LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, 24 April 1868, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

London, Mabch 14. \ No fresh Fenian disturbances have « taken place, and the troubles are con- * sidered to be completely over. * The Prince of Wales will visit Ireland 1 at Easter, for the investiture of the Order 1 of St Patrick. ' The Queen has held a drawing-room. < The Cabinet has been reconstructed. Mr IMsraeli, Premier, Mr Hunt, Chancel- < lor. of the Exchequer; Lord Cairns, 1 Lord Chancellor. \ Mr Disraeli proposes a truly liberal policy. The Scotch Eeform Bill has passed the second reading. Mr Gladstone's Church-rate Bill has been committed. The Irish debate is still continuing. The Government propose to establish a Catholic University 1 and a Land Tenancy Commission. The Opposition advocate religious equality. The Habeas Corpus Act has been suspended for another year. It is reported that Lord Cranbourne and General Peel declined to join the Cabinet. " The Times " expects that Lord Stanley will remain in the Foreign Office and that Colonel Wilson Patten will take the India Office. The rest continue as before. During the debate on the Alabama claims, Lord Stanley stated that Mr Seward had suggested that a General Commission should be appointed to consider all claims. He had asked Mr Seward to put the proposition into a formal shape. The American House of Kepresentatives had adopted articles for the impeachment of the President, who was summoned to appear before the Senate on the 13th of March. In Abyssinia vigorous preparations were being made for a rapid advance. Sir Robert Napier reached Antilo on March 2. Theodorus, it was believed, had relinquished his intention of going to Magdala. He is now occupied in fortifying Dalanta, where Napier will probably meet him at close quarters. The captives had been treated with greater consideration, but their guards were strengthened. A communication from one of the captives which had reached the King's camp would, it was thought, injure the prisoners. Napier has sent an envoy to "Wagshum Gobazie, a chief of some importance. The 92nd Highlanders had arrived at Bombay. Twenty additional vessels had been chartered for Abyssinia. The Government has now discontinued taking up tonnage. The monthly expenditure of the expedition was £400,000. The latest news from the expedition, which had reached G-oon Goona, states that six companies (regiments?) were about to advance. A firm footing had been gained in the highlands. The general condition of affairs had improved. Passes had been found available for wheeled carriages. The natives were bringing in grass freely. Finding themselves well paid, they had become verp eager to serve the army. A fine spring had been tapped at Zacoola. Dr Norman M'Leod has been obliged to leave India in ill-health. The first weekly mail from England to Bombay, left on the 7th of March. The Fine Arts Exhibition has been opened at Bombay, and visited by 11,000 persons. A official notification has been made that the Bombay postage would be increased, after the Ist or" March, to six annas the half ounce via Southampton, and eight annas pies via Marseilles. The Indian Chambers of Commerce are preparing protests against the increased postal rates. The Prussian Government is about to take active measures to stop the reactionary agitation caused by the King of Hanover. The wool sales had commenced. An advance of a penny per pound had been obtained. Prince Napoleon is at Berlin. The Bank of Australasia declares a dividend of ten per cent. Consols, 93i P. C. W. Griffiths, George Breem, and a native, have been speared by the natives at Port "Walcott, North-west Australia. A party had started to catch the murderers.