LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2360, 26 October 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

TBy Tblkgbaph.J [Per b.b. Arawata, at the Bluff J LONDON, October 12. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy is engaged to be married to his cousin, Miss Hall. The marriage will take place next month. Intelligence has been received from India that Ayoub Khan has abandoned the governorship of Herat, and again sought an asylum in Persia. M. Perry, President of the Council, yesterday waited npon the President of the Bepnblio and handed in his resignation, which was accepted, M. Grevy at once sent for M. Gambetta, the President of the_ expiring Chamber of Deputies, and requested him to form an administration, and the depnty for Belleville is now engaged npon the task.

It is believe! that the Government, in pursuance of extraordinary powers granted by Parliament, are contemplating tbe total suppression of the Irish National Land League, on account of its persistent attempts to incite tenants to disobey the law and its open advocacy of agrarian violence and sedition. The state of feeling in Dublin is very excited. Rioting has occurred there, but the Government are adopting stringent measures to preserve peace.

An attempt was made yesterday to hold a meeting at Limerick to denounce the action of the Government in reference to the Irish National Land League. In obedience to instructions recently issued by the authorities prohibiting all such gatherings, the police interfered and suppressed the meeting. A riot was tbe result, and the disturbance became so serious that the military had to be called out, and they cleared tbe streets with drawn sabres. It is reported that warrants have been issued for the arrest of O’Connor, Member for Queen's County; Michael Healey, Member for Wexford, and other prominent members of the Irish National Land 1 eagne, on charges of treason and felony. The offenders are hiding in England, and up to the present time have evaded the efforts of the police to capture them. Parnell has been interviewed in Kilmainham gaol by some members of the Irish Press. He emphatically denies having committed the offences named in the warrants issued for his arrest, and complains bitterly of the unfair manner in which the Irish Executive are exercising the extraordinary powers conferred upon them last session. In view of the threatened condition of affairs in the disaffected districts in Ireland the military anthorities have issued orders to stop the leave of officers of all regiments stationed in Ireland.

Arrangements are being made for a great demonstration by Irishmen in Loudon as_ a protest again, t tbe repressive measures which the Government are adopting in Ireland. The meeting will be held on Sunday next, in Hyde Park.

A great fire has occurred in New York, which did enormous damage. Before the conflagration could bo extinguished no less than 200 houses were destroyed. The actual extent of the loss cannot yet be estimated.

Tho agitation for the extension of the principles of tho Irish Land Act to England and Scotland is rapidly gaining ground among the tenant farmers. A meeting to promote this object has been held at Forfar, the chief town in the Scotch county of that name which was attended by a largo number of Scotch agriculturists. Resolutions were passed declaring that some measure of relief was absolutely essential for the maintenance of the agricultural interest.

October 14, The “Times” has published an article calling attention to the mineral resources of Tasmania, which it speaks most highly of. It considers that the island affords an ample field for the employment of British capital. An extensive emigration has commenced among the coal miners on strike in County Durham. Large numbers have already left for America.

A tremendous conflagration has occurred in Philadelphia. An immense amount of destruction was caused by the fire, no leas than twenty mills being burnt. A terrible fire bas occurred in Dorset, one of the southern counties of England. Before the flames could be extinguished an entire village was destroyed, and a hundred persons were left homeless, and in a state of utter destitution. The east coast of Scotland has been visited by severe storms. The steamer Liverpool and sixty boats were wrecked, and tho telegraphs along tho coast wore destroyed, October 17. The situation in the Transvaal is_ growing critical. Tho Boers are exhibiting a bitter feeling against all those suspected of sympathy with the British, and the practice of “Boycotting, has been applied to a number of English adherents, who were refused assistance of any kind from the Boers.

The proposal for holding an international exhibition in New York in 1883 having fallen through owing to the apathy displayed, efforts are now being made to arrange for a world’s fair in Boston in 1885. The citizens there are very desirous of carrying the affair to a successful issue, and much enthusiasm is befog displayed.