EUROPEAN CABLEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6065, 26 April 1881, Page 5

EUROPEAN CABLEGRAMS.

.;: ~ [rZK S.S. HOTOK.TJA, AT .THE BLUFF. J . '■■' • ; - ; Loxdok, April 11. ; An announcement comes from New York'.of 'a plot amoug the:lrisli Fenian's in the city to murder ■Mγ. Gladstone. : The proposal is said to have been previously entertained,' and to be credited, by the.-New York -police,-, •but here , the matter is not thought to be ; genuine. Precautions are, however, being, taken." '■ ' '..',] '."' . ; :' . " ■■■ ■ An Englishman travelling in the - district of Saionica, from-European Turkey, has beenseized by brigands,- and. carried, off- to the hills: They demand" £15,000 ransom, and threaten to murder, the, prisoner if it is not paid. The German Chancellor, Prince Bismarck, has propounded a scheme of bounties to German shipping,' to promote the encouragement of shipbuilding in the empire, and. the extension of it 3 commerce.- The plan is similar in principle to the one recently adopted in Prance, and the idea meets with much support in Germany.- • ■ . : Losß'ojf, April 12. Moody and Sankey have announced that they will visit England in September next, and that,'after holding a serie.3 of meetings, they will proceed to Ireland on a revival tour. ■• ; • ' ' ' ' ' - In Hunqary, the" floods have been very severe, and great fear 3 are entertained of the re-occurrence of another inundation' of the town"; of Szegodin, which about two years was nearly destroyed from the same cause. ' ■ ■ . ■ • •■■ ■•■.-■ Severe shocks of earthquake ■ are reported to have occurred in Chili, and also in California, causing much alarm. ' . • : • April 13. Outrages continue to be reported from Ireland ,throughout the county of Cork/ A aost disorderly feeling prevails in the western laronies. The peasantry have attacked and everely injured a-number of process-servers mplpyed to serve the notices of eviction. '. Mr. -Paruell is visiting some of the' prmciial cities in England where thei - e is a large rishpopulation in order to extend amongst hem the principles of the Land League. At Manchester he addressed an assemblage of 1000, aud spoke at length on the condition if Ireland. ■ ;.r ■•■■-.-■ . . . 'April 14. Lord Oranriiore and Browne, a prominent andlof d in the county of Mayo, and who ias made himself -obnoxious to the Land L/eague by press letters on the Irish land luestion, has more than once had his life Jireatened. The police have succeeded in irresting the would-be murderers of Lord )raumore. K. W. Boyd,-one of the leading English jarsmen, has replied to the challenge of Sdward Trickett to row over the usual ;hampion course on the Thames. Boyd expresses his willingness to make the match, the contest is to come off in midsummer. Miss DeLaraine (Ouida), the well-known novelist, is dead. Trickett has. arranged a match with Kirby, an English oarsman. The race is to take place at Southampton on Tuesday, the 19th April. Trickett is the favourite. • The betting is 2 to 1 on him. [We have since learned by telegraph that Trickett won the x-ace easily.] The Irish Land League is extending it; operations in England. In addition t( various branches already in existence, one has been lately opened in Sunderland, ir accordance with the determination : lately arrived at by the Government to suppresi the Land Leagueiii Ireland. Several travellers of late prosecutions, a well as others concerned in the proceeding; of the Land League, have been imprisonec \inder the provisions of the Coercion Act. The police have lately been maintaining, i vigilant watch over the VVoolwich arsenal which they have reason to believe wa: tlu-eatened by Fenian agents. They hay • now arrested several for being concerned i: another plot for its destruction. Consequent on having accepted th Turkish offer oh the frontier th King of Greece has incurred great unpopv larity by a part of his subjects, and hi conduct in the matter has subjected him t very general abuse. Notwithstanding the reforms promised b the Emperor Alexander 11., great dissati faction still exists in Russia. Serious riots have been caused in Mosco by the students, which have been suppress* by the police after a good deal of trouble. Extraordinary attempts have been mac to destroy the Church of Madrid, by thro-s ing bombshells into it while the congregate was assembled therein for public -worship.

The floods which have lately caused" so - much damage in Hungary, especially in the town of Szegedin, are now subsiding. An exhibition has been opened at' Norwich of fish and fishing materials. A very complete and interesting collection has been obtained.