LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2899, 11 July 1882, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph. J (Per s.s. Rotomatana at the Bluff.) [Special to Melbourne “ Age”] London, June 28. The trial of the assassins of Commander Selby, of H.M.S. Falcon, who died from the effect of wounds inflicted by a party of Albanian shepherds on 13th of February last, has just been concluded at Constantinople. Commander Selby’s principal assailant was found guilty, and sentenced to 16 years imprisonment with hard labor. Fifteen other Albanians, who were convicted of being abettors in the attack, were each sentenced to one year’s penal servitude.

Serious fears are entertained by the Irish authorities that a widespread Fenian rising is imminent. The Orangemen of Armagh are actively organising to defeat the project, and should an insurrection break out, will be prepared to render armed assistance in quelling it. The ringleaders of, the recent savage attack made by some Russian peasants upon the Jewish residents of Balta, a town in Southern Russia, have been placed upon their trial. The riots commenced on April 11, and' lasted several days. An immense quantify of property was destroyed. Two Jews were killed, and several severely injured. Numerous arrests were made by the authorities, and the chief actors in these riots have been severely punished. . A fatal railway accident is reported from America. A train at Long Branch, a watering place on the coast of New Jersey, the State where General Grant resides, ran off the line into the water. Five persons were killed, but General Grant, who was a passenger by the train, escaped injury. Two Maori Chiefs, delegated by the Natives of New Zealand to present a petition to Her Majesty, pointing out the injustice done the Maori race by the dealing of successive governments with the lands of the colony, have arrived in London.

Great excitement prevailed in the metropolis to-day about the state of affairs in Ireland. A number of'wild rumors were current indicating that some fresh outrages of a horrible nature had been perpetrated. Several high State officials were reported to have been assassinated. Earl ■ Clanricarde was also said to be one of the victims. These rumors gained ready credence, after the late horrible murders in Phoenix Park. When reliable information was received, it was, ascertained that no fresh onset , had been made by the assassins upon State representatives, but the details of several murders came to hand. July 2. Sir Henry ’Parkes was publicly entertained prior to his departure from Plymouth to Australia on Saturday. In response tp the toast of his healthj he referred to the position of England with respect to her Colonial Empire, concluding his remarks by hinting that the separation of the Australian colonies from Great Britain was a possible contingency. It has been definitely arranged that the long deterred visit of Getewayo to England shall now take place, and he is expected to land at Plymouth in the course of about a month.

The Government of Japan, dreading the propagation of ideas subversive of the existing order of things in that country, have issued an edict prohibiting the delivery of lectures, dealing with political topics. Arabi Pasha is in possession of plans which were concocted some time ago by the Russian Government with a view to blocking the Suez Canal in case of, war breaking out between Russia and England.. It is his intention, in case England should forcibly interfere in Egypt, to avail himself of the Russian scheme, and in the meantime he is actively fortifying Alexandria, and preparing for a desperate defence by proposing to levy en masse all the male population of Egypt. The Spanish Government are strongly in favor of the British occupation of Egypt. They do hot consider it desirable for other powers to interfere.