LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2246, 10 May 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tblegbaph.] [Per s.s. Wakatipu, at Wellington.] LONDON, April 27. Emile do Girardin, the weli-km.wn French journalist, is dead, aged 79. Tho Bey of Tunis hos implored tho aid of tho Great Powers to settle tho dispute with France. Mr C. Bradlaugh, who has been re-elected for Northampton, entered tho House of Commons to-day, and desired to bo sworn. Sir Stafford Northcote rose as a matter of privilege, and reminded the Speaker of tho fact that Mr Bradlaugh had, on a previous occasion refused to take the oath in consequence of his religious opinions. He therefore moved that Mr Bradlaugh bo not allowed to take the oath. Tho motion was carried, and the Speaker thereupon required Mr Bradlaugh to leave tho Chamber. Mr Bradlaugh refused to withdraw, and Sir Stafford Northcote then proposed that ho be expelled, Mr Bradlaugh appealed to tho Piomicr, but Mr Gladstone declined to interfere, and the motion for expulsion was carried. Tho Sorgeant-at-Arms and his assistants then removed Mr Bradlaugh from tho Chamber amid great ex oitement and disorder. The House soon after adjourned. Tho episode has created a groat sensation throughout the country. A terrible accident occurred on board the warship Manus at Wilhomshaven, While the artillery wore practising a shell burst, and twenty-six persona were either killed or wounded

The proposed remissions of duty on silver plate, announced by Mr Gladstone in his Budget speech, have been abandoned. The Czar of Russia has congratulated Prince Gortsohakoff ond the St. Petersburgh police on the action they took in bringing to justice the persona concerned in the assassination of the late Emperor, ond has presented them with portraits of himself set in diamonds.

April 28. Tho Bey of Tunis, terrified at the active proceedings of the French Government, and at the hostile attitude of his own people, has surrendered to the invaders. It is likely that hostilities will cease unless the Tunisians show a disposition towards further resistance. At the half-yearly meeting of the Orient Steamship Company, the report was adopted. No dividend was declared, and the directors agreed to forego a part of their commission in order to make up the requisite sum to be carried to the credit of the reserve fund. Sir Thomas Elder’s horses, from South Australia, have arrived in excellent condition. The proposal to erect a monument to the late Lord Beaconsfield is encountering a considerable amount of opposition among Radicals and Nonconformists.

The Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone has addressed a circular letter to the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United Kingdom, in which he intimates that he cannot agree to make tho change they require in the Irish Land Bill, which would, he says, give the Bill an entirely new character. Edward Miall, proprietor and editor of the “ Nonconformist,” is dead. Ho was seventytwo years of age. Heavy floods have occurred in the Missouri River, causing great destruction to property. The amount of damage is estimated at 4,000,000d015. In consequence of the threatening attitude of the Boers, British troops again occupy Potohefstroom in tho Transvaal.

A. bailiff in Galway was roasted till he promised to resign his position. Tho Jewish agitation in Germany continues Houses are being sacked and tho Jews illused.

fPera.s. Arawata, at tho Bluff.] [“Abocs” Specials.] LONDON, April 20. The death is announced of the Bavarian General, Baron Tann, who commanded the Ist Bavarian Army Corps in the Franco-Pnnssian war in 1870. Tho French have bombarded Tabarca, a town situated in a small isle of the same name in the Mediterranean, and belonging to Tunis. April 27. The proposal made by tho Chancellor of the Exchequer in his budget speech, recently c-e----livered in the House of Commons, to remit 3d per ounce on silver plate, has been abandoned. Sir Stafford Northcoto will succeed the late Earl Beaconsfield as leader of the Conservative party. The Bey of Tunis implores the friendly offices of the Powers to mediate in the quarrel which has arisen with the French Government, and which has led to the occupation of Tunisian territory by French troops. Kef. a fortified town in Tunis, Has surrendered to the French. The Emperor of Russia has felicitated Prince Qortschakoff, the Imperial Chancellor, on his jubilee of official life, and congratulated him upon the glorious services he has rendered the country. The Conservatives in the House of Commons have resolved to endeavor to amend the Irish Land Bill introduced by the Government. Owing to the increasing number of outrages committed in Dublin, that district has been proclaimed under the Coercion Act. There is considerable excitement amongst the adherents of the Land League in Ireland. It is expected that Mr Dillon, whose violent language and seditions speeches have made him a prominent agitator, will be arrested immediately. It is rumored that tho Government propose an attach on the Land League as a body. The “ London Times ” declares that the condition of Ireland is more serious now than it was before Parliament met and Government introduced their special legislnti.n. May 2. A Turkish Imperial ukase has been issued accepting the terms prorosed by the Powers for a rectification of the Greek frontier. Mr Dillon, member for Tipperary, has been arrested and lodged in Kilmainham gaol, Dublin. Mr Parnell, alluding to the arrest in the House of Commons, said he regretted that Government had deprived his friend the member tor Tipperary of his rights. Tho Home Rule members were much irritated at the action of Government, and obstructed the business of the House.