CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BY XLKCTBIO TKLHQKAPH — COPYRIGHT. THE CONDITION OF EUROPE. [bxutbb'b tklkoeuu.] London, 22nd October. Per Merchant Shippingand Underwriters' Association : — Arrived at Plymouth to-day, P. and 0. steamship Australia, from Melbourne (28th August). New York, 22nd October: — Arrived, ship Rebecca Crowell, from Auckland (9th July). 26th October. The Homeward mails, via Suez and Brindiai, from Melbourne 11th September, were delivered here to-day. Vienna, 26th October. At the meeting of the Austro-Hungarian Delegation to-day, Count Kalnoky, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the course of a speech, took occasion to emphasise the cordiality existing between Austria, Germany, and Italy, and added that the relations with Russia were in their normal tone, the Eussian Press being the sole element of disquiet. IMPEACHMENT OP THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. THE ANNEXATION QUESTION. NEUTRALITY OF CABLES. [special to united pebss association.] London, 26th October. Three Buonapartist Deputies in the French Chambers have given notice of their intention to formally impeach the present Government, but the grounds on which this is to be done are not assigned. 26th October. General M'lvor persists in his New Guinea project, and it is stated that the expedition will sail before Christmas. The Lusitania will sail from Plymouth, on 11th December, a full ship. Two names have been submitted to Mr. Service to select a Chairman of the Railway Board from. A feeling is growing in official circles in favour of a modified annexation of New Guinea, and the establishment of a British protectorate over the Pacific Islands sufficient to prevent an increase of foreign influence over them. A conference of the Agents-General is to be held shortly for the purpose of reporting to the Australasian Conference in Sydney on the latest phases of the Pacific annexation question. The King of the Belgians, speaking at Bounard, said he hoped soon to see permanent business relations established between Antwerp and Sydney, especially in regard to Australian wool. 27th October. A company is projected with a capital of a quarter of a million, to purchase and stock the Carandotta property in Queensland. Mr. Graves, at present Consul in Samoa, succeeds Mr. Annesley in Madagascar. Prince Bismarck has been severely critioised in Berlin for neglecting to acquire New Guinea for the Empire. The Spectator considers it now to be impossible for England to allow irregular expeditions such as General M'lvor s to adventure in New Guinea. The Paris Conference has reserved the question, of the protection of submarine telegraph cables as neutral in time of war, for further parleying between the Powers.