Fourth Sunday after Trinity. Dog days begin.

4M Independence Day, U.S.A. (1776). Monroe d. 31.

Tu Rt. Hon. Cecil John Rhodes born, 1853.

W Princess Victoria of Wales born, 1868.

Th Treaty of Tilsit, 1807. Sir W. E. Parry d. '55.

Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., born, 1836.

Oxf. Trin. Term ends. Rev. G. R. Gleig d. '88.

H. M. H. M.

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Fifth Sun. after Trinity. John Calvin b. 1509.
Battle of Oudenarde, 1708. Alexandria bombd.

Tu The Crimea evacuated, 1856.
W Treaty of Berlin (Peace with Honour), signed, '78.
14Th Bastille stormed, 1789. Archbp. Benson b. '29.
F St. Swithun. Sandown Park: Eclipse Stakes.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, first P.R.A. born, 1723.

Sirth Sun. aft. Trinity. Punch started, 1841.
M Bishop of Ely born, 1825.
19 Tu Matthew Flinders, navigator and explorer, d.'14.
2c W St. Margaret. Army purchase abolished, 1871.
21Th Robert Burns died, 1796; born, 25 Jan. 1759.
St. Mary Magdalene. Battle of Falkirk, 1298.
Duke of Devonshire b. 1833. Gen. Grant d. '85. 4 13 7 59 204 161

Seventh Sun. after Trin. Jane Austen d. '17.

M. James, A. & M. Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfourb. '48.

26 Tu St. Anne. Goodwood: Stewards' Cup.

27 W The Transvaal Government bankrupt, 1885.

28 Th Goodwood: Cup Day.

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William Wilberforce, philanthropist, d. 1833.

Wm. Penn, coloniser of Pennsylvania, d. 1718.

31 Eighth Sun. aft. Trinity. Van Tromp d. 1653.

July 1. Special Sessions for Licences to deal in

Game to be held this month.-Quarter Sessions

held this week.-Workmen's Compensation Act,

1897, comes into operation.

5. Dividends due. 9. Fire Insurances to be paid.

16. Glasgow Fair Saturday.

20. Rates and Taxes due January 5th must be
paid on or before this day by Voters to prevent
disqualification.-Last day for County and Paro-
chial Electors to send in their claims to vote.

Year.

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ECLIPSES, OCCULTATIONS,
OTHER CELESTIAL PHENOMENA.

July 1. There is no real night till the 20th of this month; the length of the Day being 16. 29m.

July 2. Earth at greatest distance from the Sun, 2h. aft.

July 3. Partial eclipse of the Moon, partly visible at Greenwich, see p. 67.

July 5. Mean time of Sun's semidiameter passing the meridian, 1m. 8.48.

July 13. Mars in conjunction with the Moon, gh. aft. 4° 56' S.

July 18. Annular Eclipse of the Sun, invisible at Greenwich, see p. 67.

July 20. Mean time of Sun's semidiameter passing the meridian, 1m. 7'48.

July 20. Mercury in conjunction with the Moon, 7h. aft. 4° 16' N.

July 22. Venus in conjunction with the Moon, 11h. morn. 95° 55' N.

July 27. Mercury in conjunction with Regulus, 10h. morn. ¥0°

o' N.

July 28. Saturn in conjunction with the Moon, 10h. aft. h 5° 18' N.

July 30. Occultation of A Sigittarii, magnitude 3. The disappearance takes place at 7h. 31m. aft., 98° from the vertex; the reappearance at 8h. 41m. aft., 283° from the vertex.

In this month the Mornings decrease 35m., and the Afternoons 30m

MORNING AND EVENING
STARS.

MERCURY is an evening star. May be observed in the North-West soon after sunset. Is in such close conjunction with Regulus on the 27th, at 10h. morn., that both objects will appear in the same telescopic field.

VENUS is an evening star.

the Pleiades. Does not rise till near MARS in Taurus, not far from midnight.

4 JUPITER in Virgo: position much the same as in last month. h SATURN nearly stationary in Scorpio. Souths between 8h. and

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30 10 30 14n 5 48 40n 21 7 200 1 12 118 19 32 408 9h in evening.

RISING, SOUTHING, and SETTING of the PRINCIPAL PLANETS at intervals of Seven Days.

ANGULAR DISTANCE OF THE MOON FROM SPICA VIRGINIS.

IM Lammas. Bank Hol. R.A. closes. Nile, 1798. 2 Tu Captain Marryat, R.N., novelist, died, 1848. 3W Eugène Sue d. 1857. Viscount Peel b. 1829. 4Th Percy Bysshe Shelley b. 1792; d. 8 July, 1822. Old St. James' Day. Grotto Day.

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Transfig. Lord Tennyson b. 1809; d. 6 Oct. '92.

Ninth Sunday after Trinity. Name of Jesus. 8M Rt. Hon. Sir George Turner, K. C.M. G., b. 1851. Tu Heligoland formally ceded to Germany, 1890.

W St. Lawrence. Rt. Hon. G. J. Goschen b. 1831. 4 39 7 31 222 143
Octave Feuillet b. 1820. Half Quarter Day.
TRINITY LAW S. END. Grouse shooting begins.
Imperial Defence Act, 1888. Ld. Esher b. 1817.

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Tenth Sunday after Trin. Ld. Clyde d. 1863. M Sir Walter Scott born, 1771; d. 21 Sept. 1832. Tu" Peterloo" meeting at Manchester, 1819. W Frederick the Great died, 1786. 18Th Emperor of Austria born, 1830. Gravelotte, '70. 451 7 15 230 135 Sir Martin Archer Shee, P. R.A., died, 1850. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, b. 1592.

Eleventh Sun. aft. Trinity. Vimiera, 1808. M Rt. Hon. Sir John Forrest b. '47. Bosworth, 1485. 23 Tu Treaty of Prague, '66. Buckingham assass., 1628. 24 W St. Bartholomew. Huguenot massacre, 1572. 25 Th Michael Faraday d. 1867; b. 22 Sept. 1791. 26 F Louis Philippe, died 1850. Crecy, 1346. Sir Rowland Hill d. 1879. Duke of Teck b. '37. 5 6 6 57 Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. St. Augustin. 29 M Behead. St. John Bapt. Mr. Speaker Gully b.'35. 30 Tu Sir John Ross died, 1856. Plevna, 1877. W General Roberts, VC, relieved Kandahar, 1880.