LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1151, 17 February 1874, Page 2

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

VIA. CABLE,

LONDON DATES TO THE sth FEBRUARY. [FROM TIIK NELSON MAIL.] LONDON. February 2. There has been a struggle between Bismarck and the Uitr.imontanes, and it is increasing in bitterness. Germany has warned France and Belgium of their duty to repress the attacks of the UI tramontanes, whether through the press or clergy. The following are the members of the Ministry elected : Messrs Gladstone, Cardwell, Stanfield, Lowe, Childers, Harcourt, and Hartington. They were defeated at New Radnor. Members elected to the present time—LOG Liberals, and 136 Conservatives. Cape Coast Castle news states that on the 19th January the Ashantee king sent the German missionary to treat with General Wolseley for peace. Eleven hundred seamen and marines are within a day's march of Coomassie. The 23rd Regiment were not disembarked, the native carriers having deserted.

The Macgregor has left California with the English and American mails. February 5.

The King of the Ashantees has agreed to pay £200,000 to the British Government. The troops stop a short distance from the capital. M'Mahon in addressing the Erench merchants, asked for their full confidence in the stability of the Government, and expressed his intention to maintain it.

SUEZ MAIL SUMMAEY. The Bangalore arrived at Adelaide on the Gth. At the opening of the Eoyal Colonial Institute all supported sentiments in favor of a United Empire on a Federal basis.

Captain Glover, who occupies a conspicuous place in the Ashantee war, is the son of the Eev. Glover, who lost his two sons in the New Zealand war.

The Eclipse screw sloop, Captain Erskine, has sailed for the Australian station.

The monument in memory of the officers killed in the New Zealand war pletion.

The Greenwich Park Church Missionary Society have opened a fund fur the relief of the sufferers by the Bengnl famine, which is far mote serious than at first reported.

The Dutch have taken several Achanese villages, and are successfully operating against Kratow. Baron Reuter's agents have surveyed upwards of eighty miles betweeu Roptna Coast and Ttheran. Earth-works are being continued towards B-ustumbad. The site for the terminus is fixed at Gazelli. The Scimitar has sailed for Dunedin with 350 immigrants.