LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2299, 16 August 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tblbgbaph.] [Per s.s. Albion, at the Bluff.! [“Age” Specials.] LONDON, August 1. A very strong feeling is growing in England in favor of modifying the present free trade tariff, with a view to establish reciprocity with other countries. Complaints are made that owing to the policy of protection mainttined on the Continent, the United States, and several of the most important colonies, the export trade of Great Britain is seriously injured, and her industrial supremacy threatened. In the manufacturing districts an agitation has been set on foot for the purpose of securing reciprocity, and with this object a league has been formed called “ The National Fair Trade League,” which is receiving influential support. Mr Parnell returned to Ireland after h : s suspension by the House, and, addressing a crowded meeting in Dublin, delivered a very inflammatory speech. He unsparingly condemned the Irish Land Bill, which he declared would not give satisfaction to the people of Ireland, even if left unourtailed by the Lords. He bitterly denounced Mr Gladstone and Mr Forster, and condemned the Government as a whole. A strong anti-Jewish feeling is still manifested in Germany, and the Jews are subjected to much maltreatment. The Burenwaldo Jewish Synagogue waa attacked on Saturday by an infuriated mob, who wrecked the building and assaulted the worshippers. August 4, Owing to the wholesale bribery at the last general election in several borough oonstituencieo, the Government has determined to act on the recommendation of the Commission appointed to investigate the most flagrant oases, and will propose to the House of Commons that seven boroughs be disfranchised. The trial of Hiokerman, who was recently brought before the Bow street Police Court on a charge of having sent threatening letters to Mr Forster, has taken place. The prisoner was convicted of the offence. The strike among the nailers in Staffordshire still continues, and both masters and men exhibit a determination not to give way. A meeting of the men was held to-day, and was attended by fully 30,000. Addresses were delivered, inviting the men to stand firm and not consent to any reduction of wages. The men declared that they would never yield, and that starvation waa preferable. August 7.

Another plot to murder the Czar and his family has been discovered and frustrated through the activity of the Russian police. A short time ago the Czar removed from Castle Gatchina, whore he has resided since his accession, to the Palace Peterhoff, at the mouth of the Neva, fifteen miles west of St. Petersburg!!. The utmost precautions were taken, but, notwithstanding, it was only at the last moment that the suspicions of the police were directed to the inmates of a cottage near the Palace. They wero suddenly arrested, and, from evidence there discovered, the police arrested sixty more persons on suspicion of being concerned in the conspiracy. Subsequently the police received further information, in consequence of which they arrested two Genova Nihilists who wero believed to bo engaged in a similar design. A movement is on foot for the purpose of developing the industrial resources of Ireland. It is proposed to establish a company, with a capital of £4,000,000, to purchase a largo quantity of waste lands in that country, and reclaim and cultivate them. The prospectus of the company hns been published, and the project has boon favorably received. Mr Bradlaugh is confined to his house through illness. Ho complains of an injury to his arm, and his medical advisers report that erysipelas has sot in. It is proposed to hold an International Exhibition in 1883 at Shanghai, the chief foreign settlement in China. The project is warmly supported by the foreign merchants, who believe that it will do much to develop the trade with China.

The Indian tribes in the United States territory in Now Mexico are on the war path, and hare made raids on the white settlements, inflicting considerable damage. Troops hare been despatched against them. The heat this summer in the United States has been altogether unprecedented, and an unusual number of deaths from sunstroke has occurred.

August 8. Unprecedented weather continues in the United States. On Saturday there were no less than sixty deaths reported to have been caused by sunstroke and other illness induced by the intense heat.