LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2415, 31 December 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tbibgbaph.] [ [Per s.s. Wakatipu, at Wellington. | LONDON, December 10. The British Government have agreed to make a present to the New fcionth Wales Government of H.M.S. Wolverine fully armed. The matorial seized by the authorities at Dublin, which it iB believed was intended to be used for seditious purposes, includes 30 riflw, 10,000 cartridges and ballots, a small quantity of dynamite, and a number of sword-bayonets. Mr Preyhngksun, the new Secretary ot Htate for the United States, is pursuing a policy of moderation that gives general satisfaction, and which it is thought will lift the Government oat of the difficulties into which the policy of th 3 late secretary (Mr Blaine) landed it. December 20. Prince Bismarck is recovering hia health. M. Gambetta refuses ti retract the statement he made recently to the effect that the British Government had recognised the treaty entered into between Franco and the Bey of Tuniß. Earl Granville ia much aunoyed at the obstinacy of the French Premier. A stormy scene occurred in the London Common Council in connection with the movement started for the defence cf property in Ireland. The council refuses to subscribe to the fond startod by the Lord Mavor. December 21. Several female Land Leaguers ure makirg themselves very prominent, and daring tLe authorities to arrest them, 'iheir meeting places are closed, and the police take no notue of the agitators, unless they become conspi;mMii> as vagrants or otherwise break the ponce in the streets. The police courts then deal with them. Farther intelligence hftß been received in reference to the recovery of the schooner Jeannette. The schooner reached a high latitude in the Arctic ocean in June last, and then became blocked in the ice, and so crushrri that she had to be abandoned. Some of the crew perished from cold and hunger. The survi vera took to the boats, and after many privation?, and being al-jooat fami-hod. reached the (ireiit titK.rian river Lena, which flows into the Arc'.i..-

ocean. This ri-rer tfceynavigater" ?i boats. and having beou houoitably trv-atcd by the Natives, reached the City of Irkutsk in Asiatic Enesia. It is from this city that telegraphic news of their Eafety has been ocspatched. The news created great excitement in America. The Montreal branch of the Irish Lund League threatens to pnbii«h the names of Irish re'idents who refuse to contribute to the fcnjls of the Irish National Convention in Chicago. Several Nihilists have been arrested in St. Petersburg who were detected carrying dynamite enclosed in oranges. December 22. Mr Hamlin, United States reijretentaiivo at the Court of Madrid, has presented his credentials to King Alphonso XIC. The King, in reply, expressed bis sympathy with the A merican people in the loss they had sustained by the death of President Garfield. The Swigs Hon«e of Assembly have under consideration a Bill granting succour and protection to sufferers by the disastrous earthquakes which have been experienced throughout the cantons.

Tho workmen who were engaged in constructing the St. Gothard tunnel, in the Alps, have been paid off. The French troops are suffering considerably from cold and exposure in Algeria, and ;nr.en sickness prevails.