LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2562, 7 June 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(From Melbourne Papers). London, May 27. A national memorial to the late Lord Beaconsfield, to take the form of a statute placed in some part of London, has been projected, and a committee formed for the purpose of carrying out the object in view. The number of dukes, marquises, carls, and noblemen generally, whoso names appear on the Committee, is without parallel. May 28. The state of Ireland is growing worse. Several incendiary fires have taken place in Cork, and conflicts have occurred at Leitrim, rioters were so numerous and determined that a force of GOO soldiers were unable to protect the sheriff in the discharge of his duty. Professor Robertson Smith, Professor of Oriental Languages at the Free Church College, Aberdeen, has been expelled for heresy. Another serious difficulty lias arisen in South Africa., A large number of Boers are trekking from the Tranvaal into Zululaud and encroaching on territory assigned to Zulu chiefs under settlement by Sic Garnet Wolscley. The Zulus, through the British Resident, have appealed to the British Government to interfere, and claim British protection. They declare that if the Boers are not forced to retire, they will attack them, and appeal to the British to restore them their arms. A strong agitation has been excited in Poland against landlords, who are accused of behaving with great oppression to the peasantry. A very bitter feeling exists.