. A treaty of commerce was
signed between Great Britain and Ireland
and the Republic and people of Columbia.

One hundred and thirty-seven petitions
were presented to the House of Commons,
and 68 to the House of Lords, against the
claims of the Catholics.

April 19. The practitioners of the En-
glish bar presented a petition in favour of
the Catholic claims, by Mr. Scarlet:
102 petitions were presented to the Com-
mons against the claims, and 32 to the
House of Lords,

April 20, Mr. Henry Savory, under
sentence of death for forgery, was respited,

and his sentence commuted to transportation for life.

April 21. The bill for relief of the Catholics was read a second time in the House of Commons.

April 25. The duke of York presented a petition from the Dean and Chapter of Windsor against the Catholic bill, and took occasion to declare in a very energetic manner his decided disapprobation of the claims of the Catholics, and his determination at all times to oppose them. His Majesty honoured the theatre royal, Covent-garden, with his presence, and was received with tumultuous applause; he was accompanied by the duke of York, who was also most favourably received. April 26. A bill was brought into the House of Commons to disfranchise the Irish 40s. freeholders, which was this day read a second time.

April 27. Died, at Paris, D. V. Denon, in his 86th year, one of the sçavans who accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt, a director of the French museum, and author of "Travels in Egypt," &c.

April 28. The first stone of a new Hall at Christ's Hospital was laid by his royal highness the duke of York, as the representative of his Majesty, in the presence of the lord Mayor and court of aldermeu, and several noblemen and gentlemen of distinction.

May 2. His Majesty visited the theatre royal, Drury-lane, and was received with applause.

May 3. His grace the duke of Northumberland, ambassador extraordinary to the court of France, to attend the coronation of Charles X, landed at Calais.

May 7. The first stone of a new bridge intended to be erected over the Thames, at Hammersmith, was laid by his royal highness the duke of Sussex, with great ceremony.

May S. Died, the right rev. John Fisher, D.D. bishop of Salisbury, aged 76.

May 10. The bill for the relief of the Roman Catholics was read a third time in the House of Commons, and passed by a majority of 21.

May 11. The bill for relief of the Roman Catholics read a first time in the House of Lords.

May 13. The House of Commons granted to Mr. M'c Adam 20001. for his new method of paving the highways.

A grand entertainment was given to the duke of Wellington by a number of noblemen and gentlemen connected with the commerce of the city of London, on occasion of presenting him with a magni

ficent vase, as a testimony of gratitude for the numerous advantages derived from the battle of Waterloo, and the other triumphs of the army under the command of his Grace.

Died, at Knowle, in Kent, the right hon. Charles earl Whitworth, aged 71, a nobleman who had filled the situation of ambassador from Great Britain to most of the European states with distinguished ability; and in 1813 he was appointed lord Lieutenant of Ireland, which he held four years.

May 17. The House of Lords, after receiving several petitions against the Catholic claims, threw out the bill for their relief on the second reading, by a majority of 48; the news of the rejection. of the bill was received in various parts of Great Britain with great demonstrations of joy.

The large timber vessel, the Columbus, sailed from the Downs in ballast, for St. John's, New Brunswick, but in a great storm she became water-logged and unmanagable; the crew were saved by the Dolphin, a Newfoundland ship, and the Columbus soon after sunk.

May 18. Lord Combermere was appointed commander in chief of the East India forces at Bengal.

May 20. The right rev. Thomas Burgess, bishop of St. David's, was translated to the see of Salisbury, vice Dr. John Fisher, deceased.

May 21. The palace called Buckingham house was ordered to be taken down, in order to build one for the use of his Majesty of a more magnificent description.

May 22. Died, aged SS, Dominico Corri, a celebrated musical composer.

May 23. A great fire broke out in Burystreet, St. Mary Axe, at the mansion of Levy Solomons, esq. which burnt with great fury, and eventually destroyed the premises, and all the valuable furniture, plate, &c.

May 24, Lord viscount Strangford, K.B. appointed ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the emperor of Russia; and the right hon. Stratford Canning to the Ottoman Porte.

May 25. A fire broke out at the tavern at Cumberland-gardens, near Vauxhall, which being chiefly built of wood, was, in a few hours, totally consumed.

May 27. The bill for disfranchising the Irish 40s. freeholders was withdrawn, in consequence of the rejection of the Catholic bill by the House of Lords.

May 29. The king of France, Charles X. was crowned with great pomp and solem