A newly appointed member of the British Cabinet is defeated for re-election to Parliament in a district that has not before gone Liberal in twenty years. Winston Churchill says it is the beginning of the end of the present Government. April 6.—King Edward of England and President Loubet of France meet in extended interview at Paris. This is regarded as significant in strengthening the understanding between France and England relating to Morocco and as being a counter move to Emperor William’s assurance of political integrity of that country. The reform movement increases throughout Russia. _Obituary_ March 7.—John H. Reagan, former United States Senator and State Railroad Commissioner, dies at his home in Texas, aged 87. Albert M. Palmer, veteran theatrical manager, dies at his home in New York, aged 66. March 8.—Henry A. Barclay, prominent New York business and race-track man, dies at his home, aged 60. Rear-Admiral Edwin S. Houston, United States Navy, dies at Lausanne, Switzerland, aged 60. March 9.—William Brimage Bate, United States Senator from Tennessee and former Governor and Major-General, C.S.A., dies in Washington, aged 78. March 12.—Caleb Huse, foreign purchasing agent for the Confederate Government, dies at the age of 75. March 14.—Henry R. Reed, millionaire sugar merchant, of Boston, aged 62, dies under mysterious circumstances in a New York hotel. Henry Cyril Paget, Marquis of Anglesey, dies at Monte Carlo, aged 30. March 16.—Meyer Guggenheim, prominent New York capitalist and head of the Smelter Trust, dies at Palm Beach, Fla., aged 78. March 17.—Lot Thomas, former Congressman from Iowa, dies at the age of 61. Charles C. Cole, former Supreme Court Justice, District of Columbia, dies at Washington, aged 64. March 18.—General Joseph R. Hawley, former United States Senator from Connecticut, dies at the age of 78. Cyrus G. Luce, once Governor of Michigan, dies at the age of 80. March 22.—M. Antonin Proust, French author and former member of Gambetta Cabinet, dies at Paris. Rev. Dr. Elmer H. Capen, former President of Tufts College, dies at the age of 76. March 24.—Jules Verne, the celebrated novelist, dies from a stroke of paralysis at Amiens, France, aged 76. Señor Manuel de Aspiroz, Mexican Ambassador to the United States, dies at Washington, aged 68. March 29.—Jacob L. Greene, President of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, dies at his home in Hartford, aged 67. William Hammond, a prominent real estate man of Boston, Mass., commits suicide in the Hotel Astor, New York. March 30.—Hugo Jacobson, the American representative of a French steel firm, commits suicide at the Hotel Breslin, New York. March 31.—The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn, grandmother of the Duke of Marlborough, dies at London, aged 92.