THE LONDON TIMES AS IT WAS.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 504, 12 August 1875, Page 2

THE LONDON TIMES AS IT WAS.

We have a curiosity in the shape of the " London Times," dated Wednesday, October 3rd, 1798. Amongst the adver tisements Is one of a "grand galla," ia honor of ehe victory of the Nile, a notree relative to the "Masonic charity for clothing and educating the sons of indignent Freemasons, according to the old institutions." Another" advertisement gives of a dinner at the Shakspere Tavern, Covent Garden, on the accasion of the anniversary of Mr Hox's first election to Westminster. There are several advertisements respecting money, land, uifeuities^ apartments, board, &c. Two J:' L ,$d pounds reward are offered for the discovery of a highwayman who stopped a post-boy carrHig the mail from Bromley to Sevenoaks, and who presented a horse-pistol and robbe I the boy of the mails. The news columns contains the "official news of Lord Nelson's glorious victory over the Ftsodi iieet " at the Nile, on the Ist August. Admiral Nelsofi's despatch is published in a Gazette Extraordinary, giving an account of the battle, with lists of ships engaged, captured, and officers and men killed and wounded. Particulars are Efiveri of operations against the rebels at Killala,. in Ireland. The public are informed that Mr Curran, the Irhh barrister, has arrived in town, that Mr Pitt "is not confined at Walmer with gout,'' that the keepers of several reading rooms in Fleetstreet have been fined i-5 for lending newspapers for hire. Under the head of " Theatre," particulars are given of the excitement in the vaiious places of amusement, on receipt of news of the victory of the Nile. At Drury Lane, a man irt the gallery called boisterously for the true " Britons, strike hom9," whan he was effectually silencod by another who called, " Why it they have, have'nt they." The " Times" was not fastidious in those days, and it priuts the expletive in full. It is announced that an application has been made to Parliament for leive to make and maintain a tunnel under the river Thames Amongst the particulars of sports to bo held at Weymouth are the following, at which "all per ons of jovial, friendly, and loyal dispositions," are invited to be pre sent : — " a pound of tobacco, to be grinned for : a good hat, to be wrestted for ; a j barrel of beer to be rolled down a hill, prize to whoever stops it ; a Mic.laelmasday goose, to be dived tor ; a good hat, to be judgelled for; half-a-guinea* for tli^ best ass, in three heats ; a handsome hat, for the boy most expert in cufcehing a roll dipped in treacle, and suspended by a string : holf-a-guinea to tho rider of the ass, who wins- the best of three heats, by coming in fast" Accounts are given of robberies by highwaymen. Th? announcementjof a birth commences thus: — "On Satui Ily last, st his house, &c." The size of the " Times" was between crown and double crown.

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