LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2234, 26 April 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tbibgbaph.]

[Per o.s. Rotorua at the Bluff.] LONDON, April 11,

An announcement comes from New York of a discovery made there of a plot among Irish Fenians to murder Mr Gladstone. The project is said to have been seriously entertained Bnd credited by the New York police, bat here the matter is not thought genuine. Precautions are, however, being taken. An Englishman travelling in the district of Salonica, European Turkey, has been seized by brigands and carried off to the hills. His captors demand £15,000 ransom, and threaten to murder their prisoner if the amount iB not paid. Prince Bismarck has propounded a scheme of bounties to Gorman shipowners to promote the encouragement of shipbuilding in the empire and the extension of commerce. The plan is similar in principle to the one recently adopted by France, and the idea meets with much support in Germany. Messrs Moody and Sankey, the sensational revivalists, who have been holding a season_ in San Francisco, have announced that they revisit England in September next, and that after holding a series of meetings there they will proceed to Ireland on a revival tour. Continuous bad weather has been experienced on the continent. In Hnngary the Hoods have been very severe, and great fears are entertained of the recurrence of another inundation of the town of Szegedin, situated on the river Theiss, and which about two years ago was nearly destroyed from the same cause.

Severe shocks of earthquake are reported to have occurred in Chili, and also in California, causing much alarm. Misß Do Laramo (Ouida), the well-known novelist, is dead. Lord Cranmore, a prominent landlord in County Mayo, and who has mado himself obnoxious to the Land League by the letters to the Press he has written on the Irish land question, has more than once had his life threatened. The police have succeeded in arresting the would-be murderers. A woman in the State of lowa, U.S., announced her determination to attempt the wonderful feat of fasting for forty days, that was successfully performed some time since by Dr. Tanner. Sho fasted for forty-seven days, but the result was so serious that she died from exhaustion immediately afterwards. [An error as to the number of days has evidently occurred in the transmission of this item.— Ed.] Boyd, of Newcastle, one of the leading English oarsmen, has accepted the challenge of Trickett to row over tho usual champion course on the Thames. The contest is to come off at midsummer.

The Irish Land Loague is extending its operations in England. In addition to the various branches already in existence, one has been lately opened in Sunderland. In accordance with the determination lately arrived at by the Governmant to suppress the Land League in Irelund, a number of arrests have been made. Several traversers in the late prosecution, as well as others concerned in the procoedingß of tho Land League, have boen imprisoned under the provisions of the Coercion Ant.

The police have lately been maintaining a vigilant guard over Woolwich Arsenal, which tboy had reason to boliove was threatened by Fenian agents. They havo now arrested several for being concerned in another plot for its destruction.

In consequenco of having accepted the Turkish offer for the frontier question, the Sling of Greece has incurred great unpopularity on the part of his subjects, and his conduct in the matter has subjected him to very general abuse. Notwithstanding the reforms promised by the Emperor Alexander 111., great dissatisfaction still exists in Russia. Serious riots have been caused by the Moscow students, which have been suppressed by the police after a geod deal of trouble. An extraordinary attempt has been made to destroy a church at Madrid by throwing a

bombshell into it while the congregation was assembled for publio worship. The floods which have lately caused so much damage in Hungary, especially in the town of Szegedin, are now subsiding. An exhibition has been opened at Norwich of fish and fishing materials. A very complete and interesting collection has been obtained.