LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2264, 5 July 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

TBt Telegraph.] [Per s,s. Bingarooma, at the Bluff.] LONDON, June 22. It is only the Irish members in the House of Commons who are criticising the Land Bill in committee. Mr Gladstone is conciliating the Conservatives. The "New York Herald" has published the opinion of several Irish members of the House* of Commons, including those of Mesirs Parnell and McCarthy, who advocate the federation of Great Britain and her colonies with a Parliament based on American principles, eaoh oolony to send representatives, and the number of British members to be reduced in proportion to the new members returned. A conference is to take place on the AngloFrench commercial treaty, but only for the purpose of taking evidenoe. It is expected that the present treaty will be continued ia force until the new Chamber of Bepresentativos is elected in France. The Hon. James Service has been elected an honorary member of the Reform Club. In the House of Gommonß the seoond reading of the Bill for the abolition of capital punishment has been negatived by a majority of ninety-six. The ceneus returns for the United Kingdom are now complete. The total population is 35,000,000, being 17,000,000 males, and females, This shows an inorease of 4,000,000 persons during the last ten years. A shocking murder of a farmer has taken place in Dublin. The House of Lords has affirmed the resolution that there is no necessity on the part of the British Government to interfere in the Franco-Tunisian question. The troops of the Ameer Abdul Rahman, from Girishk have defeated the levies of Ayoub Khan with heavy loss. A large number of prisoners were captured. The United States Government, replying, to the communication from the British Government regarding the presence and movements of prominent Fenians in New York, states that there is no evidence that any criminal acts which have been perpetrated in the Unit«d Kingdom have been concocted by Fenians in New York. Owing to events arising out of the French occupation of Tunis, the French and Italian press are greatly inflamed. The Governments of both countries are endeavoring to assuage the excitement thus caused. France threatens) to seiza Tripoli if the fanatic intrigues amongst the Mahommedans continue. A comet ia now visible from the Observatorien at Greenwich, England, and Washington, United States. Charles Dillon, the well-known actor, is dead.