LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 936, 26 March 1880, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (From Exchanges.) London*, March ICth. News has been received from San Francisco that the fire which broke out on board tho steamship City of Sydnoy, while lying in dock, was speedily suppressed, ami that the vessel had sustained but little damage. March 17 th. Diamonds to tho value of L 50.000 have been stolen torm the Cape mail-bags. St. Petersburg, March loth. A number of Socialists were holding a meeting to-day at Warsaw, when the police entered tho house in which they wore assembled and arrested 16 of tho number. San Francisco, March 17th. Denis Kearney, labour, agitator, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a lino of 1000 dollars. Paris, March 17th. M. Frecinct, tho French Premier, do- : claros his intention of enforcing tho aatiJfesuit laws. London, March Bth. Earl Bcaconsfield has advised tho Queen to dissolve Parliament at Easter. Tho fact that this advice has been tendered has been formally announced in both Houses of Parliament. The Liberals expressed themselves satisfied, lu tho House of Comm on* the announcement was warmly

cheered by the Liberals. The dissolution takes place on the 23rd inst. Earl Beaconsfield has addressed an important communication to the Lord-Lieu-tenant of Ireland (the Dukeotlvlarlborough), which has been published, and is regarded as a manifesto of the Government. In it the Premier treats chiefly of the relations between England and Ireland, and of the policy and tactics of the Home Rule party. He claims that the action of the Government has had the effect of defeating the anti-Irish agitation both in and out of Parliament. He lays stress on the promptitude with which the Government took steps to afford relief to the sufferers by the famine in Ireland, and insists that the interests of England and Ireland are iaseparably connected with each other; any disunion must be calamitous to both.. He expresses the hope that the leaders of both great parties will repudiate the vicious and absurd claims put forth by the Home Ilulcrs, against whom he would warn the people of Great Britain and Ireland, as being actuated by a desire to destroy the essential bond of unity that should exist between the component parts of a great nation like ours. The Premier also challenges the opinion of the country on the policy and administration of his Government. He holds that the presence, and perhaps ascendancy, of England in the great councils of Europe is essential to the preservation of peace, and this ascendancy, he points out can only be acquired by unity among her own people. March 17th. Five per cent. New Zealand 10-40 loan, 1024 ; new 5 per cent., 108 March 18 th. The Ministry are sending complete educational exhibits to Melbourne, and also a delegate to study the school system. St. Petersburg, March 18th. Russia ceases to hold diplomatic iclations with Turkey unless the assassin of Comeroff receives a sentence of death. Bombay, March 18th. The P. and O. Company’s steamship Hydaspes, which left this port for Galle, en route for Australia; has put back disabled, The mails have been transferred to the Assam, and she will sail to-morrow for Galle and Sydney, London, March 18th. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £17,718,250. The Nihilist Hartman, who was deported by the French Government to Englan 1 when his extradition was demanded by I Russia* has publicly cunf. ssed that he was ■| the principle author of the attempt made | at the end of last year at Moscow on the ; life of the Czar. Hartman is going shortly | to America. Constantinople, March ISlh. 1 A popular rising of a somewhat serious character having taking place at Smyrna, the various foreign consuls have been summoned to war-vessels from their respective countries as a precautionary , measure. London, March 10th. j The total quantity of wheat afloat for | Great Britain is 1,810,000 quarters. I Information has been received of the j seizure of two Italian frigates by an Aus- | trian man-of-war. The former were carryj ing arms and ammunition to the Albanians, and the Austrian commander, upon receiving information of their mission, seized the Italian vessels as smugglers. March 20th. The Oxford and Cambridge boat-race, which was to have taken place to-day, could not be rowed, owing to the heavy fog on the river, The contest will corse off 011 Monday. Washington, March 20th. The Committee appointed by Congress to inquire into the question of Chinese im-' migration ha« issued its report. The complete exclusion of Chinese from the United States is strongly recommended by the Committee. March 22nd. The University Boat race, rowed to-day, was won by the Oxford crew. Oxford has now won 19 times, Cambridge 17 times, and once there was a dead heat. The Morning Post, in a leading article in to-day's issue, on the subject of the general election and change of Ministry in Victoria, congratulates the Colony on the result of the former, and hails the advent of Mr 1 Service as a prelude to a return of prosperity in Victoria. Mr Parnell has reached Queenstown, Ireland, from America.