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combatant, attached to Sir Gerald Graham's 

 intelligence department, to enter the battle of 

 El Teb with a shot-gun, and he was severely 

 wounded. His performances were mentioned 



FREDERICK GUSTAVtJS BURNABY. 



in the dispatches, and gained him the Khe- 

 dive's medal. They also led to a lively dis- 

 cussion in the House of Commons, in which 

 critics inquired what right he had in the battle, 



while his friends warmly praised his gallantry. 

 He volunteered for the Nile expedition, and 

 overtook Gen. Wolseley at Korti. He was 

 given charge of a convoy of grain, and sent on 

 in haste to join Gen. Stewart 

 at Gakdul, with secret instruc- 

 tions to succeed that officer if 

 a mishap left the command 

 vacant, and reached the camp 

 on Jan. 13, just before the 

 column started for Metam- 

 meh. He commanded the cav- 

 alry in the Abu Klea, and or- 

 dered a manoeuvre in the early 

 part of the fight while labor- 

 ing under a misapprehension. 

 Through his efforts to correct 

 the mistake he was killed be- 

 fore the commander was dis- 

 abled. The loss of these two 

 experienced and energetic of- 

 ficers left the command in the 

 hands of men unaccustomed 

 to direct military affairs, a cir- 

 cumstance that accounts for 

 the blunders at Metammeh 

 and the delay in bringing suc- 

 cor to Gen. Gordon. Col. 

 Fred. Burnaby, in his vari- 

 ous qualities of a dashing offi- 

 cer, an entertaining author, 

 a political aspirant, a lover of daring adven- 

 ture and athletic feats, a sportsman and coun- 

 try gentleman, and a genial man of society, 

 was well known and popular in England. 



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CALIFORNIA. State Government. The follow- 

 ing were the State officers at the beginning of 

 the year : Governor, George Stoneman, Demo- 

 crat ; Lieutenant-Governor, John Daggett ; Sec- 

 retary of State, T. L. Thompson ; Treasurer, 

 W. A. January ; Comptroller, John D. Dunn ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. T. 

 Welcker; Attorney-General, E. C. Marshall; 

 Survey or- General, H. J. Willey; State En- 

 gineer, William H. Hall. Judiciary, Supreme 

 Court: Chief -Justice, Robert F. Morrison; 

 Associate Justices, W. H. Myrick, E. W. Mc- 

 Kinstry, E. M. Ross, J. D. Thornton, J. K. 

 Sharpstein, and S. B. McKee. 



LegislatiYe Session. The Legislature met in 

 January, and adjourned in March. Reviewing 

 the session, a San Francisco journal says : 



It has been a Legislature of jobs and combinations, 

 of extravagant appropriations, of utter conscienceless- 

 ness in its numerous small raids upon the treasury, 

 and ol blind disregard of the duties imposed upon'it 

 by the weightiest interests of the Statef About the 

 only lasting memorial of its existence will be the taxes 

 it has imposed on the people. It has been run by 

 cliques and cabals. A few men in each house have 

 spent their timo and their talents in contriving com- 

 binations whereby certain measures were advanced 

 by tying them up with certain others, and more im- 



portant bills smothered to death by keeping them 

 under a mountain of chaff and trifles. 



One of the most important subjects before 

 the Legislature was that of irrigation, but no 

 act was passed. Ex-Gov. Leland Stanford (Re- 

 publican) was elected United States Senator. 



General Condition. The Governor, in his mes- 

 sage to the Legislature at the beginning of the 

 year, says: 



The products of the soil have been abundant, but 

 the selling prices therefor are not as remunerative as 

 formerly. Owing to unsatisfactory prices, our ware- 

 houses are filled with wool, wine, and cereal products, 

 awaiting an increase in rates. W hile some of our in- 

 dustries are in a languishing condition, the purchas- 

 ing power of money for nearly all necessary articles 

 of food in our markets appears greater than for many 

 years past. The fructifying rain has again visited 

 the StatCj and we are assured of bountiful harvests, 

 and a revival of the mining industry. 



Finances. The receipts of the State during 

 the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth fiscal years 

 amounted to a sum less by $380,230.29 than 

 the receipts of the two years preceding. The 

 expenditures during the same periods show 

 even a greater difference in favor of the pres- 

 ent administration. They stand thus: For the 

 thirty - second and thirty -third fiscal years, 



