Cablegrams.

Clutha Leader, Volume IX, Issue 494, 30 March 1883, Page 6

Cablegrams.

Naples, March 20. Telegrams have been received from Messina announcing that Mount Etna is now in a very violent state of eruption, and that as a result severe shocks of earthquake have been experienced over the island of Sicily. London, March 21. A somewhat powerful movement against the employment of Irishmen is being organised in Liverpool, and it is expected that it will extend to other towns. The death is announced to-day of the Right Hon. Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls. The February-March series of Colonial wool auctions closed to-day. The total quantity disposed of was 270,000 bales, and 23,000 have been held over for next auctions. Crossbreds have closed at about Id higher, and greasy wool at jrd to Id lower than the prices ruling at the end of the November-December sales. News is to hand from South America that hostilities have been resumed between Chile and Bolivia, and that large forces of Chileans are now marching on Lapez, a large town in the latter country. Paris, March 21. De Brazza has organised a large party, and has started on another expedition to Congo, in Central Africa. London, March 22. The frozen lambs per Chimborazo realised 9d- per lb. Mr W. H. H. Standbyn, M.P., has received an anonymous letter warning him that the " Invincibles " intend to blow up the House of Commons with dynamite after the Easter recess. A customs war is being carried on between Spain and Germany. The Emperor of Austria has announced his intention of paying an early- visit to the King of Italy. A clue has been obtained to the perpetrator of the attempt to blow up the local-government" offices at Whitehall. Her Majesty the Queen has been confined to her room at Windsor Castle, owing to the effects of the recent fall down a staircase. The injury was originally only trivial, but her Majesty's knee has since become badly swollen, and complete rest is necessary. At the last wool sales 165,000 bales were taken for export, of which 7000 were for America. Scoured merinos show an advance of from £d to Id ; greasy merinos an equal decline compared with the close of the December auctions. Superfine weols are inferior in condition to those previously offered, and in consequence the demand is dull. Lambs' and washed [ crossbreds are -|d higher. Cape Town, March 22. Intelligence is to hand from Zembuland, in Transkei, that the Boers have refused the demand of the British authorities that they should forthwith quit the territory. The Boers are understood to be now arming (? massing), and an outbreak of hostilities is feared. Paris, March 22. The anarchists who were recently arrested here on account of disturbances at the Place' des Invalides have been released from custody. London, March 23. The Rev. Wm. Bright, D.D., in his rectorial address in Glasgow, said that Australia was rapidly increasing her population and wealth. Mr Stephen Gladstone implies that his father will shortly retire, and the Daily News urges that he should receive a peerage, also retaining the leadership. •Six men who were arrested at Belfast, charged with conspiracy to murder Irish landlords, have been tried and found guilty, but sentence has not yet been pronounced by the Court. The Queen is improving in health, the swelling •in her knee having greatly lessened. The Right Hon. John Bright,- in- his rectorial- address to the Glasgow University; remarked that the Australian Colonies were increasing in population and wealth with such astonishing rapidity that in all probability a desire to secede from the Empire might grow up amongst them'; and it would^ he- thought, require great wisdom and moderation on the part of the Imperial Government to preserve the connection. Washington, March 23. It is reported that the Hon. R. ; S. Sackville West,- ' British Minister, has drawn the attention of the United States Government to the nature of the language employed by American Fenians, who urge the use of dynamite in order to obtain redress of their alleged grievances, and has informed the American Ministry that the use of such language by American subjects will, if -unchecked, tend to impair the relations between the United States and Great Britain. A report is current here that a person alleged to be the leader of the Dublin inner circle of assassins, • and known as " Number One," has escaped to Mexico, and is beyond pursuit. London^ March 24; Great alarm is being felt in the-neigh-bourhood of Chatham through the belief that the Fenians have projected an attack by means of dynamite upon the dockyard and arsenal, and great vigilance is being shown by the military authorities to guard against an expected attack. The death is announced of the Hon. Arthur Macalister, 0.M.G., late Agentgeneral for Queensland in London. The Right Hon. Anthony Mundella, vice-president of the Council of Education, is indisposed. Six members of an" Irish society known as the Patriotic Brothers have been c6tvicted of agrarian offences. The record of the trial shows' that the Land League authorities requested the Society to kill a landlord. Sherriff and several agrarian Fenians are implicated in the disclosures made. Vast eruptions of Mount Etna 1 are ex-' pected" by scientific men: ' The Daily News' states'tha't' the Peniri-' sular and Oriental Company intend to abalndon the route via Brindisi, and to return to that via Marseilles. March 25. '. A number of' French soldiers have' been arrested on a" charger of being" concerned in' a conspiracy to destroy the arsenal" at Beregerac. The* Porte has complained that 'Bulgaria, is arming". It is believed* tha*t the Fenians* propose' to" destroy 'chairing' baSins' at Chjvt- H

ham Dockyard'; however',' 'the' authorities have taken every precaution to guard against the proposed attack. At the Easter service at St. Paul's on Sunday a man leaped on to the altar and overthrew the cross, flowers, and candles. He was at once arrested. March 2<x I In consequence of the fears entertained of Fenian outrages,' 2ooo men from the various infantry regiments have been told i off as guards for the different public build- ' inga in London, and strong detachments I of the Ooldstream Guards from the Chelsea barracks are protecting the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. Intelligence is to hand that a series of avalanches have occurred at Mount. Ararat, in Armenia. A number of villages have been completely destroyed, and hundreds of people have been killed. It is believed in Trebizonde that Russia will occupy Armenia in the spring. An eruption of Mount Hecla has occurred. The Khedive' proposes that Prince Hassan shall command the " army in the Soudan. c * - The following cables have appeared in the Melbourne Argus : — i;k:' > London, March 9. Further-i revelations which have been made in connection with the Phoenix Park murders, will, it is expected, lead to the implication of one of the Home Rule members of Parliament. A strike has occurred among the journeyman bakers in Cork. • They demand a number of concessions from their employers. The 'latter refuse to yield, and the' strike is rapidly assuming formidable proportiond. The Scotch residents in London are still agitating for a reform of the land laws, and especially those relating to the Highlands of Scotland. An influential deputation waited to-day upon the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and urged upon him the necessity of Parliament taking action in the matter. The arrangements for the reception of exhibits at the Amsterdam Exhibition have- proceeded somewhat slowly up' to the present time, 'but strenuous efforts are now beiug made to have everything completed in time for the formal opening. The death is announced of Baron Sherborne, of Northbsach, Gloucestershire, in his 79 th year. March Ik During the progress of a meeting in Paris' last night, a large quantity of explosive material, which had been secreted in the hailj was discovered. The circumstances surrounding the affair lead to the belief that it was the result of a carefully arranged plot. It is supposed to be the work of the Socialists. March 13. It is now stated that Patrick E»an, the treasurer of the Irish Land League, deposited the accounts of the League with Mr Parnell, prior to his departure from England. The Government is expected to shortly propose several important changes in the Irish Land Act. These changes will take the form- of further extensions in favour of the tenants. "■ March 14. An accident occurred to-day on board H.M.S. • Defence, by which 20 seamen were seriously injured. March 15: Russia has submitted a proposal to the Powers to the effect that they should unite in arranging a scheme for the 8up T pressionof secret societies^ ! March 18. The ship Teutonia has run aground in the Suez Canal. Every effort is being made to get her oflV but so far without success, and in the meantime she completely blocks the canal and renders navigation impossible. A slight shock- of earthquake was expe- 1 rienced at Amsterdam to-day.