CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1160, 21 February 1874, Page 14

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, February 2nd. The struggle between Bismarck and the Ultramontanes is increasing in bitterness. Germany has warned France and Belgium of their international duty to repress the attacks of the Ultramontanes, whether through the press or the clergy. The members of the Ministry elected are — Messrs Gladstone, Cardwell, Stansfeld, Lowe, Child ers, and Harcourt. The Marquis of Hartington was defeated at Radnor.

The members elected for the new Parliament comprise 106 Liberals and 136 Conservatives.

Cape Coast Castle advices up to the 19th Jamiary state that the Ashantee King has sent a German missionary to treat with General Wolsely for peace. Eleven hundred seamen and marines are within one day'R march of Coornassie. The 23rd regiment is not disembarked, the native carriers having disappeared. The King of Ashantee has agreed to pay £200,000 to compensate the British Government.

The troops stop a short distance from the capital. Captain Glover, who occupies a conspi cuous place in connection with the Ashantee war, is a son of the Rev. Mr Glover, who lost two sons in the New Zealand war.

The Eclipse, screw sloop, Capt. Erskine, has sailed for the Australian station.

M'Mahon, in addressing the French merchants, asked for full confidence in the stability of the Government, and expressed his intention to maintain it.

The steamer Macgregor has left California with the English and American mails, from London February sth.

The Suez Summary per Bangalore has arrived at Adelaide, with news to the 6th. February 4th.

At the opening of the Royal Colonial Institute all supported the sentiments in favour of a united Empire on a Federal basis. A monument to the memory of officers killed in the New Zealand war is rapidly progressing towards completion in Greenwich Park.

The Church Missionary Society has opened a fund for the relief of sufferers by the Bengal famine, which is more serious than first reported.

The Dutch have taken several Acheenese villages, and are successfully operating against Kratow. Baron Keuter'a agents have surveyed upwards of eighty miles between Koptua post; and Teheran. The earthworks are being continued towards Rustambad. The site of the terminus is fixed for Gazelli. Sailed. — Scimitar, for Dunedin, with 300 immigrants. February 7th. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, accompanied by several members of the Russian Court, have arrived at Moscow. The German Parliament was opened by the Imperial speech, which expresses confidence in the efforts of the Great Powers to maintain peace. Alderman Cotton, Messrs Hubbard, and twelve Conservatives, and the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, have been returned for the City of London. Two Conservatives have been returned for Westminster. For the electorates of Chelsea, Marylebone, Southwark, and Tower Hamlets, Messrs Ayrton, Fawcett, and Jacob Bright were defeated, and -Mr Thomas Hughes retired.

Mr Iloebuck has been re-elected for Sheffield, and the Marquis of Hartington for Radnor. 430 members have beenreturned up to the present. The Conservatives gain a gross majority of 61 seats. In twenty-four instances Liberals have l^en ousted from their seats and Conservatives returned. It is said that Mr Gladstone will resign.