2 MARCH 1878, Page 3

Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of the Cape, has found it

necessary to dismiss the Molteno Ministry. They refused to place the local forces under the command of Sir Arthur Cunynghame, the General in command in South Africa, and censured Sir B. Frere for sending for reinforcements from England. He has, therefore, dismissed them, and will, we presume, appeal to the people through a dissolution. The notion of the dismissed Ministry seems to have been that, though it was bound to defend Cape Colony, it had nothing to do with South Africa generally,— another proof of the imperative necessity for federation.