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... GRAND CHORAL FESTIVAL DENBIGH CASTLE. On Thursday the Choral U nian, which embraces the whole of the choir of the Congregational Churches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and Flintshire, held a fes ival in the magnificent grounds of Denbigh Castle, the inferior of which had been fitted up with a huge orchestra, rising to a great hight. On either side were seats for the 600 school children who ...
... HEAVY FAILURES. .The failure of Messrs Robert Benson and Co., mer- chants, of King's Arms-yard, Moorgatc-street, London, was announced on Thursday. The difficulties of Messrs Benson were currently referred to after the failure of the Abevdare and Plymouth iron companies, for whom they were under acceptance for about but the standing of the house has also been prejudiced by the unfavourable ...
... THE OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS. LONDON, Friday. Mr Baring, in virtue of a firman from the Sultan, took possession of the Island of Cyprus yesterday on behalf of Great Britain. The sum which will be set down in the estimates as the cost of a military establish- ment of the Island, should the contemplated force of 10,000 be kept there, will be anuum. The pay of Sir Garnet Wolsley will be £5,000 per ...
... LATEST WAR NEWS. News of the Russian victory in Asia Minor was announced to the troops before Plevna on Wednes- day night during the hours of prayers, and was greeted by great cheering and a salvo of artillery. The Czar telegraphed the intelligence to the Emperor of Germany. On the subject of proposals for peace, a Vienna correspondent states that Count Andrassy has again said that he will ...
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... BASCHURCH STEEPLECHASES. This popular meeting came off on Tuesday, and was, like its predecessor?, a great puceess. It hss always been the fortune of these rac's to be uudor able and energetic management, and this year was no exception to the rule. The stewards were—Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart, M.P., Sir Vincent Corbet, Bart., Colonel Lloyd (Aston), C. J. Wing- field, Esq. (Onslow), and ...
... ENGLAND AND THE EAST. CALCUTTA, July 25. An official denial is given to an assertion made by the Statesman that the Inoian Government formerly projected sending a force of 90000 men to Bagdad simultaneously with the despatch of a British army corps to Trebizonde. The statement is declared to be com- pletely lalse. ...
... EX-PRESIDENT GRANT. PHILADELPHIA, May 17. General Grant has sailed for Liverpool in the American liner Indiana from Philadelphia. He was tendered the use of a national vessel by the President to take himself and family abroad, but he declined. General Grant will remain in England for several weeks. Me will remain abroad one or two years. ...
... MARRIAGE OF MR W. H. GLADSTONE, M.P. The marriage of Mr W. H. Gladstone, M.P., the eldest son of the ex-Premier, to the Hon. Gertrude Stuart, took place on Thursday morning at the parish church of St. George, Hanover-square, Lon- don. Amongst the earliest arrivals were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs Gladstone, Earl Granville, Sir R. Phillimore, and the brides maids, who awaited ...
... irtgat Ufaniagts, attfr Announcements under this head must be accom- panied by the name and address of the sender. Any addition to the simple notice must be paid for at the rate of one shilling for three lines. BIRTHS. AUSTIN—On the 12th inst., nt 2, College-street, Wrex- ham, the wife of John Lowton Austin, of a son. CORBKTT—ON the 12th inst., prematurely, at Saughall, Chester, the wife of ...
... COAL. The arbitrators in connection with the Warwickshire miners Wiges dispute met on Monday at. Nuneaton, Sergeant Wheeler, being present as umpire. The facts of the tase were fully /gone into on both sides. During the discussion, the learned Sergeant referred to the deplorable nature of strikes, and suggested the propriety of some attempt being made to obtain legislative enactments which ...