CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 976, 27 December 1882, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. f REUTER COPYRIGHT.3 (Received Dec. 24, II a.tn.) LONDON, Dec. 22. A prosecution has been instituted against Mr Biggar, M P., in consequence of a speech which he recently made, vilifying Earl Spencer, the Viceroy, of Ireland. There are now unmistakeable signs of distress in Ireland, owing to the failure of the potatoe crops. Hundreds of the poorer classes are already suffering great destitution, and it is feared the distress will increase. (Received Dec. 26, 7.30 p.tn.) Dec. 24. Sir Charles Dilke enters the Cabinet as President of the Local Government Board, to which position he has been appointed, vice Mr Dodson, who has accepted the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, resigned by the Right Honourable John Bright in August last. * It lias transpired that the Governorship of Jamaica has been offered to hut has been declined by Sir Arthur Gordon. The Irish newspaper, United Ireland , has been seized by order of slie Executive, and a prosecution has been issued against the editor for publishing articles of a seditious character. PARIS, Dec 24. The French expedition to Tonquin will, in the first piece, only consist of a detachment of 750 troops, but the force will, it is expected, be increased later, (Received Dec 24, 11 a.m.) ROME, Dec 22. A popular demonstration occurred today in this city, arising out of the recent execution at Trieste of a man named Oberank, 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 anti-Austrian character, and culminated in attacks upon several Austrian residents. Similar disturbances have also occurred at Milan and Trieste, where the anti-Austrian feeling was warmly manifest. BERLIN, Dec. 23. A semi-official statement which appered in the North German Gazette yesterday regarding the pacific Russian policy of Prince Bismarck has had a reassuring effect throughout the comment and has greatly calmed the RussoGerman scare, (Received Dec. 26, 1 a m.) CAIRO, Dec. 24. Two of the Bedouin Arabs who were participators in tbs murder of the late Professor Palmer in October last have been surrendered by the Governor of Arisb, 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. CAPETOWN, Dec. 4. Sir Theo. Shepstoue, who crowned Cetewayo in 1873, has been delegated hy the British Government to perform the approaching ceremony of his reinstatement to the authority which since the Zulu war has been held hy John Dunn, which will be superseded by that of thejkiag as head of the Zulu tribes.