Jan. 4, 1874.-Coup d'état in Spain. The Cortes was forcibly dissolved by General Pavia. A new ministry was formed, with Serrano as President.

Jan. 8.-The President withdrew the nomination of George H. Williams as Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court.

Jan. 8.-Proctor, the astronomer, began his lectures in New-York.

Jan. 8.-Sheriff Brennan, of New-York, was imprisoned for contempt of court in the Genet

case.

Jan. 10.-Caleb Cushing nominated for ChiefJustice by the President.

Jan. 10.-Intransigente insurrection broke out in Barcelona, Spain.

Jan. 12.-Governor Allen, Democrat, of Ohio, was inaugurated.

Jan. 12.-The Senate repealed the "Salary Grab" Act, 50 to 8. The House acquiesced on the 14th instant, 226 to 25.

Jan. 13.-Carthagena, in Spain, surrendered to the government troops. The insurgent ironclad, Numancia, escaped to Algeria.

Jan. 13.-Communist riot in Tompkins square New-York; several workingmen were clubbed.

Jan. 13.-Jacob Stiner, his wife and daughter, burned to death in Sixtieth street, New-York.

Jan. 14.-The President withdrew the nomination of Caleb Cushing for Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court.

Jan. 17.-Governor Coke, of Texas, demanded of Governor Davis, who claimed the office until the 28th of April, the surrender of the State archives. Armed men held Austin until the 19th instant, when Davis surrendered.

Jan. 18.-The Siamese Twins died in Surry County, North-Carolina.

Jan. 19.-Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, was nominated for Chief-Justice by the President, and unanimously confirmed on the 21st instant by the Senate.

Jan.

1.-Union Central Depot, Chicago, burned. Loss, $400,000.

Jan. 23.-Prince Alfred, of England, and the Grand-Duchess Maria, of Russia, were married in St. Petersburg.

Jan. 24.-The Kraton fort, in Acheen, captured by the Dutch.

Jan. 24.--The British Parliament was dissolved by royal decree, and elections for a new parliament were ordered.

Jun. 26.-Intelligence of the death of Dr. David Livingstone, in the interior of Africa, in August, 1873, was received in England.

Jan. 26. Petition of Edwin Booth, as a voluntary bankrupt, was filed in New-York. Assets, $61,155; liabilities, $162,161.

Jan. 27.-Large Anti-Ultramontane meeting held at St. James's Hall, London. Sympathy with the German government was expressed. Jan. 27.-General Gonzalez was installed as President of Santo Domingo.

Jan. 28.-British parliamentary elections began.

Jan. 28.-The Italian General, La Marmora, published a letter reaffirming his statement, that Bismarck, at the beginning of the war with Austria, consented to the cession of German territory to France.

Jan. 29.-Olympic Theatre, in Philadelphia, destroyed by fire.

Feb. 1.-The women's anti-liquor crusade began about this time in the West.

Feb. 2.-Tho Roman Catholic Archbishop Ledochowski was arrested and sent to prison by the German government.

Feb. 4.-National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, representing 12,000 subordinate granges, met at St. Louis, Mo.

Feb. 5.-General Sir Garnet Wolseley entered Coomassic. Termination of the Ashantce war. Feb. 9.-A resolution adopted in the House of Representatives, 170 to 64, asserting the constitutional power of Congress to so regulate commerce between the States, as to protect the people against all unjust or oppressive tolls, by railroads or other carriers.

Feb.10.-Investment of Bilbao by the Carlists. Feb. 12.-Charles Kingsley, the poet and novelist, arrived in America.

Feb. 14. Taylor's Pantechnicon, in London, destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,500,000.

Feb. 16.--Public reception of the American Arctic explorers by the Geographical Society of New-York.

Feb. 17.--A majority of the members elect of the new House of Commons being Conservatives, the Gladstone ministry retired from office.

Feb. 17.-Simmons, the murderer of Duryea, was convicted of manslaughter in the third degree, in New-York.

Feb. 17.-Evans, the murderer of Georgiana Lovering and others, was hanged at Concord, N. H.

Feb. 18.-Mr. Disraeli accepted the British premiership.

Feb. 19.--Great fire at Panama destroyed the business part of the city.

Feb. 20.-Governor Dix, of New-York, removed District-Attorney Britton, of Kings County, from office.

Feb. 28.-Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant, was found guilty of perjury, and sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude.

Feb. 28.-Marshal Serrano was declared President of the Republic of Spain.

March 3.-The bill to appropriate $3,000,000 for the Centennial Exhibition was defeated in the Senate, 33 to 17.

March 5.-The female crusaders against the liquor traffic were mobbed in Columbus, O.

March 5.-The new British Parliament assembled. The political classification of the House of Commons was, Conservatives, 351; Liberals, 302.

March 8.-David Kalakaua elected King of the Hawaiian Islands.

March 12.-The Duke of Edinburgh and his bride made a public entry into London.

March 12.-James C. King was convicted of murder in the second degree in New-York.

March 12.-Rupture between the ex-Empress Eugenie and Prince Napoleon (Jerome).

March 16.-Large gathering of French Imperialists at Chiselhurst, to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the birth of the Prince Imperial.

March 19.-The Royal Speech was read in the British Parliament.

