CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3108, 3 February 1879, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Reuteb's Special to Pbess Aoenct.)

LATEST.

London, February 1.

Marshal MacMahon, in declining to accede to the request of Ministers, that changes should be made in the anti : Republican Commanders of the French army, and which he recently declared he would aroid doing, has resigned the Presidency of the Republic. Monsieur Grery has been elected President for seren yean by a large majority present. Ministers retain office, Grery refusing to accept their resignation. - . ... M.Gambetta has been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, rice M. Grery. ' ' '. *' : .' ■ „; -■. Marshal MacMahon retires into prirate life.- •-■ \ In the trial of the Glasgow Bank directors, Potter and Stronao^ were found not guilty as charged, and the others guilty of issuing a false balance-sheet. Sentence will be declared on Saturday. General Stewart's force entered Eilalighilgie on the twenty-first.* Vali Mahomet, brother of the Ameer, has arrired at Drrum, soliciting a reception by General Roberts. A number of the Shimbari Chiefs accompany Tali.

The Bank of England have reduced the rate of discount to three per centum.

. A New Zealand Agricultural Company, with a capital of one million is announced in London.

Boumania has announced to Austria that she is ready to place fifty thousand broops on the Russian frontier as a sanitary cordon against the plague.

London, January 13.

A New Zealand Agricultural Company is announced with a capital of one million. M. Gambetta will probably be President of the Chamber pf Deputies. Boumania announces to Austria that she is ready to place fifty thousand soldiers on the Russian frontier as a sanitary cordon, and will permit the Bussians to return from Bulgaria, but forcibly resist others crossing the mountains. A new trial has been completed in the Bagot will case, and judgment reserved. The Bank of England will lower rates one per cent. ..