LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2499, 11 April 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

An attempt has bean made to blow up the house of Mr Lucas, agent for Lord Clonbrock, at Ballinasloe. Galway, by throwing a Bhcll containing dynamite into the building of Mr Lucas. Tho house and that of Lis neighbour, Kenny, were both damaged by the explosion, but the occupants escaped without injury. The dinner given by Mr Saul Samuel, * gentGeneral for New South Wales, to Sir Hy. Parkos, was attended by all the Ag«nt-Genorals and a number of members of Parliament and others. On Sunday Sir Henry Parkes attended church and lunched with tho Lcrd Mayor, at the Manfion House. Sir Henry Parkes dines this week, separately, with Earl Granville, Sir Stafford Northcote, lord Sfcerbrooke, Marquis of Salisbury ; also, the Institute of Engineers. The residents of Stoneleigh, his birthplace, invited Sir Henry Parkes to visit that place. He has also received an invitation from the Mayor of Birmingham to visit that town. Overtures which have recently taken place with tho object of securing the admi«sion of coloiiial goods into France under tho most f+vored nation arrangements, havo fallen through. . A fc'enian has been shot in Dublin by a companion, who was arrested. In the prisoner's po wis ft large qn'mtity of store 3 and ammnnition. A number of io portuut documents wore found.

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I" ARGUS " SPECIALS J LONDON, March 23.

The polica in St. Petersburg have succeeded ia arrestiog a chief Nihilist of the exocutivo committee. it ia stated that Germany has givon orders for the construction of six torpedo boats, to be employed in the Baltic. " _ A landlord named Herbert, in County Kerry, south-west of Ireland) has been murdered. _ Disastrous floods have occurred at Lomsana, one of the Gulf States on the American border, which was washed by tho Mississippi and Pearl Rivera. A large number of the inhabitants have been drowned, the latest telegrams estimating the number at 120. Disturbances have taken place at Catalonia, a Spanish province, in which silk and woollen good 3 are manufactured, the agitation being on the part of operatives, who opposed the commercial treaty between Spain and France. The Groat Powers have joined England and France in nrging Kgypt to give a better guarantee to her creditors than at present afforded* The Bight Hon. Henry Fawcett, Postmaster. General, has intimated that shortly he hopes to be able to reduce the rates for money orders between Great Britain and the colonies.

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, is recovering from tho indisposition from which he hsß been suffering. His marriage, however, with Princess Helena, of Waldeck, has been postponed. The Marquis of Huntly, who recently surrendered himself to the London police on a charge of obtaining money on false pretences, has arranged a settlement with the persons who obtained the warrant for his apprehension.

Great discontent has existed for some time amongst the men of the Bacchante, one of the detached squadron. The Admiralty bad the matter under inquiry, and censured Captain Lord Charles Scott and Commander George W. Hill for having exercised unnecessary severity. The "Nineteenth Century" contains a trewendons protest against tbe proposed tunnel between Dover and Calais, and the protest is signed by numbers of peers, generals, pests, and editors.

