LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2383, 22 November 1881, Page 4

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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[Per s.s. Bingarooma, at the Bluff.]] LONDON, November 8 ‘ More survivors from the wreck of the steamship Konig Nederlander have been saved. Twenty-six have been landed in safety at Dondra Hoad, near Gallo, the southernmost extremity of the island of Ceylon. An Irish Women’s Land League has been established. Miss Parnell, to assist the efforts of her brother, has been active of late m fomenting agitation. The Irish Executive is seriously meditating the advisability of suppressing the League. A disastrous cyclone has taken place in the province of Tonquin, the most northerly district of Assam, in the south-east of Asia. The hurricane was of fearful force and was most destructive, over 2000 houses having been destroyed. . Notwithstanding the pacific intention of the Irish Land Act and the efforts made by the Land Commission to give effect to its provisions, agrarian offences have been very numerous. During the month of Ootober the number reported was no less than 500. Another manifesto has been issued by the Home Buie loaders, calling on the Irish people to signalise the year 1882 as the centenary of the celebrated deliverance of the great Irish patriot, Henry Grattan, urging his countrymen to strike a blow for freedom. Tho proposal made by Earl Granville, Secretory of State for Foreign Affairs, that the European Powers should frame a collective note to protest against the position assumed by tho United States to have paramount control over the Panama Oanal, has been received in a vary lukewarm manner. From the tenor of the replies received, it does not seem likely that any combined action of an effective character will be taken, but Great Britain, on her own behalf, refuses to assent to the claim of the United States.

A sharp shook of earthquake has been experienced in the Oarinthia district, in the Austrian Province of Illyria. The damage done was not serious, but much alarm was caused to the inhabitants. A mining accident has occurred in Spain of a serious character, an explosion having taken place in a mine, by which fifteen persona were killed, and others seriously injured. Much excitement has been occasioned in Berlin by the atrest of a prominent socialist leader, which was heightened by the circumstances under which tho arrest was made. The socialists of the capital determined to hold a grand demonstration in honor of tho victories gained at the recent elections, despite the severe prohibitory laws. The ovation was at its height when the police interfered, and arresting the most notable leader, lodged him in prison. Another severe shook of earthquake has been experienced at Agram, the capital of Croatia in Austria, where great destruction from the same cause was suffered a few months ago. Very severe floods have been experienced in Albania, European Turkey. A large amount of damage has been caused, and several lives lost.

A catastrophe of a serious character has occurred in Now York. Owing to the weakness of the foundation, a house suddenly collapsed, and all the inmates wore buried in tho ruins. A for wore rescued much injured, but no .rs than twenty-five were killed.

There has been suarp fighting in Algeria between the French troops and some of the insurgent tribes. The latter have been severely defeoted on several occasions, and many chiefs are now offering their submission.

Dillon, one of the prominent Home Kule leaders, had been awarded tho freedom of the city by the Corporation of Limerick. An agitation has been set on foot among the European residents of Griqualand East, a district in Cape Colony, situated to the west of Natal, having for its object separation from the Capa and annexation to Natal, November 12.

Although the Transvaal Folksraad has ratified the convention with the British Government, its recent action is giving rise to considerable uneasiness. In defiance of the express provisions of the convention, an enormous tariff has been placed on all English imports with a view to prohibit their introduction into the country. It is feared that further complications will arise in consequence of this violation of tho treaty. Healy and Sheehy, who recently loft Paris for the United States, have arrived in New York. They have delivered excited harangues before large Irish audiences, in the course of which they denounced the English Government in most violent and unmeasured language. Tho Island of Chios, in the Greek Archipelago, which some time since was visited by a most destructive earthquake, that destroyed several thousand lives, has undergone another terrible visitation of the same kind. A severe shock of earthquake occurred, by which an entire village was submerged, causing great loss of life and enormous destruction of property. • The “Standard” publishes, in a semiofficial article, the programme to be submitted by the Cabinet to Parliament during the coming session. It is stated that tho first duty of tho Government will be to provide some efficient remedy for obviating the systematic obstruction to public business in. dulged in during the past session The subject has been under the serious consideration of Mr Gladstone and his colleagues, and its importance is fully recognised. Provision will also be made to expedite public business in other ways. Another great measure of public policy will be one dealing with county government, and will be of an elaborate and exhaustive character. The attention of Parliament will be principally confined to these two subjects.