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The famous Land Act of 1881 gave three additional privileges, Fixity of tenure, by which the tenant remains in possession of the land for ever, subject to periodic revision of the rent. The application is referred to three persons, one of whom is a lawyer, and the other two inspect and value the farm. This rent can never again be raised by the landlord.
Witness these two passages from his letters: "January 8, 1881. I feel this is what I shall like; these truths were not given to make a man idle." "September 24, 1881. I have been down for two Sundays to meet a lot of Chinese, and have spoken to them as well as I could. I have not yet touched on Jesus and His sacrifice, but spoke of God's indwelling. It was satisfactory, and they were pleased."
Gladstone's Visit to Leeds in 1881 A Fiasco Narrowly Avoided A Wonderful Mass Meeting Mr. Gladstone's Collapse and Recovery My Introduction to Him An Excursion to Tunis "The Land of the Bey" Mr. A. M. Broadley's Prophecies Howard Payne's Grave A Series of Coincidences. The misfortunes described in the last chapter befell me in 1880; I must now retrace my steps and go back to the year 1879.
The surface quickly came to rest after disturbance by street traffic. Sir W. M. H. Christie, Eighth Astronomer Royal, took up his duties in that capacity in 1881. Besides a larger altazimuth that he erected in 1898, he has widened the field of operations at Greenwich by the extensive use of photography and the establishment of large equatoreals.
He took especial delight in playing Chopin's Nocturnes, no Sunday ever passed without his family hearing him play two or three of them. He studied music in London under Moscheles, and, though not an eminent pianist, was a good teacher. His amiability assured him a warm welcome in society. Eduard Pirkhert died at Vienna, aged 63, on February 28, 1881. To Mr.
Yevgeny Fyodoritch used to go about in a cap with a peak, and in high boots, and in the winter wore a sheepskin. He made great friends with Sergey Sergeyitch, the medical assistant, and with the treasurer, but held aloof from the other officials, and for some reason called them aristocrats. He had only one book in his lodgings, "The Latest Prescriptions of the Vienna Clinic for 1881."
Above Risano are two strong fortresses, erected after the insurrection of the Crivoscians in 1881. The revolt of 500 men against conscription necessitated the mobilisation of a whole corps d'armée to subjugate them. They lived on the slopes of inaccessible mountains, and the troops had to make the mountain paths into roads practicable for artillery.
Müller had thus recorded his confidence in the Lord's help, God HAS sustained the work, and in May, 1902, there was a balance in hand of some thousands of pounds, notwithstanding that more than £500,000 had been received and expended since this entry was made in Mr. Müller's journal on July 28, 1881. During these 20 years faith and patience were at times greatly tried: "Aug. 15, 1881.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury presents in detail a highly satisfactory exhibit of the state of the finances and the condition of the various branches of the public service administered by that Department. The ordinary revenues from all sources for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, were: From customs $198,159,676.02 From internal revenue 135,264,385.51
The manifesto "calls upon all faithful subjects to eradicate the hideous sedition and to establish faith and morality." The methods whereby faith and morality were to be established were soon made known, in the "Police Constitution" which was bestowed upon Russia in August, 1881, under the name of "The Statute concerning Enforced Public Safety."
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