LATE CABLE NEWS.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5081, 20 December 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

£BT TBXBGBAPH.J [Per a.s. Albion, at the Bluff.] LONDON, Deoember 10. The British Government has decided to re-open with the Gambetta Ministry the negotiations for a commercial treaty that fell through owing to inability to come to any agreement with the late Frenoh Ministry. Sir 0. Dilke, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, leaves for Paris on Monday morning, and will have a personal interview with Gambetta. Count Katnoky, the Austrian Premier, after a careful consideration of the points in dispute between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Boumania, relative to the control over the navigation of the Danube, baa communicated his views to Prince Bismarck, the German Chancellor. The result is that they have agreed upon a joint plan of aetionf towards Boumania, and have forwarded their demanda to the Government at Bucharest. The treaty of oommerce whioh was recently agreed upon between the Governments of France and Italy has been formally completed, the treaty having been ratified by the two Powers. The United States Government has decided, in accordance with the generally expressed wish of the nation, to confer upon the widow of the late President Garfield some special token of its high appreciation of the oharaoter and services of her late husband and sympathy for her under her great bereavment. It has, therefore, been announced that Mrs Garfield shall have the privilege of Bending letters throughout the States Union free of postage. The Anti-Jewish agitation whioh has for some time paat been prevalent in parte of Germany and Russia is gaining ground, and is rapidly spreading through every portion of the two Empires. It also seems likely that the Anti-Jewish feeling will not be confined to these, but will extend to adjoining countries. An explosion occurred at a coal mine at Barnsley, a town in the West Biding of Yorkshire, about nine miles from Sheffield. The consequences were most disastrous, no less than sixty miners being killed. The storms which have been recently raging over the Atlantic have been especially destructive along the coast of Newfoundland, and numerous shipwreoks are reported. December 22. The terrible catastrophe at Vienna caused by the burning of the Beng Theatre is absorbing publio attention. It is averred that the investigation into the disaster has shown that the police, through some bungling, locked the doors of the burning building before it waa more than half empty, and that the extraordinary number of deaths ia attributable to the means of egress being thus out off. There is great excitement over the matter and a full inquiry is promised. A destructive fire, involving loss of life, haa occurred at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The Workman's Home, an institution devoted to the use of the working classes, caught fire, and_ the building was consumed with such rapidity that many inmates were unable to make weir escape, It has been ascertained that ten persons perished in the flames. It is announced that Sir A. Gordon, Governor of New Zealand and High Commissioner of the Pacific, will shortly be relieved from the general auperviaion over the colony of Fiji which he haa exercised. The question of taxation in India has been under the consideration of the Ticeroy and his Council for aome time. It ia now announced on good authority that a determination haa been come to to impose an income tax, a proposal whioh hitherto has met with serious objection as being one unsuited to the habits of the people. It is probable that the cotton duties will be abolished. In Santander, a province in Old Castile, Spain, an angry feud has existed between some newspapers published in the district and the priest*. Several bitter attacks on the clergy have been published in the papers, in which their general oharaoter was impugned. The clergy have retaliated by solemnly excommunicating the editors .of three offending journal*. Thia action caused a great sensation throughout Spain, and the subject ia being taken up widely by the public journals. I In consequenoe of the continuance of out- | rages in various parts of Ireland, and the difficulty experienced in securing the detection ! and conviction of the offenders, the Irish Executive have under consideration a proposal to vest military officers in command of disturbed localitiea with magisterial powers. It ia believed that steps will be (taken shortly in order to provide for the security and protection of well-disposed people in those districts. Negotiations have been opened by the German Government with Earl Granville to arrange for the transfer to Germany of a small island, Heligoland, in the North Sea, situated about forty-six mites N.W. from the mouth of the Elbe and Weser. The island, which has been in tbe occupation of Great Britain since 1814, does not exceed an area of >

five and a quarter square milee, and i, „<• no practical importance. °* A decidedly anti-Irieh feeltn* is im«.4in Englandin consequence ssrK&f midation *•*»»*«££?. A terrible explosion has occurred in a eea i mine belonging to OookeriU acd Co Serais Belgium. Sixty-six miners were killed. i A t l ■««*«* occurred to-dw !oa the North London railway line T>,s trains came into collision at Canouhr £?y n inj a ufed? Ten pa " engere * ere MM Two soldiers named Woodend and Honb cote have been »entenoed to death J»T Dublin Orimin.l Court for the Wrd r J bandsman Curregb, 0I At a grand concert rroently given af ■R.-i: Madame Elmorlud (»« *£& Melbourne), performed several selenicni , Z the pianoforte. The correipowlent of ivl "Times" speaks of the skill she di,pla,sd £ highly creditable to the muiicai talent 7? Australia. v