ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2718, 26 December 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

[reuter’s telegrams.] Received December 24th, 11 a.m. LONDON, December 22.

A prosecution has been instituted against Mr Biggar, M.P., in consequence of a speech which he recently made vilifying Earl Spencer, Viceroy of Ireland.

ROME, December 22.

A popular demonstration occurred today in this city arising out of the recent execution at Trieste of a man named Oberdawk, who was arrested in September last with Orsini bombs in his possession, and was found to be implicated in a plot (said to be of Italian origin) against the life of the Emperor of Austria. The demonstration was of a strong antiAustrian character, and culminated in attacks upon several Austrian residents. Similar disturbances have also occurred at Milan and Trieste, where an anti-Austrian feeling was warmly manifested. Received December 26th, 1 a.m. CAIRO, December 23.

Two of the Bedouin Arabs who were participators in the murder of the late Professor Palmer in October last have been surrendered by the Governor of El Arish, and it is expected that all who were concerned in the murder of Professor Palmer and the British officers, Messrs Gill and Charrington, his companions, will be captured within a fortnight. BERLIN, December 22.

The " North German Gazette ” publishes an article to-day in which it is affirmed that Prince Bismarck is the staunchest advocate of friendship between Germany and Russia, and is in no way desirous of disturbing the relations be" tween the two empires. BERLIN, December 23.

The semi - official statement which appeared in the “North German Gazette” yesterday regarding the pacific Russian policy of Prince Bismarck has had a reassuring effect throughout the continent, and has greatly calmed the Russo-German CAPETOWN, December 23. Sir Theophilus Shepstone, who crowned Cetewayo in 1873, has been delegated by the British Government to perform the approaching ceremony of his reinstatement. The authority which since the Zulu war has been held by John Dunn will be superseded by that of King Ashead, of the Zulu tribes. [special to press association.] Received December 23rd, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, December 22, 6 a.m. Received December 23rd, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, December 22, 7.22 p.m. An International Exhibition will be held at Calcutta next year. Mexico is seeking to attract Irish immigration. Received December 25th, 0.35 a.m. December 23, 3.25 p.m. The Lonsdale, on her trial trips, did thirteen knots an hour in rough weather. Lord Derby, as Secretary of State for the for the Colonies, has resolved to receive Agents-General on the same footing as Ambassadors.

M. Duclerc has declined to formulate the French demands in respect to Egypt. Received December 25th, 5.26 p.m. LONDON, December 24th, 7.5 a.m. The “ Pall Mall Gazette” urges that the Pacific labor recruiting should be altogether suppressed, or else regulated as to the severity of coolie emigration. The Postmaster-General, Mr Fawcett, has now completely recovered. The plant of the “ United Ireland” has again been seized, and O’Brien, the editor, will probably be prosecuted. At the trial trip of the Paramatta, on the Clyde, an average of 151 knots was obtained. Public feeling at the Cape favors the total abandonment of Basutoland. Forty-five Socialists at Prague and eleven at Montceau have been sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.