LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 381, 30 June 1876, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

WAll IMMINENT. (From the 'Guardian's' Cable Messages.) London, May 25. There was a semi-panic on the Stock Exchange to-day caused by the general anxiety on account of Eastern affairs. The Porte has refused, though unofficially, to take cognisance of Prince Gortschakoff's memo., read at Berlin, and wilFreject it unless modified. May .26. The London ' Times ' tins morning published a statement that England reiterates its refusal to join in the terms as read at the BerlinConferenee. England declares that the memo, read at the Berlin Conference, iu which the three Powers join, though professing to maintain the principles of Andraasy's note, departs from its convention, and its demands being unreasonable, show that those Powers are no longer impartial mediators. Prance has proposed a Conference of the guaranteeing powers. May 23. There are rumors of a European conference on the Eastern question. The Inn Benchers, after a fruitless correspondence with Dr. Kenealy, have commenced legal proceedings to compel him to surrender his chamber. The Doctor has threatened an action against the Benchers for injuries sustained.

May 29. A panic was caused on the Stock Exchange' to-day by the intelligence that foreign fleets were assembling in Bessica Buy, near the entrance to the Dardanelles. The iron-clad Sultan sailed from Portsmouth to-day for the Mediterranean, tinder the command of the Duke of hdmburgh. iTho general anxiety on account of Eastern affairs is unallayed. Lloyds are asking war risks. Three more iron-clads have been ordered to the Mediterranean, takinf a number of British squadron men. May 30. The announcement that the Sultan has been dethroned was to-day officially made. llip nephew, the hair pjre-

suniptive, Muracl Efl'endi, was proclaimed Sultan in his stead. The deposition of the Sultan was peaceably efl'fccted by the Ministers of Abdul Aziz, and he is now a prisoner. The London press consider that the dethronement of the Sultan favors a peaceable solution of the Turkish difficulty. Eeplying to a question this evening, Disraeli said he had just received a telegram from Sir Henry Elliott, in which the only interesting fact was that Constantinople was tranquil, and the Mussulman population content. He hoped that presenting the Berlin memo, would become needless. The situation, he allowed, was critical; but he had taken all precautionary mea sures, and wished decidedly to state that the interests of England are best studied, and her honor vindicated, betaking part in contributing toward* the maintenance of peace. St. Petersburg, June 1. The 'Journal de St. Petersburg' dwells on the difficulties which beset the path of the new Sultan, and dethe necessity of his yielding to the wishes of the Great Powers. London, June 2, English consols fell over oue per cent. Muracl EfFendi has reduced the civil list, and has promised to relinquish the revenue derived from Crown property ; to improve the finances and the condition of education, to organise the State Council and Ministry for Justice, and will instruct the Ministry to devise a form of government that will be most suitable to all the subjects of the Empire, securing liberty to everyone. He hopes the friendship between the Empire and the Great Powers will be drawn still closer. Finally, he proclaims his accession to the throne of Turkey " by the grace of God and the will of the people." The Prince of Wales is confined to his room with virus in his lea-.

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. Sydney, June 24. New Zealand, South Australia, and Queensland, have consented to share the expense of a steamer to run from Java to Darwin, but Victoria lias not replied definitely. Melbourne, June 21. Stevenson's ease resulted itj. a verdict for the defendants. A Queensland telegram states that the three escapes recently from Noumea, were found on the beach near Noosa. They had killed a bullock, cutting the flesh up into junks, aud using the hide stretched on poles as tents. They had only thirty pounds of flour when leaving the penal settlement, and had scarcely anything to eat for eleven days, when a vessel bound to Sydney came alongside and refused them a passage, Tearing the Trench Consul would arrest them. James Dawell, teller of the Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne, absconded last week to Adelaide, with £6OOO.