LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2010, 3 August 1880, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Br Tblegbaph.] fPer g.B. Albion, at the Bluff.] LONDON, July ID. A match has been arranged to be played in September next between the Australian Eleven and eleven of the beat cricketers ia England. A good deal of interest is attached to the proposed match. The Princess Louise, wife of the GovernorGeneral of Canada, is in a very delicate state of health. She is suffering from the effects of the sleigh accident which occurred soma time ago. The shock to her nervous system is now exhibiting itself, and she has been ordered by her medical advisers to Germany. She will leave Canada immediately, and will be accompanied by her brother Prince Leopold, who has relinquished his intention o£ making a tour of the United States. The Hydaspes, ship, 2093 tons, Captain E. S. Babot, bound from London to Melbourne, was run into by the Centurion, screw steamer, 1173 tons, off Dungeness, and sunk. The latter vessel proceeded on her voyage, and the extent of damage sustained by her is not known.

Madame Skobeloff, mother of the celebrated Russian general, Michael Skobeloff, now in command of the Central Asian expedition, has been murdered at Tchigrin, a town in the district of Kiev. The husband o£ the deceased, as well as her sen, are officers of distinction in the Russian army. The outrage is attributed to the system of terrorism adopted by the Nihilists. The principal assassin having been recognised, was pursued, but he committed suicide to avoid arrest. The others engaged in the murder have been captured. There are ominous signs of war in tha Balkan peninsula. The Government of Bulgaria are massing troops on'.the Boumelian frontier, with the apparent object of securing possession of the Bulgarian provinces south of the Balkans. Remonstrances have been addressed to the Bulgarian Government on the subject. July 20. The Baroness Burdett Coutts published a denial of the statement made in the press of her intended marriage with Mr Ashmed Bartlett, the member for Eye, which is considered a hoax. At the Wimbledon meeting to-day the Queen’s prize was won by Private Ferguson, a native of Argyle, Scotland. July 21. Intelligence has been received from tha Cape that the disaffection caused among the Basuto tribes by the determination or the Capo Government to enforce the surrender of arms has resulted in an open rebellion of the natives. Letsie, one of the principal chiefs, has advised his people to give up their guns, but his has not been generally followed. Prompt measures have been taken for the suppression of the outbreak. July 22. The proposal to erect the memorial to the Prince Imperial at Westminster Abbey has been abandoned consequent upon the pronounced disapproval of the House of Commons. Her Majesty the Queen, however, has sanctioned the establishment of the memorial at Windsor, her consent being given on the ground that the Prince was killed whilst fighting under the English flag, and also as a token of personal esteem and friendship for the afflicted mother, the Empress Eugenie. July 23. From information received at the Foreign Office, it ia believed that the Russo-Chineso difficulty may be amicably settled. It is rumored at St. Petersburgh that the Turcomans have captured and beheaded General Skobeloff, the commander of the Russian expedition sent against them. Madame Skobeloff, who was recently murdered near Philippolis, was treasurer of the Panslavio cause, and as such carried large sums of money about with her. It is now supposed that plunder was the cause of assaesination*