LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2304, 22 August 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telboeaph.]

[Per s.s. Rotorua, at the Bluff.] [“Age” Specials.] LONDON, August 14.

The relations between Egypt and Abyssinia are very strained, owing to disputes arising over frontier complications. Both countries are preparing for war, and it is feared that without European intervention, hostilities wi 1 ensue.

Litigation is arising over a law recently passed by the Legislature of the State of New York, imposing . a head tax of one dollar on every immigrant landed from foreign vessels. Hitherto the cost of the Emigration Bureau has been paid solely by a direct vote of the New York Legislature, and this tax is represented as necessary to defray expenses incurred in receiving and distributing the immigrants. The steamship companies have challenged the power of the local legislature to pass such a law, and have refused payment of tho tax. The Emigration Bureau has, accordingly, instituted proceedings on the Law Courts to enforce payment. The German Government has given instructions to severely repress riotous disturbances arising out of the anti-Jewish feeling which have been taken in many parts of tho country. A scheme has been sot on foot for the colonisation of Nova Zambia, two islands in the arctic ocean dependent upon the Russian Government at Archangel. It is proposed to found a trading settlement. The proposal is regarded with interest in connection with actio exploration and the recent d'seovery if the north-west passage.

August 15. A terrible accident has occurred at a bullfight at Marseilles. During the progress of the spectacle, when the amphitheatre was crowded with people, a portion of the building gave way with a loud crash. A number of persons were seriously hurt, and a panic set in among tho spectators, many of whom were severely injured in tho rush to escape. The utmost consternation prevailed, and finally, when an investigation could be made, it was ascertained that twelve persons had been killed and 160 wounded.

A serious explosion of dynamite has taken place on board a trading vessel lying at Perth, in Scotland, by which tho ship was geatly damaged and some of the orew wounded. Hanlan, the rowing champion, has accepted tho challenge of Ross to again row a sculling match. The contest has been fixed to take place at Toronto, in Canada, in October. The sailors in London, having been unable to obtain redress of their grievances, have carried out their determination to strike. A large number of men are cow out, and the movement is spreading in other ports. Terrific heat has prevailed in England for the last few days. The thermometer at noon to day was 137 fah. in the sun, which is altogoter unprecedented. Work has been suspended in several forges and blast furnaces in Staffordshire. Many cases of sunstroke occurred at the recent manoeuvres of the troo{ a at Aldershot Four men died from sunstroke, and several are dangerously ill. Kalakana, king of the Sandwich Islands, has arrived in London and has visited the Queen at Windsor.

A new Tiohborne claimant is about to leave the United States for England to prosecute his suit. T.-.is claimant asserts that he will have no difficulty in establishing his identity among his companions and relatives in France and England, and challenges examination as to the most difficult points of his statement. His narrative is singularly circumstantial, and he writes and speaks French. The story of his wanderings is romantic, and includes his marriage, with the registration of the births of his children, who were christened in tho name of Tiohborne, and dates prior to Orton’s trial. The claimant for many years bore the name of Charles Ogden Ferris. He accounts for his long silence, stating that, as far back as 1854, be took an oath not to reveal himself until 1880 —being in fear of assassination if his identity was established. Latest accounts, however, state that the claimant’s two principal patrons are beginning to discover discrepancies in bis narrative and now discountenance his visit to England. The Siberian plague, which appeared in tho environs of Sc. Petersburg, has proved very fatal to cattle and horses, and also attacks human subjects. Another terrible disease, presenting the plague symptoms, has also appeared amonst the Russian peasantry. The principal characteristics are bleeding at the nose and the appearance of black spots on the body. The reserve squadron, commanded by the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Oronstadt and spent several days in the Baltic. They were received very cordially by the Russian authorities and the public. No English squadron has visited the Baltic since Sir Charles Napier’s hostile expedition in 1854. Duke of Edinburgh's squadron is now at Kiel, where the recaption is equally friendly. The French foreign policy is beginning to give considerable umbrage to England.