CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3883, 9 June 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Rbutbb'h Special ]

London; Jane 7. The State of Ireland.

News has been received from Irelcnd that a large number of people assembled to day at Tramore, in the County Waterford, to attend a meeting called together by the League agitators. The authorities having learned that a meeting was to' be held, had previouslydespatched a large force to the neighborhood, and as soon as the peoplo assembled the police arrived on the scene and dispersed, the ; meeting. Some resistance was offered by the mob, but no serious disturbance occurred.

The Government have within the past few days hod tbe position of affairs in Ireland under consideration, and several meetings of tlio Cabinet Have been held to discuss the matter. It has transpired that it has been decided that the authori ties in Ireland should maintain a very firm attitude, and to adopt the strongest possible measures to suppress the increasing disorder.

Accounts to hand to-day from Ireland continue to give further evidences of the alarming state of the country. Numerous further arrests of prominent agitators and suspected persons have been made during the past few days under the Coercion Act.

, Active steps are being taken by the authorities to stop all meetings held by the Land League. A large number of people assembled yesterday at Mullingar, in the County Westmcath, but the police were despatched to the scene, and the meeting was prohibited and the crowd dispersed. l .

At Shrule, in the County of Mayo, yesterday, a -serious riot occurred between the police and the peasantry, who had assembled in large numbers to prevent an ejectment. Severe fighting took place, and several of the rioters weie arrested. The mob, however, again attacked the police, and rescued the prisoners after a further conflict. •

News is to band from Cork that the roads in the district have been destroyed, and the telegraph lines have been cut in several places. : ;

A large detacbmeut of tbe troops accordingly have been despatched to traTerse the country and to prevent further outrages. London, June 8. Further Trouble in Bulgaria. .Relations between i'rince Alexander of Bulgaria and his Parliament* which have for some time been of an unsatisfactory nature, have now become most discordant. The Prince's demand (or reforms in the system of Government have met with general opposition on the part of the member* of the National Assembly and a large section ot. the community. Much difference of opinion is expressed, however, and considerable disorder prevails in the principality, which is now declared to be in a state of siege.

London, June 6.

Demonstration.

An open ait mass meeting was held in Hyde Park to day with reference to the state of affairs in Ireland. Mr Parnell, M P. for Cork, 'was present, and addressed the meeting, commenting strongly upon the, present condition of that country, and demanding that Government -should at once take steps to put a stop to the eviction of tenauts from their holdings, in order to avert the serious consequences that would result if such practices were permitted to continue.

At the meeting under the auspices of the Ladies' League, held at Tulla to-day, Miss Parnell, in a speech which she made on the occasion, counselled the people to adopt the League measures. She completely ostracised the police in Ireland.

Pabis, June 6.

Telegrams hare been receired from Algeria reporting that a party of twentysix engineers and' workmen engaged in the construction oik line of telegraph has been massacred by uatire Arabs.

London, June 6.

The question of neutrality of the InterOceanic Canul iv course of construction across the Isthmus of Panama, is now being considered by the Great Powers ; but, up to the present time, no definite information as to the result of the ncgotia-

vious has transpired.