CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, Issue 727, 28 March 1883, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

(UeUTEE’s SrEOlAt) 'SOME AND FOREIGN. London, March 2’2. Tier Majesty the Queen has been ■confined to her room at Windsor Castle, owing to The effects of a recent fall down a staircase. The in jury Was ‘Originally only trivial, but her. Majesty Vknee has since'become badly swollen, and complete rest is necessary. , March 23. "Six men who 'Were ■arrested at Belfast, charged with conspiracy ‘to murder Irish landlords, 'have been tried and found guilty, but sentence has not yet been pronounced by‘the Court. The Queen is improving in health, the swelling in her knee having -greaflyTessencd. . ; March 21. 'Great alarm is being felt in the 'neighbourhood of Chatham through the belief that the Eenians have projected an attack by means of dynamite Upon the dockyard and arsenal, and great vigilance is being/ shown by the military authorities to guard against an expected attack. The death is announced of the Hon. Arthur Macalister, C.M.G., latfe Agent-general for Queensland in London. The Bight Hon. Anthony Mundella, vice-president of the Cdtmcil of Education, is indisposed. March 25.

A number of French soldiers have ‘been arrested on a charge of being concerned, in a conspiracy to destroy 'the arsenal at Beregerac. (the ‘Porte has complained thfit ‘Bulgaria is arming. It is believed that the Fenians propose to destroy the repairing basins at Chatham dockyard. However, the authorities have taken every precaution to guard against the proposed attack. At the Faster service at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday, a man leaped on the alter and overthrew the cross, flowers, and caiiples. HcWas at ond© arrested. Paris, March'22. The anarchists who were recently arrested here on account of disturbances at the Place des Invalides have been released from custody. Cal?e Town, March 22. Intelligence is to hand from Zetnbuland, in Tranakei, that the Boers have tefused the demand of the British authorities that they should forthwith 'quit the territory. The Boers are understood to he now arming (? massing), and an outbreak of hostilities is feared. WAsifiNGYoN, March 23. It is reported 'that the Hon. E. S. 'Sackville West, British Minister, has drawn the attention of the United States Government to the nature of the language employed by American Fenians, who use of dynamite in order to obtain redress for their alleged grievances, and has informed the American Ministry that the use of such language by American subjects will, if unchecked, tend to impair the relations between the United States and Great Britain.

A report is current here that a person alleged to be the leader of the Dublin inner circle of assassins, : and known as “Number One,” has escaped to Mexico, and is beyond pursuit.

(Special to Melbourne Papers). London, Match 22.

At the last wool sales 165,000 bales were taken for etport/of which 7000 were for America. ’Scoured merinos show an advance of from id to Id’; greasy merinos an equal decline Compared with the close of the December auctions. Superfine wools are inferior in ‘Condition to those previously offered, and in consequence the demand is dull. Lambs’ and washed crossbreds are id higher. March 23.

Mr Stephen Gladstone implies that his father will shortly retire, and the Daily Sews urges that he 'Should 'receive a peerage, also retaining the leadership. , The Eight Hon. John Bright, in his rectorial address to the Glasgow University, remarked that the Australian Colonies were increasing in population and wealth with such astonishing rapidity that in all probability a desire to secede from the Empire might grow up amongst them ; and it would, ho thought,require great wisdom and moderation On the part of the Imperial Government to preserve the connection. March 2-1. Six (members of an Irish society known as the Patriotic Brothers have been ‘convicted of agrarian offences. The record of the trial shows -that the Hand League authorities requested the

Society 'to kill landlo r d, • Sherriff and several WgasTteu Eeiians are iir* plicated in the disclosures made. ■ Vast eruptions pf Mount Etna are expected by scientific mten. The Daily Hews states that The Teriiasular and Oriental Company intend to abandon 'the route via Brindisi, and 'to 'return to that via Marseilles.

'INTERCOLONIAL. Mei&oUene, Union Company’s new steamship Waihora, from Glasgow (lan. Slat). BbSisbAhe, March 24; It is reported here that thp'Queenslalid Government have instructed the BoliCe Magistrate at Thursday Island to take possession of New Guinea.