Additional Calograms.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4384, 22 January 1883, Page 2

Additional Calograms.

(Via. the Bluff.)

(Pee Pbess Association,)

[Age Specials.]

London, January 10,

Bismarck has proposed that the German Government should expend a sum of 600.000 marks towards the relief of the suflerers by the recent inundations.

It has been decidedby the Suez Canal Co., to expend a sum of twenty millions sterling in widening it, and otherwise improving the canal. The works .are to be commenced at once. The Czar of Russia has dismissed the Secret Society Guard by which-he had been surrounded, and -has discontinued many precautions which he lias hitherto taken to frustrate the designs of the Nihilists. Sir Charles Dilke, the new President of the Local Board, is at present at Nice, whither he has gone to attend the second funeral of the late Gambetta, whose remains are to be finally interred there to-morrow. The Russian advance on Central Asia is still strenuously resented by the inhabi 1 tants and it is now reported that the people of Gerva murdered the Russian Surveyor and three Cossacks in his employ. Sir Saul Samuel, the Agent-General of New South Wales, was presented with a handsome souvenir by colonists and other residents in London as a mark of their satisfaction at his recent elevation to knighthood. The produce of the French vintage for 1882 shows a decrease on that of the previous year of 3,000,000 hectalitres. Since the death of the late M. Gambetta, dissensions have sprung up in the ranks of his followers, and it is believed that a general disruption of the party is likely to take place.

It is reported that the English Government are about to despatch reinforcements of troops to Natal, owing to the generally unsettled state of South Africa.

A Socialist agitation of an alarming character has sprung up in Home with ramifications throughout Italy, The Government have determined to take stringent measures fir the suppression of the organisation, and wholesale arrests are being made in consequence.

The widow of thejate General Chanzy has been granted an annual pension of 1200 francs by the French Government.

A number of laborers of Connaught have applied for Government aid to enable them to migrate to Queensland. The United States CoDgress has reversed the decision arrived at a short time ago in favor of the abolition of a portion of the protective duties previously in foice.