CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4721, 23 February 1884, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Eeuteb's Telegbams

(Received February 23, noon) Caibo, February 20.

The Soudan Difficulty.

Telegrams have been recived from .Khartoum reporting that Gordon Pasha is meeting with continued success in his efforts to complete the pacification of the Soudan. Arrangements are being made for an interview between Major-General Gordon and El Mahdi; and the formerwill leave Khartoum at an early date for that purpose.

Despatches are to hand from the Soudan announcing that Colonel Graham, with the final portion of the British troops from Cairo, arrived there yesterday, and that an expedition for the relief of Tokar will commence its march thither on Sunday next, thb 24th inst.

London, February 21. The Member for Northampton.

Charles Bradlaugh has addressed a letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons announcing that he has decided not to appear again at Westminster Palace until the Law Courts have decided regarding his claim to take his seat as member for Northampton.

[Received February 23,1.15 p.m.]

London, February 22.

In the House of Commons last evening Bradlaugh's letter to the Speaker, in which the former stated that he would not appear at the bar of the House to claim his right to sit as the representative for Northampton until a decision thereon had been given by the Law Court, was laid upon the table. Sir Stafford Worthcote, leader of the Opposition, thereon moved that the House should re-affirm the resolution passed on the 11th, ex*

cluditjg Brudlaugh from the Chamber and from the precincts of the palace, and the motion was carried by a large majority.

[Specials, to the Pfisas Association.

London, February 19.

In-Government circles remark is made at the fact of the Agent-General not being authorised to conduct parleying with respect to the decision of the recent Sydney Convention on Annexation and Federation.