LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2257, 23 May 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tblbobaph.) [Per i.s. Te Anau at the Bluff.) LONDON, April 8. Yesterday evening, in tho House of Commons, Mr Gladstone introduced the Irish Land Bill in a speech of two hours and ahalf. It is considered as ranking among one of his great oratorical achievements. Tho cardinal point of the plan is tho establishment of a Land Commission having partly administrative and partly judicial duties ; will supervise and carry out provisions for the purchase of estate* and the resale to occupying tenants, also to advance public money'for reclamation of waste lands, also emigration from overpopulated districts. The Commission will consist of three members, one being always judge or ex-judge of the Supremo Court, a Commissioner to regulate proceedings in all local Courts, and have power to appoint, assistant commissioners or sub-commissioners. Under provisions of tho Bill increased rant, is to be restrained by certain rules, and compensation for disturbance is to bo regulated according to different rates. The right to soli tenants’ interest is to be universally established, and eviction only permissible for default. Tho resumption by the landlord to bo impossible, except on reasonable grove causa. Mr Gladstone dwelt upon tho political and social advantages to a peasant proprietory. The Land Commission would have power to assist tenants to purchase holdings, and to purchase estates from willing landlords for the purpose of re-selling them where threefourths of the tenants were willing to buy. Advances to be three-fourths of the purchase money. Advances are also to be made on agricultural improvements, including reclamation of waste lands to tenants, or companies for the purposes of emigration, and no limit to be placed on the gross mm to be advanced. Every Irish tenant to have tho right to go before tho Land Commission or Oomt and have the judicial rent fixed for holdings, which would endure for fifteen years, during which time there should bo no eviction of the tenant, except for breach of certain covenants or non-payment of rent, made. Tenant right recognised as a saleable interest. The Bill is warmly and hopefully received by the Liberal party, although it provoked the Duke of Argyll’s resignation of office of Lord Privy Seal, as his Grace’s economical principles prevent him from approving of tho main provisions of tho measures. Mr Parnell reserved his judgment, but the prevalent impression is that the Irish members are favorable to it. Loid Eicho gave notice to-day of an amendment condemning the main principles of tho Bill, as economically unsound, unjust, and impolitic. May 9.

Cardinal Manning,‘the Archbishop of Westminster, has expressed his disapproval of the meetings of the Irish Land League. Mr Bright, speaking on the Irish land question, argued that the Irish laborer was better off than the English laborer. He went on to say that the only hope for Ireland was in the de. volopmentof her industries, which ho thought might be stimulated by judicious application of water power. The marriage has been celebrated between Archduke Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria, and Princess Stephanie Olothilde, daughter of the King of the Belgians. Owing to the hostile attitude shown by the native inhabitants of the Transvaal towards the Dutch Boors, the latter are proporing for war.

Parnell, and the Home Rale party, persist in their policy of opposing the Irish Land Bill.

The Kronmiors have evacuated, and tho French occupied Sibi Abdallah, tho Tunis campaign is virtually ended. France has informed tho Porte that tho sending oi Turkish troops to Tunis will constitute a causus belli.

In the House of Commons, Mr Grant Duff, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in replying to a question put by Mr Summers, member for Stalybridge, said that when tho attention of the Colonial Office had been directed to the outrages on whites in tho South Pacific, the Secretary of State for the Colonies had asked for information from tho Missionary Societies, and added that the Missionaries should report all outrages within their knowledge to the naval authorities on the Australian station, or tho High Commissioner of the Pacific.

The Marquis of Huntington, Secretary of State for India, will probably accept a suggestion, providing the Victorian Government agrees to it, that the Melbourne mails should close on Monday night, and the steamers start at daybreak on Tuesday, although the Indian mails will thereby bo thrown back twelve hours.

May 11. The Christian population of Korilscha, Macedonia, have rebelled. An engagement has taken place between the insurgents and the Turks, in which the latter were defeated. William Anderson Ogg, an Australian merchant, of the firm of Prince, Ogg and 00., has been chosen sheriff of London. May 12.

The French threaten to occupy Tunis directly any Turkish vessels appear at La Goleta, the port of the capital. The Bey of Tunis has telegraphed to Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary of State, that the position is critical, and asks England and other European powers to interfere, and compel France to declare her intenions.

Her Majesty has held a review of the troops at tho camp, Aldershot. Tnere was a large muster. Her Majesty was received by Sir Daniel Lysone, the General in command at the camp, who was attended by a brilliant staff.

An election has taken place for Knaresborough, Yorkshire, tho seat for which has been vacant since July, 1880, when Sir Henry Thompson, who was elected in the Liberal interest, was unseated on petition. The election has resulted in favor of the Conservative candidate.

Hefferman, a prominent member of the Land League at Cork, and four others have been arrested end lodged in gaol. Further agrarian outrages are reported in Ireland, and Lord Dunolley’s bailiff has been shot MABSUA.

The military expedition under General Kennedy, which was sent to punish the Waziris Hill tribe, Northern India, is returning.