LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2163, 31 January 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By TaLBaBAPH.]

[[Per s.s. Arawata at the Bluff.] LONDON, January 18th.

There is a probability that the obstruction in the House of Commons will soon be brought to an end. Professor Thorgold Sogers, one of the Liberal members for Southwark, has discovered among the old orders of the House one which dates back to the year 1600, which empowers the Speaker to "stay irrelevant speeches." It is likely that this will be used for tho purpose of putting a atop to the present protracted discussion.

LONDON, January 20. The Dutch settlers of South Africa have made an appeal to the Government and people of Holland, claiming their sympathy and protection in their present relations with Great Britain. It is considered very unlikely that the assistance sought will be granted. It is reported that Mr Joseph Cowen, proprietor of the "Newcastle Chronicle" and Liberal representative for Newcastle, meditates, with Mr Parnell, haranguing a monster meeting to be held in London in opposition to the application of the Government for coercive measures for Ireland.

In consequence of the continued strike among the coal miners in Lancashire serious disturbances are threatened, and troops have been despatched to the district to maintain order.

Mr Gladstone has expressed sympathy with the loyal Boers, but regrets that it is impossible to grant them independence. It is stated that Earl Beaconsfield is pressing upon the Conservative party tho necessity of supporting some measure of land reform in Ireland, with a view to checkmating the designs of the Land League. The frozen butter by the Protos is pronounoed in tolerably good condition. The frozen meat has been bought with avidity, as there is great scarcity of stock in the Smithfield market, owing to the recent snow storms, LONDON, January 21.

Mr Henry Taylor, late emigration lecturer in England, on bohslf of South Australia, sails by the Orient, to deliver lectures throughout Australia, advocating the export of Australian food to England. A meeting will be held in the Mansion Houoo next Friday of merchants and others, to advocate tho holding of a wool exhibition, at which Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, America, and all the great wool producing countries shall be repres mted. Mr Bradlaugh has called the attention of the Government to the oruelty practised upon the Maoris arrested in the New Plymouth district of New Zealand, by keeping them in prison for several months without trial. Mr Duff, Under- Secretary, requested that the question should be postponed until the arrival of full information on the subject;, which is expeoted to be received by the March mail.