LATE CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5952, 24 March 1880, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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The following telegrams appear in the Melbourne pajpenri-W - : • , t [Argus Special] • ... London, March 11. ; Sir Stafford Northcote ; has: delivered; address in ! Which he emphaticallyprboltims' tbe-Mselve of ..,the <; to . jstrengthen and,defend the Colonial Empire, j *,The Marquis of Hartington* has deliveredan address in*;, which ho, traverses the .'entire . Government nobby,! ’ bf ; Beoconsfield hints at, the existence of |a party Who desite to enfeeble the Colonies by a polioy of now more willing te undertake the burtheds of the Emphe it is due- to the guidance if liberal Statesmen. The Ooloniea'nave learnt entire dependence upom Imperial astistah(|e' : for.protection and defence, and this, he contends, is not compatible with their dignity pr freedom. ~ i*, { " 1 I ' > Mr Gladstone, in an address delivered last night, made an embittered indictment against every branch of the. Government policy. I , Government, in the' coming election, expect a majority of 20.0 r 80. * ! ; The rumours of the collapse of the grain ring ate false. ' *■- ■'* > Lady Qharlotte Bacon is dead. . . t < ,*;,. . ; [AgkSpbciau.] ' , - London, March 18.’ Mr Gladstone has made a speech in the House of Cemmbha’in snpport’of a resolution by Professor Eawcett, affirming that it is unjust to throw upon India the expense of the Afghan waav , * ' March 15.* A meeting attended ’by over 20,000 per:sons has..been.v..held .in -Dublin, at. 1 fesdlutiohs were: passed, and speeches were made, denouncing landlords and demanding the. reduction'pf rents. ... , ! s'i. The Perßian Oommiseioh has arrived at Herat,'with the ,vidw 'of laying the basis of a pormahont' cMiipAtion by Persia.;; Thb Cpiiimission baa been , welcomed hy the Afghans^