LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2557, 19 June 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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(Per s.s. Botorua. at the Bluff.] LONDON, Juno 9. There has been much discussion in the papers upon the frczjn meat trade and the probabilities of i'a successful and profitable establishment. Complaints are made that Australian meat is sold by tho butchers as English. A shocking outrajo in Ireland ia reported. Three farmers were fired upon, one wns killed 1 »nd the other two were shot in the legs and seriously i-.jured. The object of the mission of Michael Davitt to the United StMes is to reanimato the spirits of the Land Leoguers there, and to stimulate the contribution of funds to the League, which have been failing-. A change has Veen made in the Russian Couucil of Ministers. Count Ignaticff, Minister of the Interior, has resigned and bus been rucceeded by Count Tolstoi, Min-'ster of Public Instruction. The death is announced of Vice Admiral Hu.ll, aged 65.

A largo body of the native population, who hnd boeu roused to a high pitch of excitement D 7 the i-xhorta'ions ot Mohammedan fanatics, made a murderous attack yesterday upon the European residents in Alexandria. Several persons were killed and wounded. Mr Oookson, the British Consul, was shot at and severrly injured. One oE the engineers of the Superb, who was walking quietly in trhe street, was attacked by the nub and killed. The rioting lasted for five hours, the police remaining supine. Tl:e military were a v i Ust called upon to euppreas the disturbance, and they succeeded ultimately in restoring order. The wounded reoeived shelter at the French Consulate. During the outbreak a number of shops were plundered

by the risers. The Greek and Italian Consuls were wounded, and the European ladies and children were sent for safety on board the ironolads stationed in the harbor. The number of lives lost during the outbreak is estimated at forty. Immediately on hearing of the outbreak, Dervish Pasha, the Turkish Commissioner, left Cairo, and proceeded with all possible speed to Alexandria.