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...wars the King of the Netherlands agreed to give over the territory about the Essequibo River to the possession of England. No mention of the boundaries was made until in 1840 there arose a dispute. A few months later the British government sent out to have a boundary surveyed. Lord Aberdeen, who commissioned the survey, was anxious to have natural boundaries. Schomburgk, the explorer, followed the Barina River farther than it had seemed to extend before. By this survey considerable more territory was included as British possessions...
...that our President had to base his message upon were the claims of the people of Venezuela. After the negotiations of 1840, the people of Venezuela were inactive until 1881. Then Lord Cranville took up the negotiations with Venezuela, which were finally rejected...
...choir sang the following selections: "The Great Day of the Lord is Near," Martin; "Holy Spirit Come," Martin; "Now the Day is Over," Marks (solo...
...Crothers, of Cambridge, preached last evening in Appleton Chapel, taking his text from the seventh verse of the nineteenth Psalm: "The law of the Lord is perfect...
...music was well rendered, as usual, and consisted of the following selections: "Give unto the Lord," Parker; "I will lay me down," Brown; and an excellent tenor solo, Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise." The last was sung by E. M. Waterhouse...