LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2341, 4 October 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tbmkjraeh.] [Per Te Anau, at the Bluff. | [AHGtra SPECIALS.! LONDON, September 23. General Arthur, after taking the formal oath of office, delivered an address, in the course of which he pledged himself to follow the policy which President Garfield had announced in his message to Congress in March last. President Arthur has invited all the members of the Cabinet selected by the late President to continue in office. September 24. At the opening of the Transvaal Yolksraad President Kruger denounced the convention entered into at the conclusion of peace between the British Government and the Boer triumvirate, and expressed a hope that Great Britain would agree to a modification of the terms of the convention. The French Government, recognising the increasing gravity of the situation in Tunis, where the native revolt is rapidly spreading, have given orders for the despatch of a large reinforcement to their forces. Twenty-six thousand troops, including a large proportion of cavalry,|have embarked at Toulon for service in North Africa. September 27. Several papers published at St. Louis, one of the principal cities in the United States, give currenoy to a report that the American Fenian organisation have reoruited a filibustering force of 300 men, with the avowed intention of making a raid upon Freemantle, a chief port in Western Australia, and plundering the settlement. Another objeot of the expedition, which is said to have already sailed from San Franoisco, is to release the prisoners confined in the Imperial convict establishment at Freemantle. The St. Louis papers are dubious as to the correctness of the rumors. Instructions which were recently given for the withdrawal of several regiments of Imperial troops from the Transvaal have been countermanded in consequence of the nonratification of the convention and the hosfity which the newly elected Yolksraad eont'iues to exhibit towards the British.