LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2534, 23 May 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Bz Telegraph.J [Per s.s. To Anau, at the Bluff.] [" Age ” Specials.] LONDON, May 10. The reward, £IO,OOO, offered by the Government for information leading to the capture and conviction cf the murderers of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke has been increased to no reliable clue having yet been obtained as to the identity of the murderers. The trial of eight persons accused of having contributed by their negligence to the terrible catastrophe at the Bing Theatre is proceeding at Vienna. The case against the ex-mayor of the city has been heard, and ai'ti r lengthened investigation the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. Another cyclone has passed over the United States, which was more destructive in its effects than those which have recently visited the country. A large amount of property was destroyed, and-twenty ptrtoue aro reported as killed. The insurrection which broke out a month ago in the Republic of Hayti, the object of which was to overthrow the Government of General Solomon, has at last b:-en subdued. A number of lives was lost before order oould be thoroughly restored. The death is announced ot Dr. John Brown, the well-known essayist and writer, aged seventy-two. There have been severe storn s r.t Hebrides and on the West Coast of Scotland. A number of vessels yras wrecked.

The police have as yet failed to arrest the assassins of Lord Fred. Cavendish, but from information which has come to ihtir hands they entertain a strong belief that the murderers are still concealed in Dublin. Biots have occurred at Curragh (County Kildare) between English and Irish residents. The disturbances were of a serious nature, and were with difficulty quelled.

The British Government have declined to allow Oetewayo, ex-king of Zululaad, who is now confined in Capetown, to revisit his country. The petition ot the Zulus for his release has therefore been refusea.

A great fire has occuved at Berlin, The hygienic exhibition has been burnt to the ground, the contents being also consumed. The loss is estimated at 2,000,000 florins.

The authorities of Dublin Lava published an official description of the assassins of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke. A reward of £SOO has also been offered for any information that may lead to the apprehension of any persons harboring the assassins. Owing to the action taken by England and Franco in despatching a naval force to Alexandria, the Turkish Government has decided to make preparations for any emergency that may arise. The ironclads of the Turkish navy are accordingly being rapidly prepared for sea. The Turkish transport which was engaged conveying troops went aground in the Bosphorus. Forty men were drowned.

It is announced that the price of the “Times’’ newspaper, which hrs hitherto been published at threepence, will shortly bo reduced to a penny,