CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3892, 20 June 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Ukutkk's Special.]

London, June 18. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is. 1,990,000 quarters. Best Scotch pig iron, iSo. 1, free on board in the Clyde, has declined to 47s 6d. At the wool sale today 6400 bales were offered, making a total of 261,100 catalogued since the opening. The tone of the sale is again very firm, and 12,000 bales have been withdrawn from auction since the commencement of the series. A memorial signed' by the leading Liberals of Bulgaria has been addressed to Mr. Gladstone on the subject of the relations between Prince Alexander and his Parliament. The memorialists' characterise the Prince's actions as despotic, aud appeal to Mr Gladstone to use the influence of his Government to induce a settlement of the Bulgarian difficulties. London, June 16. The Land Bill. The Irish Land Bill was again under consideration in committee of the whole in the House of Commous to-day, when the second clause was passed after some dis- . cussion. , KtfijgitnutelligeMce frj|ni Ireland reports tliat tie disorder in (hat country has somewhat abated,'the'-ftoting between the peasantry and the ,pojfce having greatly subsided. The authorises, however, continue to take steps to* prohibit nil as*,;* seniblies of people on occasions of sales and at scenes of evicjipflfof tenants. .!. ••;■" •'■> 'Jp AHI9j J Ulie 17,

Telegrams are to hanit'from Marseilles announcing that an extraordinary disturbance occurred there today. {Several regiments of French troops of transports just returned from Tuuin^were marching through the town, aud on passing the building occupied by the Italian Club they ware hissed from the windows by some of the members. There was a large number of people in the street.at the time, and the action of the Italians greatly incensed them. They angrily demanded that the Italiau escutcheon should be removed from the club, and a great scene of disorder ensued. The Prefect then arrived on the scene, and endeavoured to calm the mob, protesting against any violence; but, despite the protest, the deputy mayor of the town, who was present/took the head cjfjhe crowd, and, ascending a ladder, tore down the escutcheon with his own hands. Order was then restored. The uews of the occurrence ha caused much excite§ieat.