CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3811, 16 March 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Keuter's Special.]

Terrible Earthquake, and Great Loss of Life.

London, March 14.

A terrible and destructive earthquake has occurred at Ischa, an island in the*' Gulf of Naples, containing a population of 24,000 persons. The shock: was felt chiefly in.the capital of the island. A hundred houses were totally ruined, and many more were greatly damaged. The number of persons killed, so far as has yet been ascertained, exceeds a hundred, and a great many have been seriously injured. The scenes witnessed are described as awful, the inhabitants being paralysed with an agony of terror. I A Second Shock. j A second earthquake has occurred at the Island of Ischa, and it is reported to be more violent and destructive than the first. There has been further appalling destruction to life and property, and a number of shipping disasters. It has been estimated that at least a hundred persons have been killed by the second shock. The inhabitants of the Island are in a condition of frenzied terror. The Transvaal. Major-General Sir Evelyn Wood and M. Joubert have arranged with the Boers for an armistice of eight days. The British camp at Taingsneck is flooded, but provisions are allowed to enter the garrison of the besieged. Ireland. The authorities have determined stringently to enforce the provisions of the Irish Coercion Act. Forty arrests have already been made, and it has been decided to apply the provisions of the Act first to the Counties of Galway, Mayo, and Kerry. London, March 14. It is officially announced that the English Court will go into mourning for oue month for the late Czar of Russia. Defeat of the Government. In the House of Commons to-day, a motion was introduced by the Government asking that a Supply Bill should be declared "urgent." A lengthy debate ensued, in the course of which great opposition was shown on both sides of the Rouse to the proposal, and the motion was filially negatived by a considerable majority. St. Petersburg, March 14. The assassin of the late Emperor is named Kousakoff, and is known to have been a student of a Russian mining school. He remains quite silent in gaol, and refuses any information as to the motive which prompted his crime. The Czar, Alexander the Third, has issued a manifesto on his accession to the Throne of Russia. His Majesty strongly denounces the murderous attack made on the dynasty. The manifesto gives no outline of future imperial pelicy.