CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4470, 3 May 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Beuteb's Telegbams

[Received May 3, 1 p.m.]

London, May 2,

Tenders for the Tasmanian half-million loan were opened to-day, and were found to amount to the exact sum required. The average of the tenders is £98 10s, being 10s above the fixed minimum. Patrick Delaney and Thomas Caffrey, two of the Phoenix Park prisoners have confessed to complicity in the murders of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke, and have been sentenced to death. Caibo, May 2. Lord Dufferin has started from this city for Constantinople, his mission to Egypt having been completed. London, May 2. In the House of Commons last night, precedence was voted to the .Affirmation in lieu of Oaths Bill upon the motion of Mr Gladstone. ■ The customary Whitsuntide recess commences Friday, the 11th inst., and Parliament will reassemble on the 21st. James Fitzharris, the cab-driver who has been identified as having been employed by the Phoenix Park murderers, will be tried for conspiracy to murder Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burke. The trial of Edward McCaffery, one of the alleged four actual assassins, commences at Dublin to-day.

[Specials to the Press Association.]

| A letter, addressed to Mr Forster, containing explosives, has been discovered by the Post Office officials, who stopped the delivery of the letter. A meeting of shipowners will be held on the 12fch to consider the proposals for floating the new Canal Company. Stanley, one of the men belongiag to the ship British Commerce, which was | run down and sank in the Channel on Wednesday last, clung to a quantity of | wreckage for several hours, and was rescued in a very exhausted condition. J. O'Connor, a prominent Parnellite, I resident in Cork, has been imprisoned for ! refusing to give evidence before the secret inquiry which is being held at Dublin Castle. London, May 1. Opening of tho Amsterdam Exhibition. The Amsterdam Exhibition has been opened, although large numbers of the courts are very far from being ready. Those occupied by Holland, the Dutch colonies, New South Wales, and Victoria are the only ones which are in a condition even approaching completion. The cere* mony of opening was an uneventful one.' After the performance of a cantata the Burgomaster delivered an address, after which the King declared the Exhibition open. The King and Queen were received in the Victorian Court by Messrs Macßain, Levy, Wayence, Spensely, Grererboon, and Dr Serrarier. They examined the staple products exhibited, and expressed themselves surprised at the size of the gold trophy, representing the actual bulk of the gold exported from the colony of Victoria since the discovery of the goldfields. The Queen promised »o pay a second visit.

In the New South Wales Court their Majesties were received by Sir Saul Samuel, Messrs Waitt, Heaton, and Leonard, whoexplainedtbeexhibits illustrating the resources of the colony. His Majesty displayed considerable knowledge on the subject of Australian resources.

The Hon. Mr Holt having protested against the private character of. the Exhibition, refused to attend the opening cere* mony. The Exhibition is not nearly equal to either the (Sydney or Melbourne Exhibitions.