LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1987, 7 July 1880, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] [Per s.s. Tararua at the Bluff.] LONDON, Juno 25. Sir Stafford Northoote submitted a motion to the House of Commons yesterday for Mr Bradlaugh’s release from custody, on the ground that the dignity of the House had been satisfied. The motion was carried. Mr Gladstone abstained from taking any part in the proceedings. Mr Bradlaugh will present himself again to the House to-day. Two hundred telegrams of sympathy from persons resident in Italy, France, Germany, and parts of England have been received by Mr Bradlaugh, and also large offers of money to assist him in prosecuting his legal rights. The Duke of Connaught has opened the Victoria Dock Extension. At the banquet given in honour of the occasion 4000 persons were present. June 26. The Prince of Wales, the Dnke of Edinburgh, and the Duke of Connaught, voted with the minority in the House of Lords on the Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill. The reduction of the wine duties has been deferred for this year, owing to the difficulty of arranging the Anglo-lSrench commercial treaty. June 28. Turkey is strengthening the Q reek frontier. Many soldiers, nominally discharged, are, it is believed, kept in readiness for war. Greece anticipates that she will, like Montenegro, experience a difficulty in occupying the ceded territory. There is an undei standing between Bussia and Tmkey. The friendly disposition of Bussia towards Turkey, both at the Conference and at Stainboul, increases. June 26. The conference of delegates representing the various colonies of South Africa, which assembled at Cape Town in March last, has been engaged in the consideration of a scheme of confederation of the several colonies. It was found impossible to arrive at a satisfactory settlement of the question, owing to tho conflicting interests involved. The conference has accordingly dissolved, and all hope of confederation of the South African colonies for the present is abandoned. Sir Daniel Cooper has published a letter in one of the London newspapers addressed to Earl Kimberley. The writer reviews the policy of the Imperial Government for many years in relation to the colonies, and urges the general federation of the empire as the best means for defence against tho attacks of hostile powers. The appeal ease of the Tiohborne claimant was argued before the Judges of the Supreme Court Judicature sitting as a Court of Error. The points raised on behalf of the appellant were that he had been convicted on two counts in the indictment for perjury, and sentenced to two terms of imprisonment of sevea years each for tho same offence. The Crown was represented by the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General. The Court dismissed tho appeal. Tho Berlin Conference has definitely accepted the proposals submitted by England in reference to the rectification of the Greek frontier. They provide for the cession of a considerable portion of Epirus and Thessaly to Greece.

General Wingfield Hancock, who distinguished himself greatly daring the American war, has been nominated to the presidency on the Democratic ticket. Hancock was a prominent candidate in 1868.