LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 232, 20 September 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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[Per s.s, Arawata, at the Bluff.] LONDON, September 5.

A terrible railway accident has occurred near Faria, A passenger train from Corbelle ran off the track at Oharenton Le Pont Station, four miles from the metropolis, and was completely telescoped by the Marseilles express. Thirty passengers and officials were dead when extricated from the wreck, and twenty more sustained severe injuries. Further rioting has occurred at Limerick. The resistance offered to all attempts to restore order was so determined that at length the constabulary were obliged to fire into the mob, and twenty persons received bullet wounds of a more or less dangerous character. Later intelligence indicates that the riots were oven more serious than was at first reported. Several wounded persona now in Limerick Hospital are in a critical condition. It is rumoured that Earl Cowper, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, intends to resign his office. Earl Konmare is mentioned as his probable successor.

September 6. Mr Baden Powell has read a paper on “ Australian Tariffs ” before the British Association, which contrasted the fiscal policies of Victoria and New South Wales, contending that the results achieved wore much in favor of the free trade colony. A protective policy he held to bo fatal to the best interests of the community. In the discussion which ensued, Mr Westgarth expressed his opinion that sufficient allowance had not been made for the decline of gold production in Victoria. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to blow up, by means of gunpowder, the Artillery and Infantry Barracks at Castlebar, the chief town in County Mayo. It is proposed to hold an exhibition of Irish wool, and £6OOO has been subscribed in Ireland as a guarantee of the bona /ides of the project. M. Gambotta, President of the late Chamber of Deputies, has delivered a speech which strongly advocated the principles of free trade.

The Liberals are jubilant over the result of the election for Tyrone, which they assert may be regarded as a complete snub to Parnell and the Land League, and as indicating that the Irish people are willing to accept the new Land Act as a reasonable settlement of their agrarian claims. A number of the members of the Conservative party have formed themselves into a Trade Union League. The objects set forth are to obtain the imposition of retaliatory duties on the products of countries whose tariffs are protective and hostile to Great Britain. The formation of the Imperial Customs Union is advocated, to include the colonies and all other integral parts of the British Dominions, so that there would be free trade within the Empire itself. Consequent upon the establishment of the union, the colonies would be invited to return members to the Imperial Parliament. Delelgates frem the Australian Churches to the Methodist (Ecumenical Council have arrived. The colonies have now sixteen representatives in the Council.

Energetic efforts are being made to ssoure the success of the proposed exhibition of Irish wool, to be held in Dublin. All parties will join in the movement. The members of the Land League have subscribed £SOO, and Earl Oowper has guaranteed a similar amount.

September 12. The Chamber of Commerce at Vienna advocates the imposition of higher duties upon foreign woollen goods, and ia agitating to achieve that object.