CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3324, 18 August 1879, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

(Ebutbb's Skecial to Pbbss Agenct.)

Madeid, August 16.

The marriage of King Alfonso with the Arch-duchess Marie Christina, is fixed to take place on the 28th November. London, August 11. The subscriptions for the Wellington ] City Loan amount to £365,000. Tenders \ at 104s received thirty-three per cent. London, August 15. The miners have resolved to establish a voluntary emigration fund. All workmen are eligible. Parliament has been prorogued. j The Speech says :—Foreign relations | are friendly and cordial; the treaty of Berlin has been faithfully executed by signatories ; calamities of war have been prevented by the execution of reforms in Turkey ; the British Government continues to urge the execution of the reforms upon the Sultan; mis-govern-ment of Egypt has expelled and changed Khedive; the frontier tribes and Ameer of Afghanistan guarantee the safety and peace of India, while the strengthened frontiers trust that recent successes in Africa will lead to a speedy conclusion of peace. There is no mention of the Greek question. ' < The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in re*; ply to a question, said that in consequence of the great,excitement on the frontier of Thessaly and Epirus, Turkish and Greece Governments strengthened their forces. The British Government did not consider it necessary to mention Greece in the; -Speech.* ■ , ' ;:' "v;: ' *■■■*■*■■'■■'•-<■ , , v ; Vienna, August 16. ; The Official Gazette announces the retirement of Count Andrassy to-day. \ pAiHo, Augus^ls. ! Samili and* Ausaid Pasha's have been appointed Commissioners in ■ Egypt ;to act; on; behalf of the < French Government. -,■;■ j The promulgation here of a firmin? by the Sultan investing: Prince Tewtik with sovereign power was enthusiastically received by the people. } \ i t (London, August 16. Later Cape news reports that Cete- ; wayo has asked the British Commander-in-Ghief if, in the event of his surrendering, his life would *be spared, and an affirmative reply has been sent to him. r.