LATEST NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1125, 14 December 1883, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

OME AND FOREIGN.

Tlie National Land League.

Federation.

'He Soudan Rebellion.

Calcutta Exhibition

A Steamer on Fire

onr of the Australian Cricketers.

—COI’VRIGHT.J

LONDON, Dec. 12. A meeting of members of the Irish itional League took place in Dublin sterday, when Mr Parnell received the bnte of the various branches of the :agno, Ip the amount of £38,000. In e course of his address to the meeting, r Parnell made a bitter and vehement tack upon Earl Spencer, Ticeroy, and r Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ire ad. Mr Parnell, however, expressed II confidence in the ultimate success of e caqs^.. At a meeting at the Colonial Institute st evening, the Marquis of Lome, furring to the'question of Federation, iggested that n .council of colonial ivoys should assemble in London to senss preliminary measures, which onld be adopted with the view of tablishing a Federation Empire.

The election to the vacancy in reprentntive of Ipswich in the Honse of ommons resulted to-day in the return of [r West, his opponent Mr Charley, •ing defeated by a large majority. The steamship Kent, outward bound oin London to Melbourne, was found, i arrival at Port Said, to be on fire in ic hold. The fire was extinguished >on after it had been discovered. Some ight damage wag done to the cargo. A programme of thirty matches has een arranged for the Australian Eleven, t includes matches with Oxford and Jambridge Universities; two with the Jentlemen of England; two with the forth of England ; three with All Eng»nd, at Manchester, Lords, and the )val respectively ; two with the Players >{ England; one with the South of England; and thirteen against county devens. The county clnbs of England lave unanimously requested the Marylebone Committee to instruct umpires in all county matches to strictly enforce law 10, which forbids throwing or jerking bowling. Dec 18. A meeting of persons interested in the late International Exhibition was held at Canon street Hotel last night. Mach dissatisfaction was expressed at he award* of International juries, and it ras reiolved that a deputation should 'ail upon Government to protest against ie same.

CAIRO, Dec 12. The Arab Hillmen are mustering in le neighbourhood of Souakim,.and it is cpected that they will make a night ,tack upon the garrison and town. Her [ojesty’s gun vessel Raglan, now ernisg off the coast, is attacking the rebels ith rocket fire, with a view of preventig their approach against the town. Latest despatches to hand from oodan/state that the Egyptian Garrims at Duem and Shat '{sic) are being lassed at Khartonra in view of an ttack which is expected to be made pon the , town by the Arab rebels. It i also stated that El Mahdi is sending force of 10,000 men into the Daffour istrict.

Baker Pasha is now engaged orgaising the Egyptian array against the ioadan rebels. His force will be comosed of Egyptian gendarmes, negro roops, and a contingent of Arabs. CALCUTTA, Dec 12. The Tarions courts at the Inlernaional Exhibition are now nearly comleted. The Exhibition is a great access. Fnlly 90,000 persons have Iready been admitted, and the number >f visitors is increasing daily.