CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3046, 19 November 1878, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

I (EBrwcß's Special to Pbess A&enoy.)

LATEST.

Attempted Assassination of Sing 1 of Italy.

President of Council Mortally Wounded. > BoMBr November 17. The King of Italy has been stabbed by an assassin, and slightly wounded, at ■Naples.. „.'.! .. .: ■...•: The President of the Council of Ministers, accompanying the King, while seizing the assassin was mortally wounded. ■ •, ' The assassin was arrested. The cauie is, not political. .

Londojn, November 14. .Fearful gales have been experienced on the coast. 1. '•

The ship Blaic Athol, bound to Australia, has put back having sustained damage. The ship JRoodlands has also returned, having been in collision.

Messrs Dormer and Co., of the China trade, have failed for one hundred thousand pounds.

Mr Leighton succeeds Mr Grant as President of the Boyal-Academy.

A Standard telegram from Borne says Archbishop Macabe- succeeds the late Cardinal Collen.: \ , :

, November 16. : Ellison has been remanded for the gold robbery on the Avoca.

Scotland has subscribed one hundred and seventy thousand pounds toward the Glasgow Bank Belief Fund.

Money is in less demand. Bank rates are dropping. A reduction in the bank minimum is expected. The .bank reserve has acquired fresh strength week by week. Eleven and a-half millions are now in reserve. The stock markets shb# an improvement daily. Consols are firm at 96.

Australian securities, have experienced a strong revival.

Victorian four par cents are ninety* four; Sydney, ninety-nine; New Zealand, 5 per cent. Consolidated are quoted at 102. New Zealand 4£ per cent., February and August, 94|.

The Egyptian fund has been fully sub. scribed. , "" The corn market is unchanged^ i November 15. | Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of Fiji, on the occasion of bis being presented with the freedom of Aberdeen, stated that he recognised the eminent qualities of higher permanent Colonial officials, but deprecated the eagerness of. Colonial officers to avoid party questions calculated to render Governors careless of the interests of the colonies. ;.■■;>- :: ■; ,V\ London^ November 13. Obituary: Capt. Jule, of the Royal n»»7- „■ ':": ' '.:. : ■...' ■■'■; ■ •"■ 'rV!' v ';;- November!^ The inquiry into the Woolwich collision has closed. The jury after a long deliberation. found both vessels blameable. '

November 16. ' The bank rate is six per cent.; market four and a-half. Nbw YoEKi November 14.

The President of the United States has ordered payment of the Halifax award on the 22nd of November.

Lord Salisbury, in' replying to the United States Secretary for' Foreign Affairs respecting the award, said he was prepared to consider in a friendly spirit America's proposals.

November 15.

The Thames, barque, from Auckland, with gum, «fee, has-arrived.

London, November 14,

The ship Piako, bound from New Zealand, arrived at Pernambuco with her cargo on fire. The passengers were transferred to the ship Loch Doon, bound to Queenstown. '

The Merchant Shipping Underwriters Association telegraphed, under date Nov. 15th, the additional fact regarding the ship Piako, that she was scuttjed.

In view of the Afghan war, an influential agitation has been got up to convene Parliament. . .

; November 15. The Marquis of Lome has sailed for Canada. '

November 14.

The British Afghan troops are suffering from unhealthy supply. Tjhe transport is defective. , ' \..',',..... .

The Ameer is passive, seeming disinclined for war.