Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-06-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STATE CONCERT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.  At the great State concert at Buckingham Palace last week the Princes. of Wales wore a dress of grey and silver brocade, trimmed with magnificent Brussels lace, and there was a large fashionable assembly of invited guests, The programme of music included St. Saens' "Le Rouet d'Omphale," Grieg's " Landerkennung," Gounod's "Ave Verum," and selections from Rossini, Wagner, and Verdi, the artistes being Mesdames Alhani, Ravogli (2), Miss Barnes, Monsieur Maurel, and Messrs. Ben Davies; Henschel, John Thomas, and Ludwig Straus. The orchestra and chorus, consisting of 160 'performers, comprised her Majesty's private band, assisted by members-selected from the principal orchestral and choral societies in London. These functions are always staid and stately, as well as grandly picturesque. There we have always the array of" beefeatens " in-grandiose guard upon the staircase, the ceremonial coining and going of the  wrclllS.  ambassadors, an& the-almost solemn singing and playing of the artistes, which serve to wideV distinguish the "ordered" Cburt Concerts from any other entertainment of similar character,  The State concerts, at which the best professional singers of the day perform, are held in the grand concert-room of Buckingham Palace. A fine organ is at one end, with hag standard candlesticks in front; the Royal family occupying an alcove-at the opposite aids, of the apartment. All the rooms are thrown open, and in certain of them refreshments are served. All the high. Oburt and State officials and Yeomen of the-Guard are on all occasions in attendance. An invitation is- deemed "command," and the company are supposed to be in their plates before the Royal family enber. At the balls, Royalty begins the dancing with &quadrille at the upper end of the room; afterwards it heroines general. There is always on these °erasion-9 a magnificent display of dresses, flowers, and plate. The lighting is very effective, and the rooms of course brilliant in every degree.  Lumen% Pownsa,-61118 bugs, flea& moth& beetles, sat ell Inmate (perfectly unrivalled). Herndon to everything bat (emote. Sold 10 Tins, &L and In  SAMUEL LIDAV, 8 restaurant keeper in Salt Lake City, Utah, shot and killed John Kirby, and thencommitted suicide. Ile accused Kirby of being too intimate with Mrs. Liday. A Dammie telegram from Victoria (British Columbia), says : A piano case, supposed to contain a piano consigned to "W. Wright, Victoria," from Toronto, arrived here several months ago, and, as no one came to claim it, was placed in the goods shed to await the owner. On Wednesday last the company derided to examine the case, and accordingly had it opened. It was then found to be empty. The interior was padded with felt, so as to form a comfortable apartment, and there were traces of its having been occupied by a man and a woman during its trip across the continent. There was a mattress at the bottom of the case,, and several articles of male and female wearing apparel were still hanging upon clothes-hooks fitted to the sides. Morsels of food also lay scattered about. The cover of the case was hinged to open easily from inside. As the supposed piano case arrived in a bonded car the occupants could easily escape detection, and it is believed that they were an eloping couple, whose identity, however, is a mystery.