LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, Issue 17, 7 March 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

London, February 12. Six hundred elections have taken place ; the Conservatives have gained ninety-two and the Liberals thirty-two seats. Two Conservative candidates were returned for Middlesex, and the former Liberal member (Viscount Enfield) defeated. The Press urges the speedy resignation of-the Ministry. ' - •• ■ - The Kaffir outbreak at Natal has terminated, the rebellious chief haying sqn'enderad,

February. 14ii

The following members of the Government have been . defeated The Hon. ‘.Chichester Fortescue, President of the Board, ot Trade, rejected at Louth;. the Hon. A. Greville, Junior Lord of the Treasury, at Westmeath; Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Comptroller of the; Queen’s Household, at Kildare ;■ the Hon. Mrj Ayrton, Judge Advocate-General, at Tower Hamlets ; the Hon. Mr Herbert, Under. Secretary of the Home Department, at Oldham ;; Viscount Enfield, Under Secretary of thej Foreign Department, at Middlesex. . The Bank return is stronger. GOld exports have,‘Ceased. Australian securities improved. Wheat is drooping, owing to largepxpected arrivals.

February 16. The elections are now virtually concluded.. The result shows a return of 353 Conservatives against 299 Liberals. About 200 new members have been returned, including four Home; Rulers. The Conservative reaction is universal, especially in Scotland, Lancashire, Middlesex, and Sussex. The Right Hon. George Young, Lord Advocate of Scotland, was defeated at Wigton. The Queen is at Windsor. A meeting of the Cabinet was held to-day to decide on the resignation of the Ministry. A most disastrous fire took place at the Pantechnicon, Motcorab street, Belgrave square, an establishment for the sale of carriages and the warehousing of property. Pictures valued at L 250,000, and an immense quantity of valuable furniture, were destroyed. February 17.

The Hon. Mr Gladstone goes to Windsor today to tender the resignation of the Ministry. The Queen has accepted the patronage of the Bengal famine fund. The Emperor of Russia is expected to yisit London on the Ist of May. !Cape Coast news to the 2Gth of January states that the troops are expected to enter CoOmassie on the 29th January. The termination of the war is anticipated about the 7th of February. . •, The Colonial wool sales opened this evening ; the total arrivals are upwards of 160,000 bales. Upwards of 5,500 have been offered. The attendance of both Home and foreign buyers is large. The biddings commenced with great spirit, and prices ranged the same as last series. The mails from Australia via Brindisi and San Francisco were delivered in Loudon yesterday, • : . i The following vessels are amongst the recent arrivals in time for the wool sales-Lady Bowen, Patriarch, Ramsay, Glencairn, Ben more; Duke of Sutherland, Superb, J.. M. Thompson, Ranee, Agammemnon, Macduff, Miltiades, Mermerus, Hampshire, Jerusalem, Gartside, Lasra, Otalka, Darra, Adelaide, Craigendaroch, Halcione, and Countess of Kintore.

February 10. The Queen has accepted Mr Gladstone’s resignation, and Mr Disraeli is engaged in the formation of a new Ministry. The elections are concluded. The returns show that 351 Conservatives have been elected and 302 Liberals.

The Hon. E. Cardwell, the Hon. Chichester Fortescue, and Viscount Enfield will be raised to the Peerage. There are indications of the revival of the Eastern question; it being discussed by the German and French Press.

Obituary : King Lunalilo, of the Sandwich Islands,

. St Petersburg, February 16. . The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has been most cordially received. The Czar, in drinking the health of his guest, said friendship between Austria, Russia, Germany, and England would secure the peace of the world.