CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3468, 5 February 1880, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

(Rettteb's Special to Press Agencx). 1 ondon, February 4. The Belief Fund. The experimental (shipment of meat is pronounced to be thoroughly satisfactory. The Lord Mayor of Dublin has intimated that tbe relief of the distress in Ireland would have to have been suspended, were it not for the liberal subscriptions which are being received from the Australian colonies towards the relief fund. London, February 3. Russia and Persia. The Eussian Press threatens Persia, suspecting a treaty with England. London, February 2. The Victorian Question,

Earl Derby's Opinion. Earl Derby, speaking at Manchester, expressed his strongest conviction that if the Upper House in Victoria be re formed on the proposed Colonial model—nominee members replacing present peers —it would lead to angry feelings, and create factions, and that an energetic feeling would arise to repress their inferiors in the other House which would cause a deadlock. The cargo of Frozen meat. The cargo of frozen meat was well cured. The sailors on board say it eats splendidly. The cargo was kept many degrees below freezing point during the voyage, and a third power of the machinery only was exerted. London, February 2. Arrived : The ships Loch Lomond from Melbourne, Moravian from Sydney, Invercauld and Collingrove from Adelaide, Outalpa from Kingstown, Pareora from Wellington, and Chandiere from Wellington.