.30-M. de Freycinet announces a new | Serious floods along the Ohio and Missouri French cabinet....The Union Générale of rivers....Mrs. Kate Chase granted a divorce Paris suspends payments.... Death: In from her husband....Deaths: At Paterson, New York, the Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, N. J., John Cooke, president of the Danforth aged sixty-eight....31-Burning of the old locomotive works....21-Heavy snow storm World building in New York; six lives lost throughout the North and West....Bradand $1,000,000 worth of property burned laugh takes the oath aud enters the house of ....Oscar L. Baldwin, the Newark defaulter, commons, but is expelled by the speaker.... sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment.... 22-Death in Paris of M. Rouzaud, husband February 1-Indictment of conductor Han- of Christine Nilsson....23-Great exciteford and brakeman Melius of the train ment in the New York stock market and wrecked at Spuyten Duyvil for manslaugh- heavy fall of some stocks....The senate ter....2-Arrest of the president and man- passes the bill to place Gen. Grant on the ager of the suspended Union Générale in retired list....25-President Arthur nominParis..Charles E. Patterson of Troy elected ates Roscoe Conkling for associate justice of speaker of assembly by agreement between the United States supreme court and A. A. the Tammany and regular Democrats Sargent for minister to Berlin....26-Col3-Slosson defeats Vignaux in the billiard liery explosion at Styria, Austria; 150 lives match at Paris, 3,000 to 2,553....4-Gui- lost....Sudden death at Albany of Robert teau sentenced to be hanged June 30.... H. Pruyn, ex-minister to Japan, aged sixtyGreat snow storm in the eastern and middle seven... .27-Garfield memorial services in States... 5-Death at Klausenburg of Capt. the hall of the house; oration by ex-SecreDaniel Kadocsi, the last survivor of Napo- tary Blaine....Death: At New Rochelle, leon's escort to Elba, aged 102.....7-Open- Mrs. Daniel Webster, aged eighty-four.... ing of the British parliament; Bradlaugh re- 28-Eleven nihilists on trial in St. Petersfused admission to the commons....William burg convicted and sentenced to death; ten Sindham, the phenomenal murderer, repriev- sentenced to Siberia....The new apportioned till March 24....8-Death in London of ment bill approved by President Arthur... the earl of Lonsdale, husband of "the beau- The store of Edward Malley, father of Waltiful Lady Lonsdale."....9-A. M. Soteldo ter Malley, charged with the murder of Jenfatally shot in the Republican office, Wash- nie Cramer, burned at New Haven; loss ington....11-Peter Cooper celebrates his $200,000....March 1-Appalling loss of life ninety-first birthday in New York....12- and property by the floods along the MisGreat oil fire at Olean, N. Y.....Extensive sissippi....2-Roderick MacLean attempts floods in Arkansas and Texas and in the to shoot Queen Victoria at Windsor staMississippi....13-Five men killed in a tion....Death in Boston of the Hon. railroad tunnel at Baltimore....Publication of terms of peace between Chile and Bolivia ....Death: In New York, Daniel Slote, the original of "Dan" in Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad;" in St. Petersburg, Prince Suwaroff....14-Ice gorges and floods in various parts of the country, owing to mild weather.... Death: At Cambridge, Mass., Ko Kun Hua, professor of Chinese at Harvard, aged forty....15-News of the loss at sea of the steamer Bahama, bound from Porto Rico to New York, during a gale; twenty persons drowned.... Death: In Charleston, S. C., Bishop Wm. M. Wightman of the Methodist church, aged seventyfour....16-The Edmunds anti-polygamy bill passed by the senate....the house fixes the number of representatives under the new apportionment at 325....Death: At Washington, Col. A. B. Meacham, who was with Gen. Canby when the latter was killed by Indians, aged fifty-six....17-Explosion in a fireworks factory at Chester, Penn.; seven teen persons killed and fifteen injured... ..13-The President nominates Samuel Disastrous fire at Haverhill, Mass.; the bus- Blatchford to be justice of the United States iness part of the town destroyed; loss over supreme court, and John Russell Young to $1,000,000....18-Sudden cold wave with be minister to China....14-The anti-polyheavy snow storms in the Northwest.... gamy bill passed by the house....Dr LamGen. Skobeleff's sensational speech at Paris son, an American, convicted in London of .20-Indictment at Washington of " the poisoning his brother-in-law, Percy John, Dorsey combination " of star-routers....and sentenced to death....17-Numerous

Charles Hale, a distinguished journalist and diplomat and brother of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, aged fifty-one....4—Death of Milton S. Latham, ex-governor of and exsenator from California...Hazael wins the New York walking match; score 600 miles

