LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2195, 9 March 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegjbaph.j [Per s.b. Arawata at Russell.] _ LONDON, February 23. The Dumfrieshire estates of the late Mr Thos. Carlyle have been bequeathed to the Edinburgh Faculty of Arts. A State banquet was given at Windsor on the marriage of the Prince William of Germany and Princess Victoria. Both Mr Gladstone and Earl Beaconsfield were present. A grand celebration was given in Paris in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of Victor Hugo’s birthday. 300,000 people took part in the rejoicings on the occasion. The Imperial Government has given instructions for the evacnation of Candahar, and the army is now under orders to return to India. It is expected that the evacnation will bo completed in a month’s time. It is feared that a contest at Candahar will arise between tho adherents of Ayoub Khan and those of Abdul Eahman, the Ameer of Afghanistan. Throughout the United States and Canada, the weather is unusually severe, and owing to the fierceness of the storms and the floods there has been an enormous destruction of property. Over 500,000 cattle perished. In order to express their sense of the unfairness with which they are treated by the postal authorities it is stated that the directors of the Orient Company intend to despatch their vessels on tho same date as the outgoing P. and O. steamer. Berlin is in fete in honor of the marriage of Prince_ Albert William Henry with Princess Victoria. The bride wore a splendid white damask dress, one of tho ancient Crowns of the Empire and the Treasury diamonds. A series of banquets, halls, and other festivities have been arranged in honor of the occasion.