LATEST CABLEGRAMS. LONDON DATES TO FEBRUARY 19. A CONSERVATIVE REACTION. GLADSTONE'S MINISTRY RESIGNED. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LONDON. THE CZAR OF RUSSIA TO VISIT LONDON. THE BENGAL FAMINE. PROGRESS OF CAPE COAST WAR. [PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN AGENCY ]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXX, Issue 5157, 2 March 1874, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS. LONDON DATES TO FEBRUARY 19. A CONSERVATIVE REACTION. GLADSTONE'S MINISTRY RESIGNED. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LONDON. THE CZAR OF RUSSIA TO VISIT LONDON. THE BEN GAL FAMINE. PROGRESS OF CAPE COAST WAR. [PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN AGENCY ]

{ HOKITIKA, Saturday. ' Tub s.s 'jClaud Hamilton,' Capt. Bowden, arrivod at 4 p id 3 e^terday fioin Melbourne. Miu it,f c I J ort Phillip on the 2lst, and brings 2 t saloon ami ,">0 steerage passengers, and 300 tons of cargo for all tbe ports, fcdie also bnugs ono racehorse for Wellington, She was tendered here at 9 p.m. and sailed .North at I), 30 p in. London, February 13. In sik hundred and four t lections the Coubuiv<iti\es gamed uiucty-two, and the Liberals thirty-two seats. Two Conservative candidates were lituiued for Mi ldle»ex, where a former Liberal member, Viscount Lutield, was defeated. lhe i'ie3s urge the speedy resignation of the Ministry. The Kathr outbreak at Is'atal haa terminated aud the lebdlioua chuf haa surrendered. Vienna, Februiry 12. The I]ai,jeror Francis Joseph haa proceeded on a viaic to St. Petersburg. London, February 14. The following meuiberd of the Government were defeated : Mr. (Jhichester Fortescue, tho President of the Board of Trade, was lejeeted at Ljuth ; the Hon. A. Greville, Junior Lord of the Treasury, At Westmeath ; Loid Otho FiUgerald, Comptrollvr of the (Queen's Household, at Kildare ; Mr. Ayrtou, Judge Advocate General, at Tower Hamlets ; Mi. Hibbeit, under-Secretary for the Homo Department, at Oldbam ; and Viscount Eubeld, under-Sc cretary for the Foreign Department, for Middlesex. The bank return 13 btrunger. Gold exports have ceased. The Australian securities have improved. The wheat market is drooping, owing to large expected arrivals. London, February 1G. The elections are now virtually concluded. The result shows the return of 333 Cons«sr\a tivea, and 299 liberals. About 200 new members hare been returned, and 44 Home llulers. The Conservative reaction is universal, especially iu Scotland, Lancashire, Middlesex, <tud Sussex. The Kight Hon. George Young, Lord Advocate of Scotland, has bsen defeated at Wiijton. 'I he Ojueju is at Windsor. A meeting of the Cabinet being held to-day will decide whether the resignation of the Ministry will ba received. A most disastrous fne has occurred at the Pantechnicon, Molcombe-street, Belgrave 1 Square, in aH establishment for the sale of carnapes and the warehousing of property. Pictures valued at £250,000 and an immense quantity of valuablo furniture have been destroyed. Petekmscm,, February 10. The Emperor Francis Jo3eph of Austria was most cordially received by the Czar. In drinking the health of his guest he said tho friendship of Austria, Russia, Germany, and England would secure tho peace of the world. London, February 17. Mr. Gladstone goes to Windsor to day to tender the resignation of the Ministry. Her Majesty the Queen has accepted the patronage of the Bengal famine fund The Emperor of Russia is expected to visit London about the 1st of May. The Cipa Coast items of news are to the 2Gth of January. They state that the troops were expected to enter Coomaasie on the of January. Tho termination of the war was anticipated to be on the 7th of February. The colonial wool sales were opened this evening. The total an ivals are upwards of 1G0.00O bales— upwards of 5,300 bales were offered. The attendance both of home and foreign buyers was large. 1 he bidding commenced with great spirit. The pncea offered range the aamo as at th* last tmep.| Th« mails from Australia, via Brindisi and San Francisco, were delivered in London yesterday. The following, amougit recent arrivals, were in time for the wool sales :— The Lsuly Bowod, Patriarch, Ramsay, Glengairn, Ben more, Duke of Sutherland, Superb, Thorn •on itante, Agamemnon, Macdutf, Miltiales, Mermorus, Hampshire, Jerusalem, Gartiide; Lafra, Outulpa, Darra, Adelaide, Crageudavor, Haloyona, Countess of Kintoie. London, February 19. Tho Queen has accepted Mr. Gladstone's resignation, and Mr. Disraeli is engaged in tke formation of a new Ministry. The elections at o concluded The retuni3 show 3ol Conservative and ,302 Liberals. Mr. Card well, Mr Chichester Fort escue, and Viscount Kalield will bo laised to the peerage. There is an indication of the revival of tho 1] istern question being dncusbed in the Germsiu nnd French press. Obituary . King Lunahllo, of tho Sandwich lahndb.