The United States Senate have passed a motion ordering inquiries to be made into the condition of American snbjocts imprisoned as sußpents in Ireland. At St. Kathrine Docks on the Thames, eleven refrigerating chambers havo bien erected for receiving 8000 carcaßßß from ships which bring consignments of frozen meat. Sir Thomas Brassey, M.P. for Hastings, and one of the Junior Lords of Admiralty,addressed a public meeting at Lambeth last night, at which he foreshadowed the possibility of the extreme Irish members being excluded from Parliament, also the introdnction of sweeping changes in regard to Ireland Lord Donoughmore's motion for a committee of inquiry was voted by a majority of nearly two to one. It was defended by tbe autbor on the ground that the Land Act was not administered on the principlo promised by the Government. The Assistant Commissioners, in reducing rents all round, wore acting as if the landlords had no interests requiring consideration. The members of the Lords committee include the Dukes of Norfolk, Marlborough, Abercorn, the Marquis of Salisbury, Marquis of Waterford, Farls Cairns, Stanhope, Pembroke, and Donoughmore, Conservatives ; and in spite of Lord Granville's announcement of the refusal of the Government to take part in the selection of tbe proceedings of the committee, tbe following Liberal peers are also members: —Duke of Somerset, Lords Dnnraven, Clareodon, Penzance, Braybone, and Carysfort. Unless the peers give way or compromise with the Government, a serious conflict must ensue between the two Houses. The powers of the Select Committee are very extensile, but the Government may obstruct tbeir progress by dec icing to pay tbe witnesses ont of the Treasury, besides a general withholding of the facilities rendering the inquiry as difficult as possible. Mr Gladstone has made one concession regarding the cloture, viz , that the debate can never be Summarily stopped in a House of less than 110 members. The objections of the Opposition to the cloture are principally tho danger of the minority being systematically suppressed and Bilenced by the majority, and danger to the decorum in the Houa.i itself, since no security is afforded against the Speaker hereafter becoming as much as a servant to Government during the Stuart Monarchy. The debate on tho Address lasted nine days, and was followed by a long debite on the report of the address upon Irish affairs. Mr Gladstone, in explaining last week's remarks concerniDg Home Enle, siid he favored decent realisation not only in Ireland but in all parts of the United Kingdom, and that it was for the Irish edvocates of Home Rule to formulate their demands, and show that thay wore not inconsistent with ithe supremacy of Parliament, and not to tsnd to the disintegration of the empire. The Bradlaugh sc9nei terminated by the expulsion of the member for Northampton. Mr Laboucbere moved as his colleague was dis qualified by the vote of the House from taking his seat, that the vacancy he declared. It was rejected by an overwhelming mnjority. Immediately after this Bradlaugh advanced to the table of the *7ouse of Commons, pulled a Testament out of his packet, and administered the oath himself, and then deposited the Testament and copy of the oath, with his signage and affidavit, on the table. He then took his seat below the gangway, bnt withdrew at the order of tho Speaker on havirg accomplished his object of taking the oath and his teat. A heated discussion followed, but en adjournment took place till the following day, when Mr Gladstone, though admitting Bradlaugh's proceedings to be scandalous and the necessity for the House to take notice of them, himself declined to t?ke the initiative, having always held that Bradlaugh had besn wrongfully excluded in the first instance Sir Stafford Northcote moved—" That Bradlaugh be not admitted within the precincts of tho House," which Lord Bandolph Churchill described as a milk and water proposal. Sir S. Northcote then moved Bradlaugh's expulsion, which was carried, and a new writ issued. Tho election of Michael Davitt, for Meath, unopposed, is regarded as evidence of the character rf the Irish disaffection. The election will of course be quashed, as Davitt being a convicted felon is ineligible; bnt in that case tha election of Patrick fc'gan, treasurer of the League, is considered certain.

The Anglo-French commercial treaty negotiations have finally collapsed. The French Minister of Commerce introduced a Bill in the Chamber yesterday with tho cbject of ameliorating the evil consequences arising from the non-conclusion of tho treaty. The Bill provides first that goods of English origin or manufacture be treated on entering France _ai the most favoied nation; next that colonial produce should remain the subject of the general tariff.

The Bpeeeh of General Bkoboloff to the Servian students, at Haris, excited a tremendous sensation on the Continent, following, as it did, on the same General's strongly Panslavist speech at Geok Tepe. At the annviersary celebration, Skooeloff daEonnced Germany as Uussia's_ deadliest enemy, with whom war was inevitable. Skobeloff 's language has been officially disavowed at St. Petersburg, and the General himself is now recalled, but uneasiness has been produced by the utterance. The Moscow "Telegraph" says that his words need f xcita no astonishment, since they express the thoughts of millions of Russians.