ENGLISH MAIL NEWS VIA SUEZ.

Kumara Times, Issue 812, 8 May 1879, Page 4

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS VIA SUEZ.

The House of Commons has passed a cedit vote of L 1,600,000, to be raised by Exchequer bonds, on account of the Zulu war. This extra expenditure raises the Estimates for the coming year to L 85,888,571, and shows an estimated deficit of L 275,000 upon the entire year, to which there must be added the last deficit of the same amount. It is calculated, however, there may be next year a surplus of about L 3,500,000. Mr E. Foster has written to Mr W. E. Gladstone, asking him if he would consent to sit for Leeds in the event of being defeated for Midlothian. Mr Gladstone, in reply, stated that he will place the scatter in the hands of Mr Adam, and does not say whether he accepts or declines the Leeds candidature. M. de Marcere, French, Minister of the Interior, has been compelled to resign bj the Chamber of Deputies, equivalent to a vote of censure upon his policy. M. de Marcere, a member of the Left Centre, bad long been obnoxious to the advanced Left, nor did he receive any support from his colleagues against the second attack made upon him by M. C. Le Monte. The Radical leader, Lepere, succeeds M. Le Mat cere, and he is replaced in the Ministry of Commerce by M. Girard, a strong free trader. The French Chamber of Deputies rejected by 317 to 153 the long talked of proposal to impeach the De Broglie Ministry of the 16th May, and its immediate successor, the Rochebonet Cabinet, for violating the Constitithtion and plotting a coup cCdat. The proposal was only supported by the extreme Left, who insisted on bringing the matter before the House despite the opposition of the Government. The result of the debate is important, it leaving the Waddington Cabinet means to govern without aid of extremes on either side of the House. Official telegrams published at St. Petersburg!! from Astrakan continue to assert that the plague may be considered to have died out in that district, as there have been no cases of death or illness, due to the epidemic, registered since the 9th February. An interview was held on the 7th instant between the Eastern Telegraph Company and the Government, with reference to the purchase of the 1400 miles of cable which was shipped a fortnight ago for Australia, and which was detained in order that the Government might at once have direct communication with the Cape. The Telegraph Company stipulated for a guarantee against accident to the cable, but this the representative of the Government refused. The negotiations then broke off, and unless they are renewed before begining of next week, the ship will have sailed, and there will be no chance of getting a cable laid this year.