CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5100, 22 May 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

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[Received May 22, noon.]

Caieo, May 21.

The Egyptian Deist.

The representatives of France, Germany, Russia, and Austria have lodged a formal protest on behalf their respective Governments against the reduction, in the rate of interest on the portion of tho Egyptian debt, and it is understood that the decree authorising the reduction of the coupons will be withdrawn in consequence.

Paris, May 21. The Cholera at Marseilles. Cholera has again made its appearance iv the south of France, two deaths being reported to-day from .Marseilles. London, May 21. „ Arrived: Ship Gazelle, from the Bluff.

[Received May 22, 12.50 p.m.] London, May 20. Egyptian, Finance. It has transpired that the protest made by the European powers against the deduction made from the Egyptian coupons was based on tho ground {hat the alteration should not have been made so long as the Financial Convention remained unratified.

[Received May 22, 2.30 p.m.] Berlin, May 21: His Majesty the Emperor has granted to the German New Guinea Company, by a charter, the recently acquired territory of Wilhelmsland, in Northern New Guinea,, and tho adjacent islands have also been ceded to the Company, which he has empowered to establish a State judicial system subject to tho supremacy of Germany.

[Specials to the Pbbss Association.]

London, May 19. China has rejected three of the French demands contained in tho proposed peace treaty. Germany is urging France not to accept the.terms of the Egyptian Convention un«« less the European control of the Suez Canal is provided for. _ Mr Gladstone, in the course of a speech in the House of Commons, referred to the early close of his political career.