March.

1. Treaty of peace signed between Russia and Turkey. Navigation open on the Baltic. Philadelphia Mint ordered to proceed with the coinage of Silver dollars.

3. Pope crowned privately in the Vatican. Heavy sales of United States securities in Europe. Lieut.-overnor of Quebec dismisses his Ministry

6. Heavy thunuer-storms at London, Ont., causing the river to rise rapidly. Earl eaconsfield opposes British annexation of Egypt.

7. In Dominion Commons Sir John A Macdonald moves amendment in Budget Debate. Straits of Mackinaw clear of ice. Plague broken out in Persia.

9. New Ministry formed in Quebec. Legislature refuse to vote Supply Bill. Lieut-Governor dissolves House. Lake Huron free of ice, and navigation open. Colliery explosion near Glasgow.

10. Snow blockade on Kansas & Union Pacific Railroads Kaffirs defeated with heavy loss. 500 lives lost by the burning of an Austrian Lloyd's steamer. Peace meeting in Hyde Park broken up by mob—Mr and Mrs Gladstone attacked.

11. Forty lives lost by colliery explosion near Bolton, Eng Heavy failures on London stock Exchange.

13. Conclusion of debate on Sir John A. Macdonald's amendment to supply Bill; amendment defeated.

17. 6,000 persons ill with measles in Lyons, France. 3,000 members of Irish Catholic Union walk in procession in streets of Montreal. 119 factories closed and 9,000 workmen unemployed on Mediterranean shores of Spain

19. Typhus raging in all Eastern Russia. Deficit of £11,000,000 stg. in East Indian revenue. Navigation of Red River open and farming operations begun in Manitoba.

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21. French Budget, passed with only three dissenting voices. Parisian compositors strike, and all book work has to be suspended. Correspondence on Fishery award laid before Congress. First newspaper published at Battleford, N. W. T.

23. Quebec Legislature dissolved Violent gale and heavy snow storm In England. Loss of training ship Eurydice oft Isle of Wight. Successful revolution in San Domingo Louisiana Supreme Court decide the return of Returning Board Illegal.

24. Severe snow storm and frost throughout Dominion, and very severe gale at Liverpool, Eng, and strange dust storms in London.

25. Bush fires in Georgia and South Caroling. Great excitement among the Mohammedans in India. Feeling between Russia and England growing unfavourable to peace

26. Correspondence respecting Quebec change of Ministry laid before Parliament. Diplomatic intercourse resumed between Russia and Turkey.

27. Gortzehakoff's reply to English proposals received. Russia refuses to withdraw right of veto on measures submitted to Congress of powers

28. Bill for Auditing Public Accounts introduced in Dominion Parliament. Snow fall of several inches in midland counties of England. Pope appoints R. C. Bishops for Scotland, and delivers a moderate and conciliatory allocution British reserve forces called out and troopships ordered to be in readiness. Steamers running on the Assiniboine, and ploughing and sowing going on rapidly in Manitoba.

30. Austria rejects Treaty of San Stefano. Turks refuse to fight against England. Heavy rains in Maritime Provinces of Dominion, cause floods and impede travel.