CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3856, 9 May 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Keutbii's Speciai,.] ' '"•" Londok, May 6

.Consols bare advanced to 102g, and tbe market rate of discount has been reduced to 2 per cent; the bank rate remains at 2i ■ - ;■'■' '. ;' ■:.:.."';. Adelaide fiour ex warehouse, unchanged at 48s. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Gieat Britain.,,is • 2,070,0y0. quarters. Australian best beef, tallow has advanced to 32s 6d, best mutton remains at 365, Board of Trade returns for last month show imports to have amouuted to £35,240,000, being a decrease ot £5,3.47.000 compared with the month of April, 18§0. J£^port? «m,qijnte4 tp £18,125,000 or decrease of &QQ,QW, compared with last year. . ? IPLokdok', May 7< i It is officially announced that the Earl of Dufferin, at present British Ambassador at St. Petersburg!!, will succeed Bight Hon. G. J. Goschen as Ambassador at Constantinople, after the Turko-Greek difficulty has received final settlement; The Right Hon. Sir Edward Thornton, at present British Mjinjster in the United States, ' will succeed I^ord Duferin &p Russian Coftrt. The Marquis of Salisbury has,assumed: the leadership of the Conservative party in the House of Lords. . The Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone is a present indisposed, but his illness is not of a nature to cause alarm. • | Paris, May 7. : Bartholemy St. Hil^re, Minister for Foreign Affairs, made a statensenl; tq $&y regarding tbo intentions of the GoTernment towards Tunis. He announced that after the T»»isian tribe of had been punished by the J?reqeh l^ops,, the expedition would teammate, aifd diplomatic negotiations with the Bey follow. Londom, May f. The race for one thousand, guineas stakes was run to-day at Newmarket, and was won by Thebes, Dora second, and BalGal third. „..,* ; . St. Pjetsbsbubg, May 6. Jt cujFrentljr rumoured, here that the Czar, Alexander the Third, has formed a complete programme ot reform to be instituted in the Government of Russia. NATAi,May6. Intelligence is to hand from the Transvaal that the relations between the Boers and natives continue most unsatisfactory, and that the latter threaten to rise against the Boers after the British troops a^a withdrawn.* Capjiiowk, May (i. A politi.cajl o^)9 hag occurred here,'the Ministry 9f $. Gordpn Sppigf fearpg rejigngd.. .' la Minuesota aad Wiseonsiu jeer i#e*p is said to be very cheap.