CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XXI, Issue 3780, 8 February 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Reuters Special.] *

London, February 7

Public meetings have been held in London and several provincial towns, at which resolutions have been passed denouncing the Irish Coercion Bill now before Parliament.

In addition to the complete cessation of outrages in Ireland there are now signs that the Irish tenants are giving way to tlie Landlords and will resume payment of rent for their holdings.

Beelin, February 7

Mr Goschen, the English Ambassador to tlie Porte, is visiting this city while en route for Constantinople. He has had audiences of the Emperor and Prince Bismarck.

Athens, February 7.

A. more moderate feeling now pervades all classes in Greece in regard to the frontier question, aud there seems every probability that the Turko-Greek difficulty wili receive a peaceful settlement.

London, February 5.

The death is announced to-day, after a painful illness, of Thomas Carlyle, the eminent author, aged 86.

News to hand from Ireland during the past few weeks shews that the agrarian outrages have now .almost entirely ceased. This is attributed mainly to the prompt measures which have been taken by the Government for suppressing disorder.

Further news from Sierra Leone confirms the tetegrarn to hand yesterday regarding the probability of an outbreak ot wai- in iuti oolou^. 11 is nun auuoi'.uced that the King of Ashantee demands that a refugee chief, who has placer! himself under British protection in the colony, should be surrendered.

Sir Samuel Rowe, Governor of Sierra Leone, has refused the demand, hence the threatened ufctack on the colony by Ashautees.