... THE BEHEADING OF CHARLES THE FIRST. ROYALIST LONDON WAS IN TEARS THIS DAY 2B0 YEARS AGO. Two hundred and fifty years ago this day Royalist London was still in tears, for its hapless monarch had lost his handsome head two days before, at Whitehall, where the Royal United Service Institution now stands. The fact has become for most of as merely a point in history, hut the modern Jacobite-- ...

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... rnVSK&TOH No. 314.-- Vol. XXV. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1899 ...

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... . THAT the Carl Rosa Opera Company should have been able for so long to withstand even fairly well the buffets of its vicissitudes tells much for the value of its foundations. There is no doubt that to the lamented musician who initiated the enterprise, and practically put his life into it, the fact is due that we have an English opera at all. I think that the failure of his followers to ...

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