CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4363, 27 December 1882, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Reuters Telegrams. Cairo, December 26. ?: Arabi and the leading rebel officers were to-day publicly degraded, and then started on their journey to Ceylon, their place of exile. London, December 20. A serious affray occurred last night at Canterbury, arising out of the ill-feeling existing between the men of the 2nd Dcagoon Guards and' 6th Dragoons. Fully two hundred troopers of these regiments took part in the disturbance, which lasted for some time. The fighting on both sides was severe, and many of the combatants suffered serious injuries. London, December 25. ■ Sir Chas. Dilke enters the Cabinet as President of the Local Government Board, to which position he has been appointed, vice Mr Dodson, who has accepted the post t>f Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, resigned by the Right Hon. John Bright in August last. It has transpired that the Governorship of Jamaica has been offered to, but declined by, Sir Arthur Gordon. The Irish newspaper, United Ireland, has been seized by order of the Executive, and a prosecution has been instituted against the editor for* publishing articles of a seditious character. Pabis, December 24. The French expedition to Tonquia will, in the first place, only consist of a detachment of 756 troops, but the force will, it is expected, be increased later. Cairo, December 23. Two of the Bedouin Arabs who were participators in the murder of the late Professor Palmer, in October last, have been surrendered by the Sheik of El Arish, and it is expected that all who were concerned in the murder of Professor Palmer, and the British officers, Messrs Gill and Charrington, his companions, will be captured within a fortnight. Berlin, December 23. A semi-official statement which appeared in the North German Gazette yesterday, regarding the pacific Russian policy of Princeßismarck, has bad a reassuring effect throughout the Continent, and has greatly calmed the Russo German scare. Capetown, December 23. SirTheophilus Shepstone, who crowned Cetewayo in 1873, has been delegated by the British Government to perform the approaching ceremony of his reinstatement in authority, which since the Zulu war has been held by John Dunn, whose authority will now be superseded by that of the King, as head of the Zulu tribes.

The following " special "messages have been published by the Press Association:— London, December 23. The Lonsdale on her trial trip did thirteen knots an h ur in rough weather. Lord Derby, as Secretary of "State for the Colonies, has resolved to receive Agents General on the same footing as Ambassadors. M. Duclerc has declined to formulate the French demands in respect to Egypt. An international Exhibition will be held at Calcutta next year. Mexico is seeking to attract Irish im» migration. The Hungarian Press protests that it ia unsafe for Austria to coquette with Russia in the way she is doing.