Talmage, the American sensational preacher, held forth at Islington Presby terian Church, and afterwards at the Agri cultural Hall, in June. Much curiosity was aroused to see him. A dense crowd blockaded the streets leading to the Church, and the enthusiasm was tremendous. Half a mile from the Church the carriage in which the preacher was seated was lifted bodily from the ground, and carried to its destination bodily. The Arctic exploring ship Resolute, which formed part of Captain Austin's expedition in search of Sir John Franklin in 1559, has been broken up at Chatham Dockyard. Ornaments and pieces of fur niture will be made from the best timbers, and presented by the Admiralty to the President of the United States as a souvenir of the occasion when the Resolute was found by American whalers, abandoned in the ice, and the Government of the United States had her repaired and re-fitted, and presented her to the Admiralty. A Parliamentary committee has reported that the electric lighting system is suffi ciently developed to allow its being econo mically used for public, but not lor domestic, purposes. The names of the notable dead for the month are: Charles A. Calvert, actor, London; Prince of Orange, heir-apparent to the throne of the Netherlands, at Paris, June 11 ; Bishop of Amiens, Paris; Pro fessor Johan Karl Frederick Rosenkrauz, philosopher, Koenigsburg; Cardinal Carafa di Tractto, at Rome ; Prince Pierre Bouna parte, at Versailles ; the Acheen chief who instigated the war against the Dutch; G. W. M. Reynolds, novelist, London; Lord Lawrence, formerly Viceroy of Ireland; Isidore Christophe, Republican Deputy, Paris; Robert Ives, an American actor, drowned at Bath.
