LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2433, 23 January 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Tbzhshaph.] [Per s.s. Rotorua, at the Bluff.] [" a&b " SPECIALS.] LONDON, January 13. The proposal of the Government to introduce a modified form of cloture in the House of Commons, for the purpose of overcoming the systematic obstruction adopted during the recent session by the Irish members, has excited muoh discussion. In Ireland the idea has been greatly ridiculed, and it is openly asserted that it will prove ineffective to serve the objeot desired. Much excitement has been oaused in Germany by the arrest of tho Socialist's \ deputy for Stuttgart. It is maintained that i the arrest is illegal, as tho Reichstag is now in session, and the offence oharged againßt him i is that of selling a calendar Betting forth the i political principles which had been prohibited r by the Government. , LONDON, January 15. f Chancellor Bismarck has announced to the t Reichstag that, at the request of the Ministers, 5 the Emperor has agroed to withdraw the f Imporial rescript, recently issued, in which he j claimed as his prerojative in support of f Government all the officials employed under f the CrowD. t The necessity of extending the fortifications i of Rome has been strongly impressed on the .. King of Italy by his Ministers, and, in i accordance with their advioe, King Humbert e has issued authority for the expenditure of r three million lire (£120,000) upon the fortifif cations of Rome as recommended by his ~ military staff. g Tho Government of Servia have decided to a establish legations in London, Athens, and j Borne, where hitherto they have not been e represented. I. The Indian troop ship Crocodile, under the i. command of Captain Doughty, ran aground I while passing through the Suez canal, and ;> has for a time completely blocked the traffic. o A Swedish mail steamer has been wrecked ~ off the coast of Kalmar, the eastern province ,t of Sweden. The vessel sank, and is a total h loss. Fifteen of the crew and passengers tr were drowned.

The French Troops in Algeria are suffering greatly from the severity of the weather on the frontier of the great desert of Sahara, where there have been heavy falls of snow, and many French soldiers have died from exposure,

Alfonso, King of Spain, hag paid a visit of friendship to the King of Portueal. A review was held in hii honor at Lisbon, and 12,000 Portugese troop* marched before Him. Mnoh sympathy is evinced in England with the Jews in Russia, who have been subjected to severe persecution. A fund haH been started in London for their relief, and ȟbecriptiona are pouring in. Mies Bichman, of South Australia, a young lady niece of Lady Ferguson, the wife of the Governor of Bombay, has died from cholera. The death of Lady Ferguson from the same cause was announced a few days ago.