LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3106, 15 March 1883, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] (Per s.s. Wairarapa at the Bluff.) (Special to Melbourne “ Age.”) London, March 1. The House of Commons is still engaged in debating the Irish question. The causes of the prevailing distress and the best remedies to be applied, have been made the subject of a warm debate, It is considered that hostilities must inevitably break out between Turkey and Albania, the latter country being determined to resist by force any interference in her affairs by'the Ottoman Porte.

The promoters have failed in floating the new Australian Loan and Agency Company, which was to have been formed in London with a capital of £IOO,OOO. Very few applications for shares have been received, and it has now been decided not to allot the shares applied for. The applicants will therefore have their deposits returned. The report that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of the mysterious individual known as “ Number One,” who directed movements of the Assassins Committee, is now stated to be incorrect, as up to the present time no clue has been obtained to his identity. Egan, Treasurer of the Irish Land , League, has levanted to Spain, taking with him the principal books and papers of the League. It is reported that these documents include accounts showing appropriations from the funds of the League towards the “ Secret Murder Fund,” and that Egan’s action is part of a preconcerted plan to render the proposed audit of the books impossible. The action of the man Carey, who has gained such notoriety through turning Queen’s evidence at the trial of a number of persons for conspiring to shoot Government officials, is viewed with feelings of disgust and indignation by the Dublin Corporation, of which he was a member. At a recent meeting of that body it was accordingly resolved to expel him from his Municipal office. With a view of rendering knowledge of colonial matters more genera], the London School Board has decided to amend the curriculnm now in force in (he schools, and introduce a series of books containing special information with regard to the colonies. The prosecution of a man named Foote for blasphemy, has resulted in his conviction, and he has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment .with hard labor. Scotchmen resident in London are agitating for an amendment of the land laws relating to the Highlands of Scotland, and several public meetings have been held for the purpose of bringing their views under the notice of the Government.

M. Ferry, the French Premier, has announced that his Ministry do not propose to make any alterations in the attitude which France has assumed in regard to members of the legitimist faction.

The Dae de Charterers, one of the French Princes, who, on the 25th ult., were placed on the ‘‘retired” list of the French Army, intends to visit India shortly.

The Prussian Government has resolved to expel all Danish residents from Prussia, on the ground that the Danes refuse to perform military service with the army now stationed in Schleswig.