LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2470, 7 March 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(By Tblkqbaph.] [Per s.s. Bingarooma, at the Bluff.J [“age” specials. 1 LONDON, February 23. Notwithstanding the failure to arrive at a basis of agreement for the commercial relations between England and France, another attempt will be made to come to an arrangement. M. Tirard is going to re-open the negotiations for a further continuance of the present treaty. A member of the Fenian organisation, who had given information to the police of the existence and whereabouts of a depot for arms intended for illegal purposes, was shot dead. [“Akqus” Spboials.] LONDON, February 25. Three persons have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the desecration of the mausoleum at Dunecht. It has been ascertained that the theft was organised at Aberdeen. The body of the late Earl of Crawford is reported to be still intact, but a a ransom of £6OGO is demanded for its restoration. The International Electrical Exhibition in the Crystal Palace has been opened by the Duke of Edinburgh. It is understood that, notwithstanding the arrangement that, after May the 16th, England is to be placed on the footing of the most favored nation in her commercial relations with France, there is is nothing to prevent reciprocal concessions being agreed to between the two countries, j The latest news from tho Continent shows that the excitement in reference to anticipated war between Russia and Germany and Austria is increasing, and that very little hopes are now entertained of war being averted. Turkey is preparing for_ war by mobilising an army of 150,030 men in the Balkan ranges. . Severe fighting has taken place in Herzegovina between the insurgents and the Austrian troops. The former were defeated with great loss of life. [Per s.s. Arawata, at Auckland. [“Nbws ” Specials ] LONDON, February 27. There is increasing excitement throughout Enro,e at the strained relations subsisting between Germany and Russia, and it is feared that war is inevitable. Turkey is mobilising her troojs, and tho military authorities at Constantinople are determined to send 150,000 soldiers to the Balkans. . The London “Daily Telegraph” expresses its belief that Mr Gladstone has resolved to resign, in consequence of the action of the House of Lords in appointing a Select Committee to inquire into the working of the Irish Land Act. _ Parnell, still confined in Kilmamham Gaol, 1 under the’Coercion Act, for attempting to bribe the gaoler and warder to deliver a letter has been sentenced to seven days’ solitary confine- ’ m i!oscoe Conkling, who resigned from the > United States Senate some time ago, in consel qnence of certain appointments made by the late i President Garfield, has been appointed by Preei- . dent Arthur to the position of Judge of the . High Court Judicature of the United States. February 28. * Another atrocious agrarian mutder has been 1 committed in Ireland. A farmer and his fom 1 sons in County Clare were attacked by a gang t of sixteen disguised ruffians, they having paid E their rent. The farmer and one of tho sons • were killed. . .... a The military authorities in Austria have l determined to strengthen the Imperial garrison ia the Eastern provinces,