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Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 215, 23 August 1878, Page 6

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JReuter's Constantinople, August 13. The Porte has ordered her troops to evacuate Batoum. London, August 14. The deaths during" the late Indian famine amounted to 1,350,000. The subscriptions for the city of Melbourne loan covered the amount twofold. The minimum being 1 LlO5. (Special to the Melboiorne Argus. ) London, August 14. The Queen reviewed the fleet at Spithead yesterday. It comprised ten broadside ships and eight turret ironclads, besides six sloops and two torpedo boats. The weather was very boisterous, and consequently all the conteniplated evolutions had to be abandoned, royal salutes only being 1 fired. The Queen sailed through the linos in the Royal yacht. Mf.ny peers and members of the House of Commons were aboard the Euryalus, and there were thousands of spectators ashore. Two hundred yachts and a great number of excursion steamers were. cm*. The only casualty was the upsetting of a pleasure boat, by which a waterman was drowned, The Rev. Mr Gilfillan, of Dundee, is dead. Mr Roebuck. 11. P., has been appointed privy Councillor. Rioting has occurred at Ottawa. The Roman Catholics, after an Orange procession, insulted ■ the Orangeman, who retaliated using- pistols. They attacked a priest's house and demolished a hotel. Several persons were seriously injured. A number of the rioters were arrested. August 15. The prizes won at the Exposition are to bo distributed in Paris on September 8. The Ministerial whitebait dinner was held at Greenwich yesterday. Tha British Association is holding its meeting in Dublin. A commission of inquiry into the working of the Stock Exchange recommends its incorporation under charter. (Special to the Press Agency. ) London, August 15. The report of the Food Jury recommends the R-old medals to the Sydney and Melbourne Meat Preserving Company ; and also awards to Ballarat, Queensland, Adelaide, and Melbourne. Heater's. London, August 15. The sickness among the troops at Cyprus gives no cause for anxiety. General Sir G. F. Wolseley telegraphs ... . , J or that there is no serious sickness. Vienna, August 14. After fiv.e days' continuous fighting, the Austrians have been compelled jjto fall back on Gramitza. London, August 14. The despatch boat Lively collided with the Queen's yacht, and sank a private yacht at Cowes. The Queen was not on board at the time. St. Petersburg, August 16. Jt is semi-officially stated tare that a Russian expeditionary force was to have been despatched to Central Asia when the relations between England and Russia were critical, and that the order was subsequently cancelled. (Special to the Melbourne Argus,) An Austrian detachment has been destroyed at Lenbynia. A yellow fever epidemic is raging at New Orleans, Granada, and Memphis August 16. The Austrians in Bosnia are still retreating. ■ Renter's London, August 1 6. The prorogation speech praises the patriotic offers of Military aid that were received from the Colonies. Affairs in South Africa are causing anxiety, but it is thought that serious troubles have ended. St. Petersburg, August 17. The Director- General of Police, who was appointed to the office after Gene-

ral T repofv wa« shot at by Vera Sassoulitcb, has been stabbed bj an assussin. Constantinople, -August 17. Thirty Turkish barailions have joined the Bosnians. Lon'do'n. August 17. The pretended German ultimatum to Turkey is discredited. JMobeling, who attempted to assassinate the Emperor of Germany, has been beheaded. In the House' of Commons Colonel Stanley stated that the novvs from Cyprus was favourable, but he did not explain the difference from the Daily News account, which said that the efficiency of the troops there was paralysed by fever, und that two thirds of the medical staff there were very ill. Fire deaths have occurred. The relations between Austria and Turkey continue unoettlod. No convention has yet been signed, and great military preparations continue. In Bosnia three Austrian regiments, refusing 1 to advance, were decimated, and, \ continuing* mutinous, more executions followed. Those remaining* were then seat prisoners to Austria. A (Servian loan of 74,000,000fr. has been negotiated with n Paris banker. Tho Monifeur announced a change in th.B Egypunn Ministry to-dny. Tho administration of the country is entirely out of the hands of the Khedive. MiRivers Wilson is Finance Minister. Consols 95. Bank rate of discount 5 per cent ; market rate 4f per cant. Adelaide wheat and flour unchanged. New Zealand 5 per cent debentures 101. (Special to the Press Agency.) London, August 17. The bank minimum has changed, and there have been heavy losses on the Stock Exchange in settlement. The bank reserve is slightly better. Business in all departments on the Stock Exchange is dull. The market for Australian securities shows no sign of recovery. In the corn market wheat has advanced a shilling- to eighteenpence. The Royal assent has been given to the Fiji Marriages Bill. The man who assassinated the Di-rector-General of the Russian Police has escaped into Austria. There is still further mobilisation of Austrian troops. Reuter's Constantinople, August 18. The Russian troops at San Stefano embark to-morrow ; and the British fleet in the Sea of Marmora leave immediately afterwards. The evacuation of Batoum takes place in a fortnight. Vienna, August 18. The Austrians gained a complete victory over the Bosnians at Delitoras.