LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2558, 20 June 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Br Tblhqraih.] [Per Siß. Botorua, at the Bluff.]

CAsb” Spboiam.] ' LONDON, June 7. Cote way o is greatly disconcerted by the decision of the British Government not to permit him to return to his own country. His dejection is extreme, and ho has ceased to express any pleasure in the idea of hie projected visit to England. The number of agrarian outrages committed in Ireland during the month of May was not so large as ha* been the case in the previous month*. The number returned as having been committed last month, however, reaches the large total of 390. Violent tempests have been experienced in Switzerland. A succession of storms swept over Lake Lucerne, doing considerable damage to shipping and property. The police of Paris have for some time past been dissatisfied with their pay and position generally. No concessions having been made, they have formed an union, and aro determined to take a decisive stand. In pursuance of resolutions errived at, they have given notice of their intention to quit the force unless their demands are complied with. If this action has no effect, they will at once go out on strike.

A great firo has taken place in Lavour, Prance. Some naptha became ignited. A largo amount of property was gutted before the flames could be extinguished. The recent explosion on board H.M S. SwiCtsure at Madeira lias formed the subject of official inquiry. The effect of the evidence produced is to show that grossest carelessness prevailed, and that bat for the negligence of those in charge the aooident would not have occurred.

According to the reports which have come to hand from different agricultural districts in France, the harvest has been an exceptionally good one. The gross yield is considerably in excess of the most favorable seasons of late years. The strike amongst the ironworkers in iho United States has come to an end. A compromise has been effected with the men, who have returned to work.

County Fife, Scotland, has just been visited with a severe snowstorm, which has seriously damaged the crops throughout the district. The event has occasioned great astonishment, as snow at this time of year is quite unprecedented.

The P.oman Catholic Bishops of Ireland have issued a joint pastoral, denouncing the recent agrarian outrages and Crimea committed in Ireland, and also animadverting in the strongest terms on the wholes ile evictions which have been carried out in various parts parts of the country.

[Per s.s. Zoalandia, at Auckland.] LONDON, June 13.

Shaw and Selby addressed a letter to the committee of the Marylebone Cricket Olub, emphatically denying the truth of the scandalous proceedings imputed to Shaw’s team of cricketers while in Australia.

Hanlan is recovering from a serious attack of fever. The division at the House of Lords on the Bill introduced into that Chamber for legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s sister was 132 to 128. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Cambridge, and the members of the Government in the Upper Chamber, with the exception of Lord Solborne, voted with the minority. The majority numbered seventeen prelates. The death is announced of Vice-Admiral Robert Hall, C. 8., Naval Secretary of the Admiralty. Dervish Pasha and Arabi Pasha conjointly guaranteed security to the European residents, the political question being reserved.