Late Cable News.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1009, 17 July 1883, Page 2

Late Cable News.

(AGE SPECIALS.) London July 4. It has been determined that the remains of the Late Professor Spottiswoode, whose death was recently reported, shall be interred in Westminster Abbey. The bishops of the Roman Catholic churches have drawn up a protest against the proposals that the State should assist members of the poorest classes to emigrate from Ireland. They contend that the State money might be better employed in rendering the Irish people’s burdens lighter in the country of their birth. Le Pays, a journal published in Paris, urges that in view of the rerefusal by the English Government to adopt a policy of annexation in the South Seas, France should at once place the New Herbrides under French rule.; It suggests the island might be utilised as a convict settlement for the reception of French criminals. Disastrous floods have occurred in the river Hanoi, Tonquin. A large portion of the fortifications erected by France was completely distroyed, and hostilities have for a time been suspended, as the swollen state of the rivers prevents the French from following up ~ Anamese, who retired inland, after the recent engagement. The French Consul at Hue, the capital of " the Anamese Empire, has been subjected to great indignity by the authorities there.