The body of the late King Christian IX of Denmark is entombed in Roskelde’s cathedral, Copenhagen. A despatch from Shanghai, China, states that nothing is known there of conditions requiring the sending of United States troops to that Country. The Methodist Foreign Missionary Society receives reports from its head missionaries at different Chinese cities stating that there is no danger of disturbances. The Southern Baptist Missionary Board, through its secretary, cables its missionaries to take refuge in the nearest seaports, where they can be under the protection of foreign consulates. The King of Hungary prepares to dissolve the Diet when it assembles today. February 19.—The Hungarian Diet is dissolved by armed troops and police. Another anti-Jewish riot occurs at Vietka, Russia. Most of the city is burned, but no deaths are reported. The “General Memorandum” issued by Admiral Nelson to his captains at Trafalgar is found at Merton. The mutineers of the Russian battleships _Kniaz Potemkin_, who were sentenced to death, have had their sentences commuted to imprisonment. King Edward opens the newly elected English Parliament. In his speech the King expresses a desire that the government of the country shall be carried on in a spirit regardful of the wishes of the Irish people. February 20.—Germany rejects the final proposal of France for a settlement of the Moroccan controversy. The points in dispute will now come before the delegates of all the Powers. A company of British mounted infantry and three officers are massacred by fanatics in Sokoto, Northern Nigeria. A despatch from Ekaterinodar, Ciscaucasia, states that a fight is in progress between a detachment of Russian soldiers and 600 mutinous Kuban Cossacks. Members of the Hungarian Diet decide to accept the dissolution of that body without protest. The British House of Commons records its determination to resist any proposals which will create any system of protection. The Russian Government is trying many prisoners for participating in a movement to overthrow the Government. The political dissatisfaction throughout the Empire seems to be as great as at the beginning of the late revolution. February 21.—Ambassador White, head of the American delegation to the Algeciras conference, expresses the opinion that France and Germany will reach an agreement on the Moroccan question. Attacks upon Catholic missions are made by Chinese in several of the southeastern provinces of China. The British House of Commons pledges a system of intelligent self-government for Ireland. February 22.—German Reichstag passes a bill to extend reciprocal tariff rates to the United States until June 30, 1907.