TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1235, 18 February 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS THiEWAR. The British Fleet at Stamboul. An Austrian Fleet in the Levant. Porte Refuses British Troops to Land at Constantinople. Relations between Austria and Russia Critical.

[SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE PRESS AGENCY,] London, February 14,

The “ Daily Telegraph ” announces that the British Fleet passed the Dardanelles on on the afternoon of the 13th, 'its destination being Princes Island. Tho Porte protested. In tho House of Lords, Earl Derby confirmed the news of the arrival of the Fleet at Stamboul. He had notified to Prince Gortschakoff that this would not justify a Russian occupation. FebruaryJlS. A portion of the fleet is at Gallipoli. Five Austrian war ships have arrived in the Levant.

Mr Lowther has been appointed Secretary for Ireland. The Prince of Wales has started for Berlin to attend the Boyal marriage.

The Turkish Parliament has been dissolved 1

[belter's telegrams to the press agency] London, February 15.

Lord Derby has replied to Prince Gortschakoff, protesting against the occupation of Constantinople by Russian troops. The British Ironclad Squadron has entered the Sea of Marmora.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to a question, stated in Parliament that the Porte had refused to allow troops to be landed in Constantinople, that the British fleet had nevertheless proceeded unopposed > that he believed now the British fleet was at Constantinople. To the objection of England that a Eussian occupation was- not justified, Prince Gortschakoff replied that the Eussian occupa tion would be of a pacific character. The relations between Austria and Eussia are extremely critical. INTEEPEOVINCIAL. [PBR TUBBS AGBNCT.] iS™ 77 Wellington, February 18. The Port Darwin lino is down north of Tennant’s Creek, about 1400 miles from Adelaide. Dunklin, February 18. A temperance procession was held yesterday, under the auspices of the Eev. Father Honnebery and the Eoman Catholic clergy of of Dunedin. Those who took part in the procession were the persons who, during Father ITennebery’s mission here, have taken the 1 pledge of lifelong abstinence from intoxicating liquors. The total number was about 1500. Bishop Moran addressed the assemblage from the terrace above his residence. There was a large crowd gathered here, probably 8000 peopl—each lof the processionists wearing a green sash and a temperance medal. Father Hennebery explained that the green colour chosen was not to be understood as giving the procession anything of a political, or even a distinctive character. The simple reason he had chosen green was because ho liked it. The streets along which the procession passed wctln'd with onlookers, and at the street corners were large gatherings, A reaper and binder, made by Messrs Eeid and Gray, Dunedin, was tried at Tokomirairo on Saturday, in the presence of about one hundred spectators. Considering that the machine was newly painted, and strange to handle, the trial was most successful. A statement made by Father Hennebey that there are four million cases of infanticide yearly in the United States, and endorsed by Bjpbep Mofgp with tlje addjtjop of extya

million, is exciting much comment in Dunedin, and is regarded as a most extraordinary hallucination. Mr George McLean received an unanimous vote of confidence, after his address to his constituents at Flag Swamp, on Friday night, and at Merton, on Saturday night, a similar vote was carried unanimously.