BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 853, 23 August 1878, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(By Caisle.) (From our Dunedin Exchanges.) Losdon, August 18. Tho Russians are preparing to leave San Stefano.

The Austrian troops entered Tiawnik after severe lighting. The Moslems at Bosnia Serai, tho capital of the province of Bosnia, have revolted against the Austrian occupation. The Turkish Governor, Nazhar Pasha, has been poisoned. The Porto has ordered her troops to evacuate Batoum. The deaths during the late Indian famine amounted to 1,350,000. Tho subscriptions for the city of Melbourne loan covered the amount twofold, the minimum being LICS. 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 ail the contemplated evolutions had to be abandoned, royal salutes only being fired. The Queen sailed through the lines in the Royal yacht. Many peers and members of the House of Commons were aboard tho Euryalus, and there were thousands cf spectators ashore. Two hundred yachts and a great number of excursion steamers were out. The only casualty was the upsetting of a pleasure boat, by which a waterman was drowned.

The Rev. Mr Giifiilan, of Dundee, is dead.

Mr Roebuck, M.P., has been appointed a Privy Councillor. Rioting has occurred at Ottawa. The Roman Catholics, after an Orange procession, insulted the Orangemen, who retaliated, using pistols. They attacked a priest’s house and demolished an hotel. Several persons were seriously injured. A number of the rioters wore arrested. August 15.

The prizes won at tho Exposition are to be distributed in Paris on September IS.

The Ministerial whitebait dinner ivas held at Greenwich yesterday. The British Association is holding its meeting in Dublin.

A commission of inquiry into the working of tire Stock Exchange recommends its incorporation under charter.

The report of the Food Jury recommends the gold medals to tho Melbourne and Sydney Meat Preserving Company ; and also other awards to Ballarat, Queensland, Adelaide and Melbourne.

The sickness among the troops at Cypms rives no cause for anxiety. General Sir G. P. IVolsoley telegraphs that there is no serious sickness.

After five days continuous fighting, the Austrians have been compelled to tall back on Gracamitza. The despatch boat Lively collided with the Queen’s yacht, and sank a pnvate yacht at Cowes. The Queen was not on board at the time. August 16. It is semi-officially stated here that a Bussian 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.

An Austrian detachment has been destroyed at Lenhynia. A yellow fever epidemic is raging at New Orleans, Granada, and Memphis.

The Austrians in Bosnia are still retreating.

Tho 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.

August 17. The pretended German ultin atum to Turkey is discredited. Hoedel, who attempted to assassinate the Emperor of Germany, has been beheaded.

In the House of Commons Colonel Stanley stated that the news from Cyprus was favorable, hut he did not explain the difference from the Daily News account, which sal 1 that the efficiency - of the troops there was paralysed by fever, and that two-thirds of the medical staff there were very ill. Five deaths have occnrrel. The relations between Austria and Turkey continue unsettled. No convention has yet been signed, and great military preparations continue. In Bosnia time Austrian regiments, refusing to advance, were decimated,’and, continuing mutinous, more executions followed. Those remaining were then sent prisoners to Austria. A Servian loan of 74.000,0Q0fr. has been negotiate'! with a Paris banker.

The Monitenr announced a change in the Egyptian Ministry to-day. The administration of the country is entirely out of the hands of the Khedive. Mr Rivers Wilson is Finance Minister.

The Royal assent has been given to the Fiji Marriages Bill. There is still further mobilisation of Austrian troops, St. Petersburg, August 17. The Director-General of Police, who was appointed to the cffice after Gcr.oral Tro-

poff was shot at by Vera Sassoulitch, has been stabbed dead by an assassin. The man who assassinated the Director. General of the Russian Police has escaped into Austria. Constantinople, August 17. Thirty Turkish battallions have joined the Bosnians. August 18. The Russian troops at San Stefann embark to-morrow ; and the Russian 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.