LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3565, 27 July 1874, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

i , New York, July 15. tremendous confljisjv&tion is raging in Chicago, and owing to the strong wind the flames are uncontrollable. A later telegram says the fire is extinguished. Twenty-five K* 9 ‘ bmldmgs were destroyed, at a loss of 4,U0U,0U0 dollars.

London, July 16, in the House of Commons the Archbishop of Canterbury’s anti-Ritualistic Bill was read a Second time without a division. r j n , Julylß- - Carnarvon has stated that Fiji makes seventeen wholly impracticable conditions, and England can only accept an absolute, unoondi tional cession. He states that Australian institutions are insufficiently developed to enable the Colonies to undertake the responsibility of the government of the Islands. Sir Hcrculas Robinson is to go to Fiji to explain the difficulty. During the discussion in the House of Lords on the Fijian question, Earl Belmero, the Duke of Manchester, and Earl Kimberley approved of the annexation ; Viscount Canterbury protested, and Earl Granville argued, as during the previous Parliamentary discussion, against its being constituted a Crown Colony of a severe type. Governor Weld, of Western Australia, has been appointed Governor of Tasmania. The death is announced of Lady Gipps, widow of the late Sir George Gipps, formerly Governor of New South Wales.

Paris, July 16. The proposal of M. Magne, Minister of Finance, to increase the salt tax, has been rejected by 362 to 251 votes. The Assembly subsequently passed a vote involving the rejection of M, Mague’s whole financial schema. A. Constitutional Bill is framed by the Comiqittee of Thirty as a substitute for the Left Centre’s Bill submitted to the Assembly, It maintains the title of President of the Republic and establishes Ministerial responsibility. With rpgard to the Legislative Chambers, MacMahon alpne is to possess the right to dissolve them ; and no modifications of the Constitution are to be made during the Septennate, unless MacMahon proposes them. The debate is fixed for Monday next. M. Magne has resigned. Dissensions have occurred in the French Ministry relative to the general policy to be pursued, and the prosecution of M. Rouher. M. Fourlon, Minister of the Interior, hag resigned. The Constitutional Bill has dissatisfied everybody. »

. . July 19. A Ministerial crisis at Versailles is expected, and a new Minis tty is likely to be formed.

Madrid, July 19, The .Carhsts have captured Cuenca, in the Province of New Oastille, eighty-three miles from Madrid. The Government h.s called out 125,000 reserves, and proclaimed the whole of Spain under martial law. The property of the Carllsts is to be confiscated.