LONDON.
July 18. The accounts to hand from the Kentish hop grounds give less favorable reports of the state of the season's crops. The English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank bas declared a dividend of 4 per cent, for the half-year, and carries forward £4000 to the reserve fund. The Very Rev. A. P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster, is alarmingly ill, and his physicians give no hopes of his recovery. In the House of Commons to-day Mr Gladstone announced that the Irish Land Commission had been appointed, and would consist of the following members: —Lord O'Hagan (Lord Chancellor of Ireland), Mr E. F. Litton (member for Tyrone), and Mr Vernon, land agent. July 19. Dean Stanley died to-day, aged 66. Very geueral suprise is expressed at the names of the [rish Land Commission. Tbe appointments are considered weak, and will be strongly opposed by the Irish members in the House of Commons.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3139, 20 July 1881, Page 3
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