LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1909, 7 April 1880, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Bt Telkgbaph.] BLUFF, April 6. The following itemfl of news are tnken from the Australian papers brought by the Ara•wata : LONDON, March 30. Great excitement has been caused at St. Fetersburgb, owing to the discovery of an extensive system of embezzlement, carried on for a considerable time, in connection with the Cuitoins. The responsible officials charged with the francs have been arrested, and the affairs of the department investigated. Already it has been found that the defalcations amount to some millions of roubles. In connection with the Volunteer demonstration, the latest military improvements were introduced. The signalling corps sent up several balloons for the purpose of_ observation, with •which telephonic communication was maintained. The experiments as Bhewing their utility in actual warfare were considered highly satisfactory. Lord Derby has publicly declared his views and wishes in relution to the pending gemeral elections. His secession from the ranks of the Tories i 3 complete, as he has expressed himself as most anxious that the appeal to the constituencies should result in the unequivocal success of the literals throughout the country, t'arl Grey, t&e veteran statesman, who for the last half century has been identified with the Liberal part.;, has published an address, ■which appears in the "Times." His Lordship take 3 marked exception to the programme foreshadowing the policy of Mr Gladstone and his friends, and allows it to be inferred that his sympathies are with the Government, whom he encourage* to per :evere in the course they have adopted, more especially in connection with foreign affairs. iie expresses the hope that theirpolicy will meet with the approval of the constituencies throughout the country. The Tories attat h much significance to this declaration of his Lordship's views, and regard it as a favorable omen of theL- success at the approaching general election-". Great public excitement prevails over the general elections. In several large centres of population party demonstrations increase the political bitterness, and serious disturbances have occurred. At Chester the mob committed great exceas:s. At Dundee, where the Liberals are in the ascendant, the authorities had much difficulty in preventing outrages against life and property. , . . ~ , - There has been no eubmission on the part of the Ghnznee chitfs. They simply offer to negotiate. General Sir Donald Stewart's force has started for Ghuznee. The friendly hazars hive captured four forts to tho south of Ghuznee. Mahommed Jan is opporing them. The Governor of Tnrkistan is advancing towards Koobistan. iii 3 attitude is uncertain. The new positions at Cabul are being rapidly fortified. General Roberts t as a force numbering 11,000 men. The Russian irritation against France is simulated, in order to improve the RussoGerman Alliance lipperiry and New Ro=s have made offers to Sir Charles Duffy to become a candidate. Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, r>:ad a paper at the Colonial Instituto on South Australia. There was a crowded meeting of members on the occasion. In the course of"the discussion which followed Sir James Fereusson paid a high tribute to Australian progress. But for the annoyance caused by the action of the Melbourne International Exhibition Commission in regard to the Hriti h courts, a farther,. grant would have b: en demanded for the purpose of the British exhibits, but after the delivery of the budget speech by tho Chancellor of the* Kschequer, there is now no prospect of a n additional space being voted, or tho Rojal Commission sending any laading personage to Melbourne. The ' limes," in noticing the satisfaction felt in the colonics at the success of the Strathleven experiment, predicts a gr.at extension o' the trade between inland and Australia if the meat export can be permanent. Tho tlon. Thomas Alclllwraith, tho Premier of Queensland, leaves london on April Dth, on his* return to the colony. Tho whole of the tribes north of the Hindoo Koosh, accompanied by the Sirdar Abdul Khaman, are advancing westwards in the direction of Herat. Tho Briuth troops are also moving in the same direction. Reinforcements are being sent to Gnndainuk from Jellalabad, an attack on Asmatoda beincr feared. General Stewart, with a force of COOO men, is advancing from Candahar, and he will be replaced at Candahar by General Primrose with 10,000 men.

On the Continent, deep interest is being taken in the approaching general election in Great Britain. The eagerness of the Liberals to obtain the sympathy of tho French has been damped by M. Ganitetta's organ in tho Press, which reproaches the Liberals with having permitted tho bombardment of Paris, and says that although Lord Beaeonsfield's Government has often shown weakness, yet it has roused England from tho lethargy in which it was steeped by the Liberals, who would turn the arsenate into cotton mills. The leading French, German, and Austrian journals urge that Lord Beaeonsfield's Government should receive i o support of th 9 country at the elections. The Tienna papers declare disgust at Mr Gladstone's rancorous attack on Austria, which they assert cannot trust the Liberals.

General Chanzy, the French Ambassador, leaves St. Petersburg in the same manner as Prince Orloff, the Russian Ambassador, left Paris.

Russia refrains from demanding tho extradition of Hartmann from England. His reported confession of being the originator of the plot to blow up the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg is denied.

A Russian army corps has reached the Kuldama frontier.