LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2416, 3 January 1882, Page 4

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tflbgbaph.J [ Per s.s. Te Aran, at tho Bluff.) BONDON, December 19. The Gorman Reichstag having mot for tho appointment of the President has re-elected the former occupant to that office—Dr. Faunbach. Serious disturbances have taken place at Suez, arising out of the murder of a soldier by the Bedouins. Hie comrades demanded instant vengeance, and proceeded to ransack the town. A serious riot ensued, and a body of soldiers going to tho Governor’s residence attacked him with violence. For some time the town was in a state of tumult, but eventually order was restored, and all is now quiet. The Irish Women’s Band Boague, established by Miss Parnell, having been declared illegal, the Government intend to proceed against any of the members who still take part in seditious movements. By the instrnotion of the authorities tho prison at Grangegorman, in the vicinity of Dublin, has been prepared for the reception of any females thus arrested.

The Socialist movement is spreading in Austria, where many leaders expatriated from Germany have sought refuge. The Austrian authorities have also taken action against them, and the police at Vienna have arrested eighteen prominent socialists, who have been lodged in prison, A discovery has been made by the customs’ authorities at New York, which has frustrated an attempted Fenian plot. The officials bay" ascertained that on board a steamer bound for Biverpool there hsid been shipped 800 oases described hardware, but which being opened were found to contain rifles, and which there is reason to believe were intended for distribution in Ireland. The cases were seized, and are now held by the authorities pending a full investigation. The steamer City of Bath, engaged in the Atlantic trade, was lost during the recent heavy gales. All the passengers and crew were saved with the exception of ten. A destructive explosion of gas has oconrred in Vienna, which did a considerable amount of damage, and caused the death of several person*. A split has occurred among tho Irish Fenians in America. Tho league at Montreal threaten to publish a list of all the members who refuse to give to the “ dynamite ” fund established by the Fenian convocation recently held at Chicago, tho object of which was to destroy public buildings in England and English vessels.

The celebrated Cardinal Sedoohowski, Archbishop of Posen and Primate of Poland, who was imprisoned by the Oerman Government in 1874, has resigned his See. The Pope, with much reluctance, has oonaented to accept his resignation. His action is attributed to the desire to confirm the friendly relatione existing between the Vatican and Germany. A prelate less distasteful to the Gorman Government will be appointed. Another earthquake has occurred in Switzerland, the locality being Bex, a village in Canton Vaud.

The Swiss Assembly has now under com ■{deration a Bill to provide for the protection of patents in Switzerland, Nussali Bey, Governor of Tunis, has resigned his position. He expected that bis discharge was imminent, and elected to resign. Fogs of unnsnal severity have been experienced in the Midland Caunties. Several cases of loss of life are reported of persons who missed their way owing to the denseness of the atmosphere, and had fallen into canals and been drowned.

An investigation into the cause of the panic at the church in Warsaw disclosed the fact that the false alarm had been raised by a Jewish pickpocket, and this fact becoming known, the rage of the populace of the city was excited, and they proceeded to commit great outrages on the Jewish inhabitants. The Jewish shops and places were gutted, and the Jews bad to fiy for their lives, many of them being severely maltreated. The riots were not quelled until the military were called out and the streets patrolled by bodies of soldiery. A collision took place in Queenstown Harbor, a Cunard steamer running into and sinking the Helenslea, a vessel belonging to San Francisco. Some of the crew of the latter were drowned. A destructive fire has occurred at Rochdale, a large manufacturing town in Lancashire. A big building used as a granary caught fire and was destroyed, and other premia 9S adjoining were also injured before the llamas could be extinguished. The damage is estimated at £150,000. The fund established under the presidency of the Lord Mayor of London for the purpose of offering assistance to landlords has reached the sum of £9OOO. The supervision of the fund has been placed under the direction of six ladies. A rumor was current that Parnell, the Lard League leader, had been removed from Kilmainham Gaol, where he has been confined since his arrest, to Armagh Gaol, but the statement has been ascertained to be quite untrue. Nineteen British sailors belonging to a vessel in harbor at New Orleans have been arrested for creating a disturbance at a public meeting held in f hat city on the Irish ques tion. Sentiments were expressed by some of the speakers which the sailors forcibly resented, and a riot ensued. Eventually the seamen were arrested and imprisoned. Representations have been made by the British Consul on the subject. Owing to the recent terrible catastrophe at the Bing Theatre, all the theatres in Vienna have since been forsaken by the public. The lessees have waited as a deputation upon the Emperor to request that some action may be taken to dissipate the panio in the public mind, as every precaution has been taken for public safety, and ask that an official assurance may be given of this fact.

