LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2452, 14 February 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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[" Abgits" Specials.] LONDON, January 31

A sum amounting to nearly £1,000,000 was sent from London to Paris Banks yesterday. Several commercial failures are reported from Germany. The amount of liabilities is not known at present, but it will undoubtedly be a very large sum. Various commercial treaties between Franco and other countries, and whioh are on the point of expiration, have been prolonged until the 31st March. Power is also retained by the Ministry to still further prolong them beyond that date, should such a course be found necessary. The insurgent army, whioh has been raised in Bosnia against the rule of Austro-Hnn-gary, is said to be commanded by Russian officers.

A great disaster has occurred at Calais. A large reservoir burst, inundating the town, and drowning thirty persona and doing immense damage to property. One of the most brutal murders in connection with the disturbance in Ireland has just been reported. A farmer is said to have been roasted alive for paying his rent in opposition to the directions of the Laud League and other malcontents.

Riots have taken place at Fantab, a town in Egypt, and capital of the Ghaaheeyeh province. It wua occasioned by the dissatisfaction of the natives.

The man Skilliug, who was recently committed for trial for assaulting eight young girls in a boarding school kept by his wife, has been sentenced to eighteen months* imprisonment. Clarke Fielding, a barrister of the Middle Temple, has been gazetted Attorney-General of Fiji. Later advices from New York show that five persons were killed during the fire in the offices of the "New York Times." Eight were injured and fourteen others are repotted to be missing.

The American Congress has requested Pre* sident Arthur to obtain a list of the American subjects now undergoing imprisonment in England. The Chamber of Commerce, New York, have accorded a flattering reception to Sir Henry Parkes.

The statement that the Government of New South Wales intend shortly to provide inscribed stock has afforded much gratification to holders of debentures of thab colony. Arohibald Forbes, the celebrated war correspondent, has definitely arranged to commence his Australian lcoturing tour in May next. He will deliver his first series of leotures on incidents connected with his military experiences and other subjects in Melbourne on the Sth of that month.

James Rao, an old Victorian colonist and member of the London directories of the South Insurance Company and of the English Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank and other colonial companies, is dead. Much indignation has been aroused in Austria by the strong Pan-Slavio speech which has been made by General Skobeloff, with the view of encouraging the insurgents of Bosnia and Herzegovina in their resistance to Austrian rule. In order to allay the national irritation, the Russian Government apologised to the Austrian Government, and have disavowed any sympathy with General Skobeloff'a romarts.

The Bight Hon. It'iikes, a Conservative, has been elected for Preston, in the room of Sir John Holker, who was recently appointed to the Judicial Bench in succession to the late Sir Robert Lush.

Hector Fabre, a member of the Senate of Canach, has been appointed Agent-General for the Canadian Dominion at Paris. Four Continental Powers interested in E?ypt, viz.—Germany, Austria, Italy, and Russia, have informed the Porte that any alteration in the status quo in respoct to uniting Egypt with Turkey will require the assent of the great Powers before it can be recognised. Numerous meetings are being held throughout the Uuited States for the relief of persecuted Jews in Russia. Influential meetings for similar objects have also bacn held in Manchester and Glasgow. The Arab insurgents of Yemen have applied to the Governor of Aden for support against the Turkish Government. The " Times" this morning contains an orticle upon Sir Henry Parkes' visit to the United States. It is supposed that he is feeling hiß way to a closer and more extended mercantile intercourse between America and the colonics. It expresses a hope that New South Wales will not be disposed to change her policy and give up her premier position in Australia. The artiole goes on to express its ignorance of the object which Sir H. Parkes can have in attempting to bring about modification of the Washington tariff, but it considers that the energy displayed in pushing Australian interests in seeking fresh scenes for her commeroe cannot but result in profit to both the colonies and the Home country. The death is announced of Major Sir ~Wtn. Pallisor, aged fifty-two years. The Governments of France and Germany have agreed to combine with the English Government for the protection of submarine cables from injury. A treaty has been concluded between Russia and Poreia by which the frontier line between the two countries is to be altered to a point coar Shurukh's Fort, A mild protest against this arrangement has been undo by the British Government.

A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of the Marquis of Huntley, who recently absconded from England, and who is supposed to be in Bussia at the prosent time. Tho charge against him is that of defrauding a money lender. Voluntary liquidation is to take pkee in connection with the Haven Gold Mining Company of New Zaaland, which was recently before the Court of Appeal. Mr Justin McCarthy, the Home Bule member for Langford, is to be leader in place of Mr Parnell of the extreme Irish party in the House of Commons. A conspiracy againßt the Austrian Government has been discovered in the provinoe of Galioia, and many arrests have been made amongst the Beuthenian portion of the inhabitant*.