March 20. The Fiji Islands were ceded by King Cacoban to Great Britain.

March 24.-Mass meeting of merchants in New-York, in opposition to the inflation of the currency.

March 24.-The Congregational Council, called to consider the deviation of Plymouth Church from Congregational usages, began its sessions in Brooklyn.

March 28.-Cambridge beat Oxford in. the university boat-race.

March 28.-The Congregational Council, in Brooklyn, censured Plymouth Church, but decided to continue fellowship with it.

March 30.-Queen Victoria reviewed the herocs of the Ashantee war at Windsor.

April 4.- Four persons burned alive in Sinaola, Mexico, for witchcraft.

April 4-The French Transatlantic steamer L'Europe was abandoned at sea,

April 4.-Governor Dix sent a message to the New-York Legislature, condemning the inflation of the currency.

April 6.-Examination of John D. Sanborn before the Congressional Committee.

April 6.-General José de la Concha, the new Captain-General, landed in Cuba.

April 10.-Lowenstein, the murderer, was hanged at Albany, N. Y.

April 14.-The French Transatlantic steamer L'Amérique abandoned at sea. She was afterward found and towed into Plymouth.

April 15.-The Baxter-Brooks war broke out in Arkansas. It resulted in the defeat of Brooks's pretensions.

April 16.-Riel was expelled from the Canadian House of Commons.

April 17-Comet was discovered, at Marscilles, by M. Coggia,

April 18.-Funeral of Dr. Livingstone in Westminster Abbey.

April 22.-Sir Lambton Lorraine was received by the New-York Common Council.

April 22.-President Grant vetoed the inflation bill passed by Congress.

April 22-24.-Overflow of plantations by the lower Mississippi River, and large destruction of property.

April 22.-Mr. Magee, British Consul at San José de Guatemala, brutally scourged by the order of the native commandant.

April 26.-Henri Rochefort escaped from his imprisonment in New-Caledonia.

April 27.-The Khedive of Egypt took military possession of the Suez Canal.

April 28.-The Senate sustained the President's veto of the inflation bill.

April 29-May 1.-Battles around Bilbao; President Serrano commanding the Republican army. They terminated in the relief of the city and the retreat of the Carlists.

April 30.-Fighting in Little Rock. The Brooks party repulsed with 9 killed and 20 wounded.

May 1.-Governor Dix signed the New-York Police bill.

May 3.-The French quarter in Shanghai was attacked by a Chinese mob, and many persons injured.

May 6.-Marshal Serrano, returning from the victory at Bilbao, had an enthusiastic reception in Madrid.

May 7-Mayor Havemeyer, of New-York, appointed Abram Disbecker Police Commissioner.

May 8.-General O. O. Howard acquitted, by one majority, of a charge of malfeasance in office, by a Court of Inquiry.

May 16.-The dam of the Ashfield reservoir, above Williamsburg, Mass., gave way, and the Mill River Valley was flooded. Villages and manufactories, and millions of dollars' worth of property, were destroyed, and over 100 people were drowned.

May 17.-Resignation of the De Broglie ministry in France.

May 18.-Governor Moses, of South-Carolina, was indicted for larceny.

May 21.-Miss Nellie Grant, daughter of the President, and Mr. A. C. F. Sartoris were married at the executive mansion, in Washington. May 21.-Prince Metternich and the Count of Montebello fought a duel near Versailles; the latter was wounded.

May 22.-A new ministry, headed by General de Cissey and the Duke Decazes, formed in France.

May 23.-Civil Rights Bill passed the Senate, 29 to 16. It was not brought to a vote in the House.

May 25.-Chief-Justice McClure and the Associate-Justices of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, were impeached and removed by the Legislature.

May 30.-Henri Rochefort arrived in NewYork from New-Caledonia.

May 30.-Police Commissioners Charlick and Garduer, of New-York, were indicted for violation of the election law.

June 1.-Resignation of Secretary of the Treasury, Richardson. The President nominated Benjamin H. Bristow, of Kentucky, to succeed him. Mr. Richardson was nominated to be a Judge of the Court of Claims, and both nominations were confirmed by the Senate.

June 4.-Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury, Sawyer, resigned.

June 5.-Henri Rochefort lectured in NewYork, on French politics.

June 9.-An excited debate took place in the French Assembly. M. Gambetta denounced the Bonapartists as "wretches." On leaving the Chamber, he was followed and threatened by Bonapartists.

June 11.-M. Gambetta was assaulted in Paris by the Count St. Croix, a Bonapartist,

June 13.-The Compromise Currency bill was defeated in the Senate.

June 18.-Both Houses of Congress passed the bill to repeal moieties to informers.

June 18.-The President sent the Canadian Reciprocity treaty to the Senate.

June 20.-The bill abolishing the District of Columbia government, and substituting a Commission. was finally passed.

June 20.-The new Conference Currency bill was passed by both Houses of Congress,

June 22.-Both Houses of Congress agreed to the conference report on the Geneva Award bill. June 23.-The President nominated Alexander R. Shepherd to be one of the Commissioners for the District of Columbia. Rejected by the Senate, 36 to 6.

June 23.-Congress adjourned. The new Bankruptcy bill finally passed both Houses.