LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2240, 3 May 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegbaph.J [Per s.s. Eotomahana, at the Bluff j [*’ Akgus” Specials.] LONDON, April 22. Kirby has challenged Trickett to row him again for £IOO a-side. General Eoberts has returned from South Africa, having been re-called on the conclusion of peace with the Boers. Her Majesty, on learning of the death of Earl Beaconsfield, expressed groat sorrow. In an autograph-letter of condolence, the Queen scys, that, in Lord Beaconsfield, she has lost a most valued and devoted friend and councillor. Her Majesty expressed a desire to visit the Earl during his illness, but the doctors forbade an interview, fearing the result might be injurious to the patient. Lord Bowton[controls Beaconsfield’s private papers. Ihe Queen, it is supposed, ist tying to overrule E irl Beaconsfield’s will, and the Press urges that the remains of the deceased statesman should be interred in Westminster Abbey. Telegrams of condolence have been received from statesmen and sovereigns throughout the world. Prince Bismarck says that the death of Earl Beaconsfield is a European loss. It is proposed to erect a national memorial to Beaconsfield in Westminster Abbey. It is the intention of Mr Gladstone to move in the House, in a fortnight’s time, an address to Her Majesty praying that a snm of money be placed upon the estimates for the erection of a monument to the late Earl in tit. Peter’s Collegiate Church, Westminster Abbey. Lethorodi’s most powerful and warlike Bnsuto chiefs have offered to submit to the British. The Irish landowners condemn the Land Bill introduced by tho Government. At a meeting held in Dublin the release of Michael Davitt, tho Fenian, was advocated. Mr Parnell spoke on the subject of tho Irish Land Bill, and said that the basis upon which tho measure was constructed was unscientific, and its effect would be to raise rentals while laborers would still bo left out in tho cold. Earl Granville continues to suffer from an attack of gout.

April 23. It is anticipated that a recent collusion, which has taken place in Macedonia, will retard the progress of negotiations for a settlement of tho Greek question, besides endangering the tranquillity of the south-east portion of Knropo. Tho British fleet will visit tho Bnssian port of Croustodt, on the Baltic, daring the summer. Tho Bnssian naval and other authorities have promised a most cordial reception to the British.

The Irish Land League’s convention, which is now sitting in Dublin, purpose considering the new Irish Land Bill, and have condemned the emigration clauses of tho Bill.

An election has taken place in West Cheshire, and a Conservative candidate was returned. The Commissioners have submitted to the Bey of Tunis. His Highness has refused a French occupation of Tobara Island, in the Mediterranean, on the north-east coast of Algeria. There is a panic amongst European residents in Tunis, an Arab revolution being feared. It is expected that the International Exhibition, which was intended to bo held in New York next year, will be abandoned. Affairs in the Transvaal are besoming more and more unsettled. The condition of things is so unsatisfactory that the English residents are leaving. Herat is quiet. The report of a mutiny having broken out in the city a short time since, is denied. The Conservatives are strongly assailing the Irish Land Bill in the House. Mr John Leyden, landowner in the county of Galway, has been murdered. The crime was committed in consequence of the exorcise of his rights os landlord.