CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4372, 8 January 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Renter's Teleg-eams.

London, January 6.

Sir F. D. Bell, A gent. General for New Zealand, has invited tenders fora monthly steamship service between England and New Zealand, the outward route to be via the Cape of Good Hope, and the Homeward by the Straits of Magellan. The statement that Gavan, M.P. for Monagban, has been appointed Undersecretary for Ireland is authoritatively denied. , •Consols, 99f. The market rate of discount has declined to 3s. The Bank rate continues at 5 per cent. There are no changes in the reports of New Zealand securities, colonial breadstuffs, or tallow. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,230,000 quarters. The Province of Whydah, on the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, has been ceded by Portugal to England. j It has transpired that Earl Derby, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, will at a date in the middle of this month, to be hereafter fixed, accord a formal recep~ tion to the various Colonial AgentsGeneral, at which it is understood the question of the more formal recognition of the latter's official status will be dis- ! cussed. ; Paris, January 6. • Funeral of M. G-amlbetta. The funeral of M. Gambetta took place to-day. The cortege was attended by members of the Ministry, Senate, and Chamber of Deputies, and by deputations from all parts of the country. Business was entirely suspended, and the streets through which the procession passed were lined with great masses of people, and it is estimated that ;fully 250,000 were assembled along the route from the Palais Bourbon to Pere La Chaise. The spectacle has never been paralleled since the funeral of the great Napoleon. In the panegyrical orations which were delivered on the occasion special reference was made to the former French province of Alsace and Lorraine, and the affection and esteem in which the deceased statesman was held by the inhabitants of those districts.