CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4017, 12 November 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Beuteb's Special.]

London, November 9. At the annual banquet given by the Lord Mayor at Guildhall to day, the Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone made a speech, in which he referred at length to the position .of affairs in Ireland. He stated that the Irish were fully utilising the benefits sought to be provided by the Land Act, and that the situation in Ireland had materially improved. Mr Gladstone further said that, one of the. earliest measures next session would be a Bill for the Eeform of Procedure of Parliament; such Eeform, he stated was urgently necessary, and he asked the assistance of all political parties in bring* ing the same into effect. Earl Granville also made an important speech. He stated that a cordial agreement continued between England and France in regard to Egypt. Alluding to the Anglo-French Treaty negotiations he I said that Government attached no magnified economic importance to the conclusion of a treaty of commerce with France, although politically such would be valuable. JtJis Lordship concluded by stating emphatically that it was impossible for England to conclude a treaty with France of a retrogade character. Constantinople November-10. - M. Novikoff, Eussian Ambassador, has sent a communication to the Porte declaring that the Eussian Government will oppose any agreement that may be arrived at between bondholders' delegates and the Turkish Financial Commission for a settlement of the Turkish finances, and the the claims of foreign creditors of, the Porte, unless the question of the Eussian war idemnityis simultaneously considered and some arrangement come to for its payment. The Porte has sent a communication to M. Novikoif, Eussian Ambassador, stating that it cannot agree to the demand of his Government that the question of payment of Eussian war indemnity should be considered simultaneously with claims of foreign bondholders. Pabis, November 10. In the Chamber of Deputies last night, a vote of censure was proposed on Jules Ferry Government for its policy in Tunis, but was rejected by a substantial majority and a resolution was further adopted at Che instance of ftL Gambetta that France should loyally abide by the treaty concluded with the Bey of Tunis. M. Ferry, President of the Council of Ministers, to-day tendered his resignation and that of his colleagues to President Grevy, and M. Gambetta has since been summoned to form a new Ministry.