CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4054, 24 December 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Ueuteb's Special.]

London, December 22.

The projected International Exhibition at Dublin has been abandoned in consequence of the disputes which hare arisen between the members of the Executive Committee in regard to the proposal to ask the Queen's patronage.

gettle, a prominent Land Leaguer, who was arrested in May last, has been re* leased from custody owing to bis continued ill health.

The seizure of thirty rifles and fifty reTolrers was made to-day by the police at Limerick.

A largely attended meeting of landlords has been held at Dublin, at which resolutions were passed condemning the Land Apt, and setting forth the intention of the meeting to demand compensation from the State for losses incurred through the carrying out of the provisions of the law.

Owing to ill-health, Parnell has been removed from Kiltnainham Gaol to

Armagh.

£}qnj?tantinople, December 22.

Mr 6'Donovan, formerly .correspondent of the London Daily News with the Russian expedition, has been arrested here for publicly slandering the Sultan.

London, December 21

A circular has been issued to the English clergy by Dr Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, in which the latter proposes that more direct communication should be established between home and colonial churches with a view to encourage the spead of Christian knowledge in the colonies, and for the spiritual benefit of emigrants.

Madbid, Decembea 2.1.

In Cortes to-day Senor Armigo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that a protest had been recently sent by Spain to England against a charter being granted to the North Borneo Trading Co., and that a diplomatic correspondence was now proceeding between the British and Spanish Governments iv regard to this matter.