LATE CABLE NEWS.
[By Tklbobayh.J [Per s.s. Te Anan, at the Bluff.j LONDON, February 14. There are suspicions of a contemplated general rising in Ireland, and extensive precautions are being taken by tho military and police authorities iiu order to prevent the anticipated outbreak. Tho Irish Land League proceedings are discountenanced by the French Government.
The Tekke Turcoman chiefs at Merve, a Khanate in Turkestan, have resolved to resist Russian aggression. Mr Parnell has issued a manifesto addressed to the Irish Land League. He says -that it is his intention to remain in London, and states that the support to be expected from the United States depends on tho stand which wou[d be made in Ireland. He announces that he will continue his resistance to the Coercion Bill, and recommend# a junction of the English Democrats with the Irish Nationals. Ho enjoins Irish tenants to continue to exercise passive resistance against the payment of rents, by which means they will secure victory, peace, and prosperity. February 19.
The Marquis of Hartington has stated that if it can bo proved that the retention of Candahar would add to the stability of the Indian Umpire, the British would reconsider the nosed evacuation, but at the same time he ted it such proof could be afforded. The Pope has condemned Mr Parnell for conferring with M. Rochefort. A company has been started for carrying out telephone communication in Australia. Lord William Pitt Lennox, son of the fourth Duke of Richmond and author of « Fifty Tears’ Biographical Reminiscences,” and other works, has died, in his eightysecond year. The importation into France of American pork and hams has been prohibited.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2188, 1 March 1881, Page 3
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