LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2240, 7 June 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph. J [Per s.s. Bingarooma, at the Bluff.] LONDON, May 24. Prinsk, a town in Bussia, of about 20,000 inhabitants, situated on the Eiver Pripet, in the district of Minsk, 143 miles S.Sf.W. of that town, has been burnt to the ground. The place has been entirely destroyed, and 18 000 people have been rendered homeless. It is not known whether the fire was accidental or duo to the machinations of the Nihilists.

May 26. Mr Bradlaugh addressed a large public meeting at Newcastle. He declared that he was determined to maintain his right to admission to the House of Commons as the duly elected representative member for Northampton. He expressed his intention to again advance his claim to be allowed to take his seat, and stated that nothing but actual force should restrain him from asserting his right. May 23.

The Lord Mayor of London, Alderman McArthur, M.P., has invited the AgentsGeneral representing the various British colonies and other colonial gentlemen of prominence to a grand banquet to be hold in Guildhall.

Another serious difficulty has arisen in South Africa. A largo number of Boers are trekking from the Transvaal into Zululand, and encroaching on territory assigned to the Zulu chiefs under the settlement by Sir Garnet Wolseley. The Zulus, through tho British residents, have appealed to the British Government to interfere, and claim British protection. They declare that if the Boers are not forced to retire they will attack them, and appeal to tho British to restore them their arms.

Strong agitation has been excited in Poland against the landlords, who are accused of behaving with great oppression to the peasantry, A very bitter feeling exists. A shook of earthquake has been experienced at La Salle, a town in the State of Illinois, U.S„ situated on tho Illinois river, at the southern terminns of the Michigan Canal. Much alarm was felt, but the damage caused was not great.