ENGLISH TELEGRAMS VIA SUEZ.
The Suez; mail arrived at Adelaide on the 19th.
Disraeli resigned without meeting Par liamer.t.
The Gladstone Ministry is formed. Gladstone, Premier; Sir VV. Page Wood, Lord Chancellor; Earl Granville, Secretary for the Colonies; Robert Lowe, Foreign Secretary. Earl Russell has a seat ia tho Cabinet without office. Tho Morning Post contradicts the rumor that tho Government intended recalling Lord Mayo, and appointing the Marquis of Salisbury to the Governor-Generalship of India.
By the latest advices, the elections were terminated, and tranquility prevails.
The ship Gossamer, for Adelaide, was wrecked off the coast of Devonshire. The enptain, his wife, and eleven of the crew were drowned. A verdict of manslaughter was returned against the pilot.
LATEST SPECIAL TELEGBAMS. London, Dec. 22. The new Ministers were all re-elected. The introduction of the Victorian Loan was deferred.
Wool sales closed firm; the opening prices were fully maintained throughout. Fifty thousand bales were taken for exportation. Tallow is lower. Colonial securities are unchanged. The Great Britain and Golden Age, from Melbourne, had arrived. Gladstone has promised a reduction in the expenditure, to remedy the grievances to which ratepayers have been exposed, and to secure free voting. Bright has declined the Secretaryship for India, on the grounds that he could not superintend an administration conducted on principles which he condemned and jcould not amend.
England, France, and Austria declined to protect the interests of the Greeks expelled by the Turks.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 653, 4 February 1869, Page 3
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240ENGLISH TELEGRAMS VIA SUEZ. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 653, 4 February 1869, Page 3
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