LATE CABLE NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2767, 6 August 1883, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(By Tbikohuph.) (Per s.s. Manspouri at the Bluff.) (Sfbciai. to thb Msißorass " Aaa."2 Lojidok, July 24. Mr Gladstone announced in the Houa* of Commons yesterday that the Government would not ask Parliament to sanction the provisional agreement entered into with De Lcstepa regarding a second Suez Canal. The Government thought this course adviaable in view of the opposition wnicti toe scheme bad encountered at the hands of the public. The withdrawal of the Government from the agreement has been generally approved of, and the sum of £1000 is being subscribed for the purpose of making a survey of the Jordan Valley. It is reported that a Tery hostile feeling has been oreated between English and French troops in consequence of the action of the French Admiral at Tamatave. This feeling reached a olimax at Port Said yesterday, when a terious scrimmage took place between English and Frenoh marines there, several men being fatally injured. . Cholera is spreading among the British troops who withdraw from Cairo into the desert. Another soldier belonging to the " Blaok Watch " regiment his succumbed. M. Waddington, who was recently appointed Frenoh Ambassador to tbe Geurt of •t. James, has arrived in England. De Leisepa, President of the Suez Canal Company, has announced his intention of issuing debentures for tbe amount required for the eonatruotion of the proposed duplicate canal, this course being considered expedient in view of the withdrawal of the British Government from tbe agreement. De Lesseps states that he will act in the matter quite independently of Eugland, and that he requires no concessions from that country. Mr Ashley, Parliamentary Undersecretary for the Colonies, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that it was uncertain whether the late Sir A. Kennedy, Governor of Queensland, was in reality ft party to the attempted annexation of New Guinea by his Government. Great excitement was created in London last night by a report that Asiatic cholera had broken out in Kensington, and the alarm was increased by a seoond rumor that the same disease had made its appearsnoe at Llanfyiin, a market town in Wales, County Montgomery. Inquiries were at once instituted to ascertain the accuracy of the reports. It is now generally believed that the disease which forms the foundation of the rumor is English cholera. In reply to a question in the House of Lords last night, Earl Granville, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Government had under consideration the proposed railway along the valley of the Euphrates as a substitute for a second Suez Canal. It is probable that Lord Northcote wiU withdraw the motion of which he recently gave notice repudiating De Lesseps' claim to a monopoly for tbe construction of a second canal across the Isthmus of Suez. The French authorities hovo raised the seige of Tamatave and terminated tbe blockade. The English men-of-war, Dryad and Dragon, have left their station at that port. Kruger, President of th« Transvaal Bepublic, intends to visit London in September on a diplomatic mission to Lord Derby. Portions of shipments of Victorian, Tasmanian and New Zealand hops, forwarded some time Bgo to tbe London market, have been sold at prices ranging from £12 to £14 per cwt. The motion brought forward in the House of Commons by Mr Onslow, Member for Guildford, condemning the proposal that a portion of the expenses connected with the Egyptian war should be made a charge on the Indian revenue, has been rejected by a large majority. In the courso of the debate which took place oa the question, one number suggested that the Australian colonies should also be called upon to bear a part of the expenses. Mr Gladstone referring to this suggestion, said that the Imperial Parliament had no power to compel Australia to contribute towards the expenses, even if a motion were carried to that effect. H» added, however, that if the Governments of the several Australian colonies felt disposed to Tote certain euros of money towards that object, their assistance would be acceptable. The reports that Asiatic cholera had broken out iu London and at Llanfylin, in Waits, have proved to be witheut foundation. e July 30. Prinoo Bismarck is on a visit lo Kissingen, a town and watering place in Bavaria. The reoent action of the Frenoh in Anara has not, it is stated, affected the relations between France and China, which remain on a friendly footing. Latest reports from South Italy state that the bodies of hundreds of perjons are entombed in the ruins caused by the earthquake which ocourred on Saturday night. Two thousand soldiers and laborers are now engaged removing tbo debris in the towns of Cassamicioli, Forico, and Laccoamens. Subscriptions on behalf of tbe families who have been rendered homeless by the catastrophe have been opened in several Italian towna, and the Pope has subscribed 20,000 francs to the fund. Carey lingered in great agony for some time before dying.