6-Gen. Curtis, special treasury agent at New York, indicted for soliciting money for political purposes from government employees....8-Over 85,000 persons left destitute by_the_Mississippi floods....Beginning at London of the trial of "Dr." Lawson for poisoning his brother-in-law ....9-The Chinese emigration bill passed by the United States....10-Sergeant Mason, who attempted to shoot Guiteau, sentenced to be dishonorably discharged from the army, and imprisoned eight years in the Albany penitentiary....News of the death of Henry Highland Garnet, minister to Liberia....11-A new Planet found by Palisa at Berlin....12-The Mississippi flood said to cover 80,000 square miles of territory

law goes into effect....25-The senate
passes the Mississippi river improvement
bill, appropriating $6,000,000....27-
Death at Concord, Mass., of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, aged seventy-nine....28-Dr.
Lamson hanged at London....29-Explo
sive infernal machines sent to William H.
Vanderbilt, Cyrus W. Field and Police Su-
perintendent Walling, of New York....
May S-President Arthur issues a proclam-
ation against Arizona outlaws....Death at
Knoxville, Tenn., of ex Postmaster-General
Horace Maynard, aged sixty-four....5—A
dispatch from Engineer Melville announces
the finding of the bodies of Lieut. De Long
and the ten men with him....6-Lord Fred.
erick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland,
and Thomas Henry Burke, under secretary,
assassinated by unknown parties in Dublin

.8-The President signs the modified
Chinese bill....9-Lorillard's horse, Mis-
take, wins the Newmarket spring handicap
....11-Mine explosion in Westphalia; fif-
ty-six lives lost....14-Death; at Eureka
Springs, Ark., Gen. Cadwallader C. Wash-
burn, ex-governor of Wisconsin, aged sixty-
four....17-Total eclipse of the sun, visible
only in the eastern hemisphere....20-The
ship Western Belle caught and sunk in the
ice in St. Lawrence gulf; thirteen men lost

strikes by various branches of labor through- of Missouri....18-Beginning of the trial
out the country....18-Discovery of a new of the Malley brothers and Blanche Doug-
comet by Charles S. Wells, at the Dudley lass, for the murder of Jennie Cramer at
observatory, Albany. .22-Emperor Wil- New Haven....20-Death in England of
liam's eighty-fifth birthday celebrated in Charles R. Darwin, the scientist, aged sev-
Berlin....23-The assembly passes the free enty-three....23-The new Ohio Sunday
canal resolution, 74 to 44....The house of
representatives passes the anti-Chinese bill,
167 to 65....24-Death at Cambridge,
Mass., of Henry W. Longfellow, aged seven.
ty five....26-A fire in Richmond, Va., de-
stroys $500,000 worth of property....27-
Steamer Thomas Cornell wrecked in a fog
on Danskammer point, below Poughkeepsie;
loss about $200,0 0....28-Zuni Indians per-
form peculiar and traditional religious rites,
at the sea shore, near Boston, accompanied
by Lieutenant Cushing, their "adopted son."
.29-Great loss of life and widespread
suffering caused by a "blizzard" in Dakota
....30-The steamer Golden City burned at
Memphis, Tenn.; thirty-five lives lost....31
-The New Jersey legislature adjourns sine
die in great confusion, owing to the railroad
bribery disclosures....April 2-Cornelius
J. Vanderbilt commits suicide by shooting
in a New York hotel....News of the death
at Lima of Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, United
States minister to Peru....3-Hanlan de-
feats Boyd at New-Castle-on-Tyne by five
lengths; time 21.25....Jesse James, the
outlaw, shot and killed by Robert Ford....
4-President Arthur vetoes the anti-Chinese
bill....6 The President nominates Wm.
E. Chandler to be Secretary of the navy,
Wm. H. Hunt to be minister to Russia, and
John Jay Knox to be comptroller of the
currency....5-Terrific hurricane in Kan-
sas, Iowa, Michigan, and other western
States; twelve persons killed, many injured
and much property destroyed....8—Arriv-
al at New York of the famous elephant
Jumbo....9-Prince Gortschakoff, the Rus-
sian prime minister, retires; M. de Giers
succeeds him... 10-Judge Wylie denies
the motion to quash the indictments against
Brady, Dorsey, and other star-routers...
Mr. l'arnell released from prison on parole
to visit his sister in Paris....Frauds said to
aggregate over $4,000,000 discovered in the
transactions of Vogel Brothers, silk dealers
in Hong Kong, China....11-George M.
Chilcott appointed_United States senator
from Colorado....Deaths; at Chappaqua,
Ida Greeley Smith, eldest daughter of Hor-
ace Greeley; at London, Dante Gabriel
Rosetti, the painter and poet....12-John
F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., gives $1,000,-
000 for the education of southern freedmen
...14-Captain Howgate, the embezzler,
escapes from custody in Washington..15
-The firm of A. T. Stewart & Co. announces
the intention to sell all its property and re-
tire from business....16-Remarkably may
nificent display of aurora....17-The Ford
brothers, who killed Jesse James, sentenced
to death, but pardoned by Gov. Crittenden,

