LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2516, 2 May 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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F“ Aqb ” Specials.] LONDON, April 18, A petition has been received by the Colonial Office from the white residents of Fiji, praying that they may be allowed self-govern-ment and parliamentary institutions instead of the present system of government, which is that of a Crown colony. Mr Bradlaugh has commenced an agitation for the right of members of Parliament who object to taking the oath to make an affirmation. He will address meetings on the question throughout the country. The statement that Mr Lowell, United States Minister, has demanded that the American “ suspects ” shall either be immediately brought to trial or at once released is contradicted. Mr Lowell has made no demand respecting them. Another agrarian murder has been committed in Ireland, A bailiff in County Carlow was shot while in the discharge of his duties.

Tho German Government is vigorously carrying out its policy of putting down opposition to its measures. The comic papers of Berlin have been suppressed for holding up the Government to public ridicule, The City of Moscow has been the scene of further outrages on the Jewish inhabitants, and no less than 5000 have been expelled the city. Owing to the widespread dissatisfaction that has been expressed at the administration in Ireland, the Cabinet has had the question under its serious consideration lately. It is now announced that important departmental changes will be made. Reports have been received from the United States of the devastation caused by a cyclone. The town of Brownsville was completely destroyed, and a wide extent of country laid waste.

General Ignatieff, Minister of Interior, and the leading advocate of the Panslavist policy, who has for some time been one of the chief advisers of the Czar, has been dismissed from office. His dismissal has caused great sensation in Russia,

The Sultan of Turkey has appointed a commission of inquiry into the best means of cflsoting such reforms in the administration of the Turkish Empire as aro required for its safety and good government. The question of the imprisonment by the British of American citizens (Irish “ suspects") has been much discussed in the New York press. They strongly condemn the British Government and urgently demand the release of the suspects. Great opposition is being shown in various parts of the United States to any further Irish immigration. The inhabitants of Millwaukee, the largest town in Wisconsin, have protested strongly against such immigration, on the ground that it introduces a very undesirable class of citizens into the States. Mr Gladstone, referring in the House of Commons to the question of the renewal of negotiations for an Anglo-French commercial treaty, expressed himself as not in favor of such a step, as in the present state of the question he thought it would lead to no satisfactory result.

The death of Charles Darwin, the eminent naturalist, has called forth innumerable panegyrics in tho foreign press. The German papers are particularly eulogistic in pronouncing Darwin to have been the foremost scientist of the age. A fund has been started in Berlin with the object of promoting emigration to America of the Jews who have fled from the persecution in Russia; 100,000 marks (£5000) have already been subscribed.

_ In spite of the efforts to suppress them, the riota among the colliers on strike in Wreckham, County Denbigh, North Wales, have broken out afresh. The miners are behaving meet violently, and tho military will again be called upon to stop the disturbances.