LATE CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 1389, 14 June 1883, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

Lichung Chang, , the Chinese commanler on the Hanoi Frontier, hgs declared, that the Chinese rights in Assam will be upheld by military force. It is reported that Hanoi has been captured. Messrs Davilt, Healy, and Quinn, who were imprisoned for six months in Kilmainham in February last, for refusing to find sureties for their good behaviour, as directed by the Court of Queen’s Bench, have been released. In the House of Commons Lord E. Fitzmaurice, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated, in reply to a question, that H.M. ships Dragon and Dryad had been instructed to protect British interests in Madagascar. Mr Errington, editor of the Tralee Sentinel, and brother to Mr Errington, M.P., lias been sentenced to Bix months’ imprisonment for printing notices for the Invincible Society. The Moscow Telegraph has been suppressed in consequence of its advocacy of Liberal views. It is reported that the Dublin police are conducting an inquiry into some cases in which the Invincible Society have ibeen endeavoring to poison persons obnoxious to them. Tynan, the alleged “ Number One,” is said to be implicated in these attempts. The smallest of the two gunboats ordered by the Government of Victoria was launched at Elstanwick in the presence ofiColonel Scratchley, R.A.; Mr T, Archer, Agent-General for Queensland ;Mr Cashel Hoey, and a large number of other visitors. Lady Armstrong performed the christening ceremony, naming the boat the Melbourne.

A train conveying the Australian passengers from London per Potosi left the rails, and all the passengers were badly shaken. The German Press reproach Prince Bismarck with having absolutely surrendered himself to the influence of the Vatican.

The Catholic Hierarchy in America are urging their flock to disavow all connection with the Irish Land League. The cargo of frozen meat by the steamship Garonne, from Melbourne, has arrived in excellent condition.

Sir George Bowyer, the well-known jurist and author, aged 72, is dead. The British Shipowners’ Committee have d«cided to persist in carrying out the formation of a second Suez Canal by a British Company, despite the promises which have been made by Baron de Lesseps and the Canal Company. A grain elevator at Milwaukee burst, and seveu persons were killed. In the House of Commons the Premier was questioned regarding the negotiations which it is alleged have been entrusted to Mr Errington, M.P. for Longford, at the Papal Court." In reply Mr Gladstone admitted that in the interests of peace the Government had availed themselves of Mr Errington’B visit to Rome to lay before the Pope an explanation of the situation in Ireland.

News has been received reporting that the Albanians are offering determined opposition to the cession of Montenegro. Several stubborn encounters have taken place with the Turkish troi ps who have been dispatched against them. The trial of Daoud Pasha, the instigator of the burning of Alexandria after the evacuation of Arabi’s troops in July last, wbb concluded on Thursday. Prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death, and was executed at Alexandria on ,Saturday.

Telegrams are to hand reporting that H.M. coastguard ship Lively ha 9 been stranded at Stornoway, in the Hebrides, and has suffered considerable damage.

A meeting of thirty Nihilists in St Petersburg was surprised by the police, but all escaped capture.

The Czarhas issued a manifesto abolishing the poll-tax in the case of the poorest Russians, and reducing the same as regards other classes.

“The ship Asterope, 602 tons, from London to Launceston, is ashore at Lowhead. Her cargo is valuedjat £60,000 The ship has been abandoned to the underwriters, and is expected to become a total wreck.

The police in Dublin have exhumed the body of an hotel-keeper in that city, named July, who died under suspicious circumstances, and who, it is now suspected, was poisoned by the Invincibles.

Sir Arthur Kennedy, late Governor of Queensland, died at Aden, on the 3rd instant, while on his way to England. Sir Hercules Robinson returns to the Cape, but will, it is reported, succeed the Marquis of Normanbyas Governor of Victoria. The frozen meat by the Garonne has realised 6d, and notwithstanding the bad condition of some of it, the British King’s shipment from Lyttelton has realised an average of 6fd per pound. The Lady Jocelyn, from Wellingtonwith a cargo of meat in excellent condition, has arrived at Plymouth. Another of the Phoenix Park murderers, Timothy Kelly, was hanged on Saturday iu Dublin.

Telegrams have been received from Tonquin that the French garrison at Hanoi have been reinforced by fifteen hundred men. Sir John Lubbock has introduced into the House of Commons a Bill for the purpose of providing facilities for the registration of Colonial Companies. An active warfare is still going on in Madagascar, and the Malagasy Government has issued an order for the expulsion of every French subject from the Island. Government have granted the following rewards for information afforded in connecting with the Phoenix Park murders, viz. :—Thomas Farrell, £IOOO. and Michael Kavanagh, £250. Prince Bismarck threatens to abolish the Gorman Reichstag, unless they consent to his proposal for the amelioration of Socialists. The Pope has appealed to Ireland for the cus tomary “ Peter’s Pence,” which contribution it was rumored the Irish intended to discontinue in consequence of the action taken by His Holiness in attempting to suppress outrages in Ireland. A vacancy has occurred in the representation of Monaghan in the House of Commons, Mr John Givan, the senior member, having accepted the office of Crown Solicitor.

Captain G. H. Whalley, the junior M.P. for Peterborough, has resigned his seat. The eclipse of the sun on May 6th, was splendidly observed by a party which proceeded to Caroline Islands in the Pacific.

Hicks (sic) Pasha, commander of the Egyptian forces, has been strongly reinforced and will resume offensive operations against El Mahdi and his followers in August. In the House of Lords, the second reading of a Bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s sister was, after discussion, carried by a majority of seven. Mr James Service’s proposal for the annexation of the New Hebrides Islands has received the cordial approval of Lord Normanby. and his Excellency has telegraphed to Lord Derby urging the expedience of the project. In recent engagements between the Turkish and Albanian troops, the former lost 1500 men and the latter 500. The powder magazine at Scutari was struck by lightning and exploded, killing twenty persons and wounding sixty. Mr Roe (Liberal) has been elected for Derby in the place of Mr Michael Thomas Bass, who resigned a short timo back. Zukertort, a well-known 'German player, won the first prize in the recent chess tournament. Notwithstanding James Carey, the informer in the Phoenix Park murders, being expelled from the Dublin Council, the Judges in Ireland have decided that he is still entitled to hold the position of councillor. . It is announced that Prince Albert Victor will enter Cambridge University in October next.