...23-Death in New York of Moses Taylor, aged seventy-six....24-Deaths; In London, Sir John Holker, ex-lord justice of the court of appeal, aged fifty-four....in Washington, D. C., Brevet Major-General George D. Ramsay, U. S. A., retired, aged eighty... 26-George Conley, the basso, and Herman A. Reitzel, the pianist, of Clara Louise Kellogg's troupe, drowned in Lake Spofford, N. H....27-The disaffected Egyptians assume a defiant attitude toward the Ehedive and demand his deposition.... 28-Arrival in New York of Lieut. Danenhower and party, Jeannette survivors....29 -Death at Philadelphia of Gen. George H. Crossman, U. S. A., retired, aged eightyfour....30-Decoration Day universally observed....June 1-Beginning of the star route trials at Washington....England and France invite the powers to a conference at Constantinople, on the Egyptian question

2-Death; at Caprera, Italy, Guiseppe Garibaldi, aged seventy-five....5— Death in New York of Dr. John F. Gray, the first American physician to adept Hahnemann's principles... 8-Foxhall wins the gold cup at Ascot....11-Serious riots in Alexandria, Effypt, by natives; 340 Europeans killed, and the foreign quarters sacked.... 13-The senate passes the Japanese indemnity bill, returning $785,000 to Japan....

14 Harriet Beecher Stowe's seventieth the Egyptians defeated....September 11birthday celebrated at Newtonville, Mass. Partial verdict rendered by the star route ....15-Death; at Columbus, Ohio, Wil- jury....13-Attorney-General Brewster orliam Dennison, the "war governor" of Ohio ders a re-trial of the star route cases.... 16-Paul Tulare, of Princeton. N. J., gives Engineer Melville and party reach New $2,000,000 to New Orleans, for educational York....15-Arabi captured at Cairo; Gen. purposes....19-Particulars of the finding Wolseley declares the Egyptian war ended of De Long and party, showing they died....Rifle match at Creedmoor ended; Britof starvation and cold, after terrible suffer- ish victorious.... Judge Wylie grants Miner ing....20-A new Egyptian ministry an- and Rerdell new trials....22-Railroad colnounced, with Arabi Pasha minister of war lision in the Fourth avenue tunnel, New 22-Business in New York almost stag- York; three persons killed and many innated by a strike of freight handlers....25 jured....24-News of great destruction by -Hottest day of the season in New York and earthquakes in Panama....25-The Khedelsewhere in the east; nearly 100 degrees in ive of Egypt enters Cairo, escorted by Britthe shade....29-A train runs off a bridge ish troops....October 4-Death at Hot near Long Branch into the Shrewsbury Springs, France, of Adelaide Phillips, the river; five persons fatally injured; Gen. singer, aged forty-nine....12-Webster Grant slightly hurt....30-Charles J. Gui- centennial celebration at Marshfield, Mass. teau, the assassin of President Garfield, hanged at Washington....Acquittal of the Malley brothers and Blanche Douglass, for

.20-Death at Aberdeen, Miss., of the Rev. Dr. Robert Paine, senior bishop of the Methodist church, south, aged eighty-three

. 24-Philadelphia celebrates the two hundredth anniversary of William Penn's landing....The British parliament opened

