CABLEGRAMS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 45, 7 March 1874, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS.

London, February 14th.— The following members of the GtoTernment were rejected :— Chichester Fortescue, President of the Board of Trade, at Louth ; Hon. A. Greville, Junior Lord of the Treasury rJ Westmeath; Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Comptroller of the Queen's Household, at Kildare } Hon. Mr Ayrton .Judge Advocate-General, at Tower Hamlets 5 Hon. Mr Hibbert, Undersecretary of the Horn* Department, Oldham ; Viscount Enfield, Under-Secretary of tha Foreign Department, at Middlesex. Bank returns are stronger. Gold exports bave ceased. Australian securities have improved. Wheat i 9i 9 drooping, owing to large expected arrivals. A most disastrous fire has occurred at the Pantechnicon, Motcomb street, Belgrave Square— an establishment for the sale of carria-.es and warehousing of property. Pictures to the value of £250,000 "and an immense quantity of valuable furniture have been destroyed February 17th.- Mr Gladstone goes to Windsor to-day' to tender the resignation of the Ministry. Cape Coast news of 26th January states that the troops are expected to enter Coomassie on the 29th January. The termination of the war is anticipated about the sth of February. The London Colonial wool sales opened ihis evening. The total arrivals up to date amount to 160,000 bales ; upwards of 5500 were submitted to competition. The attendance both ot home and foreio- n buyers was good, and the biddings commenced with great spirit. Prices rule about the same as at last series. February 19th.— The Queen has accepted Mr Gladstone's resignation, and Mr Disraeli is engaged in the formation of a new Ministry. The elections are concluded. The returns show that 351 Conservatives and 302 Liberals luve been elected. Mr Cardwell, Mr Chichester Fortescue, and Viscount Enfield will be raised to the peerage. There is an indication of a revival of the Eastern question ; it i 3 being discussed by the Gorman and French Press. St. Petersburg, February 16th. — The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has been most cordially received. The Czar, in drinkiQw the health of his guest, said that friendship with Austria, Russia, Germany, and England would secure peace with* the world.