LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2159, 26 January 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] [Per s.s. Te Anau, at the Bluff.J LONDON, January 10. In connection with the State trials now being proceeded with, the Government have consented to permit members who are amongst .the accused to attend the sittings of Parliament, on the understanding that they must appear at Court to receive sentence when called upon. Recently, the tenantry in certain districts in Ireland refused to permit the gentry to hunt over their farms. It is now reported that many farmers in Galway are bunting over the property of their landlords. January 11. The flying column of troops recently organised in Ireland have started through the disaffected portions of the country. A plot has been discovered at Kolapoor, one of the native states of India, having for its object the deposition of the Rajah, an old Mahratta chief, and the massacre of the European inhabitants in the province. It has been ascertained that 3000 persons are implicated in the plot, and twenty-six have been arrested, including a number of Brahmins. At the French municipal elections which have just taken place, a majority of candidates have been returned in favor of a policy of moderation.

January 12.

The Earl of Fife, captain of the Gentlemen at Arms, who represented the Home Office in the House of Lords, has resigned his appointment in her Majesty’s Household, Mr MacDonald, the member for Stafford and a working man’s representative, has been reproving the miners for making terms with the masters in connection with the Employers Liability Act, which passed Parliament last session, and which imposes heavy penalties on masters in the event of employes sustaining injury through their agents’ neglect. Count Arnim, formerly the German Ambassador at Paris, is in a critical state of health.

Mr Gladstone, on receiving a deputation which waited upon him with reference to the present state of affairs in Ireland, assured them of his belief that the measures which the Government proposed to submit to Parliament for the pacification and for the improvement of tbe condition of the people, would be found effective.

The Homo Rule party, of which Mr Shaw is the leader, have renounced Parnellism. January 17.

It has been decided that certain members of the Cork land league who have been instrumental in stirring up sedition in the county shall be prosecuted. The trial of the twenty-six conspirators arrested at Kolapoor on a charge of being concerned in a plot to depose the Rajah of the district and massacre the European population resident there is being proceeded with. The Emperor William of Germany, who has been suffering from an attack of catarrh, is now better.

A circular issued by the Turkish Government warns the Powers that the Greek armaments are calculated to endanger peace, and suggests that Turkey, in conjunction with the Powers, should enter into negotiations with a view of determining the frontier line between Greece and Turkey. Severe fighting has again taken plans at Mafeting between tbe Basutos and the colonial forces. The rebels were defeated.

Mr Gladstone has taken up a threatening attitude towards the party of obstruction in the House of Commons, Ho has condemned

Justin McCarthy’s amendment to the address, sarcastically remarking that Parliament was not a debating society. He characterised tne amendment as an insult to the Throne. Parnell made a speech, in the course of which he vaunted the power of the Irish Land League. Several disorderly scenes occurred. France denies that Greece has any right to take action with reference to her dispute with Turkey over the boundary question except through tho Powers. The militia barracks at Edinburgh have been burned down. It is no doubt the work of an incendiary, and is suspected to be part of the Fenian scheme to destroy the military barracks and arsenals.

The Southport and West Lancashire Bank (limited) has stopped payment. The technical point raised regarding the legality of evidence tendered by a large number of witnesses which it was intended to call for the defence of the land leaguers was sustained by the Court, and the witness withdrawn.

Earl Fortescue having asked a question in tho House of Lords as to what measure the Government intended to adopt in carrying out their announced policy of coercion in Ireland, Earl Granville declined to state the intentions of the Government. He notified that a Bill will be introduced in the Commons dealing with the whole Irish question, and until the measure was announced information as to the further intentions of the Government would not only be premature but indiscreet. The Government have published an official notification that the cost of the Afghan campaign to the present amounted to £17,500,000.

The strike among the miners in Lancashire continues. The masters have unanimously decided not to yield to the demands of the employes, and there ia a prolability of the dispute lasting for some time. Telegrams from Mexico published in the daily papers mention that an attack has been made by Indians on a coach in that district. The vehicle was full of passengers, and the attack was so sudden and unexpected that only feeble resistance was made by the passengers, five of whom were killed and several injured. The Indians got clear off.