the murder of Jennie Cramer....Fourteen persons murdered by Indians in Dakota July 1-Disastrous storms in portions of Indiana and Illinois....3-J. Bancroft Da- ..28-Sir Garnet Wolseley arrives in vis, first assistant secretary of state, resigns; England....30-The Park Theatre, New John Davis nominated to succeed him....4 York, in which Mrs. Langtry was to make The excursion steamer Scioto collides with her first appearance in America on this a tow boat and sinks near Mingo Junction, date, burned....31-Mrs. Seguin, the wife Ohio; sixty lives lost....Death at Ports- of Dr. Edward C. Seguin of New York, mouth, N. H., of Ichabod Goodwin, the shoots end kills her three children and berwar governor" of the State, aged eighty- self....November 2-Deaths; at Wollaston, sig....11-The British fleet bombards Al- Mass., Josiah Quincy, aged eighty; at exandria, Egypt....13- Alexandria aban- Napa, Cal., J. W. Simonton....12 — A doned by the Egyptians; horrible atrocities daughter born to the queen of Spain.... by the Arab mob; 2,000 christians reported 20-Death in New York of Prof. Henry massacred; the town pillaged and a large Draper, the eminent scientist, aged fortypart of it burned....14-John Bright re- five....22-Death in New York of Thursigns from the British cabinet....16-Death low Weed, aged eighty-six....25-Presiat Springfield, Ill., of Mrs. Abraham Lin- dent Arthur removes Marshal Henry, and coln, aged sixty-seven....19—Great fire in other officials in Washington, for interferSmyrna, Turkey: 1,400 houses burned and ing with justice in the star route prosecu 6,000 persons homeless....20-Death at tions.... December 1-The new penal code Bordentown, N. J., of Fanny Parnell, sister takes effect....2-The President appoints of the Irish agitator, aged thirty-four.... Clayton McMichael marshal of the district 21-News of Disastrous storms in Dakota of Columbia....3-Arabi sentenced to exand Montana....23-The Khedive dismisses ile for life....4—Congress assembles; the Arabi from the ministry and declares him a President's message transmitted....6rebel....23-A fight between Arabi's forces Transit of Venus observed in many portions and the British at Ramleh; the Egyptians of this country....7-Great fire in London; driven away....25-Death at Long Branch, loss about $15,000,000....12-A fire deof John C. Hamilton, son of Alexander stroys the business portion of Kingston, Hamilton, aged ninety-two....27-The hot- Jamaica; loss $30,000,000....14-Mr. test day of the heated term....30-The Glodstone resigns the chancellorship of the steamer Alaska makes the trip from Queens- exchequer....19 — Death at Boston of town to Sandy Hook in seven days, seven- Henry James, sr., aged seventy-one....20 teen minutes, the fastest on record....-The City Bank of Rochester suspends, August 1-President Arthur vetoes the river owing to defalcations by the president, C. E. and harbor bill....2-Congress passses the Upton, of several hundred thousand dol river and harbor bill over the veto ...8- lars....21-The Commercial Advertiser Congress adjourns sine die....16-Death at building and the Masonic temple in Buffalo Atlanta, Ga., of Unite States senator Ben- burned; loss $300,000....24-Death of jamin H. Hill, aged fifty-nine....24-The Senor Zaldua, president of Colombia....27 British troops begin their advance toward-Celebrating the six hundredth anniversary Cairo from Ismailia... 28-Battle between of the founding of the royal Austrian house the English and Egyptians at Kassassin; of Hapsburg.

COMMERCE WITH GREAT BRITAIN.

THE United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its dependencies and Colonies, has always been our largest customer for our productions, and was for many years our largest creditor also, sending us her manufactured goods and receiving in return our raw materials in such quantities as she required for home or foreign consumption, and thus having almost always a balance of trade against us, which we were obliged to pay in coin.

Of late years, the balance has been the other way, and a large portion of our bonded debt, held by foreigners, has been paid from this surplus.

It will be interesting and instructive to review this commerce for the 89 years of which we have record of it. In 1790, we imported from Great Britain, merchandise of the value of $13,563,044, and exported to her and her dependencies, merchandise valued at $6,888,478, our exports thus being almost exactly one-half of our imports. Our total imports in 1832. were $767,111,964, and our total exports $20,205,156. Our total imports in 1878, were $466,872,846, and our total exports $799,959,736. In 1882, our imports of merchandise from the British Empire, were $304,928,485, and our exports of merchandise to the countries comprising that Empire, were $519,410,661.

The imports and exports of specie and bullion, which were about equal, are excluded in both cases. In other words, our imports are about 12 times as large as they were in 1790, and our exports 65 times as large. It will be interesting to notice some of the items which made up our early exports to Great Britain, and to compare them with the exports at the present time. In this way we can ascertain, in part, what have been our principal productions, for, as a general rule, a nation exports only those things of which it has a surplus, after supplying its own wants. In rare instances, it has not facilities for working up its raw material to advantage, and exports it, receiving back that material in a manufactured form. This was the case with our cotton, to some extent, for many years, and also with our ores of copper, zinc, &c., and the demand was so great abroad for some of our fruits, that the entire crop was exported. The following table gives our principal articles of export to Great Britain, in 1790. Some of these were goods imported and re-exported

by us:

EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN DURING THE FISCAL YEAR