LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2130, 21 December 1880, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tblbgbaph.]

[Fer s.s. Botomahana, at Bluff.]

LONDON, December 7.

The southern counties of Ireland are in a condition of incipient rebellion. Outrages are of frequent occurrence, notwithstanding the strong force of police and military now stationed in the disturbed distriots.

During the past week continuous attempts have been made to wreck the police barracks st Castle Gregory, a small town of about 600 inhabitants, situated in the parish of Bally - leigh, in the county of Kerry. Owing to the vigilance of the police these attempts have bean frustrated, but a very uneasy feeling ♦lists.

A destructive fire has taken place at Arentil, a seaport town in Norway, thirty-five miles N.B. of Ohristiansand. The post office, a fine building, was totally destroyed, and twenty houses were burnt before the conflagration could be extinguished. The natives in Pondoland, who have joined the Basutos in rebellion, were attacked by the Cape troops and utterly routed. The country up to the Orange river has been cleared of hostile natives;

Another agrarian outrage is reported from Ireland. A bailiff who had been engaged in the process of evicting a tenant on a farm near Cooktown, in the county of Tyrone, Ulster, was murdered. The murderer has been arrested. There is no reason to doubt "that the outrage was agrarian in its origin. December 11.

A stormy session is expected when Parliament meets on 6th January. It is believed that the Irish members will oontinue their policy of obstruction pursued last year. The •"Standard" asserts that the Government intend to introduce alterations in the forms of procedure, whiohwill enable them to suppress promptly any organised attempt at obstruction.

Laycoek has not yet gone into steady training for the matoh with Hanlan. Yesterday be visited Newcastle, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception from the Tyne rowing men, his viotory in the Hop Bitters regatta Laving made him a great favorite.

December 13. The colonial forces in the Leribi district, -Cape Colony, have been obliged to retreat, the insurgent Natives bsing in overwhelming numbers. Great efforts are being made in Cape Colony to strengthen the army in the Held, so that operations of a decisive character can be undertaken. Affairs in the Transvaal arc very disquieting. The Boers, who are dissatisfied with the annexation, are assembling in large numbers, and have adopted a menacing attitude. They are suspected of relations with the insurgent Basutos. Tha Administration is taking precautions to. preserve order.

Boyd, the well-known English oarsman, lias challenged Hanlan for the championship. Haulan has expressed his willingness to accept, and tfee contest takes place after the forthcoming match with Laycoek.