LATE CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6542, 5 April 1882, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

{SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE ABGOS.J VIOLENT SPEECH AGAINST THE ROYAL FAMILY. EXPULSION OP JEWISH CHEMISTS FROM ST. PETERSBURG. A DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OVER THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. FIGHT WITH THE MOONLIGHT BAND. WRECK OF AN ENGLISH STEAMER. EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. (UNITES PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, March 25. Mr Healy, the Home Rule member for Wexford, made a violent attack upon the Royal Family in thn course of a speech in opposition to the vote for Prince Leopold. The [authorities at St. Petersburg have directed the Jewish chemists of that city to dispose of their businesses and leave the capital. The Government have appointed a Deputy Commissioner over the Pacific Islands, who will reside, at and make New Britain, one of the largest islands in the South Pacific, his headquarters. The death is announced of William Newmarch, accountant and statistician, who was, in 1869, President of the Statistical Society. He was 62 years of age. The warm letter of congratulation which the Czar of Russia addressed to the Emperor William, on the occasion of the latter attaining his 85th birthday, has failed to calm the feeling of popular indignation which prevails throughout Germany against Russia.

A number o! Radical electors at Northampton have instituted proceedings with a view to compelling Mr Bradlaugh to perform his duties as one of the representatives for Northampton in Parliament. An Irish priest, the Rev. Father Berham, of Rathone, a town in Queen’s County, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for inciting his parishioners to discontent. Thirt3 members of the Moonlight band attacked the house of a farmer named Ryan, at Dumblane, County of Tipperary, he having given offence to the Land League by paying his rent in the usual way. police, however, obtained information of the intended attacK, and they surrounded and fired on the assailants, one of whom was shot, and is now m * dying condition. The screw steamer Peltou, owned by Messrs Fenwick and Reay, of Newcastle, has o dered off Ilfracombe, on the north coast or Devonshire, and eighteen lives have been 1 •