Considerable dissatisfaction exists at Natal with the recent proceedings of the Legislature at Durban, the capital. An agitation has been set on toot to require members of the Chamber to return the pay they receive for their services, it being maintained that the revenue of the colony is not sufficient to justify the granting of remuneration. Serious disturbances have taken place at the Island of Hayti, West Indies. An attempt was made to overturn the Government of the Republic of Hayti, on the western portion of the island, but after some encounters with the insurgents, the authorities were enabled to suppress the revolution. The loss of life during tha insurrection amounted to 150. The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a circular letter to the clergy of the Established Church, in which ha commends to their approval a scheme for the establishment of direct relations between the Church at Homo and the colonies. It is proposed that steps should be taken to keep the clergy well inforired with respect to the religious and educational advantages which each of the British dependencies afford, and that such information should be extensively disseminated by hand-books published under the authority of the proposed organisation. The scheme, which is largely conceived in the interests of intending emigrants, includes making arrangements for the reception of families on their arrival in the colonies, and for their assistance and encouragement during the early stages of their colonial career. December 21.

Nothing further has been heard of the missing balloon, but the thermometer, which is recognised as one which Walter Powell took with him, has been washed ashore at Portland, off the coast of Dorsetshire, having been thrown out by the occupants of the oar when they commenced to drift across the English Channel.

The Australian, a steamer which the Orient Steam Navigation Company intend to place in the Australian trade, has just been launched. The vessel is constructed entirely of steel. It is reported that Russia and Austria have arranged the terms of a treaty by which they undertake the regulation of the affairs of the Balkan Peninsula, and pledge themselves to oppose any ambitious designs which any other powers may entertain in connection with this portion of south-eastern Europe. The “Times,” referring to the scheme which the Archbishop of Canterbury has proposed of interesting the clergy of the Established Church on the question of emigration to the colonies, commends the proposal of Dr. Tait as a task worthy of the (Ecumenical Church. Many land owners in Ireland are complaining that the principle upon which the Irish Land Court is fixing the rents of tenants is little short of confiscation of the property of landlords. An influential meeting, which was attended by 300 landlords, was held in Dublin yesterday to protest against the decisions of the Court, and a resolution demanding compensation from the Government was unanimously agreed to.

Sir A. Kennedy, who has been Governor of Queensland since October, 1877, will leave the colony next year. The strike amongst the operatives of the North Staffordshire potteries, aftsr lasting for six weeks, has collapsed, and the men, many thoasands of whom turned out, have now resumed work. Notwithstanding the unsatisfactory result of the legal proceedings recently instituted by M. Rouatan against M. Rochefort, the Gambetta Ministry decline to remove the Minister resident from his post, but have directed him to resume his duties at Tunis forthwith. The Sutlej, a now steamer built entirely of steel for the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s Indio, China, and Australian mail services, has been launched. Indignation is very generally expressed in France at M. Houston being permitted to return to Tunis as French Minister resident. Gambetta is especially blamed for permitting M. Boustan to resume his old functions after the disclosures in the recent action against M. Rochefort, and has been rendered unpopular ic consequence. December 24, Miss Reynolds, a prominent member of the Irish Ladies’Land League, has been sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for inciting the tenantry of Ireland to refuse to pay their rent. “ United Ireland,” the organ of the Irish National Land League, has been printed in London in defiance of a recent mandate of the Government prohibiting its publication, but the whole of the copies were promptly seized by the police. Since the secession of Mr Shaw, the member for Cork county, from its ranks, the Irish Home Rule League has become practically impotent as a political organisation. The Land Leaguers now constitute the only party of action in Ireland. The Nihilists have made a determined attempt to destroy the southern portion of the town of Oronstadt, where the great naval station of Russia (which is capable of containing thirty-five ships of the line) is situated. They set fire to the harbor, and a large amount of imperial property was burnt, McKenzie, a contractor for several extensive public works at Capetown, has failed. His liabilities are estimated at £500,000.