LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2282, 26 July 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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[Per s.s. Rotomabana, at the Bluff.l LONDON. July 13. It is reported that Midhat Pasha, who has been condemned to death for complicity in the assassination of the late Abdul Aziz, has attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat.

The emigration to newly opened territories in Canada and the United States continues to be enormous.

Mr Fletcher, of Adelaide, who went to England some months ago in an unofficial capacity to try and float a company to construct a line of railway through Central Australia, from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, upon the land grant system, has succeeded in interesting a number of leading capitalists in the scheme, which they regard with favor. He will probably come out by the next mail with authority to submit a proposal from the Syndicate to tho South Australian Government.

July 14 A fearful outbreak of Siberian plague has occurred at St. Petersburgh, and men, as well as cattle and horses, are dying in great numbers.

Meetings of Orangemen, at which the proceedings of the Land League are strongly condemned, are becoming much more numerous in Ireland. Up to the present time but little rioting has occurred in connection with these meetings. The imbroglio in North Africa is likely to be intensified by the arrest of the French emissary to Tripoli, in whose possession important documents compromising the French Government were found.

July 18. An extraordinary railway outrage has made a great sensation in America. A party of thirteen ruffians attacked a train near Chicago. They killed the conductor and thon pillaged the train. Property to a large amount was oecured, and the robbers decamped without molestation.

The condition of affairs in the Transvaal is critical. An alarming deadlock has resulted from the action of the Royal Commission.