CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4526, 7 July 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Eeuteb's Telegrams

[Received July 7, 12.20 p.m.]

London, July 5

Consols have declined by % to IOOf. Tbe bank rate of discount remains at 4, and tbe market rate at 3| per cent.

The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £11,300,000, a reduction of £1,400,000 during the week. The proportion of reserve to liabilities has declined to 35 per cent.

Colonial breadstuff's continue dull. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse remains at 46s ; New Zealand wheat, ex warehouse, has declined to 42s to 45s according to quality; JN ew Zealand wheat, C.F.1., is quoted at 41s 3d; Adelaide flour, ex store, remains at 355. Australian tallow is dull and unchanged at 40s for best beef and 42s 6d for best mutton.

[Received July 7, 11.20 p.tn.J

London, July 6

It is announced that Sir Auckland Colvin, the financial advocate to the Egyptian Government, will be appointed British Agent, Consul General, and Minister Plenipotentiary in Egypt; vice Sir Evelyn Baring resigned.

Count de Lesseps will shortly arrive in London, at the invitation of the Cabinet, to conclude the agreement securing the necessary land, and arranging other preliminaries for the construction of the second canal through the Isthmus of Suez.

Alexandria, July 5 Asiatic Cholera Spreading,

Notwithstanding tbe strict precautions that hare been taken to prevent the spread of cholera, the disease continues to rage without abatement. A large increase in the number of deaths at Mauaurahand Damanhour has occurred, and the appearance of the disease at fresh points has convinced the doctors that it is Asiatic cholera of an epidemic type. Two of the guards forming a cordon round the infested districts have been seized with the disease and have died.

London, July 5

The death is announced of the Kieht Hon. John Winston Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, E.G., aged 61.

Hongkong. July 6.

Li Hum Chang, the Chinese Prime Minister, who visited Shanghai to enter into negotiations with M. Tricot, the French Ambassador to China, with a view to a settlement of the conflicting claims of France and China in Anoam, has left Shanghai, having been unable to come to any satisfactory agreement with M. Tricot. The latter, it is understood, has been informed that any further parleying can only take place at Pekin.

London, July 4,

Owing to Mr ParneU's further promises, and the result of the Monaghan election, the Government Pre»9 express an opinion that the Liberals have no chance of elec« tion in Ireland.