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CHRONICLE.

March.

24. Resignation of the Minister of the Interior of Cis-Leithan Austria.

25. Insurrectionary movements at Pavia, Piacenza, and other Italian towns.

27. Acquittal by the Imperial High Court at Tours of Prince Pierre Bonaparte for killing Victor Noir.

28. Proclamation of the Governor-General of Cuba, offering amnesty to the insurgents.

29. Changes in the Spanish Cabinet.

30. Bill for the re-admission of Texas to representation in Congress passed by the Senate of the United States.

31. Opening of the Portuguese Cortes by the King, who declares that the 'best attention of the Ministry will be given to the grave state of the national finances.'

31. Withdrawal of the Deputies of Galicia and Buckowina from the

Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath.

April.

2. Outbreak of a revolution in Venezuela.

4. Resignation of the entire Ministry of Cis-Leithan Austria on the refusal of the Emperor to dissolve those Provincial Diets the deputies from which left the Reichsrath.

7. Closing of the Diet of Baden, the Grand Duke thanking the deputies for their efforts 'to attain the object of all wishes, the national unity of Germany.'

8. Prorogation of both Houses of the Austrian Reichsrath.

9. Republican rising at Barcelona and Gracia, quelled by the troops after a struggle of four hours.

10. Resignation of the French Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of Public Instruction, upon notice that the Emperor is resolved to convoke the nation for another 'plebiscite.'

13. Prorogation of the Legislative Body of France.

15. Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act voted by the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada.

19. Resignation of the Minister of War of Denmark.

20. Adoption by the French Senate of a 'Senatus Consultum,' modifying the Constitution of the Empire.

21. Murder, by Greek brigands, of the British and Italian Secretaries of Legation.

21. Opening of the Zollverein Parliament at Berlin.

23. Decree of the Emperor Napoléon, convoking the French nation for the 8th of May in their comitia to acccept or reject the following plebiscite:—'The people approves the liberal reforms effected in the Constitution since 1860 by the Emperor, with the co-operation of the great bodies of the State, and ratifies the Senatus Consultum

of the 20th of April, 1870.'