CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4677, 3 January 1884, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

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The trial of the Marquis de IRay/, on a charge of fraud and deception in connec tion with the New Ireland expedition, concluded to diay, when the prisoner was ! found guilty and sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of three thousand francs- His associates were also found guilty, and sentenced to shorter terms of imprisonment, and fined in the same amount. •*»>;■■ London, -January?!." The consecration of Dr. Alfred Barry to the Metropolitan See of Sydney, New South Wales, took place at Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was very largely p.ttended both by the clergy and the laity, and all parts of the edifice was crowded. The failure of Messrs Alexander and Henry Brogden is attributed to the rejection of their appeal to the Government of New Zealand for the liquidation of their claims in connection with colonial railway contracts, and to numerous minor failures in the iron trade. London, December 29. Arrived : Cambria, from Wellington, September 3. * St. Petersburg, December 29. Colonel Sudeiken, of the .Russian gendarmerie, was murdered to day by Nihilists. No trace of the assassins has yet been obtained. [Specials to the Pbess Association] London, December 31. M. Ferry Ibas promised that an early opportunity ahall be taken to revise the French Constitution. The English Government propose spending £100,000 on defensive works at Aden.