[Dates from Europe up to July 27th. J

Mr and Mrs Gladstone celebrated their golden wedding on July 25. Testimonials, letters, telegrams, and presents poured in by the hundred. One hundred and fifty members of Parliament presented an address. It is stated that Queen Victoria will spend three weeks with her. daughter, the Dowager Empress, this autumn at Baden.
The British Government hue suddenly decided to send 40,000 troops into the Black Mountains, on the north borders of Iricfia, to punish Akzars for the recent murder of Col, Batley and Captain Muston.
The Rev. W. S. Green left Queenstown on July 27th to explore the glacier regions in t h Selkirk range of British Columbia.
In the Commons on Jnly 17th, the Radicals strongly objeoted to a clause in the Local Government Bill assisting omigratioia. The Government; agreed to restrict the opera tion of the clause to cases whore local or colonial guarantees for repayment are given. Mr Samuel Smith proposed to aid the emi gration of children. The Government sympathised with the proposition, but a technical objection was interposed.
The London Gobden Club is threatened

with dissolution, owing to the faction in the Liberal Party. In view of the internal

troubles, tho annual festival of the Club in July was abandoned, and the Association has

decided hereafter to confine its efforts to combatting Protection.
