CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4467, 30 April 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

EEUTER's TELEGRAMB

[Received April 20, 2 p.m ]

London, April 27

The wool market is quiet. Arrivals to date for next auctions amount to 320,000 bates.

[Received April 30, noon.] London, April 28. The Queen has instituted an Order of the Eoyai Bed Cross Decoration, which will be specially devoted to the nurses of those wounded in action.

Arrests are now being daily made in Ireland of persons implicated in conspiracies. Evidence of the complicity of the accused has been supplied to the police by informers. " New Yobk, April 28. The Irish Convention at Philadelphia concluded* its sittings and adjourned indefinitely. Beforeadjourning a motion was adopted denouncing the English rule in Ireland, and urging the banding of Irishmen in America and Canada to obtain autonomy for Ireland, by lawful means ; recommending organisation of a national league, and resolving to cooperate with Parnell in his efforts to obtain a redressal of Irish grievances. ■-

FSpECIAIiS TO THE PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

London April 27. The ship British Commerce which sank in the Channel on Tuesday night had no passengers. She had 2100 tons cargo. The captains of both vessels state that they did not see each other's lights. The P. & O. s.s. Indus, outward bound to Australia, grounded in Barking Beach, on the Thames, during a fog; but has been successfully floated off, and will resume her voyage to-night. The health of her Majesty the Queen is improving. Lord Granville has advised the deputation that waited upon him as to the nature of the scheme for doubling facilities of traffic through the Suez Canal, that Government is at prasent consulting Lord Dufferin.

At the Irish Convention now sitting in Philadelphia, the dynamite faction is gaining ground. Daniel Egan is satisfied to Tefer the League's accounts to an auditing committee.