ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2717, 23 December 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PEINCE ALBEET VICTOE. AUSTEIA AND EUSSIA. THE CABINET. ME BIGGAE. THE lEISH QUESTION. A NAVAL OFFICEE DISMISSED. SEVERE GALE. THE lEISH POTATO CEOP. AEEEST OF A SOCIALIST. COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. [rEUTKR's TELEGRAMS.] ■Received December 23rd, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, December 22. Intelligence is to hand that a severe storm ha,3 been experienced at St. John's, on the Newfoundland coast. The gale xaged for fully two days, and resulted in thirty-five wrecks and some loss of life. There are now unmistakeable signs of distress in Ireland owing to the failure of the potato crop. Hundreds of the 'poorer classes are already suffering from great destitution, and it is feared that the distress will increase. PAEIS, December 22. Prince Krapotkin, one of the leaders f the socialist movement, has been arrested at Lyons, and is now detained in prison. LONDON, December 21.

[Per Merchants Shipping and Underwriters' Association.]

The barque Asterope, bound from London las put into Plymouth, having suffered damage from a collision with another

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Eeceived December 23rd, 12.30 p.m.

LONDON, December 22, 6 a.m. Prince Albert Victor of Wales will xeside at Oxford University next term.

The Hungarian Press protest that it is -unsafe for Austria to compete with Russia in the way she is doing. The " Daily News" suggests that a fresh allotment of Cabinet portfolios should take place. Mr Biggar, M.P., will probably be prosecuted for his. recent speech about Earl Spencer.

Many of the Irish party are clamoring for the institution of public works to relieve the distress which prevails amongst the laboring population.

Commander T. W. B. Maxwell Heron» commanding H.M.S. Clyde, drill ship of the Royal Naval Eeserve, has been tried by court martial, and dismissed the service on charges of peculation.