LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2251, 20 June 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telbqbaph.] [abqtjs spbcixab.J [Per s.s. Albion, at the Bluff.] LONDON, June 6. A plot has been discovered at St. Petersburg to assassinate the new Emperor of Russia. Twenty Nihilists were caught as they were concluding their plans. The assassins intended to use firearms. June 8. A mine has been discovered at Gatschine railway station. It was to be fired by moans of a battery which was connected with the telegraph office. All the clerks of the office have been arrested. An infernal machine, charged with dynamite, has been found in the Czar’s church. There is increasing terror in Russia, owing to the activity of the Nihilists, and even the army is suspected. It has been considered advisable, under the circumstances, to postpone the coronation of the Emperor. England and Russia have agreed not to interfere in the event of war breaking out in Afghanistan. M. Julien de Court has been appointed French Consul for Sydney. Shares in the Glasgow and India Gold Mine, Wynaad, Madras Presidency, have, in consequence of the successful results obtained, advanced to £2l. Many Land League meetings in different parts of Ireland have been prohibited. Juno 10. An attempt has been made to blow up the Liverpool Town Hall by means of dynamite. Some windows in the building were destroyed by the force of the explosion. Two men, armed with revolvers, have been arrested. The outrage is attributed to Fenians, and the men in custody belong to the Fenian organisation. The men arrested for attempting to blow up the Liverpool Town Hall have been brought before the Police Court and remanded. Of the provisions placed on board the Orient steamer Lusitania, from Melbourne, the milk perished, but the meat arrived in fair condition. The game and fruit were landed in splendid condition. The rioters who were engaged in stoning the police at Cork have been brought before the magistrate and summarily convicted. A great comet is reported to have been seen at Kimberley, Transvaal, South Africa. June 11. Another shock of earthquake has been experienced in the Island of Chios, near the coast of Asia Minor, where a calamatous earthquake took place on the 10th of April last. An extensive fire has occurred at St.John’s, a largo and important suburb of Quebec, by which 1200 houses were destroyed, and thousands of persons rendered homeless. The loss is estimated at £2,000,000. June 13. A dating attempt has been made to rescue the prisoners MrQrath and Kevett, the Fenians who are confined in Liverpool Gaol charged with attempting to blow up the Liverpool Town Hall with dynamite. The warders hod previously received on alarm, and when the mob assembled in front of the prison they made their appearance armed. The would-be rescuers, numbering about 300, finding that preparations had been made to resist an attack, retreated. The military have been called upon to guard the prison.