LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 228, 2 August 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

f3r Telegraph.]

[Per s.s. Te Anau, at the Bluff.] LONDON, July 19

The native population throughout Southern Tunis is much disturbed by the aggressive policy of the French nation. The Paris water supply, which is usually pure and abundant, shows signs of exhaustion, and the city is threatened with water famine. Following up the dispatch of a Turkish squadron to Tripoli, the Sultan has now ordered troops to be sent to that city. The death is announced of Mr Emory, the well-known comedian, who had only recently returned from an extended tour in the Australian colonies. He was sixty-seven years of age. July 21. Messy Heilman, the Hussion Jewess who was convicted and sentenced to death for complicity in the assassination of the late Emperor of Russia, and subsequently temporarily reprieved on the ground of being enciente, has had her sentence of death commuted to penal servitude for life. The death is announced of Canon Ridgeway. The United States Government has accepted the surrender of Sitting Bull, the famous chief of the Sioux tribe of Indians. The City of Geneva, in Switzerland, has been visited by an earthquake. July 23. The coMtest between the President of the United States and Senator Oonkling regarding the exercise of federal patronage has terminated, Senator Oonkling having resigned his position os senator for the State of New York in consequence of aepointmonts made in opposition to his nomination by the President. The result has been that Mr Laphsm ha® been elected to the vacant seat in the Senate. The prospect hj has been issued of a company called Robert Campbell and Sons, Limited, with a capital of £600,000 to purchase land and further dovelope eheepjfarming in New Zealand. A terrible storm has occurred in the Shetland Islands, North Scotland. Great loss cf life and property was caused, and many shipping disasters have been reported along the coast. July 26. It is now believed that the infernal machines seized by the authorities at Liverpool wers intended to be placed in the vaults of the House of Commons. Sir M. Hicks Beach, formerly Secretary of State for the Colonies, moved a vole of censure on the Government for their policy in connection with the affairs in the Transvaal. The motion was negatived by a large majority. An alarming discovery has been made in Liverpool. Acting on information privately supplied, the authorities boarded two American steamers, and found on board a large number of infernal clocks, besides a quantity of dynamite. The entire consignment was seized, and having been taken some distance from the shore was dropped into deep water.