LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2405, 20 December 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tblbqraph.J [Per b.s. Albion, at the Bluff.] LONDON, December 10. The British Government has decided to re-open with the Gambetta Ministry the negotiations for a commercial treaty that fell through owing to inability to come to any agreement with the late French Ministry. Sir C. Dilke, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, leaves for Paris on Monday morning, and will have a personal interview with G-am-betta.

Count Katnoky, the Austrian Premier, after a oareful consideration of the points in dispute between the Austro-Hungatian Empire and the Kingdom of Boumania, relative to the control over the navigation of the Danube, has oommunicated his views to Prince Bismarck, the German Chancellor. The result is that they have agreed upon a joint plan of actionl towards Boumania, and have forwarded their demands to the Government at Bucharest.

The treaty of oommerce whioh was recently agreed upon between the Governments of France and Italy has been formally completed, the treaty having been ratified by the two Powers.

The United States Government has decided, in accordance with the generally expressed wish of the nation, to confer upon the widow of the late President Garfield some special token of its high appreciation of the character and services of her late husband and sympathy for her under her great bereavmont. It has, therefore, been announced that Mrs Garfield shall have the privilege of sending letters throughout the States Union free of postage. The Anti-Jewish agitation which has for some time past been prevalent in parts of Germany and Russia is gaining ground, and is rapidly spreading through every portion of the two Empires. It also seems likely that tho Anti-Jewish feeling will not be confined to these, but will extend to adjoining countries. An explosion occurred at a coal mine at Barnsley, a towra in the West Biding of Yorkshire, about nine miles from Sheffield. The consequences were most disastrous, no less than aisty miners being killed. The storms whioh have been recently raging over the Atlantio have been especially destructive along the coast of Newfoundland, and numerous shipwrecks are reported. December 12.

The terrible catastrophe at Vienna caused by the burning of the ileng Theatre is absorbing public attention. It is averred that tho investigation into the disaster has shown that the police, through some bungling, locked the doors of the burning building before it was more than half empty, and that tho ex traordinary number of deaths is attributable to tho means of egress being thus cut off. There is great excitement over the matter and a full inquiry is promised. A destructive fire, involving loss of life, has occurred at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The Workman's Homo, an institution devoted to the use of the woriing classes, oaught fire, and the buildiug waß consumed with suoh rapidity that many inmates were unable to make their eacape. It has been aßcertained that ten persons perished in tho flames.

It is announced that Sir A Gordon, Governor of New Zealand and High Commissioner of the Pacific, will shortly be relieved from the general supervision over the colony of Fiji which he has exercised. The question of taxation in India has been under the consideration of the Viceroy and hiß Council for soma time. It ia r.ow announced on good authority that a determination has been come to to impose an income tBX, a proposal wbioh hitherto has mot with seriouß objection as beinj; one uisuiied to the habits of the people. It io probable that the cotton duties will be abolished. In Santander, s province in Old Castile, Spain, an angry feud has existed botween some newspapers published in the district and the priests. Several bitter attacks on tho clergy have been published in the papers, in which their general oharacter was impugned. The olergy have retaliated by solemuly exoommunicating the editors of three offending journals. This action caused a great sensation throughout Spain, and tho subject is being taken up widely by the public journals. In consequence of the continuance of outrages in various parts of Ireland, and the difficulty experienced in sccuriug the detection and oonviotion of the offenders, the Irish

Executive have under consideration a proposal to vest military officers in command of disturbed localities with magisterial powers. It is believed that steps will be |taken shortly in. order to provide for the security and protection of well-disposed people in those districts.

Negotiations have been opened by the ' German Government with Earl Granville? to arrange for the transfer to Germany of & small island, Heligoland, in the North Sea, situated about forty-six miles N.W. from tho mouth of the Elbe and Weser. The island, which has been in the occupation of Great Britain since 1814, does not exceed an area of five and a quarter square miles, and is of no practical importance. A decidedly anti-Irish feeling is spreading in England in oonsequence of the cowardly outrages and intimidation systematically practised in Ireland.

A terrible explosion has occurred in a coal mine belonging to Cockerill and Co., Seraing, Belgium. Sixty-six miners were killed. A serious railway accident occurred to-day ob the North London railway line. Three trains came into collision at Canonbury station, and seven passengers were killed and sixty injured.

Two soldiers named Woodend and Northcote have been sentenoed to death at the Dublin Criminal Court for the murder of bandsman Ourragb. At a grand ooncert recently given at Berlin Madame Elmorlud (nee Maggie Menzies, of Melbourne), performed several selections on the pianoforte. The correspondent of the " Times " speaks of the skill she displayed as highly creditable to the musical talent of Australia.