LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1103, 2 September 1873, Page 3

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

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LONDON. August 16. Sit George Jessel, Solicitor- General, lias accepted the Mastership of the Rolls, which had previously been offered to and declined by Sir J. I). Coleridge, fie Attorney-General. Sir Charles Cowper, Agent-General For New South Wales s and the hon. Saul Samuel; had an interview yesterday with the Jiarl of Kitnberloy on postal matters. The Colonial Institute is getting up an Intercolonial Challenge Shield for competition amongst Australians. The Queen is at Balmoral. The continued rain is spoiling the military manoeuvres which are being held this autumn at Dartmoor. Typhoid fever is prevailing, principally in the districts of Marylebone and Mayfair. The epidemic is entirely due to exceptional causes. Colonel Sir Garnet Welseley, K.C.M.G., has been appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast. The British vessel seiied at Fontarabia, loading arms for the Carlists, Was the yacht Deerhound, and Colonel Stuart and the crew have beeh detained at San Sebastian to be tried ias pirates. No fresh Cases of cholera have been Reported in London. A contract has been signed for laying a submarine table between the Cape of Good Hope and the Mauritius. BERLIN. August 15. Cholera is spreading in Berlin. Madrid. August 16. Cafthega'na is preparing for a deter- \ mined resistance. The insurgents' ships fired on some foreign frigates, who replied, but Occasioned no damage. K A Spanish vessel has seized a British ! steamer attempting to land arms for the Carlists at Fohtarabia, at the tnouth of the Bidossa 5 near the French frontier. NEW YORK. August 12. Seventy persons altogether perished by the burning of the steamer oil the Potomac. At the conflagration which has taken place at Portland, in the state of Maine, damage has been done to the extent of Goo,ooodol.