LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3444, 6 March 1874, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

London, February 2L The Ministry officially constituted are First Lord of the Treasury—Mr Disraeli. Lord Chancellor—Lord Cairns. President of the Council—The Duke of Richmond. Lord Pnvy Seal—Earl of Malmesbury. Foreign Secretary—Earl of Derby. Secretary for India—The Marquis of Salisbury. Secretary fpr the Colonies—Earl of Carnarvon. Secretary for War—Mr Gathome Hardy. Home Secretary—R. A. Cross, Chancellor of the Exchequer—Sir Stafford Northcote. PostmasterrGeneral—Lord John Manners. First Lord pf the Admiralty— Mr Geofee Ward Hunt, Attorney General—Sir J. B. Karslake. Solicitor General—Sir Richard Baggally. Viceroy of Ireland—Duke of Abercorh. The Marquis of Nornmby, §ir Alfred Stelate Chief Justice of New South , Sir. James M'Cullpch, Mr John U’Shanassy, C.M.G., have been appointed Knights Commanders of St. Michael and St. George. • hlr Charles Reed, member for Hackney and Chairman of the London School Board, has been knighted. m tt -n , February 24. tt o 0n ’ Robert Bourke has been appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Sir Henry John SelwinJbbetson, Under-Secretary for the Home Departmens.' f ■ The Right Hon, 0. B. Addptley, the new President of the Board of Trade, and the Marquis of Hartington, Chief Secretary for Ireland under the late Administration, have been raised to the peerage. Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Mauritius, has been created a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. The death is announced of Mr Shirley Brooks, the celebrated author and editor of ‘ Punch,' and the Rev. Thomas Binney, late pastor of Weighhonse Chapel, aged seventy-six. The German Emperor has written to Earl Russell, acknowledging the receipt of the resolutions passed by the St, James’s Hall meeting sympathising with him in the conflict with Ultramonism. The Emperor states that he is firmly determined to battle with the clerical PJ-riy. but without infringing the free exercise of religion. m, #. .... . February 25. ilie following additional appointments have been made First Commissioner qf WorksLord Henry Geo. Gordon-Lennox : AttomeyGenoral—Sir J. B. Karslake ; Solicitor-General ~Sir Richard Baggally, Q.O: j Chief Secretary for Ireland—Sir Michael Edward Hioks-Beaoh; Joint Secretaries of the Treasury Mr Abel Smith and Mr William Hart Dyke: Lord Chamberlain—Marquis of Bath. The Marquis of Westminster has been raised to a Dukedom.. An unofficial report has reached the Admiralty stating that a battle took place on the 31st January at Acromboo, lasting twelve hours. ; The Ashantees lost heavily, and the British loss was also severe Several offiers were wounded. . General Wolsely was a hundred miles from Coomassie, waiting for reinforcements. . r , February 26. Ibe following additional appointments to Ministerial offices have been made The Duke of Abercorn, Viceroy of Ireland; the Right Hon. J. T. Hall, Attorney-General for Ireland; Mr E. S. Gordon, Lord-Advocate for Scotland; Colonel Taylor, Chancellor of the Duchy °f Lancaster; Mr Sclater-Booth, President of the Poor Law Board; Mr Cave, Judge-Advo-cate-General ; the Hon, Algernon Fulke Egerton, Secretary of the Admiralty; Sir Massey Lopes, Civil Lord of the Admiralty; Mr Jas. Lowther, Colonial Under Secretary; Lord George Hamilton, Indian Under Secretary. A despatch has been received from General Wolsely, dated Coomassie, February 5, stating that he had reached there the previous day, after five days’ hard fighting, dunng which the troops behaved admirably. The casualties of the British were under three hundred killed and wounded. King Kaffie Kalealli left the town, but located close by, and promised to visit Coomassie that day and sign a treaty of peace. General Wolsely hoped to commence the return march to the coast next day, the 6th. „ Madrid, February 25. The Spanish Republicans recapturedPortugalete, a seaport; in the froyinco of Biscay.