LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2641, 7 September 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Special to Melbourne “Argus.”]

London, Aug. 23. Intelligence has been received by the police authorities, from the United States, warning them that Fenian conspirators have been despatched with a cargo of infernal machines to Ireland, The information states that the vessel is expected to go to Limerick, and all mrivals from the States at that.port are being close!} 7 watched. The Financial Secretary for India has submitted his Budget to the Viceroy in Council. It shows a surplus for the year of £855,000. The total expenses of the Afghan war are found to have exceeded £20,000,000. The “ Standard ” in a leading article discusses the settlement of the Reform question in Victoria, and expresses the opinion that the compromise is one, on the whole, creditable to botli parties. The removal of this cause of political strife is believed to be likely to promote the prosperity of the colony. Another eviction riot of a serious character has taken place in Ireland. A large number of peasantry attacked the police and military who were engaged in carrying out evictions at Rathkeale, seventeen miles from Limerick, on the East Bank of the Deel. Some persons were severely injured before the riot was repressed. The Dynamite Convention, which is still sitting in Chicago, hatching its schemes for the employment of infernal machines, is ridiculed by the New York Press as unworthy of consideration. The idea that tiny dangerous action is likely to emanate from such a worthless source is scouted.

Another attempted outrage, which is attributed to Fenian agents, has been discovered in Birmingham. At the railway station of the city, the attention of the authorities was directed to a package forwarded for transmission, and which purported to contain books. There were, however, suspicious circumstances connected therewith, and the package was opened and examined, when it was found to contain a considerable quantity of gunpowder. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police. The Russian Ambassador at Washington, acting under instructions from his Government, has demanded from the Uuited States the extradition of Hartmann, the Russian Nihilist., It is maintained that the offence with which Hartmann is charged is of a criminal character, and that he is not entitled to the protection of political offenders. It has been officially announced that the expenses of the trial of Mr Parnell, the Irish Homo rule leader, and other traversers, held before the Court of Queen’s Bench, Dublin, amounted to £9OOO. The expenses of defendants were defrayed in great part by public subscriptions. A proposal has been made by Mr Gladstone to the the German Government that the island Heligoland, situated in the North Sea, forty miles from the mouth of the Elbe, shall be recognised as neutral territory. The island, which is only about 2r| miles in circumference, is one of the most favored of German watering places. The island has been held by Great Britain since its capture from Denmark in 1827.

Owing to the incessant bad weather which prevailed during the review of Scotch volunteers in Edinburgh, a large number of men who took part in it have been placed on the sick list. The troops were exposed for hours to the rain, and suffered severly from the wetting. The Irish Land League purpose making a presentation of a farm to Michael Davilt, one of its most prominent agitators. Davitt, who was at large on ticket-of-leave, was re-arrested a few months ago on account of seditious utterances, and is now confined in ICilmainham gaol. The result of the general elections in France has been altogether favorable to the Republican candidates, The number of votes recorded was 6,000,000. of these the Republican candidates obtained!),soo,ooo,Bonapartists 500,000, and Legitimists, Orlcanists, and other parties 1,000,000.