LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2515, 1 May 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(By Tblegeaph.J [Per s.s. Botomahana, at the Bluff.] [Special to the “ Aegtts.”J LONDON, April 17. Reports are current that two members of Shaw's team of professional cricketers during their recent Australian tour conspired with the bookmakers. The statement has prodneed much sensation, and the newspapers demand that a searching enquiry should be held to establish or disprove the allegations. The International Law Agency, which has a branch in Melbourne, and which professes to recover unclaimed money for absent heirs, has collapsed. After victimising numerous persons, the swindlers absconded. The Treasury will prosecute them. Mackenzie, the manager of the Manchester branch of the International Law Agency, has been arrested. Extensive revival outrages against the J=wiah portion of the population has • rcurred in Southern Russia. At Balta town, in the Government of Podolsk, about 115 miles from Odessa, hundreds of Jew* have been severely mutilated, and their houses have been demolished by the mob, Egan, the treasurer of the Irish National Land League, states that the total funds subscribe l on behalf of the league amount to £IBB,OOO, which includes £3BOO received from Australia and £l9 000 from the Irish. A b lance of £60,000 is still available. The “ United Ireland” organ of the Land League, which was seized by the Government on December 15th fer inciting the tenantry to obey the “ no rent” manifesto league, has been re issued, and the editor has been released from gaol. The theatre at Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Sohwerin, Germany, has been burnt to the ground. The audience, which included Prince Frederick Francois, the second Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, experienced a very narrow escape. Some excitement has been occasioned at Windsor by a threat to explode the militarybarracks of that town. The movement in favor of the State granting assistance to families desirous of emigrating to the colonies is increasing. More large meetings of the unemployed have been held in different parts of the kingdom, and they demand Irom Government the required assistance. A disgraceful riot occurrred at Cranbourne, a market town in Dorsetshire, yesterday, A number of the inhabitants, out of hatred to the Irish, first desecrated and then wrecked the Roman Catholic Church at Cranbourne. Ayoub Khan, the late ruler of Herat, accompanied by a small number of adherents, has arrived at Teheran, the capital of Persia, The anti-Irish riots at Cranbourne, a studl town of about 3000 inhabit ant 5 in Dorsetshire, have been .renewed. The police are powerless to control the violence of the mob, and the military have in consequence beeiT summoned to suppress the disturbance. Another colliery explosion of a serious character has taken place at Durham. Fifteen miners were killed. The death is anuoucced of Sir Henry Cole, late director of the South Kensington Museum, aged Yi. An irregular discussion arose in the House of Commons in connection with the conduct of the police in Ireland, and in the course of it, Mr Redmond, the member for New Bose, said Mr Fors'er, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, was dishonest. As he refused to unreservedly withdraw the objectionable expression, he was suspended for the sitting.! Another meeting has been hold to promote the Great International Fisheries Exhibition to ho held in 1883. The Duke of Edinburgh presided, and announced that the Queen would inaugurate the Exhibition. Messrs Parkes, Lowell, and Galt, of Canada, have promised their co operation to the movement. The House of Commons of the Canadian Dominion tus unanimously adopted an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty to allow autonomy in Ireland, and grant an amnesty to all political offenders who have been concerned Jin producing the present disturbed state of the oiuntry. A gang of marauders attacked a house at Listowel, county Kerry, at midnight on Friday last. The police were hurriedly summoned, and a desperate affray ensued, which resulted in two of the gang being wounded and captured. Latris, the Bssis'ant secretary of the Land League, who has been confined for some time as a ‘‘suspect,” has been released from gaol. Sir Thomas Erskine Perry, of Bombay, is dead, aged seventy-six.