LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3426, 13 February 1874, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

_. Auckland, February 13. The Phoebe has arrived. She left Sydney on the 7th, and has thirteen passengers for the South. , , , London, February 2. I lie struggle between Bismarck and theUltramontanes is increasing in bitterness. Germany has warned Prance and Belgium that it is an international duty to repress the attacks on the Ultramontanes, whether through the Press or Clergy. The following members of the Ministry have been elected Messrs Gladstone, Cardwell, btanfield, Lowe, Childers, and Harcourt. J.he Marquis of Hartington was defeated at .New Radnor. ihe members elected up to the present time Liberals and 136 Conservatives. . Coast Castle news states that on the 19th January the Ashantee king sent a German missionary to treat with General Wolseley for peace._ Eleven hundred seamen and marines within a day’s march of Coomassie. The /3rd Regiment had not disembarked. Ihe native stokers have deserted the Macgregor. She has left California with the English and American mails. , February 5. Ihe Ring of Ashantee has agreed to pay two hundred thousand pounds to compensate the British Government. The troops stop a short distance from the capital. President M'Mahon, when addressing the trench merchants, asked for full confidence in the stability of the Government, and expressed his intention to maintain it.

SUEZ SUMMARY.

The Bangalore arrived at Adelaide on the 6th. . , , London*, January 14. At the opening of the New Session of the Royal Colonial Institute all supported sentiments in favor of a United Empire on a Federal basis. Captain Glover, who occupies such a conspicuous place in connection with the Ashantee war, is a sou of the Rev. Mr Glover, who lost two sons in New Zealand, H.M.S. Eclipse, screw sloop, Capt. Erskine, nas sailed for the Australian station. ihe monument to the memory of the officers killed in the New Zealand war is rapidly progressing towards completion. The Greenwich Park Church Missionary bociety opened a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Bengal famine, which is more serious than was at first reported. The Dutch have taken several Aclieense villages, and are successfully operating against Jvratow. Baron Reuter’s agents have surveyed upwards of eighty miles between Koptna, Lost, and Teheran. The earthworks are being continued towards Rustambad, and the situ of the terminus is fixed at Gazelli.