CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4565, 22 August 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Reuteb's Telegbams

[Received August 2,2 2.52 p.m.]

London, August 20

Increasing agitation is being manifested in England in regard to the Anglo-French difficulty at Madagascar, and the reticence of Government on the subject is being warmly attacked in political and other circles. Madbid, August 21. It is announced that King Alfonso will visit the Emperor William at Berlin about the 17th of September. London, August 21. | |The third of the year's series of colonial wool auctions opened today with a good attendance of Home and fereign buyers. The opening catalogue comprised 11,400 bales. The various lots found but slow sale, and the market was very dull, the opening'prices realised being generally a half-penny lower thin closing sales of the May-June series. ' London, August 18. Arrived: The ship Loch Bredan, from Lyttelton, April 26. Continuous rioting, lasting for many hours, has taken place between Catholics and Protestants at Coatbridge, a town nine miles from Glasgow, and one of the centres of the Lanarkshire mineral districts. Numbers of persons have been injured on both sides.

[Received August 22,12.30 p.m.]

London, August 21

The cargo of- frozen meat by the steamship Chimborazo arrived in good condition. The first portion of the mutton was placed on the market today, and realised 6i per pound.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, August 19.

A collision has occurred in the Thames between the tfuna and George Thompson. The latter vessel was bound for Sydney, and lost her head-gear, whisker, and martingale. The Huna was slightly injured. The strike of American telegraphists has failed, and the operators are returning to work.

The French Government have expressed an opinion in favor of Phudac as Regent of Annam.

The Tamatave affair is still pending, as Admiral Pierre's full despatch on the subject has not yet been received, but the tone of France on the matter is a concilia* tory one, An Irish Catholic Bishop is about to visit America, in order to raise funds to supplement the Government grant of £50,000 for promoting the scheme of emigration from Ireland. Mr Gladstone has made an eloquent appeal to Mr Parnell and his followers to abstain from inflaming national hatred between England and Ireland. It is believed"that the French authorities at Tamatave have released Mr Shaw, a British Missionary who had been detained.

The House" of Commons sat into Sunday morning in passing Supply.

King Alfonso, in his tour through the disturbed provinces, has been received with great enthusiasm, especially in the south.

Count F. de Lagrange, well known in sporting circles, is dying.