LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2327, 19 September 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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[age specials.] LONDON, September 5. An extraordinary outrage has taken place at Lille, an important manufacturing city of Prance, in the Department of the Nord. A largo number of the principal citizens of the place received parcels containing somo explosive material. On an attempt being made to open them these parcels exploded, and in several cases with very disastrous results. Many persona were killed and others injured. Tho cause of the outrage is at present entirely inexplicable. September 6. In tho vicinity of Toloedo, the capital of the province of that name in Spain, situated on the Tagus, forty-one miles south of Madrid, a band of brigands attacked a train running on the branch railway from Madras. They were repulsed, and on escaping a number ware drowned in the river which nearly surrounds the city. September 7. The relations between the empires of Russia and Austria have of late become strained. A marked coldness between the two powers is apparent, arising out of their cor flicking interests in the south-east of Europe. The Austrian press, in discussing the question, declares that recent indications point to a war with Russia.

The anti-Jewish feeling in Germany is still very marked among the lower classes of the the population, notwithstanding the agitation is discountenanced by the Government. September 8.

Cholera has broken out at Aden, a British station at the entrance to the Bed Sea. Precautions have been taken to secure as far as possible the health of the troops, but the epidemic is making great ravages. September 9. Upon an examination of the frozen beef by the Protoa after thawing, it was fourd the meat was tainted in the centre. This disappointing result is attributed to mistakes in the original freezing of the meat in Melbourne. The beet had either been frozen too soon after killing, or it had been frozen too rapidly, so that the external surface was hard, whilst the centre of the carcase was unfrozen.

The Ministry are exhibiting a desire to show a spirit o£ clemency in the administration of the Coercion Act in Ireland

September 10.

It ia proposed to hold a conference of colonial repreaentativea in London, with a view of considering the practicability of securing free trade between Great Britain and the colonies, and the representation of tie latter in the Imperial Parliament. A aerioua crisis is threatened in the cotton trade, owing to the unscrupulous action of a ring of speculators in Liverpool. Operations for some time past have been embarrassed, and manufacturers are afraid to enter into extensive contracts. They threaten to stop the mills entirely for a time in order to suppress the Liverpool ring.

A serious railway accident occurred in the State of Kentucky. A bridge gave way as the train was passing over, causing a tornD e smash. Seven persons were killed on the spot, and a number of others seriously injured. Tho heat in New York during the week has been of a tropical character, numerous deaths having resulted from sunstroke. Piracy is developing among tho inhabitants of tho islands in the Greek Archipelago. Recently an English trading vessel has been seized by pirates at Samos, one of the principal islands situated on tho west coast of Asia Minor. Strong representations have been made to tho Turkish Government of tho necessity of suppressing the outrages, and vessels of war will be despatched to punish tho offenders. September 13. An agitation is rapidly spreading among the farming population of England and hootland in favor of the extension to those countries of the new principles of land legislation embodied in the Irish Land Act. Much excitement was caused in the United States by an attempt made at Washington to assassinate Mr Mason, the guard in whose custody Charles Jules Gitteau, the would-be murderer of President Garfield, has been placed. Ho was shot at by some unknown person, and very narrowly escaped.