LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2164, 1 February 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Bv Tbmokaph.] [Per b.d, Arawata at the Bluff.] LONDON, January 21. The Marquis of Huntly has been appointed to succeed the Earl of Fife as Captain of the Gentlemen-at Arms. In the engagement which took place between the Chilian and Peruvian forces at Oharillas, the fighting was very severe. The number of killed was 7000. Lima, the capital city of Pern, afterwards yielded to the Chilian foroe. The War Minister of Peru was taken, prisoner, but President Pierola managed to escape. After this signal advantage obtained by the Chilians, the diplomatists representing foreign countries are urging the expediency of an armistice between the contending parties. January 22. The severs cold continues, and the Thames is frozen over. An ox has been roasted on the ioe at Twickenham. The friends of Mr Gladstone are urging him, in order to obtain a rest from the cares of bis official position as leader in the House of Commons, to accept a peerage, bnt still to retain the Leadership of the Government in the House of Lords. M. Gambetta has recently been delivering speeches on questions of domestic policy, and their peaceful tone has given general satisfaction. The small British garrison stationed at Lydenhurg, in the Transvaal, has capitulated to the Boers. The weather favors the operations of the Baers against the British troops, and they are taking every advantage of ther opportunity. Several mass meetings of Irish have been held in England in order to express sympathy with their countrymen in Ireland. Justice Fitzgerald’s summing up has been regarded as impartial and felicitous, both by the prosecution and the defence. His lordship referred to the influence exercised amongst the Land League agitators by returned American loiterers, and refuted the analogy which was sought to be drawn between the present land agitation in Ireland and trades unionism.

The Bill introduced by Mr Forster in regard to Ireland is generally praised by the press as being a measure in the right direction, and calculated to effect the object in view.