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held altogether seven plenary meetings. On Sunday, Jan. 14, 1877, he had an audience of the Sultan at which Sir Arnold Kemball acted as interpreter, and pressed upon his Majesty the two points on which the Powers intended to insist, informing him that if they were not accepted the Ambassadors would immediately leave Constantinople. These two proposals were, that there should be a mixed Turkish and International Commission of Supervision, and that the first appointment of the Governors should be ratified by the Powers. On Jan. 18, a special meeting of the Ottoman Grand Council was held, and about 140 Mussulmans, and about sixty leading Christians were present. The proceedings lasted two hours, and were opened by Midhat Pasha. With one dissentient voice the Council were unanimous in insisting on the rejection of the proposals of the Powers. The Conference held its last sitting on Jan. 20, and immediately afterwards Lord Salisbury left for England. On April 2, 1878, he was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the room of the Earl of Derby resigned, and he at once wrote a memorable dispatch, in which he clearly enunciated the policy of the Government with regard to the Eastern Question. He and the Earl of Beaconsfield soon afterwards were the representatives of Great Britain at the Congress of Berlin, and on their return to London they met with a most enthusiastic reception at Charing Cross (July 16, 1878). The Queen invested the Marquis of Salisbury with the Order of the Garter, July 30. On Aug. 3, he and the Earl of Beaconsfield received the freedom of the City of London, and were afterwards entertained at a grand banquet at the Mansion House. He went out of office with his party after the defeat they sustained at the general election of April, 1880. At a meeting of Conservative Peers held on May 9, 1881, at the residence of the Marquis of Abergavenny, the Marquis of Salisbury was elected to lead the party in the House of Lords. The Marquis of Salisbury is a member of the council of King's College, London, Deputy-Lieutenant of Middlesex, and hon. col. of the Herts Militia. For many years he was Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions.

SALMON, The Rev. George, D.D.. D.C.L. (Oxon), LL.D. (Cantab), born in Dublin in 1819, was educated at Cork, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated as Senior Moderator in Mathematics in 1839. He was successively Scholar and Fellow of his College, and was elected Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin in 1866. Besides various contributions to theological and mathematical periodicals, he is the author of treatises on "Conic Sections," on "The Higher Plane Curves," on "The Geometry of Three Dimensions," and on "The Modern Higher Algebra," which have been translated into the principal European languages, and which have been honoured by the Royal Medal of the Royal Society, and the Conyngham Medal of the Royal Irish Academy. He has also published two volumes of sermons, besides many single sermons. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a corresponding member of the Royal Academies of Science at Göttingen, Berlin, and Copenhagen. He was President of the Mathematical and Physical Science Section of the British Association at the meeting held in Dublin in Aug., 1878.

SALVINI, Tommaso, an Italian tragedian, born at Milan Jan. 1, 1830. His father was an able actor, and his mother a popular actress named Guglielmina Zocchi. When quite a boy he showed a rare talent for acting, and performed in certain