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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 56, 6 March 1874, Page 2

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'•■''•■■ . 7[CaBLKGBAMB.] . : London, Feb 21. ■ The new Ministry is. officially constituted. First Lord of the Treasury, Mr Disraeli; Lord Chancellor, Lord Cairns; President of the Council,- the Duke of Richmond ; Lord of the Privy Seal, Earl Malmesbury; Foreign Secretary, Eurl of Derby; Secretary for the Colonies, Earl of Carnarvon;- Secretary .of War, MrGathorne Hardy; Home Secretary, Mr R. A. Cres.; Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northcote; Postmaster-General, Lord John Manners ; First Lord of the George Ward Hunt. The Marquis of Normandy and Sir Alfred Stephen, Sir J; McCulloch, and Mr John O'Sbanaasey have been appointed Knights commanders of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Charleß Reed has been knighted. The opening competition at the wool sales was well maintained and prices are well sustained. Greasy descriptions are largely sought ior. It is determined to hold a series of five sales in the year. ■ , lhe corn market is flat, and the wheat supplies are abundant, Mouey is easy. Bank rate Z\ per cent; influx of gold from Australia is expected. Speculative purchases of New Zealand hemp have caused a. recovery in tho market. Arrived: Wild Duck from !<{ew Zealand, . FeS. 24/ i The:Hon Robert Bourke is app inted under Secretary for Foreign Affairs; Sir Henry John Selwin Ibbeson, Under Secretary of the Home department; the Right Hon C. B. Adderley, the new President ofthe Board of Trade; the MarqUis of Hartington, chief Secretary for Ireland. Sir Barkly (?) is created a Grand Cross of the Bath. i The death is -nnouueed of Sbirlev Brooks the celebrated author; and editor bf Punch. , The.. Rev. Thomas Bioney, fate pastor of Weigh liouse. Chapel died aged seventy-six. London, February '24. .The Gepman Emperor has written to Earl Russell, acknowledging the receipt of a resolution passed at bt James' Hall, sympathising, with him in his conflict with the . U-trambntsina. The Emperor -tates that ,he is^. firmly determined to battle witli the clerical paity without infringing upon the frse exercis. of religion. February 25. -„ • The following additional appaintments have been made :~Firs,t Commissioner of ,W,orks,' Lord Henry Geo. Gordon Lennox; AttofheyGeneraf/;; fc^r. .J., ; B. Karslake ; SolicitorSent i-d, Sir Richard Bkggally; Chief Secre-j tary of Ireland, Sir Michael Edward Hicks; Joint Secretaries of the Treasury, Mr Abel

Smith arid; Mr W_niy Hart Dyke; Lord Chamberlain, jjfe Majrquis of Bath. The Marquis of Westminster is raised to a Duke- ? dom, 7y } j:; j \ '•;•'- ..•; ;• /Ah <u£Jpscial Tfeporfc haß reached the Ad. tqiralty *tsting t£-t s a\ battle; took place on the S Ist January "at Acromboo, lasting twelve hours. Tho Ashantees lost heavily, andsTihe British loss was also sevore;--" Several officers'; ■ were wouuefcd. Gene- at Wolseley kos 1007 miles from Coma ame, waiting for reinforcements. February 26. ; The following additional! appointments. of . Ministerial officers have been made : — The Duke of Abercorn, Viceroy of Ireland} Right Hon J. E. Ball, Attorney-General ior Ireland; E. S. Gordon, Lord- Advocate of Sc.tiand; Colonel Taylor, Chancellor of the. Duchy ot Lancaster ; Schater Booth, Pr_eident cf the Educational Beard ; Mr Cave, Judge Advocate General ; ihe Hon. Algernon Fulke Egertoni . : Secretary, of the' Admiralty ; iic Mas-ey Lopes, Civil Lord of the Admiralty ; Mr James Lowther, Colonial Under-Secretary; Lord George Hamilton, Indian Under-Secretary. A despatch bas been received from General Wolsely, dated Coomassie, Feb 5, stating that he had reached there on the previous day, after five days' hard fighting, during which the troops behaved admirably. The casualties of the British were under 300 killed and wounded. ; Kiog Koffee Calcalli had left the town, but was located close by, and had promi.'ed to visit Coomassie thit day to sigh a treaty of peace. General Wolseley . hoped to . commence the return marcli tb the coast the next day, February 6.