CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4433, 20 March 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

BeUTEB's TBLEGBAMB.

[Received March 20, 2.20 p.m.] London, March 19. The Government have announced in Parliament that is not intended to send any more war vessels to Madagascar, it being considered that the H.M.S. Dryad now there will suffice- to watch British interests. Sir Wm. Vernon Harcourl, the Home Secretary, announced in the House of Commons to-day that orders had been given for the increase of the Metropolitan Police Force by five.hundred men, in order to provide increased protection of public buildings. ■ In the appeal ease of- Boyd r. Chamberlain the demurrer to plaintiff's pleas has been allowed by the Court of Appeal.

Arrived : Ship Norman McLeod, from Napier ; left on December 3. London, March 19. Full particulars are now to hand regarding the attack on Lady Dixie. She was walking in the grounds of her residence, on the banks of the Thames, when the assailants made a desperate attack on her with daggers. The weapons twice penetrated her clothing, and her corset alone averted fatal wounds. Her hands are cut, but otherwise she is not injured. As she was struggling with the assassins she was overcome with terror, fainted away, and fell to the ground. Two favorite dogs who were with her then stood over her body, and kept the assassins at bay, and finally drove them off. Lady Dixie has lately published letters denouncing the Land Leaguers, and describing a recent visit which she made to Ireland. Paris, March 18. The projected gatherings of Socialists in this city to-day were complete fiascoes, owing to tbe small attendaaee. New Yobk, March 18. The Land Leaguers in this city repudiate any, connection with the explosions in London.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

■ London, March 16. University Boat Haco. The University boat race was won by Oxford, by three lengths and a-half, in 21mins 18secs. . The attempt to blow up the new Government offices in Parliament street with dynamite was made by placing the explosive on the balustrade outside the portion of the buildings occupied by the Local Government Department, the basement of which was entirely wrecked by the explosion. No lives were lost but for a radius of a hundred yards every window was broken, and huge blocks of masonry wern hurled a considerable distance. The wall and floors of the Houses of Parliament trembled greatly, \ In the second attempt to blow up the: publishing office of the Times' something went wrong with the vessel containing the explosive, and so the attempt failed. The Press generally regard these at- ; tempts as a response on the part of the Fenians to the rejection by the House of Commons of Mr Parnell's suggestions for the amendment of the Land Bill. O'Donovan Bossa attributes the attempts to blow up the Government offices to the action of some skirmishers. . Extra magazines are .being established at the docks and Government offices.