The Portland daily press., 1868-04-04
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GREAT BRITAIN.

GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDON, April ga division will take place
| in the House of Commons tonight on the II
| ish Church question, the result of which is
looked for with great interest. The Libel ais
| are sanguine that the Government will be
beaten, and that Liberal Cabinet is certain
| The course of the Ministry, however, is uncer-
tain, as they have the option of resigning OF
appealing to the country by dissolution oil
Parliament
No indications as to the position which will
be assumed by the new Ministry, should one
come to power.
LONDON, April 3.-[Special to the New York
Herald.J BY the mail steamer at Lisbon adj
vices from Rio Janeiro to March 11th are re-
ceived. The news from the war on the Para
ma is to the effect that the allied forces were
passing the Fortress of Humitia, and had ia
ken Asuncion. The resignation of General
Alegra and the departure of Generals Mitre
and Flores for their respective seats of govern
ment left Caxias untrammeled in carrying out
his plans against Asuncon. These consist of
moving heavy body of troops along the Gran
Chow bank of the Rio Paraguay to point OPP
posite the upper. bank Of the Rio Tibicuari-
This body of troops was to cut off all the Para
guayan supplies from the Gran Chow, all COM
munication by river with Asuncon, and also
to raise the chains and other obstacles that
prevented the allied fleet from ascending the
river. Meanwhile, with reinforcements Caxias
was to draw Gordon from opposite Ytati on
the Rio Parana to the Rio Tibicuari, thus en-
closing the whole Paraguayan encampment-
An attack was then to be made by nine Bra
lillian iron-clads aid 10000 troops ON Fort HUI
malta, and in case of the removal of the river
chains, to advance with the balance of his fleet
on Asuncion, about 100 miles above. The
whole force now at the disposal of Caxias
amounts to 10000 men, IA iron-clads and 20
wooden vessels; whereas, Lopez is reported to
have only II, 600 in and around Fort Humata.
There is great Joy here over the news of the
success of Caxias.
From Montevideo we have the announce
ment that the President, Gen. Flores, had
been murdered in that city. He had recently
returned from the seat OF war on the Rio Pa
rama, for the purpose of resigning the Dicta-
1orial power which he seized about year ago.
This determination was the cause of scandal
lous outrage on the General by his own son,
Fortunate Flores, on February 9TH, in which
the former received personal violence from his
son. Fortunate called out the battalion which
he commanded, placed a cannon in the street.
and the son was only checked in his bloody
designs by the Intervention of the American,
French, English, Spanish and Italian gum
boats in the harbor. Gen. Flores who had re-
tired to mon on the 8th, banished the aiders
and abettors of his son, dissolved the battalion
and sent Fortunate to Buenos Ayres. The al-
tholities there however, determined to arrest
him for q murder which he committed some
time ago in the Argentine Confederation.
whereupon young Flores took refuge on an
Italian gunboat until he could escape to Eu-
rope. Our dispatches do not state who is the
murderer of Gen Flores, but it is probable he
was some cashiered alder and abet of his
son.. Col Lorenzo Battle, Minister of War.
has been elected President of Uruguay in
place of the deceased Gen. Flores.
LONDON, April 4-3 A. MAT 2.15 this
morning the debate ended, and a division took
place on Lord Stanley's amendment to post
pone the consideration of Mr.. Gladstone's re-
solve till the next Parliament
Six hundred members voted, and Go vern-
ment was defeated by sixty majority. The
announcement was greeted by wild cheers of
the liberals.