ENGLISH & FOREIGN.
[reuter’s TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, August 29. Promotions. The official “ Gazette,” issued to-day, contains tho following amongst other announcements :—Marquis of Tweoddale and Lord Reay (Peers of Scotland) and Earl Howth (an Irish Peer) have been created Peers of Parliament, and will thus tako seats in tho House of Lords. Sir William Vernon Harcourt (Home Secretary), Sir Frederick Johnstone, M.P. for Weymouth, Sir D. C. Majoribanks, M.P. for Berwick, and Mr Lupeon (sic.) have been raised to tho Peerage of the United Kingdom. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 29. Severe Shaking l . Intelligence has been received that several severe sharp shocks of earthquake have been experienced at Tchosme, a maritime village in Asia Minor, opposite the Island of Ohio, which suffered so severely from a similar visitation in April last. Tho shocks felt at Tchesme have been most disastrous, great destruction of property, accompanied with loss of life, having resulted.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2310, 30 August 1881, Page 3
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